Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	aaron_n	israel_n	murmur_v	13	3	10.2766	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94392	The holy history. Written in French by Nicolas Talon. S.I. and translated into English by the Marquess of Winchester.; Histoire sainte. English	Talon, Nicolas, 1605-1691.; Winchester, John Paulet, Earl of, 1598-1675.	1653 (1653)	Wing T132; Thomason E212_1; ESTC R9096	367,834	440

honour of him who is our Redeemer Lucifer is fallen from his Throne The Dragon is swallowed up in the billows of the Sea and all these Traytors who intended to drown us are overwhelmed with the waves and where they thought to gather Laurels and Palms they found nothing but an harvest over-spread with Cypres and a vast Sepulcher in the bottom of the Sea where they proposed to themselves toerect a Theater of honour and a field of Triumph This Crosse Fortune some will tell me is a strange turn of Fortune but to speak more Christianly this is an admirable stroak of the Providence and Justice of God which frustrates all the projects of the world and of the wicked to raise Theaters unto vertue and to place Crowns upon the heads of the vertuous when they think themselves in a condition to be trampled on by their enemies Not that but sometimes and very often Wormwood and Gall are mingled with the most pleasing waters of their consolations and with graces which he is ready to impart unto them And not to goe farther to seek examples of this verity Ambulaveruntque tribus dichus per solitudinem non inveniebant aquam Exod. 15. v. 22. Et venerunt in Mara nec poterunt bibere aquas de Mara eo quod essent amarae unde congruum loco nomen imposuit vocans illum Mara id est amaritudinem Exod. 15. v. 23. let us stay a while in this desart where the Israelites now are All their enemies are drowned in the Sea and they themselves have marched for the space of three dayes in this desolate place finding nothing but bitter waters and if nothing else happen they will all dye with hunger and thirst In vain is it for them to murmur if Moses worked not here a Miracle I fear it must appear a truth that the Egyptians are dead in the Sea and that the Israelites will almost perish neer a Sea or in a place which hath nothing but Salt and bitter Waters from which it takes its denomination Alas where then is Moses where is Mary where is this Star of the Sea At ille clamavit ad Dominum qui ostendit ei lignum Quod cum misisset in aquas in dulcedinem versae sunt Exod. 15. v. 25. whose sole name is able to cause a thousand Fountains and Rivers to spring in the midst of Desarts Courage then behold thy happy Conductor to whom God hath shown a certain Wood of life and sweetness which he had scarce put into the water but it presently became delicious Behold a pleasing Metamorphosis But we must not wonder at it since this Wood is no other than the Image of him who can change all the torrents bitternesses of this life into an Ocean of consolation It is the Cross which hath been steep'd in the waters of Mara O Cross O Mara what sweet rigours and pleasing bitternesses doe all those find Venerunt autem in Elim filii Israel ubi erant duodecim sontes aquarum septuaginta palmae castrametatisunt juxta aquas Exo. 15. v. 27. who make use of thee to sweeten their sharpest afflictions Likewise after the Israelites had steeped this wood in the waters of Mara and sweetned the bitter waters of this Desart they went directly to the Land of Elim which was watered with many delightfull Fountains and where under the shades of Palm-trees they might sweetly and joyfully repeat their Canticle of Peace and Victory CHAP. XX. The Manna of the Desart IT was not without reason God from the beginning of the world took the name of Elohim Beneficent Nature of God that is to say a benefactor and obliger For his Nature is so propense to doe good as there is no moment in our lives which is not marked with some of his favours For this end he hath rais'd the Heavens the Air and the Stars over our heads as so many treasuries in which he hath enclosed the light and vitall influences without which the world would be but a confus'd Mass and a dreadfull Tomb. He hath also peopled the elements and given to every one what was convenient and necessary for their infirmities He himself is a great Ocean of Essences and an Abyss of goodness from whence spring a thousand torrents of graces which from Heaven water the Earth in so great abundance and with so generall an effusion that there is no person who may not be satiated thereby It seems also that he was as it were obliged thereunto and that if by some secret of his wise Providence he chance to withdraw his arm and hand which fills us with all sorts of benedictions we may have some cause to complain and murmur against him Et murmuravit omnis congregatio filiorum Israel contra Moysen Aaron in solitudine Exod. 16. v. 2. Dixeruntque filii Israel ad eos utinam mortui essemus per manum Domini in terra Aegypti quando sedebamus super ollas carnium comedebamus panem in saturitate cur eduxisti nos in desertum istud ut occideretis omnem multitadinâ—m fame Exod. 16. v. 3. Behold a while this People I beseech you whom a month since he drew out of Egypt and freed from the Tyranny of Pharaoh Behold these good people for whom he hath sweetned the bitterness of Mara who were scarce gone out of the little Paradise of Elim but they presently murmur'd because their Meal began to fail and as if Moses had been the cause of it they said unto him that they very much wondred at his causing them to depart out of Egypt and that it had been better for them to have there dyed amongst their flesh pots and Caldrons where they had alwayes something to eat than to follow him in a desart where they were even ready to perish with hunger Ah wicked and ungratefull men are you not asham'd to prefer your bellies before God and to forget all the benefits you received in your last necessities Neverthelesse this is what all these Apostates and misbelievers did who having remained some time under the Palm-Trees of Elim and drunk the waters of these sweet fountains being somewhat farther advanc'd in the desart and having met with some wants and difficulties they presently repented themselves for having left the flesh-pots and dung-hils of Egypt to enter a wilderness into which notwithstanding God had conducted and freed them from off the bondage and tyrannie of sin These gluttons are afraid of abstinence the Lent hath affrighted them the just and holy Laws of God and his Church were insupportable to them They choose rather to die with Flesh and Blood upon a dung-hill of ordures and horrours and neer a pile inkindled by the hand of the most infamous passions and where there is some sense of Egypt some flame of Babylon Lib. 1. c. 7 in the spoiles of envy some Spirit of Babel and some remnant of Cain than in a place consecrated to vertue

hold these lights and could not contein himself from praysing the attractive charms of this glistring and pompous quality which is as the life of the eye and a most lively representation of the spirit The second day was not less glorious The second Day for it was that in which God chose to raise up the Firmament like a Circle of Brass Dixit quoque Deus fial Firmamentum in medio aquarum dividat aquas ab aquis Gen. 1. v. 5. or rather like a Globe of Gold and azure which might serve to divide the seaven Orbes of the Planets from the empyreall Heaven Now it was in the midst of the waters that this admirable work was formed whether they were necessary to temper the rays and orders of the Stars or that the course and revolutions of a mooving body would be more even and free in an Element so pure and so plyable to all sort of Motions Or finally whether it were for some other reason known only to the incomparable Architect who caus'd his power and wisdome equally to shine in the Fabrick of the Universe The next day God descended from Heaven upon Earth and it was on this day he marked out bounds The third Day and limits to Rivers Streams Seas and Torrents so that the waters retyring some on one side and some on the other Congregentur aquae quae sub Coelo sunt in Deuâ— unum apraâ—cat arida Gen. 1. v. 7. just as they were shut up within their banks Clifts and Chanels the Earth appeared and immediatly her sides were found pierced with Caverns and her back loaden with Mountains and Rocks which rais'd her in a stately manner Instantly her entrals were filled with Stones and Metals and whilst those four great portions of the Earth which divide the World and all the Islands of the Ocean and Seas were Levelled to serve for Empires and possessions of men The hand of God as just as liberall did in the bosome of the Earth uphold the Arches of her Prisons and Dungeons to the end that if the Paradice of Eden was a Garden of delights and pleasures Hell on the contrary might be an abode of dread horror and Misery It was likewise very convenient that as God had mixed Light with Darkness he should create wild places and desarts to render the Gardens Fields and Meadows more delightfull and finally having the very same day given Plants Herbs and Flowers for an ornament to the Earth his wise Providence mingled Thorns with Roses and the most wholesome Herbs sprung out of the same soyl with the Mandrake and Aconite The fourth day The fourth Day having bin as it were the Chariot of the Sun Fiant luminaria in Virmamento Coeli dividant diem ac noctem sint in signa ten pora dies annos Gen. 1. v. 14. Moon Stars and Planets which shine in the Heavens may in some manner be called the day of days since it hath bin the Origin of the fires brightness and flames which are the soul of the Day Then were the frozen and condensed waters gathered together with more light and heat to form the Body of the Planets Et luceant in firmamento Coeli illuminent terram Gen. 1. v. 15. Fecitque Deus dun lâ—minaria magna lumanare majus ut praeesset diei luminaâ—e minus ut traeesht nocti stâ—llas v. 16. Next the Sun Moon and Stars began their courses periods and revolutions and took the tracks and ways which were traced out to them from East to West they began likewise to cast their favourable aspects and from that time their influences fell upon the Earth and they received the Orders and Laws which they have since observed so inviolably and with so great respect But whilst these Torches rowl over our heads for fear lest our eyes should be dazeled at such luminous objects Let us turn them upon the Fift day The â—ift Day Producant eqâ—as reâ—tile animae vtventis volatile super terram sub Firmamento Coelâ— Gen. 1. v. 25. wherein God created the Birds which fly in the Air and the Fishes which swim in the Water One must hear represent unto his thoughts some fair Summers day and imagine that he sits in the cool upon the shore of some Island From thence he must lift up his eyes towards Heaven and behold over head thousands of little feathered bodies cleaving the air with their wings piercing the Clouds and mingling with their flight the sweet Harmony of their warblings He must afterwards behold at his Feet a River full of Fishes armed with scales some of which cut their way neer the surface of the water and others through the midst of the waves some swim aloft against the stream and Current others are carryed down at the pleasure of the winds and by the favour of so sweet and rapid an Element This is that which God took pleasure to see and doe five dayes after the Creation of Heaven and Earth This was the day he chose to people the Air and Sea with their guests which were in so great numbers as since it hath not been necessary to create other species of Birds and Fishes But what the Earth which serves for a Basis and foundation unto Sea and Air would have some cause to murmur against both and might with reason complain as it were of God her Creator if she were abandoned and without Inhabitants Soft a little patience It belongs not unto Creatures to prescribe laws to their Creator Scarce had the Morning brought news of the arrivall of the sixth day The sixt Day Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo jumenta reptilia bestias terrae secundum species suas Gen. 1. v. 24. but at the same instant the Earth opened her eyes unto her Sun and her ears unto the voice of her God This dull heavy and insensible Mass not satisfied to have brought forth Flowers Plants and Trees yet farther displaid it self to produce all sorts of Beasts and Animals Behold the World in her Cradle and Nature in her Infancy The unmoveable Earth round about her Center is sown with flowers tapistred with Turf and Verdures beautified with Woods and Forrests she is stately in her Mountains pleasant in her Valleys delightfull in her Meadows She is rich in her Metals fertile in her Fruits and plentifull by her Rivers and Seas which inviron her on all parts and form her a thousand liquid transparences The Air encompasses her on all fides and serves her for a veil to temper the over-humid Influences of the Moon and the too ardent Rays of the Sun The Heavens like pendent Roofs and rowling Arches are strewed with Flowers Emeraulds and Rubies Hesiod in the genealogy of false divinity What doth remain after all these Prodigies of Power and all these works of Love O Power O Love I cannot condemn his fancy who said that Love produced Heaven out

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