Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	fire_n	soul_n	4,333	5	5.0921	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00407	The scourge of securitie, or The expulsion and returne of the vncleane spirit. By William Est, minister and preacher of Gods word, at Bedford in Deuonshire	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.	1609 (1609)	STC 10537; ESTC S111377	36,719	111

the Trees are yet budding and blooming and the fruite not yet come to maturitie and ripenesse we vse no great care in watching and keeping it but when the fruite beginneth to come to the expected ripenes we looke more carefully vnto it So when thy sinne beginneth to waxe ripe and to growe towards hardnesse of heart then this enemie watcheth and is the more carefull and vigilant of thee least thou shouldest hearken to the voice of God knocking at the doore of thy heart and open vnto his Diuine inspirations vntill thou be come into profundum peccati into the deepth of sinne and into the ripenesse of iniquitie and bee made a fit dish for the diuels table This is the miserable captiuitie wherin hee holdeth the wicked which yet willingly subiect themselues vnto him choose rather to fight vnder his banner so they may quietly follow their pleasures for a season then as the good Souldiers of Christ valiantly to resist him And herein they imitate the Israelites which chose rather to subiect themselues vnto the vniust yoke of cruell Pharoe then to sustaine a little labour for the land of Promise Exod. 16. Sometime the lewde man or whorishwoman resolue with themselues to giue ouer their filthie life knowing how odious this sinne is in the sight of God now the diuell fearing to loose his pray bestirreth him and suggesteth into the mind of this wretched woman that if she giue ouer this filthie trade she shall liue in penurie and want maintenance and that he may in peace possesse them he layeth before their eies the strictnesse of Gods iudgements the implacablenesse of his wrath that repentance is now too late and in vaine and therefore willeth them to take the present fruit of their pleasures So hee layeth before the Vsurer the hardnesse of the times the sweetnesse of the gaine which without any paines commeth rowling into his bagges c. and by no meanes will haue the sinner to forsake his damnable waies But my brethren let vs stoppe our eares to the pestilent counsailes of this hellish fiend consider that all the pretended impediments of Sathan are in deed but strawes and feathers they appeare to be somthing wheÌ„ they are indeed nothing but shadowes let him not with these paper-darts shake or weaken our confidence in God hee cannot lie which said Psal 37. Trust thou in the Lord and be doing good dwell in the land and assuredly thou shalt be fed 7. Vers 23. He that is not with me is against me This gnome of Christ is diligently to be noted we must therefore of necessitie stande on Christs side or on Sathans wee must either scrue God or Mammon assent with Christ or with Belial 2 Cor. 9. Nullum est hÃ®c tertium here is no third for what communioÌ„ hath light with darknes 2. Cor. 6 Harken to this ye Neutralists which halte betweene two opinions 1. Reg. 18. Non nascitur ex bono malum non magis quÃ¢m ex ficu olea good cannot spring of euill no more then the oliue of the fig-tree Saith Seneca 30. Epist Bonus animus nunquam erranti obsequium accommodat A good minde neuer reacheth the helping hand to vphold error Saith he againe Solon neuer reputeth him a good Citizen which in a ciuill dissention would associate himselfe to neither part in dissensions of matters of faith shall we thinke such to bee good men God will spewe them out of his mouth Apoc. 3. 8. Vers 24. When this vncleane spirit walking through drie places could find no rest to settle his habitation there he resolueth with himselfe to returne into his house from whence hee came out He calleth it his house not by creation for all things are Gods but by possession CoÌ„sider here O wretch what guest thou reiectest and whom thou receyuest when thou seruest him thou reiectest God and admittest the Diuell thou expellest life and receiuest death thou fliest light and entertainest the Prince of darknesse Euen as through Sauls disobedience the spirit of God departed from him presently the euill spirit possessed him which horriblie tormented both his bodie and soule which inflamed him with the fire of enuie and ambition which incensed him to persecute innoceÌ„t Dauid most barbarously to murder the priests of the Lord and lastly to be his owne butcher 1. Sam. 22 to 31. So brethren let vs assure our selues that if we forsake the Lord he will forsake vs. 2. Chro. 15. If we suffer sin to raigne in vs the spirit of God will forsake vs and then presently our hearts are made an habitation for the vncleane spirit O brethreÌ„ how fearefull and miserable is the state of that man which is forsaken of God the fountaine of all goodnesse and possessed of the diuell the authour of all euill What euill is there that this most cruell and mightie enimie will not effect in them whome hee possesseth Note here that the diuel saith not I will goe into some other house but I will returne into the house from whence I came See here the impudent boldnesse of this enemie he presumeth that the doores of that house are alwayes open vnto him He knoweth that they which haue euer beene accustomed to sinne casting aside al feare wil easily be drawn backe to their vomite and brought to their olde bias and when hee commeth hee findeth it emptie Mat. 12. Swept and garnished Swept Per consuetudinem peccati emptie of faith good workes and all holy exercises per pigritiam nogligentiam garnished with counterfeÌ„it vertues per hypocrisin saith an auncient writer 1. Swept The Broome swe epeth away but the dust it leaueth the dirt and whatsoeuer sticketh fast it moueth not that So many will vse Verriculo panitentiae the Broome of repentance in sweeping the house of their soule lightly and superficially they leaue still behinde their euill customes and wicked habite of sinne which cleaueth fast vnto them We see many Vsurers will hate adulterie make conscience of swearing and periurie c. These Cobwebs they sweepe cleane away but as for the filthy habite gainfull custome wicked trade of Vsurie because it bringeth profite they leaue that vntouched their broome reacheth not so farre Likewise many adulterers though wel monied detest Vsurie as vtterly vnlawfull and forbidden of God vpon paine of damnation Psal 15. Ezech. 18. c. They will perhaps loath lying craft oppression c. but as for Adulterie their beloued sinne which continuall custome hath brought to an habite that filthy dirt they leaue vnswept that cleaueth still fast to the walles of their spirituall house The like may be said of all other accustomed sinne These are like hypocriticall Naaman 2. King 5.18 which when he resolued to serue the God of heauen hee excepted one thing with God The Lord be mercifull to mee sayth he in this point So the Hypocrites wold faine indent with God to dispence with their beloued sinne their gainfull sinne which they are loath to forgoe But beloued marke here I

hearts be hardened in sinne and so sinne growe into an habite but without delay cast of your olde sinnefull conuersation and be renued in the spirit of your mindes and betime put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Ephe. 4.23 O consider that in thy first estate thou didest fight against the flesh the world and the diuell but if thou still addest sinne vpon sinne thou prouokest besides these another enemie wicked custome which will wage hostile warre against thee drawe thee after it and will bring thee into that wretched estate that thou shalt not feele the malice of sinne but drinke in iniquitie like wine and so be the more hardly conuerted Let vs flie all occasions auoyde the societie of wicked men the lillie is hardly preserued vnhurte among those thornes And so in this a respect the last state of sinne is worse then the first 3 Thirdly the last state of sinne is worse then the first in respect of God because the farther the sinner departeth from God the oftner he returneth like the dogge to his owne vomite and as the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire â— Pet. 2.22 The more God departeth from him and giueth them vp to their harts lust to a reprobate minde vnto vile affections Rom. 1 vers 24.28 As the physition giueth ouer the sicke which through his intemperancie and disordered life falleth many times into a relapse of sickenes Wherefore the Lord complaineth against Babel Ier. 51. We would haue cured Babel but she could not be healed forsake her c. And euen as a trauailer the more he goeth on his way the farther he is from the place from whence hee came so the greater sinne and more often that a man committeth the farther is he still from God But marke heere the policie of Sathan when hee cannot drawe a man especially such as haue bin exercised in godlinesse at one pull from God he laboureth to effect this pedetentim paulatim by little and litle euen as feuers and other infirmities of the bodie are the forerunners of death so many infirmities of the soule goe before the committing of many sinnes in action Thou commest deuoutly daily to prayer by litle and litle thou growest more colde at last thou waxest keycolde and vtterly neglectest the dutie of prayer Thou repayrest zealously to neare the word preached hee it be euery day in the weeke at last thy zeale waxeth more colde then thou saist it is sufficient to heare a Sermon vpon the Sabboth day in the end thou sayest to what purpose is so much preaching and so by litle and litle sathan draweth thee to despise Preachers and contemne the word of God and by degrees bringeth thee to vtter destruction So our Mother Eue by litle and litle fell from God first she beheld the Tree in the midst of the Garden that it was a faire Tree and pleasant to the eie then she desired the fruite next she plucked it and did eate and so transgressed Gods commandement Gen. 3.6 So Caine from a litle enuie which at first might easily haue bin suppressed giuing place to the diuell his hatred so increased that it grewe at last to murther Take heede therefore principiis obsta resist betime lubricus est serpens antiquus whose first suggestions if they be not resisted totus in intima cordis dum non sentitur illabitur Isidor The diuell is a slipperie serpent whose head that is his first suggestions if they be not resisted he windeth in his whole bodie ere thou be aware And that he may the sooner withdrawe vs from God he laboureth first to corrupt and falsifie the election of our will which one calleth amoris affectionum bilancem the ballance of our loue and affections whereby it commeth to passe that in the estimate of our loue we so litle esteeme God and the heauenly good things that in our election we preferre the creature before the creator and transitorie things before the heauenly So the Iewes Christ and Barrabas being put in this deceitfull ballance in their choise Barrabas waighed downe Christ Math. 27. Because they more esteemed Barrabas then Christ Thou wilt say that the Iewes deserued eternall torments for that they so vniustly did ponderate the different worthynes of these 2. But if one should demaunde of thee whether thou louest Christ or Barrabas no doubt thou wouldest say Christ but if thou makest choise of one worse then Barrabas what wilt thou say what if thou more esteemest sinne then Christ thou takest from thy neighbour his substance thou betrayest thy soule vnto the diuell thou wilt sweare and forsweare to increase thy wealth and for the gaining of one groate thou forsakest Christ dost thou not now more esteeme thy gaine then God Dost thou not loue sinne and the diuell more then Christ and seeing the diuell is worse then Barrabas and thou louest the diuel more then Christ it necessarily followeth that thou art worse then the Iewes And what is the cause hereof but the ballance of loue or hatred which is placed in thy will which sathan adulterateth and falsifieth in the estimate of this loue and inclineth it to the worst And so as the sinner through the malice of his will turneth away from God so God turneth his face from him which is the greatest of all euils And euen as the farther one goeth from the Sunne the longer is his shadowe for in the euening the Sunne declining euerie thing hath the greater shadowe so the farther a man departeth from God the greater shadowes of worldly vanities followe him for what are all earthly things which so greedily we desire but shadowes as the wicked themselues but too late shall confesse Wisd 5. All those things are passed away as a shadow And the farther we plunge our selues in the loue of the world the farther stil we are from God and therefore the more difficill our conuersion And euen as the Sunne the farther it departeth from any Countrie the more colde and barraine it maketh it contrariwise the nearer the Sunne directeth his course to any region the more warme and fruitfull it is and the sooner it bringeth forth fruite so the nearer our Lord Iesus Christ the Sonne of righteousnesse is vnto vs and with his presence and hoâ—e beames of his grace holy spirit collustrateth our soules the sooner and more aboundantly we fructifie be conuerted bring forth the fruits of pietie to the ioyfull and blessed haruest of eternall life But when Christ the true Sonne of righteousnesse departeth hee leaueth the soule desolate barraine vnfruitfull and openeth the gate vnto all vices And therefore the Lord saith by his Prophet Hose 9 1â— Woe be vnto them when I depart from them For as the spirit of God dwelling in our hearts maketh the way of vertue easie and pleasant so the absence of Gods spirit when through sinne we greeue the spirite of God maketh the way of repentance difficill and vnpleasant And so in this respect the last state of the sinner is worse then the first Wherefore brethren I beseech and exhort you in the bowels of mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ that yee would euer remember this wholsome caueat of our Sauiour Io. 5.14 Sinne no more least a worse thing happen unto thee Take we heede of often back lyding Remember Lots wife Luc. 17. Gen. 19.26 For if we after we haue escaped from the filthinesse of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ are yet intangled againe therin ouercome our later end wil be worse then the beginning 2. Pet. 2.20 Let vs take the present opportunitie of repentance let vs not thinke to find it more easie heereafter when all the causes of difficultie are increased by adding sinne vpon sinne When an euill custome hath taken a deepe habite in our hearts when sinne by continuance bringeth a plea of prescription when the diuell hath more strongly fortified his Castle which is our soule when God which is our light is departed farther from vs when the powers of our soules become more weake by receiuing of many wounds and more insufficient goodnesse To conclude againe I exhort you brethren that taking pittie vpon your selues whiles yet this life lasteth whiles yet there is time for mercie while the the Iudge himselfe calleth you to repentance louingly expecteth you offereth his grace reacheth out his hand to receiue you before the gate of heauen be shut against you that yee would in time prouide for your selues that walking the way of repentance the hand of the Lord guiding directing you yee may come after this earthly Pilgrimage into the blessed Chanaan of eternall felicitie where shall be eternall health and healthfull eternitie where our ioy shall neuer decrease nor loue euer waxe colde euen that blessednesse which the eye hath not seene the care hath not heard neither hath entred into the heart of man which God hath prepared for them that loue him 1. Cor. 2.9 To whome with the Sonne and the holy Ghost 3. persons in one most glorious Trinitie one God in Vnitie might maiestie be all honour praise power and dominion now and for euer more Amen FINIS

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