Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	fire_n	hell_n	worm_n	1,679	5	10.4739	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11115	Heavens glory, seeke it. Earts [sic] vanitie, flye it. Hells horror, fere it	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?; Sparke, Michael, d. 1653, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 21383; ESTC S112117	58,519	284

standing vpon a pan of burning coales for the space of repeating the Lords prayer What shall it be thinke you to stand body and soule burning in the midst of those euerlasting hot raging fires in hell in comparison of which the fires of this world are but painted fires Is there any wit or iudgement in this world Haue men their right sences doe they vnderstand what these words import or are they peraduenture perswaded that these are onely the fables of Poets or doe they thinke that this appertaineth not to them or else that it was onely ment for others None of all this can they say for so much as our faith assureth vs most certainly herein And our Sauiour Christ himselfe who is euerlasting truth crieth out in his Gospell saying Heauen and earth shall faile bâ—t my word shall not faile Of this misery there followeth another as great as it which is that the paines are alwayes continuing in one like degree without any manner of intermission or decreasing All manner of things that are vnder the cope of heauen doe moue and turn round about with the same heauen and doe neuer stand still at one state or being but are continually either ascending or descending The sea and the riuers haue their ebbing and flowing the times the ages and the mutable fortune of men and of kingdomes are euermore in continuall motion There is no feauer so feruent that doth not decline neither griefe so sharp but that after it is much augmented it doth forthwith decrease To be sho't all the tribulations and miseries are by little and little worne away with time and as the common saying is Nothing is sooner dried vp than teares Onely that paine in hell is alwayes greene onely that feauer neuer decreaseth onely that extremity of hear knoweth not what is either euening or morning In the time of Noahs flood almighty God rained forty dayes and forty nights continually without ceasing vpon the earth and this sufficed to drowne the whole world But in that place of torment in hell there shall raine euerlasting vengeance and darts of furie vpon that cursed land without euer ceasing so much as one onely minute or moment Now what torment can be greater and more to be abhorred than continually to suffer after one like manner without any kinde of alteration or change Though a meat be neuer so delicate yet in case we feed continually thereupon it will in very short time be very loathsome vnto vs for no meat can be more precious and deli cate than that Manna was which almighty God sent down vnto the children of Israel in the Desart and yet because they did eat continually thereof it made them to loath it yea and prouoked them to vomit it vp againe The way that is all plaine they say weaâ—ieth more than any other because alwayes the variety yea euen in punishment is a kinde of comfort Tell me then if things that be pleasant and sauory when they be alwayes after one manner are an occasion of loathsomenesse and paine what kinde of loathsomenesse will that be which shall be caused by those most horrible paines and torments in hell which doe continue euerlastingly after one like sort What will the damned and cursed creatures think when they shall there see themselues so vtterly abhorred and forsaken of almighty God that he will not so much as with the remission of any one sinne mitigate somwhat their torments And so great shall the fury and rage be which they shall there conceiue against him that they shall neuer cease continually to curse and blaspheme his holy name Vnto all these paines there is also added the paine of that euerlasting consumer to wit the worme of conscience whereof the holy Scripture maketh so oftentimes mention saying Their worme shall neuer dye and their fire shall neuer be quenched This worme is a furious raging despight and bitter repentance without any fruit which the wicked shall alwayes haue in hell by calling to their remembrance the opportunity and time they had whiles they were in this world to escape those most grieuous and horrible torments and how they would not vse the benefit thereof And therefore when the miserable sinner seeth himselfe thus to be tormented and vexed on euery side and doth call to minde how many dayes and yeeres he hath spent idly in vanities pastimes and pleasures and how oftentimes he was aduertised of this perill and how little regard he tooke thereof What shall he thinke What anguish and sorrow shall there be in his heart Hast thou not read in the Gospell that there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth The famine of Aegypt endurd onely seuen yeares but that in hell shall endure euerlastingly In Aegypt they found a remedy though with great difficulty charge but for this there shall neuer a ny remedy be found Theirs was redeemed with money and cattell but this can neuer be redeemed with any manner of exchange This punishment cannot be pardoned this pâ—ine cannot be exchanged this sentence cannot be reuoked Oh if thou knewest and wouldest consider how euery one condemned to hell shall there remaine tormenting and renting himselfe weeping and wailing and saying O miserable and vnfortunate wretch that I am what times and opportunities haue I suffered to passe invaine A time there was when with one cup of cold water I might haue purchased to my selfe a crowne of glory and when also with such necessary workes of mercy in relieuing the poore I might haue gained life euerlasting Wherefore did I not looke before me How was I blinded with things present How did I let passe the fruitfull yeares of abundance and did not enrich my selfe If I had beene brought vp amongst Infidels and Pagans and had beleeued that there had beene nothing else but onely to be born and to dye then might I haue had some kinde of excuse and might haue said I knew not what was commanded or prohibited me but for so much as I haue liued amongst Christians and was my selfe one of them professed and held it for an article of my beleefe that the houre should come when I should giue vp an account after what order I had spent my life forsomuch also as it was daily cried out vnto me by the continuall preaching and teaching of Gods Embassadours whose aduertisements many following made preparation in time and laboured earnestly for the prouision of good workes forasmuch I say as I made light of all these examples and perswaded my selfe very fondly that heauen was prepared for me though I tooke no paines for it at all what deserue I that haue thus led my life O ye infernall furies come and rent me in peeces and deuoure these my bowels for so haue I iustly deserued I haue deserued eternall famishment seeing I would not prouide for my selfe while I had time I deserue not to reap because I haue not sowne I am worthy to be destitute because I haue not laid vp

torment to gaine another by rather than with one rest to gaine another rest And that thou maist more clearely perceiue the excellency of this rest and what a number of benefits are presently incident thereunto I beseech thee harken attentiuely euen what Almighty God himselfe hath promised by his Prophet Esay to the obseruers of his law in a manner with these words as diuers interpreters doe expound them When thou shalt doe saith hee such and such things which I haue commanded thee to doe there shall forthwith appeare vnto thee the dawning of the cleare day that is the sonne of iustice which shall driue away all the darkenesse of thy errours and miseries and then shalt thou begin to enioy true and perfit saluation Now these are the benefits which Almighty God hath promised to his seruants And albeit some of them be for the time to come yet are some of them to be presently receiued in this life as that new light and shining from heauen that safety and abundance of all good things that assured confidence and trust in the almighty God that diuine assistance in all our Prayers and Petitions made vnto him that peace and tranquility of conscience that protection and prouidence of Almighty God All these are the gracious gifts and fauours which Almighty God hath promised to his seruants in this life They all are the works of his mercy effects of his grace testimonies of his loue and blessings which he of his fatherly prouidence extendeth To be short all these benefits doe the godly inioy both in this present life and in the life to come and of all these are the vngodly depriued both in the one life and in the other Whereby thou maist easily perceiue what difference there is betweene the one sort and the other seeing the one is so rich in graces and the other so poore and needy For if thou ponder well Gods promised blessings and consider the state and condition of the good and the wicked thou shalt find that the one sort is highly in the fauour of Almighty God and the other deepely in his displeasure the one be his friends and the other his enemies the one be in light and the other in darkenesse the one doe enioy the company of Angels and the other the filthy pleasures and delights of Swine the one are truely free and Lords ouer themselues and the other are become bondslaues vnto Sathan and vnto their owne lusts and appetites The one are ioyfull with the witnesse of a good conscience and the other except they bee vtterly blinded are continually bitten with the worme of conscience euermore gnawing on them the one in tribulation stand stedfastly in their proper place and the other like light chaffe are carried vp and downe with euery blast of winde the one stand secure and firme with the anker of hope and the other are vnstable evermore yeelding vnto the assaults of fortune the prayers of the one are acceptable liking vnto God and the praiers of the other are abhorred and accursed the death of the one is quiet peaceable and precious in the sight of God and the death of the other is vnquiet painefull and troubled with a thousand frights and terrours To conclude the one liue like children vnder the protection and defence of Almighty God and sleepe sweetly vnder the shaddow of his pastorall prouidence and the other being excluded from this kinde of prouidence wander abroad as straied sheepe without their sheepheard and Master lying wide open to all the perils dangers and assaults of the world Seeing then that a vertuous life is accompanied with all these benefits what is the cause that should withdraw thee and perswade thee not to embrace such a precious treasure what art thou able to alledge for excuse of thy great negligence To say that this is not true it cannot be admitted for so much as Gods word doth aâ—ouch the certaintie hereof To say that these are but small benefits thou canst not for so much as they doe exceede all that mans heart can desire To say that thou art an enemy vnto thy selfe and that thou doest not desire these benefits cannot be considering that a man is euen naturally a friend to himselfe the will of man hath euer an eye to his owne benefit which is the very obiect or mark that his desire shooteth at To say that thou hast no vnderstanding nor taste of these benefits it wil not serue to discharge thine offence for somuch as thou hast the faith and beleefe thereof though thou hast not the taste for the taste is lost through sinne but not the faith and the faith is a witnesse more certaine moresecure and better to be trusted than all other experiences and witnesses in the world Why doest thou not then discredit all other witnesses with this one assured testimony Why doest thou not rather giue credit vnto faith than to thine owne opinion and iudgement O that thou wouldest make a resolute determination to submit thy selfe into the hands of Almighty God and to put thy whole trust assuredly in him How soone shouldest thou then see all these Prophesies fulfilled in thee then shouldest thou see the excellency of these diuine treasures then shouldest thou see how starke blinde the louers of this world are that seeke not after this high treasure then shouldest thou see vpon what good ground our Sauiour inuiteth vs to this kinde of life saying Come vnto me all yee that trauell and are loaden and I will refresh you take my yoake vpon you and you shall finde rest for your soules for my yoake is sweet and my burden is light Almightie God is no deceiuer nor false promiser neither yet is he a great boaster of such things as he promiseth Why dost thou then shrinke backe why dost thou refuse peace and true quietnesse why dost thou refuse the gentle offers and sweet callings of thy Pastor how darest thou despise and banish away vertue from thee which hath such prerogatiues and priuiledges as these be and withall confirmed and signed euen with the hand of Almighty God The Queene of Saba heard far lesse things than these of Salomon and yet she trauelled from the vttermost parts of the world to try the truth of those things that she had heard And why doest not thou then hearing such notable yea and so certaine news of vertue aduenture to take a little paines to try the truth and sequell thereof O deare Christian brother put thy trust in Almighty God and in his word and commit thy selfe most boldly without all feare into his armes and vnloose from thy hands those trifling knots that haue hitherto deceiued thee and thou shalt finde that theâ— merits of vertue doe farre excell her fame and that all which is spoken in praise of her is nothing in comparison of that which she is indeede That a man ought not to deferre his Repentance and Conuersion vnto God from day to day considering he hath so

in store I deserue that my request should now be denied me sith when the poore made request vnto me I refused to releeue them I haue deserued to sigh and lament so long as God shall be God I haue deserued that this worme of conscience shal gnaw mine entrails for euer and euer by representing vnto mee the little pleasure that I haue enioyed and the great felicitie which I haue lost and how far greater that was which I might haue gained by forgoing that little which I would not forgoe This is that immortall worme that shall neuer dye but shal lye there euerlastingly gnawing at the entrailes of the wicked which is one of the most terrible paines that can possibly be imagined Peraduenture thou art now perswaded good Reader that there can be added no more vnto this than hath beene said But surely the mighty arme of God wanteth not force to chastice his enemies more more for all these paines that are hitherto rehearsed are such as doe appertaine generally to all the damned but besides these generall paines there are also other particular paines which each one of the damned shall there suffer in diuers sorts according to the quality of his sinne And so according to this proportion the hauty and proud shall there be abased and brought low to their great confusion The couetous shall be driuen to great necessity the glutton shall rage with continuall hunger and thirst The lecherous shall burne in the very same flames which they themselues haue enkindled And those that haue al their life time hunted after their pleasures and pastimes shall liue there in continuall lamentation and sorrow But because examples are of very great force to moue our hearts I will bring onely one for this purpose wherby somewhat of this matter may the better be perceiued It is written of a certaine holy man that he saw the paines in spirit of a licentious and worldly man in this sort First he saw how the diuels that were present at the houre of his death when hee yeelded vp his ghost snatched away his soule with great reioycing and made a present thereof to the prince of darkenesse who was then sitting in a chaire of fire expecting the comming of this present Immediately after that it was presented before him he arose vp out of his seat and said vnto the damned soule that he would giue him the preheminence of that honourable seat because he had beene a man of honour ann was alwayes very much affected to the same Incontinently after that he was placed therein crying and lamenting in that honourable torment there appeared before him two other most ougly diuels and offered him a cup full of most bitter and stinking liquor and made him to drinke and carouse it vp all perforce saying It is meet sithence thou hast beene a louer of precious wines and bankets that thou shouldest likewise proue of this our wine whereof all we doe vse to drinke in these parts Immediately after this there came other two with two fiery trumpets and setting them at his eares began to blow into them flames of fire saying This melody haue we reserued for thee vnderstanding that in the world thou wast very much delighted with minstrelcie and wanton songs and sodainly he espied other diuels loaden with vipers and serpents the which they threw vpon the breast and bellies of that miserable sinner saying vnto him that forsomuch as he had beene greatly delighted with the wanton embracings and lecherous lusts of women he should now sollace himselfe with these refreshings instead of those licentious delights and pleasures which he had enioyed in the world After this sort as the Prophet Esay saith in the 47. chapter when the sinner is punished there is giuen measure for measure to the end that in such a great variety and proportion of punishments the order and wisedome of Gods iustice might the more manifestly appeare This vision hath almighty God shewed in spirit to this holy man for aduertisement and instruction not that in hel these things are altogether so materially done but that by them we might vnderstand in some manner the varietie and multitude of the paines which be there appointed for the damned Whereof I know not how some of the Pagans haue had a certaine knowledge for a Poet speaking of this multitude of paines affirmed That although he had a hundred mouthes and as many tongues with a voyce as strong as yron yet were they not able onely to expresse the names of them A Poet he was that spake this but truely therin he spake more like a Prophet or an Euangelist than a Poet. Now then if all this euill shall most assuredly come to passe what man is he that seeing all this so certainly with the eyes of his faith will not turne ouer the leafe and begin to prouide for himselfe against that time Where is the iudgement of mâ—n now become Where is their wits yea where is at least their selfe-loue which seeketh euermore for his owne profit and is much affraid of any losse May it be thought that men are become beasts that prouide onely for the time present Or haue they peraduenture so dimmed their eye-sight that they cannot looke before them Hearken saith Esay O yee deafe and ye blinde open your eyes that you may see Who is blinde but my seruant And who is deafe but yee vnto whom I haue sent my messengers And who is blind but he that suffereth himselfe to be sold for a slaue Thou that seest so many things wilt thou not suffer thy selfe to see this Thou that hast thine ears open wilt thou not giue eare hereunto If thou beleeue not this how art thou then a Christian If thou beleeue it and doest not prouide for it how canst thou be thought a reasonable man Aristotle saith That this is the difference betweene opinion and imagination that an imagination alone is not sufficient to cause a feare but an opinion is for if I doe imagine that a house may fall vpon mee it is not enough to make me afraid vnlesse I beleeue or haue an opinion it will be so indeede for then it is sufficient to make me afraid And hereof commeth the feare that murderers alwayes haue by reason of the suspition they conceiue that their enemies doe lye in wait for them If then the opinion and onely suspition of danger is able to cause the greatest courage to feare how is it that the certainty and beleefe of so many and so great terrible miseries which are farre more sure than any opinion doth not make thee to feare If thou perceiuest that for these many yeares past thou hast led a licentious and sinfull life and that at the last according to present iustice thou art condemned to these horrible torments in hell if also there appeare by probable coniecture that there is no more likelihood of thy amendment for ensuing years to come than there was in those already past how happeneth it

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