Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	die_v	hell_n	worm_n	1,009	5	9.7957	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11604	The sick souls salue. By William Sclater. Batchelar of Diuinity and minister of the word of God at Pitmister in Somerset	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1612 (1612)	STC 21845; ESTC S116861	21,761	40

or likely to afford them comfort and resolue what ever the prescription be to giue way to it in their practise a Luk. 3.12 14. what shall we doe say souldiers people all affrighted with Iohn Baptists thundring sermon b Act. 2.37 what must we do to be saved say the distressed Iewes c as if they had said prescribe what thou wilt be it never so harsh to flesh and blood never so crossing to profit pleasure reputatioÌ„ any thing we are resolved to do it that we may obtaine comfort that a castaway ever comes to so peremptory or steddy resolution thou shalt hardly finde 2 To a child of God c Iob 33.23.24 the Interpreter that one of a thousand that declares to a man thus perplexed Gods righteousnesse wil be for ever welcome d Rom. 10.15 his feet beautifull that brings the tidings of peace recoÌ„cilement with God Is it thus with an alien longer then he hath vse of a minister 3 The wound once felt makes for ever feareful to offend Gods childreÌ„ once scortcht with the flame of Gods wrath for ever e Heb. 12. vlt. dread that consuming fire from others whiles they are vpoÌ„ the rack we may hear soÌ„e good speeches seldome see performaÌ„ce wheÌ„ Gods haÌ„d is removed 4 Such yee shall see wonderfull f Mat 5.3.7 compassionate towards others in like miserie what they haue felt themselues they caÌ„not but commiserate pitie in others by experience of sorrowes they learne compassion 5 Such yee shall see of all others men of strictest practise and those little sinnes as some tearme them which others swallow without scruple they carefully fly from as odious in the sight of God More might bee annexed but this shall suffice for explaning the nature of this evil A wounded spirit The attribute followes which is intolerablenes Who can beare it that is to say none without speciall and extraordinary grace sustaining The intolerablenes of this evil I meane not at large to amplifie hearts that feele it easily acknowledge it and I am loath to multiply their feares those that never felt it till they feele will not beleeue Only take taske 1 by the fearefull extremities it hath driven many into g Mat. 27.5 Iudas was not alone in his discomfortable end but hath had alas for pitty and hath daily many followers h Iob. 2.4 skin for skin all that a maÌ„ hath he wil giue for life but life yea if it were teÌ„ thousand liues meÌ„ that feel this wouÌ„d in extremity with out hope of release wil prodigally cast away to be rid of this torture 2 The feares it affrights withall are strange i Prov. 28.1 They flie saith Salomon when none pursueth even k Levit. 26.37 at the noise of a leafe shaken tremble at their owne shadow yea are l Ier 20 4. a terror to themselues Affraid saith David and affrighted m Psal 53.5 where no feare is 3 Yea what extremities hath it brought Gods deare Saints vnto Iob the mirrour of patience yet vnder this cross so impatieÌ„t so vnlike himself that n Iob 6.8.9 he wisheth for death o Ps 77.8 9. David the maÌ„ after Gods own hart it draue if not to blasphemy yet to some thing neer of kin to blasphemy The like or greater might be instaÌ„ced of others Heathens to expresse the horrour of it set it out in that fiction of hellish furies following the flagitious with burning firebrands and torturing with all extremities It may perhaps seeme strange this evill shoulde be so intollerable paines of the body many by fortitude haue outborne yea paines of fire some not only Martyrs but miscreants haue endured other griefes of the minde time or counsell or necessity or something digests What should be in this point of conscience to make the wouÌ„d so intolerable Respon There are in this evill two things eminent more then in other First whereas in all other afflictions man hath to doe with man or at worst with Devils in this man coÌ„flicteth immediatly with God himselfe fraile man with the Almighty God sinfull man with the holy God p Hab. 1.13 whose eies are pure and can endure no vncleane thing to stand before him that is in his wrath q Heb. 12.29 a consuming fire 2 Whereas in all other evils a man is still a friend to himselfe in this he is at warre with himselfe a scourge to himselfe r Ier. 20 4. a terrour to himselfe And whatsoever he is or hath all conspire to work his torture vnderstanding memory senses members whatsoever is within him with out him what he thinks of remembers sees hears all turnes to his torment and therefore no marvell if it be so intolerable To draw now to conclusion of these generals thus applying making vse of this attribute of intolerablenes given to this evill We haue a company of gallants in the world men for the present as Paule speakes Å¿ Eph. 4 19. past feeling and given over to worke wickednes even with greedinesse that laugh at the sheepishnes of Gods children who of scruple abstaine from idle yea from profane speech yea from lewdest and most vngracious actions oathes periury whoredome so do my bloud any thing alike to them heaven and hell God and Devill peace and trouble of conscience all are with them but fables They talke of Hell say they and torments thereof as preachers will haue them intolerable the t Mar. 9.43 44 worme never dies and the fire never goes out Now if this be al their hel the gnawing of a worme c. who would be so foolish as for it to barre himselfe of the pleasures of this life Now Lord that thou wert pleased to graÌ„t such Atheists but one houres sense of that worme which they so much scoffe at I am perswaded it s neither poverty nor prison nor sword nor fire nor any other torture but they would choose to make exchaÌ„ge for it al the world said one once for a good conscience wonder we at the wish The wound of conscience saith Salomon who can beare Let vs all therefore be admonished to take heed how we wound conscience and bring on our selues this vnsufferable evill Of all blessings of God incident to this life pray for this the peace of a good coÌ„science u Phil. 4 7. it passeth saith Paule all vnderstanding of all mischiefes keepe thy selfe from this a torturing and accusing conscience saith Salomon who can beare it Wouldest thou knowe what makes it It is sinne any sinne be it but a scruple or dram never so little it frets like poison in the bowels It may be indeed custome of sinning as a callum or brawny skin makes conscience senslesse for the time but that callum once removed no flesh so tender But especially beware of sinnes against Conscience that is sins against knowledge a and recoyled against by conscience these are the torturing sins indeed that racke conscience wheÌ„ God

whom let this advise suffice 1. Let them consider that the cause of their wound is in and from themselues h Gen. 3.8.10.11 their sins procured it God only as a iust iudge inflicts it 2. Let them weigh withall that not only extremity but even eternity of this horror they haue deserved even that which I say hath i Isai 66 24. the worme that never dieth the fire that never goes out And thinke they much if the Lord for a momeÌ„t chasteÌ„ that he may for ever haue mercy 3. Tell me thou that murmurest whither thinkest thou rather to be chosen A conscience wounded or a conscience seared a hart ground to powder or a heart past feeling of sin or wrath Certainely though it be true that Salomon speaks a wounded spirit is an evill intolerable yet if thou hast any rectitude of iudgement thou wilt easilie acknowledge the state of a man wounded farre better then the state of one hardned in these respects at least k Act. 16.30 1 That sense of the wound driues to seeke remedie Yea 2 l Isai 61.1 prepares makes fit to be cured 4. Let such remember what the Lord speakes to the Apostle m 2. Cor. 12.9 his grace is sufficient and he perfects his power in our weaknes and hath promised n 1. Cor. 10 23. not to suffer his to be tempted aboue strength c. Lastly let it not be forgotten that vsually comforts are o 2. Cor. 1.5 proportioned to afflictions the lesse the wounde the lesse the comfort the more the trouble the more plentifull the consolatioÌ„ when God is pleased to grant it And of the nature of this wounded spirit thus farre Whereto I will adde one thing of some consequence before I proceed to the attribute that is touching the subiect or persons into whom it is incident And thus propound the question Whither this misery may fall into Gods children or whither it be peculiar only to the vessels of wrath To this the answere is that not only castawaies or men vnreconciled to God but even vessels of election yea the dearest of Gods Saints actually partakers of adoption are subiect vnto it Yea more All Gods children except these only in whom the Lord workes extraordinarily as Infants c. sooner or later in one measure or another are thus wounded Gods children therefore consider in a double time 1. In the act of their calling 2 After their effectuall vocation In the act of their calling when God is bringing theÌ„ out of the power of darknesse it is generally true of al they feele it or else are never truly called And this is evident not only by instance but by generall doctrine Elihu describing the Lords proceedings with his childreÌ„ in their first conversion thus sets it out p Iob. 33.14.16.17.18.19.20.21 God speakes once and twice and men heare it not c. Then opens hee the eares by his corrections which he hath sealed c. by this especially here mentioned as appeares by effects thereof described in the processe of that Text. Our Savior professeth q Mat. 9.12.13 he heales not the whole but the sicke came not to call the righteous but sinners that is that feele their sinnes and grone vnder the burthen of them to repentance And therefore this once I dare avow none ever had conscience truly pacified that first felt not conscience wounded Now whether a man after he is in state of grace may feele this wound bleed a fresh is a greater questioÌ„ with some thorough their weaknesse though if we coÌ„sult with Scripture and experience the question is out of question r Iob. 33.29 All these things saith Elihu truly will God worke twise or thrise with a man that he may turne backe his soule from the pit Examples are frequent see David complaining that hee had Å¿ Ps 32.3 4. no rest in his bones by reason of his sinne his moisture and marrow consumed with the extremitie of this anguish Compare Ps 77. Iob. 13. that place especially is eminent 2. Cor. 12. there was giuen me saith the Apostle a pricke to the flesh c. many interpret it of concupiscence and the stirrings of lust but impertinently and against the circumstances of the place for stirrings of lust are no gifts of God neither are in any respect to be reckoned amongst infirmities which Paule would reioice in rather vnderstand it of this sting of conscience which he felt pressing him downe to the nethermost hell in his sense that was erst taken vp to the highest heaven If any demand reasons why the Lord is pleased thus to deale with his children these may be assigned whiles we set downe the diverse kinds of this wound according as the ends of inflicting are diverse The kindes are fiue 1. Penall inflicted for punishment properly so called such was that of t Gen. 4.13 14 Mat. 27.4.5 Cain and Iudas meerely penall a beginning of their hell wherevnto castawaies many enter even in this life 2. Castigatory for chastisement of some particular disobedience such u Psal 32. that of David a chastisement for his sinnes the like of many of Gods children so long as they hold on their course of obedience without interruption so long * Gal. 6.16 mercy is vpon theÌ„ and peace as vpon the Israell of God but if once they shal turne their liberty into license when once that peace of God ceaseth x Philip. 4.7 to keepe their hearts within the bounds of obedience farewell then their peace till repentance be renued y Iob. 13 26. God then writes bitter things against them and makes them possesse the sinnes even of youth 3. Probatory for triall such probably was that of Iob chiefly for triall and such perhaps is that of Gods children sometimes most strict in obedience 4. For prevention of some future sin so Paul z 2. Cor. 12 7. Least I should bee exalted aboue measure God in mercy before hand letting vs feele the smart that he may affright from practise of sinne Saith Bernard Quandoque ei qui peccato quovis obligatus tenetur Bern. de tripl misericord piÃ¨ immittit Dominus amaritudines quasdam quae menteÌ„ occupant hominis expellunt perniciosam delectationem peccati God often in his loue seeing vs intangled in some sinne casts into our soules some bitternesse to possesse the minde and to expel the pernicious delightsomenesse of sinne The last is of mixt nature partly for chastisement partly for triall partly for prevention And of one of these foure kinds is the distresse that any of Gods children feele If any would knowe how to put difference betwixt this wound as it is felt of Gods children that which is meerely Penall in aliens let him consider the different effects or consequents thereof according as the persons differ 1 Thus workes it vpon Gods servants in the first feeling of it glad they are to advise with any that is able

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