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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	pleasure_n	young_a	youth_n	100	3	8.6929	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03025	Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1631 (1631)	STC 13167.5; ESTC S2727	61,976	360

Ioseph had never beene a Courtier had hee not first beene a prisoner Gods children are ever the better for being miserable and end in that It is good for mee that I have been afflicted let God use me how Hee will on earth so I may have what Hee hath promised to those that love Him in heaven Who would not be a Lazarus for a day that hee might sit in Abraham's bosome for ever Gods Church must be a lillie among thorns and while I am a member of the Church I must not looke to fare better than the whole Body if they have call'd the master of the house Beelzebub well may it be endur'd to those of the household my comfort is if I am reviled for His sake I shall be blessed Prosperity is like Vinum merum all wine it makes drunke the soule and therefore God mingles it that He may keep us sober feeds His children with a bit and a knocke ever dishes His sweete meate with sowre sause if wee did alwaies abound wee would grow proud and forget our selves and if not sometimes wee would despaire and forget our God I will pray with Salomon give me neither wealth nor poverty but a meane or if wealth grace to imploy it if poverty patience to endure it Afflictions are the medicines of the minde if they are not toothsome let it suffice they are wholesome 't is not required in Physicke that it should please but heale unlesse we esteeme our pleasure above our health let me suffer so I may reigne be beaten so I may be a son Nothing can be ever too much to endure for those pleasures which endure for ever There was never good but was hard to get the prison and the hatchet sores and crums leade to Abraham's bosome and the way thither is by weeping-crosse if many tribulations will carry me to heaven on Gods name let me have them welcome the poverty which makes me heire to those riches that never shall have an end I will deale for my soule as for my body never refuse health because the Phisicke that should procure it is bitter let it distast me so it heale me There are in the world that thinke it too great sawcinesse to be our owne spokes-men to God and therefore goe to St. Some-body to preferre their petitions for them I shall ever hold it good manners to goe of my owne errants to God He that bids me Come will bid me welcome God hath said Come unto me c. It is no unmannerlinesse to come when I am call'd All consciences like all stomacks are not alike how many doe we see digest those sinnes with ease which others cannot get downe with struggling one straines at a gnat when another swallowes a camell hee that will keepe cleere of great sinnes must make conscience of all I will thinke no sinne little because the least endangers my soule and it is all one whether I sell my SAVIOVR for thirty pence with Iudas or for halfe I am worth with Ananias whether I goe to hell for one sin or for many This life is but a journey unto death and every day we are some spannes neerer the grave how is it that wee which are so neere our death are so farre from thinking of it Security is a great enemy to prevention and a presumption that wee shall not dye yet makes men that they doe not prepare to dye at all it is good taking time while time is if it come suddenly and find thee unprepared miserable man that thou art who shall deliver thee from the body c Therefore hath Nature given us two eares and but one mouth that we should heare twice as much as wee should speake with all thy secrets trust neither thy wife nor thy friend hee that is thriftie of his owne tongue shall lesse feare anothers There are that affect not so much to have true friends as to have many and whisper to that friend what they heare from this and againe to this what from that and glory to have it knowne how much they are trusted whereas they were therefore trusted that it might not be knowne I have ever thought it a maxime in friendship that he which will bee intimate with many is entirely nones let me love and be lov'd of all I will bee inward onely with a few I had rather have one meane friend that I may call my owne than the most potent where I must share with others He that provides not for his owne is worse than an infidell 't is not the blame of charity that it begins at home it is that it ends not abroad I am not borne all to my selfe somewhat to my friend to my neighbour I will so care for my owne as I may relieve others and so doe for others as I wrong not my owne Much knowledge not much speech Emblem 's a wise man I shall ever hold it neither safe nor wise alwaies to speake what I know of my owne affaires nor what I thinke of others a man may speake too much truth Pleasures like the Rose are sweet but prickly the hony doth not countervaile the sting all this worlds delights are vanity and end in vexation like Iudas while they kisse they betray I would neither be a Stoick nor an Epicure allow of no pleasure nor give way to all they are good sause but naught to make a meale of and were given not to fill the belly but to relish the meate I may use them sometimes for digestion never for food In crosses these two things must be thought on first whence they come from God Hee strikes thee that made thee next wherefore they come for thy good either to try thee or to mend thee if they bee harsh yet they be gainfull I shall ever count it a good change to have the fire of persecution for the fire of hell who would not rather smart for a while then for ever let me rather have that fire which is rewarded with heaven than these pleasures which shall be rewarded with fire Salomon's Rejoyce oh young man in the dayes of thy youth were the finest thing in the world if it were not for that which follows for all this thou shall come to judgement to goe well lye soft sleepe hard if there were noe after-reckoning who would not say out of delight what the Apostles did out of amazement It is good for us to be here but when I have a stewardship to account for and God knowes how soone my master returning and my talent to seek the Bridegroome entering and my oyle to buy I have more reason to care how to redeeme my time past than to spend the present To grow heavy or lumpish with crosses argues not so much want of courage as grace nothing more soyles the reputation of a Christian than to have his minde droope with his Mammon what if health friends meanes have all forsooke thee wilt thou lose thy wittes together with thy goods all the

imploy'd wee have not receiv'd the spirit of bondage to feare I will love God and honour Him but I will be affraid onely of offending Him God loves timely holinesse remember thy Creator in the daies of thy youth Nature ever begins at the wrong end layes in and layes up indeed but for the theefe and the moth With Absalom the first care is taken to leave a monument behind and when they are setled upon earth they will see if God have any thing to say to them for Heaven the best part is the last provided such shall one day have their heaven to seeke because they will not have it to seeke now He that will not when he may c. You know the Proverbe He that doth not seeke the Lord while He may be found cannot complaine if he do afterward seek and not finde All sinnes are forbidden trees to us and wee are so much ADAMS sonnes in nothing as in our disobedience ever reaching after that wee should not to do good there is a lion in the way like Salomons sluggard but to evil how swift are our feet So then it is not going fast that carries us to Heaven but going right I will care rather to set my foot down sure than to take it up quicke What am I the neerer to goe a great pace and the wrong way Every man is his own worst foe and his greatest enemies are those of his owne house we may thanke our selves that we live at no more ease than we doe In the sweat of thy browes thou shalt eate thy meate was of our own procuring We had never known so much evill if we had not desired to know too much good our ambition hindered our preferment we were at first made happie and we made our selves miserable now we are miserable God hath chalked out a way to our happinesse now if we love misery rather than blisse it is fit we should have enough on 't A good man still the longer hee lives the better he dyes men should grow better as they grow older not like a dead hedge the longer it stands the rottener To see a man white in his leprosie leaving the world and not his avarice and with S. Lukes foole dye thinking of his barnes is horrible I had rather have no portion on earth than buy it with that I shall have in Heaven I will not with the Curre in the fable part with my flesh for its shadow The way to sweeten death is to thinke of it every day I live I will remember I might dye and I will not desire to live a day longer than I growe some drammes better What will it benefit me that I have liv'd some houres which I cannot answere for Worldly minds mind nothing but Worldly things Laban and Nabal think of nothing but their sheep-shearing and making merry when they have done their businesse is thought on not their salvation for they make that no part of the businesse onely matter of course grudge God His service and in His service the length of it and pay God His due as Laban did Iacob his wages with an ill wil and would fetch it back again if they could tell how and yet these men that will steale time from God for their profit and their businesse will steale time from their businesse for their pleasure He that will breake the Sabbath for an houres work will breake off his work for an houres drinking Thus they prefer the humoring of their soules to the saving of them I will never sell Heaven for company it is better being a good Christian than a good fellow Every man would be thought to bee in love with heaven and yet most men are loth to shake hands with earth here is the difference betweene the heavenly Language and ours they cry how long Lord how long and we crie how soone they think He stayes too long and we thinke He comes too fast I will labour to bee a follower of those with whom I would be partner he hath not yet enough conn'd Heaven that is doth to goe to it that voice onely is worthy an Apostle I desire to be dissolved and to bee with CHRIST The just man shall live by his faith and others live by his charitie true faith is seene in its workes he that sayes he beleeves and doth not shew it beleeve him not To make shew of beleeving and not in thy workes is to shew thy Hypocrisie but not thy saith Not every one that eats his meat in the sweat of his browes shal eat bread in the Kingdome of Heaven and yet it is not eaten but with sweating neither but 't is such a sweat as will make thy heart ake and not thy lims prizes are not had but with hazard hee that will drink of the water of the Well of Bethel with Davids Worthies must thorow his enemies the water of life is not had but with hazard of our lives My comfort shall be that though I lose my life for CHRISTS sake I shall not lose my labour Or who would not lose this life which he is ever looking to leave for that which he is sure ever to enjoy Oh Lord wee want lives to lose I cannot endure enough to come to Heaven This life as if it would never be done is ever providing for Eternall life as if it would never begin is never preparing for I will care for this life but not dote on it I will remember I shall live ever but not here The love of the earth is the disease of the world and that gulfe betweene Abrahams bosome and us to forsake house and land c that they do not like of if Christ would but leave out that same leave all men would doe well enough with Him they would enjoy this world but not with the losse of a better Againe they would enjoy that but not with the losse of this they would have their Canaan but they would have their flesh-pots they love the blessing but they would not lose their pottage with Naaman they will worship no other god but yet the Lord be mercifull c. when I enter into the house of the god Rimmon They would so please God as they might neither displease others nor themselves would part stakes with God let such juglers in religion look upon Saul in the Old Testament and Ananias in the New and read their judgement what society hath light with darknesse The Arke Dagon were never friendly householders thou canst not at once have two such guests as GOD and the divel If one heaven could not hold them both how shall one heart No man is so provident for his owne good as God is for every mans every sinner is an Absalom to Him and He doth not only wish Would God I had dyed for thee c. But dyed indeed we doe not so desire our owne salvation as He doth all ours promiseth perswadeth begges our obedience He leaves no way untried