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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	day_n	soul_n	6,326	5	5.0635	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00361	A deuoute treatise vpon the Pater noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster Erasmus Roterodamus, and tourned in to englisshe by a yong vertuous and well lerned gentylwoman of. xix. yere of age	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Roper, Margaret, 1505-1544.; Hyrde, Richard.	1526 (1526)	STC 10477; ESTC S109306	22,951	48

take vs although farre vnworthy into so great an honour of thy name let it please the also of thy gentylnesse to gyue vs a redy and stedfast wyll that in nothyng we ouerhippe or be agaynst that whiche thy godly and diuine wyll hath apoynted vs but that we kyll and mortifye our flesshly and carnall lustes and by thy spirite be ledde to y e doyng of all good workes and al thyng that is pleasaūt vnder thy sight Wherby y u father mayst aknowledge vs as thy children naturall and nat out of kynde and thy sonne as kynde good bretherne that is to saye that bothe twayne maye aknowledge in vs his owne propre benefyte to whome with the holy goost equall and indifferent glorie is due for euer Amen ¶ The fourthe peticion PAnem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie O father in heuē whiche of thy excedyng goodnesse moost plentuously fedest all thynges y t thou hast so wondersly created prouide for vs thy children whiche are chosen to dwelle in thy celestiall and heuēly house and that hang holly and onely of thy son̄e some spirituall and goostly fode that we obeyng thy wyll and preceptes may dayly encrease and waxe bigger in vertue vntyl after the course of nature we haue optayned and gathered a full and ꝑfyte strength in our lorde Iesu Christ. The children of this worlde so longe as they are nat banysshed ne out of theyr frendes fauour all that tyme they take lytell care of their meate and drynke sithe their fathers of their tendre loue towarde them make sufficient prouision for them Than moche lesse ought we to be carefull or studious whom thy sonne Iesus taught shulde caste away all care of the morowe meale perswadyng and assuring vs that so riche a father so gentyll so louynge and that had so great mynde of vs whiche sente meat to the lytell byrdes and so nobly clotheth y e lyles in the medowe wolde nat suffre his childrē whiche he hath endued with so honourable a name to lacke meate and bodily apparayle but all thyng sette asyde that belongeth to the body We shulde specially and aboue all seke and labour about those thynges whiche pertayneth and belongeth to thy realme and the iustice therof For as touching the iustes of the pharises that sauereth all carnally thou vtterly dispysest and settest nought by For the spirituall iustes of thy realme stādeth by pure faythe and vnfayned charyte And it were no great mater or shewe of thy plentye to fede with breed made of corne the body whiche althoughe it perisshed nat for hunger yet it must nedes dye perysshe within short space eyther by syckenesse age or other chaūce but we thy spirituall and goostly children desyre and craue of our spirituall father that spirituall celestiall breed Wherby we are verily relyued whiche be verily and truely called thy children y ● breed is thy worde full of all power bothe the gyuer and norissher of lyfe Whiche breed y u vouchesauest to sende vs downe from heuen what tyme we were lyke to haue perisshed for hūgre For verily the breed and teachynge of the proude philosophers and pharises coude nat suffice and content our mynde But that breed of thyne whiche thou sendest vs restored deed men to lyfe of whiche who soeuer dothe eate shall neuer dye This breed relyued vs by this breed we are norysshed and fatted and by this we come vp to the perfite and full strength of y e spirite This breed though day by day it be eaten and distributed to euery bowell of the soule yet but if thou father doest gyue it it is nat holsome nor any thyng auayleth The blessed body of thy dere sonne is the breed wherof we be all parttakers y t dwell within thy large house of the churche It is one breed that indifferently belōgeth to vs all lykewyse as we are but one body made of sondrye and diuers membres but yet quickened with one spirite and though al take of this breed yet to many it hath ben dethe and distruction for it can nat be relefe but to suche as thou reachest it vnto mynglynge it with thy heuenly grace by the reason wherof it maye be holsome to the receyuours Thy son̄e is verite and trouth trouth also is the breed and teachyng of the gospell Whiche he lefte behynde hym for our spirituall fode and this breed likewise to many hath ben vnsauery which haue had y e mouth of theyr soule out of taste by the feuer of corrupte affectiōs But and it wyll please the good father to gyue forthe this breed than it must of necessite be swete pleasaūt to the eaters thā it shal cōfort those that be in tribulation and plucke vp those that be slydden fallen downe and make stronge those that be sicke and weake and finally brynge vs to euerlasting lyfe And for asmoche as the imbecilite and weakenesse of manes nature is euer redy apt to declyne into the worse the soule of man so cōtynually assauted layde at with so many subtile ingyns it is expedient and necessary that thou dayly make stronge he●● thy children with thy breed whiche elles are farre vnable to resyst so many and so stronge ennemyes so many assautes and so many fearefull terrible dartes For who father might abyde to be had in derision of the worlde to be outlawed and banisshed to be putte in prison to be fettred and manacled to be spoyled of all his goodes and by stronge hande be depriued of the cōpany of his moost dere wyfe and welbeloued children but if nowe and thā he were hertened with thy heuēly and gostly breed He that teacheth the lernyng of the gospell he is he y e gyueth vs forthe this breed whiche yet he gyueth all in vayne except it be also gyuen by ye. Many there are whiche receyue the body of thy son̄e and that here the worde and doctryne of the gospell But they departe fro thence no stronger than they came bycause they haue nat deserued that thou good father shuldest priuely and inuisibly reache it forthe vnto them This breed O most benigne father gyue thy childrē euery day vntyll that tyme come in whiche they shall eate of it at thy heuenly and celestiall table Wherby the children of thy realme shal be fulfylled with y e plentuous abundancye of euerlastynge trouthe And to take fruiciō therof it were a marueylous felicite and pleasure whiche hath nede of none other thyng at all neyther in heuen nor erthe For in the O father alone is all thynge out of whom is right nought to be desyred whiche toguyther with thy sonne and the holy gooste raygnest for euer Amen ¶ The fyfte peticion EL dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris This is thy wyll and mynde O father in heuen whiche art the maker of peace and fauourer of concorde that thy chyldren whom it hath pleased thy goodnes to couple and ioyne