Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	love_n	love_v	1,580	5	6.8174	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

neyghbour / for that we confirme hym in errour to bothe our condemnacions But when we abstaye from all felowship of Idolatrie / what euer ensewe there vpon / we do our dueties vnto Gods glorie Let no man thinke that I am more seuear then necessitie requireth No brethren / I alwayes contein my affirmations / within the boundes of Gods scriptures / and that shal Ieremie the prophet witnes / who writing to the Iewes / being prysoners in Babylon / after he had forbidden them to folowe the vaine relygion of that people / amongest whome they wexe then conuersant by many reasons / prouinge that their Idols were no Goddes / at laste he sayth / you shall saye to them Ierem. 10 The Goddes that made neither heauen neither earthe shall perish from the earthe / and from vnder the heauen Here is to be obserued / as Ihon Caluine / that singular instrumente off God moste diligently noteth That the reste of the prophetes worke was written in the Hebrew tounge / The prophet coÌ„straineth the Ievves to declare their confessioÌ„ against Idols that chauÌ„ginge their natural toÌ„g whiche then was peculiar to the Iewes / but these verses and woordes aboue rehersed / were written in the Caldee tounge / in the tounge of that people / when the Iewes were then in thraldome as that the prophet woulde constrein them to chaunge their naturall tounge / and in plaine woordes declare the hatered and alienation / whiche they had from all worshippynge off Idols I beseche you brethren / marke the woordes of the prophete / he sayeth not / you maye thinke in your hartes / that they are vayne / that they shall perishe / but you shall saye it / that not preuely / but to them / who putte their truste in suche vanitie / as that the thre chyldren openly spake / denyenge to geue the reuerence of their bodies before an Idoll And Daniel that wolde not kepe secrete the confession of hys fayth onely thyrty dayes / as in my former letter more plainely is expressâ—d / hereof it is playne that requyringe that you prophaine not your bodyes with Idolatrie I requyre no more then Goddes scriptures by plaine preceptes and exaÌ„ples teacheth Neither yet requyre I of euery man / and at all tymes so muche For I constraiÌ„ne no man to go to Idolators / in the tyme of their Idolatrie / and to say that all that they do / is abhominable and naughte But onely that we kepe our owne bodyes called of the Apostle the teÌ„ples of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 5. cleane from all such diabolicall conuencions / which that we do is most profitable / and also necessary to the preseruation of our selfes / and of our posteritie / of whome somwhat now at th ende must I speake Euery man that is not degenerated too the nature of a brute beaste / will appeare to beare suche loue to his chyldren / that to leaue them riche / in rest / and in good state / he pacieÌ„tly will suffer troubles / and without grudge will doo many thinges / that otherwise are contrary to hys owne pleasure And with my hart I wish to God / that the perfection of this were more deaply grounded in mans hart / I meane very loue / 1. Cor. 13 not fonde folishnes / whiche vnder the name of loue / procureth destruction of bodye and soule / where coÌ„trariwise / trew loue most carefully laboureth for saluation of bothe / yf this loue I saye / towardes our chyldren / which euery man pretendeth to haue / be in vs. Then of necessitie it is / that for these causes we shall aduoid all societie of those fylthye abhominations This my affeccion may apeare strauÌ„ge but if it be with indifferencye perceaued / it shal be very easy to be vnderstande Note ye fathers The onely way to leaue our chyldren blessed and happy is to leaue theÌ„ righteously instructed in Gods trew religion / for what auayleth all that is in earth / Note if condeÌ„nacion folow death yea / Goddes vengeaunce goo before thesame as of necessitie they muste / where the trewe knowlege of God is absent The trevv knovvlege of god is not borne vvith man Playne it is / that the trew knowlege of God is not borne wyth man / neither yet commeth vnto him with naturall power / but he must haue scoolemasters to trayne hym vp in that / whiche he lacketh / The chief scholemayster the holy Ghost excepted of the age folowing / is the worke practesies lief of the forefathers / where vnto commonly we se the chyldren so addict bound / especially / if it be in Idolatrie That God cryeng by the mouthes of his messingers / haue muche to do / to ryffe or plucke any man backe from their forefathers footesteppes Now if that you altogether refusinge / Note and despise not God stoupe vnder Idolatrie / what schoolemaisters are you to your posteritie / what â—mage shewe you to your chyldreÌ„ Yea / in what estate leaue you them / bothe touching bodye soule 3. Reg. 1â— Assuredly / you are euen suche scholemaisters / as were those fathers / who consentinge to Ieroboam / to his Idolatrie left vnto their chyldreÌ„ a patrone of perdicion To speake it plainly / you leaue them blynded in Idolatrie / bound slaues to the deuell without hope of redemption or light to be receaued Euas you AuÌ„swere Tusshe wilsome saye The Lord knoweth his owne Trewe it is But this ordenary meanes to come by hys knowledge / are not to contempned He commaundeth you to teache your chyldren his lawes / statutes and ceremonies That they likewise maye teache the same to the generations folowing But yet will some obiecte / what taught our fathers vnto vs O deare breathreÌ„ be not so ingrate and vnthankefull vnto god Neither yet I wolde that you shoulde flatter your selfes / thinking that suche a troÌ„pet shall be blowen to your posteritie / as hath bene blowen vnto you Let the reader vnderstande Yf all come to so close sylence / as che Lordes messengers fonde the beginning of this our age When this hole realme of EnglaÌ„de was drouned in so deadly a slepe / that the sounde of the Lordes trompet was not vnderstande / while fyrste the moste parte of the blowers gaue their bloude in a testimonie / that their doctrine was the same / which begaÌ„ with bloud / was planted and kept in mynde by thesame / and by bloud encreased / and did fructefye / will the Lord haue his messengers to fight alone Note will he bestowe suche abundaunce off bloude vpon your chyldren / to encorage them / as that he did vpon you / for your instruction encoragement / yf that ye all so traytorously fle froÌ„ hym / in the daye of this his battaile The contrary is greatly to be feared Oft reuoluinge howe God hath vsed my tounge my tounge I say / being

and that he maye multiplye thy / as he hathe sworne vnto thy fathers Vvliij Idolatrie is too be eschevved the mainteners therof In these wordes most euidently is expressed vnto vs / why God wil that we auoide all felowship with Idolatrie / with the maintainers of the same In whiche are thre thinges chiefly to be noted / fyrste that the holy Ghost instruct vs / that maintaynours of Idolatrie / prouokers to the same / inteÌ„deth to draw vs froÌ„ God / therfore he coÌ„mauÌ„deth vs / that we shal not couÌ„sail their iÌ„pietie / but that we shall make it knowen / that we shall punishe it / if we will haue the leage betwixte vs God too stande sure And here is the firmamente of my fyrst cause / why / it is necessary to auoyde Idolatrie / because that otherwise we declare oure selfes litell to regard / yea / to haue broken / and plaiÌ„ly denied that holy leage / which is betwen vs God / through Christ Iesus SecoÌ„darely it is to be noted / that Idolatrie so kindleth the wrath of God / that it is neuer quenched / vntill the offendors / all that they poses / be destroyed froÌ„ the earth / that by fyre It may appeare that this is seueare rygorous iudgement / but let the cause be coÌ„sidered / theÌ„ shall we vnderstaÌ„de / that in the same / God sheweth vnto vs his most singuler loue / declaring him selfe enemye vnto oure enemies / for all those that wold draw vs froÌ„ God be the kynges or quenes beiÌ„g of the diuels nature / Dravvers of men froÌ„ God are of the deuils nature are enemies vnto God / therfore wil God that in such cases / we declare our selfes enemies vnto them And last it is to be noted / that obedieÌ„s geueÌ„ vnto God / in taking veÌ„geauÌ„ce vpoÌ„ Idolatours / by suche meanes / as God hath appointed / is a cause why God sheweth his mercye / why he multiplieth vs / enbraseth vs with brotherly loue / where coÌ„trary wyse / by coÌ„sentinge with Idolatrye / are the mercies of God shut vp froÌ„ vs / are cutted of the bodie of Christ / to wyther and roote / as trees withoute moysture But nowe shall some demaunde / what then shall we go too / and kyll all Idolatours QuestioÌ„ AuÌ„swere That were the office dutye of euery ciuell magistrate within hys realme and Iurisdiccion But of you is requyred only to auoyd participacion and company of that abhominacion / as wel in body as in soule / as Dauid and Paule plainly teacheth Psal xvi Dauid in his exile / in the middes of Idolatours sayth I will not offer their drinke offeringes of bloud neyther yet will I take their name into my mouthe Paule sayth 1. Cor. x. You maye not be partakers of the Lordes table and of the table of deuils you may not drinke the Lordes cup / and the cup of deuils As these two places / of scriptur plainly resolueth the former question / so do they confirme that which is before sayd That the leag betwixt vs and God requireth / auoydinge off all Idolatrye 1. ReguÌ„ xxvij Fyrst playne it is / that in Gathe and in Corinthus / were no smal number off Idolatours / when Dauid was there in exile / when Paule wrote hys Epistle / yet neither sayth Dauid / that he wil kyl any in that place because he was their magistrate / neither geueth Paule any suche commaundement / but in one thing they both agre / that suche as hath socitie leage with God / must so abhorre Idolatrye / that no parte of the bodye be defyled therwith For Dauid sayeth I will not take their names in my mouth As he wolde saye / so odious are the names of false vaine Goddes / that the mencion of them is righteouslye compared to stinckinge donge / vile carion / whiche neither can be eaten / neither yet smellid without displeasur of suche that hath not lost the iudgemente of their sences / therfore sayeth Dauid / I wil not defyle me mouth with theÌ„ / that is / I wil neuer speake one fauorable worde of them I thinke much lesse / wolde he haue croched and kneled before them for anye mans pleasure Aduert brethren / Shyfte makers are double dissemblers that Dauid inspyred with the holy Ghoste knew no such sheftes / as worldly wyse men imagyn nowe a dayes That they maye kept their hartes pure and cleane to God / howbeit / their body dauÌ„se with the diuel Not so deare brethreÌ„ not so The temple of God hath nothing to do with Idols The cause expresseth Dauid in their wordes The Lorde hym selfe is my portion and my enheritaunce Greate is the cause / yf it be deaply considered Dauid illuminated by the holy Ghost seyth eueÌ„ the selfe same thing / which before we haue aleaged of the Apostles wordes / that God will not parte spoyle with the deuil / promitting hym to haue the seruauÌ„t of the body / he too stande contente with the soule / harte and mynde No brethren / Dauid marketh this / the fundament reason / why / he wil neither offer sacrefice to Idols / neither yet defyle hys mouthe with their names / because sayeth he the Lorde is my porcion Vvhat the leage betvvene vs and God requireth as he wolde saye / suche is the coÌ„dicioÌ„ of the leage betwene me and my God / that as he is my tower of defence against my enemies / preseruing and norishing bothe the body soule / so muste I be hole his in bodye and soule / for my God is of that nature / that he will suffer no portioÌ„ of hys glory to be geuen to another In confirmation of this sayeth Esay / Esai 57. after he had rebuked their Idols and vayne inuecinons These are thy porcion and Ieremy likewise in mockinge of theÌ„ sayth / let thy bedfellowes deliuer thy / call vpon them / and let them heare thy / thou hast committed fornicacion whordome with stocke and stone Ierem. 3. The prophetes meaning thereby / that Idolators can haue no leage nor couenaunt with God / in so farre / that their hartes be alyenated from hym / which the seruice of their bodies doth testefye / and therfore renounceth God suche leage / bounde as was before offered for Esay wolde saye / euen suche as thou hast chosen / suche shal be the portion And Ieremye wolde say / thou put thy trust to them / which he meaneth / by the lyeÌ„g with theÌ„ in bed / therfore let them shewe their power in thy deliueraunce / and thus he sendeth them as it were to sucke water from hote burninge coles Note wel It shall nothing excuse / to saye we trust not in Idols / for so will euery Idolatour alleage / but if either you or they in Gods honor / do any thing contrary to

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