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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lord_n	mercy_n	praise_v	2,820	5	9.2764	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07259	The flight of time, discerned by the dim shadow of Iobs diall, Iob. 9. 25 Explaned in certaine familiar and profitable meditations well conducing to the wise numbering of our daies in the sad time of this mortalitie. As it was delivered to his charge at Bloxham in Oxford-shire by the pastour thereof. R.M.	Matthew, Roger, b. 1574 or 5.	1634 (1634)	STC 17654A; ESTC S120930	13,637	23

God more honour the truth more credit and our selves more ease by musing upon mercies by comparing eternals with temporals by considering the shortnesse of thy life and so confesse and praise the Lord for thy short afflictions unlesse thou wilt in foolish peremptorinesse say a Iob 1 5 9 thou wast the first man that was borne and wast made before the hills sufferedst ever since and resolvest to suffer for ever after thy departure hence Thirdly have we but short daies heere to spend What shall we doe better then to strive with God in prayer and our selves in practise First with God in commending our requests to him in these daies of our flesh after our Saviours example he alone is the meats-man of our daies b Iob 7.1 setting forth an appointed time to man upon the earth Pray him in Davids words with Davids spirit to c Ps 85.47 remember how short our time is and to remove all hinderances of mispending and improve all his owne offred meanes and furtherances for the well-spending our short abode heere and for our selves let 's often season all outward passages with thoughts of our approaching end mixe them with our marriages tradings purchases journeyes all field en and domestick labours especially with our recreations and delights take heed of engrossing and griping after more time or temporall things then the Lord affords bethink how fraile thy selfe art how short thy time of what manner thy abode thy daies as David told thee are but of a d 1 Cron. 29.15 pilgrim thy mansion is not thy home thy house but an Inne thy family and neighbours are but fellow-passengers if thy corruptions within or Satan and the world without beare thee in hand with enough layed up for many yeeres give them all the lie with the tongue of this Text and be sure that though thou must converse in the world yet to keepe thy selfe free from the e 2 Pet 1.4 corruptions of the world as Saint Paul stiles them It s hard Bernard but much discourse of temporall things will gnaw the conscience as the rivers fret their bancks but holy circumspection and moderation will ease that difficulty the blinde want though versed all in the earth still preserves its velvet coat faire from the filth of the earth thou hast thy eyes about thee nor needst thou delve so deepe so converse thou in earthly matters that thy conscience be not defiled and beware thou suffer not the earth so to bury thy soule before thy body die but that thou maist use thy eyes to discrie death peeping over thy shoulder whiles thou lookest upon thy worldly matters or if farther off to ken it in its full gallop and flight to overtake thee and that 's the second part of this taske viz. the swiftnesse of mans life in the Post hast or rather flying of the same My daies are swifter then a Post they flee away from whence who cannot spell forth this lesson Doct. 2 Mans life is swift as well as short Our daies seeme wing-footed Iob seemes doubtfull whether they run or flee The swiftest rider is too slow to make expressure the fowles wings best Emblems forth lifes quick dispatch and that when it makes to the prey and that of the f Iob 9.26 Eagle not only for swiftnesse but strength which no humane obstacle of either youth wit wealth honour or physick can stay or hinder from its appointed goale The proverb drops too short that saith Time and Tide stay not Tides creepe on but slowly and have their interstices stay somwhat when they have their stints chalenge their returnes Time is neither so nor so The Prophet speakes more home Our time yea the g Ps 90.80 strength of it is soone cut off we flee yea we flee away and that without either h 1 Chron. 29.15 abiding saith David i Iob 7.9 returning as Iob hath it The Holy Ghost is ample for comparisons as before resembling mans sliding state to things ever upon the rode of hast To a k Es 40 7. floure that fades apace To l Ps 12.14 water that runs apace To a m Iob 9.26 ship that sailes apace To a Post and an Eagle as ye see that rides and flees apace There 's no keeping pace with time but upon the wings of the n Iob 7.7 Winde that whirles apace But how comes this to passe that man in his best estate though in honour is thus altogether a flying vanity and abideth not Reason 1. If natures reason may carry it the subject and foundation of time runs as it were all on wheeles the heavenly Orbs of swifter motion then of any flying bullet from the strongest Ordenance whirle the times about amongst which the uncessant circuits of the Sunne and Moone are appointed by him that o Es 40.22 sits upon the circle of the earth and meteth out Heaven by the span to measure forth these earthly yeeres p Vers 12. moneths and dayes till all time be swallowed up into eternity and these heavens be no more How then can our daies be slow 2. Doe not sinne and sinners make quicke worke in the world How speedily do men breake into it Even q Ps 58.3 from the wombe With what eager pursuit doe men follow sinne Even like Iehues furious march swiftly r Pro. 6.18 their feet are swift in running to mischiefe some faster some slower all too fast How would wickednesse tyrannize might it in this heat have while to roote and spread and seed according to the lust of sinfull men And who shall hinder swift sinners from bringing upon themselves swift destruction 3. Neither is experience so senselesse of the reason a parte post as they say by a touch of after-wit that perceives every minute of time so flight that it prevents the quickest catch gives the heedfullest attention the slip and out-strips the speediest chase The time to come is but only in conceit the time is fled in instants who can say of any time present now it is sith it out-runs thy thought Vse 1 This shreds off the superfluous desires of many men male-contented with their present states who like infants after youth and youth after riper age are ever liquering after future times Oh were such a quarter day come or such a yeere or time expired they were made Why what hadst gotten by this catch if thou couldst finger some thred of time before the Sun can spin it First thou shouldst get but a wilde foule a shadow a puft whose hasty vanishing would more vexe then its approach did please Secondly is the thing for which thou so over-reachest good or evill If thou hast such a greedy worme under thy tongue for that which is evill that like ſ Gē 85.30 Esau for the pottage or Elies sonnes for the flesh thou wilt needs have it t 1 Sam. 2.16 Now or in a sort wilt take it by force hearken what the next verse