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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	experience_n	young_a	youth_n	22	3	7.8121	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

advised often to meditate upon An. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell to which may be added the death of Christ and the Temptations of the World as one hath neatly couched in these Verses Mors tua Mors Christi Fraus Mundi Gloria Coeli Et dolor inferni sunt meditanda tibi Thy death the death of Christ the world's temptation Heavens joys Hells torment be thy meditation Qu. What was the Sentence according to the opinion of some that Christ wrote with his Finger in the dust of the pavement of the Temple when they brought the Woman before him which was taken in adultery An. Some say it was that which he then spake He that is without fault let him throw the first stone at her Others imagine it to be thus Festucam in oculo fratris cernis trabem in tuo non vides Thou feest the mote in thy Brothers eye but not the beam in thy own But this case is doubtful and for such questions I like the answer of him that said Where the Scripture hath not a Mouth to speak do not thou have a Tongue to ask Qu. In what respect is our Birth and Death compared the one to the other An. In grief and sorrow onely herein is the difference that the first is most painful to our Mothers the last to our selves Qu. What is Life and what is it to Live An. The beginning of mans life is sorrow the end of it sorrow and the middle nothing but grief and sorrow which conjoyns both the middle and end and makes one compleat mass of sorrow of which one writes What joy to live upon the earth can be Where nought but grief and misery we see Hear therefore what old age adviseth youth Young men hear us old men that being young men heard old men and have both by relation and experience found the truth hereof Qu. Which is the best way to overcome wrongs An. By neglecting them according to that of the Poet Wrongs if neglected vanish in short time But heard with anger we confess the crime Qu. How many are they among other Faculties that the whole world is governed by An. Three Divinity Law and Physick as one wittily explains it in this Verse Theologis animum subjecit lapsus Adami Et Corpus Medicis bona Juridicis Our souls our bodies goods by Adams Fall Are to Divines Physicians Lawyers thrall Much to the same purpose is that which an excellent Poet writ concerning our humane Bodies Our bodies are like Shoes which off we cast Physick their Cobler is and Death the last Qu. How many times was that stately Fabrick at Jerusalem built An. Three the first by Solomon in providing the Materials whereof there were thirty thousand Workmen who wrought by the ten thousand a moneth in Lebanon seventy thousand Laborers that bear Burthens eight thousand Quarry-men that hewed in the Mountains and to expedite the business that it should not be according to the Proverb Church-work goes on slowly there were no less than three thousand and three hundred Officers and Overseers What manner of Fabrick this was you may read in the first of Kings the sixth and seventh chapters where it is fully described It was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon An. Mundi 3350. After the return of the Jews again from the Babylonian Captivity it was re-built but far short of that stateliness and grandeur which it had at first so that the Prophet Haggai had good occasion to say unto the People Who is left among you that saw this House in her first glory is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing Haggai 2. 5. Now besides the stateliness of the building in five other things it was defective for first it wanted the Pot of Manna which the Lord commanded Moses to lay up before the Testimony for a memorial Exod. 6. 22. Secondly the Rod of Aaron which only amongst all the Rods of the Princes of Israel budded and was by God commanded to be kept before the Testimony for a token against the Rebels Corath Dathan and Abiram Num. 17. 10. Thirdly the Ark of the Covenant which was placed in the Sanctum Sanctorum 1 King 6. 19. Fourthly the two Tables of the Law written by Gods own Finger which were by Moses placed in the Ark of the Covenant Exod. 4. 20. And fifthly the Fire of sacrifice which came down from Heaven which Fire was by the Priests to be kept continually burning The third Building thereof was by Herod the Ascalonite who plucked down the second Building and erected it more sumptuous and magnificent than before In this Temple our blessed Saviour and his Apostles preached Salvation to Jew and Gentile so that we may say the glory of this latter Temple exceeded that of the first It was finally destroyed by the Romans under the conduct of Titus the Son of Vespasian according to the words of our Saviour that that generation should not pass away untill they should not see one stone thereof lying upon another Why wonder we then that frail people die When such fair Monuments in ruine lie Qu. Which is accounted the chief Church of all Paris in France An. That of Nostre Dame said to be first founded by St. Saminian afterwards re-edified or rather new built by Philip Augustus Anno 1196. It is a very fair and awful Building adorned with very beautiful Forts and two Towers of especial heighth At your first entrance on the right hand is the Effigies of St. Christopher with our Saviour on his shoulders of a very Gigantick stature It hath in it four ranks of Pillars thirty in rank and forty five little Chappels or Mass-closets built between the outermost range of Pillars and the Walls it is in length one hundred seventy four paces and sixty in breadth and just so many high The two Towers are seventy yards higher than the rest of the Church and is indeed a very beautiful Building yet far short of what our Church of St. Paul in London was when it was in its glory Before such time age made her ruinous Which Reverend Laud sought to revive again And make her to appear fair and gorgeous That she as Queen of all the rest might reign When as at last her glory did expire In that sad fate of London 's dismal Fire Qu. What three English Churches are those that have their several Prerogatives before any other in the Land An. Pauls Westminster and Salisbury Pauls for her Antiquity Westminster for her curious Workman-ship and Sansbury for vatiety of Pillars Windows and Gates Secondly Pauls before the late conflagration of Fire was famous for the continual Society of the Living Westminster is renowned for her Royal Sepulchre of the Dead and Salisbury famous for her Tripartile Calculation of the Year having in it as many Windows Pillars and Gates as there are Days Hours and Moneths in the Year of which Mr. Cambden the famous Antiquary thus writeth Mira canam Soles quot continet