Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judge_n	judge_v	judgement_n	2,891	5	6.1190	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15621	An A.B.C. for layemen, othervvise called, the lay-mans letters An alphabet for lay-men, deliuering vnto them such lessons as the holy Ghost teaches them in the worde, by thinges sensible, very necessary to be diligently considered.	Wither, George, 1540-1605.	1585 (1585)	STC 25888; ESTC S101869	82,014	180

in the Church of God ought by long study and meditation aforehande to be throughly furnished and stored with al maner of doctrine and comforts needfull for euery sort of men The housholder that feareth theeues wil cause his house to be diligently watched and looked vnto least the theefe come vpon him at vnawares of him we should learne to be watchfull and to be prepared for the comming of our Lord and Sauiour who wil come in an hour wherein he is least looked for Horses WHen God by his Ministers doth teach and instruct vs in the way that we should goe and we continue as before ignoraunt neither vnderstand the thing which is taught vs then we be like Horses and Mules which muste be ruled with bitte and bridle In battel an horse is but a vayne helpe neyther can he deliuer his rider thorough his much strength For the horse is prepared against the day of battaile but saluation is from the Lord. Husbandmen AS Husbandmen that misuse their Landlord and his seruaunts which he sendeth to them for the rentes and profits of his land are worthely and iustly thrust out others planted in theire roomes so wee haue seen the Iewes cut off from beeing the people Church of God for misusing of Christ his Apostles and prophets and so assuredly shall al they be that dispise and naught set by and cruelly misuse and intreat the Ministers of the gospell the preachers of the truth which are sent vnto them As husbandmen waite patiently forthe fruite of the earth tarry for the former and latter rain so all Christians ought patiently to abyde and waite for the comming of our sauiour Christ. Husbandrie FIeldes barren and vnpleasant made fruitfull by paines and good Husbandrie doe shewe vnto vs what difference there is betwixt vs in the time of ignoraunce our selues when God by the teaching and paines of his ministers hath made vs his husbandry Idlenesse BY slouthfulnesse the roofe of the house goeth to decaye and by idlenesse of the handes the house droppeth thorough and is neither able to keepe out winde nor raine Idolles THe images of the gentiles were siluer and golde so were the images of the Papistes They were borne by men and set in their places and so stoode and could not remooue themselues from thence According to the number of their Cities and Uillages so were the multitude of their Patrons represented by images They did think them bookes and teachers They fell down afore them made prayers vnto them They sware by the names of their Idolles They did ascribe vnto them help deliuery from dangers yet could they not helpe them selues For by Gods iust iudgement they were taken broken down and destroyed and consumed by fire so are the images of the papistes But there resteth a sentence of malediction wo and curse aswell to the image maker as to all that say to wood awake or to stone rise vp Idolatrie IDolaters in falling downe to images do humble them selues to hell yet they are verye constant in their religion and verye rarely and seldome giue ouer and forsake their false Gods which constancie of theirs ought to make vs ashamed of our inconstancie and coldenesse in professing the truth yea they ascribe the blessing of plentye to Idoll seruing and penurie and miserie to the leauing of that seruice Ignoraunce WHen we see in this light of the gospell many vile and grose sinnes let vs remember that it is the iust iudgement of God against this vnthankfull worlde partly for that men that know him doe not glorifie him as God and partly for that in so great and diuers meanes to know god many haue had no regarde or care to know him and therefore are giuen ouer into reprobate mindes Image WHen we enter into the Churches of Papistes and see how they be decked with Images of all sortes which notwithstanding they be well shapen yet haue no maner of sence in them then are we to remember that by the iust iudgement of God in sence and vnderstanding of matters pertayning to GOD and the life to come such as the images are their makers are also togeather with all them that put their trust in them The image makers are vanitie it selfe and God hath shut their eies that they can not see nor vnderstand What an absurde thing it is when they haue burnt one peece of a tree to make an image of an other peece of the same and to bowe downe to it Therfore when we see them in their churches cense their images knocke kneele and praye to them then let vs call to mind that God sayeth I am the Lord this is my name and my glory will I not giue to an other neither my praise to grauen images For he is God and there is none other and there is nothing like him or whereby his likenesse may be expressed Therfore we may not imagine the Godhed to be like siluer or gold grauen or carued by the art inuention of man Christ our sauiour is the verye Image of God in whom God hath reuealed and made knowne him selfe and he is the expresse forme of the fathers person Iudging WE are to take great heede and to be very carefull in Iudging of others and when we iudge we are to iudge iustly which we can neuer do except we iudge by the Word the iudgement whereof must stand at the last day and when we do iudge others we are diligently to view consider our selues whether the like or greater falts be not in vs worthy reformation For otherwise we shall both bewray our selues to be blind hipocrites also ignorantly when we think not of it giue senteÌ„ce aganst our selues as Dauid did Besides in outward and indifferent things we must take heed how we iudge our brother for he is not our seruant he standeth or falleth vnto his Lord he and we all shall stande before the iudgement seat of Christ and be there iudged Iudges IUdges are adorned with the name of Gods because they are Gods deputies amongst men and for that cause are to be highly reuerenced of men wherfore such are to be chosen as are of courage that is such as feare not y e face of man Men dealing truelye and hating couetousnesse such as in iudgement neither for pittie to the poore neither for reuerence to the rich decline from iustice neither can be drawn to follow a multitude nor in iudgement to follow the sentence of manye to ouerthrow right but alwaies seeke and search to giue true iudgement to all as well strangers as Citizens hauing alwayes before their eyes that they execute not the iudgements of man but of the Lorde who is euer present with them in the examination and iudgement of the cause Iewell LOoke

first fruits all the Fruites of the earth were sanctified so by Christ the first Fruites of them that slepe the promise of the rising againe of our bodies to life euerlasting is to vs confirmed and assured Nothing is iudged fruitefull but that which bringeth foorth Fruite plentifully so it is not one or two good thinges whereby wee must bee iudged good Christians but we must be filled with the Fruite of righteousnesse Freendes HE that will haue freendes must shewe him selfe freendly that his freendes may thinke that hee esteemeth and setteth store by them For a sure freend is more to bee esteemed and set by then the neerest Kinseman that is for the loue of suche a freende is at all times shewed and his heartye Counsayle doth reioyse the heart Therefore him that hath beene thy Fathers freende and thy freende forsake thou not Frogges FRogges was one of the great plagues wherewith God plagued Ggipt there was neither feelde nor house free For what place coulde they be kept out of when the kinges priuy chamber was annoyed with them Foxes THe foxes excell in subtilty and shifts wherein false Prophetes and corrupt teachers doe rightly resemble them The foxes haue hoales and boroughes in the grounde where to repose them selues and their yong ones but the Sonne of man hath not of his owne where to rest his heade They therefore that pretende to followe Christe and yet seeke them selues and their own benefite profite and commodity looke to bee in better estate then their master and often times being deceiued chaunge their course Gayne GReedinesse of gaine troubleth the house of the couetous person and often bringeth him selfe in daunger For they which will be rich fal into temptation and snares and into many foolish and noysome lustes which drowne men in perdition and distruction For the desire of mony is the roote of all euill It maketh men erre from Faith and pearce themselues through with sundry sorrowes Therefore filthy lucre is to bee fled from and shunned of all men but especially of the ministers of the worde Gawle THe bitternesse of affliction of the soule of the godly when the Church and people of God is cruelly persecuted of the vngodly is like vnto the bitternesse of Gaul So also is the impiety and wickednesse of the heart of the vngodly Gardens WHen we recreate our selues in our Gardens the liberality of God present is thankfully to be considered by occasion whereof we are to call to minde howe pleasaunt that Garden was which God him selfe planted and placed our first father in and with how great vnkindnesse and ingratitude God was recompenced a gaine whereby both Adam and wee euer since haue beene depriued of so greate felicity and happinesse Girdle AS a man girdeth himselfe with his Girdle so God tieth his people to himselfe And as a souldier girdeth his armour to his body with his arming Girdle that his armour doe not hang loose or fall of from him so must wee our spirituall armour with the Girdle of trueth Giant AS a Giant is too strong for mean men of middle size as his voyce and looke is fearfull to such enemies so will God be to all such as rise vp against him This is a speciall comfort to all those that for Gods cause are assayled of wicked men and therefore are assured that God will stick to them to defend his owne cause and ouertâ—â—â—w their persecutors Glasse SUch difference as there is betwixt vewing of a man in a darke or dimme Glasse and the sight of him face to face in a bright day so much difference is there betwixt our present knowledge of God in this life and that which shall be in the life to come As he that looketh his bodily face in a Glasse and by and by departeth away about other businesse and forgetteth his fashion and forme such are the forgetfull hearers of the word which neuer practise that which is taught them But as a man may the better both spie his spots that he may wash them and also set his attier in the better order about him if for that purpose he diligently veiwe him selfe in a glasse so he that is carefull to auoyd that which he shoulde not doe and to execute that which he ought to do hath very great helpe by hearing the Word and printing of it in his mind Golde THe godly are tryed of God by tribulation and come foorth like tryed Golde out of the Fier Wisdome cannot be bought with gold or any earthly treasure of what price soeuer it be The worde of the Lorde giueth Wisedome to the simple and therefore is more to bee disired then golde yea then much fine golde It is better to vs then thousands of Golde and siluer The Church of God when it is afflicted by persecution is like dimme golde which though it bee fine hath lost his glorious brightnesse and shining colour Though wicked Cities haue neuer so great heapes of golde and treasure yet God in his good time shall spoile them That golde will abide the fire and passe through the more pure teacheth vs that wee shoulde builde vppon Christ that which will abide the triall of the word Gold though neuer so well tried and pure yet in continuance wasteth and corrupteth But faith approoued by good triall endureth to the appearing of our Lorde Iesus Wee are not redeemed by gold or any corruptible thing of what price soeuer but by the bloud of the vndefiled and vnspotted lamb Iesus Christ. Gold that lieth in the coffers till it be rusty and canker fretted shal be a witnes against wicked and couetous hoorders at the last day and a cause to encrease their torments Goates AS often as we see Goates we should remember the miserable estate of them that Christ shal place at his left hand in the day of iudgemeÌ„t and the terrible sentence of condemnation which shall bee pronounced against them which should make vs feareful of encurring the like and carefull to liue heere so as that there wee may be acquited and discharged of that sentence Graffing WHen wee graffe or see others graffing we shoulde consider that as the graffe is translated from his natiue tree to growe in another so we as many as be true Christians are translated from Adam to Christe and from beeing Gentiles to be of one body with the posterity of Abraham that as the graffes nowe liueth not by his naturall iuice but by the iuice or moisture receiued from the roote of the stock whereinto he is graffed So we now liue by the power of Christes spirit working in vs or rather Christ liueth in vs. And as to that end we graffe y t the verdure of the stock may correct and amend the taste of the fruit that it may be the more pleasant to the eater so we shoulde haue our

which haue seene him shall say where is he The tokens then of pryde that abound and are plentiful amongst vs do shew sharpe vengeance and iudgementes at hand Because the Daughters of Sion are hautie and walke with stretched out neckes and with wandering eyes walking and minsing as they goe and making a tinckling with their feet Therefore the Lord shal make the heades of the Daughters of Sion balde and the Lord shall discouer their secreat partes For god doth resiste the proud and giueth grace to the humble and meeke Pleasure WHen we see foolishe men drowned in voluptuousnesse and pleasures and not hauing any regarde to godlinesse honesty or comelinesse then are we to remember Salomons admonition that pleasure is neuer comely for a foole and most commonly the immoderate loue of pastime bringeth them to pouerty and beggerie Raine THe Raine maketh the new mowen grasse freshly to spring againe and showers so comfort the earth that it yeeldeth the fruites thereof Euen so shall Christe refreshe foster nourishe and cherishe his people As a raging Raine beateth the Corne downe and washeth away al before it so when one poore man oppresseth an other commonlye it is without pittie or mercy Raine and snow falling from heauen retourneth not thither againe but watereth the earth and maketh it fruitfull Euen so the worde that commeth out of Gods mouth shall not retourne voyde but shall accomplishe and bring to passe that which God will and shall prosper in that wherevnto he sent it The raine falling from Heauen and causing the earth to yeelde her fruit was at all times and is still to all ages an open and a plaine euident testimonye of the goodnesse of God so that no man can excuse him selfe of ignoraunce The earth that drincketh in the raine that commeth oft vppon it and bringeth foorth nothing profitable for the vse and behoofe of man sheweth what is to be hoped of that man whome the knowledge of the Worde doth in no part reforme Rasour AS a sharpe Rasour with the least touch that can be shaueth and cutteth so doth also the tongue of a mischeuous lying man Rebellion WHen we see a stubborne frowarde and vnruly Woman brawle skoulde chide and rebel against her husbaÌ„d we are diligeÌ„tly to look into our selues how y e case standeth betwixt vs God for commonly y t expresseth vnto vs our vnrulinesse rebellion against God but all that resist God shal be confounded for rebellion is as y e sinne of witchcraft and transgression is wickednesse and Idolatry Therefore Samuel saide to Saule because thou hast cast away the worde of the Lord therefore the Lord hath cast away thee from being king To resist man whome God hath set ouer men is to rebell against GOD. Wherefore God him self hath set vpon rebellion and contumacy against magistrates parentes no lesse penalty then death His wonderful iudgments against such are to be seene in Core Dathan and Abiron and also in Absolom Reede A Reede shaking too and fro with euery little small winde declareth the inconstancy and mutability of the common sort of people whome euery small trifle doth cause to alter their minde and iudgement When wee see any passe by a brused reede and not breake it we are to remember that our sauiour Christ did beare with many infirmities in those which were his least hee shoulde breake of or quench those good thinges which began to appeare in them And of him we are also to learne by bearing and forbearing to cherish and foster such good as we see beginneth to liue and growe in our weake brethren Reward AS the price or best game for running cannot bee obtained of any that eyther runne not or else giue ouer afore they be at the end of their race so none canne attayne the celestiall Crowne of glory but they which perseuer in the right trace of Christianity vnto the end And as they which runne in a race hauing onely regard to the reward make them selues as light and as nimble as they can and therefore throw awaye whatsoeuer is heauy or may hinder their swiftnesse so we in our course to heauen hauing that glory onely before our eyes shoulde throw from vs sinne which like an heauy burthen hangeth vpon vs and whatsoeuer else may hinder vs in the way and course to life euerlasting Yet in this course the greatest paines that can bee taken and the greatest perfection which is possible for men to attaine vnto is not meritorious neither can deserue life And therefore our Lorde and sauiour teacheth vs when wee haue done all that is commaunded vs to say and confesse that we are vnprofitable seruaunts though hee of his meere liberality for our better comfort and encouragement in all good things hath promised large and liberall rewards Robbery WHen we see men which haue no conscience in getting liberall to the poore and to other things in common intendment good Then are wee to put them in minde that God hateth and abhorreth to accept robberye or theeuerye for burnt offerings To loue gifts and to hunt after rewardes in princes and men of Authority is cozen germain to robbery Rockes AS y e rocks that are hard to be clambred vnto are good refuges for the afflicted to fly vnto from the face of their pursuers So God is the safetye of all such as in distresse do flye to him for succour As hee that setteth the foundation of his howse vpon a firme rocke may bee sure that the Foundation shall bee able to beare the waight of that which shal be set vpon it and that no raine or floude shall wash it away so hee that buildeth his faith vpon Christe as he is set out and preached vnto vs in the gospell shall be sure that hell gates that is all the power force and cunning of the Diuel shall neuer be able to preuaile against him Rodde SO oft as the childe seeth the rodde he is to cal to minde these lessons following First that it is fit for the back of him that wanteth wisdome and that therefore correction is necessarye for him that is to be enstructed and taught For correction and instruction is the very way and path to life Wherefore they must thinke that if Father or Master spare his rodde that he loueth not his Childe but that then hee loueth him when he beginneth to chasten him betimes For naturally folly is bound to the heart of euery childe But the rod of correction doth driue it or scowre it away Therefore parents should not with-hold correction from their children For as the commoÌ„ prouerb is birtch breaketh no bones neither moderate correction bringeth daunger or death but oftentimes it bridleth and keepeth backe him that otherwise woulde runne headlong into hell and so is a meane to saue his soule For it bringeth him

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