Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	die_v	life_n	17,544	5	4.8615	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08106	An epistle of a religious priest vnto his father: exhorting him to the perfect forsaking of the world.	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1597 (1597)	STC 22968.5; ESTC S95268	12,378	49

was yong and yet a principall pastour S. Ihon not olde and yet an Apostle yea and the Angels by appearing in youthfull semblances giue vs a pregnant proofe that many glorious giftes may be shrouded vnder tender shapes All which I alledge not to claime any priuiledge surmounting the rate of vsuall habilities but to auoid all touch of presumption in aduising my elders seing that it hath the warrant of scripture the testimony of examples sufficient groundes both in grace and nature There is diuersity in the degrees of our carnall consanquinity and the preminence appertaineth to you as superiour ouer your childes body Yet if you consider our alliance in the chiefe portion I meane our foule which discerneth man from inferiour creatures we are of equall proximity to our heauenly father both descended of the same parent and no other distance in our degrees but that you are the elder brother In this sense doth the scripture saye Call not any father vpon earth for one is your father which is in heauen Seing therfore that your superiority is founded vpon flesh and blood which are in maner but the barke and rine of a man and our equality vppon the soule which is mans maigne substance thinke it I praye you no dishonour to your age or disparagement to your person If with all humility I offer my aduise vnto you One man cannot be perfect in all faculties neither is it a disgrace to the goldsmith if he be ignorant of the milleners trade Many are deepe lawiers and yett shallowe Diuines manye verye de liuer in feates of the body and curious in externall complementes yet litle experimented in matters of their soule and farre to seeke in religious actions I haue studied practised these many yeeres spirituall phisicke acquainting my selfe with the beating and temper of euery pulse trauailing in the scrutiny of the maladies medicines in cident vnto soules If therfore I profer you the fruits of my long studies and make you a present of my profession I hope you will construe it rather as a duetifull parte then any point of presumption He may be a father to the soule that is a sonne to the body and requite the benefit of his teÌ„porall life by reuiuing his parent from a spirituall death And to this effect did christ say thes words my mother and brethren are they that do the will of my father which is in heauen Vpon which place S. Climacus shewing to what kinred a Christian ought chiefly to relye draweth this discourse Let him be thy father that both can and will lay his labour to disburden thee of thy packe of sinnes Let holy compunction be thy mother to depure thee from thy ordure and filth Let him be thy brother that wil be both thy partner and coÌ„peditour to passe and perfite thy race towardes heauen Take the memory of death for thy perpetuall pheere and vnseparable spouse Lett thy children be bitter sighes of a sorowfull harte and possesse thy body as thy bondman Fasten thy frendshippe with the Angelicall powers with which if thou closest in familiar affiance they will be patrones vnto thee in thy finall passage This saieth he is the generation kinred of those that seeke God Such a father as this Sainte speaketh of maye you haue of your owne sonne to enter you farther in the fore recited affinity Of which happely it was a significaÌ„t presage aboding the future euent that euen froÌ„ my infancy you were wont in merimeÌ„t to call me father R. which is the custumary stile now allotted to my present estate Now therfore to ioine issue and to come to the principall drifte of my discourse most humbly earnestly I am to besech you that both in respect of the honour of God your duty to his Church the comforte of your children and the redres of your owne soule you wold seriously consider the termes you stand in way your selfe in a christian ballance taking for your couÌ„terpoise the iudgementes of God Take heede in time that the word Thecel writteÌ„ of olde against Baltazar interpreted by Daniel Dan. 5. be not verified in you whose exposition was you haue bene poised in the scoale and found of to lighte weight Remember that you are in the waining and the date of your pilgrimage is well nere expired now it behooueth you to looke towardes your country Your force languisheth your senses impaire your body droupeth and on euery side the ruinous cottage of your faint feeble flesh thretneth fall And hauing so many herbingers of death to premonishe you of your end how can you but prepare for so dredfull a stranger The yonge may dye quickly but the olde cannot liue long The yong mens life by casualty may be abridged but the olde mens by no phisicke can be long adiourned and therfore if greene yeres sometimes must think of the graue the thoughtes of sere age should continually dwel in the same The prerogatiue of infancie is innocency of childhoode reuerence of manhood maturity and of age wisdome And seeing that the chiefe properties of wisdome are to be mindfull of things passed carefull of thinges present prouident of thinges to come vse now the priuiledge of natures talent to the benefitte of your soule procure hereafter to be wise in weldoing and watchfull in foresight of future harmes To serue the world you are now vnhable and though you were hable you haue litle cause to be willing seeing that it neuer gaue you but an vnhappy welcome a hurtfull entertainment and now doth abandon you with an vnfortunate farewell You haue long sowed in a field of flint which could bring you nothing forth but a crop of cares and affliction of spirit rewarding your labours with remorse and affording for your gaine eternall domages It is now more then a seasonable time time to alter the course of so vnthriuing a husbaÌ„dry and to enter into the field of Gods Church in which sowing the seeds of repentant sorow and watering them with the teares of humble coÌ„trition you may reape a more beneficiall haruest gather the fruits of euerlasting comforte Remember I pray you that your spring is spent and your somer ouerpast you are now arriued to the fall of leafe yea and winter colours haue already stained your hoary head Be not careles saieth S. Augustin though our louing Lorde beare long with offenders for the longer he staieth not finding amendment the sorer will he scourge when he cometh to ludgement and his patience in so long expecting is onely to lend vs respite to repent not any way to enlarge vs leisure to sinne He that is tossed with varietye of stormes cannot come to his desired port maketh not much way but is much tormoiled So he that hath passed many yeeres and purchased little profitte hath had a long being but a shorte life for life is more to be measured by merittes theÌ„ by number of daies seeing that most men by many

daies do but procure many deathes and others in a shorte space attein the life of infinite ages What is the body without the soule but a corrupte carcase and what the soule without God but a sepulcher of sinne If God be the way the life and the truth he that goeth without him strayeth he that liueth without him dieth and he that is not taught by him erreth Well saieth S. Augustine that God is our trew and chiefest life from whome the reuolting is falling to whome the returninge is rising in whom the staying is sure standing God is he from whom to depart is to dye to whom to repaire is to reuiue in whome to dwell is to liue Be not you therfore of those that beginne not to liue vntill they be ready to dye then after a foes desert come to craue of God a frends entertainment Some thincke to snatch heauen in a moment which the best scarce atteined in the mouÌ„tenance of many yeeres and when they haue glutted them selues with worldly delites they would iumpe froÌ„ Diues his diet to Lazarus croun and from the seruice of Satan to the solacy of a Saint But be you well assured that god is not so penurious of frendes as to hold him selfe and his kingdome salable for the refuse and reuersion of theire liues who haue sacrificed the principall therof to his enemies and their owne brutishe appetites then onely ceasing to offend when hability of offending is taken from them True it is that a theefe may be saued vpon the crosse and mercy found at the last gaspe But well saieth saint Augustine that though it be possible yett is it scarce credible that his death should find fauour whose whole life hath earned wrath and that his repentance should be accepted that more for feare of hell and loue of him selfe then for loue of God or lothsomnes of sinne crieth for mercy Wherfore good Sir make no longer delayes but being so neere the breaking vpp of your mortall house take time before extremitye to satisfie Gods Iustice Though you suffered the bud to be blasted the flower to fade thogh you permitted the fruite to be perished and the leaues to drye vp yea though you let the bougheswither and the body of your tree growe to decaye yett alas keepe life in the roote for feare least the wholle become fuell for hell fire for surely whersoeuer the tree falleth there shall it be whether it be to south or north heaueÌ„ or hell such sap as it bringeth such fruit shal it euer bear Death hath already filed from you the better part of your naturall forces and hath lefte you now to the lees and remissailes of your wearish and dyinge dayes the remainder wherof as it caÌ„not be long so doth it warne you speedilye to ransome your former losses For what is age but the calendes of death and what importeth your present weaknes but an earnest of your approching dissolution You are now impathed in your finall voiage and not far of from the stint and period of your course and therfore be not dispurueied of such appurtenances as are behoofull in so perplexed and perillous a iorney Death in it selfe is very fearefull but much more terble in regard of the iudgement that it summoneth vs vnto If you were layed on your departing bed burdened with the heauy load of your former trespasses and goared with the sting and pricke of a festered conscience If you felt the crampe of death wresting your hart stringes ready to make the rufull diuorce betweene body and soule If you lay panting for breath and swimming in a colde and fatall sweat weried with strugling against your deadly panges O how much wold you giue for an hower of repentaÌ„ce at what rate woulde you valew a dayes contrition Then worldes would be worthles in respecte of a litle respitte A shorte truce would seeme more pretious then the trea sures of Empires nothing would be so much esteemed as a trice of time which now by monethes and yeeres is lauishly mispent O how deeply would it wound your hart when looking backe into your life you considered many faultes committed and not confessed manye good workes omitted and not recouered your seruice to God promised and not performed How inconsolable were your case your frends being fled your senses frighted your thoughtes amazed your memory decaied your whole mind agast and no partable to performe that it should but onely your guilty conscience pestered with sinne that would coÌ„tinually vpbreid you with most bitter accusations what woulde you thinke when stripped out of your mortall weed and turned both out of the seruice housrome of this world you were forced to enter into vncouth straÌ„ge pathes with vnknowen and vgly company to be coÌ„uented before a most seuere iudge carying in your owne conscience your enditement written and a perfitte register of all your misdeedes when you should see him prepared to passe the sentence vpon you against whom you had transgressed and the same to be your vmpier whom by so many offeÌ„ces you had made your enemy When not onely the Deuells but euen the Angells should pleade against you and your selfe maugre your will be your sharpest appeacher What would you do in these dredfull exigentes When you saw that gastly dungeon huge golfe of hell breaking out with most fear full flames WheÌ„ you saw the weeping gnashing of teeth the rage of those hellish monsters the horrour of the place the rigour of the paine the terrour of the company and the eternity of all these punishmentes would you then thinke theÌ„ wise that would daly in so weighty matters and idly play away the time allotted to preueÌ„t these intollerable calamities would you theÌ„ account it secure to nurse in your bosome so many serpents as sinnes or to foster in your soule so manye malicious accusers as mortal faltes Would yo not then thinke one life to little to do penance for so many iniquities euery one wherof were enough to cast you into those euerlasting and vnspeakable torments Why then do you not at the least deuote that small remnant and surplusage of these your latter dayes procuring to make an attonement with God and to free your conscience from such corruption as by your schisme and fall hath crept into it Those very eies that read this discourse and that very vnderstanding that conceiueth it shal be sighted certaine witnesses of the rehearsed thinges In your owne body shall you experience those dedly agonies and in your soule shall you feelinglye finde those terrible feares yea and your present estate is in danger of the deepest harmes if you doe not the sooner recouer your selfe into the folde and family of Gods Church What haue you gotten by being so long customer to the world but false ware sutable to the shoppe of such a marchant whose traficke is toile whose welth trashe and whose gaine miserye what interest haue you reaped that maye equall

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