Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	bear_v	spirit_n	wound_a	1,374	5	11.0872	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10734	The benefite of affliction. A sermon, first preached, and afterwards enlarged, by Charles Richardson preacher at Saint Katharines neare to the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 21013; ESTC S119812	42,110	112

but a wounded spirit who can bear Iob was not only afflicted in his body and outward estate but also troubled and wounded in his coÌ„science with the fearful apprehension of Gods wrath And therefore hee complaineth Iob. 6.4 that the arrowes of the Almightie were in him the venime or poyson whereof did drinke vp his spirit and the terrours of God did fight or set themselues in array against him And Dauid cryeth out Psal 22 1. My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee and art so farre from my health and from the words of my roaring And in another place he saith and 32.3.4 When I held my tongue my bones consumed when I roared all the day long For thy hand was heauie vpon me day and night and my moysture is turned into the drought of summer And in another place he maketh such a lamentable complaint as if hee had beene brought to the very pit of desperation and 38.2.3.4.5 6.7.8 Thine arrowes saith hee sticke fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore There is nothing sound in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head and as a mightie burden they are too heauie for mee My wounds stincke aad are corrupt because of my foolishnesse I am bowed and crooged very sore I goe mourning all the day For my reines are full of burning and there is nothing sound in my flesh I am weakened and sore broken I roare for the very griefe of my heart c. And againe and 130.1 Out of the deepe places haue I called vnto thee O Lord as if hee had beene euen in the bottome of hell In a word Hezekiah that good King complaineth that besides the sicknesse which God laid vpon his bodie that brought him euen to deathes dore the Lord had broken al his bones like a lyon Isa 38.13.14 and from day to night he made an end of him and that he chattered like a crane or swallow and mourned as a doue By this we see that euen the children of God doe many times wrastle with desperation it selfe and the Lord doth so long hide his face from them as they seeme vtterly to be forsaken and beginne to thinke that his mercie is cleane gone for euer as Dauid saith and that hee will bee fauourable no more And therefore the Church of God is compared to a lillie among thornes to giue vs to vnderstand that though it be very louely beautifull in the sight of God yet it is subiect to many miseries and accombred with many molestations But here it may be some will obiect if the case bee so that the children of God be subiect to so many great afflictions then it seemeth that either their sins are not fully forgiuen them or else that God is not iust in inflicting such punishments vpon them To this I answer Psal 103.3 Col. 2 13 1 Iohn 1 7 that first for the sins of Gods children they are all absolutely forgiuen The hlood of Christ as the Apostle saith Isa 1 8 doth clense vs from al sin So that though they be as scarlet yet the Lord maketh them as white as snow thogh they be red like crimson hee maketh them as woll and 44 22. Yea the Lord putteth away our transgressions like a cloud and our sinnes like a mist Mich. 7.19 he subdueth our iniquities and casteth them into the bottome of the Sea So as they shall neuer rise vp in iudgement against vs to accuse or condemne vs. Againe the Lord is righteous in all his waies Psal 145.17 holy in all his workes and being Iudge of all the world as Abraham said he must needs do right Gen. 18 25 And forasmuch as our Sauiour Christ hath satisfied Gods iustice for our sins 1. Pet. 2.24 hath borne them in his bodie on the crosse feing the Lord hauing punished them once in Christ Non his punitur in idem cannot iustly punish theÌ„ again in vs therfore it must needs follow that the miseries wherunto the children of God are subiect are not punishments of their sins but the Lord hath other ends for which he afflicteth them Now the ends are many but for order sake we will refer theÌ„ to three heads Some of them are in respect of Gad some in respect of vs some in respect of others The end that God aimeth at in respect of himselfe is twofold First therby to manifest set forth his owne glory As our Sauiour said coÌ„cerning the man that was borne blind Iohn 9 2 3 that that affliction was laid vpon him neither for his owne sinnes nor for his fathers sinnes but that the workes of God might be shewed on him And indeed no small glory redoundeth vnto God by the afflictions of his children As the power of God is more magnified and declared in aduersitie then euer it could be in prosperitie For that which the Lord said to the Apostle Paul concerning outward afflictions 2. Cor. 12.9 My power is made perfite through weakenesse For when we are in prosperitie see no euill we seeme not to stand need of Gods helpe But when God deliuereth vs out of troble then is his power manifested and then haue we occasion offered to glorifiie him Psal 50.15 As it is said in the Psalme Call vpon me in the day of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Yea though the Lord for causes best knowne to himselfe doe not deliuer his children out of their miseries and tribulations yet this is no small matter of glory vnto him 2. Cor. 1 4. 1. Pet. 1.8 that in the middest of them all he ministreth comfort vnto them and maketh them cheerful and causeth them to reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious Secondly to declare his anger and indignation against sinne that when the wicked shall see that Gods dearest children if they take libertie to sinne doe not escape the rod they may know what themselues are to looke for at his hands according to that speech of the Apostle Peter If Iudgement first begin at the house of God 1. Pet. 4 17. what shall bee the end of them that obey not the Gospell of God The ends that God aimeth at in respect of vs are diuerse First to correct and chasten vs for our faults As the Apostle saith When we are iudged we are chastened of the Lord. 1. Cor. 11.32 As a father that hath care of his childe if he see him take euill courses will correct him to bring him to amendment so our most mercifull father will not suffer his children to continue in sinne Heb. 12 6. but vseth corrections to reclame them Secondly to try and exercise the graces that are in them and to make them more conspicuous Not as though the Lord were ignorant of them For he that made them

the sea and could not be moued and the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waues And the men that were in her constrained so many as could swimme to cast themselues into the sea and so goe out to land and the rest some vpon bords and some on pieces of the ship to escape and saue themselues He that had stood on the shore at that time no doubt should haue seene a fearefull and lamentable spectacle but hee that had beene a partie in it himselfe would haue sound it an vpspeakeable danger Deut. 13 6 It is a great heauinesse for a man to loose a louing friend which was to him as his owne soule as Moses saith And yet this was Dauids case in the death of Ionathan 1. Sam. 18 1 3. whose soule was knit to the soule of Dauid and they loued one another as their owne soules and they made a couenant together And how hee tooke it to heart may appeare by that dolefull lamentation that he maketh for him when he heard the tydings of his death Woe is me for thee my brother Ionathan 2. Sam. 1 â—6 very kinde hast thou beene to me thy loue to me was wonderful passing the loue of women The losse of children by any meanes whatsoeuer is a great griefe to kinde and louing parents who haue born them with great paine and trauell and brought them vp with much care and cost But to be depriued of them by vntimely violent feareful death is a griefe that cannot be expressed None knoweth the greatnes of it but they that haue felt it And yet this hath befallen euen the dearest of Gods children Aaron Psal 106 16. whom the Scripture calleth the Saint of the Lord had his two sons Nadab Abihu fearfully destroyed both in a momeÌ„t with fire from heauen Leuit. 10.2 Eli a good man 1. Sam. 4 11 had likewise his two sons Hophni and Phinehas slaine in battell both on a day Iob also Iob. 1 2 19. whose godlinesse we haue heard before had all his children seuen sonnes and three daughters pittifully slaine crusht in pieces with the fall of an house But the greatest griefe of all is when a mans childe is taken away in some sin so as besides the death of the bodie hee hath iust cause to feare the death of the soule And yet this was good Dauids case in the losse of his Absalom which made him breake forth into such passionate mourning as he did 2. Sam. 18.33 O my son Absalom my sonne my sonne Absalom would God I had dyed for thee O Absalom my sonne my sonne It is a great griefe for a man to bee depriued of the wife of his youth Pro. 5 18. which hath long lyen in his bosome Deut. 13 6 which for many yeares hath beene vnto him as the louing hinde and pleasant Roe Prou. 5.19 in whose loue he hath so long delighted and which was the pleasure and desire of his eyes Ezech. 24 16 And yet this befell those two holy Patriarkes Abraham and Iacob Abraham was depriued of his dearest Sara Gen. 23.2 and 35 19 and Iacob of Rahel whom he so much affected There cannot be a greater affliction to a poore woman then to loose a kinde and louing husband which was the vaile of her eyes in all places Gen. 20.16 But with the losse of an husband to be bereft of all meanes of maintenance and exposed to extreame pouertie is such a crosse as can hardly bee imagined And yet wee haue examples euen of this kinde also Poore Naomi Ruth 1.3 was depriued of her husband in a strange cuÌ„try where she had few friends and small meanes and her two sonnes which had taken them wiues there in the land of Moab died also 5. so that she was left alone and destitute of succour And how much she was affected with this calamitie may appeare by her speeches 20. when she returned againe into her owne country Call me not Naomi saith she that is beautifull but call me Mara that is bitter for the Almightie hath giuen me much bitternesse I went out full 21 and the Lord hath brought me home againe emptie why then call yee me Naomi seeing the Lord hath humbled mee and the Almightie hath brought mee into aduersitie So likewise the Prophets wife that dyed in the land of Israel 2. Kin. 4.1 besides the losse of her husband was left in great debt and hauing nothing to pay the mercilesse creditour came to take her two sonnes to be his bondmen It is an vncomfortable thing to dy in child birth Gen. 35.17.18 and yet it was the case of Rahel Iacobs wife who dyed in the paines of her labour Sai m. 4 19 20. of Elies daughter in lawe who hearing that the arke of God was taken and her husband and father in law were dead bowed her selfe and trauelled and in her trauell dyed It is feareful to dye a violent death and yet it is a thing that hath happened euen vnto those that were deare vnto God 1. Sam 4 18 Eli of whom wee haue heard before when he heard mention of the losse of Gods Arke being heauie and vnweildie with age fell backward from his seat and his necke was broken and so he dyed The Prophet of the Lord that was sent to cry against the altar 1. Kin. 13 24 which Ieroboam had made at Bethel because he kept not the commaundement which the Lord commaunded him a lyon met him by the way and slew him and his carkaise was cast in the way 2. Kin. 23.29 And good Iosiah who is so highly commended for his godlinesse was notwithstanding slaine in the warres by Pharao Necho king of Egypt Nay a man may be so far left to himselfe as he may coÌ„mit such a sinne wherby he may deserue to be cut off by the sword of the Magistrate yet still be the child of God As the sins that Dauid coÌ„mitted by the expresse law of God were to be punished with death if there had bin any Magistrat aboue him that had had power to inflict it By all these particular instaÌ„ces many more that might be produced it may appear that there is not any kind of afflictioÌ„ or calamity but the children of God may be subiect to it according to that enumeration which the Apostle maketh Rom. 8.35 wheÌ„ he saith Who shal separate vs from the loue of Christ shal tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword c. A man may bee subiect to all these miseries yet not be depriued of the loue of Christ But besides all these outward afflictions the children of God may bee and oftentimes are subiect to inward fear horror of conscience which as Solomon saith Prou. 18.14 is the most intolerable tormeÌ„t that can be indured The spirit of a man wil sustain his infirmitie

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