Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	israel_n	moses_n	pharaoh_n	3,513	5	10.3921	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68649	Allarme to England foreshewing what perilles are procured, where the people liue without regarde of martiall lawe. With a short discourse conteyning the decay of warlike discipline, conuenient to be perused by gentlemen, such as are desirous by seruice, to seeke their owne deserued prayse, and the preseruation of their countrey. Newly deuised and written by Barnabe Riche Gentleman.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1578 (1578)	STC 20979; ESTC S115900	71,422	106

as the thing that is well kept is hardly lost and that nothing prouokes the thÃ©efe sooner then negligence So if the Atheniens had tied care and circumspection to their wordes and dÃ©edes they had neuer falne into the handes of the Lacedemonians And Cambyses the father of Cyrus king of Persia being asked by what meanes Cities might best be kept in safetie aunswered if they that kept the same cities do thinke they can neuer be warie ynough of their enimies the which in the Massilians was charily perfourmed who kept both warde and watch in their cities in the time of peace as if they had bÃ©ene continually vexed and troubled with warre and to that purpose instituted sundrie good ordinaunces vpon the holie dayes to sÃ©e their souldiers standing vpon the walls and exercising them selues in the feates of armes And that notable Capteine Epaminondas while the citizens of Thebes gaue them selues to feasting banquetting bellie chÃ©ere ranne hastily to arme him selfe and marched towards the citie walles to the end the rest might bâ— the safelyer dronke and aswell to signifie that the safetie of their Citie should at no time be forgotten And although king Solomon who in the holie Scriptures is called Rex pacificus and was promised by the mouth of God a peaceable reigne and was still busied and turmoyled with the buylding of the holie temple yet notwithstanding he was not forgetfull to furnishe his garrisons with innumerable men of warre horses and charriots To be short there is neither hath bÃ©en any well gouerned Common wealth but the lawes of Armes be as carefully prouided for as any other citie causes but where delicacie once preuaileth and getteth the vpper hande there adewe Martiall mindes farewell magnanimitie where slouthfulnesse hath once made entrie for the noblenesse that is to be looked for in a Princely and hautie courage though it bÃ©e chÃ©efely wrought by the force of the minde so the bodie must be exercised and brought in such plight as it may be made able to follow payne and trauell Were not the olde souldiers of Hanibal in lying but one winter in Capua speÌ„ding the time in wantonnesse amongst the delicate dames so effeminated infeebled both in bodie and mind that they neuer did any thing afterwarde that was worthy of report And Xerxes being offended with the Babylonians because they trayterously had shronke from him when he had againe brought them vnder he forbad them to beare any more weapons and further commaunded them that they shoulde singe to the Lute and other instrumentes learne to kÃ©epe harlotes haunte tauernes which policie hee of purpose prepared to weaken their courages whereby he might the better kÃ©epe them vnder awe The knowledge of warre therefore and the exercise of armes are especially to be sought neither can I tell whether any thing be more noble by the whiche so greate dominions and noble Empires haue bÃ©ene purchased kingdomes inlarged princes preserued iustice mainteined good lawes protected and the Common wealth defended Great is the glorie in the knowledg of warre therfore neither hath the citie of Athens atchieued so great renoume and glorie although it merited to be called the mother of all artes sciences as Rome hath done onely by magnanimitie and force of Martiall might which brought such reputation to their CoÌ„monwealth that farre and straunge regions sought their aliaunce and friendship and thought them selues assured against their enimies if they had confederation with them that in the end they grewe to such admiration that for their lenitie and surmounting courtesie they were of all men beloued for their valiante magnanimitie they were of all men feared Neither was this magnificence vpholdeÌ„ by doing wrong iniurie for they neuer atteÌ„pted warres but for things in claime or in defence of league friends Then as Cicero saith The Senat might rather haue beene tearmed the protection hauen refuge of kings people nations more truly then the Empire of the world Neither were they found rashe to enter into warrs hedily although they had occasioÌ„ as did appeare at the citie of Sagunto where the people of Carthage brake the league defied peace yet the Senate sent thither Ambassadour Fabius Maximus with two tables the one conteining peace the other warres putting the election to their owne choice as it liked them selues to choose although the Romans them selues could best defend their cause But did the Romanes gaine this glorie by enuring themselues to liue in delicat idlenes in dicing in carding in dansing in whoring in banqueting in reueling in roysting no but ordayned most sharpe bitter punishments to expell them with disgrace to dant those that were the practisers and followers of them Where contrarily to prouoke prick forward Martiall mindes and manly wightes to the studie of chiualrie Martiall affaires they ordeined glorious triumphes liberall rewards and honorable titles which was the verie cause that the citie grew to be so great large in Empire for where valiaunce prowesse was so honorably rewarded not onely noble men but also inferiour persons were so inflamed with desire of renowme that no daunger was lefte vndelte withall nor no perill left vnproued where there was glorie to bÃ©e gayned or the safetie of their contrie might be preserued The two Decii by race and birth were no gentlemen borne yet by their valiaunce and fortitude they aspired to the highest type of dignitie in their Commonwealth and in their countries defence consecrated themselues as valiant and vowed vessels to glorie immortalitie Neither was Lucius Martius borne but of a meane parentage yet for his puissaunce shewed in Spaine he receiued of his countrie great honor and principalitie By these means the liberties of their countries were most strongly defended and the indifferencie of their lawes were chiefely mainteined where wel doing is so liberally rewarded For what greater dishonour may there be in a CoÌ„mon wealth then where worthie acts high attempts receiue but colde rewarde Or what rewarde may that countrie thinke too much to bestowe on him that hath not spared his owne life to fight in the defence There be sundrie examples in the holy scripture tending to the same effect for when the children of Israel were pursued by Pharaoh that they began to stagger in the promises of God the Tribe of Iuda did manifestly shewe foorth farre greater courage and valiance then the rest who lingered not nor drewe backe but with a marueilous constancie by the example of Moses aduentured first the sea by whose stout stomaches the rest were incouraged to followe For which facte the people of Iuda were euer afterwardes more honoured then the rest and such had the principalitie amongst the twelue tribes as were descended of this tribe of Iuda In like manner Solomon made the Hethites the Amorites the Pheresites the Heuites and the Iebusites to become tributaries and to labour in the buildinges but of the children of Israel he made men of warre

Hai and her King as thou didest vnto Iericho and her king neuerthelesse the spoyle and cattell thereof shall ye take vnto your selues c. Saul in the first booke of Kinges the 15. chapter hath the like commandement and these be the wordes Samuel said vnto Saul The Lord sent me to anoynt thee King ouer his people Israel nowe therefore hearken thou vnto the voice of the Lord Thus sayth the Lord of hostes I remeÌ„ber that which Amalek did to Israel how they layde wayte for theÌ„ in the way as they came out of Egypt Nowe therefore go and smite Amalek and destroy ye all that pertayneth vnto him see that thou haue no coÌ„passion on them and couet nothing that they haue slay both man and woman infant and suckling oxe and sheepe camel and asse c. By this commandement we may perceiue GOD gaue charge to Saul that he should sacke the couÌ„tries of the Amalechites and to passe by the edge of the sword men women children and beasts without dispense or grace giuing a reason of that extreeme iustice because those people had done many oppressions to Israel in the voyage out of Egypt into Chanaan and willeth him in no wise to shewe mercy or to haue compassion not so much as vpon women and children This place might seeme ouer cruell to such as would haue men go to warre and to kil no body nor to coÌ„mit any spoyle neither do I alleadge this to maintayne tyrannie for there is time and occasion to vse both rigour and pitie iustice and mercy as hereafter I wil further shewe I meane now but to make profe that God hath not bene displeased with warres but is called in many places the God of hostes And Moyses citeth a place of the warres of the Lord and in the 20. chap. of the second booke of Chronicles it is writteÌ„ that when Iosaphat had vnderstaÌ„ding of the multitude of his enemies the Moabites the Ammonites and the Syrians that were gathered against him Iosaphat assembling his people into the Temple made this prayer vnto God. O Lord God of our Fathers art thou not God in heaueÌ„ raignest not thou ouer all the kingdomes of the heathen and in thy hand is power and might and there is no man that is able to withstand thee art not thou our God which didest cast out the inhabiters of this land before thy people Israel and gauest it to the seede of Abraham thy louer for euer and they dwelt therein for thy name saying If euill come vpon vs as the sword of iudgement pestilence or huÌ„ger then if we stand before this house and crye vnto thee in our tribulation heare thou and helpe And now behold the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir by whom thou wouldest not let them of Israel goe when they came out of the land of Egypt but they departed by them and destroyed them not see howe they would rewarde vs that would cast vs out of thy possession which thou hast giuen vs to inherite O our God wilt thou not iudge them for we haue no might against this great companie that coÌ„meth agaynst vs neyther wote we what to do but our eies attende vpon thee And as he continued thus in prayer beholde the Prophete spake vnto him Feare not this multitude it shall not be thy warre but the warres of God c. I could here cite a number of like places but these may seeme sufficient to prooue that warres haue bene acceptable before the maiestie of God and sometimes more auaylable then peace as in the second chapter of the booke of Iudges it appeareth where the children of Israel were blamed for making of peace with the Cananites And like as out of the scriptures many other probable reasons might be gathered so there be diuers excellent authours and sundrie learned writers which seeme not onely to alowe of warres but thinke them to be many times very meet coÌ„uenient to be attempted to be taken in hand and that it is many times necessary for Princes to become enemies to the ende they may be perfect friendes And a most happie begun warre may that be called whereby is wrought the safetie of the state so contrary most miserable is the peace which bringeth with it the hazard of a countrey Cicero saieth in his booke of Offices To this end and purpose we must enter into warre that without iniurie we may liue in peace And in an other place of the same booke hee sayeth We must beware that we take not vp the matter by aduice more to auoyd warre then for cause of profite for we must neuer by seeking to escape perill deserue to seeme cowardes and dastards but so let warres be taken in hand as no other thing but peace may seeme to haue bin sought This was the cause that made Demosthenes so mightily to inuey against king Philip for hee perceyuing the insatiable desire of king Philip and that he ment to make a conquest of all Grecia and had already begun with the Olynthians whoÌ„ if he had once ouerthrowen there was nothing then to let his passage to Athens the which Demosthenes very wel foreseeing by sundrie orations perswaded the Athenians not onely to sende helpe to the Olynthians but also to sende an armie into the partes of Macedonie a meane whereby to make king Philip to haue withdraweÌ„ his force froÌ„ the Olynthians to defende his owne countrey alleadging by many persuasions that ayde to their neighbours was very needful and necessarie when their owne safetie did chiefly consist in the others good successe for who withdraweth him selfe wheÌ„ his neighbours house is on fyre may waÌ„t helpe to queÌ„ch his owne Thus we may see although that peace be chiefly to be desired yet many times by entring into warres it is the more safely quietly maintayned Like to a ship which many times by some extraordinary winde forsaketh the quiet harbour and seeketh her safetie in the wilde and raging seas So as Salomon saith There is a time of peace a time of warre a time of mirth a time of mourning and therefore to vse time in time as occasion doth serue is a point of the greatest wisdome And Cicero to the same effect vseth these words To runne to the field rashly all vpon the head and to enter conflict skirmish with the enemie is no point of humanitie but the propertie of a sauage beast but when time necessitie requireth then on with armour and fight for lyfe preferring death before seruitude and miserie And in an other place of the same booke he speaketh of two kindes of iniustice the first in him that wil offer it the secoÌ„d in him that will take it and being able will not defende it But here peraduenture some will alleadge against mee the saying of Christ where he willeth that he who had receyued a blowe on the one eare should likewise turne the other

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