Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	life_n	word_n	4,220	5	4.0051	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62382	The royal-pay and pay-master, or, The indigent-officers comfort delivered in a sermon preached before the honorable the military company at St. Pauls Covent-Garden, July 25th, by William Sclater ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty.	Sclater, William, d. 1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing S921; ESTC R34026	17,196	38

he will at thy entring into Heaven bring forth the best Robe and put it on thee a Ring on thy finger and a Crown on thine Head and thou shalt be array'd in Purple and fine Linen Thou shalt be brought to the Tribunal of Christ by the hands of thy late Martyr'd Sovereign for whom thou hast suffered and He in the head of all the murdered Royallists Renowned Montross and Heroick Capel Valiant Lucas and Fighting Lisle Reverend Hewet and Honest Vowel Hardy Slingsby and Thee Sweet Andrews Faithful Penrudduck and Loyal Grove these shall conduct thee to the Tribunal of the Lord Jesus and it shall there be proclaimed before all the Saints This is he that was faithful to the death that durst be good when others were base that did own the righteous Cause of God and his Anointed when others were Neuters Rebels Cowards or Apostates this is he that stood firm and unshaken when others proved false and treacherous Come put the Crown upon his Head he hath been Faithful to the death and he shall now receive a Crown of Life Which brings me Fellow Souldiers to your Pay which I 'll dispatch immediately for you shall have it all in Crown pieces A Crown of Life That 's your Pay The words are Emphatical sp'ritful lively words able to put metal into a Coward Life is the best of all Natural things And a Crown is the best of all Civill things Here is the best and the best 'T is true a good man hath his Crown here St. Paul had one but it was an Apostolical one He tells the Philippians You are my joy and my Crown Every good Christian hath a Crown here a good Conscience is a continual Feast that same is a Crown This was it that Job bound about the Temple of his head Job 27.6 My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Oh blessed Crown poor suffering Royallist cannot you live upon this a while Nay every believer hath his Crown here his Faith and Profession is his Crown Rev. 3. Hold fast that thou hast that no body take thy Crown And here every Faithful Souldier shall have a Crown Crowns were the Rewards of Conquerors Cups Garments and Crowns were the rewards of such as won the prize at the Olympick Games But yet so poor they were that if a Horse did but run a Race and won he had a Crown or a Cup given him and therefore the Poet Theocritus could say See what poor things the world glories in the Conquerors are Crown'd and so are their Horses But this Crown is not composed of withering flowers 't is not a Crown of Ivy or Oke of Grass or Laurel of Gold or Stars but a Crown of unfading unperishing Glory a Crown of Life a Crown that never fades This is the true Noble Honour Here Honour is but a shadow fading glory like the crackling of Thorns under a Pot like the Triumphs of the Caesars splendid indeed but quickly over and forgotten But with thee O Lord there is substantial solid essential Glory a massie ponderous substantial Crown 't is an exceeding eternal weight of Glory which no rust shall corrupt and which no Thieves shall ever bereave us of A Crown of Life 'T is Honor maximus the greatest Honour there is nothing higher in the estimation or admiration of men Then a Crown it is the Appendant of Majesty Kings are Supream Excellent Majesty was added to King Nebuchadnezzar all Nations and Tongues are said to have acknowledged him their Superiour and Sovereign Lord yet all this Honour and Glory of the world is but dark and powerless in respect of the Crowns of Heaven There is no Crown but hath its Cross thorns there are cares and troubles that grieve the bearer of it But this shall never cumber or molest thee here is that which will recompence all our labours and sufferings for the righteous Cause of God and the King A Crown of Life Rouse up then Valiant Souldiers Remember you fight not for the Parliament half Crowns nor for Crowns of Gold but for a Crown of Life which will never be spent The afflictions of this present life are not worthy to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us What are our expences to the receiving 'T is the expence but of a little suffering for the receiving of an immortal Crown of life How much will wiced men suffer to enjoy their lusts And shall we do nothing for this incorruptible Crown of Glory Demosthenes quickned up himself to his Studies by the example of a poor Blacksmith what a shame is it for me to lie in my bed and the Blacksmith to be at his work he that is to make but a few Horse-shooes and nayls and I that am to make an Oration to all the Wits of Greece and Asia So do you say what a shame is it for me to see men compass Sea and Land to get a little muck in the world to weary and beat their brains and expend all they have to give satisfaction to their lusts and shall I be lazie and idle slothful and negligent and do nothing for the security of my Soul and towards the attaining of everlasting happiness I am a a Christian and believe I have an immortal Soul shall wicked men do so much to fulfil the pleasures of sin and shall not I endure a little hardship for this immortal Crown of life Oh! Then Courage Brave Souldiers let us fight on and press forward towards the mark for the prize of our high Calling let us hold out courageously and valiantly against all our spiritual Enemies that we may live one day before we die to sing that Triumphant Song Oh my Soul thou hast trodden down strength Let me dismiss you with those Spiriting words of Seneca in his Chorus to Hercules Oetaeus Nunquam Stygias fertur ad umbras Inclyta virtus vivite fortes Nec Lethaeos saeva per Amnes Vos fata trahent sed cum summas Exiget horas consumpta dies Iter ad superos gloria pandet True Noble Heroick Renowned Faithful Virtue is never brought to the Stygian Lakes Live Live Oh ye valint Men neither shall the cruel Fates ever waft you through the Lethaean streams those Rivers of forgetfulness But when the consumed day shall cut off your latest hours when death shall beat a Retreat to your stiff Limbs Glory immortal Glory shall open you a way unto the Gods Be faithful then to God to your Religion to the interest of your immortal Souls Be faithful to your King to your Countrey and to one another love each other speak well of one another and promote each others interest Resist unto blood striving against sin Be faithful unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Which the Almighty grant c. FINIS

or cunning or valiant or learned or rich but Well done good and faithful Servant enter thou into thy Masters joy And here in my Text is the same Proclamation Be faithful unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of life In the words we have but these parts to consider First here is the word of Command Be faithful Secondly Here is the stint and extent of our duty unto death Be faithful unto death Thirdly Here is a promise of Reward where we will consider 1. Our Pay-master and that is Christ I will give 2ly The Pay it self and that is a Crown with this addition a Crown of life Be faithful then c. First then I begin with the Word of Command Be faithful Fidelity is required of all Christians Faith in Christ must be seconded with faithfulness unto Christ As we must have faith in Him so we must keep faith to Him For those are onely His true Souldiers who are elect called and faithful I have received mercy of God to be faithful cries St. Paul 'T was of Gods mercy to be kept faithful to the righteous Cause of God and the King when there were so many temptations to withdraw us from our Loyalty Be faithful And the necessity of this will appear First From the terms of Relation that are betwixt Christ and us Fidelity and Loyalty is in a more especial manner required in a Subject towards his Soveraign in a Souldier towards his Commander in the Wife towards her Husband 'T is treason in a Subject to fight against his Soveraign 't is death for a Souldier to forsake his Colours 't is an unpardonable crime in a Woman to be unfaithful to her Husbands Bed But Christ is our Lord and Master You call me Lord and Master and you say well for so I am Matth. 23.8 He is the Captain of our salvation Heb. 2.10 He is our Husband and every Christian soul is His Spouse Hosea 2.19 I have espoused thee unto me in much mercy and fidelity And therefore 't is all the reason in the world that we should shew all loyalty and fidelity unto this our Prince Captain and Husband Consider-seriously with your selves these Relations and then tell me what he deserves that breaks faith with Him Secondly The Faith that must save us must be a Faith unfained What 's a Souldier good for except he will fight To take pay and quarter and plunder the Countrey and when it comes to blows whip my Gentleman 's gone Such a person is onely fit to be ram'd into the mouth of a Cannon and shot into a Field of Corn to affright the Crows So Faith severed from Fidelity is no Faith but a meer fansie Fides enim ab eo dicitur quia id fit quod dicitur Faith without faithfulness is a false glavering counterfeit Faith like Copper Coin that hath the lustre but not the worth of gold It is a faithless Faith and a Trust without truth You trust in a lie saith the Prophet Jeremy 7.8 For a man to repeat all the Articles of his Christian Faith to profess with his mouth to believe the Resurrection of his body the General Judgment and the Life everlasting and to live like a Devil and swear like a Turk and yet hope to goe to Heaven with a little of the Extream Unction and a few Ave Maria's Oh foolish people and unwise this pretended faith without practice is no better than a Musket charged only with powder which will give a great report but doe no execution at all Men trust in a Lye when they expect that God should keep Covenant with them when they have no care to keep promise with him Rabshekah's Argument against Hezekiah had been good if his words of Hezekiah had been true Esai 36.7 Little cause indeed could Hezekiah have to trust in God whose Altars he had taken down and whose places of Worship he had demolished How little Reason hath any man to hope that God should save him when he dies that hath no care to serve and please God whilst he lives Alas when we cease to keep Faith with God we free him from the performance of His Promise to us For however it be true that the Apostle says 2 Tim. 2.13 Though we prove unfaithful yet God abides faithful He cannot deny Himself Man's distrust and incredulity cannot annul God's fidelity 'T is a deplorable Position that the Romanists hold and cutteth asunder the sinews of Humane Society That Faith is not to be held with Hereticks Better said Heathen Tully Etiam infideli recte servatur fides even with the unfaithful Faith is to be kept Where Agreements between Party and Party are grounded on Conditions to be mutually performed on either side he that in such case breaketh first doth thereby absolutely free the other Party Unfaithfulness therefore it is not in God to deny to make his Promise good unto those that have no care to keep Covenant with Him Frustra sibi Fidem quis postulat ab eo servari cui fidem Ã se praestitam servare recusat They kept not Covenant with me and I regarded not them saith the Lord Heb. 8.9 Thirdly There is nothing among Generous Men more odious than Falshood and Treachery in Friendship To find them false to us whom we have trusted To be betray'd by those that we thought our surest friends This cuts a man to the very heart This made David complain Psal 55.12 'T was not an open enemy that didst me this dishonour for then I could have born it neither was it mine Adversary that did magnifie himself against me for then peradventure I would have hid my self from him But it was even thou my Companion my Captain and mine own familiar Friend Surely it wounded deep the heart of the Great Buckingham when he was betray'd by his Servant Bannister whom he had raised to a great Estate and it was a bitter ingredient which was put into the Cup of our late Martyr'd Sovereign to have those that eat of his bread to lift up their hands against him To see some of his own Domestick Servants whom he had fed and advanced to sit in that unjust Court to take away his Life So there is nothing that God takes more to heart or can worse endure than disloyalty and breach of Covenants by those which pretend to be in League with Him To acknowledge as we do all that in Him we live and move and have our being To take our Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacie to Him that we will serve Him faithfully and fight against the Devil the World and the Flesh and continue His faithful Souldiers unto our Lives end and yet notwithstanding break all these Obligations and never regard the performance of our Vows but basely betray our Trust and serve his enemies How can God endure this at our hands Will he not judge for these things and shall not his Soul be avenged on such perfidious wretches as we See how God complains

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