Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	dissolution_n	soul_n	4,521	5	5.4874	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02538	Heauen vpon earth, or Of true peace, and tranquillitie of minde. By Ios. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1606 (1606)	STC 12666; ESTC S119001	38,487	228

aduersarie Seest thou the Chaldean Tyraunt beset with the sacred boules of Ierusalem the late spoiles of Gods Temple and in coÌ„tempt of their ownerâ— carousing healthes to his Queenes Concubines Peires singing amids his cups triumphant carols of praise to his molten carued Gods Wouldst thou euer suspect that this hie courage could be abated or that this sumptuous presumptuous banquet after so royall and rocond continuance should haue any other conclusion but pleasure Stay but one houre longer and thou shalt see that face that now shines with a ruddy glosse according to the colour of his liquor looke pale and gastly stayned with the colours of feare and death and that proud hand which now lifts vp his Maâ—sie Goblâ—ts in defiance of God tremble like a leafe in a storme and those strong knees which neuer stooped to the burden of their laden body now notable to beare vp themselues but loosened with a sudden palsie of feare one knocking against the other And all this for that death writes him a letter of summons to appeare that night before him and accordingly ere the next Sun sent two Eunuches for his honourable conueyance into an other world where now are those delicate morselles those deepe draughts those mery ditties wherwith the palat eare so pleased themselues What is now become of al those chearful lookes loose laughters stately port reuelles triumphs of the feasting court Why doth none of his gallant nobles reuiue the faynted courage of their Lorde with a new cuppe or with some stirring iest shake him out of this vnseasonable Melancholy O death how imperious art thou to carnall mindes aggrauating their misery not onely by expectation of future payne but by the remembrance of the wonted causes of their ioy and not suffering them to see ought but what may torment them Euen that monster of Cesars that had been so well acquainted with blood neuer had found better sport them in cutting of throates when no wit came to his owne ruâ—ne how effeminate how desperately cowardous did he show himselfe to the woÌ„der of al readers that hee which was euer so valiant in killing shold bee so womanishly hartelesse in dying Sect. 16. THere are that fear not so much to be dead as to dye the very act of dissolutioÌ„ frighting them with a tormenting expectation of a short but intollerable painfulnes which let if the wisedome of God had not interposed to timorous nature there would haue beene many more Lucreces Cleopatraes Achitophles good lawes should haue found little oportunity of execution through the wilfull funeralles of malefactors For the soule that comes into the body without any at least sensible pleasure departs not from it without an extreamitie of payne which varying according to the manner and meanes of separation yet in all violent deathes especially retayneth a violence not to be auoyded hard to bee indured and if diseases which are destin'd towardes death as their end bee so painfull what must the ende and perfection of diseases bee Since as deseases are the maladies of the body so death is the maladie of diseases There are that feare not so much to dye as to bee dead If the pang bee bitter yet it is but short the comfortlesse state of the dead strikes some that could well resolue for the act of their passage Not the worste of the heathen Emperors made that monefull ditty on his death-bed wherein he be wrayeth to all memory much feeling pittie of his soule for her doubtfull and impotent condition after her parture How doth Platoes worldling bewaile the misery of the graue besides all respect of paine Woe is mee that I shall lye alone rotting in the silent earth amongst the crawlinge wormes not seeing ought aboue not seene Very not being is sufficiently abhorred of nature if death had no more to make it fearfull But those that haue liued vnder light enough to show them the gates of hell after their passage through the gates of death and haue learned that death is not onely horrible for our not being here but for being infinitely eternally miserable in a future world nor so much for the dissolution of life as the beginning of tormeÌ„t those cannot without the certaine hope of their immunity but carnally fear to dy and hellishly feare to bee dead For if it bee such paine to dye what is it to bee euer dying if the strayning or luxation of one ioynt can so afflict vs what shall the racking of the whole body and the torturing of the soule whose animation alone makes the body to feele and complaine of smart and if men haue deuised such exquisite torments what can spirites more subtile more malicious and if our momentany sufferinge seeme long how long shall that be that is eternall and if the sorrowes iâ— differently incideÌ„t to Gods dear ones vpon earth be so extreme as sometimes to driue them within sight of despayring what shall those bee that are reserued onely for those that hate him and that hee hateth None but those who haue hearde the desperat complaints of some guilty Spyra or whose soules haue beene a little scorched with these flames can enough conceiue of the horror of this estate it beeing the policie of our common enemie to conceale it so long that wee may see and feele it at once least wee shoulde feare it before it be too late to bee auoyded Sect. 17. NOw when this great aduersary â—ike a proud Giant comes stalking out in his feareful shape and insults ouer our fraile mortality daring the worlde to match him with an equall champion whiles a whole hoast of worldlings show him their backs for feare the true Christian armed onely with confidence and resolutioÌ„ of his future happinesse dares boldly en counter him and can wound him in the forehead the wonted seate of terror and trampling vpon him can cut off his head with his own sword victoriously returning can sing in Triumph Oh death where is thy sâ—ing An happy victory we die are not foiled yea we are conquerors in dying wee could not ouer come death if wee dyed not That dissolution is well bestowed that parts the soule from the body that it may vnite both to God All our life here as that heaueÌ„ly Doctor wel termes it is but a vitall death how aduantageous is that death that determines this false dying life and beginnes a true one aboue all the titles of happinesse The Epicure or Saducee dare not dye for feare of not being The guiltye and loose worldling dare not dye for feare of beeing miserable The distrustfull and doubting semi-christian dare not dye because he knows not whether hee shall bee or bee miserable or not bee at all The resolued Christian dare and woulde dye because hee knowes hee shall bee happye and looking merrily towards heauen the place of his rest can vnfainedly say I desire to bee dissolued I see thee my home I see thee A sweete

and glorious home after a weary pilgrimage I see thee and now after manye lingring hopes I aspire to thee Howe ofte haue I looked vp at thee with admiratioÌ„ rauishment of soule by the goodly beams that I haue seen gessed at the glorye that is aboue them How ofte haue I scorned these dead and vnpleasant pleasures of earth in comparison of thine I come now my ioyes I come to possesse you I come through paine and death Yea if hell it selfe were in the way betwixt you and mee I woulde paste through hell it selfe to enioy you And in truth if that heathen Cleombrotus a follower of the ancient Academy but vpon only reading of his Maister Platoes discourses of the immortality of the soule coulde cast downe himselfe hedlong from an hye rocke and wilfully breake his necke that he might bee possessed of that immortality which hee beleeued to follow vpon death how contented should they be to dye that know they shall be more then immortall glorious He went not in an hate of the flesh as the Patrician hereticks of olde but in a blind loue to his soule out of bare opinioÌ„ Wee vpon an holy loue grounded vpon assured knowledge He vpon an opinion of future life we on knowledge of future glory Hee went vnsent for we called for by our maker Why should his courage exceede ours since our ground our estate so far exceedes his Euen this age within the reach of our memorie bred that peremptory Italian which in imitation of the old RomaÌ„ courage least in that degenerated nation there shoulde bee no step left of the qualities of their Ancestours entring vpon his tormeÌ„t for killing a Tyrant cheared himselfe with this coÌ„fideÌ„ce My death is sharp my fame shall bee euerlasting The voyce of a Romane not of a christian My fame shal bee eternall An idle comfort My fame shall liue not my soule liue to see it What shall it auayle thee to bee talkt of while thou art not Then fame only is pretious when a man liues to enioy it The fame that suruiues the soule is bootles Yet eueÌ„ this hope cheared him against the violeÌ„ce of his death what should it do vs that not our fame but our life our glory after death caÌ„not dy Hee that hath Stephens eies to look into heueÌ„ caÌ„not but haue the tongue of the Saints Come Lord. How long That man seeing the glory of the end cannot but contemne the hardnesse of the way But who wants those eies if he say and sweare that he feares not death beleeue him not If he protest his Tranquillity yet fear death beleeue him not Beleeue him not if he say he is not miserable Sect. 18. THese are enemies on the left hand There want not some on the right Which with lesse profession of hostilitye hurt no lesse Not so easily perceiued because they distemper the mind not without some kinde of pleasure Surfeit killes more then famine These are the ouer-desiring and ouer-ioying of these earthly thinges All immoderations are enemyes as to health so to peace He that desires wants as much as he that hath nothing The drunken man is as thirstie as the sweating traueller Hence are the studies cares feares ielousies hopes griefes enuies wishes platforms of atchiuing alterations of purposes and a thousand like whereof each one is enough to make the life troublesom One is sicke of his neighbour field whose mishapen angels disfigure his and hinder his Lordship of entirenes what he hath is not regarded for the want of what he cannot haue Another feeds on crusts to purchase what he must leaue perhaps to a foole or which is not much better to a prodigall heyre Another in the extremitie of couetous folly chooses to die an vnpitied death hanging himselfe for the fall of the market while the commons laugh at that losse in their speeches Epitaph vpoÌ„ him as on that Pope He liued as a wolfe died as a dog One cares not what atteÌ„dance he daunces at all houres on whose stairs he sits what vices he sooths deformities he imitates what seruile offices hee doth in an hope to rise Another stomackes the couered head and stiffe knee of his inferiour angry that other men think him not so good as hee thinks himselfe Another eates his own heart with enuie at the richer furniture and better estate or more honor of his neighbor thinking his own not good because another hath better Another vexeth himselfe with a word of disgrace past from the mouth of an enemie which hee neither can digest nor cast vp resoluing because another will bee his enemy to be his own These humors are as manifold as there are men that seeme prosperous For the auoiding of all which ridiculous and yet spightful inconueniences the minde must bee setled in a perswasion of the worthlessenesse of these outward things Let it know that these riches haue made many prouder none better That as neuer man was so neuer wise man thought himselfe better for enioying them Would that wise Philosopher haue cast his gold into the sea if he had not knowne he should liue more happily without it If he knew not the vse of riches hee was no wise man if hee knew not the best way to quietnes he was no philosopher now euen by the voyce of their oracle hee was confessed to bee both yet cast away his gold that hee might bee happy Would that wise prophet haue prayed aswell against riches as pouerty Would so many great meÌ„ wherof our litle IlaÌ„d hath yeilded 9. crowned kings while it was held of old by the SaxoÌ„s after they had continued their life in the throne haue ended it in the cell and changed their scepter for a booke if they could haue fouÌ„d as much felicity in the hyest estate as security in the lowest I heare Peter and Iohn the eldest and dearest Apostles say Golde and siluer haue I none I heare the Diuell say All these will I giue thee and they are mine to giue VVhether shal I desire to bee in the state of these saints or that deuil He was therfore a better husband then a philosopher that first termed riches Goods and hee mended the title wel that adding a fit epithet called them goodes of Fortune False goods ascribed to a false Patron ther is no fortune to giue or guide riches there is no true goodnes in riches to be guided His meaning then was as I can interpret it to teach vs in this title that it is a chance if euer riches were good to any In summe who would account those as riches or those riches as goods which hurt the owner disquiet others which the worst haue which the best haue not which those that haue not waÌ„t not which those want that haue them which are lost in a night and a man is not worse when hee hath lost them It is true of them that we say of Fire and

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