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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	day_n	lord_n	see_v	6,946	5	3.6931	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57416	The afflicted souls preparation for death The preparation of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Prov. the 16. and the I. verse. With loving exhortations to every true Christian to prepare their souls for the hour of death, also many good instructions to every good Christian to beware of false prophets. Written by Tho. Robins, B. of D. And licensed according to order.	Robins, Thomas, fl. 1672-1685.	1668 (1668)	Wing R1647; ESTC R219694	8,571	27

The afflicted Souls Preparation for death By Tho. Rbins B. of D. The afflicted SOULS PREPARATION FOR DEATH The preparation of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Prov. the 16. and the 1. verse WITH Loving Exhortations to every true Christian to prepare their Souls for the Hour of Death Also many good Instructions to every good Christian to beware of false Prophets Jeremiah 20. and 8 9. For thus saith the Lord of Host the God of Israel let not your Prophets and your Divines that be in the midst of you deceive you neither hearken to your Dreams which you cause to have dreamed for they prophesie falsely unto you in my Name I have not sent them saith the Lord. Written by Tho. Robins B. of D. And Licensed according to Order London Printed for W. W. and are to be sold by W. Thackeray at the Dolphin in Smith-field 1668. The afflicted SOULS Preparation for Death Lamentations the 1. and 20. verse Behold O Lord for I am in distress my bowels are troubled my heart is turned within me for I have grievously rebelled MY beloved brethren I would desire you all to take notice of these words here mentioned in this place of Scripture for indeed you may assure your selves that they were written for no other purpose but for the better instruction of us poor miserable sinners and I pray God give us all grace to be of such an humble spirit as to confess our faults as those people did in this place of Scripture crying calling night and day to the Lord to behold the miserable estate and condition that we poor miserable sinners live in For certainly brethren we stand in as much néed to cry upon the Lord to behold our miseries as those people could doe For certainly our sins are as great as theirs could be and I pray God they prove not greater For indéed you cannot name any sin in the World but it is daily used either by one or other and especially these sins that I shall name here unto you that is to say Pride Whoredome and Drunkenness Swearing and Lying and worst of all that terrible sin of dissimulation which I am afraid is too much used with a great many now adaies Indéed my brethren I would desire every one of you that is addicted to any sin I would desire you to strive by all possible means to forsake them For alas my brethren there is a day to come that every poor Soul must give an account for every Wicked Sin that we follow and as the Prophet Jeremiah cryed out to the people in Lamentations 2. and 19. ver Even so my brethren I call and cry upon every one of you that are here present and these be the words Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord lift up thine hand towards him And as Simon prayed unto the Lord as you may find in Lamentations 5. and the 20. and 21 verses in these words Wherefore dost thou forgive us forever and forsake us not so long time turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Nay I would desire you to look into the 4. of Hosea and there you shall sée how the Lord threatned the people because there was no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of GOD in the Land but Swearing and Lying and Killing and Stealing and committing Adultery and indéed I am afraid that those crying Sins here named are too much used in this Land Therefore I would desire every one of you to refraine these sins here named for fear the LORD should threaten us with the same words as he threatned the Israelites in the fourth of Hosea and the third Verse In these words Therefore shall the Land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the Fowles of Heaven Yea the Fishes of the Sea also shall be taken away Indéed good people you may sée here how the Lord threatned those people all with most heavy judgements Nay he did not only threaten the people but he threatned the very beasts in the Field nay the Fouls in the Ayre and the very Fishes in the Sea too Therefore in the Name of God let us all have a care of provoking the Lord too much to wrath for we do not know how soon he may come upon us with the same judgements for certainly good people the Lord had not threatned the Israelites with such sore and heavy judgements as he did but for their grievous sins And indéed I do believe that our sinners are as great as theirs could be if not greater For certainly there is not any sin in the World but it remaineth here in this land Then how do we think that we can escape the same punishments due for our transgressions as swearing is accounted by a great many for a Pastime a Pleasure and a good Company-kéeper for he which can swear and curse Lye and dissemble he is counted the best Companion with a great many in these times But indéed I could desire all those that do know themselves to be addicted to those evil conditions to have a care what they do and strive by all possible means to refrain themselves from this wicked and ungodly custome of sinning For be assured there is a day to come when we must all give an account Therefore in the Name of God I would desire every one of you young and old to do your best indeavours to resrain your wicked sins and cry and call unto the Lord night and day and with an humble spirit say as David saith in the 39 Psalm and the fourth verse Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my daies what it is that I may know how frail I am Indéed good people you may see in this place of holy Scripture I and many more that the Prophet had a great desire to serve the Lord but indéed we are more ready to serve our selves then to serve him Alas my brethren can we think that the Lord should do any thing for us when we will do nothing for him As if we should say we had God at command No no my brethren let us all have a care what we doe For certainly the Lord will call us all to an account as he did the Servants in the Gospel that he had formerly given the Talents to when the Lord called unto them to sée what use they had put them to and indéed my Brethren those Talents may very well be termed to the life of a Christian here on Earth for certainly the Lord will have an account given him how we have spent our life here upon Earth Then who is he that can say He hath fed the hungry cloathed the naked or visited the sick or a help to the fatherless No I am afraid there is but a few now adaies that is given unto