Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	7,426	5	6.4759	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14107	The figure of Antichrist with the tokens of the end of the world, most plainly disciphered by a Catholike and diuine exposition of the seconde epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, collected out of the best and most approued diuines, both olde and new, very profitable for all men in this age to reade: published by Thomas Tymme, minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1586 (1586)	STC 24417; ESTC S102039	69,608	190

he spake generally of the saintes he now applieth to the Thessalonians that they might not doubt them selues to be of that number Because saith he you beleeued my preaching Christ hath now gathered you into the number of his saintes whom he will make partakers of his glorie Therefore ye shal be safe from all those euils which hang euen ouer the heads of the wicked and shall take hold of them and they also which afore time haue derided you as mad and furious men shall haue you in great admiration For these thinges are spoken to the faithfull for their consolation which either haue beene or are in affliction for Christes sake He calleth his doctrine a testimony because the Apostles are the witnesses of Christ Therefore let vs learne that then the promises of God are firme in vs when we doe steedfastly beleeue them In that day The Apostle doth therfore repeat this to restraine the desire oâ— the faithfull that they might not be toâ— hasty For their life is hidden with God iâ— Christ Colos 3.3 but when Christ which is our life shal be manifested then shall wee also appeare with him in glorie And in another place it is said Heb. 10.35 Knowing in your selues how that ye haue in heauen a better and an induring substance Cast not therefore away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward For ye haue need of patience that after ye haue done the wil of God ye might receiue the promise For yet a very litle while and he that shal come will come and will not tarry 11 Wherefore we also pray alwayes for you that our God may make you worthy of his calling and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodnes and the worke of faith with power This is the Epilogue or conclusion of that which goeth before which consisteth of prayer that the Thessalonians may be preserued in that knowledge of spirituall thinges and may growe more and more therein and proceeding at the last may abide constant in the same It is the manner of the Apostle in all harâ— and difficult thinges to adde prayers prayers For faith and that reuerence which we beare to the deuine maiestie doe teach that the best giftes of God must be sought for and gotten by prayers To the end therefore the Thessalonians might know that they haue need continually of the help of God he protesteth that he prayeth for them As if he should say ye are called by my ministery through the Gospel vnto saluation but yet ye haue need of farther confirmation namely of such confirmation as may make you woorthy of his calling and to profite and perseuere in the same For this confirmation and perseuerance because it is a heauenly gift I doe diligently praye vnto God to giue it you And he speaketh of the end and perfect accomplishment which consisteth in perseuerance For God had vouchsafed already to call them But we being too ready to fall away it is no gramarcie to vs that our vocation is not after that made frustrate and so should it be in deed if so be God did not establishe the same in vs. Wherefore it is said that we are counted woorthy when we come to the full scope and perfection And if so be that our merit doth make vs woorthy to what ende should it be needful to pray vnto the Lord that he would make vs woorthy of his calling Therefore that worthinesse doth depend vpon the liberal goodnesse of God And fulfil al the good pleasure of his goodnesse The second thing for the which he prayeth for is the accoÌ„plishment of the grace and goodnesse of God Paul is woonderful in extolling the grace of God For not being contented that he hath named his good pleasure he saith that the same doth spring from the goodnes of god Now when we doe heare that the free good pleasure of God is the cause of our saluation and that the same is founded on the grace of God are we not more then mad if we dare arrogate vnto our merits euen the least thing And the worke of faith with power That is to say that he would finish the very worke of faith through constancie and courage of the mind the which being once by God setled in mens mindes ouercommeth al aduersities In these words there is no smal weight He might haue said in one word that your faith may be fulfilled but he calleth it good pleasure And then he doth proceed further in explayning the matter that God was by no other means induced theÌ„ by his goodnes for in vs he found nothing but miserie Neither doth Paul ascribe the beginning only of our saluation to the grace of God but all the partes thereof also Thus the sophisticall coÌ„ment and imagination of the scoole men is confuted how that wee are preuented by the grace of God but yet are holpen by merites following But Paul in the whole course of saluation doth admitte nothing but the mere grace of God And because the good pleasure of God is now made perfite he expoundeth his minde in these wordes The worke of faith And hee calleth it a work in respect of God which woorketh faith in vs as if he should say that he may perfect and finish the building of faith which he hath begun With power That is to say effectually He alludeth vnto the blessing or efficacie of God by which he doth blesse and make our faith effectuall And withal he giueth to vnderstand that the perfection of faith is a great matter and of great dificultie The which we finde too true by experience the reason whereof may easily be rendered if we do weigh how great our imbecilitie is how many lets are thurst vpon vs from al partes and also how greiuous and minifold the temptations of Sathan be Therefore except we be woonderfully holpen by the power of God faith shall neuer come to her full perfection For it is as easie a matter to finishe and make perfect faith in a man as it is to build a Tower of water which shal be so firme and strong that it shal abide the beating flouds and tempestious stormes and shall reach higher then the cloudes And we are euen as fluible and vanishing as water as appeareth by these woordes of the woman of Thecoa we are as water spilt on the ground 2. Sam. 14. which cannot be gathered vp againe 12 That the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ may bee glorified in you â—nd yee in him according to the grace of our God and of the Lorde Iesus Christ The Apostle had shewed afore what thinges it is meete for vs to aske at the handes of God in our prayers To this admonition he addeth an exposition of the finall cause why he prayed for the increase of faith and for perseuerance in others why he teacheth to pray after his exaÌ„ple namely that the name of Iesus Christ may be glorified in vs that we also may be glorified by Christ

Scriptures and beside this the most cruell enimies to the doctrine of the faith in Christ Who notwithstanding doe swimme in the welth and riches of the Church in other countries at their pleasure and liue like fatte hogges in the stye In whom most aptly are fulfilled these wordes of the Apostle 2. Pet. 2.12 They count it pleasure to liue deliciously for a season Spots they are and blots deliting themselues in their deceiuings in feasting with you hauing eyes full of adulterie and that cannot cease to sinne beguiling vnstable soules c. Moreouer by these wordes of Paul as with thunderclappes from heauen the rites ordinances and rules of begging friers and monkes being touched are ouerthrowne who being a counterfeit sort of pore do notwithstanding fill their bellies with other mens trenchers whom a man most truly may call idle droanes For this kind of beggery of all other is most wicked and vngodly and no better then a kind of rapine and theft Furthermore we must note that there are diuers kinds of labouring For whatsoeuer he be that doth any manner of way seeke to benefite the society of men by his industrie whether it be in gouerning a familie or in dealing in publique or priuate affayres eyther in counsayling or in teaching or by any other manner of way the same is not to be reckoned among idle persons For the Apostle here speaketh against idle droanes which liue by the sweate of other mens browes they themselues doing nothing to benefite the common wealth 11 For we heard that there are some which walke among you inordinatly and woorke not at all but are busie bodies Now he doth speake more plainely strictly of that which hetherto he hath spoken at large The cause sayth he why I do so greatly vrge these things is for that I doe heare that some do liue inordinately among you that is doing no woorke at all but curiously busying them selues It is very like that this kinde of slothfulnes was a certaine sede of idle monkery for eueÌ„ in the very begining of the primitiue church there were some which vnder the colour of ReligioÌ„ did rob other mens tables or els did subtilly drawe vnto theÌ„ selues the substance and riches of the simple And in Augustines time they had so greatly preuayled that hee was constrained to write a speciall booke against idle Moonkes wherein he doth iustely complaine of their pride who contemning the admonition of the Apostell doe not onely excuse them selues of infirmitie but also will therefore seeme to be more holy than other men because they labour not But this mischefe hath so increased and ouerflowed that slowe bellies haue almost possessed the tenth parte of the earth whose onely Religion is this to haue their bellies well filled and to giue them selues from labour to ease and pleasure And this vile kinde of life they commend with this title or that name of order But what doth Paule by the mouth of the spirit one the contrary parte pronounce verely he pronounceth them al to be irregular disordered with what title soeuer they be couered And woorke not at all but are busie bodies That is to saye liuing idlely vnder the cloake of the Gospell and hating others By these woordes he doth expound what it is to liue inordinately And he noteth a speciall vice with the which idle men are infected namely that they are troublesome to themselues and to others by being importunate medlers and busie bodies For we doe see by common experience that those men which haue nothing to doe are much more wearie doing nothing then if they were busie and occupied about a very serious worke They runne hyther and thither whether soeuer they come they make a shew of wearinesse they gather vp all the tales that they heare and busily disperse them abroad againe A man would thinke that they carried vpon their shoulders the waight of a kingdome Can we haue a more euident example of this matter in any other sort then in the monkes For what sorte of men are more vnquiet Where doth there raigne greater curiositie Also in this place those which are Bishops Pastors only in name are noted which haue no care of the Lords flock but are onely curious in those thinges which serue to maintaine voluptuousnes coueteousnesse oppression and such like 12 Therefore them that are such we commaund and exhorte by our Lord Iesus Christ that they woorke with quietnesse and eate their owne bread At the inormities of the Church men ought not to winke neither are idle and curious men vnder the pretence of the Gospell to be tollerated in the Church Therfore Paul vseth now a more seuere and sharpe reprehension least such men flatter themselues in that kind of life By our Lorde Iesu Christ To the end all men may know that he doth not coÌ„maund theÌ„ in his owne name but by the coÌ„maundement and authoritie of the Lorde Christ he hath added this Notwithstanding the worde of exhorting doth signifie that he doth not behaue himselfe imperiously or that he would rule but that he would doe all things according to his office That they worke with quietnesse He correcteth both those vices of the which he had made mention afore namely troublesome vnquiet medling and idlenesse from profitable labour First of all therefore he commaundeth that they imbrace quietnes that is to say that they do quietly keepe themselues within the boundes of their vocation For they are most quiet of all others which occupie themselues in honest labours but they doe both trouble themselues and others which haue no worke to doe Secondly he exhorteth them to labour that is to say that they busie occupy themselues diligently in their vocation and that they be doing in iust and honest exercises without the which the life of man is erronious Therefore to woorke with quietnes is to labor in their vocation without curiousity and so to follow their laboures that they doe not rashlye meddle in other mens functions And eate their owne breade Thereby he commaundeth that they eat their owne bread whereby hee giueth to vnderstand that they must bee contented with their owne that they bee not greeuous and troublesome to others Drink sayth Solomon the Water of thine owne cestern Prouerb 5. and of the riuers out of the middest of thine owne well Let thy fountaynes flowe foorth and the riuers of waters in the streetes This is the first rule of equity that no man vsurp that which is another mans but vse that onely which is his owne and which lawfully he may cal his own The second is that no man like a greedy gulfe do swalow vp al that is his by himself alone but that he be beneficiall to his neighbors do help their need with his abundaÌ„ce Ephes 4 2â— Let al idle bellies consider these thinges and al bishops falsely so called abbots priors Moonkes and such like Let them heare I say the Apostle commaunding and exhorting by our

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