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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	heaven_n	mercy_n	sinner_n	3,875	5	9.4539	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00483	An exhortation vnto prayer thought mete by the kinges maiestie, and his clergy, to be read to the people in euery church afore processyions. Also a letanie with suffrages to be said or song in the tyme of the said processyons.	Church of England.; Church of England. Litany. 1544.	1544 (1544)	STC 10620; ESTC S109485	8,517	42

eyther in his trueth his goodnes or in his almightie power certainely assuring our selfe that both of his omnipotencie he may do what soeuer shall please his goodnes and also for his infinite goodnes and fatherlye affection towarde vs that he woll both here and graunt al our lauful and godly requestes after that measure sort and degree as he of his infinite and incomprehensible wisdome knoweth the thynge to be moost mete moost conuenient and behofeful both for his own glorye and honour and for the profit behoufe and commoditie of vs his children Furthermore also it is necessarily requyred to that that our prayer may be acceptable vnto our heuenly father to haue charitie and brotherly loue betwixt neighbour and neighbour and towarde all our euen christen So CHRISTE him selfe teacheth vs sayinge whan you stande to praye forgyue if you haue any dyspleasure agaynste any personne that your father whiche is in heauen maye forgiue you It is a true saying that saint Augustine sayeth There is no good fruicte no good deede no good woorke whiche springeth not out of the roote of charitie And saincte Paule teacheth plainely that where as charitie lacketh nothyng can auayle vs. And moreouer we must in our prayer be ware of vayne glory and prayse of man outwardly shewing a great pretence of holynes and being vayne of true godlynes inwardly onely to haue the commendation of men before the world for if we so do we shall lose the reward and benefit of our prayer as our sauiour CHRIST saieth his owne selfe We must take hede also that we thincke not the vertue of prayer to consiste in multiplying of many wordes without faythe and godly deuotion thynckyng as the heathen doth that for our many wordes or moche speking we shalbe herde of our heauenly father Who so euer doth thinke so he shall deceyue him selfe for god doth not regarde neither the swete sound of our voice nor the great num ber of our woordes but the ernest feruentnes and true faythful deuotion of our hartes Fynally we muste beware in our praier of that common pestilent infection and venemefull poyson of all good prayer that is to say when our mouthe prayeth and our hartes praye not Of the whiche the prophete Esaie complayneth sore And our sauyour in saynte Mathewes gospel rebuketh the pharisees for the same saying thus O hipocrites Esaie the prophet prophected well vppon you when he sayde thus This people draweth nighe me with theyr lyppes but their hartes are farre from me that is to saye they speake with their tongue and lippes the wordes of praier but in theyr harte they mynde no thyng lesse then they speake as that the goodnes of the prayer stode in the outwarde speking onely of the woorde and not in the inwarde true and faythfull request of the harte And to the intent therfore your hartes and lyppes maye god together in praier it is verye conuenient and moche acceptable to god that you shuld vse your priuate prayer in your mother tongue that you vnderstandyng what you aske of god may more ernestly feruētly desyre the same your hartes myndes agreing to your mouthe and woordes Wherfore let vs eschewe good people in our prayers al the afore rehersed vices for elles we shall not obteine our petitions and requestes but contrarye wyse we shall hyghly displease god and greuously offende him Therfore good Chrystian bretherne seynge we are come togyther to praye let vs do it accordyng to our bounden duetie and as it ought to be done Let vs truly praye with a faithfull harte and a sure affiaunce of our heauenly fathers infinite mercy grace and goodnes let vs make our prayers beyng in loue and charitie with all and euery one of our neighbours euer hauing in our herte an ernest request and desyre of those godly benefyttes which are appointed in goddes worde that we shulde pray for and yet not prescribing vnto god either the tyme place measure or degree of his gracious benefittes but holly committing our selues to his blessed wil and pleasure receyuyng in good woorthe and with thankes giuinge what so euer and when so euer it shall please his gracious goodnes to bestowe his gracious gyftes vpon vs. Let vs also fournishe and beautifie this our prayer that it may plese god the better and delite the eares of our heauenlie father with fasting and holsome abstinence not onely from all delicious liuing in voluptuouse fare and from all excesses of meate and drinke but also to chastyse and kylle the synfull lustes of the bodye to make it bowe and redy to obey vnto the spirituall mocions of the holye gooste Let vs also furnish it with almes dede and with the woorkes of mercie and charite For praier is good and acceptable vnto god when it is accompanied with almose dedes with the workes of mercy as the holy man Thobye sayth with the whiche and vsyng the vertues afore rehersed and also eschewyng dyligently the foresayde vices our prayers shalbe of muche price and value as was the prayers of Hely Danyel Moyses before our heauenly father and that for our sauiour Jesus Chrystes sake whiche hathe redemed vs with his preciouse bloude and hathe signed sealed vs vp to euerlasting life To whom both now and euer with his father and the holy goost be glorie and honour without ende AMEN AS THESE holye prayers and suffrages folowynge are sette furthe of most godly zeale for edifying and stirring of deuotion of al true faythfull christen hartes so it is thought conueniente in this cōmune prayer of procession to haue it set furthe and vsed in the vulgar tungue for stirringe the people to more deuotion and it shalbe euery christen mās part reuerntly to vse the same to the honour and glory of almighty god and the profit of their own soules And such among the people as haue vokes and can reade may reade them quietely and softly to them selfe and suche as can not reade let them quietly attentifely gyue audience in tyme of the said prayers hauynge their mindes erect to almighty god deuoutly praying in theyr hartes the same petitions which do entre in at their eares so that with one sounde of the hart and one accord God may be glorified in his churche And it is to be remembred that that whiche is printed in blacke letters is to be sayde or songe of the priest with an audible voice that is to say so loude and so playnly that it maye well be vnderstande of the hearers And that which is in the redde is to be answered of the quiere sobrely and deuoutely O GOD the father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O god the father of heauen haue mercy vppon vs myserable synners O god the son redemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O god the son redemer of the world haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O god the holy goost proceding from the father and the son haue mercy vpon vs