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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beauty_n	heart_n	see_v	2,957	5	3.2630	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17386	The cure of the feare of death Shewing the course Christians may take to bee deliuered from these feares about death, which are found in the hearts of the most. A treatise of singular use for all sorts. By Nicholas Bifeild, Preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middelsex.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622.	1618 (1618)	STC 4213; ESTC S116195	37,363	214

weekes without any holy cogitation and besides thy minde is infinitely prone to swarmes of euill thoughts Gen. 6. 5. Againe if thou behold thy conscience it is impure polluted without light or life or glory in thee shut vp in a dungeon excusing thee in many faultes and accusing thee for things are not faultes but in thy conceit and when it doth accuse thee for sinne it rageth falleth mad with vnbrideled fury and terrors keeping no boundes of hope or mercy Further if thou obserue thy affections they are altogether impotent in that which is good there is no lust in thee after that which is good yet they are all out of order and prone to continuall rebellion against God ready to be fiered by all the inticements of the world or the Deuill Phil. 2. 13. Gala. 5. 24. Thirdly vnto these adde thy innumerable actuall sins which are more then the haires of thy head multiplied daily in thought affection word deed the least of them deseruing hel fire for euer thy sins of Infancy youth old-age sinnes of omission and commission sinnes in prosperitie and aduersity sinnes at home abroad sinnes of infirmity presumption If Dauid looking vpon his sins could say They haue so compassed mee and taken such hold of me that I am not able to looke vp Oh then if thou haddest sight and sence how might'st thou much more cry out of the intolerable burthen of them and the rather if thou obserue that many of thy corruptions raigne tyrannically haue subdued thy life to their vassalage so as thou art in continuall slauery to them Thus is thy life infested with these vnspeakable inordinations and thus of the first part of thy infelicity in life Secondly if thou obserue but how God hath auenged himselfe vpon them what yet remaineth vnto thee how can thy heart sustaine it selfe For 1. Thou art a banished man exiled frō Paradise and made to liue without hope to returne thither The best part of the earth thou shalt neuer enioy 2. The earth is cursed to thee and it may bee a wofull spectacle to see all the creatures subiect to vanity and smitten vvith the strokes of God for thy sinne and groning daily round about thee 3. Look vpon thy most miserable soule for there thy mind and conscience liue shut vp with darknes and horror The Diuels haue within thee strong holds and liue entrenched in thy thoughts Eph. 4. 17. 2. Cor. 10. 5. Thy heart is spiritually dead and like a stone within thee Eph. 2. 1. Ezech. 36. 27. 4. Thy body is wretched through deformities and infirmities diuersly noisome to thee with paines that greeue thee either in respect of labour or diseases vnto which thou art so prone there is no part or ioynt of thee but is liable to many kindes of diseases Deut. 28. 21 22. Gen. 3. 19. And of the labours of thy life which is but the least part of thy bodily miseries Salomon saith All things are full of labour who can vtter it And for that reason life is but a vanity and vexation Eccl. 1. 18. 5. If thou looke vpon thy outward estate in the world with what fearefull frights may thy heart be griped If thou consider 1. The cōmon or generall or publike plagues with which God fights against the world as wars famines earthquakes pestilence and yeerely diseases inundations of waters and infinite such like 2. The particular crosses with which hee vexeth thee in particular either with losses of thy estate or the troubles of thy family Deut. 28. 15 16 c. 3. The praeterition of God restraining many good things frō thee so as thou wantest many of those blessings of all sorts which yet God doth bestow vpon others Esa. 59. 1 2. Iere. 5. 25. 4. The cursing of thy blessings whē God blasts the gifts of thy mind that thou canst not vse them for any contentment of thy life or makes thy prosperity to be the occasion of thy ruine Mala. 2. 3. Eccles. 5. 13. This is a sore euill Lastly consider yet further what may fall vpon thee in respect of which thou art in daily danger There are seas of vvrath which hang ouer thy head Iohn 3. 36. and God may plague thee with the terrors of conscience like Cain Gene. 4. 14. Or with a reprobate sense or the spirit of slumber Ioh. 12. 4. Rom. 11. 8. strong illusions 2 Thes. 2. 11. or such other like dreadfull spirituall iudgements Besides many other fearefull iudgements which thy heart is not able to conceiue of as painefull diseases in the body or an vtter ruine in thy estate or good name but aboue al other things the remembrance of the fearefull iudgement of Christ the euerlasting paines of Hell with a miserable death should cōpel thee to cry out O men and brethren what shall I doe to be saued and get out of this estate But because it is my purpose heere chiefely to perswade with godly mē not with naturall men and because death it selfe is no ease vnto such men that liue in their sins without repentance who haue reason to loath life and yet no cause to loue death I passe frō them come to the life of godly men and say they haue great reason to loath life desire the day of death CHAP. VI. Shewing the miseries of godly men in life NOW the miseries of the godly mans life are of two sorts first for either he may consider what hee wants secondly or what he hath in life for which he should be weary of it I will giue but a touch of the first Consider of it in this life there are sixe things among the rest we want and can neuer attaine while we liue here The first is the glorious presence of God while the body is present the Lord is absent 2. Cor. 5. 8. And is not this enough to make vs loath life Shal we more esteeme this wretched Carkasse then our glorious God whose onely presence in glory shall fill vs with eternall delight O the Vision of God! If we had but once seene God face to face we would abhorre that absence that should hinder the fruition of such vnspeakeable beauties as would enamour the most secure heart to an vnquenchable loue The second thing we want in life is the sweet fellowship with our best friends A fellowship matchlesse if we either consider the perfection of the creatures whose communion we shall enioy or the perfect manner of enioying it Who would be with-held from the Congregation of the first-borne from the society with innumerable Angels and the Spirits of iust men Alas the most of vs haue not so much as one intire and perfect friend in all the world and yet we make such friends as we haue the ground of a great part of the contentment of our liues Who could liue here if he were not beloued Oh! what can an earthly friendship be vnto that in heauen when so many thousand Angels