Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	soul_n	world_n	1,708	5	4.6899	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35042	A defense against the dread of death, or, Zach. Crofton's meditations and soliloquies concerning the stroak of death sounded in his ears in the time of his close imprisonment in the Tower of London, anno 1661 and 1662 : digested for his own private staisfaction and support in the vale of the shadow of death, and now made publique for the advantage of such as abide under Gods present visitation in London by the pestilence.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1665 (1665)	Wing C6992; ESTC R24795	57,690	178

shall now lose the sent the grave shall be my burrough in it I shall be quiet I shall then be out of the reach of lust care trouble sorrow sickness temptation and persecution I shall now no more be heard to grieve or groan I will therefore be willing to cease to be that I may cease to be the subject of so bad so sinful qualities SECT XVI DEath will destroy my body Death destroyeth the body but not the soul be it so that is all it can do it hath nothing to do with my soul that remaineth immortal it shall be saved and set in Abrahams bosom â—n eternal happiness as soon as it is out of my body it shall be associated to the spirits of just men made perfect What need I care how it goeth with my worser whilst I have secured and it goeth so well with my better part my soul is an immortal being out of the reach of humane rage and the stroke of death What if men and death kill my body if God will not cast my soul into hell I escape well and much better then I deserve for sin had shipwracked me both soul and body I had forfeited both to divine Justice my soul being saved I live in death O blessed paradox oh happy state I not to dye in dying My body is but an earthen vessel I need not be much troubled if this be broken so that my heavenly treasure be secured and preserved my body is onely the cabinet I see no great cause to be troubled if that be lost whilst the jewel of my soul is safe Paul might well call on the Marriners to be of good chear in the tempest which tare their tackling and sunk their ship being able to assure them Acts 27. no mans life should be lost but the ship onely I travel with my soul through briars and thorns shall I wonder that I am pricked and that my cloaths are rent off me My soul is of such value that all is to be adventured and thrown over-board for its salvation What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matth 16.26 my body is dear to me I will do what I can to preserve it but my soul is much dearer this must be defended by exposing my body to danger and destruction skin for skin riches honours pleasures peace all my natural comforts and outward blessings I would give for my life but these and life and all will I give for my soul 1 Pet. 1.18 My soul is redeemed not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ Christ laid down his life to redeem my soul and shall not I willingly lay down my life to keep my redeemed soul O thou the Shepherd and Bishop of my soul keep it within thy sheepfold untill thou shalt lead it unto thy glory I will not then be solicitous what may befall or become of my body seeing I am under a necessity of suffering loss I will rejoyce that my loss is not greater such as might have undone me for ever welcome death to my body temporal death which consisteth with the life and immortality of my soul and passeth it into the fruition of eternal life my soul may be saved by and under the loss of my body but my body could not be saved if my soul were lost Oh strange Oh blessed trade the loss I am like to sustain is mine infinite gain this loss of my body shall save my soul for in the cause of Christ and his Church he who would save his life must lose it Mat. 16.25 SECT XVII DEath will seperate my soul from my body Death seperateth soul and body but not me and God it will so but it cannot seperate me from God and that was the design of death it cannot seperate either the one or the other from the love of God in Christ Jesus I am perswaded neither life nor death nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present Rom. 8.38 39. nor things to come nor any other creature shall be able to seperate us from the love of God which is in Chrict Jesus our Lord shall not this inseperable love to me meet with an answerable return of love from me and make me with confidence and resolution conclude tribulation nor distress nor persecution nor famine nor nakedness nor peril nor sword shall not seperate Christ from me as it is written for thy sake are we killed all the day long and accounted as sheep to the slaughter love is a principle of union it cleaveth to and looketh after its object in its most low estate and lost condition Death shall not make me to be despised or forsaken by my God This God is my God Psa 48.14 my God for ever and ever and he will be my guide unto death yea in and through the vail of the shadow of death his rod and his staff shall comfort me and 23.4 the Lord his esteem of and relation to my soul and body abideth as well and as much though not by the same acts and expressions of affection now they are seperated from as whilst they were united each unto other God doth triumphantly observe the faith and patience by which I endure the tearing of them each from other for the testimony of his truth he doth dispatch his Angels to attend my death and to conveigh my soul into Abrahams bosome to the immediate enjoyment of himself nor doth he disregard my body when divided from my soul or disesteem the dust thereof he causeth it to be mourned over by my friends and natural relations and to be buried with the greatest solemnity poor they can observe yea he loveth it and looketh on it as united to Christ though laid in the grave or dispersed on the earth all my members are written in Gods book Ps 139.16 not one of them must be lost or miscarrie they shall not be neglected my dust is precious in Gods sight not a grain of it shall be lost after it is sown in the earth it shall most certainly spring up as precious seed watered with the dew of heaven the word of the Lord to Zion and all her sons doth assure them and me that her dead men shall live together with his dead body they shall arise awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust Isa 26.19 for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead My body remaineth Gods Jewel when it hath lost that lustre the soul did give it God locketh it up in the grave as in his cabinet God well knoweth my body is liable to danger in the day of his wrath against the inhabitants of the earth the grave is the receptacle from distress whereinto he doth gather it know my soul and body you when divided do abide objects of Gods compassion complacency and care enter into your chambers

well and what then Such is the Stat. of Ed. 3. the only law declaring Treason if I do thus dye my guilt is real or reputed Suppose my guilt were real for Lord thou knowest mine innocency wherein I stand defamed to die a malefactor is not inconsistent with eternal salvation I may die for my sin and not dye in my sin I may be most justly punished by men that others may hear and fear Deut. 13.11 and do no more so wickedly for that sin which may be pardoned by the Lord I may be condemned in the world for that crime which shall never be charged on me by my God my present punishment may provoke my repentance and my repentance will most certainly procure me Gods if not the Kings mercy Divine grace is not barred by humane justice the theif crucified with Christ received and confessed so much the due reward of his evil Luk. 23.41 43. yet this hindred not his souls being that night in Paradise with his Saviour and fellow-sufferer The crime not the condition must divide between God and the soul as it doth divide the soul from the body but repentance is the spunge of guilt where God giveth repentance he denieth not remission of the most egregious crime to the most heinous offendor The hand of humane justice may be the help of the sinners repentance and then Tyburn or Tower-hill may be as near as good yea a much better way to Heaven then any other Happy is the stroke of justice 2 Chron. 33.12 which may save the soul from hell Manasseh's fetters made him see confess and abandon his sin the Elect of God are not exempt from the greatest crimes they may fall into and commit them But this is their happiness they are sure to repent thereof and therefore they shall not be eternally condemned for them I envy not some late condemned executed malefactors The murtherous Judges of his late Majesty K. C. first their confidence of salvation and eternal life but I heartily wish that for the glory of God the honour of Christian martyrdom credit of true Religion the real comfort of their friends as well as their own salvation they had more freely and more openly owned their guilt most odious in the light of nature much more of Scripture confessed their sin and justified God and man by their contrition and due confusion under the just sentence of a most righteous law I cannot but think repentance had been more proper matter for their professions then their insultation and rejoycing in their sufferings as if in and for the Lord and their peace joy and courage whereof their surviving friends boast not observing the same abstracted from that humiliation and pensive demeanour most Christianly suitable to so just and sad sufferings If there be in me any real guilt for which I have deserved to dye I pray God convince me of it for I yet see it not and affect me with it if in any thing I have violated the Law though through error or ignorance God give me grace to justifie the righteousness of that law by which I may be condemned and then if my suffering the sentence of the law work in me a sence of guilt unto a penitential submission under the hand of God through faith in Christ my Saviour I shall see cause to confess Gods abundant goodness in saving my soul by the condemnation execution and loss of my boby But O Lord thou knowest the crime by which I stand defamed for which I may be unjustly condemned is reputed and not real for my heart never yet admitted or entertained the least evil thought against the King the Lords anointed if then I dye in mine innocency and as a malefactor my death may administer to me more joy then greif more comfort then contrition more confidence then confusion for howsoever men may condemn me God and mine own conscience will acquit and justifie me Nor am I the first the only one that hath been oppressed in judgement this is one of the common evils under the sun belonging to Gods immediate peculiar vengeance Eccles 7.15 and 5.8 there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness if thou seest the oppression of the poor and the violent perverting of justice and judgement in a Provinces marvail not at the matter for he that is higher then the highest regardeth it and he is higher then they I pray God prevent Englands King and Kingdom from slaying poor In this God hath graciously answered my desire envied and despised me for mine innocent blood will hurt them more then their stroak can possibly hurt me they can but kill my body work for me the glory of a martyr send me to my place and state of rest but this will hazard their souls gall their consciences cast them under the guilt and odium of violence persecution and murther by the sword of justice stain the land with blood which will cry for Gods vengeance and their repentance As for me I am in your hands do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon your selves upon this City and upon the inhabitants thereof for of a truth the Lord hath sent me and stirred me up to speak and write all the words which I have sounded in your ears The reproach of my suffering as a malefactor will indeed and for a time cloud my credit darken my sufferings and deprive God of the honour of them making them a stone of stumbling to many a rock of offence to the weak and wicked but they shall not in the least eclipse the glory of my sufferings and innocency in the sight of God and good men or in the sence of mine own conscience As for me let all men know I wait for a resurrection of names as well as certainly as a resurrection of bodies when the great Judge of all the Gods on earth shall appear to call over the process take cognizance of the error and reverse the false judgement passed by the sons of the mighty Whilst my God and my conscience witness true Religion enforced by right reason to be whole the onely and the real cause of my suffering why should I be troubled at the clamour and seeming black charge of Treason whilst the fulfilling my ministry and the faithful dischardge of my duty is the real ground and only cause of mens wrath and my death Shall I be dismayed that I am Arraigned Condemned and executed so as to be reputed a Malefactor have not all Gods Prophets and Apostles been presented to the World as evil doers and as such exposed unto and derided in their sufferings was not Jeremiah charged with Treason Jer. 37.13 15. Act. 24.5 and Paul with Sedition and both as such imprisoned and afflicted Elijah was the troubler of Israel was not Amos expelled the Court as a Dangerous

it cannot hinder my graces from going with me to Heaven though I must at death leave my outward comforts this is mine advantage I may retain and carry with me mine integrity My soul death shall not meddle with thy best treasure be therefore content to part with thy worst enjoyments thine outward comforts whilst thy tottering tabernacle must fall thine earthly cottage must be burnt rejoyce and bless God that thou canst save any thing much more that thy best goods thy substance is escaped and secured for being herewith stored thou shalt possess an estate much more plentiful and pleasant then what thou hadst in this life and world Death cuts me off from my relations but casteth them on God SECT X. DEath will cut me off from my dear Relations whose dependance hath been on my care for them but it will then dispose them under the more immediate care protection Psal 68.5 Hos 14.3 and providence of God who is judge of the Widows case and with whom the Fatherless find mercy It peirceth my soul to hear the Wife of my bosom cry Oh Husband What shall become of me when thou the covering of mine eyes art taken from me and to hear my Children cry What shall become of us when our careful compassionate Father is gone be still my soul submit yeild unto my God even so father for so it seemeth good unto thee Is it not my duty by an act of faith to cast my fatherless Children on the Lord have I not taught and often assured my Widow she must trust in God was it not the Lord who provided for them by me in vain had I risen early gone to bed late eaten the bread of carefulness if God had not built my house Shall I think the same God cannot or shall I fear he will not provide for them without me they may be put upon some more sensible straits to exert some more special acts of faith more eminently to exercise some graces but they have the same assurance and some better security that they shall enjoy food convenient the Fountain abideth full and flowing though not by the same pipe and conduit which is cut off it is Gods property and promise to take care of the Widow and Fatherless especially of such who are so made for the testimony of his truth Why do I disquiet my self for the sadness of that condition which setteth my dear Relations in a more special dependance on God and secureth to them the more peculiar providence of God I love them I have looked after them whilst I lived I will now leave the care of them to him who expressed it by me who can and will express the same without me who is charged with them by his own property and promise who is more immediately more eminently bound to look after them by taking thus taking me from them O my God! give my Wife and Children a fear of thee submission to thee and faith in thee be thou the Husband of my Widow and the Father of my fatherless Children that to the praise of thee who failest not they may tell the world the unbeleiving world they lost nothing by loosing thus loosing me they traded to good advantage by freely willingly cheerfully contentedly giving up a most loving Husband and tender Father to the pleasure of a gracious faithful never failing God who stayeth with them and careth for them when he by death doth take me from them SECT XI AFter death Death hindreth me from knowing what is done under the sun and so I shall know no evil I must lie down in the pit I shall be covered with darkness I shall not know what is done under the Sun This will indeed be my state but yet whilst I lie down in the pit I shall abide in safety and be delivered from my brethrens rage and fury My Brother Reuben proveth most faithful and affectionate by letting me down into the pit he thereby secureth not onely my life but also my liberty against my brethrens malice their hands cannot then reach me to do me hurt they cannot draw me thence to sell and enslave me to any Ishmaelite their envy may enquire for me but they shall not find me I shall be preserved in safety and preferred to glory when their entangled state shall affect their hearts and make them with bitterness to remember and confess they are verily guilty concerning their brother in that they saw the anguish of his soul Gen. 42.21 when he besought them and they would not hear him my being put into the pit is the passage to glory God hath determined for his beloved Josephs If darkness cover me it doth the better suit my sleeping state and capacitate me thereunto light is indeed pleasant to the eye but it is perturbing preventing when men desire to sleep my gracious God layeth me in the grave as in an house of darkness and as on a bed of silence that my wearied body may the better sleep and take its rest until it shall be awakened by his last trumpet which shall summon me to meet my Lord in glory I have no great cause to be troubled for that Nothing but evil under the sun to be known I shall not know what is done under the Sun for there can be little done against me after I am dead nothing that can hurt me suppose mens foolish envy should digg up my stinking carcass to burn or bury it under the Gallows they may annoy themselves they cannot afflict me sure I am they can do nothing under the Sun which shall concerne me when I am dead why shall I be so curious as to covet the knowledge of other mens affairs I might possibly know some good by my life but that will be but very little but I were therein sure to know very much evil and such evil as would and must afflict me whilst I know nothing under the Sun I shall not know the prophaness blasphemies impieties injustice oppressions violence superstitions perfidies perjuries and persecutions which are done under the Sun all which would call for and constrain greif in my soul and tears from my eyes seeing I could not know a little good without knowing so much evil shall I not be content to be freed from a so vexatious burden as is the knowledge of things under the Sun I hate life Eccles 2.17 because the work which is wrought under the Sun is greivous unto me for it is vanity and vexation of spirit What if I do not know what is done under the Sun After death I shall know much good I shall know much better things my soul the seat and subject of mine understanding shall be acquainted with and fully apprehend the glories which are above the Sun I shall then know the depths of divine mercy the mysteries of mans salvation 1 Cor. 13.12 I shall then know as I am known I shall perfectly know God and Christ shall I stick to

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