Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	grace_n	sin_n	4,888	5	5.2180	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02545	Holy obseruations. Lib. 1. Also some fewe of Dauids Psalmes metaphrased, for a taste of the rest. By Ios. Hall	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1607 (1607)	STC 12671; ESTC S103654	25,435	209

terrible is worthy of a Christians contempt what is pleasant to bee turned ouer with a scorne The meane requires a mean affection betwixt loue hatred We may not loue them because of their vanitie wee may not hate them because of their necessarie vse It is an hard thing to bee a wise host and to fit our entertainment to all comers which if it be not done the soule is soone wasted eyther for want of customers or for the mis-rule of ill guests 69 God and man build in a contrary order Man layes the foundatioÌ„ first then addes the walls the roofe last God began the roofe first spreading out this vault of heauen ere he layd the base of the earth Our thoughtes must followe the order of his worke-manship HeaveÌ„ must be minded first earth afterwarde and so much more as it is seene more Our meditation must herein follow our sense A fewe miles giue boundes to our view of earth wheras wee may neere see half the heaven at once Hee that thinkes most both of that which is most seene and of that which is not seene at all is happiest 70 I haue euer noted it a true signe of a false heart To be scrupulous and nice in small matters negligent in the mayne whereas the good soule is still curious in substaÌ„tiall points and not carelesse in things of an inferiour nature accounting no dutie so small as to bee neglected and no care great enough for principall duties not so tithing mint and cummin that he should forget iustice and iudgement nor yet so regarding iudgement and iustice that he should contemne mint cummin Hee that thus misplaces his conscience will bee found either hypocriticall or superstitious 71 It argues the world full of Atheistes that those offences which may impeach humane societie are entertained with an answerable hatred and rigor Those which do immediately wrong the supreme maiestie of God are turned ouer with scarce so much as dislike If wee conuersed with God as we doe with men his right would bee at least as precious to vs as our owne All that conuerse not with God are without God not only those that are against God but those that are without God are Atheists Wee may be too charitable I feare not to say that these our last times abound with honest Atheists 72 The best thing corrupted is worst An ill man is the worst of all creatures an ill Christian the worst of all men an ill professor the worst of all Christians 73 Naturally life is before death and death is only a priuation of life Spiritually it is contrary As PAVL sayth of the grayne so may wee of man in the businesse of his Regeneration Hee must die before hee can liue yet this death presupposes a life that was once and should bee God chooses to haue the difficultest first we must bee content with the payne of dying ere we feele the comfort of life As wee dy to nature ere we liue in glory So wee must die to sinne ere we can live to Grace 74 Death did not first strike Adam the first sinfull man nor Cain the first hypocrite but Abel the innocent and righteous The first soule that met with death overcame death the first soule that parted from earth went to Heaven Death argues not displeasure because he whoÌ„ God loved best dyes first and the murtherer is punished with living 75 The lives of most are mis-spent only for want of a certayne ende of their actions Wherin they doe as vnwise Archers shoot away their arrows they know not at what mark They liue only out of the present not directing theÌ„selues and their proceedings to one vniuersall scope whence they alter vpon all change of occasions and neuer reache anie perfection neither can doe other but continue in vncertaintie and end in discomfort Others ayme at one certaine marke but a wrong one Some tho fewer leuell at the right end but amisse To liue without one maine and common ende is idlenesse and folly To liue to a false ende is deceit and losse True Christian wisdom both shows the end and findes the way And as cunning Politickes have many plots to compasse one and the same designe by a determined succession so the wise Christian fayling in the meanes yet still fetcheth about to his steadie ende with a constant change of indeuours Such one onely lives to purpose and at last repents not that hee hath lived 76 The ship-wrack of a good conscience is the casting awaie of all other excellencies It is no rare thing to note the soule of a wilfull sinner stripped of all her graces and by degrees exposed to shame so those whom wee have knowen admired have fall'n to bee levell with their fellows and from thence beneath them to a mediocrity and afterwards to sottishnes and contempt belowe the vulgar Since they haue cast awaie the best it is iust with God to take away the worst and to cast off them in lesser regardes which haue reiected him in greater 77 It hath euer bin counted more noble and succesfull to set vpon an open enemie in his owne home then to expect till hee set vppon vs whiles wee make onely a defensiue warre This rule serues vs for our last enemy Death whence that olde demand of Epicure is easily answered whether it bee better Death should come to vs or that we should meete him in the waie meet him in our minds ere hee seize vpon our bodies Our cowardlinesse our vnpreparation is his aduantage wheras true boldenesse in confronting him dismayes and weakens his forces Happie is that soule that can sende out the scoutes of his thoughts before-hand to discouer the power of Death afarre off and then can resolutely incounter him at vnwares vpon aduantage such one lives with securitie dies with comfort 78 Manie a man sends others to heauen and yet goes to hell himselfe and not fewe hauing drawn others to hell yet themselues returne by a late repentance to life In a good actioÌ„ it is not good action it is not good to searche too deeply into the intentioÌ„ of the agent but in sileÌ„ce to make our best benefit of the worke In an euil it is not safe to regard the qualitie of the person or his successe but to consider the action abstracted from all circumstances in his owne kind So we shall neither neglecte good deedes because they speede not well in some hands nor affecta prosperous euill 78 God doth some singular actions wherein we cannot imitate him some wherein wee may not most wherin he may and would fain be followed He fetcheth good out of euill so may wee turn our owne others sinnes to priuate or publique good we may not doe euill for a good vse but wee must vse our euil once done to good I hope I shall not offende to say that the good vse which is made of sinnes is as gainefull to God as that which arises from good actions Happie is that man that can

changeable But all mens natures are equally indisposed to grace and to the common vocation of Christianity we are all borne heathens To do well nature must in the first be obserued and followed in the other crossed and ouercome 43 Good-man is a title given to the lowest wheras all Titles of Greatnesse Worship Honor are obserued and attributed with choice The speech of the World bewrayes their minde showes the common estimation of goodnes compared with other qualities The World therfore is an il Herald and vnskilful in the true stiles It were happie that goodnesse were so common and pity that it eyther shoulde not stand with greatnesse or not bee preferred to it 44 Amongst all actions Satan is euer busiest in the best and most in the best part of the best as in the ende of Prayer when the heart should close vp it selfe with most comfort Hee neuer feares vs but when wee are well imployed and the more likelyhood he sees of our profit the more is his enuie and labour to distract vs. Wee shoulde loue our selues as much as he hates vs and therfore striue so muche the more towardes our good as his malice striueth to interrupt it We doe nothing if we contende not when wee are resisted The good soule is ever in contradiction denying what is graunted and contending for that which is denyed suspecting when it is gayne-saide and fearing libertie 45 God forewarnes ere he try because he would be preuented Sathan steales vpon vs suddenly by temptations because he would soile vs. If we relent not vppon Gods premonition and meet not the lingring pase of his punishmeÌ„ts to forestall them he punisheth more by how much his warning was more euident and more large Gods tryals must be met when they come Satans must bee seene before they come and if we be not armed ere wee bee assaulted wee shall be foyled ere wee can bee armed 46 It is not good to bee continuall in denunciation of iudgement The noyse to which wee are accustomed tho loud wakes vs not whereas a lesse if vnusuall stirreth vs The next waie to make threatnings contemned is to make them common It is a profitable rodde that strikes sparingly and frightes somwhat oftener then it smiteth 47 Want of vse causeth disabilitie and custome perfection Those that haue not vsed to praie in their closet cannot pray in publique but coldely and in forme Hee that discontinues meditation shal be long in recouering whereas the man inured to these exercises who is not dressed till he haue praied nor hath supped till hee haue meditated dooth both these well and with ease He that intermittes good duties incurres a double losse of the blessing that followeth good of the facultie of dooing it 48 Christianitie is both an easie yoke and an hard hard to take vp easie to beare when once taken The heart requires much labour ere it can bee induced to stoope vnder it and findes as much contentment when it hath stooped The Worldling thinkes Religion seruilitie but the Christian knowes whose slaue hee was till hee entred into this seruice and that no bondage can be so ill as freedome from these bondes 49 It is a wonder how full of shiftes nature is Ready to turne ouer all good purposes If wee thinke of death she suggests secretly Tush it shall not come yet If of iudgement for sinne this concernes not thee it shall not come at all If of heauen and our labour to reach it Trouble not thy selfe it will come soone enough alone Addresse thy self to pray it is yet vnseasonable stay for a better opportunitie To giue almes thou knowest not thy owne future waÌ„ts To reproue what neeedest thou thrust thy selfe into wilfull hatred Euery good action hath his lett He can neuer be good that is not resolute 50 All Artes are Maides to Diuinitie therefore they both vayle to her and do her seruice and she like a graue mistresse controlls them at pleasure Naturall philosophie teacheth that of nothing can be nothing made and that from the privation to the habite is no returne Diuinitie takes her vp for these and vpon supernaturall principles teaches her a Creation a Resurrection Philosophy teaches vs to follow sense as an infallible guide Diuinity tels hir that faith is of things not seen Logick teaches vs first to discourse then to resolue Diuinity to assent without arguing Ciuil law teacheth that long custome prescribeth Diuinity that old things are passed Morall Philosophie that tallying of iniuries is iustice Divinitie that good must be returned for ill Policie that better is a mischiefe then an inconuenience Diuinitie that wee maie not doe euill that good maie ensue The Schoole is well ordered while Diuinitie keepes the chaire but if anie other skill vsurpe it and checke their mistresse there can followe nothing but confusion and Atheisme 51 Much difference is to bee made betwixt a reuolter and a man trayned vp in error A Iew and an Arryan both deny Christs deity yet this opinion is not in both punished with bodily death Yea a reuolt to a lesse error is more punishable then education in a capitall heresie Errors of iudgement tho lesse regarded then errors of practice yet are more pernicious but none so deadly as theirs that once were in the truth If truth be not sued to it is dangerous but if forsaken desperate 52 It is an ill argument of a good action not well done when we are glad that it is done To bee affected with the comfort of the conscience of wel performing it is good but meerly to reioyce that the act is ouer is carnall He neuer can begin cheerfully that is glad he hath ended 53 Hee that dooth not secret seruice to GOD with some delight doth but counterfaite in publique The truth of anie acte or passion is then best tryed when it is without witnesse Openlie manie sinister respects may draw from vs a forme of religious duties secretly nothing but the power of a good conscience It is to bee feared God hath more true deuout seruice in closets theÌ„ in churches 54 Words and diseases grow vpoÌ„ vs with years In age wee talke much because wee haue seene much and soone after shal cease talking for euer Wee are most diseased because nature is weakest and death which is neere must have harbingers such is the old age of the World No maruell if this last time bee full of writing and weake discourse full of sectes and heresies which are the sicknesses of this great and decaied body 55 The best ground vntilled soonest runs out into ranke weeds Such are Gods Children Ouer-growne with securitie ere they are aware vnlesse they bee wel exercised both with Gods plow of affliction and their owne industry in meditation A man of knowledge that is eyther negligent or vncorrected cannot but growe wilde and godlesse 56 With vs vilest things are most common But with GOD the best thinges are most frequently giuen Grace which is the noblest of all

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