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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	blood_n	body_n	precious_a	3,677	5	8.0318	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72089	The practise of Christian workes. Written in Spanish by the R. Father Francis Borgia, sometymes Duke of Gandia, and the third generall of the Society of Iesus. Togeather with a short rule, how to live well. Englished by a father of the same society. VVhereunto are adioyned certaine pious meditations vpon the beades: translated also out of the Spanish	Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572.; Everard, Thomas, 1560-1633.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623.	1620 (1620)	STC 11315; ESTC S124739	63,056	286

7. That I may desire and procure by all the wayes I can that thou be knowne loued and glorified of all men Aue Maria. 8. That I may reioyce for the good of others and by charity haue part in their happines Aue Maria. 9. And afterwards receaue reward in thy Kingdome for that which by thy grace I shall haue deserued Aue Maria. 10. And finally by the communication of thy glory become a perfect Image and portrayture of thy Diuine Nature for euer Aue Maria. 2. O my Lord Iesu Christ c. Pater Noster 1. O Lord let me loue this so amiable and soueraigne good which thou hast prouided for me aboue all gold siluer and precious stones Aue Maria. 2. And aboue all other treasures and ryches of the earth Aue Maria. 3. Aboue all liberty and ease Aue Maria. 4. Aboue all other delights and pleasures Aue Maria. 5. Aboue all power knowledge Aue Maria. 6. Aboue all honor popular applause Aue Maria. 7. And aboue al authority and dominion Aue Maria. 8. Aboue all loue kindred and other persons most loued and esteemed Aue Maria. 9. Aboue all health and temporall life Aue Maria. 10. And finally aboue all that is not God Aue Maria. 3. O my Lord Iesu Christ c. Pat●r Noster O Lord let me vnderstand the breadth length height and profundity of thy infinite charity wherewith thou hast geuen me 1. Thy holy Spirit for my Comforter Aue Maria. 2. Thy Angells for my Guardians and protectors Aue Maria. 3. Thy Law for my instruction Aue Maria. 4. Thy Sayntes for my example Aue Maria. 5. Thy Sacraments for the health of my soule Aue Maria. 6. A Bath of thy most pretious bloud wherin to wash me Aue Maria. 7. Thy Blessed body in the Sacrament of the altar wherwith to nourish me Aue Maria. 8. Thy punishments for my warning and thy comforts to giue me courage Aue Maria. 9. All thy creatures for my seruice Aue Maria. 10. And finally reason fayth thy diuine prouidence fatherly protection for guides of my way in this pilgrimage wherin I liue that through thy mercy I may obtayne this so high and soueraigne an end for which thou hast made me Aue Maria. 4. O my Lord Iesu Christ c. Pater Noster Teach me o Lord the good vse of these good meanes which with so bountifull a hand thou hast giuen me And of thy good creatures which thou hast made subiect to my liberty that they may not hinder but help me to this end 1. Giue me knowledge how to keep warily my exteriour senses Aue Maria. 2. To vse my Memory with discretion Aue Maria. 3. My Iudgment with truth reason Aue Maria. 4. My Intention with rectitude Aue Maria. 5. My Will with purity Aue M. 6. Thy Sacraments with deuotion Aue Maria. 7. Prosperity with thankfulnes Aue Maria. 8. Aduersity with patience Aue Maria. 9. Things indifferent with all indifferency of mind Aue Maria. 10. And finally to behold this world as a booke ful of certain manifest testimonyes of thy Iudgments and mercies and of thy infinite wisdome omnipotency and admirable loue Aue Maria. 5. O my Lord Iesu Christ c. Pater Noster 1. Graunt vnto me shame and confusion for my faults and negligences past as offences committed against thy diuine maiesty Aue Maria. 2. And a firme Purpose to amend them and to satisfy for them as I shal be able Aue Maria. 3. And Prouidence to auoid occasions not to fall into the like hereafter Aue Maria. 4. And Fortitude wherwith to ouercome all temptations and hinderaunces of thy seruice Aue Maria. 5. Care and account how I spend the tyme which passeth and cannot be recalled Aue Maria. 6. And sorrow for that which I haue lost forgetting thee and my selfe Aue Maria. 7. Feare to loose thy grace aboue all losses Aue Maria. 8. Compassion of those which haue lost it without care to recouer it Aue Maria. 9. And zeale of soules bought with thy pretious bloud Aue M. 10. And finally a cordiall desyre that all may be saued sith thou so desirest it and didst dye for all And a principall care that none come into daunger and much lesse perish through my fault Aue Maria. 6. O my Lord Iesu Christ c. Pater Noster Graunt me o Lord light from heauen and wisdome to procure in all my workes the best most pleasing to thy Diuine Maiesty 1. To chuse always that which is certaine before the doubtfull Aue Maria. 2. That which is truely good before that which is fayned Aue. 3. To preferre the Principall before the Accessory and lesse worthy Aue Maria. 4. And that which lasteth for euer before that which perisheth Aue Maria. 5. To esteeme the vniuersal good before my particuler Aue Maria. 6. Health before delight Aue. 7. That which is iust and honest before that which is only profitable Aue Maria. 8. Vertue before vice Aue Ma. 9. The Soule before the body A. 10. And finally Heauen which must be our Eternall mansion before the earth which only serueth for a passage and tryall Because these as a better greater good participate more of thy goodnes and are more conformable to thy good pleasure and holy will which be euer fulfilled obeyed and reuerenced in Heauen and in Earth Amen Aue Maria. 7. O my Lord Iesu Christ c. Pater Noster 1. Graunt me o Lord true knowledge continuall memory of my principall end which is to loue obey please thee Aue M. 2. Also true knowledge continual memory of the secondary lesse principall which is to saue my Soule Aue Maria. 3. And a right vse choyce of the meanes which thou hast giuen me wherby to obtayne Eternall happines Aue Maria. Credo in Deum ADVERTISMENTS FOR THOSE who will say with greater deuotion and spirituall comfort the foresaid Coronaryes 1. ALL Acts of Vertue with custome are made delightefull and such as make triall come to knowe that it is much more easy to serue God then the Diuell and more pleasing confortable to serue God with feruour then with negligence and without all comparison to be a Saint then a synner 2. For in seruing of God the pleasures are not only pure without distast but much greater and more durable then those which the world can affoard to her Louers Besides the spirituall powers are more actiue and potent as the obiects are more noble and fit to cause greater comforts and therfore consequently from both these grounds the acts are much more perfect so full of delight that they are able to sweeten the greatest bytternes As we see by S. Paul in his greatest tribulations by the Martyrs in their torments by other Saints and seruants of God in all the aduersities of this life 3. Creatures vsed with the moderation which God commaundeth and with that respect which is due vnto him are

of all purity which so louest it in soules made to thy in owne Image that to clense them from syn thou hast washed them with thy precious bloud neuer suffer me to loose the beauty of thy grace And graunt to all synners that haue lost the same true sorrow repentance Amen Credo in Deum A Coronary or Crowne with the principall Mysteries of the life death of Iesus Christ our Sauiour A Prayer to the B. Trinity O Diuine and indiuiduall Trinity who hast manifested thy Iustice and Mercy and withall thy infinite Power wisdome and Goodnes in the Redemption of mankynd more then in all the other works which thou hast done teach me the Soueraigne mysteryes examples of the life and Passion of my Redeemer that I may worthily reuerence them and procure to imitate them for thy loue Amen 1. To the Omnipotency of the Father Aue Maria. 2. To the infinite wisdome of the Sonne Aue Maria. 3. And to the incomprehensible goodnes of the Holy Ghost Aue Maria. A prayer in honor of the Mother of God proper to the first Decade 1. O Eternal Prouidēce who didst work this so great and incomprehensible a wonder by giuing to the Diuyne word a Mother of the Children of Adam make me worthy to serue her with all humility and purity of hart Pater Noster 1. In honor of her immaculate Conception Aue Maria. 2. To her birth so much desired of mankind Aue Maria. 3. To her Presentation in the Temple Aue Maria. 4. How she cooperating carefully with the diuyne inspirations increaseth continually in vertue and grace Aue Maria. 5. By consenting with faith humility to the embassage from heauen God is incarnate and she becommeth mother remayning a Virgin Aue Maria. 6. She goeth with diligence vp to the mountaynes to congratulate with S. Elizabeth her cosen Aue Maria. 7. And with her presence and voyce S. Iohn exulteth his mother receyueth the spirit of prophesy Aue Maria. 8. The Virgin Queene in the house of Zachary imployeth her selfe in workes of Charity and humility Aue Maria. 9. S. Ioseph wondereth at that which he seeth and remayneth perplexed vntill the Angell reuealeth to him the Mystery Aue Maria 10. Such a new and incomparable worke required approbation from heauen and an Angel for witnes although the conuenience be manifest that God becomming man should be born of a Virgin mother Aue Maria. A prayer to the infancy of Christ 2. O Prince of all Eternity thy Fathers best beloued whom Legions of Angells do serue in heauen seeing thou vouchsafest to come downe to earth reason it is that all thy Creatures should go forth to meet thee and serue thee admit me o Lord for one of the meanest seruants of thy family Pater Noster 1. He that of nothing made and vpholdeth all that is created is borne poore and naked in a stable at Bethleem Aue Maria. 2. His Angells sing to him glory and peace vpon earth to men of good conscience Aue Maria. 3. The eighth day he sheadeth his bloud and taketh the shape of a synner And his Father honoreth him with the name of Iesus which signifieth a Sauiour Aue Maria. 4. Heauen proclaymeth him King Herod is troubled And heathen Princes guided by a star come from far contries to do him homage Aue Maria. 5. His Parents offer him in the Temple And where Symeon and Anne foretel his conflicts and victoryes Aue Maria. 6. With the cruell and lamentable death of the Innocents his byrth is published to all nations Aue Maria. 7. Aegypt receaueth imbraceth the King of heauen earth whome Iury persecuteth Aue Maria. 8. The Angell signifieth the death of his Persecutors And the Child returneth to Nazareth Aue Maria. 9. He discouereth his Diuine wisdome to the Doctors in the Temple and subiecteth himselfe with al obedience to his parents Aue Maria. 10. He liueth retired eighteene yeares in Nazareth to teach vs to liue vnknown when it is conuenient to expect due season for all our workes Aue Maria. A Prayer to Christ as the Guide Example of our life 3. O Soueraigne Doctor syth the tyme is come wherin thou art pleased to discouer thy Eternall secretes vnto men Make me a worthy disciple of thy heauenly doctryne Pater Noster 1. The tyme being come for him to performe his office he leaueth the comfort of his Mother his house quietnes to serue the common good Aue M. 2. He passeth alone to the riuer Iordan where S. Iohn Baptist discouereth him And they contend in acts of humility Aue Ma. 3. The heauens open themselues and the holy Ghost descendeth vpō him in a visible forme And the Eternall Father acknoledgeth him for this Sonne And commaundeth vs to heare him Aue Maria. 4. The great Maister of pennance retyreth himselfe to the desert to teach vs the same by his example and to be beginne our works with prayer And there he ouercommeth the infernall Spirit Aue Maria. 5. After he had vanquished the infernal enemy that tempted him the Angells come to adore and serue him Aue Maria. 6. He entertayneth the disciples of Saynt Iohn And with his curtesy sweetnes obligeth them to his seruice Aue Maria. 7. He sheweth compassion vpon synners And fatherly care of his subiects Aue Maria. 8. His patience in all corporall wants and incommodities Aue Maria. 9. His meeknes in the wrongs and calumniations of his enemyes Aue Maria. 10. His miraculous works for the benefit of man returning alwaies good for euil Aue Maria. A prayer to Christ in the sorrowes of his Passion 4. O Louing Maister most faythful only friend seeing thou giuest me leaue to call thee by this Name giue me also leaue and courage to accompany thee as a friend with loyalty and loue in all the passages of thy Passion Pater Noster 1. Hauing fynished the Sacrifices and ceremonyes of the old Law with the Paschall Lambe he washeth the feete of his disciples and of Iudas the Traytor Aue Maria. 2. He leaueth vs for a memoryall and pledge of his infinite loue the new and admirable Sacrament of his pretious body bloud Aue Maria. 3. He ouercometh all humane infirmities with the force of prayer And perseuereth in the same sweating bloud Aue Maria. 4. He sheweth his omnipotency before he permitteth himselfe to be taken that his enimies might see it was his will to suffer Aue Maria. 5. That night the Iewes treated him vnworthily and cruelly in the place of Iudgment and for reason of State conspired his death as they thought to saue their Commonwealth which they came to loose for this very same syn Aue Maria. 6. In the morning they accuse him before the heathen President who admiring his magnanimity patience laboureth to set him free Aue Maria. 7. He is despised of Herod and by him attyred with contempt bycause he answereth not to his curiosityes Aue Maria. 8. They teare his