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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	see_v	world_n	12,890	5	4.5277	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07774	Philip Mornay, Lord of Plessis his teares For the death of his sonne. Vnto his wife Charlotte Baliste. Englished by Iohn Healey.; Lachrimae. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Healey, John, d. 1610.	1609 (1609)	STC 18153; ESTC S112901	15,449	72

my prayers tended with that all mine instructions concluded in y● all mine endeuours were bounded that ah nothing but that was the center from which all my cogitations were drawne and the circle to which they tended But it was thy pleasure Lord in the meane space to make mee the point the marke where-at thou wouldest shoote so that I am now become mine owne burden Nay thou hast shot me thorow that through the sides of mine onely sonne striking Father and childe starke dead both at one stroke Alas thou Lord of mine are thine eares become deafe is thine heart growne obdurate also is that that eternall neuer-dried fountaine of thy free mercy frozen with colde or dryed with heate when I come to drinke and vnto none but mee It is true Lord that If I should dispute with thee I should not answere thee to one thing in a thousand Thou art wise in heart and mightie in strength When thou takest a prey who can enforce thee to restore it who shall say vnto thee why didst thou thus I but I do not sticke in the courts of thy power Lord I presse in vnto thy very sanctuarie and looke all about mee vpon thine exceeding power commixt and contemperate with thine vnmeasured goodnesse and thine inscrutable wisdome Thou Lord art righte●us in all thy wayes mercifully holy in all thy workes Nay thy mercy is aboue all thy workes Therefore are thy iudgements deep thy mercies a boundles a soundlesse depth thou giuest these as Cauterismes in Phisick not as hurtes in hostilitie Wee thoght thou hadst not heard our vowes and see thou hast heard them truer then wee were aware of our wordes it may bee thou refusedst but our intents thou hast admitted and signed both our desires with a better condition to vs both to our sonne thou hast done better in taking backe as thy iust due him that thou hadst but lent vnto vs during thine Almighty pleasure and seating him in Heauen whome thou hadst but shewen and scarcely that vnto the Earth to vs thou hast done better in taking him out of the dangers of the worlds deuouring whirle-pittes wherein perhaps wee might vnto our more excesse of sorrow haue seene him swallowed and haue swum after that Funerall in a Sea of more bitter teares Once againe here Lord seale vp my lippes once more here binde mine organs of speech for the flesh rebels and compels me nor see I meanes to bridle it it is growne so head-strong and so impatient of suppression It bids mee say why tookest thou him away ere his time thou inexorable creditor that wouldest not stay thy day but catche him vp ere his fate was ready to call him True thou fraile flesh and bloud why was it not his time to take him that was Times Creator and what is fate but the will of GOD the Father And what better limite hath life in any of vs all then the rest from all our labour And what matter is it whether the ship of our mortality bee brought to the hauen by a sterne tempest or a gentle gale by winde or by tide had not hee that from all eternitye predestinated the moment of his birthe the same power to decree the houre of his death by If thou haue any reason to complaine that thou lost him so soone the same cause hast thou to expostulate why thou hadst him no sooner or no later but e●en then when hee was giuen thee and doost thou thinke hee hath not liued long enough whose life his countrie extolleth whose funerall song the purest Christ of God singeth This as vertues desired rewarde haue many worthye men bestowed much toyle to attaine hardly deseruing it in their declining age and their frostiest part of nature which hee gotte signed him ere hee gotte out of his youth ere his age was at the Summer Solstice namely his wish and want in the hearts of al such as honor goodnesse Therefore thou talkest like a foolish Woman goe and learne better language of the wise It is not length of time but wisdome a life well lead a course well runne in the Lord come wee neuer so soone to the stake that is the true grauitie The sanctified man dye hee neuer so soone hath had a long time Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of such as hee holdeth deare and that for euer But thou hast no measure thou fraile corruption thou art in my bosome againe with an other friuolous obiection Hee was all all the sonnes I had and now I haue neith●r sonne nor daughter amongst my people nor any posteritie in my dwellings No GOD knowes not I and in the meane while the imaginers of mischiefe such as like Moles digge groueling in sinne vntill they haue cast vp a mount of hatefull enormitie against Heauen Their seede is established before them and their generation stands strong in their sight It doth O but stand stand a little and cast an eye about Now tell mee how many great Princes and Potentates thou seest to sit debarred from the fruite of progenie and the fruition of children in so much y● the whole world seemes to stagger for want of stayes from their loynes and to endeuour to make them fruitfull by bathing their barrennesse in fulnesse of teares And what hast thou foregone that thou shouldest so grieue at a modell of vertue whom all men respected more then hee in whom it was resident a patterne of honorable honesty forcing praise from others and following nature in himselfe Ah fixe thy fickle heart and giue the Deity his due praise How often are the branches of the wicked shiuered in sunder with the winde Nay let vs grant them that which God seldome granteth their full growth the fruite they bring is vnprofitable not relishing any taste nor befitting any vse But call thy thoughts home to thine owne issue why in him his sweetnesse of fruite thrust his sweete blossome from the stalke his vnparalleld vertue pressed out the delicious iuice of his sweete fruite and left it to bee casked vp by all succeeding posteritie And now the tents of the godly are perfumed with his rare and redolent fragrancie his heate nay and that in the height his ardor armes and animates them all to emulation of vertue Time ranked many with him in respect of age and gaue his fore-lock into diuerse hands assoone as his yet were there not any of his time that knit that lock into so many knots of vertue as he did what canst thou grumble further at yet mee thinkes thou art not satisfied oh thou wouldst faine haue had him as thou thoughtst thou hadst begotten him to beene the heire of thine intents to haue beene enfcoffed in thy determinations and haue suruiued to haue inherited thine honest and goldy endeuoures I pray thee now looke after him once for mee that hast longed so for him in thy selfe Now blind man hath he not discerned his heritage

himselfe and is he not now seized of that reall inheritance where thou wouldest share with him with all thine heart hath hee not left thee his countrie and the church possessed with as plentifull and as pleasant fruit as such a greene stock as his could possibly bring to perfection yes and GOD himselfe hath layde it vp in his Granary that I thinke makes thee most melancholie because thou thinkest that God hath lost the more absolute vse that thy sonnes farther yeares might haue affoorded him Goe to keepe thy selfe content and let Gods losses lye vpon his owne hand it is in his power out of this heape of stones to rayse himselfe seruants the country souldiers and the Church supporters cannot he fill the heauens with legions of Saints the earth with hoasts of Protectors and his Church with millions of assistants but hee must bee faine to take a corruptible mans direction and stand drawing out the life of this man or that longer then his eternity liketh ah farre bee it from true sence to bee so beesotted Why so then I am satisfied giue mee leaue I will now take the bitte out of my mouth my selfe and plead the cause of the all-sufficient Creator euen against mine owne soule Why doost thou not see then deere wife how all the worlde like a Bowle is ouer-swayed by the ouer strong byas of iniquitie bends despite all opposition to black corruption oh how seculent how pestilent a vapour of sinne drawes euery man in with the first breath hee takes attracting vices as innumerable as Attomes euen in his first moment of respiration and the longer hee liueth to draw his breath the surer foote-hold hee giueth viciousnesse in his foule bosome and settleth the contagion in his soule which the deuill is sure of though he be sencelesse of Sathan hath a beadroll of those impious and daily increasing inhabitants though the poore Land-lord taketh no note of their entrie to possession nor receiues any rent of them but ruine happy hee too few so happy that can bring his action against them before GODS bench or in that celestiall starre-chamber and remooue them from possession by a bill of repentance but few such suites go forward the world comes with one bribe and the flesh with another either too easily GOD knowes can perswade the poore plaintiffe to let his action fall for this flesh let the soule let the spirit come neuer so fresh neuer so zealous neuer so hot in that zeale frō the hand of God it will finde one angle or other in wherein it may sow the seed of sin plant a too fruitefull infection And when the soule is once dipped in worldly delights what should deliuer it from being drowned therein What hold hath any one that is once ouer the shooes in iniquity vpon any thing that may saue him from slipping in ouer the shoulders what priuiledge had the court of heauen granted our sonne more then another had he a lease of his soules life letten him none And wee see and might learne by sight of it that vertue when it is exalted and eleuate if it begin once to drawe damnation in it becometh graduate in the most extreame degree of viciousnesse Yes yes when goodnesse once misseth the true tract and lights into the broade way of blacke destruction it will hardlye heare of any reclaime but maketh the more speede to mischiefe and runnes headlong to euident ruine So then was it not better for our sonne to haue taken paye for a little space in the Campe of Vertue then to haue beene enranked as an olde attendant in the Court of vice and had hee not better haue beene exposed to an houres sharpe toyle then to a yeares subtle temptation Thinke but of him as hee was indeed A youth of an egregious alacritye a penetrating spirit and an vnbounded ayme His vigorous vertue would enter vpon any enterprise and generally the effect would answere his endeauour his valour found no obstacle so obstinate but it would through it and bring glorie through it againe breaking the squadrons of the most sollid oppositions and mounting his honor vpon the rubbish of their ruined forces Now beeing such an one and such hee was indeed his heart lay open to all the assaults of affect of glory desire of renowne you know might soone haue put him out of the pace that vertue had taught him ambition is a great fowler and of exceeding cunning in her baytes why might not hee haue start out and haue slipt into one of her sprindges might not that holy hunger after honor haue turned his wrong side outward and haue led him cleere out of the sight of sobriety in affection yes and this hunger is most commonly an vtter enemie to the temperate diet of vertue and cannot endure to eate any thing that moderation prouideth Besides lofty spirits if they bee really eleuate can neuer brooke the horrible decay of honorable worth in these declining times and this Sunne-set of the world but will sometimes flie out and aduance their spirit in his ful freedome against these ages neglect of the deseruing worthie and then comes porte and power together with their appendants or hangbies and treades out the light of their most glorious lustre Ah this is too true and thus might our sonne haue beene lost had hee liued any longer But indeede true sorrowe will alwaies build vpon false grounds to augment it selfe if it bee not taken vppe in time and if it once gette heade it will haue a reason to shewe for any vnreasonable passion that it shall entertaine In truth it is true For hee that greeueth vnfainedlie greeueth also that any one should hold his griefes cause not sufficient to procure a greater affect of sorrow then hee endureth But tell mee now I pray thee louing wife wouldst thou not haue lost thy sonne no wouldst thou not haue had him transported from this ruined state that earth standeth in vnto that excellence of eeternity that heauen affordeth yes Why now then seeing that thou seest hee hath preuented thine expectation and is gotten vp thether long before thou thoughtst hee should why hast not thou reason to say with the wise man He pleased God and was beloued of him so that where as hee liued amongst sinners hee translated him This was Henock wife a man that was full of the feare of God And hee was taken away least wickednesse should alter his vnderstanding and least deceite should haue beguiled his minde And thus and no otherwise but thus hath our glorious GOD taken away our Sonne like a good Father who seeing his Sonne placed in the broadest beeach of peruersenesse takes him out of danger in time least hee should bee drawne into too euident danger and bee strucke downe by one shot or other from the assaylant enemy The deluge of wickednesse hath almost couered the highest mountaine of Godlinesse and good manners and therefore blessed be God that hath set our son in a