Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	child_n	die_v	sin_n	5,554	5	5.1473	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02536	Epistles. The third and last volume containing two decades / by Ioseph Hall ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1611 (1611)	STC 12663.4; ESTC S4691	58,643	256

lessons of grace there he learnes what belongs to a Sauiour what one hee is what he hath done and for whom how he became ours we his now finding himselfe in a true state of danger of humilitie of neede of desire of fitnes for Christ he brings home to himself al that he learns and what he knowes he applies His former Tutor he feared this hee loueth that shewed him his wounds yea made them this binds and heales them that killed him this shewes him life and leades him to it Now at once he hates himselfe defies Satan trusts to Christ makes account both of pardon and glory This is his most precious Faith whereby he appropriates yea in grosses Christ Iesus to himselfe whence hee is iustified from his sinnes purified from his corruptions established in his resolutioÌ„s comforted in his doubts defended against temptations ouercomes all his enemies Which vertue as it is most imploied and most opposed so carries the most care from the Christian hart that it be sound liuely growing Sound not rotten not hollow not presumptuous sound in the Act not a superficiall conceit but a true deepe and sensible apprehension an apprehension not of the braine but of the heart and of the heart not approuing or assenting but trusting and reposing Sound in the obiect none but Christ he knows that no friendship in heauen can do him good without this The Angells cannot God will not Ye beleeue in the Father beleeue also in me Liuely for it cannot giue life vnlesse it haue life the faith that is not fruitfull is dead the fruits of faith are good workes whether inward within the roofe of the heart as loue awe sorrow piety zeale ioy and the rest or outward towards God or our bretheren obedience and seruice to the one to the other reliefe and beneficence These he beares in his time sometimes all but alwayes some Growing true faith cannot stand still but as it is fruitfull in workes so it increaseth in degrees from a little seede it proues a large plant reaching from earth to heauen and from one heauen to another euery showre and euery Sun addes something to it Neither is this grace euer solitary but alwaies attended royallie For hee that beleeues what a Sauiour hee hath cannot but loue him he that loues him cannot but hate whatsoeuer may displease him cannot but reioice in him hope to inioy him and desire to enioy his hope and contemne all those vanities which he once desired and enioyed His minde now scorneth to grouell vpon earth but soareth vp to the things aboue where Christ sits at the right hand of God and after it hath seene what is done in heauen looks strangely vpon al worldly things He dare trust his faith aboue his reason and sense and hath learned to weane his appetite from crauing much Hee stands in awe of his owne conscience and dare no more offend it then not displease himselfe Hee feares not his enemies yet neglects them not equally auoiding security and timorousnesse Hee sees him that is inuisible and walks with him awfully familiarly He knowes what he is borne to and therefore digests the miseries of his wardship with patience hee findes more comfort in his afflictions then any worldling in pleasures And as hee hath these graces to comfort him within so hath hee the Angels to attend him without spirits better then his owne more powerfull more glorious These beare him in their armes wake by his bed keepe his soule while hee hath it and receiue it when it leaues him These are some present differences the greatest are future which could not bee so great if themselues were not witnesses no lesse then betwixt heauen and hell torment and glory an incorruptible crowne and fire vnqueÌ„chable Whether Infidels be leeue these things or no we know them so shall they but too late What remaynes but that wee applaud our selues in this happines walke on clearly in this heauenly professioÌ„ acknowledging that God could not do more for vs that we caÌ„not do enough for him Let others boast as your Ladiship might with others of ancient and noble houses large Patrimonies or dowries honourable commaunds others of famous names high and enuied honors or the fauors of the greatest others of valor or beauty or some perhaps of eminent learning and wit it shall bee our pride that we are Christians To my Lady Honoria Hay Ep. IIII. Discoursing of the necessity of Baptisme and the estate of those which necessarily want it MADAME MEthinks children are like teeth troublesome both in the breeding and loosing oftentimes painful while they stand yet such as we neither would nor can well be without I goe not about to comfort you thus late for your losse I rather congratulate your wise moderation Christian care of these first spirituall priuiledges desiring only to satisfie you in what you hard as a witnesse not in what you needed as a mother Children are the blessings of Parents and baptisme is the blessing of children and parents Wherein there is not only vse but necessity Necessity not in respect so much of the end as of the precept God hath enioyned it to the comfort of parents and behoofe of children which therefore as it may not be superstitiously hastened so not negligently differred That the contempt of baptisme damneth is past all doubt but that the constrained absence thereof should send infants to hel is a cruell rashnesse It is not their sinne to die early death is a punishment not an offence an effect of sinne not a cause of torment they want nothing but time which they could not coÌ„mand Because they could not liue a while longer that therfore they should die euerlastingly is the hard sentence of a bloody religion I am onely sorry that so harsh an opinion should bee graced with the name of a father so reuerend so diuine whose sentence yet let no man pleade by halues He who helde it vnpossible for a child to be saued vnlesse the baptismall water were powred on his face held it also as vnpossible for the same infant vnlesse the sacrameÌ„tal bread were receiued into his mouth There is the same ground for both the same error in both a weaknes fit for forgetfulnes seeyet how ignoraÌ„t or il meaning posterity could single out one half of the opinion for truth and condemne the other of falshood In spight of whom one part shall easily conuince the other yea without al force since both cannot stand both will fall together for company The same mouth which said vnlesse ye be borne againe of water and the holy Ghost said also Except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood An equall necessity of both And lest any one should plead different interpretations the same Saint Austin auerres this later opinion also concerning the necessary communicating of children to haue beene once the common iudgement of the Church of Rome A sentence so displeasing that you

the other Nothing obligeth vs men so much as smarting for vs words of defence are woorthy of thankes but pain is esteemed aboue recompence How do we kisse the woundes which are taken for our sakes and professe that we would hate our selues if wee did not loue those that dare bleed for vs How much more shal the God of mercies be sensible of your sorrowes and crowne your patience To whom you may truely sing that ditty of the Diuine Psalmist Surely for thy sake am I slaine continually and am counted as a Sheepe for the slaughter What neede I to stir vp your constancy which hath already amazed and wearied your persecutors No suspition shall driue me heereto but rather the thirst of your praise He that exhorts to persist in well-doing whiles he perswades commendeth Whether shoulde I rather send you then to the sight of your own Christian fortitude which neither Prayers nor threats haue bin able to shake Heere stands on the one hand Liberty Promotion Pleasure life and which easily exceeds al these the deare respect of wife and children whome your onely resolution shall make Widdow and Orphanes these with smiles and vowes and teares seeme to importune you On the other hand bondage solitude horror death and the most lingering of all miseries ruine of posterity these with frowns and menaces labour to afright you Betwixt both you haue stoode vnmooued fixing your eyes either right forward vpon the cause of your suffering or vpwards vppon the Crowne of your reward It is an happy thing when our owne actions may be either examples or arguments of good These blessed proceedings call you on to your perfection The reward of good beginnings prosecuted is doubled neglected is lost How vaine are those temptations vvhich would make you a looser of all this praise this recompence Go on therfore happily keepe your eies where they are and your heart cannot bee but where it is and where it ought Looke still for what you suffer for whom For the truth or Christ what can be so precious as truth Not life it selfe All earthly things are not so vile to life as life to truth Life is momentary Truth eternall Life is ours the Truth Gods Oh happy purchase to giue our life for the Truth What can we suffer too much for Christ He hath giuen our life to vs he hath giuen his own life for vs. What great thing is it if he require what he hath giuen vs if ours for his Yea rather if he cal for what he hath lent vs yet not to bereue but to chaunge it giuing vs Gold for our clay glory for our corruption Behold that Sauiour of yours weeping bleeding dying for your alas our soules are too strait for his sorrowes we can be made but paine for him He was made sin for vs we sustain for him but the impotent anger of men hee strugled with the infinite wrath of his Father for vs. Oh who can endure enough for him that hath passed thorough Death and hell for his Soule Thinke this and you shall resolue with Dauid I will bee yet more vile for the Lord. The woorst of the despight of men is but Death and that if they inflict not a disease wil or if not that Age. Heere is no imposition of that which would not be but an hastening of that which will bee An hastening to your gaine For behold their violence shall turne your necessity into Vertue and profit Nature hath made you mortall none but an enemie can make you a Martyr you must die though they will not you cannot die for Christ but by them How coulde they else deuise to make you happie Since the giuer of both liues hath said Hee that shall loose his life for my sake shall saue it Loe this alone is lost with keeping and gained by losse Say you were freed vppon the safest conditions and returning As how welcome should that newes be more to yours then to your selfe Perhappes death may meete you in the way perhaps ouer-take you at home neither place nor time can promise immunitie from the common destinie of men Those that may abridge your houres cannot lengthen them and while they last cannot secure them from vexation yea themselues shall followe you into their dust and cannot auoide what they can inflicte death shal equalie tirannize by them and ouer them so their fauors are but fruitlesse their malice gainefull For it shall change your prison into heauen your Fetters into a Crown your Iailours to Angels your misery into glory Looke vppe to your future estate and reioyce in the present Beholde the Tree of Life the hidden Manna the Scepter of Power the Morning-Starre the white garment the newe name the Crowne and Throne of Heauen are adressed for you Ouercome and enioy them oh glorious condition of Martyrs whom conformity in death hath made like their Sauiour in blessednesse whose honour is to attend him for euer whoÌ„ they haue ioyed to imitate VVhat are these which are arayd in long white robes and whence came they These are saies that Heauenly Elder they which came out of great Tribulation and vvashed their long Robes and haue made their long Robes white in the bloude of the Lambe Therefore they are in the presence of the Throne of GOD and serue him day and night in the Temple and hee that sitteth on the Throne will dwel among them and Gouerne them and leade them vnto the liuelie Fountaines of waters and GOD shall wipe all teares from their eyes All the elect haue Seales in theyr fore-heades But Martyrs haue Palme in theyr handes All the elect haue White Robes Martyrs both white and long White for their Glorie long for the largenesse of their Glorie Once redde with theyr owne bloude now white with the bloude of the Lambe There is nothing in our bloude but weake obedience nothing but merrit in the Lambes-bloud Behold his merite makes our obedience Glorious You doo but sprinckle his feet with your bloude Loe hee washes your long white Robes with his Euerie droppe of your bloude is answered with a streame of his and euerie droppe of his is woorth Riuers of ours Precious in the sight of the Lorde is the Death of his Saintes Precious in preuention Precious in acceptation precious in remuneration Oh giue willingly that which you cannot keepe that you may receyue what you cannot leese The way is steepe but now you breath towardes the top Let not the want of some few steps loose you an eternall rest Put too the strength of your owne Fayth The Prayers of Gods Saints shall further your pace that gracious hand that sustaines heauen and earth shall vphold and sweetly draw you vp to your glory Go on to credite the gospell with your perseuerance and shew the false-hearted Clients of that Romayne-Court that the Trueth yeildes reall and heartie professours such as dare no lesse smart then speake for her Without the wals of your restraint where can

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