Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64253	A treatise of contentment leading a Christian with much patience through all afflicted conditions by sundry rules of heavenly wisedome : whereunto is annexed first, A treatise of the improvement of time, secondly, The holy warre, in a visitation sermon / by T.T.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Treatise of the improvement of time.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Holy warre.	1641 (1641)	Wing T571; ESTC R26964	82,319	242

day when it shall appeare that I am a sonne of God A Pearl cast into dust or clay loseth not the vertue nor the shine but a day will finde it and see it in the due price of it So the godly now darkened in the dirt of calumnies at length shall be revealed and according to their worth respected In the meane time we must be content that our glory be hid even as our Lords was And indeed shame and infamy from evill men is no shame but a crowne Iob would carry the booke of libels upon his shoulders as an ornament c. 31. 36. 4 God hath a good hand in all this contempt powred on his servants For they suffer according to the will of God 1 Pet. 4. 19. David thus comforted himselfe the Lord hath bid Shemei raile And the Lord seeth it good for his children that it should bee thus First to try their faith hope patience charity if they can blesse being cursed and do good for evill wholly abstaining from revenge Secondly to teach them not to seeke praise of men nor expect it but the true praise which is from God Thirdly to confirme them in the good way as by a sure marke wherein all the Saints have walked before them Prophets Apostles others who went through good report and bad report fame and infamy so there is assurance of a blessed end and issue Mat. 5. 11. 1 Pet. 4. 14. 5 Lastly if I looke at examples I have not only Christ himselfe who was railed on called a Samaritan one that had a Devill one that cast out Devils by Belzâ—bub the prince of Devils c. but his Apostles who were reviled as drunke or full of new wine and Paul by Festus that he was mad or beside himselfe and by Athenians that he was a bablâ—r And the Christians after theÌ„ in the Primitive Church were divellishly sâ—andred for killing their owne children for worshipping the head of an Asse for Incest and other wickednesses And therefore as the Apostle saith this is no new thing befalling me and if I be not slandered thus I must expect it and in time of peace prepare for it CHAP. X. Of persecution and Contentment therein THe persecutions of the world for Christs sake are a sore triall and have made many of Gods children at a stand and brought them into the degrees of discontent with their estate seeing the power and prosperity of wicked men But godlinesse reduceth the heart to contentment by sundry considerations 1 It looketh up to God and seeth his hand in them and that they come not by chance or meerely by Satans and the wickeds malice neither God being ignorant or carelesse of his Church but first by his will 1 Pet. 3. 17. it is better if it be the the will of God that ye suffer for well doing Secondly by his fore-knowledge who therefore hath foretold them and forewarned his children of them that they should before armed against them 1 Thess. 3. 4. For verily when we were with you we told you before that we should suffer tribulations even as it came to passe and yee know it Thirdly by his determining them to the very subject person as v. 3. for we were appointed ther eunto Fourthly by his wise and loving providence both in respect of his children whom by this meanes he keepeth out and helpeth out of many sinnes as also of his owne truth which must by this meanes against all mans reason be preserved through constant and couragious maintenance of it unto the death Thus his glory shineth through the worlds darkenesse Fiftly by his moderating and ending them for â—e suffereth them not to be perpetuall as the Devill and wicked men would but lest his children should faint â—ee putteth a good end unto them for the rod of the wicked shall not alway lye on the lot of the righteous lest they put forth their hand to iniquity Psal. 125. 3. Sixtly by his upholding to the blessed fruit and issue promised Matth. 5. 10. Blessed are they which suffer persecution for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven For the sufferings of this life are not like the glory that shall be revealed the suffering indeed is great but the glory farre greater and if it be long yet is it not eternall as the glory is Therefore be content as the Apostle reasoneth Rom. 8. 17 18. 2 Godlinesse looketh up to Christ and seeth him a companion in suffering an example of suffering and now being departed the world hath left his Church the heire of his crosse but with this comfort that as he went from the crosse to his Crowne so if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him ibid. 3 If it looke at men without it selfe it wanteth not comfort At friends so persecuted they the Prophets Matt. 5. 12. so the Apostles 1 Thess. 2. 14 15. so the Saints beleeving in their word Hebr. 10. 32 33. Yea and all that will live godly in Christ must suffer persecution If it look at enemies it seeth them weake and impotent they are able perhaps to kill the body but cannot hurt the soule Mat. 10. 28. They may kill them but not conquer and overcome them If it looke within it selfe First it seeth a good cause to suffer for it suffers for the Kingdome of God and is glad to bee counted worthy to suffer for it 2 Thess. 1. 5. Secondly it seeth the note of a true Christian which is the Crosse of Christ beares his markes and so is content Thirdly it seeth in these sufferings a certaine testimony of Gods just and righteous judgement wherein all their wrongs shall be righted and the persecutors revenged 2 Thess. 1. 5 6. It is just with God and a token of his righteous judgement and Luk. 11. 50. There is a time when all the righteous blood shed from Abel to Zacharie shall bee required 4 If it lookes to the losses it suffereth though of the dearest things it can be content being assured of abundant recompence The losses are great as of Liberty Country friends Goods Life Yet in all is a godly heart contented thus In the losse of liberty First Hee that is prisoner for God is the Lords freeman and they cannot loâ—ke out the Spirit nor binde him Paul and Silas can sing Psalmes to God in prison If the Sonne have set them free they are free indeed Ioh. 8. 36. Secondly it maketh restraint and imprisonment a meane to preserve that liberty in which Christ hath set them free by repentance daily breaking off the bolts and bands of sinne and native corruption and getting out of the deeds of the flesh and bondage of sinne which is the greatest captivity of all 3 It seeth Gods deare children in the like condition Ioseph was cast into a deepe dungeon where he saw neither Sunne Moone nor Starre Gen. 41. 42 Ieremy cast into a pit where he stucke fast in

bin better for them to have been perpetually lame or bed-rid then have enjoyed that blessing which not being able to weild hath proved their overthrow CHAP. XV Of Orbity or Barrennesse and Contentment therein THe second personall evill in which godlinesse no lesse contenteth then in the former is Orbity or Barrennesse Thus First promotion of children makes none blessed Secondly children are not simply blessings nor alwayes given for a blessing but often prove a curse Iob 27. 15 16. Wee read of children multiplied for the sword and for famine Wee often see some one childe not onely the sorrow and shame of godly Parents but the ruine and overthrow of the whole family Wee have heard of Absaloms that have risen in rebellion against their parents according to our Saviours prophecy Matthew 10. 21. children shall rise up against their Parents Better were it to bee without Children then to be parents of such as for whom the Lord made a Law that the Parents should follow them to the stoning and cast the first stone at them Deut. 21. 18 19 20. Numbers of such roiotous sons are every where at this day Thirdly the case often so fals out that they are at best â—ase who have no children especially if troubles and persecutions arise for the Gospell When Ierusalem was to bee besieged woe was to them that gave sucke in those dayes And in ordinary times the Parent charged with children must have trouble in the flesh for the godly educating and also providing for them And such as have none have lesse care and more liberty and opportunity to serve God to care for the things of God how he may please him the Apostles reason 1 Cor. 7. 32 34. Fourthly children are the gift of God The fruit of the wombe is a blessing from God whose wisedome is such as he disposeth them where he knoweth it is fit for his glory and good for his children and where it would make for neither he withholdeth them Elkanah was not God to give Annah children And a good heart will rest in Gods wise disposition who openeth and no man shutteth and shutteth the wombe and no man can open it Fifthly though sometimes it was a curse to be childelesse and inflicted for sinne as Coniah was written destitute of children yet to the godly it is not so nor a signe of Gods anger no more then it was in Abel Melchizâ—dâ—â—k Elias Paul others CHAP. XVI Of Sicknesse and Contentment therein THe third personall evill is Sicknesse and diseases which often infect the mind with heavinesse and impatience especially if they bee more tedious and lingring and so much the more burthensome by how much health ' which is next to life the best earthly blessing of God is overprized But godlinesse suggesteth many motives to contentment in this estate 1 It looketh up unto the hand of our Father lovingly chastening in measure not above our strength in mercy not to our desert and to a good end for his own glory as Lazarus his sicknesse was Iohn 11. 4. and for our glory too even as our Head Christ must first suffer and so enter into his glory Luke 24. 2 Sicknesse is the Lords schoole wherin we learne not only the knowledge but the practise of many Christian vertues First it telleth us that wee carry about with us a body subject to death upon which sentence is past that being dust it must returne to dust It sheweth the frailty of man by bringing downe the lustiest bodies abating the strength and abolishing the beauty of them Secondly it humbles men by drawing a confession from them that all flesh is but as grasse and the grace thereof as the flower of the field Thirdly it abates selfe love in men and tames the ranke flesh when health strength and prosperity lift up the minde and make men overweane themselves and kicke against the Lord Fourthly sicknesse of the body is the medicine of the soule which labours more with weaknesse of faith hope love then the body with diseases And therefore as physick though it be unpleasant to the Patient yet is profitable so is it with the sicknesse of the body to the soule For then as all men can witnesse of themselves they are most wise most humble most sorrowfull for sinne most earnest for pardon most fervent in prayer most watchfull against sinne and in one word best affected in soule in the sicknesse of the body Did not Naamans sicknesse of lepâ—osie bring him to the Prophet Elisha where being healed he confesseth there was no God in the world but in Israel 2 Kings 5. 15 16. Was not that a most notable prayer of Ezekiah in his sicknesse Esa. 38. 9. How many hearty prayers did David poure out to the Lord in his sicknesse Psal. 6. and 32. and 38. Looke upon Iob in his sicknesse a mirrour of patience confidence humility other holy vertues and as a modell of grace he came tryed and refined out of the furnace Fifthly sicknesse is a preservative against many sinnes in that it makes us thinke of the cause of sickenesse which is sinne and of earnest repentance the waster of sinne and of seeking to the Physitian of soules which is Christ himselfe who maketh a confection of his owne heart-bloud to cure all our sinnes which are our spirituall diseases and sickenesse Sixthly in that it lets us see that the house of this Tabernacle must be dissolved it moveth us to bid adieu to the world and seeke for that life which is everlasting not capable of age sickenesse or any grievance The nurse in weaning the childe layeth mustard on her breast And this life must have some bitter tang to make us seeke for a better Were not my sicknesse so lingring and tedious I could be better contented 1 Thou lingrest in the cause which is thy sinne Hasten thy repentance 2 See thou get soundnesse of soule so much the more and the spirit of a man will beare his infirmities Make sure remission of sins get faith c. 3 Christ hath not taken away the lingring of diseases but the malignity and poison of them It may long exercise and molest thee it shall not hurt thee nay bee turned to the best neither can the sicknesse belong where the life is so short 4 Perhaps thou hast abused or forfeited thy health or wouldst abuse it to Gods dishonour See wee not numbers it were better for them to be bound on their beds and be perpetually sicke or bedrid then continually to pursue wickednesse with high hand as they doe And assure thy selfe were health as good for thee as it is in it selfe thou shouldest have it Better to bee broken with griefe to salvation then enjoy health to condemnation 5 Thinke not God hath forgotten thee if hee longer hold thee under Looke upon that godly woman that laboured of a bloudy issue eighteene yeares and was bowed together

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