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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	church_n	holy_a	truth_n	6,992	5	5.6746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12390	Three prayers one for the morning, another for the euening: the third for a sick-man. Whereunto is annexed, a godly letter to a sicke freend: and a comfortable speech of a preacher vpon his death bedde. Anno. Dom. 1591.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22703; ESTC S117488	8,464	26

thy vniuersall Church with trueth vvith peace and thy holy discipline Strengthen all them which suffer for thy cause and let them see the Spirite of comfort comming towards them as thy Angels came to thy sonne when he was hungry Be mercifull vnto all those which lye in anguish of conscience for remorse of their sinnes as thou hast made them examples so teach vs to take example by them that we may looke vpon thy Gospell to keepe vs from despayre and vppon thy lawe to keepe vs from presumption Prosper the Armies which fight thy battayles shew a difference betweene thy seruaunts thy enemies as thou didst betweene the Isralites and the Egiptians that they which serue thee not may com to thy seruice seeing that no God dooth blesse besides thee Make vs thankfull for our peace vvhom thou hast sette at libertie while thou hast laid our dangers vpon others which mightest haue laid their dangers vpon vs And teach vs to build thy Church in our rest as Salomon built thy Temple in his peace Haue mercy vpon this sinfull Land which is sicke of long prosperitie let not thy blessings rise vppe against vs but indue vs with grace as thou hast with riches that wee may goe before other Nations in Religion as wee goe before them in plentie giue vs such harts as thy seruaunts should haue that thy will may be our will that thy Lawe may be our Law and that wee may seeke our kingdome in thy kingdom Giue vnto our Prince a princely hart vnto our Counsellers the spyrit of counsell vnto our Iudges the spirit of Iudgement vnto our Ministers the spirit of doctrine vnto our people the spirit of obedience that wee may all retaine that communion heere that we may enioy the communion of Saints heereafter Blesse this Familie with thy grace and peace that the Rulers thereof may gouerne according to thy word that the seruants may obey like the Seruants of God and that wee may all so loue one another that wee may all be loued of thee Nowe Lord we haue commenced our sute our vnderstanding is weake and our memorie short and we vnworthy to pray vnto thee more vnwoorthy to receiue the thinges which we pray for Therefore wee commend our prayers and our selues vnto thy mercie in the name of thy beloued son our louing Sauiour whose righteousnes pleadeth for our vnrighteousnes Our Father which art in heauen c. A Prayer for the Euening O Lorde God what shall wee render vnto thee for all thy benefits which hast giuen thy sonne for a raunsome thy holy spirit for a pledge thy word for a guide and reseruest a kingdome for our perpetuall inheritance of whose goodnesse vve are created of whose iustice wee are corrected of whose mercie we are saued our sinnes stryue with thy benefites which are moe let vs count al creatures there be not so many of any kinde as thy gifts except our offences which we returne vnto thee for thē Thou mightest haue saide before wee were formed let them be monsters or let them be Infidels or let them be beggers or Cripples or bond-slaues so long as they liue But thou hast made vs to the best likenes and nursed vs in the best religion and placed vs in the best land that thousands wold thinke themselues happy if they had but a peece of our happines Therefore why should any serue thee more then we which want nothing but thankfulnesse Thou hast giuen vs so many things that scarfe wee haue any thing left to pray for but that thou wouldest continue those benefites which thou hast bestowed already yet wee couet as though wee had nothing and liue as though we knewe nothing when we were children wee deferred till we were men now we are men we deferre vntill we be olde men and when we bee old men we will deferre vntill death Thus we steale thy gifts and do nothing for thē yet we looke for as much at thy hands as they which serue thee all theyr liues The least of thy blessings is greater then al the curtesies of men and yet wee are not so thankefull to thee for all that wee haue as wee are to a freende fore one good turne we are ashamed of many sinnes in other and yet we are not ashamed to commit the same sinnes our selues worse then they yea we haue sinned so long almost that we can doe nothing els but sinne and make others sinne too which would not sin but for vs. If we doe any euill wee doe it cheerefully and quickly and easily but if we doe any good we doe it faintlie and rudely and slackly When did wee talke without vanitie when did wee giue without hypocrisie when did we bargaine without deceit when did wee reprooue without enuie when did wee heare without wearinesse vvhen did wee pray without tediousnesse Such is our corruption as though wee were made to sinne in deede or in worde or in thought we haue broken all thy Commaundements that we myght fee what good is in euill which hath left nothing but guilt and shame and expectation of iudgement while wee might haue had peace of conscience ioy of hart and all the graces which come with the holy spirite Some haue beene wonne by thy word but we woulde not suffer it to change vs some haue beene reformed by thy crosse but we would not suffer it to purge vs some haue beene mooued by thy benefites but wee woulde not suffer them to perswade vs nay we haue giuen consent vnto the deuill that we wil abuse all thy gifts so fast as they come therefore thy blessings make vs proude thy riches couetous thy peace wanton thy meates intemperate thy mercy secure and all thy benefits are weapons to rebell against thee that if thou looke into our harts thou maist say our Religion is hypocrisie our zeale enuie but wisedome pollicie our peace securitie our life rebellion our deuotion endes with our prayers and wee liue as though wee had no soules to saue What shall we aunswer for that which our conscience condemnes Wee are one day neerer to death since we rose when we shall giue account howe euery day hath beene spent and howe wee haue got these things which other will consume when we are gone And if thou shouldest aske vs nowe what lust asswaged what affection qualified what passion expelled what sinne repented what good performed since wee began to receiue thy benefits thys day we must confesse against our selues that all our works words thoughts haue beene the seruice of the world the flesh and the deuill we haue offended thee and contemned thee all the day and at night wee pray vnto thee Father forgiue vs all our sinnes which haue dishonoured thee while thou didst serue vs run from thee while thou didst call vs forgotten thee whilst thou didst feede vs so thou sparest vs so wee sleepe and to morrow we sin againe this is the course of all our pilgrimage to leaue that