Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	blood_n	life_n	sin_n	8,000	5	4.5474	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01030	A preparatiue sermon, to the Lords table, preached by the Reuerend Mr. Iohn Forbes, pastour to the Companie of Marchant Aduentureres residing in Delff	Forbes, John, 1568?-1634.	1632 (1632)	STC 11133; ESTC S120856	19,249	70

haue any vse of them in heauen for there vve shall haue no vse of stomacks to disgest or bovvels to make convayance of our meat for nourishing these our bodies seing our bodies in heauen shal be immortall glorious like vnto the glorious bodie of the Sonne of God vvhen therefore vve are feeding our bodies and satisfying our bellies it is good for vs to thinke and remember that vve are feeding that vvhich shal perish that with food which shall likevvise perish that vve may learne neither to care too much for the bellie nor for food requisite vnto it Novv let vs consider the argument of the contrarie parte vvherby Christ perswades vs to labour for spirituall meat in vvhich vve are to obserue tvvo things The first is the nature of this heauenly food in it selfe all though vve neuer do enioy it vvhich is declared by this that it endureth The second is the effect of it in theÌ„ that get it vvhich is that it makes theÌ„ also to indure to liue eternally For the first vvee are to consider that all the spirituall gifts that God giues vs in Christ Iesus are all eternall and such as shall neuer perish vvhatsoeuer God gaue by creation it might be defaced and vtterlie vndone yea euen the chiefest gift that euer vvas giuen in nature to Adam vvhich vvas Gods Image vvas by Sathan extinquished and defaced and as the Scripture tells vs at the comming of Christ to iudgement the elements shall melt vvith fire and the earth and all the vvorks thereof shall perish and the heauens shall vvax ould as a garment and this vvhole vvorld shall come to an end but the gifts of sauing grace giuen vs in Christ can neuer be extinquished or defaced for as it is impossible to destroy the Sonne of God himselfe or that the sorrovves of death should haue held him vnder them or that the graue should haue povver to retaine him so is it impossible that Christ giuen vnto vs and his flesh vvhich vve eate and his blood vvhich vve drinke or the vertue of them in vs can euer possiblie bee defaced in vs and this is the reason that Christ saith that his flesh is meat in deed and his blood is drinke in deed for his flesh is not a perishing meat nor his blood a decaying drinke vvhich cannot endure as the nature of all other meat and drinke is but his flesh is euerlasting food and his blood euerlasting drinke and his grace as a vvell springing continuallie to euerlasting life men might thinke that by the death of our bodies the vertue of Iesus Christs flesh and blood vvere vtterlie perished but it is not so they that eate this flesh and drinke this blood shall find the vertue of his flesh blood euen vvhen they are rotten in the graue by the same povver vvhere vvith he raysed himselfe from the dead hee shall likevvise rayse them from the povver of death this then is the first thing vvhich vve are to consider in this food that it is an enduring meat But the next thing is a greater comfort vnto vs for this is not all the blessednes of this food and comfort of this argument to knovv that the flesh and blood of Christ are in themselues permanent and eternall but that vvhich chiefly refresheth our soules is this to know that vvhosoeuer pertakes of them shal pertake of eternall life vvith them this is a blessed thing in deed vvhen I knovv that not only the things vvhereof I am made pertaker are eternall but that I my selfe by pertaking of them shall be eternall as vvell as they VVhat can moue a man to seeke this meat if this doe it not vvhen vvee vnderstand that it hath this povver to vvork such a blessed effecte in him that is pertaker of it It is vndoubtedlie the miserable ignorance of this benefit vvhich comes by the flesh blood of Christ that makes men so careles to enioy them there is nothing in the vvorld that a man more desires then to liue for euer all that euer a man hath he vvill giue for his life that he may not see death but as Dauid saith in the 49. Psal No man can by any means redeeme his brother nor giue to God a ransome that he should liue for euer Indeed it is no temporall thing that can procure eternal life no not all the means that can be diuised eate vvhat a man can eate drink vvhat a man can drink yet he shal dye but heere is the comfort of a Christian that froÌ„ Christ he is fed vvith that meat that shall make him to liue for euer in such sorte that the gates of hel shal not preuaile against him neither death nor the graue shal haue povver ouer him but he shall haue a glorious triumph ouer them both so as he shall sing that ioyfull song o death where is thy sting o graue vvhere is the victory And this is no vvoÌ„der seing the causes of this life are eternall it cannot be but that the life that flovveth froÌ„ them must be eternall and they that are fed vvith him must needs liue eternally for all that we receaue from Christ is eternal the peace eternall the ioy life eternall this is that vvhervvith Christ comforts his disciples Iohn 16.22 saying Your ioy shall no man take from you Thus a child of God in the midst of all his troubles in the midst of the valley of the shadovv of death vvill feare no euill but can still reioyce in God his sauiour O hovv should this stir vp our hearts to seeke after this meat eueÌ„ as the vvoman of Samaria in the 4. of Iohn the 15. vvhen Christ told her of vvater vvhich he had to giue vvhich vvhosoeuer did drink of should neuer be more a thirst she said Lord giue me of that vvater that I may not thirst any more nor come hether to draw Likevvise the Ievves in this same chapter vvhen Christ told them that the bread of God giues life to the vvorld they said vnto Christ Lord giue vs euer more of this bread euen so vvhen vve heare that they that eate the flesh and drinke the blood of Christ shall liue eternallie Should vvee not in our hearts desire it and beg of Christ to make vs pertakers of it and earnestly long to enioy it surely it must needs be a most lust thing vvith God to povvre dovvne heauie iudgment vpon this senceles age and sinfull generation of men vvho take greater pleasure to seeke after the stinking delights of this flesh and to vvallovv in their beastly lusts then to enioy this blessed bread that endures to euerlasting life for it is impossible for any man to haue perpetuitie of being vvithout this vvhen therefore vvee see other men to call their lands by their names so to perpetuate their names on earth let vs not follovv their foolish footsteps but if vve desire to liue for euer let vs labour for this meat vvhich endures to

eternall life and thus much for the reason coÌ„tayning also a discription of that for vvhich vvee should labour Seeing then vvee see vvhat great reason vvee haue to seeke this spirituall food it is necessarie for vs to knovv vvhere vvee shall find it and that is the next point vve are to consider set dovvne in these vvords vvhich the sonne of man shall giue vnto you In these vvords let vs marke these tvvo things First vvho it is of vvhom vvee must haue this meat That is the Sonne of man The second is hovv vve shall haue it and that is set dovvne in these vvords he shall giue it vnto vs. Touching the first vvee are to mark that it pleaseth Christ through out the Scriptures to name himselfe more by this name the Sonne of man then by any other especiallie vvhen he speaks of the vvorks of sauing grace and for the comfort of his elect ones it must therefore be a matter of great moment and of singular instruction for vs that moues Christ to take this name vpon himselfe and certainly it is so although not perceaued nor comprehended by euerie man In this same chapter vvhen Christ had told the levves that vnles they did eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood they had no life in them many of his disciples murmured at it and said this is a hard saying and in deed no maruell that it seeme hard to a naturall man for hovv can he thinke that the flesh and blood of man should haue the vertue of eternall life in them but Christ opens this mistery in the same place telling them that it vvas the spirit that quickeneth the flesh prositteth nothing for it is true that all though vvithout this flesh and blood vve can haue no life in vs yet certainly euen the flesh and blood of Christ nakedly considered as flesh and blood or yet as the flesh and blood of a man could neuer giue life to them that eate and drinke it but as being the flesh and blood of God in the vvhich flesh all the fullnes of the God-head dvvels bodily it is no maruell that it giues life to them that eate and drinke them for as much as the eternal spirit is neuer separated from this flesh nor from this blood therfore all though their can be no eternall life but froÌ„ this eternal spirit yet it is the pleasure of God that no sauing vertue of the Diety nor life froÌ„ the God head should euer be coÌ„municated vnto man but in through the flesh and blood of Iesus Christ the Lord Let no man therefore Dispise this flesh blood nor the outvvard means vvhereby our fellovvship and communion in this flesh and blood is sealed vnto vs since vvithout this flesh and blood it is not the purpose of God to saue vs let vs therefore lay vp this misterie in our hearts that as the flesh of Christ can neuer quicken but by the spirit euen so also the spirit shall neuer quicken but by the flesh There is yet more in this to be considered and that is that as God vvill dispence no sauing grace but in the flesh and blood of Iesus Christ the man so he vvill not dispence it but by Christ as hee is man for God hath giuen all iudgment to the Sonne not as hee is God simplie but as he is the Sonne of man and by him as hee is man vvill he iudge the vvorld as the Apostle saith in the 17. of Act. God hath appointed a day in which he vvill iudge the vvorld in righteousnes by the man vvhom he hath ordained Iesus Christ as man shall iudge both heauen and earth For the Father hath exalted him in his man hood and hath giuen him a name aboue all names vnto vvhich all knees must bovve and euerie mouth confesseth him to be the Lord therefore it is not vvithout cause that Dauid considering this vvondered as you may see in the 8. psal saying VVhat is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him for thou hast made him a littel lovver then the Angels and hast crowned him vvith honour and glorie and hath put all things vnder his feet It is good for vs to consider this that as Christ himselfe saith all povver is giuen vnto mee ouer all flesh the povver of ruling and of iudging of sauing damming men is giuen to Christ as man for there is nothing that is not subdued vnto Christ the man as the Apostle proues in the 1. Cor. 15. from these vvords of the Psalme that God hath subdued all things vnder his feet prouing therby that it is manifest that nothing is vnsubdued to him but he that did subdue them vntill that the last enemie death it selfe be subdued Christ shall stil possesse the kingdome but vvhen hee hath subdued all things then shall he render vp the kingdome to his father that God may be all in all but in the meane time till this be done all povver is giuen to Christ as man to destroy all aduersarie powers either diuells or vvicked men thus hath God honoured highly exalted the humanitie of his Sonne by â—ertue of the fullnes of the God head â—vvelling in him bodilie this is the â—eason that Christ in this place saith the Sonne of man shall giue vs this bread of eternall life The consideration of these things â—erue for a singular coÌ„fort to the Godly a fearefull terror to the vvicked Touching the vvicked vvhen they must see knovv this that the man vvhom they haue pearced and put to â—eath vvhom they haue so despised vvhose blood they haue trod vnder foote to be exalted to such glorie and vvhen they shal see him come in the â—louds in maiestie and great povver accompanied vvith innumerable anâ—ells and hearing him sitting in the throne of iudgmeÌ„t prononce the sentence of eternall death against them For the Godly it is a matter of singuler ioy to knovv that he shall be their iudge and that in his humaine nature vvherin in all things hee vvas made like vnto them sinne only excepted and vvherein he vvrought their redemption by his ovvn death vvhen they shall vnderstand that the dispensation of all things is put in his hands and that he hath povver to giue eternall life yea he himselfe to giue his ovvne flesh and blood vnto vs vnto eternall life certainly if this vvere not the greatest comfort of Gods elect vvere taken avvaie no consideration of the Sonne of God as God simplie could possibly refresh our soules if vvee did not consider him in his flesh being man for he is no lesse terrible in his Dyetie to a sinner then the Father but our interest in him ariseth vpon this that hee is be come our brother in our nature that being man hee might bring vs that are men to God Therefore first of all he did a base himselfe and tooke vpon him the shape of a seruant and in that nature

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