Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20262	A briefe & necessary instruction verye needefull to bee knowen of all housholders, whereby they maye the better teach and instruct their families in such points of Christian religion as is most meete. Not onely of them throughly to be vnderstood, but also requisite to be learned by hart of all suche as shall bee admitted vnto the Lordes Supper.	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.; More, John, d. 1592.	1572 (1572)	STC 6679; ESTC S114092	20,602	56

may be abolished Idolatrye rooted out Antichrist ouerthrowen Satan troden downe Hel may be confouÌ„ded the Gospel may encrease righteousnes maye shine and God may haue the glory This desire is the fruite of our lyse and ther is not in the world a better portion this we haue chosen and in this we wil dwel vntyl the fulnes of tyme that we shall say in our course Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace But we haue here not a litle feare and we sÃ©e the stumbling blockes that haue made our wayes daungerous True it is many men ar greatly to be beloued but this is as true there is none so good but Sathan wyll seeke to fift him Noe Lot Aaron Miriam Samson Dauid Martha Mary men and women of most excelleÌ„t vertue and such as the world was not worthy of and yet not one of these whom Satan wounded not yea almost vnto death The most glorious of all men subiect vnto synne was Adam him selfe and yet he was throwne downe into great confusion So that the Saintes of God for so I trust I may call them because of their great ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ the Saintes I say that God hath sent vnto vs they haue great cause to feare â— to say wyth Paule VVho seemeth to stand let him take heede he fall not Sure they are â—f continual assaultes and euen at this present one aboue other shaketh all their faith Satan hath so rent a sunder the glorye of our Ministerie that fleshe and bloud is not halfe willing to beare the shame of the world that goeth after it He hath spoyled it of the due reward of al authoritie of al obedience loue reuerence honor that man should gene vnto it He hath layd vpon it much contempt many reproches great pouertie intollerable bondage so that though the calling be in deede the most precious inheritance vnder the sun yet the glory is so darkned vnto mortal eyes that al Nobility is quite fled from it the Gentlemen afraid to come vnto it the riche man rather chuseth any other kinde of life the men nest estate so hardly contented with it that S. Paule him selfe can finde but a few folowers that wyll cast away from them the clokes of shame not degenerate from the dignitye of their office But God shall once geue agayne vnto his Ministerie beuty in stÃ©ede of ashes and ritch apparel in stÃ©ede of sackcloth when he shal turne againe the captiuitie of Syon build vp the walles of the promised IerusaleÌ„ In the meane season we wyll lyue in hope and geue thankes vnto our God that hath brought vs hetherto One other assault of Sathan hurteth as much as this yea and so much the more because it is couered with the cloke of benefite sheweth vs a saluing medicine against the former wound For where as the Ministers liuing in most Churches is but smal he hath found this remedy that one man should haue many benefices whereas the reproche is not litle but euen the name is ful of disdain as to be called maister Parson Maister Uicar Syr Iohn a parish priest c. Agaynst this euyll he hath founde a remedye worse and geuen liberty to al that wyll to be Non residentes to forsake their charge to go where they wyl like masterles hounds to fyl the coÌ„mon wealth with worse then any ydle or vagabond persons Loe this is the vessel of poyson that Satan hath set a broch the cup of whoordome which the Pope hath begun of vnto al the world This is the head and fountaine of all spirituall darknes the roote from which the glory of Antichrist dyd first aryse the filthy spring of al abominations which by pestileÌ„t encrease hath ouerslowed kingdomes with most shameful slauery brought Princes into contempt set a vile person in the Monarchie of the world And yet at thys day it doth so dull the spirites of many excellent meÌ„ that their hartes are full of surfeting and yet they foole not their disease they wallow as I said in their own vomit and yet they see not their shame The hainousnes of this syune it is so displeasant in the sight of God that he hath reuenged it with one of his greatest plages in hardening the offenders hartes that they should haue eyes to sÃ©e not sÃ©e and eares to heare not heare and hartes to vnderstand and yet not vnderstand For wher as in many thinges they heare the voyce of God follow humbly his calling yet here they be deafe euen as the Serpent that stoppeth his eares that he may not heare the Charmer charme he neuer so wisely It is plaine y the spirit speaketh Be diligeÌ„t to know the state of thy flock and take hede to thy heards for riches remain not alway nor the crowne from generatioÌ„ to generation But yet the loue of riches gorgeous shew of honor hath so deceiued many that in many yeares they sÃ©e not their flocke nor care not at all in what pastures they be fed So much in vayne it is that the Apostle speaketh vnto them He that hath an office let him attend on his office The charge that S. Paul geueth to the Ministers of the Church of Ephesus is as plaine as may be spoken yet they caÌ„not vnderstaÌ„d it Take hede saith he vnto your selues to all the flock of which the holy Ghost hath made you ouersears to feede the Church of God which he hath purchased wich his own bloud Oh that this precept were written in our harts with an yron pen or a claw of Adamant that we could neuer forget it The often remeÌ„brance that we haue bound our fayth vnto the spirit of God that hee hath called vs for the instruction of his people and that they are the price of the blood of Christ would make vs at the last so to loue our duty that the Sunne and Moone should be ashamed at the sound of a Nonresident the name of that parson should be odious vnto vs y would take vpon him a charge and looke not after it The Prophet saith that if the Minister declare not the iudgements of God against hym that synneth the wycked man shal dye in hys syn but his blood shall be required at the hands of the negligent watchman And the Apostle to the Hebrewes speaking of the faithful Minister sayth that they watch ouer the soules of those that are committed vnto them as they that shall geue accompt if any of them perish If these two be sufficieÌ„t witnes that according to the law the truth should be estÃ©emed by their woord most certain it is that our negligent Pastors who haue couered them selues as Salomon sayth with thicke clay and multiplyed their benefices tyll they be many in number they must needes thinke they haue an heauy accompt against the day of christ Neither gold nor siluer nor the pride of honor shall be acceptable in stÃ©ede of the soules of their brethren But so

hath made the Children of God euen to faynt in their mourning vntil they shall sÃ©e the great mercies of God to take awaye the cause of their griefe We sÃ©e the great ignorance in which the people are euery wher couered the cloudes of darknes more then the darknes of Aegypt haue so ouer shadowed them that the light of the Gospel of the glorye of Christ who is the Image of God it doth hardlye or not at all shine in their vnbeleuing hartes Scarce one of a great many can giue an accompt of their faith yet S. Peter requireth it of euery Christian. A very few haue tasted the beginninges of the Gospel of Christ and yet S. Paule biddeth that the word dwel plentifulfully in eche one of our hartes The Apostle blameth the ignoraunce of the people who haue learned yet no further then repentance from dead workes and the first enstructions of the faith toward God But O Lord howe many thousands of vs of fayth and of true repentaunce can say nothyng The Prophet speaketh of the kyngdome of Christ that in those daies the earth should be ful of the know ledge of the Lord as the waters that do couer the sea where is now that blessed spirite of vnderstandyng to be poored vpon vs And wher is this riches of the knowledge of God Are not rather the multitude of our brethren clothed with darknes so that they grope in their wayes as at midnight know nothing of the way of lyfe We pray dayly according as we are taught Let thy kingdome come if we speake not like the Parets in woordes without vnderstanding then this is our meaning let thy spirite beare rule in our hartes and the knowledge of thy woorde lighten the eyes of our mynde And what do we then els but dally with the Lord if we pray styll for knowledge and yet sleepe stil in ignoranceâ— Then thys is louing Brethren a good excuse for our boldnes if in so great necessitye according to our talentes we sÃ©eke to be profitable vnto many If any thinke that there are already sufficiently set forth many Catechismes I do easely graunt it but they are not sufficiently learned neither yet can be For it was necessary in the best and most godlye of these labours whilest the Christian faith is plainly taught to edifiyng of the simple and conuincing of the aduersary that the faithful teacher should vse moe wordes then can be caried in mynde of the ignorant man And therefore I thought itgood as briefly as I could to comprehende the effect of all that the begynninges beyng made playne and easely printed in memory we might enter into reasoning and disputation with our selues enstructing one another and helping one an other that we might haue the more fruit in the loÌ„ger labours of others but most of all that we might be encouraged to the most holy and liuely woord of God to drinke wyth continuall desire of the fruitfull spring euen vntyll the water of lyfe do flow vp in our hartes vnto euerlastyng gladnes the day starre do arise in our hartes which may lighten our mindes in to the knowledge of the God of glory There is nothyng remayning more why this labour should be misliked except anye man would thinke that euery Congregation had a sufficient Pastor to instruct those that were ignorant so that they should not nÃ©ede any straunge Teacher God graunt that in time to come this maye be found true But yet we are farre from it euen as light from darknes or death from life or as knowledge and vnderstanding is from insensible blyndnes O that we had eyes to see so great miserie For sure it may not wel be iustified that in so cleare light of the woorde as God hath made now to shine vpon vs that there was euer nation which had so ignorant Ministers We maye here in compare with the man of synne him selfe I do not knowe that in the midst of all hys abominations there was a more lothsome sight of that idolatrous priesthood then we haue set vp among our selues to be fellow labourers among vs in the Gospell For what though they excÃ©eded in loosnes of life Yet their darke and barbarous religion was so thicke a cloude spread ouer their maners that the fulnes of their lynnes was not easely seue But we haue the light that hath made althinges manyfest and the Sunne hath shined that hath disclosed iniquitie so that there hath not bene among vs any popish Priest so dronken nor any alehouse Chaplen at such a perpetuall truce with hys drinking pots that hath possibly purchased so much discredite to his belly God and kitchin faith as our dum Dogs and guides do dayly multiply against the God of Israel and the faith of his anointed our onely God and Sauiour It grÃ©eneth me to remember and lotheth me much more to rehearse the estate of the ministration into whych we are fallen We haue good time now to complayne wyth the Prophet like people like priest Euen the same coueringes of Israel that shadowed then their glory they haue spread theÌ„ selues agayne as the heauens are come ouer our head in so great a tempest of blindnes ignorance that they haue shaken the foundations of all our comfort We saw in deede Halcionios dies the glad and pleasant daies in which our hope shined when first our happy gouernment turned away our sorrowes brake the yoke of Antitichrist deliuered vs from the power of darknes and caryed vs among the Saints of God into the kingdome of light But our hope hath since suffered a great Eclipse from the fulnes of her beutie such hath bene the malice of Satan He attempted agaynst vs euen at the first his most pestilent practise and hath brought accordinglye hys purpose to effect When God had turned the wyl of the Magistrate and enclined his eare to vnderstaÌ„ding when he had geuen vnto him courage to scatter the enemies of his truth and planted true feare in his hart to establish his Gospel then the subtile Serpent which had turned all his deuices hether he bent his violence and thys counsell pleased hym best To corrupt the Priesthoode who should instruct the Prince by Vrim and Thumim that if thus he might darken the light of the people it might be the more easy to leade them out of the way Then he entred againe and with more successe into hys first assaultes wherewyth he tempted once our sauiour Christ He robbed the Minister of his blessed hope in the prouidence of God and made him seeke the wayes ful of vile shame to get his bread He hanged before his eyes an other veale of pompe and vanitie that he could not with open countenance see Christ but folowed the present plea sures that better liked him And so first wouÌ„ding the head the infection hath growen since into the other partes of the body that now al most there is nothyng but woundes swelling and sores

it is they are shut vp in blindnes and God hath couered them with a spirit of slomber they are set down in the counsels of the mockers despisers which say in much securitye where is the promise of his coÌ„ming O curssed law of liberty that hath so dulled their spirit And O bottomles pit and hel of whooredomes out of which such a stincking sauour coÌ„tinually breatheth of Pluralities Totquots and al maner faculties and dronken dregs of popish abominations O Lord God we beseche thÃ©e multiply thy spirit yet more vpon thine anoynted chosen seruantes Leade them into the mydst of thy Sanctuary that they may drinke full of thy louing kindnes And enrich them so far wyth all thy blessinges that they may sÃ©e wyth thy Saintes what is the height the breadth the length the deapth and how vnsearchable is the ritches of thy glorye that hast alone immortalitie and dwellest in light which shall shine for euer That thy manyfolde mercies which thou hast multiplyed vnto them may be made perfect in that fulnes of spirit vntyl they shal say vnto themselues euen with the zeale of that noble Prophet and King I wyll not enter into the tabernacle of my house nor get vp into my bed I wil not suffer mine eyes to sleepe nor mine eyelyds to slumber vntyl I haue caused this land which thou hast blessed to spue out the surfetings of this deadly poyson O Lord God thou that art able bryng this good thing to passe let not our synnes seperate betwene vs and thy goodnes but open thine eares vnto our praiers and poure out thy compassions vpon vs that we our Rulers may all reioyce and syng together wyth thy Saintes in the Apocalips Allelu-iah saluation and glory power be to thÃ©e O Lord our God for true and righteous are thy iudgementes and thou hast condemned the great whoore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication And therfore make vs say continuallye Allelu-iah and her smoke let it ryse vp for euermore Amen Farewell good Christian Reader and forget not thy deutie to blesse them wyth thy prayer who haue blessed thÃ©e with libertye and helpe them to the gloryous triumphe of the Gospel of Christ who haue broken from thy neck the yoke of Antichrist that they may long rule with righteousnes with peace and with ioy in the holy Ghost whose gouernmeÌ„t hath made thÃ©e free from the bondage of Aegypt from the spiritual Baby lou from Pope and papacie which shame hath shadowed and shal at the last close it vp for euer From my Chamber the. 22. of Aprill 1572. Thyne in the lord vE D. Roma 8. 22. Â¶ Euery creature groneth together and traueleth in payne vntyll this present and not onelye the creature but we also which haue the first fruites of the spirit euen we do sigh in our selues wayting for the adoption euen the redeÌ„ption of our bodies Â¶ A short instruction very necessary for all suche as shall be receiued to the Lordes Supper Question What is â—â—e chiefest dutie of a Christian â—an ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ this lyfe Aunswer â—he chiefest duty of man not â—â—â—â—an onely but of all the creatuâ—es in the world in their nature is to set forth the glory of God. Question How shall we perfourme this dutie Answer To perfourme this duty it is necessary to know vnto what death we by our selues ar subiect What great saluatioÌ„ God of his free mercy hath geuen vnto vs throughe faith And what thankfulnes we owe vnto him for our deliuerance Question Tell me these thynges in order Fyrst what is syn and what doth it deserue Aunswer Synne is the breach of the law of God contayned in the ten commaundements and the reward of this synne is eternal death Question Rehearse the ten Commaundements Aunswer God spake these wordes sayd I am the Lord thy GOD whych brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage thou shalt haue none other Gods but me c. Question What meaneth this commaundement thou shalt haue none other Gods but me Aunswer The meaning of it is that I should acknowledge but one onely God that I shoulde honour and feare him that I should cleane vnto him that I should not do after the abominations of anye idolatrous people to worship stocks or stones that I â—â—ould not harken to anye false Prophetes that teache their own fantasies and not the woord of God That I should not seeke to any Sorcerers CoÌ„iurers Witches Soothsayers Charmers or any such But that I should harken vnto Christ alone and adde no thing to the woord which he hath spoken but put all my trust in God alone call vpon hym alone feare him alone and loue hym aboue all All this is contayned in thys fyrst commauÌ„dement Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me Question What meaneth the second commaundement that we shall not make anye granen Image Aunswer The meaning of this is that we shoulde not thinke God to be lyke either man or woman or gold or syluer or anye manner creature that we should not woorshyp hym vnder the similitude of Sunne Moone or any other thyng what soeuer it be to how downe before it But onely in spirite and truth we must woorship God alone and beside him no other no Saint no Angell no creature And that the worshipping of God alone be not according to our fansies but onely as hym selfe hath commaunded in hys woord If in anye of these pointes we be faulty we haue broken this second commaundement Question What meaneth the third commaundement that we should not take the name of God in vayne Aunswere The meaning of it is that we shoulde not sweare falselye nor rashly nor in light matters but with feare and reuerence make mencion of the name of the Lorde our God in truth in iudgement and in righteousnes to the glorye of God or maintenance of brotherlye loue in which causes we must sweare by the name of God alone neither by heauen nor earth neither by booke Saint nor Angell nor any creature As for Masse Crosse Roode or suche other we ought so to detest suche manner Idols that they shoulde not once be named among vs But we should haue onely precious in our eies the glorious and fearfull name of the Lord our god This is to obey this thirde commaundement Question What meaneth the fourth commaundement Remember that thou keepe holye the Sabboth day Aunswer To keepe holye the sabboth day is to come together and with feare and reuerence to heare the word of God preached vnto vs to receaue his Sacramentes with fayth and with repentaunce to pray together with one heart and voyce to shewe in outwarde doyng our inwarde sabboth that we rest from sinne and wickednes that the spirit of God dwelleth in vs and wor keth in this lyfe the beginnyng of our euerlastyng

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