Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	good_a	life_n	10,536	5	4.7272	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11483	Gods arrowe of the pestilence. By John Sanford Master of Artes, and chapleine of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford	Sanford, John, 1564 or 5-1629.	1604 (1604)	STC 21734; ESTC S102391	30,165	68

though it be lifted vp brandished by the hand of maÌ„ yet it killeth not but by Gods dispensatioÌ„ as God himselfe saith I will number you to the sworde Esay 65 12 I knowe that the Generall is true that neither the sworde in battaile nor this Arrowe of the Pestilence doeth kill any but those that are appointed thereunto But whether a man may thereupon inferre that it is not lawfull at all to flie from the one nor the other Calvin epist 362. facessant Paradoxa Zanchius ad Philip. cap 2.30 Ovid. 7. meta Fab. 25. it seemeth in Diuinity an harsh sequell and Argument but I will not take vpon me to determine this Question I know great Diuines learned and iudicious to bee of another minde And certaine it is and woe-full experience teacheth that to bee too true which the Poet hath Quo propior quisque est servitque fideliÃ¹s aegro In partem laethi citiÃ¹s venit By how much the neerer meÌ„ come about infected persons by so much the sooner they come by their own deaths I know that there is a time to be borne Eccles 3 2 Iob 14 5 Seneca Her Fur. Act 1 in choro Luth. in cap 2 Ecclesiastae a time to die as Iob saith mans daies are determined the nomber of his moneths are with God who hath set him his bouÌ„ds that he cannot passe Nulli iusso cessare licet nulli scriptum proferre dieÌ„ Many men saith Luther haue bin deepely deadly wounded who haue recouered survived yet many on the contrary side haue dyed of very small hurtes Astrologers ascribe it to the stars and planets others impute it to chance fortune the scriptures referre it to Almighty God apud queÌ„ sunt vitae mortis nostrae momenta posita who hath skored vp the minutes moments of our life death and he as he hath set the last howre period of our daies so hath hee appointed the meanes and the manner of death to bring vs to our ends yet must we not therefore behaue our selues carelesly wilfully to expose our selues to apparent dangers MaÌ„ is not Lord over his own Spirit or life to reteine it Eccles 8 8 saith the wise man And it is a good note to this purpose that our Bibles haue vpon that place that a maÌ„ hath no power to saue his own life therefore he should not rashly cast himselfe into danger To shut vp al in a word Almighty God after the floud he hung vp his bow in the clowd in token of reconciliation vnto men for if you marke it the bend and the arch of the bowe is turned from vs as Zanchius obserueth Lib 3. de operib creat cap 3 Lib de Noe Arca cap 27 But he hunge vp his bow saith Ambrose not his arrow Arcus habet vulneris indicium non vâ—â€¦lneris effectum the bow maketh a shew of hurting but it doth not hurt it is the arrow that wouÌ„deth But now God seemeth for our sins to haue taken downe his bow againe And hee hath shot his arrowes against our whole land with to vse the Prophets words Ioel 2 3. lay before him like the Garden of Eden but hee hath left it wast and desolate where hee hath gone like a wildernesse The Queene city of our land and the glory of the kingdome which to speake with the Prophet Zephanie as shee dwelt carelesse Cap. 3 15. and sate attired in fine scarlet so had shee her sinnes also red as scarlet and therefore God hath made her an ensample of his wrath to her sister cities of the land and shee mourneth in her desolations for the losse of her inhabitants And now God hath changed his markes and hee shooteth his arrowes all abroad to cities and villadges far and neere he cannot shoote amisse sin is a faire marke for the arrow of vengance to hit Concerning our selues of this place almighty God as if at the first he had missed his ayme he shot wide first on the one side of the city and then on the other of late it began to be feared that having found the iust length hee had shot his arrowes into the midst of our city that his arrowes stucke fast in her very flancks What remained but that we should betake our selus to Davids preseruatiues against the Plague Praiers Teares Aâ—undines vulnera per niciosa ferentes Ammian Marcell lib 25 Lib 2 ca 8 The Persian bow-men are by all Historians commended for excellent archers and their arrowes are said to haue wouÌ„ded deadly yet in the battaile that was fought betweene Scipio and Antiochus they were woÌ„derfully foiled but mark how it came to passe imber superfusus Persicos arcus corruperat a showre of raine saith Florus falling in time of the battaile so slacked their bowes that they could not shoot an arrow The way for vs to slackeÌ„ Gods bow is by a showre of tears falling froÌ„ the eies of penitent sinners Let the Priests saith Ioel Ioel 2 17 the Ministers of the Lorde weepe betweene the portch the Altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord then wil the Lord be iealous over his land and spare his people And as Teares must worke vpoÌ„ Gods vow to slacken it Plin l 26 c 14 Dictamnum pota sagittas pellit so Praier is the true Dyctamnum that plucketh out his arrowes when they sticke fast in vs. These are the Sacrifices with which God is wel pleased and pacified these were David Ezechias his amulets counterpoisons preseruatiues against the plague for so God telleth Ezechias I haue heard thy praier 2. Kings 20.5 and seene thy teares behold I haue healed thee Now God of his mercy giue vs grace to make an holy vse of this and all other his visitations and to make a conscience of vsing all holsome meanes for our preseruatioÌ„ that so his heauy hand may be remoued from vs his arrowes which yet sticke fast in the flancks of many of our distressed brethren may be plucked out through Iesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one euer liuing God be all honour and glory worlde without ende Amen FINIS

they attempt and practise against them or in any other calamity whatsoeuer else commeth vpon them It is apparent by the whole course of the Story that Iosephs brethreÌ„ had sold him to the Ishmeelits for hatred and of enuy and that the Medianites or Ishmeelits to make their gaine had sold him againe at the second hand to Potiphar king Pharaohs chiefe stewarde to bee a slaue and bondman as it is in the Psalme Psa 105.17 But Ioseph he espied Gods hand working in that action and he telleth his brethren Gen. 50.20 that when they thought and intended evil against him God disposed it to good for God saith hee sent me into Egypt before hand for your preservation But the example of our Savior Christ Gen 45.5 is very excelleÌ„t to this purpose See what a rabble of miscreants coÌ„bined and coÌ„federated themselues togither to worke the destruction of that innocent lambe of God and every one of them proposed to him selfe a particular end of his doing Sathan the chiefe Agent he saw that his kingdome coulde not stand if Christs kingdome were erected and therfore he beginneth to plaie the pioner but yet he would not openly shew himselfe in the Action which is the manner of the great Politicians of our age but he suborneth another to play the traitour Iudas one of Christes owne followers and he put into the hearte of Iudas to betray Christ saith Saint Iohn Ioh. 13.8 Iudas then hauing through the throate of covetousnes which inlardgeth it selfe as wide as hell swallowed downe the Diuell and all togither with the sop as it followeth in the chapter hee commeth to the Priests to proffer his seruice perfidiously to betray his Lord Master saying Quid dabitis what wil you giue me Here is his end for thirty pence he will sell him that was worth all the world beside for he was the Ransome of the whole world The Priests willingly condescend therevnto mooued through an ambitious desire of vpholding and mainetayning their estates and dignities against the proceedings of so base an vpstart as Christ seemed to be Ioh 11.47 48 49. marke their speeches What perceiue you not that wee pervaile nothing beholde all the world goeth after him and if we let him thus alone all men vvill beleeue to him and the Romaines wil come and take away both our place and the nation And thervpon they trudge to Pilate who makes vp the match And the end which he proposed to himselfe was the retaining of Caesars fauour least he shoold haue bin stript out of all his offices prefermeÌ„ts for the Priests had told him that if he did deliuer Christ Ioh. 19 12. Luke 23.23 he was not Casars friend therfore their instant clamarous voices prevailed against him as S. Luke testifieth insomuch that through pusistanimity of mind not fit to be fouÌ„d in a iudge coÌ„trary to his own knowledge Luke 23.22 for he fouÌ„d no fault in him worthie of death against his own coÌ„science against the admonitioÌ„ sent vnto him froÌ„ his wife who willed him to haue nothing to doe with that Iust man Math. 27.19 for she had suffered many things that day in a dreame by reason of him yet he notwithstaÌ„ding all this causlesly without any suspicioÌ„ of crime condeÌ„ned to death the Lord of life Here is now the Gordian knot of the very powers of darkenesse made fast But what had God forgotteÌ„ or forsakeÌ„ his beloued soÌ„ne al this while no the scripture doth not disseÌ„ble it but that the hand of God was mainly in this whole actioÌ„ wrought with every particular ageÌ„t though not in every one according to that of the Schoolemen Beza quaest fol. 91. Deus agit quideÌ„ in bonis per bonos per males verÃ² tantÃ¹m agit sed noÌ„ in malis see theÌ„ how the Scripture doth determin of it doubtles say the Apostles Peter Iohn doubtles both Herode Act. 4.27 PoÌ„tius Pilate with the GeÌ„tiles the people of Israel gathered themselues togither to doe vvhatsoever thine hand thy counsel O God had determined before to bee done The place is very pregnaÌ„t to the purpose which we haue in hand namely to shew that whatsoeuer afflictioÌ„ befalleth vs it coÌ„meth not to passe by chaÌ„ce but by Gods provideÌ„ce as we coÌ„moÌ„ly say Gods baÌ„d hath a stroke in it Therfore in al our miseries we may truly say as David here doth that it is the hand of God that presseth vs. Let vs not behaue our selues frowardly in this day of our visitatioÌ„ by murmuring against God for afflicting vs in this measure or in this kinde of punishmente by plague and Pestilence like curst Dogs which bite at the chaines wherewith they be tyed But let vs learne with David to humble our selues vnder the mightie hand of God â— Pet. 5.6 as Saint Peter exhorteth the way to avoide the weight of his blow is to yeeld vnder it for it breaketh bruiseth whatsoeuer maketh resistance against it And seeing that it is vndoubtedly Gods hande that smiteth vs let vs coÌ„strue it to be for our good namely that God in seeking to reclaime vs froÌ„ those by-paths of sin into which we haue straied he sheweth that he hath a care of vs as of his children as of those who are not yet past hope of recovery Magna est ira quando Deus non irascitur August Desperat is the case of those who neuer feele any touch of Gods hande nor of his displeasure and it is a signe of his greatest anger when he doth not shew himselfe to bee angry with vs at all Having thus discoursed of the haÌ„d of God I will now proceede to this other metaphore here vsed where the Prophet calleth his Vlcers and soares Gods arrowes Thine arrows Ã´ God sticke fast in me The Lord saith Moses is a maÌ„ of warre Exod. 15.3 The Scripture elswhere describeth his furniture and his armour For his armour of defence he is said in Esay Esay 59.17 to put on Righteousnes as an habergeon and the helmet of Salvation vppon his head with these he defendeth this church For his weapons of offence Ibid. he putteth on the garments of vengeance for cloathing and is clad with zeale as with a cloake And in the Psalmes he is said to girde his sword vpon his thigh to whette it Psal 7.12 4â— to bend his bow and to prepare his deadly arrowes Neither is God a coÌ„mon souldier vnder pay gregarius miles but hee is the Lord high Marshall and great commaÌ„der of all the forces and armies in the world and therefore is very truly called the Lord of hostes he hath in heaven a band of ten thousand thousands of Angels Esay 1.24 which are his swift archers and his winged posts Dan. 7.1.10 and these stand before him to attend his command Who are properly called the host of heaven 1. King 22.19 Iob. 26.3

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