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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	jesus_n	lord_n	zion_n	23	3	9.0400	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21000	A most heauenly and plentifull treasure, or, A rich minerall full of sweetest comforts the contents the next page will shewe.	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.	1609 (1609)	STC 7373.5; ESTC S4619	170,870	494

of his way is glad when he seeth the dawning of the day peepe and yet cannot forget the great darkenesse out of which he is but newly gotten ne yet cast of the feare which he had of so tedious a night Euen so also haue I a continuuall horror of my sinnes past and yet a sure and ioyfull hope of enioying that euerlasting blessednesse which thou hast purchased for vs with the bloud of thy dearely beloued sonne Christ Iesus O Lorde what a loue is that when as a maister dooth not spare the life of his owne onely sonne to redeeme his slaue Wherefore O most louing Sauiour seeing that I being formed with thine owne hands bought with thy bloud and purified by thy mercie I do here offer my selfe an obedient sacrifice vnto thee my God and Sauiour and therefore reiect me not Lord in thy wrath reprooue me not Psalm 37. I Must O Lord returne vnto thee and beginne againe to call vpon thee and to beseech thee of thy mercy For it seemeth to me that thine anger is rekindled against me Alas my God wilt thou chastise me in thine anger and make me feele the violence of thy iust furie which my sinnes haue prouoked thee to do The flame being consumed by the fire falleth into ashes and I being deuoured with the heate of thine anger do so vanish away as that there remaineth not so much as the smoake 2 For I see my God that thou hast discharged the sharpest arrowes of thy vengeance against me thou hast touched me with thine hand and neuer takest away the same from me I feele the gnawing and terror of my conscience which astonish and bruse me euē as it were thunder and lightning my miseries came vpon me one after another and one mischiefe presseth another warre is no sooner finished but that the plague assaulteth me and in the end death bereaueth me of the dearest pawnes I haue in this world Wherein then shall I take comfort my God shall it be in my selfe 3 Out alas my good God I haue neuer an whole member in me for my misery is entred euen into the marrow neither is there any part of me that reprocheth me not with my sinne and for the which I am not pained I languish in my griefe and there is none to comfort me mine eyes serue me for none other purpose but to looke vpon my miserie and my soule for nothing else but to acknowledge my cursednesse 4 I looke round about me and so farre as the eyes of my body and eyes of my soule can discerne what is past I see nothing either aboue me or below me or yet on any side of me but sinne which inuironeth me round about and mine iniquities which presse and ouerthrowe me They ly● heaped vpon my head as a very heauy burden and loe how ready they are to throttle and strangle me 5 How shall I be euer able to resist them What strength haue I to defend me from them seeing that my body is ready to fall in peeces The very filthinesse of them flowe on euery side me my vlcers and sores are no sooner closed vp but that they breake out againe and if my body be ill can my soule be well Must not she be altogether ashamed and tremble with horror and feare 6 After the same maner that a disease vndermineth my body maketh it stoope to death sorrow vndermineth my soule bereaueth her of her strength and as great cold congealeth in the bud the tender blossom withereth drieth it vp euen so dooth the finger of the Lord which hath touched my soule cause it to languish and to be out of heart 7 But alas my God what courage can I haue when as I see my selfe thus couered ouer with wounds and no part of my body free from paine and euer and besides this my miserie the rememberance of my dissolute pleasures is still before my face and reproch me with my sinne laugh at my vanitie Then say I thus vnto my selfe must I season my life with the honie of so many delights and afterward kneade them with the gall of so bitter anguishes Where now art thou ô thou deceitfull voluptuousnesse which drownest my soule in the sweet licour of thy pleasures Oh what drinke is that that thou leauest me 8 Haue not I ô Lord endured enough hath not mine humilitie sufficiently chastized mine arrogancie If I haue through fond presumption sinned alas I haue sithence that crepe vpon the earth I haue couered mine head with ashes and with mine arme haue I preuented my payne I haue cut through mine heart with crying out I haue drowned mine eyes in teares and yet thine anger continueth still 9 Is it of set purpose ô Lord that thou hast not perceiued my teares It is thou I say who with the twinkle of ●hine eye trauersest both heauen and earth euen thou I meane whose sight goeth beyond the depth of our harts It is thou ô Lord that hast read euen my very thoughts and knowne mine intent What haue I desired but thy mercie Wherin haue I trusted but in thy goodnes Why haue I made open profession of repentance but to condemne my selfe If my toong hath not throughly expressed my minde and caused my desier to be vnderstood alas ô Lord thou knowest what we would haue before we once thinke of it It is enough for vs to lift vp our harts vnto thee and thou forthwith grauntest our petitions 10 Why stayest thou ô Lord so long before thou geuest me that holie cōsolation which thou hast promised me I am quite spent my hart is gone my senses are trouble my strēgth faileth my sight waxeth dim my soule is vpō the shore of my lips ready to fly away 11 All my friends are now about me bewailing my death they are out of all hope of my health they dreame of nothing but of my funerall saying where is now that help which he looked for to come frō his God where is his fauour which he so promised to himselfe 12 The flatterers are gon away from me they thought to haue parted my goods they meant to haue preuented my fatall houre I am noisome to the whole world in the case that I now stād 13 They whisper in mine eare and tell me a thousand tales They dayly bring me in new acquaintances and thinke of nothing but to betray me He lieth say they on his death-bed and will neuer rise vp aliue againe What do we feare that the shadowe of his bones will bite vs 14 And I as if I had bin deafe made shew that I heard them not and as if I had bin dumb spake not one word vnto them for my patiēce was my buckler and my constancy my rampart 15 And euery man seing me so patiēt said surely this man is dumb for when he is touched he saith not a word would he abide all these indignities if he had any feeling of his honor and credit or yet the least

as there was any strength in me I might haue sayd that I was with my last master and that God had put me into the hands of an enemy of whome I could neuer haue bene rid but by departing out of this life Samech What reliefe or comfort ô Lord may I haue in my miseries In what place may I lodge the rest of my hope Thou hast vtterly extirped and rooted out the race of Iehuda the very stalke of Kings Prophets And as if by laying open mine entrayles thou mightest pluck out mine heart euen so hast thou taken from me my braue and valiant children by rooting out some and sending captiue othersome Thou hast chosen out a very good time for thy selfe to ruyne and sack me and to geue me for a pray vnto my greatest enemies and thou hast taken a very good order in all things for the ouerthrowing of that which I hold most deare which I haue made chiefe choyse of to loue and wherein I haue setled all mine whole affection But alasse with what crueltie if I may dare say so hath Ierusalem seene all her streetes paued with the torne members of the bodies of her poore children They haue bene layd vpon the rack their bones haue bene broken in pieces and their bloud hath run downe the chanels like streames There might you see the poore Virgins vtterly discomforted there is no more maydenly shamefastnesse left to coulor their faces withall that is to say no more of their fathers bloud to leape vp into their visages to mixe with their teares Ain Alasse what is there left for me to do in such a strange an affliction as this but incessantly to weepe And therefore I will weepe and weepe my fill I will conuert mine eyes into fountaynes and fill mine heart with sorrow and griefe Ha is it not possible to kill my selfe with weeping Ha when shall I sigh so much as that I may sigh my soule out of my body For seeing I haue none other consolation and that God alone who is able to ease my misery is farre away from me I can hope of none other end vnto my dolor but to suffer it consume it selfe to the end that as the flaming fire when it burneth brightest soonest consumeth the matter which it taketh hold on euen so the more my dolor encreaseth the sooner it may make an end of the matter wherein it remayneth And what other thing should I looke to be For I haue lost my children mine enemy hath gotten them into his clouches made himself master both of me and of my goods should I then desire to liue to behold any longer a more continuall misery Phe. Poore miserable distressed Syon hath cast open her armes and lifted vp her hands vnto heauen but hath not as yet found either in heauen or in earth any ayd or comfort All the world hath runne to heare her cry but none otherwise then as flyes do swarme about a sore to suck and sting it Euery one of her very neere neighbours haue encompassed her to fleese her and to deuide her spoyles and all her auncient friends haue forsaken her and fled frō her as mē would flye frō a loathsome diseased woman Sade I feele ô Lord much misery mine hart is ready to burst with very sorrow and anger in so much as that I am enforced to cōfesse that my miserie is nothing else but thy iustice and that my sinfull hāds haue wrought me all my tormēt I haue prouoked thine anger against me forced thy goodnes by mine obstinate wickednes to take the rods into thine own hand to make me feele that thou art iust to let me vnderstand that thou knowest my life to make me learne that there is nothing hid from thee that thou apparantly seest what is in mine hart and that my most secret thoughts are visible vnto thy prouidence I thought once to haue hidden my sinne and therefore I must needs now confesse the punishment and that the very strength of my sorrow draweth out the truth from my mouth But alasse seeing my misery is such and that all my comfort resteth in complayning heare ye at the least ô my neighbour people my dolefull sorrowfull voyce and behold a little my miserie and marke if euer ye saw any griefe comparable vnto mine And seeing ye will not set to your hands to ayd me lend me yet your eyes at the least to haue compassion on me and if ye be not altogether stonie harted weepe with me to see my poore daughters thus led captiue into a strange countrey Coph What thing is more weake deceitfull and vncertaine then the force of men and especially wh● God is against vs. I haue besought the ayd of all my friends and haue looked to haue had all Egipt to come to help me because that for to hold friendship with her I set my selfe against the Babylonians But alasse I remayne alone and am left vnto this cruell Caldean race and therefore all that I am now able to do is to detest the false faith of my false and trayterous friends and hauing vnderstood that the succours which they promised me were to none other end but to vndoe me and to be partakers of my spoyles euen to coniure heauen and earth to be aduenged of their villanies And yet for all this I feele my miserie no whit lessened neyther haue I found for all this any whit the more succour that my Priests and sacrificers promised me nor seene any of those hopes wherewith they filled me nor yet any of the vayne promises wherewith they puffed vp mine heart it seemed to them that they could haue ouerthrowne mine enemies with bare words They were all astonyed whē as they had felt the danger and had in the end seene the common miserie of the whole City light vpon their owne heads They dyed of extreame famine theyr Philacteries or Rochets ne yet their long side and wide vestiments were able to saue them one might haue seene hunger bring them to their end and with a dying voyce crauing a mouth full of bread to relieue their wretched bodyes could ●ind none to geue it them Rhesch In so much that when I had turned my selfe on euery side and found no helpe any where I was enforced my GOD and my Lord to runne to thee and in bowing my knees and lifting vp my hands to crye out all to be blubbered with teares saying O Lord if thou be a God of mercy behold me now for I am so afflicted as that my very enemyes themselues haue compassion on me I am from the crowne of the head vnto the soale of the foote full of sorrow and there is no part of me that is not grieuously touched Me thinketh my bowels to be pluckt in pieces within me and am of the opinion that mine hart will riue in sunder My mouth is as bitter as soote or gall and I am eftsoones nothing else but bitternes it selfe For all my words thoughts deeds are