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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	part_n	place_n	time_n	2,101	5	3.0941	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30676	The husbandmans companion containing one hundred occasional meditations reflections and ejaculations : especially suited to men of that employment : directing them how they may be heavenly-minded while about their ordinary calling / by Edward Bury.	Bury, Edward, 1616-1700.	1677 (1677)	Wing B6207; ESTC R23865	229,720	483

such a confusion upon me that my thoughts were distempered and distracted and I could not keep my heart intent upon any thing when all I could do was little enough to wrastle with my distemper this made me resolve and oh that I could hold on my resolution if ever I recovered I would remember my Creatour in the days of my health oh my soul seeing these outward things can do thee little good but if over-loved will do thee much hurt set but a little value upon them there is a treasure to be had that will hold out and pleasures that will endure which will keep up the head above water under sickness sorrow and death labour for this but ro spend time on that which one hours sickness will put us besides it is but labour lost oh my God give me that for my portion that will bear up my head and heart not only in sickness but in death it self Upon a rainy day 99. Med. IN a rainy and very tempestuous day being driven into the house by the violence of the storm and the tempest proving so violent furious that the house it self could hardly secure me from the fury of it This made me consider what a mercy it was in such a season to have a retiring place for shelter and how uncomfortable it would have been to me had I been forc't to have born the brunt of this raging storm and yet how little do we value these mercyes when we know not the want of them and how few return praise to God that hath given us houses that we builded not and vineyards that we planted not Deu. 6.11 saturity oft breeds security and fulness forgetfulness the moon at the full is furthest from the sun and ofttimes suffers ecclips by the interposition of the earth and so we are ofttimes like Jesurun that waxed fat and kicked or like full-fed hawks that will not know their master neither do we pitty those that want houses or whose houses at least are not able to secure them or keep them dry this put me in minde to bless my God that had made such a comfortable provision for me that I seldom suffered upon this account and to condole those whose condition was otherwise I considered how great a mercy rain and waters were that neither man nor beast nor tree nor plant that neither the rational the sensitive nor vegetative creature could subsist or live without it and how dear and precious it was to the Patriarks of old and in many places of the world at this day how scarce it was with the Israelites in the wilderness yea was and in many places is their constant if not only drink and many thousands have perished for want of it and how it would be prized of us did we want it yea how often when the showers of heaven are restrained do our fields languish and the fruits of the earth fail and yet who is it that is thankful when God gives us the former and the latter rain in its season and yet how much are we engaged to God in England above many other places we seldom are reduced to such straits as others are for want of water but have abundance of fresh rivers brooks and torrents yea springs and ponds in most parts of the land that man nor beast seldome want it how would such a mercy be prized in many places of the world and yet though water be such a mercy when it is abused God can turn it into a judgement he drowned the old world with it and overwhelmed the Egyptians in the Red Sea and many times in those Northern climats he punishes us with immoderate rain and showers which oft-times proves the cause of scarcity and want thereby teaching us that the greatest outward blessings if abused may be turned into curses and a fruitful land made barren for the wickedness of those that dwell therein Psal 107.34 Having spent some time on these considerations the storm continuing the present providence brought to my minde the words of Solomon Pro. 19.13 a foolish son is the calamity of his father and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping Pro. 27.15 a continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike c. this is like a tempest in the heaven most troublesome and most dangerous when a man comes home tired with his labour and travail and expects refreshing at his own house and there is entertained either with the continual dropping of rain upon his head or with an unbridled scolding tongue of an unreasonable wife both are troublesome both are uncomfortable a cross grained contentious yoak-fellow whether man or woman sowers all the comforts of life and renders that relation the most troublesome and uncomfortable of any in the world which would otherwise be the sweetest and most delightful of all others hence saith Solomon it is better live in a corner on the house-top then with a brawling woman in a wide house Pro. 21.19 a man had better abide abroad exposed to winde and weather or crib himself up in any little angle or corner then live with a contentious woman that is ever brawling and brangling for such turn conjugium into conjurgium marriage into mar-age and instead of love and amity they promote strife and emnity and multiply curses instead of prayers The marriage-relation is the most desirable or the most detestable of all others none is more delightful where love and unity is none is more hateful where strife and contention envy and hatred bears the sway and as family-peace is a desirable blessing and family-jars an unsufferable torment so peace among neighbours is a mercy and the contrary a sore judgement but many like the Salamander live in the fire they love to foment jars and contentions and are never so well as when they are sowing discord or working mischief Pro. 26.21 as coals are to burning coals and wood to fire so is a contentious man to kindle strife many men are like mad dogs they snarl at all and would if they could bite all and make them as mad as themselves some contentious Christians also there are that in this fire burn and consume their graces not their vices these grow in opinions and flourish with these leaves seldome in grace for their fruit is seldom seen or it is bitter and unsavoury they are ready to dis-roab all others of their graces that attain not to the same pitch of opinion with themselves but the Church is little beholding to them whose zeal sets all into a combustion but above all peace peace with God and peace with a mans conscience is most to be desired yea absolutely neecssary which cannot be had till we break our peace with sin and satan oh my soul study peace with all men and holiness without which you shall never see God study peace with thy relations but especially with thy God and if thy ways please him thy enemy shall be at peace with thee