Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	end_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	1,201	5	10.8215	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07487	The carde and compasse of life Containing many passages, fit for these times. And directing all men in a true, Christian, godly and ciuill course, to arriue at the blessed and glorious harbour of heauen.	Middleton, Richard, d. 1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 17870; ESTC S104498	98,424	266

our defect of credulitie and beliefe The eies of our soules as Bernard saith are intellectus affectus Our vnderstanding and affection But those two eyes are pulled out by Satan the God of the world who hauing blinded the minds of Infidels 2. Cor. 4.4 that the light of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ which is the Image of God should not shine vnto thÌ„e takes frÌ„o them all faith that they should haue in the promises iudgements of God The time will come saith the Apostle and the time is say I when they wil not suffer wholesome doctrine 2. Tim. 1.3.4 and shall turne their eares from the truth they will not beleeue the truth and if they wil not heare and beleeue too Moses and the Prophets Luc. 16.31 neyther will they bee perswaded albeit one rose from the dead again And indeed the sinne of Infidelitie is the root of all our cecitie blindnesse and miserie For if wee beleeued Moses and the Prophets Iesus Christ and his Apostles we could not but see a farre off as the Apostle saith 2. Pet. 1.9.5 both Gods mercies to such as ioyne all vertues to faith also his iudgements against the wicked sinner that walkes on in the stubbornnesse of his owne heart How much this Infidelitie offendeth God wee may see in the example of Moses and Aaron Num. 20.12 Gods deare children who because they did not beleeue him to sanctifie him before the children of Israel in the desart he barred them from bringing the Israelites into the Land of Promise Euen as our Sauiour depriued his owne countrie of his great works Mat. 13.58 for their vnbeliefes sake How much the more then will he be offended with vs who stand not so highly in his fauour as these men did If one tell you of fables and narrations of many incredible things you beleeue them why will ye not then beleeue the truth 2. Tim. 4.4 3 The third cause of our blindnesse is the expectation of Gods long animity and patience Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill This the Apostle cals a Despising of the riches of Gods bountifulnesse patience and long suffering and a heaping vnto our selues wrath against the day of wrath and declaration of the iust iudgement of God Therefore Wise Siracides disswades this Sir 5.6 Say not the mercie of God is great hee will forgiue my manifold sinnes for mercie and wrath come from him and his indignation commeth vpon sinners Nor yet say I haue sinned Sir 5.4 and what euill hath come to me For God is a patient Rewarder and hee will not leaue thee vnpunished And as this presumption of Gods mercie blinds many so hope of long life doth the same As wee may beholde in the Rich man whose soule was taken from him Luc. 12.20 whilest he was building his barnes for his fruits Let vs remember what Bernard saith Maledictus qui peccat in spe Cursed is he that sinnes in hope 4 Fourthly Besides the outward appearance of goodnesse and the externall worship of God makes many so hood-winked that they cannot see the danger of their Estate Most doe thinke that God is pleased with the outward worke of his seruice praying reading hearing of Sermons wherein they carrie themselues as the Spirit speaketh of the Church at Sardi Apoc. 3.1 Thou hast a name that thou liuest but thou art dead they seeme to haue some Religion and deuotion but it is but hypocrisie for there are no fruits worthie amendement of life Of these you may say as the Prophet doth Beautie hath deceiued thee Dan. 13.56 so apparance of Religion hath deceiued and blinded them Of this Bernard speaketh thus Serpit super omne corpus putridalabes Hypocrisis moribus vtique damnabilis the rotten and stinking blemish of Hypocrisie hath dispersed it selfe ouer the whole bodie of mankinde in manners verily damnable Therefore let not any thinke that the outward workes of the Law alone are all that God requires of vs. For the end of the Commandement is Loue out of a pure heart 1. Tim. 1.5 a good Conscience and Faith vnfeigned 5 The last but not the least cause of our blindnesse is abundance of temporall blessings For euen as in the Moones Eclypse which is the interposition of the Earth betwixt the bodie of the Sunne and the Moone the Earth being a darke bodie detaines the beames that they cannot proceed and so the Moone is Eclypsed and looseth her light so in Man the loue of temporall thinges in the wil Eclypseth and hindereth the beames of reason and vnderstanding that they cannot inlighten the soule Hence the Hebrewes affirme that Couetousnesse so possessed Cain that he beleeued not there was any life after this and for this cause slew his brother who beleeued a life to come a reward for the good and punishment for the wicked in which contention Cain slew him Eight Aphorismes or Rules containing the summe of an happie life and blessed death 1 WEE rightly worship God with true faith daily invocation and lawfull obedience in the Sacrifice and obedience of Christ imputed to vs by faith 2 Wee exhilarate our soules and honourably spend our liues by a learned pietie and exercise of vertues 3 We cure the anguishes of the mind and the doutbfull health of our bodies by the evacuation of cares moderate labour and sober temperance 4 Wee increase and conserue our stocke and substance with honest diligence obserued faithfulnesse and liberall parsimonie and sparing 5 We gaine the godly fauour of men with wise and well seasoned language blamelesse life and approoued manners 6 Wee get friendship with faithfull beneuolence and mutuall Offices of Loue. 7 Wee gaine our enemies with iust susterance pacifying words and worthy Offices 8 This kind of life is most acceptable to God To doe good to all men and yet to sustaine enâ—ie hatred and iniuries of Deuils and Men. How to obtaine eternall life and auoid eternall death 1 THat there bee an earnest care of learning and reading the be auenly Doctrine deliuered in the sacred Scriptures ioyned with a godly and lawfull vse of the Sacraments according to that in Saint Lukes Gospell Luk. 16.29 They haue Moses and the Prophets Let them heare them 2 Let vs liue in the feare of God and imploy our selues in the serious exercises of true repentance that in the acknowledgement of our sinnes we may by saith flie to the mercie of God promised in his Sonne Christ and addresse all our whole liues after the rule of his holy Word mindfull of that Commaundement Mat. 4.17 Repent for the Kingdome of Heauen is at hand 3 That we shunne with a singular care all sinnes and scandals which shal according to the prediction of Christ and his Apostles in the end of the world swarme most abundantly namely Luxurie Drunkennesse Auarice Carnall

thy memorie blurred and thou so astonished and senselesse that thou shalt not know in what place and what case thou liest and with much difficultie shalt thou be stirred vp to any sense or sorrow for thy sinne This consideration will not a little astonish thee that thou shalt haue at that time more then euer in all thy life more doubts and scares suggested thee of the certaintie of thy saluation â—â—st in respect of the multitude of thy sinnes secondly in that thou shalt then haue the memory of thy sinnes represented to thee which obliuion and custome of sinning had stolne from thee thirdly in that the sins which then thou thoughtest to bee little and light doe now appeare great and grieuous fourthly in that thy repentance dying is not so secure as when thou art in health Hence it will fall out that thou shalt bee so amazed that thou wilt not know which way to turne thee To returne backe the grieuousnes of thy sicknesse will not suffer thee To goe forwards is of all fearefull thinges the most fearefull To stand still in that estate God will not suffer who hath numbred all thy dayes from eternitie and will haue this to bee the last houre of thy life If thou beholdest God hee will appeare to thee angrie with the sword of his most iust vengeance drawne against thee for thy impenitent life If thou cast downe thy eyes thou shalt see nothing but a stinking graue for thy bodie which thou so much louedst and pamperedst and the gates of Hel standing open to entertaine thy soule which in thy life thou so little regardedst If thou enter into thy selfe what shalt thou finde but a confused infinite masse of thy sinnes the conscience whereof doth worthily adiudge thee to eternall torments If thou lookest about thee what shalt thou see miserable wretch but an infinite troupe of Diuels striking horrour into thy conceit and reading the bookes and billes of all the sinnes of thy life and like Lions whome long famine hath enraged expecting for thee their prey How suddenly then will Honours Riches and Pleasures of thy whole life seeme to haue fled from thee How euidently but late if not too late shalt thou then know that all the things of this life vnder the Sunne are nothing else but Fopperies Dreames Fraudes shadowes which like a vaine apparition haue nothing in them certaine solid sure How wouldest thou desire a little euen the least staie and breathing to collect thy selfe and correct thy wayes But al too late The fourth point is to consider that what in this world is most deare to thee must then bee left behinde thee heere Then thinke with thy selfe what sorrow those things will bring vnto thee which thou most esteemedst and valuedst aboue al others thy Parents and Friends wil but accompanie thee to the graue thy rich garments shal be left behinde thy goods thy heires will seize on and reioyce at the purchase thy bodie will be ill entreated with Wormes Toades and Serpents onely thy works wil accompanie thee into the entrance of another life most happie or most miserable such as thy workes haue beene good or euill On the other side consider how diuerse from these and how secure the death of the righteous is These when they feele themselues to draw neere their end with a few defects but with much repentance and a heart abstracted from earthly thinges hauing euer had their conuersation in Heauen reioyce that all their liues long they haue laboured for so plentifull an haruest they enioy the testimonie of a good conscience reioyce to behold the troupes of Angels that come out to meet them and are so much the more rauished with ioy as they draw neerer vnto death by which they are deliuered from the prison of the flesh the difficulties of life the flouds of miseries the infinite snares and deceits of the enemies and draw neare to the reward of their labours the Crowne of glorie and fruition of eternall rest and felicitie with the Saints of God which they haue desired and laboured for and hoped to attaine The last point is to ponder with thy selfe what then thou wouldest that thou haddest done when being neare to death thou hast no more time to liue and the same thing which thou wouldest wish thou haddest done when thou art at the point of death the same thing without delaie doe whilest thou meditatest hereof that thou maist be euerie houre ready to imbrace the message of death as Seneca perswades Mors vbique nos expectat tu si sapiens eris vbique illam expectabis Death euerie where expects vs therefore if thou be wise doe thou euery where expect death So shal it neuer take thee at any aduantage To this end remember Augustines admonition Be affraid to liue in such an estate as thou art afraid to die in Conclude this Meditation with a friendly conference with God in which demaund of him that by his grace these things may penetrate into the bottom of thy heart and there be so fixed that they neuer may bee quenched and that from this time forwards thou maist make such vse of the preaching and hearing of his holy word of the coÌ„sortable Sacraments of his Church and all other the good meanes of thy saluation that thou maist begin now to walke with a better conscience before him and in the peace of a quiet conscience thou maist arriue at the Hauen of glorie MEDITATION II. The second Meditation is of the last Iudgement HEre must a preparatorie Prayer be made as before in the Meditation of death And first conceiue thou seest a most ample goodly spacious place where all the Nations of the Earth shall be gathered together to receiue their doome of eternall blisse or eternall torments Secondly aske of God from thy heart that so great and vnvsual a spectacle may bring some profit to thy sinfull soule The first point to bee meditated is to consider the diuerse and most horrible and fearefull signes going before the last iudgment First in the Angels for the powers of Heauen shall bee moued and they shall come with a great sound of a Trumpet and shall gather the elect from the foure windes and from the one end of Heauen to another summoning the whole Worlde with that fearefull Trumpet Arise yee dead and come to Iudgment Secondly in the Deuils whose bands shal then be loosed so that he shal rage more then euer before Thirdly in the Waters which happily may rise aboue the tops of the Mountaines whose noise and horrible roaring of the Sea shall confound the hearers Fourthly in the Earth whose most inward parts shal then by horrible motions bee shaken with cracking of stones traiection of mountaines and complanation of vallies insomuch as all Creatures shal be strucke into sorrow Fiftly in the Heauen the Sunne and Moone shall fall from Heauen and threaten eternall ruine to the Earth Sixtly in men Then shall appeare the signe of the Sonne of man

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