Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	wood_n	worship_n	worship_v	13	3	7.9275	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04845	Lectures vpon Ionas deliuered at Yorke in the yeare of our Lorde 1594. By John Kinge: newlie corrected and amended.	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1599 (1599)	STC 14977; ESTC S108033	733,563	732

that can holde no water The change is very vnequall worse then the change of Glaucus who gaue his armour of golde for armour of brasse and the losse vnsupportable For what aequalitie betweene a naturall fountaine vvhich ever floweth because it is euer fedde in the chambers of the earth and artificiall cesternes or pittes fashioned by the handes of man cesternes that are broken and cannot holde I saie not water of life and perennity but no water at all But when they saw their folly herein as a thiefe is ashamed saith God when he is founde so was the house of Israell ashamed they and their kings their Princes their Priestes and their Prophets because they had said to a tree Thou art my father and to a stone Thou hast begotten me He yet proceedeth against theÌ„ They haue turned their backe to me and not their face but in their time of trouble they will say Arise and helpe vs. You see the fits and pangs of idolatours First they digge broken pits afterward they are ashamed first they flie to the tree stone for succour but when they are vexed they seeke after the help of the true God Clemens Alexandrinus marvelleth why Diagoras and Nicanor with others should be sir-named Atheists vvho had a sharper sight in discerning the false Gods theÌ„ their fellows AmoÌ„gst whom Diagoras hauing something to boile tooke his Hercules carved of wood thus spake vnto him It is now time O Hercules that as thou hast serued Euristheus in twelue labors so thou shouldest serue mee in the thirteenth so threw him into the fire as a piece of wood A practise not vnlike the counsell which I haue read giuen to Clodoveus the French king Worship that which thou hast burnt incense vnto burne that vvhich thou hast worshipped The childreÌ„ of Israel in the book of Iudges finding their error folly in idolatry made a recaÌ„tation of it for whilst they served the Lord he deliuered them from the Aegyptians and Ammorites children of AmmoÌ„ Philistines Sidonians Malachites Mahonites they cried vnto the Lord he saued them out of their handes But wheÌ„ they worshipped strange Gods they were no more delivered nay they were vexed oppressed sore tormeÌ„ted theÌ„ the Lord vpbraided them Go crie vnto your Gods which you haue chosen let them saue you in the time of your tribulation And to that exprobatioÌ„ they yeelded saying we haue sinned against thee because wee haue forsaken our owne God haue serued Baalam doe thou vnto vs whatsoever pleaseth thee onely deliuer vs this day The like irrision he vsed before in Ieremy to those that honored stockes and stones but where are thy Gods which thou hast made thee let theÌ„ arise if they caÌ„ helpe thee in the time of thy misery A forcible admonition to those whom a truth cannot draw from a doctrine of lies from the worke of their own hands worship of their own phaÌ„tasies whom Clemens Alexandrinus not vnfitly matcht with those Barbarian tyrants who bound the bodies of the living to the bodies of the dead till they rotted togither so these being living soules are coupled and ioined with dead images vanishing in the blindnesse of their minds perishing in the inventions of their own braines And as the naturall pigeons were beguiled by the counterfet and flewe vnto pigeoÌ„s that were shaped in the painters shop so stones saith he flocke vnto stones stocks vnto stocks men vnto pictures as sensles of hart as stocks stones that are carved But wheÌ„ they haue tired theÌ„selues in their supposed imaginary Gods whoÌ„ do they worship Praxiteles made Venus to the likenes of Cratina whom he loved Al the Painters of Thebes painted her after the image of Phrine a beautiful but a notorious harlot Al the carvers in Athens cut Mercury to the imitation of their Alcibiades It may be the pictures of Christ the blessed Virgin the saints which they haue placed in their windows vpon the walles of their houses fastned to their beds and carrie privily in their bosomes as Rahel hid her fathers idols in the camels straw are but Pigmalions pictures workes of their owne devising or draughts of their lovers frieÌ„ds as vnlike the originals as Alcibiades was to Mercury Phrine Cratina to Venus LactaÌ„tius scattereth the obiections made for images in his times reneued in ours like fome For wheÌ„ it was alleaged that they worshiped not the images theÌ„selus but those to whose likenes similitude they were formed I am sure saith he your reason is because you thinke theÌ„ to be in heaveÌ„ els they were not Gods Why then cast you not your eies into heaueÌ„ why forgetting the feature of your bodies which are made vpright that your minds may imitate them not answering the reason of your name pore ye downe vpon the earth bow your selues to inferiour things as if it repeted you Non quadrupedes esse natos that you were not borne foure footed beasts Againe images were devised to be the memorials represeÌ„tatioÌ„s either of the absent or of the dead Whether of these two do you think your Gods if dead who so folish as to worship theÌ„ if absent as litle they deserue such honor because they neither se our actioÌ„s nor heare the praiers which we powre before theÌ„ When they further replied that they afforded their preseÌ„ce no where so sone or not at al as at their images he answereth it is iust as the coÌ„moÌ„ people deemeth that the spirits ghosts of the dead walk at their graues reliques are most coÌ„versant in churchyards I passe his further infectatioÌ„ how senseles a thing it is to feare that which it selfe feareth falling firing stealing away which being in timber was in the power of a contemptible artificer to bee made some thinge or nothinge vvhen no man feareth the workeman himselfe which must of force be greater then his worke when the birdes of the aire are not afraid of them because they roust and build and leaue their filthines vpon them and the figments themselues if they had any sense or motion would run to thaÌ„ke worship the carver who when they were rude and vnpolished stones gaue them their being When Saint Augustine heard them say in his dayes that they tooke not the idoll for a God he asketh them what doth the altar there and the bowing of the knee and holding vp the hands and such like gesticulations They seemed in their owne conceiptes to bee of a finerâ— religion such are the pruners and purifiers of popery the cleanely Iesuites of these times which were able to distinguish I worship not the corporall image onely I beholde the portraiture of that which I ought to worship but he stoppeth their mouthes with the Apostles sentence and sheweth what damnation will light vpon them which turne the truth of God into a lie and worship the creature more then the creator which is to be

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