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	true_a	4,445	5	4.7126	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€‰

on the earth and of those vnder the earth and euery tongue shall confesse that IESVS is the Lord sitting in glory with God the Father This is the glorious name by which and for which all things were all creatures subsist haue their being their life their operations and their good and yet neuerthelesse it is hated of men after the custome of many barbarous Nations who at the rising of the Sunne shoote their Arrowes against it with a thousand maledictions because they doe but feele the ardour and heate of it at high noone day not considering that without the benefit of his beames and vertue they could not liue And euen so the world shoote the darts of their hatred and madnesse against Christ who is the Sonne of Righteousnes when they apprehend but the ardour of persecution or else supposing that Christ brings with him some Inconuenience whereas indeed hee is the true sunne of all happines and that without his light and special grace there is nothing but darknes misery the shaddowes of death and death eternall Persons empoysoned with this hatred against the name of Christ are of two sorts some be those which make no profession at all of him but openly detest him as Paynims Iewes Turkes and miscreants The other haue some knowledge of him but yet they are erronious Christians mingling the word of God with false Doctrines Superstitions Inuentions and humane Traditions such as be the Heretikes and adherents to Antichrist And though this latter sort and their beleeuers auouch not publikly any hatred to the name of Christ yet they shew it by plaine and euident effects as Saul before his conuersion persecuted the Church of God though his intention and meaning was no wayes such And which is much to be lamented deluded and abused Christians shewe oftentimes more rancorous implacable hatred against the true faithful then those people themselues which hold the Gospel in abomination and suppose they beare a great zeale to Iesus Christ when they persecute him in his members and that they offer an acceptable sacrifiâ—e vnto God when they put his children to death If it be wonderfull therfore that this name of Christ is hated of men is it not likewise a very strange thing that true Christians should be hated one of another For though they haue the most principall rights in the citie of this world yet are they intreated as strangers they loue all the world and all the world hates them they seek after peace euery one makes warre against them they are detested of their enemies and yet they pray for them They are the honestest men of all others and yet are persecuted then the most wicked sort they liue in the flesh and yet not according to the flesh they conuerse on earth and are citizens of heauen they submit themselues to Lawes in their obedience and by their holy life surmount and excell them others curse them and they blesse they are punished and tormented as malefactors and men would not haue them confesse and acknowledge who they are their good names are slandered and depraued and yet wee are enforced to commend their integritie mortall enmitie is put in practise against them and no iust reason can bee rendred thereof men are ignorant of their Profession and notwithstanding condemne it In a word looke what the soule is to the body the same are the faithfull to the world the soule is dispersed ouer all the members of the body and the faithfull ouer the seuerall parts of the earth the soule dwelleth in the body yet is not of the body and so the faithfull dwel in the world yet are not of the world the soule loueth the body though the body warre and contest with it and the faithfull loue all the world though all the world be opposite to them the soule is enclosed within the body as within a gaole or prison and yet she preserues the bodie and the faithfull are imprisoned and shut vp in this world as within a prison and yet they preserue support the world by reason that for their sakes God forbeares to destroy it and when the number of the faithfull is accomplished then the world shall ende and finish The soule is incomparably more excellent then the body and the faithfull of infinite more value then the world The soule is of heauen and the body of the earth so are all the faithfull heauenly whereas the body is wholly earthly and terrestriall The immortall soule dwelleth as a stranger within our mortall tabernacle and so the faithfull haue but a trauailing life in this corruptible world attending most blessed and happie immortalitie The soule being depriued of bodily delights is made the better and more perfect and so the faithful rudely intreated by the world doe profit the more in the exercise of vertue From whence proceedes it then that they are so hated of the world why from this that they are not of the world for if they were of the world the world would loue them because euery thing loues it's like But in that they are distinguished and separated from the world by the profession of the Gospell which a doctrine so sweet amiable and healthfull comprehending and exposing the promises of the grace of God and of life eternall propounding such sacred and admirable misteries such perfect and diuine Instructions how comes it to be thus hated First in that the world is ignorant of it for those that truly know it cannot but loue and embrace it and so of violent presecutors they many times become ardent and zealous Professours The reason of this ignorance is because it is altogether spirituall celestiall and the world earthly and carnall which cannot beleeue nor apprehend it by reason of the sublimitie and excellency thereof no more then the beasts can be capable of the discourse of Reason To which purpose the Apostle affirmes in the first to the Corinthians the second chapter Wee propound wisedome to the perfect a wisedome no wayes of this world neither of the princes of this world which come to nothing but we propound the wisdome of God which consists in mysterie that is to say hidden which God had ordeined before all ages for our glory which none of the Princes of this world haue knowen for had they knowen it they would neuer haue crucified the Lord of Glory But as it is written these bee things which the eye neuer saw the eare heard nor that neuer hath entred into the heart of man but God hath reuealed them vnto vs by his Spirit for the spirit sounds all things yea euen the profoundest matters of God For who is he amongst men that knoweth the very things of man but the spirit of man which is in him No man in like manner knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God Now we haue receiued not the spirit of this world but the Spirit which is of God to the end that we might know the things that are

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