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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	word_n	world_n	wretched_a	46	3	8.4916	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19141	A right fruitfull admonition, concerning the order of a good Christian mans life very profitable for all maner of estates, and other to beholde and looke vppon. Made by the famous Doctour Colete, sometime deane of Paules.; A ryght frutefull monycion, concernynge the ordre of a good chrysten mannes lyfe	Colet, John, 1467?-1519.	1577 (1577)	STC 5549; ESTC S118195	4,024	17

A RIGHT FRVITfull admonition concerning the order of a good Christian mans life very profitable for all maner of Estates and other to beholde and looke vppon Made by the famous Doctour Colete sometime deane of Paules ¶ Imprinted at London for Gabriell Cawood 1577. A fruitful monition concerning the order of a good Christian mans life very profitable for all maner of Estates and other to beholde and looke vppon REmember first of all vertuous reder that it is highe wisedome and great perfection thy selfe to know and then thy selfe to despyse Thou must knowe that thou haste no thing that good is of thy selfe but of god For the gifts of nature and al other temporal giftes of this world which ben lawfully and truely obteined wel considered ben come to thee by the infinite goodnes and grace of God not of thy selfe But in especial it is necessary for thee to knowe that God of his great grace hath made thee his Image hauing regarde to thy memory vnderstanding and free wil and that God is thy maker thou his wretched creature that thou art redeemed of God by the passion of Christ Iesu and that God is thy helper thy refuge and thy deliuerer from all euyl and to consider and knowe the goodly order which god of his infinite wisedome hath ordeyned thee to be ordered by As to haue these temporal goodes for the necessitie of thy body the body and sensual appetites to be ordered by thy soule thy soule to be ordred by reason and grace by reason and grace to knowe thy duetie to God and to thy neighbour by all common reason if thou kepe this conuenient order to god his creatures they shal kepe their order to thee But if thou breake thine order to them of likelyhood they shal breake their order to thee For how should thy wife children seruauntes and other creatures with the whiche thou hast dooings doo their dutie and kepe their order to thee if thou doest not so to God and to them And also thinke thou of a suretie that if thy sensuall appetite be not ordred by reason grace thou art worse ordred than a beast for then thou liuest out of order and so doth not a beast which is a great shame and rebuke to thee a reasonable creature and without the great mercy of god it shal be to thine eternal damnation And therfore think and thanke God and vtterly despise thy selfe and thinke thy selfe a great wretch in that god hath done so muche for thee and thou hast so oft offended his highnesse and also done him so little seruice Surely it is also great wisedome to thinke that if it had pleased god for to haue giuen to all other men aswel beggers as other like grace as he hath giuen to thee that they would haue serued his goodnes better than thy selfe hast done Wherfore thinke thy selfe a wretch of al wretches except the mercy of God And therfore by his infinite mercy and grace call vnto thy remembraunce the degree or dignitie whiche almightie God of his goodnes hath called thee vnto and according therevnto yelde thy debt and doo thy duetie ¶ First and principally honour God as thy maker loue him as thy redeemer feare him as thy iudge Secondarily thy neighbour which is thy superiour obey Haue concorde and peace with them which be euen with thee in degree haue mercy and pitie on thine inferiours Thirdly prouide thee to haue a cleane hart and a good custodie of thy tong Pray and take labour by grace to haue wisedome cunning to do thy duety to God and to thy neighbour And in all thy words dedes haue euer in minde that god and his angels heareth and seeth euery thing and that nothing is so priuily done but it shal be made open And in especial haue in minde that thou shalt dye shortly howe Christ died for thee the subtiltie and falsenes of this temporal world the ioyes of heauen and the paynes of hell And euery morning among other thy meditations and prayers pray vnto thy Lorde God that the day folowing thou according to the degree which he of his infinite goodnes and mercy hath called thee vnto mayst vse this temporall wretched world in thy thoughtes words and deedes that by them and the merite of Christes passion thou mayst eschewe the paynes of hel and come to the ioy euerlasting And in executing thereof kepe truth in wordes and deedes Defende no man nor no matter agaynst the trueth In all thinges thinke and trust in God and he shal direct thy wayes Trust not to thine owne witte but feare God and he wyl keepe thee from euyl If thou trust more in thine owne witte than in the grace of God thy policie shall be soone subuerted Be content to heare good counsayle though it be contrary to thy will For he is a very foole that will heare nothing gladly but that is according to his mind Do thou no man harme least thou sufferest the same As thou wouldest be done vnto so do thou vnto other Be suche to other as thou desirest they shoulde be to thee If thou be religious remember that the due execution of true religion is not in wearing of the habite but with a cleane mynde in very deede to execute the rules and ordinances of religion For so it is that to weare the habite and not to execute the rule and order of religion is rather to be deemed hypocrisie or apostatasie than otherwise If thou be lay and vnmaried keepe thee cleane vnto the time thou be maried And remember the sore and terrible punishmente of Noes stood and of the terrible fyre and brimstone and sore punishment of Sodome and Gomor done to man for misusing of the fleshe And in especial call to remembrance the marueylous and horrible punishement of that abhominable great pocks daylye appearing to our sightes growing in and vpon mans fleshe the which sore punishment euery thing wel remembred can not be thought but principally for the inordinate misuse of the fleshe And if thou intende to mary or be maried and hast a good wife thanke our Lord therefore for she is of his sending And remember that three thinges in especiall bene pleasaunt to the spirite of God that is to say concord betwene brethren loue and charitie betwene neighbours and a man and his wyfe wel agreeing And if thou haue an euyl wife take pacience and thanke God for all is for the best well taken Howbeit thou art bounde to doo and pray for her amendement least she go to the Deuyl from whom she came And haue in remembraunce that the intent of mariage is not in the beastly appetite or pleasure in the thing but the intent thereof is to eschewe the sinne of the fleshe or els to haue children And if thou haue children as muche as thou mayest bring them vp in vertue to be the seruauntes of God for it is better for thee and them not to be borne