Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	punishment_n	sin_n	sin_v	1,923	5	9.5821	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01371	A watch-vvorde for warre Not so new as necessary: published by reason of the disperced rumors amongst vs, and the suspected comming of the Spanyard against vs. Wherein we may learne how to prepare our selues to repell the enemie, and to behaue our selues all the tyme of that trouble. Compendious for the memorie, comfortable for the matter, profitable for the matter, profitable for the tyme.	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 11492; ESTC S117690	33,754	62

example in other things if we haue any losse of goods we vse to say it came by casualtie of fire shypwracke vpon the Seas c. Or if we get a sicknes we tooke it by such a iourney or of such a colde c. And so in this sence we commonly say vvhen we haue vvarrs it is the malice pryde or impietie of the Enimy that causeth it VVhen in the meane time we doe not consider who it is that exciteth sendeth offereth or suffereth such motions or meanes to effect and for what cause he doth it 2 The efficient cause of warre is of two sorts 1 For Correction 2 For Reformation 1 For Correction as a scourge or punishment for sin which the God of hosts himselfe affirmeth when he saith If he sinne I will chasten him with the rod of men 2 Sam 7 14. And the Psalmist to that effect sayth If they break my statuts then will I speaking in the person of GOD visite theyr transgressions with the rod Psal 89 32. It is written in the Chronicles that the King of Egipt came vp against Ierusalem because they had transgressed against the Lord 2 Chro 12 2 and so if the Spaniard commeth against vs we must perswade our selues that our sinnes are the chiefe cause of it But whether God sendeth warre to vs for our ingratitude for our last deliuery from the Spaniard as he dyd to Hezekiah for his vnthankfulnesse when he was deliuered from Senacherib 2 Chron 32 25 or whether it be for our oppression and cruelty as hee did to the Israelites for the like sinnes Ierem 6 6 or whether it be for any grosse sins amongst vs as he did to the Babilonians for theyr barbarous beastlines Esay 13 or whether it be for our murmuring at this Scarcitie or for the hardnes of our harts to the poore in this extreame time God knowes some grieuous sinnes there be that prouoke the Lord for else he would not visite vs two yeares together vvith Scarcitie and the third yeare threaten vs with warre 2 For Reformation that warre is sent to reforme and amend vs is manifest Behold famine plague anguish trouble are sent as scourges for amendement 2 Esd 16 15. The father doth chastise his sonne not because he taketh pleasure in punishing of him but that he may by it brydle and amend him Euen so GOD the Father correcteth vs which be his children not because hee delighteth in punishment but to the end he may therby reclaym vs froÌ„ our iniquities As the rod of wood is a meane to make the vntoward childe gracious so is the rod of warre an instigation to mooue vs to good as it is saide of Iudah Lorde in trouble haue they visited thee they poured out a prayer when thy chastening vvas open them Esay 26 16. And therfore God dealeth with vs as a Phisitian A good Phisitian will cease from ministring phisick to his patient wheÌ„ he is recouered or as a Maister who will stay from stryking his seruant when he is growne better by his beating So God he desisteth his punishments so soone as wee are profited by them I will recite one example in steed of many the Lord raised vp Shisshake to scourge Rehoboam for his sinne but the text sayth Because he humbled himselfe the wrath of the Lord turned from him 2 Chro 12 12. From the matter precedent wee may obserue two things 1 A grieuous cominatioÌ„ 2 A notable consolation 1 A grieuous comination by the correction if wee repent not for if we perseuere in our sins what foloweth Punishments Temporall Eternall Temporall punishments for the Lord sayth to such I will set my face against you and yee shall fall before your enimies and they that hate you shall raigne ouer you Leu. 26 17. Let vs make this case our own what a heauy iudgment were this if the Lord for our committing and continuing in sinne should frowne vpon vs when the Spaniard commeth with his force against vs should suffer him to preuaile as the Medes Persians did in Babilon would he not deale as they did of whom it is said their chyldren shall be broken in peeces before theyr eyes theyr houses shall be spoyled and theyr wiues rauished Esay 13 16. VVere not this a lamentable sight to beholde and to haue him to raigne ouer vs that hateth vs what a miserable bondage were it vvho would not think but that this punishment were grieuous and sufficient but if we stil perseuere the Lord wil stil pursue vs for he saith If yee will not for these things obey me then will I punish you seauen times more according to your sinnes Leuit 26. As we see hee delt by Pharaoh he neuer left of his plagues so long as hee liued impenitent Thys may teach vs howe grieuous a thing sinne is with perseuerance Eternall punishments the temporall plagues are but an enterance to these Hoc suspicari c. sayth Gregory a man cannot suspect howe extreame those paynes are Such as perseuere in wickednes let them remember what Paule sayth They doe but heape vp wrath against the day of iudgement Rom 2 5. As D. Martir sayth vvel vpon that place a hard hart is that which wil not be mollified with Gods benefits woon with hys mercyes broke with hys threatnings nor reclaymed with his punishments The Heathen men had thys naturall fore-sight for the restraint of sinne The Lidians would haue in theyr houses the picture of a deuill in forme of an Ethiopian that by the horrible sight they might abhor that which brought him to it which was sinne The Persians would paynt an Epicure disguised with excesse that theyr chyldren might auoyde the like fault by seeing that deformitie The Lacedemonians would shew theyr youths drunken and desperat men that they might be deterred from sinne by the lothsomnes of that sight If Christian men would set before them the horror of hell it would make them feareful to practise euill much more to perseuere in it For thys cause Chrysostome willeth vs to talke often of hell that wee may take heede of it 2 A notable Consolation by the Reformation if wee take profit by this punishment in reforming our lyues and lyuing in the feare of God The Spaniarde may perhaps feare-blast vs with his Armie but he shall neuer preuaile in his attempt for the Lord saith of such the Sworde shall not goe through your Land yee shall chase your enimies and they shall fall before you vpon the sword Leuit 26. Although the Lord hath prepared the Spaniard to come against vs and had pronounced to punish vs yet his penall promises are but conditionall for if we repent he repenteth If saith hee this Nation against whom I haue pronounced turne from theyr wickednes I will repent of the plague that I thought to bring vpon them Ierem 18 8 therefore let vs all pray for the grace of repentance and labour to shew forth the fruites of it Such as haue oppressed and bitten their bretheren

forbearing to fight to bring in daunger the whole familie The diuine Philosopher saith Nascimur pro Patria we are borne for our Countrie and therefore we must regard our Prince and common-weale more then our owne priuate liues 2 Sam. 10 12. VVee haue example in Iudith who for the good of her Country put her life in great hazard in the host of Olofernes let not the courage of a woman condemne the humanitie of a man for that is a reproch Ierem. 51 30. VVho can dye a more honorable death then for his Countrie therfore we shall reade that amongst the Romaynes there were the Decians Codrians and the brethren called Phileni and amongst the Grecians there were Marathonia Salanina and diuers others who of their owne accord gaue their liues for their Countries D. P. Martir in Com. Rom. Brutus for the preseruation of his Countrie did slay his owne children Virgil thus writeth of him Vicit amor patriae c. Let not vs which be Christians haue lesse loue and aleageance then Heathens From hence there is a good note to be obserued of such who by vnequall oppressing and ill intreating may be the cause of this kind of griefe therefore they are to consider how they may for their owne priuate displeasures oppresse and abuse men vnder colour of some lawfull busines Iniury anger may be offered and effected vnder 1 Office 2 Arte. 1 Vnder office by these two A Magistrate A Captayne By a Magistrate amongst the Romaynes the Senators were called Patres conscripti appoynted Fathers for a Magistrate is nothing but a father of the Country yet such an one as hath deriued authoritie for these causes as no man doubteth but hee may show much fauour where he affecteth so all men may know if hee beareth a grudge to one he may meete with hym vnder colour of his Commision many wayes He may rayse him in the Subsedie without equalitie he may pack him forth for a common Souldiour though he be vnfit he may ouer-charge hym with Supplyes c. He may in other matters remember hym as in extreame taxations for the poore in vnreasonable ratements for a Towne c Albeit I knowe not and I pray God there be not such yet it may fall out to be true which Alexander sayde to Mammea there is nothing sometyme more pernitious to a common wealth then to haue things done by Deputies D. Mar. in com Rom. cap. 12 fol. 418. VVee haue examples in the Scriptures of such as haue coloured their owne malice and dyspleasures vnder pretence of some lawfull busines Haman had a priuate malyce against Mordecai because hee would not moue hys cap or doe hym reuerence hee would not for shame seeme to reuenge it himselfe though he were in great office but he thought he would be euen with hym vnder colour of the Kings busines by some deuise or other as you may reade in Ester 3 8 c. The Rulers and Gouernors had a secret spite to Daniell because he was far in fauor with the King yet they would not offer hym an immediat bad measure but they consulted among them selues to moue the King to make a Law that by colour thereof they might haue theyr myndes of good Daniell Dan. 6 8 c. If any of our Magistrates should colour theyr own pryuate malyce vnder the Queenes busines although theyr secret pretence be no more known to her Maiestie then the intendment of these practises were to the Kings yet by these examples let them feare least their dooings come to lyght as the other dyd albeit they deserue not so fearefull a punishment as befel those that they purchase displeasure of theyr Prince vvho cannot abide to bolster such abuses By a Captayne who knoweth not how such as be experimented professors of Armes being in office and action are a kind of protection for the tyme to certayne persons for this cause when Dauid vvas a Captayne in warre there gathered to hym all men that were in trouble and all men that were in debt and all those that vvere vexed in mind and he vvas their Prince or Captayne 1 Sa. 22 2. Besides it is not to be spoken howe many waies they may pleasure a man in vvar if they be vvilling yet on the contrarie if a Captayne be offended at his Souldier and beare hym in the splene he may quyte it vnder colour of hys office hee may make martage of hym hee may vvearie hym with vvants and discurtesies hee may cause him to end his dayes in euery light skirmishe He vvas a VVarriour that sayd so himselfe and no meruaile for we haue an example of it in the Scriptures Ioab did of purpose place Vriah in the fore-front of the battell that he might be slaine by the Philistims Vriah and all the Host were ignorant of the murderous intent but Ioab did it vnder colour of his office because hee was a Captaine That God which seeth the secrets of the hart did behold this homicide hee left not him vnpunished which procured it The acte vvas doone in secrete to auoyde shame amongst men but the punishment was publique that it might bee example to others VVhich example may be a warning to all VVarriors to teach them to take heede how they reuenge theyr owne priuate displeasures vnder the colour of theyr lawfull callings 2 Sam 12 12. 2 Vnder Art by such as these Chirurgians Phisitions diuers other These men if they bee angry with a man especiallie if he be their patient they may effect it vnder colour of their Arte or practice but because it is impertinent in this place to speake of I will pretermit it Ioy as we haue heard of some which are sorry so there be others which reioyce to heare of vvarres This sinister Ioy is commonly incident to these 1 Martiall attendants 2 Desperate persons 3 Vnskilfull persons 1 Martial attendants be such as these Decayed souldiers Vnder officers VVarlike workmeÌ„ Decayed Souldiers such as depende vpon warres they are welcome to them for they perceiue the world is come to this passe that as the Phisition is but little regarded but in time of sicknes so Souldiers are but little set by but wheÌ„ there is neede of theyr seruice Certes it is pittie that anie approoued Souldier should be put to shifts Valorous Caesar would neuer suffer it in his time misery may constraine a man too much but yet for any to reioyce when there is common cause of sorrow and for his owne priuate commoditie to desire a generall calamitie the one argueth his dissolute minde to God and the other bewrayeth him to be a bad member to his Country I would haue such men as these consider that the vse of many things may be good though the things theÌ„selues be naught M. Caluin to that effect sayth Purus est multarum rerum vsus quarum vitiosa est origo Cal. in Math. cap. 5 verse 37. The vse of manie things is pure whose originall is impure From hence I

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