Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	according_a	bring_v	27	3	6.5128	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17304	Israels fast. Or, a meditation vpon the seuenth chapter of Ioshuah a faire precedent for these times. By H.B. rector of S. Mathews Fryday-Street.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1628 (1628)	STC 4147; ESTC S106964	36,749	58

Gods yet in nature they are men and shall die like men as King David saith they are of the same mould and mettall of their people to knit them in a sympathy of affection with them Therefore even Christ the Sonne of God tooke our Nature with the infirmities of it that he might be a mercifull High-priest and hauing experience of our temptations hee might succour them that are tempted As that noble Heathen Queene said Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco having experience of misery my selfe I learne hereby to succour the miserable Princes are also called Patres Patriae Fathers of their Countrey whose subjects are not more their seruants in duty then their sonnes in loue Also sheapheards of the People And the good sheepheard binds vp the broken seekes out the lost sheepe and brings it home on his backe rejoycing Yea Princes are Gods servants and stewards whose chiefe office it is to maintaine and vindicate the honour of their Lord. Lastly how neerely doth the weale or woe of the subjects touch the Prince for it is his owne weale or woe If but the foote the most inferiour member bee pained the head by and by feeleth it as its owne paine it stoopeth to helpe it as euen wisdome would the head should rather regard the commodity then object the distance If the feete be in fetters the head cannot be free It is Israels office then alwayes to pray for such Ioshuas that such gracious and pious Princes may euer raigne ouer them Secondly Israel must be carefull to walke worthy of such Ioshua's both for the obtayning and the long enjoying of them Thirdly if Ioshua and the Elders of Israel bee thus moved euen for the least calamities of their brethren then how ought our whole Israel to bee affected with the daily and heauy calamities of Gods people only divided from vs in distance of place not in difference of participation with Christ our head Fourthly hauing such Ioshua's and Elders who like good Fathers are tenderly affected with the least calamity of Gods people how thankefull ought we to be to God for them and to expresse this our thankefulnes in all pious offices and liberall beneficence that nothing bee lacking either for ornament to their princelike port or much more for the necessary support of the Crown kingdome In the last place if Israel haue receiued farre greater repulses reproches then now Israel had done Israel had need to be so much the more humbled if possible then here Ioshua the Elders were And so much of the occasion moving Ioshua with the Elders of Israel thus to huÌ„ble theÌ„selues Come wee now to their act it selfe Therein consider 2. things 1. The Circumstances 2. The Substance of it The circumstances are 3. 1. Of the Persons the Actors Ioshua the Elders of Israel 2. Of the place Before the Arke of the Lord 3. Of the time vntill the eventide The substance of the act consists partly of Action and behauiour partly of speech Their actioÌ„ or behauiour was threefold 1. They rent their cloathes 2. they fell to the earth vpoÌ„ their faces 3. they put dust vpon their heads All this v. 6. Their speech is a prayer or zealous huÌ„ble expostulatioÌ„ with God v. 7. 8. 9. Al which being jointly coÌ„sidered they represent vnto vs an exact pattern platforme of soleÌ„ne publick Fast. Which will the better appeare if we a litle opeÌ„ every peece a part First for the Persons Ioshua for his person was of eminent gifts and graces He was one of the Twelue that were sent to view the land of Canaan one of the two that incouraged the people to goe take possession contrary to the discouragements of the other ten He only was with Moses in the holy Mount those forty daies and forty nights Hee was a man most zealous of Gods glory in his pure worship and seruice So that in his pious and pithy exhortation to the people Chap. 24. to feare the Lord to serue him in sincerity and in truth to abandon their strange Gods he concludeth in case they would not saying As for me and my house wee will serue the Lord. Yea hee made a couenant with the people to put away their idols and images those strange gods set them a statute and ordinance Chap. 24. 25. He erected also a stone for a monument witnesse for perpetuity vnto stosterity A most excellent Precedent for Princes hee was sith the only rule of his RegimeÌ„t was the word of God the wisest Counsellour of Kinges if they would haue their affaires to prosper As Iosh. 1. v. 8. He tooke not his Precedent from his predecessor Moses though he were a wise a good man but so farre as he was regulated by the only rule of Gods word The wisest politicians may foulely erre in their gouernment whose precedents may proue the more perillous to their followers when out of an admiration and high opinioÌ„ of their wisdome they withall swallow down their great errors digesting theÌ„ as corrupt blood into all the veines of the body politick but they that folow Gods word caÌ„not erre This made David wiser then his teachers theÌ„ the aged theÌ„ his enimies Ps. 119. 98. In a word Ioshua is not noted of any vice in Scripture as even Moses and Aaron were Againe for his office and calling he was Moses successor appointed by God to leade his people into the possession of the promised land Herein also according to his name Iehoshua or Iesus which signifieth a Sauiour hee was a type of Iesus Christ who conducts his people into the heaueÌ„ly Canaan Moses and Aaron were defectiue and faulty for which cause they might not coÌ„duct the people into Canaan which is also a mystery signifying that the law those legall and leviticall observances were defectiue and so could not bring Israel into Canaans possession onely Ioshua which is Iesus in whom no fault is found noted in Scripture no more theÌ„ Melchisedechs genealogy to make him a type of Christs eternall Priest-hood though neither Ioshua as a man was voyde of all sin nor Melchisedech with out Parents Ioshua I say a liuely type of Iesus Christ was he that must put gods people in the possession of the promised land This is that Iehoshua here who humbleth himself and with him the Elders of Israel whether they were the chief of the tribes or of the families of Israel or else those 70 Elders mentioned Ex. 24. 1. The chief of Israel they were without questioÌ„ And the text saith he to wit Ioshua the Elders of Israel jointly Hereby the way is a notable Embleme and patterne of a well gouerned state where Ioshua the prime gouernor goes not alone in his Counsels and actions but hath his Elders with him Euen Salomon for all his wisdome had a graue Senate of sage Elders whose Counsell if his sonne Rehoboam had not forsaken preferring his braue younkers before the graue Elders his kingdome might

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