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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	raise_v	6,497	5	7.6474	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12393	Certaine godly and verie comfortable letters, full of christian consolation. Written by M. Ed Dering vnto sondry of his friends. And nowe published, for the proffite of the Church of God	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1590 (1590)	STC 6682.5; ESTC S116582	40,526	65

will surelie performe it To them that loue God all things happen to the best and pray for me good Brother that I may holde stedfast that loue and wauer not in the faith of the gospell in which we haue assured life and as I am bounde J trust I will pray for you that your eyes may haue perfect pure sight to see the louing countenance of the Lorde which is better then life so you shall bee happie euen in the dayes of your vanitie and when nature shall make you yeelde to the necessitie of all fleshe to goe walke in the way of all the worlde then shall you reape the fruite of your labour and say with gladnes Lord nowe lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace This is all the hope we haue and the onely ioye that is to be looked for vnder the heauens the nearer you shall feele it the more you shall see it it shall delight you and set you on a sure ground that you shall not be ashamed for euer The Lord God for his Christes sake strengthen vs all to so good a purpose and the mutuall debte we owe one to another in the bound of nature let vs paye it in this holy affection to praye for our perseuerance vnto the ende And as touching the issue of all my businesse looke for the worst hope for the best and beare whatsoeuer shall fall J trust to God once I shall see the day wherein J shall faithfully speake it euen as Saint Paul Vita mea nō est chara mihi vt consumā cursum meū cū gaudio The Bb. and many other seeke occasions against mee God hath stil raysed me vp many friendes but my hope is onely in him that hath kept me hitherto and not in man when J knowe what ende will come you shall heare If I would lose the trueth I could winne the world but that were a miserable change God blesse vs and sende vs peace make vs wise in his Gospell and stedfast vnto the ende My Wife hath bene I thanke God in no trouble neyther was any toward her that J knowe of if any fall God hath made her rich in grace and knowledge to giue accompt of her doing D.W. on frydaie last as I was about to preach forbad me in hir Maiesties name so I stande now forbidden not by the Bb. but by our Princesse whom J beseech God make a happie gouernour in his church and many yeares to giue peace vnto his people If we prayed as we should God would make perfite the good worke hee hath begun and make vs see the peace of Jerusalem all the dayes of our life And J beseeche God that wee may wishe so effectually his mercies that at last hee may shutt vs vp in a blessed vnitie that they whom he hath afflicted may reioyce Commende me to all Thank● my cosen for her letters and for the parsonage she writeth of I will not refuse it if I may haue it neyther will I sue for it though it were much better If God call me to it I pray God I may doe my duetie if not yet his will be done I am perswaded if I be setled there it shal be a blessinge vnto the countrie if not without me God keepeth those that bee his Farewell good Brother And the Lord keepe you and all yours Amen The 24. of December 1573. Your louing Brother Edwarde Dering To his Brother I. D. THE God of all grace who giueth vs eyes to see and eares to heare giue vnto vs euer his holy spirit that in the middest of a darke world we may see the brightnesse of his heauenly kingdome and in this weake tabernacle of small cōtinuance we may knowe the dwelling place which we shall haue for euer in the resurrection of the iust Amen I thanke you good brother for your letter and for your care of my recouerie but most of all because you shewe a good testimonie of your minde that the feare of God doeth dwell in you of this J am gladde and I am sure I shal be glad For I know howe earnestlie I desire it and I see howe vnfainedlie you are brought vnto it and when the Lord in his good will his appointed time shal make vs see more cleare howe great this blessinge is we knowe wee shall reape the fruite of it in the sight of his presence and in eternal life this is enough for vs a strēgth vnto our hope a stay vnto our faith a continuance vnto our loue lett the good worke of God be finished in vs. And of this wee may be sure whosoeuer regardeth it not or else embraceth the present worlde he knoweth not God nor yet hath euer seene the length breadth of immortalitie And therefore good brother because blessed are the eyes which see that we see let vs strenghten our sight with the sweet oyntement of Gods spirite that we may yet see more cleare till through all the graces of GOD our Father we may see our bodies also raised vp from the dead and our selues ioyned vnto our Sauior Christ by decree and sentence which neuer shal be reuersed Come you blessed vnto eternall life vnto this a good conscience will carie vs with ioye gladnes Beyonde this our senses faile vs and our hearte is able to comprehende nothing of the glorie which we shall see Only J knowe it is exceeding great whose greatnesse I can neither see nor heare nor comprehende with thought And therefore if euer thinge delighted vs or if euer we haue seene pleasure or can wishe the thing in which we would reioyce let vs turne all our affections hither with harte and soule life and strength to delight in this which alone is all and no body shall take it from vs. And sure brother this is true if God haue receyued vs to that blessed kingdome he hath appointed the time in which he will giue vs his spirite though not fullie to comprehende it yet so farre to see it that wee will accounte all the worlde to be but dunge to the ende we may winne Christ. And this J am perswaded good brother God hath and will giue plentifullie vnto you so that you shall vse the worlde as though you vsed it not and be here with men as one whose dwelling were with the Angels of God vsing your calling in any godly recreatiō but hauing your heart nearest vnto God that gaue it and the Lorde graunt you this happines that all the pleasure of your life maye bee in deede acceptable such as shall not after be mingled with shame sorrowe And J beseeche God blesse my good Vncle B. and make him now to know which in his tender yeres he could not see for the worlde was then darke and we were blinde in it but since we haue bene lightened with the gospell of the Lorde Jesus and so much more earnest lie nowe we must pray that it may be vnto vs the gospell of healthe and wee may increase in the