Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	put_v	4,598	5	4.9968	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20957	A preparation to suffer for the Gospell of Iesus Christ. Or, A most Christian exercise full of comfort and consolation for these present times. Written in French by the learned, and zealous, Peter Du Moulin, Profresor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Sedan	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 7336; ESTC S118563	17,868	86

for vs testifying therein an infinite loue toward vs. In a word we must not call in question the verity of his word for that is infallible Furthermore this promise is not of weake or slight importance for it intimates vnto vs a deliuerance from an extreame miserie which is from eternal death and damnation to the horror wherof we are naturally subiect and from which it hath pleased the Lord to redeeme vs out of his wonderful goodnes and mercy for if men reioyce so much for escaping some eminent or great peril or for being preserued a little while from death which neuerthelesse is ineuitable what a ioy should possesse vs for our liberty and escape from eternall death and perdition and to bee preserued from the same for euer considring the smal number of those that shall be saued in respect of them that shall perish Wheras vnto this benefit there is also annexed an assured possession of eternall Beatitude the which Christ also inferrs saying Whosoeuer perseuers to the end shall be saued If he promised a life of many hundreds or thousands of yeres in this world men would make great esteem of it especially when it were exempted from all molestations sadnesse griefe infirmities all encombrances but accompanied with ioy contentment health power and security of estate condition But much more also were it magnificent and glorious for the inioyance of great wealth and many dominions of a florishing kingdome and famous empire replenished with whatsoeuer the eie the eare or the heart could wish And Iesus Christ promiseth much more vnto vs theÌ„ all this saying He that continues to the end shal be saued For what can be comparable to this saluation which in all circumstances is most absolute and perfect the place thereof is heauen the continuance therof is eternall the constancy therof is subiect to no mutation the possession secure and certain the nature of its benefits are incorruptible incomprehensible and diuine their number infinite their degrees eminent and supreme their measure immeasurable and their puritie without taint of euill or corruption for they are all absolutely perfit holy and blessed of God the peace thereof is without molestation the glory thereof is the glory of the Lord God almighty How different then is this saluation from a fraile and transitory life which is nothing but a shadow deuoured swallowed vp in miseries and mortality A life which humors griefes and inflamations consume extenuat which the aire makes sick which meats surcharge which abstinence weakneth which sorrowes waste which passions disturbe which cares do wrinkle which pouertie abaseth which old age bends and makes crooked which torments ouerwhelm and which a lamentable death doth finish a life assayled with a deluge of euils wherin there is no firme station where we can scarcely see one poore branch of the flourishing Oliue wherupon the fearfull Doue may for a moment fasten the foot A life affording the same residence allotted to vnclean beasts and the same light which the very wormes of the earth enioy How far I say more excellent is the state of saluation then this present momentary life where no necessities presse no annoyances disturbe no apprehensions molest no miseries approch or draw neer vnto but replenished with happinesse and beatitude where life is without death ioy without sadnes youth without old age peace without trouble light without darknes abundance without defect good without euill security without danger felicity without end This saluation is so much the more to be desired in that it coÌ„pleatly comprehends the happy estate of our whole persons that is to say both of â—â—e soule body the which Christ signifies in saying He that continues to the end shal be saued For otherwise how can we be said to be saued if we might also bee said to be lost and Christ comming to saue that which was lost and absolute entire man being lost must he not likewise in his intire and absolute estate be saued For what a defect were this when Christ hauing assumed our entire person hee should haue redeemed but the moity therof If he were but our half Sauiour and that by him we were but saued in part And who doth not see that the Iustice of God requires the presentation of whole man and as in the one or other part he hath participated of good or euill he hath his share in the retribution both in the one and other part But how should this come to passe that this very body dissolued to ashes atomes and elements should returne to it's former frame and composition O man he that reuiueth the dead that calleth things which are not as if they were cannot hee giue life after death and repeale it from ruine and destruction If he created it when it was not can he not repair it when it hath once bin especially when creation is a greater work then reparation to make more then to restore If he hath made of earth flesh and of flesh earth can hee not of earth reduce it to be flesh again for to him whose wil was to create can any thing be difficult or vnpossible though this worke exceed beyond measure the order and power of Nature yet do not think that it surmouÌ„ts the power of the Author of nature who by a vertue and power supernatural gaue being to Nature and who can when he pleaseth exceed the bounds of nature thorow the infinitie of his power which is comprehended within no bonds nor limits And if thou dost but contemplate Nature her selfe and the seueral parts of this world high and low maist thou not discern examples of the great power of God which may be vnto thee as Images and figures of thy restauration For but lift vp thy eyes to heauen mayst thou not see the Sun who after he hath run his course and is spent after the maner of a death in the west no otherwise then as if it were extinguished he returnes againe to appeare seems raised vp in the East with the resplendencie of his former lustre the ornameÌ„t of his beames and the brightnes of his light and by his alternatiue absence and presence dost thou not see the day dye in the night being buried in all parts in darknes then again to renew and reuiue with clarity beauty grace lustre and ornament causing his death to die which is the night and opening its sepulchre which is the darknes liuing till night by a continual and indifatigable vicissitude succeeds it brings it change giuing an end to it as before it receiued light from the same And do ye not behold the innumerable company of lights celestial relightned which before seem'd quite put out the twinckling of Stars reuiued the light of the Planets renued the wanes and increases of the Moone reestablished Moreouer by the remotion or approch of the Sun who does not perceiue al seasons to returne with their qualities forces and vertues Winter with

his colds humidities and raines the Spring with its beauty sweetnes flowers Summer with its heat siccitie and drought who likewise discerne not the leafeles trees to reassume their verdure and ornament dead plants to resprout withered herbs to reflorish and corrupt seeds to reuiue for that which thou sowest caÌ„not quicken before it first die Cor. 15 A most wonderful thing that Nature should destroy to preserue take away to restore ruinate to maintain corrupt to reuiue and consume to augment and that things by her defeated shold be restor'd made more beautifull and abundant the which thou maist euidently see in the wheat which being laid in the parts of the earth as in sepulchres or graues after it hath putrified it coms vp again much more rich and plentiful then before And to say truth the condition of all things in this Vniuers is renued by their losse and suffer a falling away for their further reparation so that all these ordinary reuolutions these mutable rowling orders of things are nothing but testimonies and intimations vnto vs and as it were a delineation and draught of the Resurrection of the dead the wonder whereof God hath rather exprest in his works then declared by his Ministers by his power rather then by his word and by Nature rather then by Prophesie that so thou mightest be made more fit for the doctrin of Faith being instructed by the experience of this world and so thereupon they should resolue and firmly beleeue that he will likewise reestablish thy person for as thou seest hee reestablisheth all things Wherfore then should we fear either the destruction or endurances of this body seeing it must be restor'd yea into a glorious estate conformable to the body of Iesus Christ why should we fear the hatred of the world which cannot exceed the respects of this world nor bee any obstacle to the accomplishment of our saluation Let vs perseuer vnto the end for he that suffers to the ende shall bee saued So as there is no temptation that can shake our constancy neither the cruelties of oppression nor the perplexities of pain anguish nor the rigor of persecution nor the hardnes of famine neither the ignominy of nakednes or the horror of perill neither the furie of the sword nor the miseries of life neither the violence of death nor the force of all the creatures ioyn'd in one But by reason that in this general hatred of all men against the Church we perceiue the wrath of God kindled against vs because of the extremity of our sins let vs acknowledge them in their horror with a detestation renunciation of them let vs lament with a profound contrition in sighs and teares imploring Gods mercy to the end that his indignation ceasing he may stay the power and fury of such as hate vs. And let vs be coÌ„forted in that if we are hated of the world we are beloued of God that as we cannot loue God and the world together so both God and the world cannot ioyntly loue vs. If we ought to endure for the name of Christ it is freely giuen vs not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer for him thogh men make war vpon vs yet can they not take from vs the peace of God nor the peace of our consciences If we be depriu'd of our earthly commodities yet shall we not be exempted from the treasures of heauen we may take ioyfully the being stript of our goods and chuse rather to be afflicted with the people of God then to enioy for a time the delights of sinne esteeming opprobries for Christ greater riches theÌ„ the treasures of Egypt in respect of their renumeration If we suffer any losse of the body we shal find gain of the soule and that is a good return when we lose for to gaine for in these losses the spirit profits and purchaseth incomparably more then the flesh loseth If we be put to triall by banishment why all the earth is the Lords and though we should bee dispearsed into the most sauage Desarts yet should we not be separated from God nor lose the priuiledge of being Citizens in heauen If most violent aduersities assaile vs the indurances of the time present are not comparable to the glory to come Our light afflictions which doe but euen passe ouer head produce in vs an eternal ioy of a glory superexcellent For if in this transitory world we see a number of men expose themselues to the extreamest hazards and perils be it out of a thirst after glory desire of riches be it for ambitions quarrels or the wars of their Princes should wee refuse to suffer for Gods cause such things as others suffer for meer worldly respects If we be vrg'd to imprisonment the Spirit of God will enter in with vs to giue vs consolation and to reside with vs and in vs. And though the prison were like the deuils house yet by the spirit of our God and by the efficacy of our prayers we may be able to assault and subdue him in his own house we shall put him to flight to the greatest profundities of his depths as an Adder or Snake who being pursued betakes himself to his hole concauity keepes himselfe in folds himselfe vp in his twists hides himselfe and dares not appeare we shall send him from the prison to his hell from the gaole to his place of torments And it need not be hard for vs to be sequestred from the things of this world seeing we are but strangers to the world in that the world is worse then a prison for the prison hath no such darknes in it as that of the world which blindes mens vnderstandings neither are there any such strong bonds as those of the world which doe so hamper the soule nor so euill sents as the odors of the world which are stinking affections and infected corruptions that defile both heauen and earth It holds not so many wicked ones within the precincts of it as the world which comprehends them all neither expects such terrible Iudgement as the world which shal heare the sentence of eternall condemnation To conclude if the prison hath darknesse our selues be light in God if bonds we are free in the Lord if odious stinches we are a good odor to God through Iesus Christ if we are found guilty we are iustified before God if the Iudge bee there ready to giue iudgement wee shall one day iudge as assistants with Christ Iudges of all the world in like manner For if a Christian out of prison renounceth the world how much being in prison ought he to doe the like And what matters it what hee is in this world seeing he is out of the world And thogh his be enclosed within a prison for are not all things open and at liberty to the Spirit who wil not forbear to breake through roofes or vaults when in spirit hee may take his free carriere glide vp to heauen and make his happy sallies euen into Paradise That euen as they that descend into a deepe dark well they see there at all times the stars of heauen so likewise the faithfull in the deepest obscuritie of the dungeon faile not with the eyes of faith to behold the glory of the heauens the radiant light of Gods countenance which brings replenishment of ioy and then questionles may a man be sayd to haue lost his earthly condition when the spirit is rauished vp into heauen for the body then hardly feeles any misery when its soule is with God and conuerseth with the blessed But if in being released out of prison we must indure death or martyrdome Christ will be benefit and gaine vnto vs both in life death 2. Tim. 2. If we die with him we shall also liue with him and happy is that death which brings with it life and opens vnto vs the gate of immortality And further it will bee much glory for vs to set together and cyment the Church of God with our blood and ashes And if this death be outwardly odious and ignominious we do but in it contemne the dishonour of the world we being for the name of Christ annihilated in worldly honor calling to mind how Christ was first crowned with thornes before with glory hee did first climb the crosse before he mouÌ„ted vp into heauen and nayled therunto between two theeues before he sat at the right hand of God his Father If this death be painfull our soule shall be victorious ouer all bodily torments by the diuine vertue of our Lord who out of his deare loue transforming vs into himselfe will make vs incompatible euen as he hath done many other zealous constant Martyrs which haue suffred in their bodies as in strange and different flesh who without astonishment beheld their bodies all on a light fire their entrailes hanging downe their members burnt off and falling downe piece by piece and their â—iuely flesh brought to dust and ashes By their heauenly notes they haue drowned the wind and rumour of the â—â—ames and by the and our of their zeale vanquished that of the burning fire and in the midst of fire-hot coales as if it had bin vpon a bed of flowers thâ—y haue ioyfully exalted their happy and blessed soules Whereunto may further be added that the more cruell tormâ—â—ting our kind of death is so much more excellent and eminent wâ—â—â—e constanâ—y of our ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰

declaring that the subiect of this hatred shall bee the profession of his Name as wee are in like manner aduertised in other places That by many afflictions we must attaine to the kingdome of heauen Acts 14. and that all those which will in pietie according to Iesus Christ must suffer persecution 2. Tim. 3. the which the faithfull haue so clearely prooued to bee true by experience that wee need not coÌ„firm it by examples Christ sayes not simply You shall be exposed but which is more hated for there were many sects of Philosophers which contradicted but not hated them And in all Faculties and Sciences wee see Doctors dispute one against another with much passion and zeale both in speech and writing and yet without violence but as for the faithfull Christ saith vnto them You shall bee hated And as hatred is the source and spring of the wickedest affections and actions of enuie choller detraction iniurie exprobation persecution and crueltie so in affirming that wee shall be hated it intimates vnto vs that the combates assaults which shall bee vrged vpon vs by the world are of no small difficultie For what pernitious designe is there which hatred doth not nurse what outrage does not that enter into what is it fed and sustained withall but with ruine blood and slaughter Her throat is an open sepulchre Rom. 3. Shee vseth her tongue fraudulently vnder her lips there is the venom of the Aspe her mouth is full of cursing bitternesse her feet are swift to shed blood destruction and misery is in her wayes she knowes not the way of peace And questionlesse to the end wee might not suppose how this hatred of the world against vs is but slight and triuiall Iesus Christ describes it vnto vs to bee so cruell and implacable that getting the masterie of the Senses and changing reason into rage it will violate all humanitie all respects and bands of nature with more horrible and tragicall barbarisme embrew her handes in the blood of her nearest Allies For the brother shall deliuer vp his brother to death the father the childe the children shall rise vp against their fathers and mothers and cause them to be put to death and in respect of others what will shee not attempt Shee is so furious that she will destroy Prouinces put Cities to the sacke and whole Estates to ashes vnder a passion to set therein on a flaming fire the Church of God shee will make the fields and riuers looke redde with the blood of the poore and faithfull Saints and fill the world with cruell inflictions with prodigious massacres with horrible murders of an infinite number of innocent persons without any detection of iust crime without regard to sexe age or condition shee will omit no fraud malice perfidiousnesse nor periury shee will hold for a maxime of conscience to make conscience of nothing esteem it for an article of faith to keepe no faith at all vnder pretext of Religion to manifest nothing but irreligion she peruerts not onely the will but the vnderstanding and makes frantick mad For as when a great fire is kindled it sends vp on high a grosse thicke vapour In like manner when this hatred is inflamed in the heart it sends vp into the intellector vnderstanding an obscure and duskish fume which doth obfuscate reason and taking away the true vse therof makes a man degenerate into a sauage and cruell beast And though we see not this hatred alwaies to breake forth in bloody effects it is because God who by the inuisible chaines of his omnipotent power hampers and shackles the malignant depresseth them So that when the enemies of the Church permit her to liue in some quiet and repose and doe not openly persecute her it growes not through the defect of will but of power This hatred is then no more extinguished then the heate of the coale vnder ashes or the venome of a Serpent congealed and mortified by frigiditie Shee is alwayes liuing in the world and when she openly discouers not her selfe she sets and couers causing matters to hatch vpon all occasions wherof these present seasons yeelds vs a liuely proofe and testimonie And which moreouer may seeme more strange Christ sayes not vnto vs you shall bee hated of some speciall men but of all that is to say of all such as doe not receiue the veritie and puritie of the Gospell this signifying that we should not haue a part but the whole world exasperated together against vs. And though it bee diuided into different Affections Factions and Religions and that one Nation is an enemie to another and that there are likewise some which magnifie themselues in the Title of Christians yet they will euer appeare in this poynt to hate vs they will vnite to dissipate vs and assemble to worke our extirpation So the Pharisees and Sadduces accorded to oppose themselues ioyntly to Iesus Christ Herode and Pilate who were enemies grew reconciled to crucifie him And euen so the Kings of the earth though in their Estates they haue contrary designes yet wil they take the same counsell the same resolution and the same correspondencie to fauour Antichrist and to persecute the children of God So as the accord of the world is nothing but a conspiracie against the Church and peace amongst the wicked nothing but warre against God and his Saints The occasion of this hatred against the faithfull is the meer profession of the Name of Christ although oftentimes the pretext be otherwise For they which liue out of this holy profession are so far from being hated of the world that on the contrary they are beloued and cherished the world permitting them to liue in all licentiousnesse and excesse For if the faithfull would imitate them in the errour of beliefe and peruersenesse of life the world would change the hatred they beare towards them to all fauour and loue It is a very strange thing that this name of Christ so sweet amiable should be so odious this Name more odoriferous then spread perfumes this Name which is not onely a good odour in the nostrills of God in himselfe but also for vs making all acceptable to God which wee present vnto him our Prayers or Affections our workes and our persons But as wee say that the Tygers enter into rage vpon the sent of any Aromaticke druggs so in like manner the world becomes starke mad vpon the very odour of the Name of Christ By this Name Diseases haue been cured the deafe haue heard the blind haue seene the dead men haue been raised vp By this Name wicked spirits haue been expelled Hell hath trembled thereat Death was destroyed God appeased Paradise laid open and all Beleeuers saued This Name is venerable among the Angels adored of the Blessed exalted aboue any other name that can be nominated in this world or in the world to come To this Name euery knee must bow both of those aboue in heauen of those

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