Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	holy_a	scripture_n	truth_n	3,293	5	5.4239	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08443	Sermons of the ryght famous a[n]d excellent clerke Master Bernardine Ochine, borne within the famous vniversyte of Siena in Italy, nowe also an exyle in this life, for the faythfull testimony of Jesus Christ	Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 18765; ESTC S105735	22,415	64

vs / the faith hope / charitÃ© feare and other vertues They comforte vs in our troubles / and in prosperite exhorte vs to be temperate They discouer the vanities of the world / our miseries aÌ„d the bountie of God And who that studieth them must of forie recyre or withdrawe him self from the worldly thoughtes / and settle his minde to mortifie his vices / inordinate desires and affections So that the studie of them is very proffitable to them that duely vse it But it behoueth not to studie as the Iewe who fyxeth hiÌ„ in the vttermust rynde of the letter / whiche as Paule saith killeth / and beholding Moses wyth the face couered / ande not entering into Sancta SanctoruÌ„ / but as the true Christian / to whome is geuen the knowledge of GODS celestiall Reygne or Kingdome / without parables / that with the lyuely spyrite doth penetrate to the lyuelie taste ande fealing of GOD in Christ / beholding hym with lyuely faith in the face discouered / ande entryng into Sancta SanctoruÌ„ / to see wyth clere supernaturall lyght / the hygh resplendent secretes of God To whome be geueÌ„ all laude / honour and glory by our Sauyour Iesu christ Amen Sermon v. Of thinconueniences that are happened and dayly happeÌ„ by the abuse of the holy Scryptures T The holy Scriptures of them selues be the good giftes of got and of the holyghoost Neuertheles they maye be vsed of vs wel or euell / as by experieÌ„ce it is manifest For where as Gods elect serue theÌ„ selues of it to Gods honour / the reprobate contrary wyse serue theÌ„ selues of it to his dishonour / through their owne faute aÌ„d not of the scriptures In so moch that in respect of their wicked malignitÃ© it hath per chaunce done hurte in some wayes to the worlde / though at length / god of his infynite bountÃ© reduceth all thiÌ„ges to his honour aÌ„d glorie For first the scriptures aÌ„d specially the holy scriptures / haue aÌ„noied theÌ„ who haue been diligeÌ„t to gather to gether manie bookes / and negligeÌ„t to studye theÌ„ ThiÌ„king theÌ„ selues fully learned wheÌ„ they haue had their librarie full of bokes Other some studying / haue not attayned to imprynte the trueth that they founde in theyr mindes / and therfore haue wrytten it in papers / so that / resting moost ignorauÌ„t / all their learniÌ„g coÌ„systeth in their wrytinges / aÌ„d loosing them / they also loose their science Which was one of the Argumentes that caused Plato to coÌ„dempne lettres / sayinge that before scripture was founde / the men were moche better learned then sence / because they were forced to write in theyr mindes that that afterwardes they haue written in paper I passe ouer that many haue coÌ„sumed theyr time in the dishonour of god / in readiÌ„g aÌ„d wrytyng of thinges curious ande pernicious to the health And that manie transported of CuriosytÃ© / haue willed to see so many bookes that in the ende they remained confused wythout frute As doth the felde wheron they cast ouermoch seede And of some that by those meanes haue lost their wittes But that which importeth moche more is that they thynke the true knowledge of Theologie or diuinitÃ© coÌ„sisteth in lettres / which is vtterly false / because they giue not true and lyuely light of the supernatural thiges that can not otherwise be knowen of vs but by spyrite / reuelation / faith spirituall taste / lyuely vnderstanding and sure experience For like as the Phylosopher without experience can haue no knowledge although he beare in minde all that is written / ande nor hauing practysed / he must rest onely in opynion grounded vppon Aristotle / Plato and the other Philosophers / whiche moueth hym to beleue theyr wrytyng to be true / being neuertheles in very dede more ignoraunt then is the poore paisaunt or husbandman / that by labouring of the Earth / without sekinge lettres / fyndeth the operacion of many naturall thynges / that proueth his science to be somwat and theirs none / though well they study for euer aÌ„d wante experyeÌ„ce So likewise one symple ydeote without learning / if he haue faith / lyuely taste / and spirituall vnderstanding of God / is a greater diuine then all the learned men of the worlde that be wythout spirite Yea he is a diuine ande they none For that of the heaueÌ„ly supernaturall thinges he knoweth so moch as he tasteth / and experâ—nâ—ateth by faith ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ the learned maÌ„ hath onely a barraine / yâ—le colde aÌ„d dâ—ade opintoÌ„ which staÌ„deth without faith in desperacioÌ„ / accompained of euery vice Nowe therfore it appereth that of this errour / by thiking that true Theologie or diuinite coÌ„sisteth in learning / there are innuaerable inconuemeÌ„ces groweÌ„ / and chefely that many / wantiÌ„g letters / aÌ„d not hauing tyme to studie / thinking that by other wares it is impossible to become diuines / haue not disposed them selues to demaunde of God with meke harte ande feruent desyreth lyght of the diuine thinges And moreouer they haue fledde ande withdrawen them selues from the intelly gence or vnderstaÌ„ding of the holy scriptures / as from a terrible ruyne / because their wyse learned and holy men haue persuaded them that no man may vnderstand it but they onthe that are learned CondeÌ„pning them that write in the vulgare tongue / as if the true diuinite depended of the Hebrue Greke or Latin lettres / or of that witte that hath well studied them Beholde nowe therfore whether this be not a moost rawe aÌ„d wicked opinioÌ„ / beig the very cause that hath moued me thus to write iÌ„ my natural toÌ„gue to thinteÌ„t that knowing the true Theologie to be opeÌ„ to euery langdage and to the symple our owne natioÌ„ shulde not be priuate / who haue none other but the mother tongue Ther be many that / studying the holy scriptures without spirite / lyuely faith and supernarall light / haue not onely not attayned the true knowledge of the bountie of God aÌ„d theyr owne propre miseries / but the more they haue studied / the more / by the drie aÌ„d deade letter / they are become blynde of God and of them selues Yea vnfaithfull / vnkind / proude arrogauÌ„t presumptuous contentious ande repleate of all other byces Where as the supernaturall true Theologie or diuinitÃ© stewing the great bountÃ© of God / and declaryng in our selues our owne myseries maketh vs faithfull / thankfull / iuste / humble / modest / gentle / quiet and conformable And moreouer they be so blynde that not knowing theyr owne wretchednes / they not onely forbeare to huÌ„ble theÌ„ selues before God / aÌ„d of him hartely to demauÌ„de helpe lyght and grace / but also leauing praier for their studie / and the spirite for theyr learnig / they presume to be masters of the others as Paule wryteth / ande so inflambed of theyr science / haue staundered the worlde where as charyte edifieth Rom. 2. And being consequently without spyryte / they study

a Towre vppon a wheaten strawe Christ and not the Philosophie is the onely true fouÌ„dacioÌ„ of his Churche and of the true supernaturall diuinitie of the which he is the onely workmaster / and not Aristotell I praye the what hath Aristotle to do wyth Christe Manie haue enforced them selues to agre Aristotle with Plato / but they coulde neuer bringe it to passe / because Aristotle beginning at the lowest of the sensible thinges / ryseth in the ende to as high as maye be And Plato begineth where as Aristotle eÌ„deth CoÌ„sidre nowe howe it is possible to agre hiÌ„ with christ / though many will make hym a piller of the Gospell aÌ„d a ladder to clime to heauen Let vs therfore repute the sciences of the worlde as vaine / beiÌ„g like vnto the harlots / that with their flattering woordes and false deceipts corrupt the mindes And let vs consider that if the priestes of the old Testament were prohibited to take a comune woman for a wife / howe much more the Christian that is all wholy consecrate ande dedicate to God / ought to flee and eschewe the vayne sciences and onely seruing him self of theÌ„ as of moost vile handmaidens / to knitte hym selue in spirite and with harte ande minde to applie him selfe to that pure and immaculate virgin of the holy Theologie or diuinitÃ© To the intent that euerlastingly we maye render to God all laude honour and glory / by our Sauiour Iesu Christe Amen Sermon iiij Howe we ought to vse the holy scriptures / in attaining the knowledge of God THe knowledge of the holy scriptures is not ynough to proue that we haue suffycient light of God / because it is possible that a man maye by his proÌ„pte memorie attaine the holy scriptures ande their interpretacions in his minde / and by force of his naturall wytte / naturally vnderstand them / and be neuertheles for all that without faith / spirite and lyuely light of God Lue 24. For therto it behoueth hym to haue the spirite and supernaturall light / that God with his fauour do open aÌ„d penetrate the minde by his diuine grace So that therfore we must not accompte the holy scriptures for our last ende / or for our supreame Quene or Emperesse / but for meanes that serue to the faith / to the spirite ande to the true knowledge of God / muche more theÌ„ the creatures And we ought to serue our selues of them in diuers wayes / for that they first incite and teach vs to repaire to God / sayinge / in him is the chief bouÌ„tÃ© / go to him / for he is faithfull / and hath promised to make you taste all vertue and goodnes in him Yea. though they do not make the liuely to knowe God / yet worke they / as the Samaritane did / that sent the Samaritanes to Christ / who otherwise made them taste aÌ„d feele that which the Samaritane had said of him vnto them / in soche wise that when they returned / they confessed / saying we beleued not at all by thy wordes / we our selues haue hearde aÌ„d knowe / that this is truly the sauiour of the worlde John 5. And so the holy scriptures do send the to christe / to the ende that he maye opeÌ„ thy hart / aÌ„d make the iÌ„ spirite liuely to vnderstande that which already thou hast redde in the dead letter / that thou maist saye vnto the scriptures / we neuer beleued by thy wordes / the which / being without spirite / coulde not make vs taste liuely the great bountÃ© of God It is true that by thy wordes we haue beeÌ„ prouoked to go to Christe / who / speaking vnto vs in spite hath made vs to fele in the harte / a more clere / high and diuine effect of that thou hast spokeÌ„ They erre therfore that / fedig them selues of the letter aÌ„d not of the spyrite / do fixe theÌ„ selues in the holy sâ—riptures / aÌ„d seke none other light but that Yea I saye that for one houres studie / they ought to praie a thousand / aÌ„d to demauÌ„de of god the true vnderstanding of theÌ„ And like as the Placonistes helde opinion / that the sensyble thiÌ„ges geueth vs occasioÌ„ to studie in the booke of the minde in whiche they saye is imprynted all the verytÃ© So must we consyder that the holye scriptures do call vs to Christ / in whome as Pause sayth be hidde all the treasures of wysdome and knowledge This is no lesse then true / that lyke as if thou haddest a frende whome thou hast not tryed though alwayes thou hast trauayled to proue hym thou woldest not inwardely knowe hym for a frende though he were euer in thine eye because the profe hath not rooted hiÌ„ in thy minde So albeit the holy scriptures do call ande exhorte the to seke god in spirite / it is yet impossible that thou shuldest finde god iÌ„ trueth iÌ„ the scriptures / if first by spirite / thou haue him not at the harte They serue also an other maner / that many tymes happeneth As where God maketh the in spirite with lyuely faith to feale a deuine trueth Afterwardes / rediÌ„g the holy scriptures / thou findest that trueth writteÌ„ that thou hast so coÌ„ceaued And therof resting contented / thou confirmest thy self in the fayth of that trueth / notwithstaÌ„ding that it ought to suffise the / of the fyrst inspiration of the holighost And so moreouer because that in Christ is the ende of the lawe / all the promisses fulfylled aÌ„d all the prophecies verified / the shadowes / figures aÌ„d scriptures of the olde Testament / he that redeth it and seeth all fulfylled in christ is forced to satisfye him self of the trueth / and to establish him self in faith Rom. 10. 2. Cor. 1. For Christ sent the Iewes that wold not beleue hym to the holy scriptures / as to them that witnessed of hym Afterwardes / albeit that in the Churche of God / to be satisfyed / grounded aÌ„d establisshed in the diuine / celestiall and supernaturall veritÃ© / it behoueth in effect to come to the inwarde wytnes of the holyghoost / without whome we can not knowe whiche scriptures of god be holy and whiche not Neuertheles / after that by spirite we are assured that our holy scriptures be of God / we ought to serue our selues of them as of a certeine infailyble aÌ„d supreame outwarde rule to teache / reprehende / correct and exhort the others ande to conumce theÌ„ that speake against it For as Paule writeth amongest the exteryour thinges we haue not a more sure clere / parfect aÌ„d stedfast rule / then this / with whiche we ought in spyrite to rule all our wordes / workes / dedes and lyfe 2. Tmo 3. Tit. 1. The holy scriptures moreouer shewe vnto vs though farre of our countrey By her we haue lyght of God of his promisses aÌ„d also of his threateninges Roma â—â— And they nourish in

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