Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	soul_n	world_n	13,005	5	4.9109	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68977	The prodigals teares. With a heavenly new yeeres gift sent to the soule; contayning many most zealous and comfortable prayers, with deuout meditations: both worthie the acceptance of all Christians, and their expence of time to peruse. By H. G. preacher of the most sacred Word of God	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Goodcole, Henry, 1568-1641.	1620 (1620)	STC 3580; ESTC S114442	53,955	283

rather of voluptuous affections withdraw you from your primarie essence you proceed from the soule and shall any extrinsecall obiect draw you from her alas it were pitie your founder the soule is imprisoned already and one that beares her small good will a domesticall enemy that euer plants her battery to ouerthrow the faire and beautifull structures of the said impudencie it is and shameles boldnes for the handmaide to dominiere ouer her Mistris for the case to bee better esteemed then the instrument is in it alas what harmony would a faire and curious case make without her instrument silent musicke if Arion had played on such hee had neuer inchanted fishes but had beene as mute as any fish But the Body vseth to say to the Soule as our gallant to the simple plaine man He is a good soule seeming to disparage Goodnesse with the Epethite of Simplicitie But these braue cutters are deceiued that disparagement maketh them worthy It is the truest badge of a Christian to walke in Trueth and simplicitie These simple shrubbes will find footing in the narrow wayes when our lofty Cedars shall seeke for broader passages And whence I pray you commeth this haughtinesse of minde but from the corruption of the bodie Alas if man would but consider his composition How weake in his birth how naked in his life how perplexed and in his Death ofte-times how irresolued he would fashion himselfe to an other forme neyther how to imitate the Apish fashions of the Spanyarde or Italian but how to expresse himselfe in the duty of a Christian The Prodigals contempt of the world declared in condemning the multiplicities and varieties of fashions in the same IF GOD were in loue with fashions he could neuer bee better serued then in these our dayes For our World is like a Pageant where euery mans Apparrell is better then himselfe where if our bodyes did chaunge formes so often as our Apparrell changeth fashions they should haue more shapes then fingers or toes Miserable Age when our best parte is dis-valued and the worst of man like Esaps Crow so ridiculously varied with all colours The soule being of more tempered judgmeÌ„t caÌ„ no way chuse but laugh at the bodies foolery and ask her as the philosopher did Scylla Whereto doe all these tend must these euer be stript off thee Dare death affront one of such eminencie Surely no she will disspence with thee for a time if it be but to instruct the World in new vanities O silly man how much imputation thou aspersest on thy selfe in affecting such trumperies Goe but vnto the first ordinance and how farre are these fashions altered from the letherne coats which God made in Paradise There were none of these vanities but the corruptions of these times haue introduced many errours of no lesse occurrence When in reuolutions of times we euer haue obserued the following age to be worse then the precedent and that of Homer to be true Pauci nunc similes patribus nascuntur bonestis I will wish a better cloathing for my bodie not so obseruant to the eye but better fitting for her state These outward couers ofte times make vs forget our imperfections caring for no more then to garnish the body whilest we all together stand neglectfull of the state and condition of the soule The Ancients that were sequestred from the world and onely meditated of their ends though superstitiously deuoted yet in this respect to be admired They stoode not vpon earthly pompe nor on outward garish vanities their refectory was a Cell their companion a deathshead their remembrancer an hour-glasse and their studie how to dye And death certainely could not bee terrible to such fixing their mindes on nothing heere in this life which might trouble them in departure vnto a better life It is true the pompe of death more terrifieth then Death it selfe Obiects of vanitie make our dissolution heauie and some I haue seene passe away with an indifferencie of life others before representment of death merry but at their approach when Resolution should haue shewne her selfe best prowde recreants to themselues Causes I haue conceyued two-fold eyther for that their minde were seated on Earthly affaires and could not pierce into the excellencie of their future hopes or that oppressed with the heauie remembraÌ„ce of their sinnes they trembled to appeare so vnprouided or grieuously loaden before a throane of iustice where they must of necessity answer theyr meditation at the instant of death is all of his Iustice without recourse to his mercie O these if they might would sue a repriue at Deaths hands with many intreaties I obserued this poore soule that I am it hath bin an especial motiue to my conuersion admonishing my selfe by their conuersion life to preueÌ„t their miserable end I will therfore first desire to liue well before I will wish to die will for hard it is for him that will not liue the life of the righteous to die the death of the righteous life and death beeing in this nature concomitants the coÌ„clusions euer seconding the begining I must obserue S. Ieroms rule who whither he slept or wakt euer thoght that suÌ„mons to be sounding in his eare Arise ye dead and come vnto Iudgement This preparation will addresse me to thinke of my end before I come to it and the more welcome will it be when I come to it I haue wondred at men when they desired one time after an other for it makes me weepe when I see my houre glasse beside mee and see euery drop of sand follow other so speedily How precious is that treasure which can neuer be redeemed and so precious is Time shewing State in himselfe for he will stay for no man but offering his opportunity which accepted yeeldes remedie to any malady if thou be sicke in minde no time so sinister or akward but will shewe in some season a cordiall to thy discomforts if in body euery day is not canicular there be some promising helpes euen in dayes if not to cure yet to allay thy infirmities Change of Fortune the worldlings greatest sickenesse is soone taken away by continuance either by respect to our selues or to others to our selues considering they were but lent vs to others seeing the like accidents common vnto them with vs. The Prodigall condemning the spent thrifts of time O That our worldling would but call to minde the preciousnesse of the Time Hee would not desire so speedyrunning horses for his pleasure to soake the poore grate vpon the bons of the needy making spunges of them to inrich himselfe nor the ambitious wholly exposed to the insatiare desire of honour would abuse so inestimable good with so indefinite an euill in Courtiers applause spending the beauty of the day with the complements of an oylie tongue That holy Father well obserued this who to put himselfe in minde of his dayes taske would euer sommon himselfe in the Euening with this account O my

Countries libertie And is it not a farre more Noble and glorious death to die in defence of our owne Soule where many temptations be daily hourely assaulting perpetuall inducemeÌ„ts ensnaring also not violent siege lying we had need haue expert Captains to marshall our Troups to wit our passions prepared mindes to wit all afflictions and impregnable Bulwarkes to withstand the violence of siege To wit preparatiues against all inducements A Soule thus Fortified cannot well be surprized The Enemie may well lye at the gates but it will be matter of greater difficultie for him to enter A poore man had need haue no trayterous passions or motions within him to render vp the castle and Fortresse of his Soule He hath enemies enow without all should bee faithful vnto him at home Hee must haue no effeminate appetite lest like another Tarpeia it seek to ruinate her possessour as that wantonly-amourous Maide would haue betraied the Capitoll to an Hostile vsurper We should therefore haue our passions in subjection our illimited desires in bondage lest they beeing as they are boundlesse in themselues enforce the Soule to passe the bounds of discreete moderation It was excellently obserued by that father of Moralitie Plutarch esteeming him that could moderate his affections to be halfe vertuous but hee that had soueraigne command ouer his passions to bee a perfit man But as these dayes goe we take such to be good men with Cicero as haue onely appearance of vertue in them Perfection is too absolute for this time and inferiour vertues saith one be good enough for yron Ages If with Balaam wee desire to die the death of the righteous it is enough No matter for the interim of our life we ground vpon an infalliable Axiome A good end is euer attended with a good life it is true But an euill life seldome or neuer produceth a good end he therefore that meanes to die in Gods fauour must liue in his feare for hee that on the stage of this world makes not his entrance in his feare seldome makes his Exit in his fauour But I will dedicate my heart to God that hee who requires it may possesse it so shall both his feare and fauour lodge in the harbour of my heart and blessed is such a Temple as shall be thought worthy to receiue so comfortable a guest hee that hath his heart possessed of God can find no discordant passion transporting him no exhorbitant affection raigning in him all things be safe all all secure for the God of peace liueth in him the holy Spirit wholly possesseth him and the Angells as ministring seruants are deputed by GOD to attend him O then let my heart enioy thee that the rest of my members may follow thee whither soeuer thou goest For like as the poize of a clock turneth the wheeles one way so the heart being the maine poize of euery humaine Composition what manner of way soeuer it doth turne draweth by an attractiue power all the corporall motions with it Or like as the yron is drawne by the Adamant the Strawe by the Ieate and the Helyo trophic by the Sunne Euen so bee the faculties of the body drawne by the attractiue power of the heart For as they receiue all life by her so like loyal subiects they render as to their soueraigne their legeance vnto her The Prodigals offering GOe then O my hart I giue thee to my Maker he craneth thee and he onely shall haue thee Whilest thou wast mine thou wast a wandering heart a faithlesse heart a secure and carnall heart a remorcelesse and impenitent heart but being now thy Creators he will apparell thee anew adorning thee with the excelent gifts of his Spirit that being cloathed heere with the ornaments of his grace thou mayest bee transplanted hence to the Kingdome of Glory And what gift better or more acceptable then my heart to my Maker that made my heart I will say with that blessed father My heart O Lord was created by thee and it can find no rest till it come vnto thee no rest indeede For what rest or peace in this world what comfort in this life Quaequanto magis procedit tanto magis ad mortem accedit Where there is of that side feare of this side trembling heere hunger there thirst heere heate there cold heere griefe there anguish of minde aboundeth and to all these succeedeth importunate death which with a thousand kinds of diseases daily and sodainly seaseth vpon wretched man why then should man so attentiuely set his heart vpon the vaine delights of this world let him but consider the certainty of it and hee shall confesse nothing more inconstant light and wauering let him obserue the vanity of it and hee will acknowledge nothing so foolish contemptuous or vndeseruing Well might Democritus laugh in these dayes where the world as that Philosopher imagined seemes to be made of nothing but discords Many discords indeed where there is no vnity betwixt man and his conscience policy and religion Church and Common-wealth youth and age and that I may vse the Churches very annexion man and wife where some esteeme wife and children as billes of charges Which moued the wisemans answere being demaunded when a man should marry A yong man not yet an old man not at all Wherefore Arminus a Ruler of Carthage being importunately perswaded to marry answered I dare not for if I chance to light vpon one that is wise she will be wilfull if wealthy then wanton if poore then peeuish if beautifull then proud if deformed then loathsome and the least of these is able to kill a thousand men A strange age when our greatest comforts be oftentimes peruerted and made the indefinitest euills What concord in so maine oppositions Esteeme this for a life let him that pleaseth I haue seene in my fewe yeeres expense and many houres bitter experience that the very greatest comforts were but appearances and where a promising euent shewed it selfe there some sinister occurrent euer thwarted the effect I will so resolue to liue that I may die cheerefully without looking backe to what I leaue behind I will iudge of delights as impertinences auailing little to my heauenly voyage What I haue I will vse freely without profusenesse and without sparing to shew I am Maister of mine owne Lauishly to consume what I may with reputation keepe I will not and to spare where Discretion bids mee spend I scorne it the one implies a Prodigall humour exposed to obseruance the other a niggardlinesse indiscreetely parcimonious for the pleasures of this life I thus resolue if they had more permanence and not such motiue causes of repentance I should welneare as much doate on them as I now loath them But to haue delights immixed with such interchangeable courses of discontent falling to their ebbe before euer they come to their flowe I thinke euery wise man will conclude with that wisest of men

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