Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	heart_n	2,561	5	4.5771	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10110	The consolations of David, breefly applied to Queene Elizabeth in a sermon preached in Oxford the 17. of Nouember. By Iohn Prime, 1588.	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1588 (1588)	STC 20368; ESTC S101191	11,314	32

THE CONSOLATIONS OF DAVID BREEFLY APPLIED TO QVEENE ELIZABETH IN A Sermon preached in Oxford the 17. of Nouember By IOHN PRIME 1588. PSALM 23. ver 1. The Lord is my Sheepheard I shall not want Â¶ IMPRINTED AT OXFORD by Ioseph Barnes and are to be sold in Paules Church-yeard at the signe of the Tygres head 1588. Â¶ TO THE RIGHT REuerend Vigilant and Learned father in God Thomas Cooper the Bishop of Winchester POEMES RIMES and Verses some of them haue their delight such as it is being sung to the Lute or Harpe and weltuned instrument but beeing read duly coÌ„sidered proue litle worth with the Songs in scripture and Psalmes of Dauid it is neuer so If wee sing them they affect the conscience and when wee reade them they instruct the soule as the other partes of the Bible To these two endes I haue dealte in a verse out of the Kingly Prophet amongst your Lordships countrimen and mine the Cittizens of Oxforde I knowe you wishe them well in Christ Iesu with a speciall affection and for my selfe I haue sufficient experience of your good loue to mee ward The considerations whereof haue mooued me the rather to make bold to deliuer forth vnto theÌ„ in writing this sermon vnder your L. name right wel reputed of deseruedly in this place notwithstaÌ„ding that his late most false shameles vnchristiaÌ„ libelling wherof I doubt not no kind of Sanardrin wil allow Martine Marpr which I am assured the best best learned in the vniuersity in no degree do affect but gretly lament to see such inteÌ„peraÌ„cy of tongs and scorching fierbrandes to entermeddle at the altar of the lord in his holy temple Were all thinges amisse is this the way to reforme by lying libelling and comparatiue reproches Nay it may be if al his condicions were coÌ„disceÌ„ded vnto yet considering his immoderat behauiour immediatly ensuing vpoÌ„ the same it may be thought such natures would neuer be quiet So hard a matter it is as the prouerbe is to make a bed for a dog for he wil alwaies haue it of his own making and fassion CoÌ„tentious men wil contend and will neuer be contented The corruptions of Patrons the inabilitie of Ministers their requisite diligence and some like matters of importaunce to be looked into and prouided for by strength of best authority for mine owne part I doo greatly desire But this Gentlemans humor hath I know not what other vagarant and hungrie conceites I craue pardon in respecting this man as he came in my way I haue stept a side Truly a Prophet commonly is not accepted where he is born and brought vp for that cause Origen saith but whence he had it I doo not know that Paule neuer preached at Tharsis But Oxford in this respect is no Tharsis you ioy to heare of their some more towardnes then heretofore At the vttering this matter me thought God mooued their harts and I sawe it in their faces Yet because that warmth or heate taken at the fire within may bee soone cooled abroad in the winde I haue yeelded to the ordinary meane in coÌ„mitting that external cause of their warmth to the presse whereby they may carie as it were in their bozom a fier about with them First as a signification or effect of my harts desire to doo them this good at this time principally and then also as an intimation of a greater dutye to your Lordship Some yeres sence I conferred Salomon who was Dauids sonne his estate with Queene Elizabeths raigne before the Vniuersity and they haue it printed and reprinted because some very fewe at their pleasure must needes haue it so Here before the towne I haue assaied with like breuity to doo the like in applying Salomons fathers comforts towarde vs and our Qeene praying God from my very hart that his blessinges toward father and sonne to Dauid and vnto Salomon may intirely and ioyntly be and coÌ„tinue most longe with her and with her realmes to the worldes end and namely in our proportion with vs both Vniuersity and Towne and generally so withall the whole Israell of God From New Colledge in Oxford Decemb. 7. 1588. PSALME 23. ver 4. Though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death I wyll feare no euill for thou art with mee THe case with Dauid at this time was not so hard as to walke in the valley of the shadowe of death For the Lord was his sheephearde in open sight and ledde him as a shepe of greatest care into his pastures and they greene and sweet for foode soft and easie for rest Situated by the waters side for best refreshing in hotter countries Onely in this verse he may seeme to put the case and considering the goodnesse of God sundry times to him-warde experienced he solemnely protesteth vpon the supposall fal out what may and though he walke and often conuerse in the vallie of the shade of death that is in the middes of most gloomie and horrible daungers hee would not feare for his hope was with God Forecasting what may come By the way I note that Dauid amidest his greene pastures where hee wanted nothing and in his greatest ease and highest excellencie recordeth the vallie of miserie and shade of death which might ensue if God so would and therewithall reckoneth of his safest harbour and firme repose euen in God alone And this is true wisedome indeede in fayâ—e weather to prouide for a tempest in health to thinke of sicknesse in prosperitye peace and quietnesse to forecast the worst and with the wise Emite in sommer to lay vp for the winter following The state of man is full of trouble the coÌ„dition of the godly man more Sinners must be corrected The troubles of this life and sonnes chastised there is no question The Arke was framed for the waters the Ship for the Sea happy is the marriner that knoweth wher to cast Anker But O blessed is the maÌ„ that can take a right Sanctuary and knoweth wherupon to rely and in whom to trust in the day of his neede I wil not feare for thou art with me A sheepe is a simple thing to deuise escape impotent and vnarmed and fearefull by nature and therefore vnable to resist daunger wherevnto notwithstanding Dauid resembling him selfe voucheth boldly he will not fear the Lord being with him In the whole I obserue and shall most beate vpon these three thinges First the gate and conuersation the walk of the godlye vppon Dauids supposall Though I walke Then his comfort he conceiueth in all his waies I will not feare And thirdly the grounde of his confidence to bee in the presence of God For thou art with me The tennor of Dauids life and the waies he walked are manifest in the comperts and euidences of the Bible In his nonage he was the least and of least account in the familie of Isai contemned of his father not called to the feast and in the campe

dispitefully reproched of his eldest brethren afterward Saul enuieth Shimy raileth Absalon rebelleth Achitophell conspireth c. These were vallies of vehement distresses briefelye these with diuers others as you may reade collected and quoted By D. Rainoldes 1586. I pray you doe in a Sermon of thanks giuing at the apprehension of traitours to wit Ballard and Babington and their complices But you wil say how saith Dauid he wold not feare did he not flye dissemble who he was Or if he fled as no doubt he did from the speare of Saule was it not for feare Feare is a quality incident to all flesh in this the like naturall affections Feare a fixed mind the coÌ„stant mene is hardly obtaned What Dauid did is not denied it is granted yâ— as else when so namely he greatly fered 1. Sam. 20. wheÌ„ he fled to Achis his gods enemy wheÌ„ he said in a shiuering perplexity Surely ther is scaÌ„t a strid betwixt me death In this Psalme I take it is rather vouched not what the Prophet alwaies performed but what in duety must be performed and what Dauids purpose was to endeuour vnto for the time to come For after so many pledges of Gods infinite goodnes vnder the guidaunce of his rodde and stay of his shepe-hooke godwilling he would not feare and this is the grouÌ„d-worke of his affiance Peter in the gospell by our Sauiour in consideration of infirmity thorough feare denying his maister Mat. 26. is willed after his conuersion by that fauorable aspect of our sauiour to confirme his brethren to traine theÌ„ in constancy for verely god requireth setled minds resolute men confirmed brethren So vpon occasions past Dauid found it true that he should not haue bene heretofore at any time and therfore professeth that for the time to come he would be no Marigold-seruaunt of God to open with the Sun and shut with the dewe to serue him in calmer times only and at a neede to shute neck out of coller fearefully and faithlesly to slippe a side or shrinke away Newters reproued Good people in all hartlesse imperfectiones marke I pray you that they who feare euery mist that ariseth or cloude that appeareth who are like the Mulberie tree that neuer shuteth foorth or sheweth it selfe till all hard weather be past who like standers by and lookers on Neuters and internimisters who like Metuis Suffetius dare not venture vpon nor enter into nor indeuour any good action of greatest duetie to God Prince or Countrie till all be sure in one side are vtterly reprooued by this ensample If the cause bee Gods if the quarrell bee necessary if thy calling suteable if it bee a crosse that God layeth vpon thee in a matter of faith and trueth and requisite offices appertayning to pietie and charity though it be a vale of daungers Loe Dauid professeth he cannot he will not yeelde he will not feare much lesse dispaire and houer a loofe or let all alone as men amazed and astonished in their feminine affections Peter of whom before hearing that the sheepeheard should be smitten Peter and the shepe scattered into sundry vallies of imminent daunger notwithstanding bosteth himselfe that he forsooth hee would not forsake his maister and though the rest flie hee alone would endure the combate and not relente at all The sheepheard is smitten and the flocke indeede is scattered the rest flye Peter more then flyeth Presumption performeth little for he denieth and more then feareth for he of all the rest forsweareth his maister And so it fareth euer when men coÌ„paringly set out themselues as Giantes in theyr own conceites though it be in causes of best account Yet in the ende they come shorte of theyr reckoning But Dauid buildeth vpon a surer rocke then on himselfe In so many his exceeding daungers hee will not feare Why the Lord is his sheep-heard no Idoll or absent sheepehearde but ready to helpe and able to succour In the boke of Genesis this was Iacobs comfort continually in all his viages Iacob whether froÌ„ Canaan into Mesopotamia or from Mesopotamia into Canaan to and fro still Loe the Lord was with him In the six and fortith Chapter he is willed to repaire into Aegipt and expresly forbidden to feare and the reason was God himselfe would goe downe with him and conduct him thither preserue him there And for that as children which ride on reedes are soone ouertaken in their folly so olde men may become children againe and rest ouer much in ordinary hopes liable to sense and probable in reason God willeth Iacob in effect to forsake such vaine cogitations for cheefe releefe in the vsage as of his own experienced yeres his sons place fauour with the prince the like and only commandeth Fear not Iacob I wil be with thee And good cause and why should Iacob or Iosua in the first of Iosua or Gedeon in the sixt of Iudges or Moses before these the 4. of Exodus or any of vs all after them feare if God be with vs as he wil be Matth. 28 With his to the end of the world If God be with vs who can be against vs effectually against vs to our finall destruction If God be with vs what can we want he that walketh in the sun doth he lack light He who walketh with God by his conuersation as Enoc did and with whom God walketh by his speciall grace for there is a speciall respecte betwixte the grace of God and a gratious life what is there or what can there be wanting By the grace of God we are that we are and his grace in his is not in vain In his light we see light in his strength we are more than conquerors ghostly euer euer bodily if it bee for the good of the sufferer and for the glorie of god for whose cause and in whose presence and by whose wisedome we suffer and hold out Gods prouidence is known but vnto gods own children The true meditation whereof deer brethren to the carelesse godles man is as a riddle or a clasped booke or sealed letters which are brought by the carier haÌ„dled of many but are read of none nor vnderstoode of anie saue of him that of him that openeth them and conceaueth the purport of them and meaning of the sender Iob the holy man in his losse of goods Iob. death of children personall extremities wiues cursed motions and to those vnwise inferences and conclusions of his friendes replyeth at one time Naked I came into the world at another time The Lord gaue and the Lord hath taken away at another to his Wife Ã´ folish woman to his friendes Ã´ ye Physicions of no valu But euer resolutly that euen in death he knew that he hadde a liuing redeemer and so thorough faith controuling his some impatiencie recognizeth that God the redeemer of al his was also in speciall

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