Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	devil_n	power_n	sin_n	9,646	5	4.8933	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18615	The Best choyce a funerall sermon / published at the desire of some of the friends of the dead.		1607 (1607)	STC 5141.7; ESTC S288	17,327	59

houses of clay where faith is the stay and comfort of our soules We are strangers from the reall presence companie of Christ from heauen from our Countrey and resting place We are not in patria but in via not in our Countrey but in the way vnto it But when we put off the earthly house of this habitation Quam seperamur Ã corpore saith Anselme presentamur Domino vt eum in specie diuinitatis suae videamus apud eum maneamus That is when we are seperated from the body we are presented to the Lord that wee may see him in the show and beauty of his diuinitie and may remaine with him Lastly let vs consider what wee read Reuelations 14.1 Iohn seeth manie thousands standing on Mount Sion with the Lambe Iesus Christ They are in his company and they follow the Lambe whither soeuer he goeth These places doe plainely teach vs that this followeth the dissolution and death of the Saints as a thing for which it is to bee desired that they do goe vnto the Lord and inioy the company of Iesus Christ their redeemer their soules doe so when they die and their bodies also in the resurrection as the Apostle witnesseth in his first Epistle to the Thessalonians 4. chapter 16. verse The Lord himself shal descend from heauen with a shout and with the voyce of the Archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shal rise first Then shal we which liue and remaine be caught vp with them also in the cloudes to meete the Lorde in the aire and so shal wee euer be with the Lord. But the body resting in the graue waiting for that glorious resurrection the soule in the meane time leauing the flesh and leauing the world goeth to Christ O blessed and most comfortable death of the Saints which gathereth the members to the head in whom they liue and setteth the branches close to the tree in the liuely sappe whereof they flourish which bringeth home the Bride into the chamber of the Bridegroome in whom onely shee reioyceth and gathereth the redeemed people together about their redeemer who onely hath made them free and leadeth vs out of this vale of miserie vnto our Lord Iesus Christ that wee may see his glorie and bee partakers with him of his kingdome The worst then that can be said of death for his doings vnto the faithfull is this that he is a cruell churlish guide that leadeth vs vnto a most sweet and curteous Lord that he is a rough boisterous minister that performeth and dooth for vs a most acceptable seruice that his countenance is much deformed hee fraieth those to whom hee appeareth that his hands are burning hot hee scorcheth those whom he apprehendeth Yet among the faithfull those whom he laieth hold vpon hee bringeth to Iesus Christ This is not out of the naturall condition of death that the faithfull reape such aduantage by it for death was born of sinne which diuideth vs from God and it was ordained as a heauie punishment of sin and it is still a signe and remembrance of Gods anger for sin But this commeth to passe by the benefit and fauour of him who by his death hath destroyed death and him that had the power of death that is the diuell It commeth to passe by the benefite of Iesus Christ who hath made vs more then conquerours ouer death euery aduersary taking away the sting of death making a plague to be a blessing an enemie to be a seruant because now without death that is otherwise then by the passage of death flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God This commeth to passe by the merit of him and by faith in him who is vnto vs both in life and death aduantage and whose wee are both liuing dying that whether we sleep or wake we might liue togither with him Augustine speaking of benefite attained by death in this world I meane this first death in his 13. Booke of the Citie of God and 4. chapter saith Non quia mors bonum aliquod facta est quae ante malum fuit sed tantam Deus fidei prestitit gratiam vt mors quam vitae constat esse contrariam instrumentum fieret per quod transiretur in vitaÌ„ It is not because death is now become a good thing and a blessing which before was an euill thing and curse but so much grace hath God affoorded to our faith in Christ that death which was knowne to bee contrary to life happinesse should now become an instrument of our passage to life and happinesse And therefore not vnto death and dissolution that dooth bring vs vnto Christ but vnto Iesus Christ that by death and dissolution doth bring and gather vs vnto himselfe doe wee giue thankes for this aduantage of our death that when we are loosed we go vnto the Lord for dread full death in tantam vtilitatem non vi sua sed diuina opitulatione conuersa est is become a matter of great profite to vs not by it owne force vertue but by the helpe of God Yet from hence the faith full may learne gather vnto themselues plentifull comfort against the terrours of death and strong incouragement if not to desire long for yet to entertaine with reioycing the day of their dissolution because from thenceforth they shall be with Christ This did that seruant of the Lord see whose body wee followed to the graue And therefore quietly yea ioyfully hee accepted yea desired his dissolutioÌ„ sometime saying Come Lord Iesus and sometime saying I come Lord Iesus only desiring constantly desiring to be with the Lord Iesus And this is it that shall make death bitter in it selfe to be both sweet and pleasant vnto vs when it commeth And therefore I beseech you learne now in time lay this doctrine vp in your harts often think vpon it that the faithfull departing hence doe goe vnto the Lord that when the houre commeth whsch canot be auoided we may embrace the pleasure of God as the meanes of our owne good and may not murmure in vaine But it may be some will say is it a matter of so great price to be gathered vnto Christ that a man should despise al the pleasures of this life coÌ„temne all the bitternes terrors of the houre of death with the Apostle here desire to be loosed and to be with Christ I surely and that is it that followeth in the next place to bee considered and in the last wordes of my text Which is best of all Vnto the Lord Iesus at the last day all both good and bad shall be gathered in the 25. of Matth at the 31. verse It is saide When the Sonne of man shall come in his glorie and all his holy Angells with him then shall he sit vpon the throne of his glorie and before him shall be gathered all Nations of the earth And in the

sheweth vs his desire and in his desire sheweth vs that death and desolution is a thing to bee desired of the godly When the labourer hath wrought stoutly in the vineyard all the day and at length the euening commeth wherein he may rest hee is glad of it yea hee doth desire and wait for the comming of the euening that he may rest Our life here beneath is but as a day and a short winter day and here vpon the earth as in the Lords vineyard we are appointed to labour so the Parable of the labourers hired to worke in the vineyard Matth. 20. doth teach vs. When the euening of our daye namely death dooth come the seruant of God reioyceth that he may rest from his labour yea in wisedome hee shoulde desire the comming of it that hee might rest from his labour for death bringeth such rest The holy Ghost from heauen affirmed to Iohn the Euangelist Reu. 14.13 that they which die in the Lord doe rest from their labours and are therein blessed And a wise Poet truly saide it Est finis miseria in morte in death our miseries end When the souldier hath put on armour and lieth in Campe against the enemie hee longeth for victorie that hee may put off his armour and rest from that daungerous and painefull seruice And when that wished day is come hee reioyceth for his rest For as the King of Israel answered the king of Aram though he that girdeth on his armour boast himselfe yet he that putteth it off after victorie hath whereof to boast Now wee are all Souldiers and our life vpon the earth is a warfare So Ierome reades the first wordes of the seuenth chapter of Iob Milita est vita hominis super terram A warfare saith hee fighting against inuisible aduersaries And wee are sent into this world as the Lordes prest men vnder the Banner of Christ following him our Captaine to fight against sinne against the flesh the diuell and the worlde by dooing good workes and resisting tentations Sinne fighteth against vs and often taketh vs captiues Rom. 7.23 Paul saith I see an other Lawe in my mÌ„ebers rebelling against the Law of my minde and leading mee captiue vnto the law of sin which is in my members The flesh fighteth against vs striuing against the spirit as the spirit striueth against the flesh And Peter biddeth vs Abstaine from fleshly lusts because they fight against the soule 1. Pet. 2.11 The Diuell commeth fiercely vpon vs as a roaring Lyon and fighteth against vs. Eph. 6.16 beeing armed with fierie darts And the worlde dooth not loue those whom God hath choson out of the world Iohn 15.19 and the battel which we haue to maintaine against those enemies is most perillous because Eph. 6.22 wee wrastle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers against the worldly gouernours the princes of the darknesse of this world This battell endeth not till the day of our dissolution commeth then are wee freed from tentations and deliuered from sinne For Romans 6.7 the Apostle saith Hee that is dead is freed from sinne Then doe wee rest and reioyce triumphing ouer all our enemies sauing that death for a time holdeth our bodies in the dust of the earth And therefore the day of our dissolution as the end of our both painefull and dangerous warre is to be desired Hee that can discerne betweene labour with wearinesse rest with reward betweene warre with perill and victorie with ioyfull peace hee will say that the daye of death to a good man is to bee desired more then life because life is labour with wearinesse and woe with perill but the houre of death bringeth rest with reward and victorie with ioyfull peace Ciprian in a Treatise of his De mortalitate in the third section saith of life Quid aliud in mundo quam pugna aduersus diabolum quotidie geritur quam aduersus iacula eius tela conflictationibus assidius dimicatur While wee are in the world what do we but fight against the diuell and warre with continual conflicts against his arrowes and darts but of death hee saith Illa est pax nostra illa fida tranquillitas illa stabilis firma perpetua securitas Death is our peace our sure tranquilitie our stable firme and perpetual securitie When Balaam that false Prophet that loued the wages of iniquitie beeing hired by the King of Moab to curse Israel had considered that cursing could not bee the ende of Gods people but that they were heires of blessing hee pronounced these wordes Numbers 23.10 Let mee die the death of the righteous let my last end be like his The man did see his eyes beeing opened of God that the end of the righteous for the peace and happinesse thereof was to be desired The day of dissolution to a righteous man is like that day in which Ioseph was brought out of prison and stoode before Pharaoh Hee had long beene in bonds In prison hee was basely clothed as became a prisoner In the end his fetters are laid aside hee is taken out of prison he putteth off his base attire he is washed and shauen hee putteth on new apparrell is brought into the presence of the King and made a ruler throughout the Kingdome The iust mans life is like the time of his captiuitie and his death is like to his deliuerie While wee liue the soule is inclosed in the bodie as in a prison and is clothed with the flesh as with filthie garmentes and is clogged with sinne as with fetters of yron and brasse and is cumbred with iniuries and tentations more greeuous and noysome then the hunger colde and noysome sauour of the prison But when the houre of dissolution commeth the prison is broken and wee are deliuered Wee put off the ragges of the flesh and are clothed with white we are loosed from the fetters of sinne we are washed in the blood of Christ wee are admitted into the presence of God and are made togither with Iesus Christ heires of a heauenly kingdom And therefore as Ioseph desired to bee deliuered and had cause to riot when that daye came euen so may the righteous desire their dissolution they haue cause to reioyce when the day thereof draweth nigh The death indeed of the wicked is very fearefull and by all meanes to be auoided if it could bee auoided For their death is like the euening to the slothfull seruant when his Maister will examine his daies worke It is like the comming home of the Lorde to the vnprofitable seruant that had wrapped his Tallent in a napkin and buried it in the ground hee was called to account and because he had beene idle Mat. 25.26 his Talent was taken from him and giuen to an other and after sharpe rebukes hee was cast into vtter darknesse where is weeping and gnashing of teeth It is like the fearefull assises and day of goale deliuerie vnto the malefactor who being brought from the prison

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