Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	die_v	year_n	6,258	5	4.9578	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10553	The redemption of lost time	Powel, Daniel.	1608 (1608)	STC 20825; ESTC S105744	52,135	280

commaund as thou imaginest watch and sleepe not be euer warie well aduised If otherwise hee will come vnto thee as accustometh the thiefe to come to rob and spoile will on a suddaine at vnawares catch apprehend thee before thou canst know or perceiue on what houre he is to come The thiefe comes to steale and to carie away the treasure which he shall finde heedlesly layed vp and which is not kept with that due regard and carefulnesse as behoued and such is Time in the house of the sinner And therefore with good and iust reasons will the Lord cut it off because it was not regarded and imployed to that end whereby good gaine and profitable exchange yea great riches blessings and eternall happinesse might haue bin had and obtained Conformable to this sayeth our Sauiour by his Euangelist S. Matthew Mat. 25.29 He that hath shall haue more and from him that hath not shall be taken away that which hee hath or seems to haue The iust man apprehends Time as his owne and is Lord thereof for that hee well knoweth how to vse it and to him that hath time at the end of his life more time and space shall be giuen him to examine himselfe to purifie his conscience and shall haue aboundance because hee shal obtaine full remission and compleat pardon of all his sinnes plentifull grace and glory infinite And hee possesseth no Time who while hee liueth doth not well imploy the same but being seduced and deceiued by the Diuell with prolonging of amendment thinkes that he shall enioy sufficient by the iust Iudgement of God shall be bereaued of his vaine expectation and shal want space to repent either by some sodain death or by some other disgracefull and vnfortunate accident Thus farre Bernardin Senensis And for that cause doth our Lord and Sauiour admonish vs so often Mat. 25.13 that wee watch because we knowe not the day nor the houre wherein Time will make an end of vs. And the holy Church semblably like a louing and coÌ„passionate Mother doth aduise vs the very same saying Let vs reforme and amend that which hitherto we haue most ignorantlie or wilfully transgressed considering that no Time of repentance will be hereafter left vs which though we seeke for yet shall not we obtaine the same And to this purpose as God cuts the thrid of life before the time from him who profited not with Time in his seruice Bern. de Sena Bernardinus de Sena reporteth a most terrible and fearefull accident which in his time happened in a certain village of Catalunna neare to the kingdome of Valencia A young man of the age of eighteene yeares hauing beene most rebellious disobedient towards his Parents did many times loose and forget the regard and respect due vnto them In punishment whereof God leauing him to himselfe came to be a most notorious Thiefe for robberies being apprehended and condemned to die was brought to be hanged to the market place of his owne Towne And the young man being dead hanging vpoÌ„ the gallowes and all the whole Towne present they saw and perceiued his beard to sprout out much haire to grow to remaine with a wrinkled brow a writhen face full of gray haires with the aspect and semblance of a man of ninety yeares a thing whereat all were astonied and wonderfully amazed which accident being brought to the knowledge of the Bishop who then resided in that Village commanded that all should prepare themselues to prayer himselfe performing the same most humbly beseeched Almightie God that he would bee pleased to reueale vnto them the mysterie of so rare an accident and after a pretie while intreated silence and speaking with a loud voyce sayd thus You see my Sonnes that this young man died of the age of eighteene yeares who afterwards appeared and seemed with the visage and countenance of a man of ninetie yeares whereupon you are to note what God would haue vs to be instructed of namely that after the course of nature he was vndoubtedly to liue ninety yeares and so would haue done had he beene obedient to his Parents but in regard of his sins and disobedience the Lord hath permitted him to die a violent death cutting off from his life so many yeares as are from eighteen to ninetie And because this might be manifest and apparant to al men he hath wrought this miracle S. Ierome saith Hieron Epist 21. that the shortnesse of life is a punishment and iudgement against sinners and therefore because of sinne the Lord from the beginning of the world hath shortened and cut off the life and yeares of men Once God withdrew from Hezehiah fifteene yeares of his life Isaiae 38.1 which according to the course of nature he was to liue but afterwardes by meanes of his Teares and hartie repentance Ver. 3. they were restored and granted vnto him againe And so Haymo vpon those words of the Prophet Isaiah Haymo in Isaian 38.5 The Lord hard thy Prayer and hath seene thy teares and will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeares saith thus euen as he spake to Adam that he should be immortall conditionally so as he continued obedient to the diuine precept so by God his eternall Decree those years were granted to King Hezechias conditionally if he liued faultlesse and blamelesse and would not suffer himselfe to be puft vp with pride For those yeares which for his pride should haue bene taken from him nowe because of his humility and lowlinesse were restored againe Psa 55.23 Viri sanguinum dolosi non dimidiabunt dies suos saith Dauid The bloudy and deceitfull men shall not liue halfe their daies That is as if more plainely he had sayd They shall not liue the one halfe of the dayes they should haue liued in case they had beene godly Sinners are not the men whom they think and imagine they are For as our Sauiour sayd to the Iewes Auferetur a vobis regnum Dei c. Mat. 21.43 The kingdome of God shall be taken from you and shall be giuen to a Nation which shall bring foorth good fruit and shall better know how to acknowledge and estimate thereof So will God bereaue sinners of Time because they yeelde no fruit of good workes in the same and will bestow it on such as will yeeld good fruite and likewise knowe how to imploy the same well Those words of Dauid in his 102. Psalme Nereuoces me in dimidio dierum meorum Psal 102.24 wherein he beseeched the Lord that he would not take him away out of this life in the middest of his dayes albeit according to some interpreters are as much to say as Oh my God I hartily beseech thee not to take me away in the middest of my dayes because that time and age is the very gulfe wracke of life the nest of cares and pretensions and more dangerous to die in then

of glorie And therefore the Holy Ghost counsaileth vs Eccli 4.20 to preserue and keepe Time as we doe gold so shall we depart from euill which is as if he had told vs that we should vse imploy it in good works not loose the least moment thereof Againe he willeth vs to be aduised by the same Ecclesiasticus Eccli 14.14 saying Defraud not thy selfe of the good day and let not the portion of the good desires ouerpas thee One traÌ„slation hath Particula bonae diei others as likewise in the vulgar editioÌ„ Boni doni One while he saith let no part of the good day ouerpas thee for nought another while he saith of the good gift or desires The meaning is to admonish vs that we spend wel the Time and the Day yea all days for he that can wel order redres one day may by the same ameÌ„d and reforme al his life in the same man ought to do all the good he can for him selfe for his neighbors exercising himself in works of Pietie and mercie King Dauid so much feared to loose the least particle of Time so farre indeuored wholy to imploy the same wel that he striued conteÌ„ded with the sun for early vprising to praise God which at leÌ„gth the king preuented according to those words Psal 11â— ver 147.148 PraeueneruÌ„t oculi mei ad te diluculo Early in the morning do I cry vnto thee Mine eies preueÌ„t the morning watch that I might meditate in thy words for before the Sun was vp I was occupied in the same Which according to the exposition of S. Ambrose is as much as if more clearely hee had spoken Rise earlier thou ChristiaÌ„ before the Sun be vp for I hold it great negligeÌ„ce carelesnesse most culpable in thee that the beames of the Sunne when it riseth should find thee idle and sleeping in thy bed Thou art ignorant perhaps that thou oughtest euery day to render vnto God almighty the first fruits of thy toung and heart See thou haue a daily haruest and daily fruite in like maner And in another Psalme the Prophet saith Psal 77.4 Anticipauerunt vigilias oculi mei My eyes preuented and awaked before the watch-men and gard of the citie that is to say as S. Ierome declareth before that any body went to watch or did awake I awaked and watched at midnight and in the morning at mid-day in the euening and finally seuen times a day doe I laud my Lorde yea alwayes and at all houres haue I his prayses in my mouth Hee well knew how to obserue Time hee duely acknowledged what it was and what stood him auaileable as of a thing so pretious hee knew how to make profite thereof without loosing one iot either of the Good day or of the good gift Time saith Theophrastus is a most costly Theophrast expense Seneca Epist 1. And Seneca in his first Epistle which hee wrote to his friend Lucilius saith thus What man is he that will suffer me to set price on his Time How much thinkes hee is the day worth admitting that euery day hee were to die wherfore we do much deceiue our selues herein because we fix not our eies vpon death a great part whereof is already past all that of our age life which yet remaineth behinde death holdes in possession Wherfore my deere friend Lucilius persist still in doing of that which thou thy selfe in thy Letters didst write vnto me thou doest being a person that so well knowest the due estimation of Time imbrace al the houres so shalt thou depend lesse vppon the morrowe pointing as it were this day with thy finger not permitting the same to ouerpasse thee idlely for the life putting it selfe off with prolonging flies away passeth at random And all things els beeing estrainged alienated froÌ„ vs onely Time is ours and very naturall reason hath infourmed vs that we obtaine the possession of a very swift thing which runneth away so fast and slideth amaine yea flyes apace from betweene our hands The knowledge and discretion of mortall men is so litle and weake that they impute it a great losse incase they leaue vndone the least vilest thing or smallest trifle being indeed reuocable and amendable though pretermitted none thinkes that hee oweth or is indebted any thing for hauing receiued Time coÌ„sidering that Time is but one sole thing which yet the gratefull maÌ„ can make no due satisfaction for that which he receiued as hee ought in regard of the high price and for that the debt is great in vndertaking the day vpon himself And in his booke of the shortnesse of life Idem lib. de breuit vitae he saith There is no man that will forgoe or part with his patrimonie or substance nor disinherite himselfe but rather will keepe it and augment it as for Time and his course of life hee will with great facility impart and bestow them many times on diuerse vaine things They are very niggard of their wealth but for Time they are most prodigall and lauish when as indeed their honest and laudable couetousnesse should be onely of Time because most truely as in the same Booke then presently after hee saith Time is the most precious thing that is and yet for al that they dispraise it and hold it of no esteeme for nought and of no worth as though it were right nought indeed bearing no price at all Not one makes reckoning of it when they haue it but if any be sicke then shall you see bowing of knees crouching before the Physitian and if hee feare the sentence of death that man will waigh him with gold for to ransome his life That blessed holy man Laurentius Iustinianus Laur. Iust de vitae solit 6.10 treating of Time and the value thereof sayeth thus Who hath that power to coÌ„prehend or conceiue in his heart what a precious thing Time is O what grace eloquence or sweet flowing speach of man is able to declare it None knowes it but such as now want and misse the same Then all the goods of the world honours dignities and prelacies the pompe of this age corporall delights and bodily pleasures yea and all maner recreations sports and pastimes ioyes and intertainements whatsoeuer they be which are vnder the cope of heauen would bee giuen in boote and exchanged for one houre of Time if it were possible to bee obtained because in this most short space they would appease the diuine Iustice they would make glad and reioyce the Angels they would eschewe from that fearefull sentence of eternall damnation and gaine yea without al doubt they would procure life euerlasting And they are most vnhappie vpon whom the Sunne of mercie is already set who most irreuocably shall descend into that lake of miserie where there is neither order nor good course Iob. 10.15 22 but fright and horror perpetuall and with good reason shall

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