Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	apostle_n	die_v	sin_n	7,938	5	5.1502	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13103	A motiue to good workes Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1593 (1593)	STC 23397; ESTC S111359	64,680	234

the crosse in Chepe side Others forsooth wyll kneele before them creepe to them bare foote and bare legged offer to them And others that wil not seeme so grosse wil yet make a thousand crosses on their forheds brests being of this mind that the signe of the crosse hath power to defend any one not only froÌ„ all corporall enemies but also froÌ„ all the diuels in hell And therfore as it is a moment of great superstition so I pray God it may be remoued from amongst vs. But if it be obiected that it keepeth in our mindes the remembraunce of Christ and of hys death which he suffered vpon it I answere we haue no warrant out of the booke of God to keepe any such superstitious crosses amongst vs to any such ende For the word it selfe was geuen vs to that end to keepe in memory and as it were to paynt out vnto vs the death and passion of our Sauiour Christ and not such Popish trash To that end also were the Sacraments left vs with the ministerie and preaching of the Gospell of Christ and therefore their obiection is scarse worth the answering The Papists also holde it to be a work of vnspeakable merit for a man or woman eyther before they dye or else at their death to giue the greatest part of their goods laÌ„ds the more the more merite to popish priestes though in the meane time theyr wife children and whole familyes goe a begging all theyr lyfe long to Monkes and Fryers with the rest of that filthie generation to the ende they may pray for them wheÌ„ they are dead to saie masses trentalls diriges de profundis Ladies psalters and I can not tell what riffe raffe else for them bearing them in hand that their souls the soules of al their friends pareÌ„ts kindred and aliance shall not onely bee releeued but also cleerely delyuered thereby out of the pains of purgatorie which otherwise shoulde lye there broiling in firie flames seauen yeeres for euerie sinne that euer they coÌ„mitted in this life either in thoght word or deed Which if it were true as it is most false and blasphemous I could not blame men though they gaue all they had and more too to the Priests But alasse who seeth not the vanitie of this fonde opinion of Purgatorie If Masses Diriges trentals de profundis Ladies psalters and such pelting trash could redeeme vs from paine and punishment after this life and place our soules in ioye and blisse I praie you then what is left to the bloud of Christ to doo for vs iust nothing at all And why died Christ if we might haue bene redeemed by corruptible money lands or pessessions as the Apostles Saint Paule and Saint Peter doe reason What can be more derogatorie to the death of Christ and the efficacie of his bloud than this You were not redeemed sayth Paul from your sinnes neither by golde nor siluer but by the precious bloud of that immaculate lambe Iesus Christ. And doeth not the apostle Iohn thunder out vnto vs The bloude of Iesus Christ doeth cleanse vs from all sinne And as for the ridiculous opinion of purgatory it is so foolish a thing that I am ashamed to bestow anie labour in confuting of it as hauing indeede neyther ground out of the word of God no nor so much as one sillable sounding that waie nor anie approued or autentike writer excepte out of such apocryphas as Ouid Virgil and other heathen Poets And yet for all that the Papists haue gayned as much I suppose by the broching of this fraibugge or scar-crow Purgatorie since it was first hatched as all christendome is worth besides But to proceede The Papistes also holde these to bee singular good workes yea the chiefest of all to heare Masse deuoutly euerie daie to worshippe Saintes to obserue and keepe precisely all holy dayes Saintes daies anp feastiuall dayes as they call them to giue frankely to begging Friers Nunns and Ankresses which were a sort of secluses or rather plain prostitute whoores mued vp in cloisters celles vautes and holes vnder ground onely to serue the Monkes and the Abbots turnes at theyr need whereof I could giue you a thousand instances if it were not from my purpose to mumble vp a great rabble of Pater nosters Creedes Aue Maries and the like vpon their beads to contribute liberally to the making and christning of bels and to bee god-fathers and god-mothers to them to the buying of waxe candles tapers lyghtes to buy coapes challices surplesses and other vestmentes of the Church to giue soule-cakes for so they shame not to cal them or rather foole-cakes agaynst all soules daie for the redemption of all christen soules as they blasphemously speake They account it also a worke of great merite to disple to whip scourge themselues with whippes made of ropes endes of cordes and some of wyre with lyttle rowels of spurres at the ends wherewith forsooth they must whippe themselues naked till theyr bodies appeare all full of bloudie gores and in so doing they merit the deuill and all I should say heauen and all They account it also an excellent good worke and of great merit to lie al night vpon the boords or the bare ground to weare shirts of hayre to fast with bread and water to carry candles tapers and palmes vp and downe the church and round about the Church-yard to see and worship theyr little God of the pix that hangs so pretily in a string like a Bee in a boxe to receiue holy bread and holy water to goe to shrift where euerye one must confesse his sinnes to the Priest and receue absolution but specially the women who many times haue theyr absolution giuen them with a Friers taile These with infinite the like are the good workes of the Papists wherby they trust to gain heauen and to merite euerlasting life whether God will or no. Yea they will haue it by merit and not by mercie and therefore God is bounde to giue it them ex debito and ex opere operato of duetie in regarde of their workes and not ex gratia and good reason if it bee so for doeth not the Apostle affirm that to him that worketh is the hire giuen of duetie not of fauour Nowe they doe all and more too or else they lie which God hath commaunded them and which is more they haue not onelie workes inough of their owne to saue themselues withal but also workes of supererogation which will helpe at a dead lift if need bee to sell or giue to others and therfore they must needs as I say come to heauen whether God will or not but God grant mee and all that appertain to him eternall life for his mercies sake in Christ and let the Papists challenge it stil by their workes merits and deserts And truly I cannot but wonder that the Papists should be so blinded as to think that anie workes at all much lesse these hauing no

wilfully blinde the greate loue and holy reuerence the great obedience dutifull alleageaunce which these holy Angels do beare towardes their God howe ready they are to execute his will howe prest to performe whatsoeuer hee doth inioyne them and how loyally and howe faithfully they behaue themselues in all things And neuer was there one found disobedient or rebellious agaynst his blessed will since that great defection apostasie of the first Angels who now being transnatured and degenerate into deuills for theyr sinne of pride disobedience are condemned to euerlasting destruction as holy Iude beareth record And vpon the otherside who seeth not our disobedience our infidelitie nay our plaine perfidie our vnfaithfulnesse our vndutifulnesse our disloialtie and trechery In a worde who seeth not our contumacie insolencie pride and rebellion against our God in all things So that there is no more comparison betwixt the holy Angels vs in our obedieÌ„ce seruice of God than is betwixt light and darknes fire and water lyfe and death sinne and vertue Let vs therefore throw downe our selues in all humilitie before his footstoole confessing our sinnes and craue mercie at his handes for Christ his sake Let vs cast away this filthie Philautia this selfe loue this ouerweening of our selues and account of our selues as we are in deede sackes of ashes bagges of wind bubbles of water wormes meate and no men Let vs say with the Apostle I knowe that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing let vs hold that for truth which the holy Ghost vttered long since by the mouth of holy Dauid there is not one good vpoÌ„ the earth no not one they are all gone out of the way they drink vp iniquitie as it were water and swallow down wickednes as it wer bread True therfore is that senteÌ„ce pronounced by the mouth of God himselfe in the 6. of Gen. The will of maÌ„ is wicked set vpoÌ„ wickednes euen froÌ„ his verie cradle or rather from the verie wombe as the Psalmist Dauid witnesseth where he sayth Behould I was begotten in wickednes and in sinne hath my mother conceyued me So that our willes except they be regenerate and sanctifyed by the spirit of God are nothing else but puddles of sinne sinckes of iniquitie and quagmires of all abhominacion belching forth filthines and breathing out vngodlynes euen to the polluting if it were possible of the very heauens with our sinne And therefore must we needes confesse with the Apostle It is God which worketh in vs both the wil and the deed euen of his owne grace mercie and loue which he beareth towards vs in Christ. And yet notwithstanding there are some that wil not stick to affirm that thought is free and that it is lawful for vs to thinke what we will good or euill But I would fayne learne of these cunning sophisters whether they thinke it lawfull and no sin before God to thinke an euil thought although secretly in the hart I think they will say no. For our Sauiour Christ condeÌ„neth an euil thought as a most hainous sin saying he that but lusteth after a woman in his hart hath committed adulterie already before God and is as guiltie thereof in the iustice of God as though he had coÌ„mitted the fact where you see he maketh an euill thought or conceipt of the hart equiualeÌ„t with the deed before God Agayne our sauior Christ reckning vp a great catalogue of sinnes which defile a man amongst the rest bringeth in euill thoughts not onely for one but as chiefe and principall So that I conclude that euery euill thought secret motion priuate affection or conceit of the heart whatsoeuer is not free as some Lybertines woulde haue it but rather damnable for is it lawfull for a man to think to conceiue to meditate and reuolue mischiefe and wickednesse in his heart and can the same bee free and without sinne before God Is not hee the searcher of the heart and raines knoweth not he our thoughts long before they bee conceiued in our mindes Respecteth not hee the heart alone and shall wee saie that an euill thought is free God forbid In deede euery good thought is free and proceedeth from the spirit of grace suggesting the same vnto vs but euerie euill thought is damnable and proceedeth from the spirit of the deuill and the stinking pumpe of mans corrupt and canckred nature Let vs therefore praie vnto GOD to sanctifie our thoughts and to rectifie our secrete cogitations that we may meditate and thinke of those thinges which may please him and by his holy grace may manfully put the same in practise to the glorie of his holy name and our eternall saluation But let vs come to other of his creatures You would think it strange if I could proue that euen the verie deuils themselues do feare the maiestie of GOD more than man at lest more than some men yea and bee more obedient duetifull and prest to doo his will and yet it is most true they are so For we reade in the sacred history that the deuils doe tremble and quake at the verie name of God and that they are and euer haue ben ready at hand to execute the wil and good pleasure of God Yet I must needes graunt in deede that this theyr feare is a seruile and slauish feare and this their obedience is a forced and coacted obedience and not voluntary nor proceeding of loue nor good will but rather of feare and constraint but how euer it be it is yet farre better than the feare and obedience of some miscreants towards God who will neuer bee drawen neither by loue feare nor scarce constraint if they could otherwise choose to the obedience of God and executing of his will Naie there are some so indurate and so frozen in the dregs of their sinne that neither feare of hell nor loue of heauen can once moue them to leaue their sinne beeing of this resolution in deede that there is neither God nor deuill heauen nor hel no immortalitie of the soul nor any life after this If these were not their persuasions they wold neuer liue as they do worser than the deuils theÌ„selues who feare tremble at the maiestie of God But they are so far off from treÌ„bling at him that they beleeue there is no God to reward vertue nor Deuill to punish sin after this life And therfore may I conclude that such Atheists are worser than the deuils for they belieue both But let vs leaue them to theÌ„selues proceed in our inteÌ„ded discourse The Sunne the Moone the Starres the Signes Planets with all the rest of the celestiall bodies whatsoeuer we see what a notable concord what a pleasant consent sweet harmonie they keep obserue in their seueral progressions places reuolutioÌ„s euen froÌ„ the beginning of the world to this present day not one of them rebelling or disobeying the law of their maker nor so

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