Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	2,930	5	9.5290	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

cannot afford it at such a price and that they will keep it seuen yeares before they will sell it so and yet let their customers back be no sooner turned to be gone but presently he is called againe and his money taken which before was refused with so many othes If Seruants will thus burden their consciences for their masters profit many against their masters wils what will they do for themselues who shall let them then to sweare away all faith truth and conscience for euer to sweare their soules to the Diuel that they shall neuer repent and to sweare a plague into their houses which shall consume the very timber and stones of it O my Brethren tremble at this prouoking sinne tremble to bring the great and holy name of the Lord for a witnesse to your base twelue penny lies tremble to deale so saucily with the omnipotent Maiestie that can send a deadly thunderbolt to strike you presently thorow in the place where you stand Beare with a vehement speech when it proceedes out of a loue more vehement For your pretious soules sake leaue off this profitlesse and pleasurelesse sinne let this be the first sinne thou fightest against and when thou hast got the victory of this the rest of thy conquest will be the easier Hast thou beene a prophaner of the Sabbath and one that hath made no conscience of going to Church longer then thy masters eie hath been vpon thee and when thou hast beene there hast made small account of that which hath beene taught but either hast been talking or sleeping or idly or wickedly thinking c. Henceforth frequent more duely the the holy sanctuary and house of praier prepare thy selfe aforehand that thou maiest reap profit of the things which thou shalt heare intend more reuerently and deuoutly to Gods worship rob not the Lord of the day which he hath consecrated to the glory of his great name he requireth but the seuenth six are ours and shal we not afford him one If a Father hauing called his children together should tell them It is so that I haue cast vp my accounts and I find my estate to be worth seuen thousand pound six of which seuen thousand I am content presently to part with among you and the one thousand see you vse as thriftily and carefully to my behoof as you would the six thousand to your owne What ingratitude vnreuerence were it to so bountifull a Father for these children hauing gotten the seuen thousand pound into their hands to turne all to their owne vse and aduantage neuer respecting their kinde Fathers good nor his charge vnto them or at the most so carelesly that it may appeare there is but little religion of their vow in them The Lord who is our heauenly Father hath giuen vs six daies to do our businesse and affaires in and onely one day he hath reserued to himselfe appointing vs to bestow it in his worship and seruice because that day is his delight as the Prophet saith what negligence what impiety what contempt can be greater then for vs to spend the whole weeke in following our pleasures or our drudgeries wheÌ„ the holy Sabbath comes to intrude into our heauenly fathers right and consume that also in the carnall workes or couetous proiects or ordinary exercises of the weeke before what intolerable auarice is it or sacriledge rather hauing so bountiful allowance from our heauenly father not to be content vnlesse we may seaze his peculiar reseruation into our hands also This is right to haue thousands of sheepe pasturing vpon our owne downes and yet to kill the poore mans onely Lambe that slept in his bosome for the prouision of our house But here some will say it is true we must lay away all worke on the Sabbath day but yet to sell and take money for wares in the shop before and after seruice is no great worke and therfore as good do that as stand idle No I deny it for as the prouerbe goeth amongst vs Thou hadst better be idle then ill occupied so they were better stand still then vent their commodities they be both sins but selling of ware is the greater how little soeuer for a man may aswell take 40. pounds that day as one peÌ„ny For Gods coÌ„mandemeÌ„t is broken in both In the 16 of Exodus GOD condemneth the Israelits for purposing to gather Manna on the Sabbath day what easier worke could there be then this nay moreouer it was to be done between fiue and six a clock in the morning when they might haue serued GOD all the day after and they needed not to haue gone far for it neither but onely come forth of their doores and stoop to take it vp But marke wheÌ„ they came forth they found nothing Here is a good lesson for vs to learne that as they went out to gather Manna on the Sabbath day and found nothing so the gaines that is gotten by selling wares on the Sabbath day is iust nothing howsoeuer men are blinded and thinke the contrary for GODS curse eates it vp and more too I grant we are not tied to so strict an obseruation of the Sabbath in euery respect as the Iewes were yet thus farre the morall part of the precept doth oblige vs to the worlds end namely to do no workes on that day but workes of holines or of meere necessity but men now a daies make no bones to step ouer any of Gods lawes when they bee in the way of their profit and yet they will be good Christians too We remember that day to pamper our belies with good cheere and fine clothes and to take our pleasure we remember to keep a right Epicures Sabbath but to heare Gods word taught to lay our petitions in common together in our Churches and to cal our families together when wee come home that wee may bee the better for that wee haue heard which is the right christians Sabbath this we remember vtterly to forget I am perswaded there is more wickednesse committed both by Prentises and others on the Lords day then on any three daies in the weeke beside and the reason is because men for the most part will see that their seruants shall follow the businesse of their trades all the weeke but vpon Gods day they are careles of them and suffer them to do what they list themselues That is the day of their recreation For as Salomon saith it is a pastime to a foole to doe euill When they should walke to the Lecture for the recreation of their soules the masters are walkt to their gardens or the fields for their bodily pleasure and the seruants to the Tauerne or to some place of greater corruptioÌ„ to the endaÌ„gering of their soules so the word preached to them in the day time before is no better then the seed that fell vpon stony ground because for want of due rehearsal afterward which is as it were the depth of earth it withereth

the Saints or the children of the Diuell to the blessed freedome of the Sonnes of God Is their part in the saluation of Christ that dayly and hourely crucifie him afresh in a iolly scoffing brauery deride his passion as if his backe were broad enough to beare all their filth Do we looke that the Lord should performe the grant when wee faile in the condition is not our breach of couenant with him a frustrating of his indentment with vs Beleeue it my brethren beleeue it whilest wee remaine in our sins the Lords grant remaines void we cannot claime the benefite of one drop of Christs bloud nor of the least part of his merits the shaken sword of the Cherubin hangeth ouer vs we stand banished from the paradise of Gods fauor and liable to the seuerest penalty of those his lawes which we haue violated onely so long as that penalty is not inflicted so long doth the Lord expect if at any time wee will renue our couenant by repentance and so escape out of the snare of the Diuell of whom we are holden captiue to do his pleasure Moreouer when we were sprinkled in the holy Lauer of Baptisme which is as it were the wombe of the Church where our regeneration or new birth was first set a foot we vowed a vow to God which ought of all Christians to be most holily obserued that wee would perfect that newe birth of ours euery day more and more by beleeuing his word obeying his commandements mortifying our flesh coÌ„pressing our lusts resisting the diuel renouÌ„cing the world fighting maÌ„fully vnder his baÌ„ner against all oppositioÌ„ that finaly hauing finished our course we might receiue the crowne of life which he hath promised to them that continue faithfull vnto the death Now our impenitencie weltring in sinne is not onely a not fostring but a very killing of our spirituall nature in the first seede or kernell a breaking of our vowe to God nay a very denying of God and his word an abiect yeelding vs to his and our enemies a cowardly running away from the spirituall battell at the first stroke striking a wilfull losing of our immortall garland and an occasion to make Christ the great captaine and finisher of our faith vtterly to casheere vs out of his band as hauing in vs no sparkle of that generosity and braue-mindednes which ought to be in such as weare his colours and beare armes vnder his standard The wisedome of the world is to retaine to the strongest part and methinkes we hauing beene bred vp vnder the worlds wing should by this time haue taken out that point of wisedome and retaine to Gods side for his is the strongest and surest side O my brethren looke backe to your Baptisme and learne to amend Let not the royall Character which God hath set vpon vs by the ministery of his Church be any longer thus vilely blurd and defaced by our enormous sinnes Let vs not breake our vow to God lest he binde fast his curse to vs Leaue not the Lord of hosts to whom we haue giuen our names and those powerfull legions of his blessed Angels our consederates and guarders in his quarrel to ioine with the Diuell whom we haue defied with the world sin and the flesh a sort of cowardly rebels which will themselues cut our throates when we least suspect them But let vs newdeep our selues in the water of contrition and that will fetch againe the primitiue colour which was put vpon vs in the day of our Baptisme Ouer and beside all this whereas the patience and bountifulnesse and long suffering of our God in sparing vs so many yeares and waiting for our amendment though in the meane time wee force him to complaine that he is pressed vnder our sinnes as a cart is pressed vnder a hard load of sheues I say whereas this gracious patience of his should leade vs to repentance we by continuing in sinne do abuse his patience and heape vp greater wrath vpoÌ„ our heads against the day of wrath and declaration of the iust iudgement of God which will suddainely ouertake vs. God is prouoked saith the Psalmist euery day heere is forbearance but what followeth 2. if a man wil not turne after all Gods waiting theÌ„ he wil whet his sword beÌ„d his bow make ready his arrows against such prouokers When we see wrath in a mans face it is an argument that he will strike we are wont to shun giue backe froÌ„ him Let vs take heed Gods face lookes very angerly we haue dared him so long and put him so to it that he cannot hold his fingers he must needes breake out into blowes And the blowes of his anger are no light stripes but euen deaths wounds as all the Land from Dan to Beersheba will beare witnes O then my Brethren if this Lion roare who wil not tremble crouch before him if he knit his browes that measureth heauen with his span and waigheth the mountaines in a ballance cleaueth the rockes with his voice who dares looke him in the face who shal be able to abide his frownes were we as huge and strong as Behemoth or Leuiathan hee will spurne vs as a chip and trample vs vnder his feete as the mire in the streetes if we incense his maiesty or stirre vp his wrath and iealousie against vs. Apoc. The Kings and great men and stout Captaines and Warriours hide themselues in caues and in holes of the earth froÌ„ the feare of the Lord when he riseth vp to be auenged of sinners O what shall the shrub in the wildernes do when the Okes of Bashan and the Cedars of Libanus are thus shaken how dare such silly wormes and grashoppers as we confront the almighty and prouoke him yearly hourely with new and new sinnes neuer once renuing our repentance at the blasting of the breath of whose displeasure the hilles melt and the foundations of the world shake and are remoued Though he haue worne one rod of pestilence to the stumps vpon vs and throwne it by standing and looking at our behauiour after it he can call for another and another if our great hearts be not come downe repentance a change appearing in our liues or he hath famine swords wild beastes bedlem waters treasures of snow and haile lightnings thunderbolts c. or he hath feuers palsies gouts choliks caÌ„kers wolfes tympanies c. to scourge presumptuous sinners that wil not be warned his store house is neuer vnfurnished with rods and scorpions too if we put him to it Surely my Brethren we are transformed with Nebuchadnezar into beasts and the hearts and vnderstandings of men taken from vs if this consideration moue vs not to abominate our sins and cease from our prouocations wherewith we haue prouoked this God of anger against vs especially when he hath put vp so many abuses and villanies of ours all our life hitherto wee iustly deseruing euery moment to be rooted

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