Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	law_n	life_n	write_v	2,944	5	5.7098	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01475	Two treatises the first, entituled, The foode of the faithfull. The second Deaths welcome.	Garey, Samuel, 1582 or 3-1646.	1605 (1605)	STC 11600; ESTC S115877	35,139	126

thy mouth but record therein day and night Their Lawes should be axioms arising out of their owne deedes but they themselues are the readiest to infring the same Now then when the lease of the liues of these Stewards who hold all their possessions by seruice is expired and shall be summoned by death to appeare before their Land-lord to giue there accounts how beneficially they haue imployed their talents then they will beginne to haue a feeling sense of there owne miserie seeing how ill they did gouerne the people ouer the which the Lord had made them ouerseers We reade that Dauid being chosen of God to feede his people in Iacob and his in heritance in Israell did feede them according to the simplicity of his hart and guided thee by the discretion of his handes These Dauids be few now adaies and as the Poeth saith Rex bonus est sapiens qualem vix repperit vnum Mellibus e cunctis hominum consultus Apollo A good King and wise such a one as Apollo beeing asked counsell of coulde scarce finde one among all men Yet thanks be giuen to God who by his blessed prouidence hath elected a second Dauid to raigne ouer vs whose loynes are girded with righteousnesse and faithfulnesse the buckle of his raines in whose throne Astraea sits weying euery mans merrits by the equall ballance of their actions whose minde is inuironed against vice with the cleere streames of sweet vertue And therefore sith it hath pleased God to set a temporal transitory crowne of glorie on his head he needs not feare but that in the world to come he shall be crowned with a farre surpassing weight of glorie there shall tast the heauenly Manna and drinke the nectar of ioy But as for other Princes who heere doe tast the Roses of prosperitie shal in the world to come for their wickednesse drinke the worme-wood of aduersitie when they shall recount with themselues that they haue touched the Lords annointed and done his Prophets harme iniured the fatherlesse oppressed the innocent prophaned the sanctuary of God onely delighted themselues with the vaine pompe of this world how can they hope that their impure soules shoulde bee translated to this pure place of endlesse comfort So likewise to descend lower by a lineall degree throughout all the pedigrees of men Behold the Ministerie who haue the ouer-sight of our soules see if they can boldly run vnto the goale of death who haue not ledde theyr liues according to their inioyned vocations The Ministers which should haue two eyes as Gregory saith one of famous learning the other of an vpright godly life many of them haue one of these eyes but want the other And as the same Gregory saith Many declare that in wordes vvhich in life and manners they goe against These haue the eye of learning but want the eye of honest life Yea manie are blinde of both eyes but they be worse then the former For the Ministers should by their endeuours and honest coÌ„uersation reclaime the wicked from the brink of perdition they should inuent medicinable receits against the gostly maladies of sinners they should in the generall famine of spirituall foode prepare with Ioseph abundance of the breade of Angels for the repast of theyr soules Yea they should studie spirituall Phisicke and be trauelled in the scrutinie of the soules diseases and be acquainted with the beating and temper of euery mans pulse they should purge theyr flock from the leaprosie of sinne they should lift vp theyr voyce like a trumpet and shewe the people their offences and the house of Iacob theyr sinnes They are the Prophets of the Lord that shal bring the messages from the Mountaines and proclaime peace They be the light of the VVorlde the salt of the earth they be watch-men which for Sions sake should not holde theyr tongues for Ierusalems sake should not cease Nowe when they shall remember that they haue beene dumbe dogges which did not bark wheÌ„ the wolues did teare their flocks And as Gregory saith Thou hast seene the wolfe and hast escaped saying by chance I haue escaped all Thou hast escaped because thou hast kept silence Thou hast been heere in body thou hast escaped in spirit Or as Saint Bernard saith when they shall remember they were Ministri Christi sed serni anti Christi or call to mind the straight commandemeÌ„t giuen by christ to Peter to feede Christes flocke and they haue been rather wolues theÌ„ shepheards which did rather fleece and oppresse them then protect them when they did imitate Souldiers in habit husbandmen in gaine indeede they were neither because they did neither fight against the Wolues as Souldiers nor as husbandmen labour in Gods Vineyarde nor as Clarkes preach the Gospell in the Church and while they desire both they confound both As Bernard saith therefore their consciences will be perplixed their mindes distracted nor shall they perceiue the melodious harmonie of excusing thoughts or perswade themselues of that comfortable assurance that the opening of the booke will showe that their names are written in heauen or shall they tast that continuall feast of a cleere conscience the soules blessed banquet they shall wring their hands for griefe when they might haue clapt for ioy they shall tremble when they might haue triumphâ—d they shall weepe when they might haue laught they shall wish that the Mountaines would couer them hide them from the sight of God and these bee the causes why so vnwillingly they yeeld to dy yea euen wheÌ„ their forces languish their senses impaire their body droupeth and on euery side the ruinous cottage of their fraile body threatneth a fall yea when they may behold their grasse wasted their grapes gathered their house broken and nothing remaining but the stocke of the grapes the skinne of the flesh and but one only blast of life yet notwithstanding they will say with Callimachus I am too old to liue and too young to die and they are afraid to close vp their eies when they heare the Bell of death knelling in their eares but had rather fight still in this Campe of miserie then by deaths paspot to bee conducted out of this world They had rather with Aristippus prolong life then with Socrates yield to die and the causes bee these because they haue not beene carefull in their functions but haue beene carelesse in their liues dissolute in their actions they were not the instruments of God hauing a sound to teach well but the bones of the deuill because they did want the feeling and therefore they hauing deuoted their liues only to the deuill their conscience doe assure them that they hauing gorged the deuill with the fairest fruites of their liues God will not feede vppon the scrappes of his leauings gleane the reproofe of his haruest and therefore they bee vnwilling to depart out of this life But to passe ouer the spirituall gouernors and come to ciuell Magistrates The Lawyers

great is the fairenes and pleasure of Eternall light that if one might not liue there longer then one day for thys onely innumerable yeeres full of the delights of this life and aboundance of temporall goods he might rightly worthily be coÌ„tented For in heauen we shal haue light without end brightnesse without comprehension peace without inuasion In this world our sences are benummed frozen with the extremitie of miseries coldnesse but in heauen there shal such vnexpected blisse shine vppon vs that all the parts of our body and soule shal be miraculously cherished with the lightning of selicitie In this world if the whole worthinesse of all humane creatures vvere comprised in the globe of one mans breast yet were not that one man so happy as the least Saint in Heauen In this world wee are but as it vvere ships without a Pylot tumbling vp and downe in vncertaine waues till we runne vpon the rocks of selfe deuision or bee ouerthrowne by the stormie winde of forraine inuasion In this VVorld we are but as it were tenisbals tossed by the racked of iniurious fortune but in heauen vve need not feare the tempests of aduersitie for there wee shall dwell vvith Saints vnited in perfection there we shall tast the golden fruite of blessed soules there wee shal haue Christ a guide vnto our waies and a Gardian to our persons there Christ shall be light vnto our eyes musick vnto our eares sweetnes to our tast contentment to our soules The state of the Church militant heere in this world is like the Arke floting vpon waters like a lilly growing among thornes like Christs ship in the 8 of Mathew couered vvith waues and yet not drowned But in the second worlde it shall be triumphant where it shal gloriously raigne for euermore Man in this world is but an Anatomy of misery or a spectacle of a dolorous ending tragedie but in the world to come he shall be a paragon of glory and a patterne of endlesse happinesse Therefore sith the reward of our godly endeuours shal be so well recompenced in the future life let vs abandon all vicious pleasures neuer be recalled to the vomit of carnall desires Let vs fight manfully vnder the banner of our grand captaine Christ vntill we vanquish all his enemies the denill his angels and for that good seruice performed in Christes quarrell we shall receiue at his handes a large pay namely an euerlasting life and an immortall crowne of glory Now therefore sith I haue as it were lighted a candle to the glorious sun-shine of this heauenly glorie which cannot any way be better shadowed out with the best pensil then by couering it ouer with the vaile of silence I will speake but verie little more concerning this happines but will onely compare the torments of hell to the ioyes of heauen For as beautie seemes more excellent when it is paralelled with deformitie so wil heauen show more glorious when it is compared to hell For as it is an axiome with the Logicians Of contrarie things the reason is contrarie so in this contrarietie in heauen and in hell hee which doth perceiue the ioyes in heauen may easily coniecture at the torments in hell If the ioyes in heauen cannot bee expressed by the tongues of Angells then the torments of hell cannot be declared by the best Orator For as those two places be distant in qualitie so their ioyes and paines be equall in quantitie If that the ioyes of heauen be infinite the paines of hel must consequently followe to be infinite Now then sith these two opposite places bee distinguished with such a contrarietie the ioyes of the one euery man would gladly enioy the paines of the other euery man would willingly eschewe it followeth that this is the greatest impediment for a man not willingly to welcome death because he is wonderfully afraid least he should bee punnished for his sinnes in these hellish torments these torments doe ingender such a feare in a man that hee horridly quaketh at the mention of death For when a man shall recount with himselfe that he offered the May crop of his life to the deuill that hee sacrificed his blooming yeares to the seruice of the deuill and that now the flowers of his youth are blasted the fruite perrish the body of the Tree groweth to decay then hee shall thinke with himselfe that hee being voyde of the sap of good fruites shall become fuell for hell fire When he shall lie on his departing bed burdened with the heauy loade of his trespasses and vexed with the worme of conscience and feeling the crampe of death wresting his harts strings and ready inpathed in his finally voyage and not farre from the period of his daies Oh how hee shall be distracted in his senses when he should make a free gift of his body and soule to God and by bequeathment to dispach the whole menage of all eternitie and of the treasures of heauen Oh how shall he bee mazed when he shall consider how the morning pleasures of his youth lulled him a sleepe in sinne how the violent heat of the noone of his age did prouoke and excite sinfull affections and therefore in the coole and calme of his euening how can hee hope to retire to a Christian rest and close vp the day of his life with a cleare sunset wanting the light of grace without which euery one shall abide in euerlasting darkenesse These considerations I say will make a man tremble at the mention of death for peccati stipendium mors the reward of sinne is death and these torments in hell fire therefore when hee shall thinke with himselfe that the most vertuous can scarce attaine to heauen in mountenance of yeares whose liues were died in the beautifull graine of vertue how then shall hee wretched sinner hope to obtaine heauen since all his life time hee hath perseuered in sinne that now death hauing taken away abilitie in sinning and left him to the lees of his dying daies how shall he beleiue to be infranchised in that heauenly Citty which is not so penurious of friends that it should bee made salable for the refuse and reuersion of euery sinners life A King which hath liued like an Epicure heere vppon earth and in nothing tooke delight but like a Nero to oppresse the innocent shall not inioy the heauenly happinesse For as Bernard saith It is impossible to ioyne present and future delights And as the same father in another place addeth He that is fed with earthly pleasures is counted vnworthy of eternall ioyes The shining title of worldly glory shall nothing helpe to the happines of that life they be like bladders which are puffed vp with the winde of prosperitie and only doe affect the smoke of vaine glory they doe not obserue the precept giuen by Moses vnto Princes Princes must reade the Lawe all the daies of their liues and as Iosua let not the booke of this Lawe depart out of

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