Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	day_n	keep_v	sabbath_n	1,672	5	10.1381	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05259	The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh.	Leigh, Dorothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 15402; ESTC S113606	65,870	296

Now hee will shew thee the figure of that euerlasting rest which hee will bring thee to through Christ. Now if thou beest not very ready and diligent to attend vpon him the seuenth day thou shewest that all thy labour on the six daies was for thine own pleasure or profit more then for thy obedience toward the Lord thy God for if thou wouldest haue obeyed him in thy labour in the six dayes thou wouldest haue obeyed him in thy rest the seventh day also This shal be a witnes to thine own conscience least that thou bee deceiued as many bee who thinke that they labour all the weeke to please God when indeede they labour to please themselues because that commandement pleaseth their humour better then to keepe holy the Sabbath and they will bee willing to take one houre from the Lord in the morning and another in the afternoone or two it may be which sheweth that their mindes and affections are more on the world then on the true seruice and obedience they owe to God CHAP. 41. Prodigality set out SOme think that the prodigal man taketh too little care for the world but I say he is a wicked man and taketh too much care for the world and too little care to please GOD. Hee is an idle man and will not labour 6. dayes Hee is a disobedient man and wil not keepe holy the seuenth day He is a wast full man he wil spend wastfully for the vaine-glory of the world which somesay they care not for he leaueth those things w ch God hath giuen him and his family without care Yea he is a couetous man for he will borrow of others and spend it wastfully and neuer pay it againe He breaketh the coÌ„mandement which saith Owe nothing to any man but this that you love one another for the holy Ghost saith The vngodly borroweth and paieth not againe but the mercifull man is liberall and lendeth Some will say they would pay if they had it but indeede they will not haue it because they will not obey God and liue as hee hath appointed them They are proud and will spend so far beyond their calling that they haue nothing to lend to the poore children of God because they spend either vpon the wicked or in excesse when there is no neede or vppon those that haue as little or lesse neede then theÌ„selues Such a person is worse then an Infidel because be prouideth not for his owne houshold God doth not say Because hee taketh not care for his owne houshold for all his care should bee to please God but hee careth not to please God neither doth he obey God to labor 6. daies and to see his houshold labour for whilest he is idle or vsing some vaine pastime out of his calling his children seruants dissobey GOD and mispend their time and weaken his estate and all through his owne carelesnesse to please God Hee sheweth himselfe no good Christian for a good Christian life is a carefull life not carefull of the world but carefull least the world should hinder him any way froÌ„ seruing of God either in being too negligent in his calling and so prouide not for his houshold become worse then an Infidel or lest hee should bee couetous and become the man whom God abhorreth And yet there bee some so ignorant that they will say The prodigall man beareth a noble mind But hee beares a wicked mind they know not what a noble minde is that say so Our Peeres and Princes are called Noble men because they beare noble mindes that is they are vertuous and temperate discreet gouerning the CoÌ„mon-wealth according to their calling regarding the vertuous keeping vnder the vicious holding in the prodigall who would run away with a whole kingdom if they might haue it nay no kingdome is able to satisfie prodigal persons for their disobedient humour wil neuer be satisfied because they doe not labour to keepe the commandement of God Some are more infected w th this sin then others but all that are not infected with prodigalitie haue a disobedient humour they are vndiscreet because they cannot spend wheÌ„ they should and spare with discretion when the time is They are vnthankful because they do not heartily thank God for his blessings but wish they were more Neither wil they bee thankefull to the King nor a worthy noble Prince or Peere for if they spend a little prodigally in their seruice they will thinke they are indebted to theÌ„ though all of it were by the Prince liberally bestowed on them but indeede such are not to be about Princes or Peeres no more then the couetous Some wise and learned men haue disputed whether the couetous or the prodigal be the worst member in the Common-wealth but I pray God you nor yours be none of both but here what the holy Ghost saith The couetous is the man whom God abhorreth The prodigall is worse then an infidell And thus I leaue them and pray to God for Christs sake they and wee may leaue both those and al other sins and take hold of Christ by faith and liue through him with God for euer and euer CHAP. 42. Difference betweene an act habite of sinning NOw you must know this that the deare children of God for want of discretion doe sometime an act w ch may be called couetous yet not vpon a couetous humor and an act that may be called prodigall and yet not vpon a prodigall humour but for want of discretion at that time for there is none so discreet at all times that is not somewhat infected with either of these sins for wee are infected with all sins and therefore God in great mercy to man made the Sabbath or Lords day so that if a man did in sixe dayes ouerslip himselfe as indeed we all do and did not reconcile himselfe to God euery night as we ought to do yet on the Sabbath day the Lord calleth him to him and sheweth him his faults and wisheth him to bee reconciled vnto him through Christ and breatheth into his face the breath of life again and renueth in him the image of God again that was decayed by his sin and so he goeth home a renued man And therfore I say say truly that all the writers in the world cannot expresse what hurt that man woman or childe doeth himselfe that doth not attend on the Lord on the Sabbath day neither can any man or woman doe their seruants more hurt theÌ„ to keepe them froÌ„ the Lords house that day The Lord hath charged thee that thou if thou hast any vnder thee shalt see theÌ„ come and come thy selfe as thou wilt answere it for the Lord himselfe is now there prepared to teach thee and thine and therfore go to him and go prepared clense thy heart of all earthly things know that hee is there to see thine heart and all thine affection and behauior Some wil say I would

must aske yet thou refusest to doe it Enter into thy chamber saith he and shut thy doore Although euerie place will serue yet it pleaseth Christ to name thy chamber because he would haue a man without accumberances Euery man findeth one place or other to lodge in let them then finde the same place or some place else to pray priuately in Shut the doore saith Christ as if he should say shut thy selfe from the world and shut the world from thee it may bee thou hast some thing to say to mee that thou wouldest not haue the world to heare Oh the mercy the wonderfull mercie of Christ of man how hee became man for man And hee knew the nature of man that hee would bee loath that euerie one should know the corruption which was in him and therefore said come to me alone shut the doore no body shall know what is betwixt thee and me I know thy sinnes alreadie but I would know whether thou knowest them or no for manie a man sinneth and knoweth it not because hee knoweth not my word but if thou knowest them confesse them to mee and I will giue thee pardon for them and if thou wilt leaue them canst aske helpe of me I will giue thee grace to ouercome theÌ„ for I haue ouercome them all for thee euen in thine own flesh and thou through mine help shalt doe a greater worke for thou being a sinner shalt ouercome in thy self which is a greater worke then for me whicham God and without sin to ouercome sin and yet not you but I your Sauiour who dwell in all those that lay hold of me by true faith for without me yee can doe nothing therefore come to me follow my counsell come secretly let no body know of it for hindring you or for feare vaine glorie should follow you no man shall neede to know of it for I wil reward yon openly Oh the wonderfull mercies of Christ to man neuer able to be set out he knew that man would be desirous to haue it known that he serued such a worthy master as none could serue a better that euery one shold say he serued Christ he serued the son of God who will bring him to prefermeÌ„t Euerie one desireth to haue it knowne that hee serueth a noble master and therefore he will weare his cognisance vpon his sleeue that it may be knowne what an excellent man hee serues for it is a great credit to serue a worthie master and a man shall bee verie well accounted of for his sake but he that serueth a wicked and vngodly man shall neuer bee so well thought of because his master is wicked he is oftentimes ashamed of his masters doings so that he will neuer bee a credit vnto him and therefore neuer serue a wicked man although hee bee neuer so rich for the desire of man is to serue a master of credit and that Christ knew he knew also that man was loath to haue his sinnes openly knowne and therefore out of his great mercie and wonderfull wisdome he appointed man to confesse his sinnes priuately without which there can be no good praier He told man that he should not neede to make shew of it vnto the world for he would reward him openly and make it knowne that he serued a good master indeede for hee would giue him such graces and blessings as all that knew him should perceiue that he had them neither of the world the flesh nor the diuell nor of his owne nature but it should appeare they were onely the gifts of the almightie God Hee did not promise earth and earthly things you may see for euery venemous earthworm is full of these the vsurer that is as farre from heauen as it is to hell where if hee take not heede in time hee may finde his part he I say may bragge of his gold the extortioner whom God hateth may bragge of his siluer the couetous person whom God abhorreth hee may bragge what a deale of earth and earthly durt hee hath purchased as the Prophet saith they loade themselues with clay he doth not say God giueth it them but they loade themselues Among these foolish and abominable people whom the scripture speaketh so much against as against no man more nor so much I thinke strumpets and whores who for couetousnesse sake sell their soules and bodies and make themselues such filthie vessels in this earth that it is most loathsome to thinke of may bragge as well of their iewels and costly apparell that the world bestoweth vpon them as anie other of these couetous wretches whom God abhorreth and giueth warning that no man shall speake well of them for the holy Ghost saith Speake not good of the couetous whom God abhorreth And that thou maiest know it is no worldly trash that God bestoweth on thee know that the diuell calleth himself the prince of this world and so one would think he were for these outward things are most commonly bestowed vpon the wicked but that which God will bestow on thee is a treasure which the wicked ones haue not nor are neuer like to enioy except they leaue their wicked waies and goe priuately to the Lord Iesus Christ and lay open their miserable estate to him and craue his pardon and grace to liue a new life and then he will giue thee the greatest treasure that man can imagine euen a most heauenly treasure hee will giue thee faith which will bring thee to the euerlasting kingdome of heauen he will giue thee patience to beare al the crosses troubles in the world hee will giue thee humilitie which will fill thee full of grace and make thee in fauour with God and man he will giue thee his grace so plenteously that thou wilt speake alwaies the truth and keepe thy promises though it bee neuer so much to thy hinderance in the sight of the world Nay in the sight of the world it must needs be a praise to thee for the world seeth that euery earth-worm can breake their promise or turne it so that it is worse then a promise breaking for it sheweth that they are full of hyprocrisie dissemblers and would serue the world and would not haue the Diuell know it but the diuell will not bee so deceiued hee maketh account the world is his and hee hampereth all those that loue it in chaines and hee will haue the world know it that it may bee a witnesse on his side at the day of Iudgement Nay his owne conscience will bee a witnesse against him at the day of iudgement that breaketh his word euen at that dreadfull day when the trash for which hee so lightly regarded his promise shall bee consumed with fire brimstone then will hee wonder hee could thinke it would bee so long before that day would come and now seeing it is come hee fully perswadeth himselfe that his paine will neuer haue an end If thou thinkest that

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