Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	faithful_a	finish_v	great_a	41	3	2.1025	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

the Saints or the children of the Diuell to the blessed freedome of the Sonnes of God Is their part in the saluation of Christ that dayly and hourely crucifie him afresh in a iolly scoffing brauery deride his passion as if his backe were broad enough to beare all their filth Do we looke that the Lord should performe the grant when wee faile in the condition is not our breach of couenant with him a frustrating of his indentment with vs Beleeue it my brethren beleeue it whilest wee remaine in our sins the Lords grant remaines void we cannot claime the benefite of one drop of Christs bloud nor of the least part of his merits the shaken sword of the Cherubin hangeth ouer vs we stand banished from the paradise of Gods fauor and liable to the seuerest penalty of those his lawes which we haue violated onely so long as that penalty is not inflicted so long doth the Lord expect if at any time wee will renue our couenant by repentance and so escape out of the snare of the Diuell of whom we are holden captiue to do his pleasure Moreouer when we were sprinkled in the holy Lauer of Baptisme which is as it were the wombe of the Church where our regeneration or new birth was first set a foot we vowed a vow to God which ought of all Christians to be most holily obserued that wee would perfect that newe birth of ours euery day more and more by beleeuing his word obeying his commandements mortifying our flesh coÌ„pressing our lusts resisting the diuel renouÌ„cing the world fighting maÌ„fully vnder his baÌ„ner against all oppositioÌ„ that finaly hauing finished our course we might receiue the crowne of life which he hath promised to them that continue faithfull vnto the death Now our impenitencie weltring in sinne is not onely a not fostring but a very killing of our spirituall nature in the first seede or kernell a breaking of our vowe to God nay a very denying of God and his word an abiect yeelding vs to his and our enemies a cowardly running away from the spirituall battell at the first stroke striking a wilfull losing of our immortall garland and an occasion to make Christ the great captaine and finisher of our faith vtterly to casheere vs out of his band as hauing in vs no sparkle of that generosity and braue-mindednes which ought to be in such as weare his colours and beare armes vnder his standard The wisedome of the world is to retaine to the strongest part and methinkes we hauing beene bred vp vnder the worlds wing should by this time haue taken out that point of wisedome and retaine to Gods side for his is the strongest and surest side O my brethren looke backe to your Baptisme and learne to amend Let not the royall Character which God hath set vpon vs by the ministery of his Church be any longer thus vilely blurd and defaced by our enormous sinnes Let vs not breake our vow to God lest he binde fast his curse to vs Leaue not the Lord of hosts to whom we haue giuen our names and those powerfull legions of his blessed Angels our consederates and guarders in his quarrel to ioine with the Diuell whom we haue defied with the world sin and the flesh a sort of cowardly rebels which will themselues cut our throates when we least suspect them But let vs newdeep our selues in the water of contrition and that will fetch againe the primitiue colour which was put vpon vs in the day of our Baptisme Ouer and beside all this whereas the patience and bountifulnesse and long suffering of our God in sparing vs so many yeares and waiting for our amendment though in the meane time wee force him to complaine that he is pressed vnder our sinnes as a cart is pressed vnder a hard load of sheues I say whereas this gracious patience of his should leade vs to repentance we by continuing in sinne do abuse his patience and heape vp greater wrath vpoÌ„ our heads against the day of wrath and declaration of the iust iudgement of God which will suddainely ouertake vs. God is prouoked saith the Psalmist euery day heere is forbearance but what followeth 2. if a man wil not turne after all Gods waiting theÌ„ he wil whet his sword beÌ„d his bow make ready his arrows against such prouokers When we see wrath in a mans face it is an argument that he will strike we are wont to shun giue backe froÌ„ him Let vs take heed Gods face lookes very angerly we haue dared him so long and put him so to it that he cannot hold his fingers he must needes breake out into blowes And the blowes of his anger are no light stripes but euen deaths wounds as all the Land from Dan to Beersheba will beare witnes O then my Brethren if this Lion roare who wil not tremble crouch before him if he knit his browes that measureth heauen with his span and waigheth the mountaines in a ballance cleaueth the rockes with his voice who dares looke him in the face who shal be able to abide his frownes were we as huge and strong as Behemoth or Leuiathan hee will spurne vs as a chip and trample vs vnder his feete as the mire in the streetes if we incense his maiesty or stirre vp his wrath and iealousie against vs. Apoc. The Kings and great men and stout Captaines and Warriours hide themselues in caues and in holes of the earth froÌ„ the feare of the Lord when he riseth vp to be auenged of sinners O what shall the shrub in the wildernes do when the Okes of Bashan and the Cedars of Libanus are thus shaken how dare such silly wormes and grashoppers as we confront the almighty and prouoke him yearly hourely with new and new sinnes neuer once renuing our repentance at the blasting of the breath of whose displeasure the hilles melt and the foundations of the world shake and are remoued Though he haue worne one rod of pestilence to the stumps vpon vs and throwne it by standing and looking at our behauiour after it he can call for another and another if our great hearts be not come downe repentance a change appearing in our liues or he hath famine swords wild beastes bedlem waters treasures of snow and haile lightnings thunderbolts c. or he hath feuers palsies gouts choliks caÌ„kers wolfes tympanies c. to scourge presumptuous sinners that wil not be warned his store house is neuer vnfurnished with rods and scorpions too if we put him to it Surely my Brethren we are transformed with Nebuchadnezar into beasts and the hearts and vnderstandings of men taken from vs if this consideration moue vs not to abominate our sins and cease from our prouocations wherewith we haue prouoked this God of anger against vs especially when he hath put vp so many abuses and villanies of ours all our life hitherto wee iustly deseruing euery moment to be rooted

Goliah so that the cause then of both being not much vnlike the answere that followeth shall not vnfitly be applied though not in the same measure of grace wisedome and modesty yet in the same nature of zeale truth and sincerity answer with him in the 29. verse Graue Fathers masters and superiors what haue I done is there not cause But if this Apology seeme vnsufficient obserue with me breefly the benefit that commeth hereby and the fault considered will easily be wiped away In the first place then it bringeth a comfort to the Church of God when they shall see the prophesies fulfilled and those promises performed which long since was declared to fall out in the latter age of the world Esay 11.9 that the earth shall bee filled with the knowledge of the Lord Ioel. 8. as the sea is couered with with waters Againe Your daughters shall prophesie your old meÌ„ shal dreame dreames your yong men shal see visioÌ„s Psalm 8. And also vpon the seruants will I powre out my spirit Againe Out of the mouth of Babes hast thou ordained strength because of their enemies Notwithstanding these prophesies I grant chiefly fulfilled at the comming of Christ yet in respect of the perpetuity of it it is to remaine vntill the number of the elect be accomplished yea and wee that are now liuing haue seene the extraordinary power and operation of it if wee consider since the time of Luther how the Angell flying from the middest of heauen Reuel 14.6 hauing an euerlasting Gospell in his mouth to preach to the nations that dwell vpon the earth saying with a loud voice Feare GOD giue glory to him an vnspeakeable and peculiar fauour of GOD as our Sauiour Christ sayeth Blessed are the eies that see those things which you see and the eares that heare those things which you heare being the onely meanes to bring vs into the fauour of God and men that it may bee sayed of vs Cant. 6.9 as it was of his owne spouse Who is this that loeketh forth as the morning faire as the Moone pure as the Sunne terrible as an armie with banners Yea then we shall bee pretious to the Lord who so toucheth vs toucheth the apple of his eie and hee will say to our enemies Cant. 3.5 I charge you O you daughters of Ierusalem by the Roe by the Hindes of the field that you stirre not vp nor waken my beloued vntill shee please Yea then shall wee be set as a seale vpon his heart and as a signet vpon his arme for loue is stronger then death Ielosie is cruell as the graue the coales thereof are fiery coles and a vehement flame much water cannot quenâ—r loue neither can the flouds drowne it If a man would giue al the substaÌ„ce of his house for loue the world would greatly contemne it Cant. 8.1 Secondly it much aduanceth declareth and setteth forth the power of the Gospell when men are made of Lions Lambs their natures being changed that they come willingly in the day of assembly the loue of God constraining them and the blessing of God vpon them causing their sonnes to bee as the plants growing vp in their youthes their daughters as the corner stones grauen aft r the manner of Apelles c. So that other nations being our Iudges are forced to say of vs Psal 144.7 Happy are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Iehoua Thirdly it is exceeding comfortable and no lesse honorable to the graue fathers and faithfull learned preachers of our age when they shall see the blessing of God vpon their labours their children which they haue begotten into the faith by the word of truth Psalm 127 like arrowes in the hand of the strong man and are not ashamed to speake before their enemies in the gate So that they haue no neede of the approbation of men or letters of recommendations their Epistles being written not with inke paper but in the hearts of their children and shineth in the world to the praise and glory of God Lastly a notable motiue prouocation to incite and stir vp the minds of those that are too slacke and negligent in this kinde and may also be vsed as a whetstone to sharpen and set an edge vpon finer wits that so all the members of Christ both learned and vnlearned may meet and ioine foot to foot and shoulder to shoulder opposing themselues against their great common aduersary and being directed by one spirit may vtter their voices both by praier by preaching that we may cause the kingdome of Antichrist to fall downe like the walles of Iericho that so if it be the Lords will we that are now liuing may see that with the eies of our bodies which Saint Iohn saw so long since with the eies of his spirit and so with holy reioycing and gladnesse of heart we may say with blessed Saint Iohn It is fallen it is fallen great Babylon and is become a cage of vncleane birds Now if any shall aske of me who are you and what is your name whose iudgement the reader should so much reuerence In this behalfe I answere If I were one of learning and estimation perhaps I might cary thee away not vsing any great reason or demonstration On the contrary if of no note and quality thou wouldest hardly be brought to embrace it though I bring strong and forceable arguments and reasons I refer thee therefore to the booke it selfe which is able to commend it selfe to the conscience of any indifferent reader whose eares being sanctified trieth words as the mouth tasteth meat Onely this I will say with the Aapostle Iames Iob. 34.3 Haue not the faith in respect of persons and then I dare assure my selfe the Lord shall haue glory and his chiÌ„ldren comfort The which vpon the knees of my soule I craue of his goodnes and that he will increase in the hearts of his Saints sauing faith and with faith vertue and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance and with temperance patience and with patience godlinesse and with godlinesse brotherlie kindnesse and with brotherlie kindnesse loue that you may make your calling and election sure so that you may neuer fall By him that praieth daily for the peace of Sion and longeth to see Ierusalem in her pefect beautie T. R. The contents of the Chapters following in this Booke CHAP. 1. Of Gods graces and benefits in free mercy bestowed vpon man that thereby hee may be moued to serue his diuine maiesty fol. 1. 2. 3. CHAP. 2. Of the infinit and vnspeakable benefit of Christs death mâ—ns great ingratitude notwithstanding which all things whatsoeuer in their kinde condemne fol. 4.5.6 CHAP. 3. Of the most miserable estate of the Reprobate both in this world and in the world to come as also of the most blessed happy condition heere and hence of those

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