Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	life_n	sin_n	7,878	5	4.6423	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14711	The sermons of master Ralfe Gualter vpon the prophet Zephaniah written in Latine. Translated into English by Moses Wilton. Seene and allowed	Gwalther, Rudolf, 1519-1586.; Wilton, Moses.	1580 (1580)	STC 25014; ESTC S102103	95,131	274

the course of iudgement cannot bee broken of except offences be pardoned Secondly it is added He turneth away thine enemies namely those that haue held the captiuitie hitherto Moreouer the king of Israel eueÌ„ the lord is in the mids of thee God is said then to be present with vs when by manifest arguments he doeth declare his goodnes and grace towards vs. And from hence hee bringeth in this saying Thou shalt see no euil any more That is to say there shal not herafter be any thing that can bring any trouble vnto thÃ©e And these things verily were in part performed wheÌ„ being dismissed by Cyrus they cam to their own again For theÌ„ God took away their iudgements ceased to prosecute sute against them He turned also their enemies far from them when by the Medes Persians he bereaued the Babylonians CaldiaÌ„s of their kingdome and all their strength Besides this hee shewed in deede his presence and fauour when to them being returned again he restored their temple and outward worship which consisted altogether in the sacraments or outward signes of his heauenly grace goodnes and did wonderfully defende them against the craftie deuises of those nations that lay next vnto them against the open force of foren enemies Redemption of Christ is common But because these things as we said before were foreshewes and entraunces of that redemption which shoulde be in Christ in him also they haue their accomplishment and do containe the whole matter of our saluatioÌ„ For we were all offenders and most cruell enemies hunge on euery side ouer our heades Satan accused vs and did ouercome vs not onely by the law but by the testimonie of our owne conscience Death gaped for our soules which entred in by the fal of our first parents and the sentence was pronounced vpon vs miserable sinners Cursed is he that doth not fulfill the words of this Lawe to do them al the people shall say Amen And there remained no other thing but that the execution should followe this sentence which would sinke al men in eternal destruction But here Christ came betwÃ©ene who that he might take our cause vpon him put on man of the Virgin Mary and soone after tooke away and vtterly abolished all that whole proceeding of Gods Iudgement For he purged our sinnes by the worthines of his death hee put away the hand writing of the law our own conscience fasted it to the crosse Moreouer he tyed vp our enemie the diuell and the head of the old serpent being altoo brused spoyled him of his kingdome Col. 1. and ouercame the world that it might not preuaile any more against vs but as for our flesh he kÃ©epeth it vnder by the spirit of regeneration holdeth it in duetie and that hee might leaue nothing vndone he hath made death which was the punishment of sinne as it were the doore of euerlasting life For by it we passe out of this valley of teares and wretchednes into the places of the blessed Al which things Paul throughly perceiuing wrote long since Rom. 8. There is now no coÌ„demnation to them that are in Christ Iesus Wherewith those wordes agrÃ©e which Christ himselfe spake in Ihon Iohn 5. Verely verely I say vnto you he which heareth my worde and beleeueth him that sent me hath eternall lyfe and shal not come into iudgement but hath escaped from death to life And the sonne of God hath not only performed these thinges for vs but also is present with vs euen in the mids of vs as he hath promised although hÃ©e hath caryed his bodie away vp to heauen that hee might be there as an interest or pledge to beare witnesse of that heuenly and blessed life of our bodies which in time to come they shall haue yet he neuer forsaketh his church but is present with it with his worde his spirit his grace and desert with his protection and safegarde wherevpon it followeth very necessarily that we can sÃ©e none euill namely such as can destroy vs. The crosse verily must be borne and as Dauid saide Psal 34. Many are the troubles of the godly but God deliuereth them out of all who also causeth that all thinges for them worke together vnto God He promiseth the continuall abod and comfort of the word But the Prophet goeth forwarde and addeth newe promises whereby the godly may bee confirmed in the fayth Nay he affirmeth that there shall neuer want faythfull Preachers of GOD which may alwayes offer set before theÌ„ those promises For in that day saieth he it shall be sayde to Ierusalem feare not and to Syon let not thine hands be let downe And so he repeateth that Prophecie which erstwhile wee brought out of Isay and the meaning is this That your king Messias which I sayde should alwayes be amongst you will at all times stirre vp Prophets teachers which may comforte and incourage thee being in daunger that you giue not ouer for any temptations c. And truely as appertaining to their returne from Babylon there wanted not then such as might cheere them being tyed many wayes and with new exhortations daily confirm them Of the nuÌ„ber were Ezra Nehemia Haggey Zachary many others But this promise doth principally belong to the kingdom of Christ who to his Church as the Apostle witnesseth alwayes giueth some Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists som pastors some doctors c insomuch that he wil haue the ministerie of his word to remain for euer with his Church whereby it may be both gathered together and preserued And it is worth the diligent marking that both here in many other places the ministrie of the word is reckoned among the argumeÌ„ts of coÌ„solatioÌ„ that we may learn to iudge of it rightly regarde it as we ought to doe But vnto many it sÃ©emeth a matter of small weight and the godly themselues doe not alwaies acknowledg the gret goodnesse therof especially when they haue peace and quietnes at will But when either the daungers of persecution or inward broylings doe aryse by and by with great and carefull desire of the minde they aske after the word which before they despised and cared not for The summe of the doctrine of the Church But let vs in like manner note the summe of that doctrine which must continually bee reteined in the church The Prophet in these two poyntes doth comprehend it Luke 24. Feare thou not let not thine handes be letten down And they agrÃ©e with that parting which Christ himselfe made who deuided the preaching of his Gospell into like many partes when hee commaundeth to preach repentaunce and remission of sinnes in his name For herevnto belongeth which he saith Feare you not For as much as the tremblinges of the conscience can no other way be pacified then by sure remission of sinnes which we obtaine in Christ alone Of that part the Angell beginneth when to the shepheardes

being at a Sermon by some then there are vnto God for the benefit of his word taught therin yea some Preachers also I feare me can be contented nowe and then to ioyne with their hearers to rob God of his glory I meane such as seeke for credit by their auditorie But leauing these Pickthanke Hearers and Preachers which carrye the prayse from God vnto that wil of god whervnto he hath foreordained them I returne Seeing therefore it pleased God moreouer and besides many other blessinges bestowed vpon you to enrich your heart with this precious pearle of loue to his word which is a true token of the new man put on so that the heat thereof now flameth out to the benefit of many dwelling in Kings Hatfield and the places thereabout in those parties of Essex by reason of that godly exercise of preaching which it pleased god by your worships meanes to bring in thither that thereby many might bee raysed from their death in sinne vnto the life which is in Christ Iesus others confirmed in the fayth and all dispisers left without all excuse vnto Iudgement seeing I say it hath pleased God to make you haue such a loue to his word thereby declaring that ye are of God and that he hath taken you not onely from the number of Gods professed enemies but also of godlesse Gospellers whose name is all that they haue of christianitie I thought my part the premisses considered and hauing not only many wayes when I was in those partes but since my departure also experienced your worshippes good dealing towardes me to offer vnto your godly protection these fewe dayes trauell in the alone Englishinge of these M. Gualters Sermons vpon the Prophet Zephaniah being perswaded that Sermons shal neuer miisse good intertainment there where such a loue of SermoÌ„s is wherby I was the rather imboldened to request your worships godly patronage against such as can passe by nothing without some wraÌ„gling Crauing moreouer that ye would allowe and accept in good part this my doing how small soeuer as a token of my thankfull minde which would not stay to do that that I ought if I cold do that that I caÌ„not But this I haue don least I should be vnto your worshippe as the Humble bee is vnto the fayre flower which when she hath sucked honny out thereof leaueth it and departeth or like the Swallow which hauing bred in a mans chimney getteth her self theÌ„ce leauing nothing behind her but her nest of clay What profit shall come therof I knowe not what I would shoulde come God knoweth onely my hope is that it shall not be altogether vnprofitable for who dare but go forward when god threatneth him for standing still who can sleepe when the trumpet that foundeth out Gods Iudgement cryeth so loude in his eares awake who can but look to the amendment of his whether children and seruants seeing the Lorde threatneth to visit those children and seruantes that are wicked yea though they belong to the king Who wil be holden backe from reforming abuses not onely in himself but also in those that be vnder him when hee heareth the Lord say that he wil make a speedie riddance of all such as in meekenesse of heart haue not sought him and wrought his Iudgement All which thinges with many other are at large set out in this Prophesie directed especially against such which while they might would not for some worldly respecte reforme them selues from those grosse enormities and blind superstitions wherwith they were entaÌ„gled notwithstanding they were ofte called therefroe by the Ministers of God the Prophetes whome he sent vnto them The Lorde graunt that we may lay these thinges to heart and so apply them vnto our selues that the fearce wrath of the Lord that hangeth ouer our heades and is already threatned to fall vpon vs may bee turned away or if it must needes come because no warning will serue vs yet that all those whome the knowledge and appearing of his grace hath called from the lustes and vngodly vanities of the worlde vnto the working of his Iudgementes in lowlinesse of minde may be hidden in that day But that I breed not irkesomnes in sted of bringing profit I cease to speake of these thinges which are more at large and very truly though plainly laid open in these sermons shewing as wel the meaning of this Prophesie as applying the doctrine therein contained to that vse wherevnto it was first reuealed which in no age could more fitly bee done than in this grisly old and down stouping age of the worlde which by reason of blinde and wilfull ignorance is made drunke with the pleasures of sinne whose ende is death that stayeth not And as it may agree with other countries yet with none better and more fitly than with England which is now ouerspread with the selfe same abhominations which the Prophet Zephaniah reckneth vp as causes why the Lord made a clean dispatch of Iuda and Ierusalem as it may appeare to him that shall compare our ouerflowing iniquities in England with those that the Prophet setteth downe in the first and third Chapters of his booke for the which the fearce wrath of the Lord came vpon them and for the suffering of the like we also are with patience to prepare our selues for God is no partial God he is no accepter of persons and therefore we must needes follow them in punishment whom we are not onely like but also do go before in sinne Onely the name of God be magnified for euer more for that his working grace in the hearts of his little flocke whome hee promiseth to hide in the day of vengeaunce and wrath and graunt that the same may take dayly increase in your heart so reformed to allow of his truth and that you haue some attending vppon you who not contented with a ciuill lyfe wherwith many deceaue them selues is inwardly reformed with a hart hungring and thirsting for the appearing of the Lorde Iesus so the rest what soeuer they bee not stasting of the sweete mercies of God his loue appearing in Iesus Christ and therfore attending not vpon you but that that is yours may be brought as well to the inwarde feeling as outward profession of the same goodnes if it bee his will that vngodlinesse may be suppressed in them or els that they maybe cut of from you as rotten meÌ„bers not meete for so sound an head that the immortall commendations of the heathen captaine Cornelius may alwayes follow Syr Thomas Barrington a true Christian Knight which is that he feared God and all his housholde And thus committing the successe of all things to him that is able to do exceding aboundantly aboue that that wee can either speake or thinke and your Worship to the protection of the same Almightie I end this 4. of Iune 1580. Your Worships in the Lord Moses Wilton Â¶ The Argument according to the Geneua correction SEeing the great rebellion of the people and that

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