Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	read_v	word_n	2,471	5	4.0470	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16598	A godly sermon preached before the right worshipfull Edvvard Cooke Esquier Atturney Generall vnto the Queens most excellent Maiestie, and others of worship, in Tittleshall in Norfolke: by F.B.	Bradley, Francis, fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 3505; ESTC S116905	21,385	48

commanded Salomon to build the Temple after which time the Israelites were commaunded to resort thither for the performance of such sacrifices and other rites and ceremonies which were required of them by the Lord all which seruice and worship continued till the comming of Christ although it were altogether corrupted amongst the Iewes as also amongst the high Priests with the Scribes and Pharisees and after that Salomon had builded the Temple hee made his prayer vnto God that the Lord would haue his eares open vnto the prayers of his seruants which should pray vnto him in that place and that if any should be ledde into captiuitie and returne vnto the Lorde by repentance 2. Chro. 6 1. King 7. with their faces towards the Temple that hee would be ready to heare them the Lord answering his prayer in the next Chapter Thus they left off to serue God and became Idolaters and hasted Gods iudgements against themselues What should I speake of our Italian and Romish worshippers when as euery man that hath any sight at all may see their grosse and palpable dealing in absenting themselues from our assemblies and saigning vnto themselues a religion of their own braine So that as they haue forsaken the fellowship of Gods children in the congregation so haue they forsaken God himselfe and set vp Idols in God his stead casting downe themselues before them and worshipping them but if they will say they worship not the Idoll or image but God in them or by them this is grosse idolatrie befofore God But blessed be God for that it hath pleased his Maiesty to stir vp our gracious Queene to tread in the steps of good Ezechtas and Iosias to destroy the Idoll groues and temples with those high places or rather high Altars which were erected for the sacrifices of their Masse and other their superstition Another sort there are that haue left our publike assemblies Brownists saying we haue neither Church nor lawfull ministery and yet haue some of them confessed that the knowledge which they haue they first came vnto it by the hearing of the word of God in our congregations preached by those whom now they do condemne they pretend purity in the profession of the Gospel and see not that their proceeding cannot be warranted by the word nay some of them haue confessed that since that they left of to heare the word preached they haue found themselues very colde in religion These with others are puffed vp with a certaine proud conceit of themselues and doe beare themselues very stubbornly towards their superiours eyther forgetting or else not hauing learned the lesson of meeknes and humility of our Sauiour Christ Mat. 11. I will not speake of the idle life of some of them how they haue neglected their calling wandring from place to place and liuing by the labours of others but it were well if we could approue our humility in some measure before God and men with holy Dauid who saith My bea rt is not haughty neither are my eyes lofty Psal 13. neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me by which words the Prophet approoueth himselfe before God as one of his and purgeth himfelse from this sin of pride There are also some which although they leaue not of altogether to heare the word yet how much time do they spend in reading bookes vnprofitable and prophane which tendeth much to the hurt of a good mind being stuffed with many lies and tales as the booke of King Arthur Sir Tristram Sir Lancclet the booke of Skogging Beuis of Southhampton the hundreth vnsauory tales filled with ribaldry I say nothing of amorous bookes yea rather venemous bookes flowing with lasciuiousnes and vncleannes and such other dregs of the like stamp which were sitter for the fire then the presse in these toyes while many do spend their time in reading of them they neuer complaine of wearines although they spend diuers houres in the forenoone and also in the afternoone but the hearing of the word of God is irksome vnto them yet they can be content to driue away the time as they say which I haue shewed before should be better imployed yea the long winter nights must by that meanes be shortned and as the eares of many are very attentiue so their hearts are carried away with a certain delight of such stuffe as they heare out of such prophane bookes but as for the sacred book of God the holy Bible it lieth in a corner being seldome vsed if there be any And these although they do not altogether refuse to heare the word of God yet it hath not wrought such a relish in them Act. 17.11 that with the noblemen of Berea they search the scripture and therefore as the Lord saith Why takest thou my wordin thy mouth and hatest to be reformed So it may be said to those why hearest thou my word and hatest to be reformed Wel for as much as it is the work of God his spirit both to will and to doe the thing that is good we must haue our recourse vnto God by praier to work those things in vs which nature will not afford that we hearing the word may reape such profit as that we may relish and taste it to the building of vs vp in Christ Now as it is the part of all men to labour for a sauing knowledge so also must this knowledge beget a practise in all those that professe the Gospel following the example of the godly in the scripture who after they had the tree of saith planted in them they brought forth fruit accordingly as appeareth by Zacheus Luk. 19. Luke 19 and that we may be the better stirred vp to vse the means for faith let vs consider the example of some whom the holy Ghost hath set out vnto vs and our sauiour Christ himselfe vpbraiding the stubborne Iewes bringeth in that exaÌ„ple worthy of memory to wit the Queene of the south who is said to come from the vttermost part of the earth to heare the wisedome of Salomon and behold saith he a greater then Salomon is here she is said to haue left for a time her fruitful country Arabia called Saba when as she might haue had sufficient excuses for her stay at home Chro. 2. ch 9 Mat 12 first the weaknes of her sex with the longues of the iourney the perill of her owne person insurrections and commotions in her absence many things of moment might haue stayed her but she laying aside all excuses whatsoeuer came with a resolute purpose to heare the wisedome of Salomon We haue heard how the noble men of Berea searched the scripture after they had heard the Doctrine of the Apostles Also I remember that famous Ladie of Herods court accompanied with other godly women being the wife of Herods steward whom the Euangelist reporteth that they went to heare our Sauiour preach out of a ship they standing by the Sea side

A GODLY SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE RIGHT Worshipfull EDVVARD COOKE Esquier Atturney Generall vnto the Queens most excellent Maiestie and others of Worship in Tittleshall in Norfolke by F. B. Babes it is the last time and as ye haue heard that Antichrist shall come euen now are there many Antichrists wherby we know that it is the last time Ioh. 1. Chap. 2. Vers 18. Babes keepe your selues from Idols Ioh. 1. Chap. 5. Vers 21. Imprinted at London by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man 1600. To the Right Worshipfull Edward Cooke Esquier Atturney Generall to the Queens most excellent Maiestie grace mercie and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Iesus Christ AMong the sinnes in generall Right Worshipfull possessing our peruersenature ingratitude chalengeth to hir selfe a speciall propertie in vs a thing repugnant to reason disagreeing to humanitie and contrarie to the expectation of man that it disagreeth with humanitie Nature her selfe may best be Iudge who hath not dealt so sparing in bestowing of her gifts but she will censure him as most vnkind whom shee taketh tardie in this sin of ingratitude Which sinne as it is common so it is contagious and hath infected many and yet for my own part I desire to be asmuch as may be free froÌ„ it which I should hardly be if I should burie so many fauours receiued from your worship in the graue of forgetfulnesse wherefore in token of my dutie I haue presumed to publish this my poore talent vnder your good acceptance desiring your fauourable pardon for the same I must confesse I stoode long in suspence with my selfe vnto whom I should commit this small trauell but your wonted affection and zeale towards the word soone stirred me vp to present it vnto you not being much dismaied hauing so many reasons to induce me thereunto among the rest this being one of the chiefest namely your patient and godly attention when it was preached of whom I may say as Paul saith to the Thessalonians you receiued it not as it was the word of man but as it was indeede the word of God 1. Thess chap. 2. vers 13. Thus with my heartie prayer vnto Almightie God that it will please his Maiestie to blesse you with many prosperous yeares and daies in this life and in the end eternall life with eternall ioyes I humbly take my leaue Your worships most bounden to commaund Francis Bradley 2. CHRON. 24. CHAP. 17.18 VERSES And after the death of Ichoiada came the Princes of Iudah and did reuerence to the King and the King harkened vnto them And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers and serued groues and Idols and wrath came vpon Iudah and Ierusalem because of this their trespasse IN this portion of Scripture Right worshipfull and beloued in our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ the spirit of God setteth downe the lamentable fall of King Ioash vnto Idolatrie which was by the malice of Sathan effected by his Princes but before we come to speake of the wordes set downe in this Text it shall not bee amisse to consider diuers circumstances going before which are verie pertineÌ„t to this place In which circumstaÌ„ces first we may obserue the prouideÌ„ce of God in preseruing this yong king Ioash from the cruell tyrannie of Athalia who after the death of Ahaziah his father caused all the kings lynage to be slaine to the ende that she might vsurpe the kingdome and so raigne as Queene ouer Iudah and Ierusalem Which thing she brought to passe for a time but the Lord who ouerthroweth the practises of the wicked wheÌ„ it pleaseth him deliuered this yong infant out of her bloodie hands by the good policie of Iehosheba his fathers sister who did steale the child away that he might not be put to death according to the commandement of that blood thirstie woman and caused him to be kept secretly in the bedchamber of the house of the Lord All which time wicked Athalia raigned ouer the people But when the appointed time was come and that Ioash being of the age of seuen years that Grandcaptaine and holy high priest of the Lord Iehoiada brought forth this child with great solemnitie and caused him to be crowned king ouer the people and commaunded the vsurping Queene to be put to death which thing was performed accordingly by the iust iudgement of God she being troaden vnder the feete of horses And Iehoiada made a couenant betweene him and the people 2. Chro. 23.16 and the king that they should be the Lords people all which time the land inioyed her peace And Iehoiada was protector to the king from time to time teaching him the feare of the Lord insomuch that the young king grew to be more forward in the Law of God giuen by Moses as also in repairing of the Temple then any of the Priests or Leuites which zeale and forwardnes of his continued all the lifetime of Iehoiada which forwardnes of King Ioash in religion and repairing of the Temple as also the bloodie Tragedy of Athalia with the courage and boldnes of Iehoiada I will referre you to the chapter going before as also this out of which I haue chosen my Text with the 11. and 12. chapters of the 2. booke of the Kings where the holy Ghost hath most largely and amplie set downe this historie vnto vs. Now let vs come to the words as they lie in order to be handled and after the death of Iehoiada c. In these words I obserue fiue speciall circumstances the three first are contained in the 17. verse the other two in the 18. verse In the first there is offered vnto our considerations by the holy Ghost the time when these princes came to seduce Ioash and that is set down in these words After the death of Iehoiada came the princes of Iuda c. In the second we are to consider the manner of their comming in these words And they did reuerence vnto the King In the third the willing and readie consent of the King vnto their counsell in these words And the King hearkened vnto them In the fourth is set downe the matter wherein the king obeyed them in these words And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers and serued groues Idols In the fift and last is set downe the iust iudgement of God against the king Princes and people for their rebellion and disobedience in these words And wrath came vpon Iuda and Ierusalem because of this their trespasse Concerning the first which is the time wherin Sathan stirred vp his instruments to wit these princes of Iuda to alienate and withdraw the heart of this yong king from the true feare and seruice of God wherin he was trained vp by Gods high Priest it is said to be after that death of Iehoiada By which practise of SataÌ„ we may see that to be verified in this king which Peter speaketh of in his first Epistle and last chapter The

Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Text snippets containing the quad