Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	felicity_n	flesh_n	great_a	32	3	2.1033	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

that he will not heare vs withoute a parson to be a meane O Lorde / open the eye of suche / that they maye clearly perceyue thy infinete kyndnes / gentelnes and loue towardes mankynde Aboue all precidentes is to be obserued / that what we aske of God / oughte too de proffitable to oure selfe and too others / and hurte or daunger of no man Secondarely / we muste consider whether our peticions extenditeth to spirituall or corporall thinges Spirituall thinges shoulde be axid vvithout coÌ„ditioÌ„ Spirituall thinges / such as are deliuerance from impiete / remission of their sinnes / the gifte of the holy ghoste / and of lyfe euerlasting should we desire absolutely / without any condicion by Iesus Christ / in whome alone all these are promised / in asking hereof / we should not pray thus O father forgeue our sinnes / yf thou wilt / for his will he hath expressed / sayinge as I lyue / I desire not the death of a synner / but rather that he conuert and lyue / mark wel which in mutable and soleÌ„pned o the / who calleth in doubt / maketh God a liar / and so farre as in hym lyeth / wolde spoyle God of hys godhead / for he caÌ„ not be God / but he must be eternal infallible veritie / as Ihon sayth 1. Ioh. 5. This is the testimony / which God hath testified of hys sonne / that who beleueth in the sonne / hath eternal lyfe to the verite whereof we shoulde stedfastly cleue / although calamite and worldly dolor apprehendith vs / 2. Reg. 15 as Dauid exiled from hys kyngdom / and depriued of all hys glorie / secluded not frome God / but stedfastly beleued reconsiliacion by the promyse made / notwithstandinge that all creators in earth had refused / obiected / rebelled agaynst hym / happy is the man whome thou shalle inspire o Lorde Corporal thinges In asking corporal thinges / first let vs inquire / yf we be at peace with God in our conscience by Iesus Christe / Fyrmly beleuinge our sinnes to be remitted in hys bloud Secondly / let vs inquire our owne hartes / yf we know temporall ryches or substaunce / not to come to man by accideÌ„te fortune or chauÌ„ce / neither yet by the industre diligence of maÌ„s labor / but to be the liberall gyft of God onely / wherof we ought to lande prayse hys goodnes / wysedome / prouidence alone Â¶ What should be prayed for ANd yf this we do truly knowlege confesse / let vs boldely aske of him / whatsoeuer is necessary for vs / as sustentacion of the body / health therof / defence froÌ„ misery deliueraunce from troble / tranquilite peace to our coÌ„mon wealthes / prosperous successe in our vocacioÌ„s / labours affaires / whatsoeuer which God wil / we aske all of hym too certify vs / that all thing stande in his regimeÌ„t and dispocition And also by asking and receyuinge this corporall commodites / we may tast of hys sweatnes / and be inflamed with hys loue / that therby our fayth of reconciliation remission of our synnes maye be exercised and take increace But in asayng suche temporal thinges / we must obserue Note we Vvhy Goâ— differreth or prolongeth to graunt vs our peticion Fyrst / that yf God differrith or prolonge to graunt our peticions / euen so long that he doth apparantly reiecte vs / yet let vs not seace to call / prescribing to hym / neither tyme nor maner of deliuerance / as it is written / yf he prolonge tyme abyde paciently vpon hym / and also let not the faythful be to hasty For God sometyme differreth / and will not hastely graunt to the probacion of oure eontinuauÌ„ce / as the wordes of Iseus Christ testefie / also that we may receiue with greater gladnes / which with hardent desire we long haue loked for / as Anna / Sara Elizabeth / after great ingnontye of their barranenes sterilite / receiued frute of their bosumes with ioye Secondarely / because we knowe the churche at all tymes to be vnder the crosse / in askynge temporall commodites / and specially deliueraunce frome troble let vs offer vnto God obedience / 2. Re. 15. yf it shall please hys goodnes we loÌ„ger be exercised / that we may paciently abyde it / as Dauid desired to be restored to his kyngdome / what tyme he was exiled by his owne sonne offereth vnto God obedience / saying yf I haue founde fauoure in the presence of the Lorde / he shall bryng me home agayne / and yf he shall saye / thou pleasest my not longer too beare auctorite / I am obedieÌ„t / let hym do what semed good vnto hym Dani. 3. And the thre chyldren vnto Nabuchodonosor saye we knowe that our God / whome we worship / maye deliuer vs / but if it shall not please hym so to do / let it be knowen to the o kynge / that thy Gods we will not worship Â¶ Better it is to obey God then man HEre geue they a true confessioÌ„ of their perfit fayth / knowing nothinge to be impossible to the omnipoteÌ„cy of God / affirming also themself to staÌ„de in his mercy for otherwise the nature of man coulde not willingly geue it self to so horrible a torment / but offer they vnto God moste humble obedience to be deliuered at hys pleasure godly will As we shoulde do in all afflictions / for we knowe not what too aske / or desire as we ought / that is the frayle flesh / oppresseth with feare and payne / desireth deliueraunce euer abhorring and drawing backe from obedience geuen O Christen brother / I write by experience but the sprite of God calleth backe the mynde to obedience / that albeit / it doth desire and abyde for deliueraunce / yea / wolde it not repyng the goodwil of God incessantly asketh that it may abyde with pacience Howe harde is the battail / no man knoweth but he / whiche in hym selfe hath suffred triall / Note wel it is to be noted that God sometime doth graunt the peticion of the sprete / wyle he yet defferreth the desired of the flesh Â¶ The peticion of the sprete Gene. 9 AS who doubteth / but God did mitigate the heauines of Ioseph / althoughe he sent not hasty deliueraunce in his longe imprisonemeÌ„t / that as he gaue hym fauour / in the sighte of his iaylour / so inwardly also gaue he vnto hym consolation in sprite And more ouer / God sometime grauÌ„teth the peticioÌ„ of the sprite / where all vtterly he repelleth the desyre of the flesh / for the peticion always of the sprete is / that we may obtayn to felicite wherunto we nedes must enter by tribulacioÌ„ / and the finall death / both which doth euer the nature of man abhorre / and therfore the fleshe vnder the crosse / at the sight of death / callâ—â—h and trusteth

not prophesye and plainly spake the plagues that are begonne / and assuredly shall ende Mayster Grindall plainlye spake the death of the Kynges maiestie / Mayster Grindal complayninge vppon hys housholde seruauntes / who / neyther feared to raile agaynste the woorde off God / and agaynste the trewe preachers of the same That godly and feruent man mayster Leuer / playnlye spake the desolacion off thys common wealthe Mayster Leuer Mayster Bradford And mayster Bradforde whome God for Christes hys sonne sacke comforte to the ende spared not the proudest of them / but boldely declared / that Goddes vengeaunce shortlye shoulde strycke / those that then were in auctoritie / because they lothed abhorred the trew worde of the euerlastinge God / willed theÌ„ to take example by a noble man / who became so colde in hearing Gods worde / that the year before his death / he wold not disease hym self to heare a sermoÌ„ / God punisshed hym sayde that godly preacher and shall he spare you that be dubble more wicked No / ye shal saye / will ye / or will ye not / ye shal drinke of the cup of the Lordes wrathe / Iudicium domini IudiciuÌ„ domini Mayster Haddon The iudgemeÌ„t of the Lord / the iudgement of the Lorde / cryed he with a lamentable voyce / and weaping teares Master Haddon / most lernedly opened the causes of the byepassed plagues / and assured them / that the worse was after to come / If repentaunce shortly were not founde Muche more I harde of these foure / and of others / which now I maye not rehearce / that which is to be noted after that the hole counsail had sayd they wolde heare no mo of their sermoÌ„s / they were vndiscrete felowes / yea / pratynge knaues / but I will not speake all / for yf God contynew me in this troble I purpose to prepare a dysshe / forsuche as then ledde the ryng / yea / who but theyâ— but nowe they haue bene at the skoole of Placebo / and ther they haue lerned amongst ladyes to daunse as the deuill lyst to pype Agaynst those / whom God hath stryken / seing now resteth to them no place of repentaunce / nothing mynd I to speake But such as lyue to this dai / wold be admonisshed that he that hath punished the one / wil not spare the rest But to our matter This presidents I iudge sufficient to proue this oure age to haue bene / yet to remayne lyke wicked if it be not worse with the tyme of Ieremye Now let vs searche what folowed in Iuda Mischefe vpon mischefe / notwithstaÌ„dinge the continuall and long cryeng of the prophetes / whil fynally God in his anger toke away good king Iosias / liij Regum xxllj because he was determened to destroye Iuda / as before he had destroyed Israel After the death of this godly Kynge / great was the troble / diuers sondry were the alteracions in that commeÌ„ wealth Three kynges taken prysoners / one after other in short space / what other were the miseries of that stubbern nation O God for thy greate mercies sake let neuer thy smal and troubled flocke / within the realme of Englande / learn in experiens But in all those trobles / no repentaunce appeared / as by the prophet ye may learne / for thus he crieth Ierem. v. â— Esai 1. Thou haste stryken them o Lorde / but they haue not mourned / thou hast destroyed them / but they haue not receaued discipline Ieremi xij They haue hardened their faces harder then stones / they will not coÌ„uert The hole laÌ„d is wasted / but no man wil wyn / Ierem. xiij ponder consider / the cause This people will not heare my worde / They walke in the wicked inuention of their owne hartes They go after other goddes to worship and serue them and of the prophetes naturall frendes of the men of Anathotes / some plainly said Speake no more to vs in the name of the Lorde / leaste thou dye in our handes / belyke these men had smal fantasye to Gods prophet But yet shall a sermon and that whiche ensewid the same made in the beginning of the raigne of Iehoiakim / sonne to Iosias / make euident / and better knowne / how muche the people were bent to Idolatrye / and to heare false prophetes / after the death of their good kyng The prophet is commaunded by God to stande in the court or entres of the Lordes house / and to speake to all cities of Iuda / that then came to worshippe / in the house of the Lorde / and is commaunded to kepe no worde backe / yf peraduenture sayeth the Lorde they will herken and tourne euery man from his wicked waye The tenor of hys sermon / is this / Thus fayth the Lorde Iere. xxvi yf ye wil not obey me to walke in my lawes / which I haue geuen you / and to heare the wordes of my seruauntes the prophetes whome I sente vnto you / rysing vp betymes and styl sending / yf ye wil not heare theÌ„ I sayde then wil I do to this house / as I dyd vnto Silo / will make this citie / to be abhorred of al the people in the earth Heare not the wordes of the prophetes / that said vnto you / you shal not serue the king of Babylon / Iere. 27. I haue not sent them sayeth the Lorde howbeit / they are bold to prophesye lyes in my name / yf you geue eare vnto them / both you and your false prophetes shal perish Denie vvil I nothiÌ„g excepte Idolators But the liâ—e vvas done in Englande Here is first to be noted / that the people was alredy entered in to iniquitie / and especially straighte after the death of their king / into Idolatry / froÌ„ which the Lorde by his prophet labored to call them backe / threatning vnto them desolation / yf they procede to rebel Suche false prophetes at this presente are muche estemed in Englande Secondarely / it is to be obserued / that amongest them were false prophetes / not that they were so knowen / holdeÌ„ of the people / no / they were holdeÌ„ and estemed for so they boasted them selfes to be The trew churche of God that colde not erre / for howe should the law perish from the mouthe of the preasts Ierem. 18 These false prophetes were mayntaynors of Idolatrie / and yet boldelye promised to the people prosperitie and good lucke Wherewith the people were so abused and blinded / that the wordes of Ieremye / dyd rather hardeÌ„ their hartes / then prouoke any to repeÌ„taunce / as the consequentes declared / for his sermon ended / the priestes / prophetes / and the hole people apprehended Ieremye / and with one voyce cryed / he is worthye of the death Greate was the vprore agaynst the poore prophet / Ierem. 26 in which appearinglye /

for hasty deliueraunce / but God who alone knoweth what is expedieÌ„t for vs. Â¶ Flesh striueth agaynste the sprete PercecucioÌ„ of the fayâ—â—ful Sometyme prolongeth the deliuerauÌ„ce of hys chosen / and sometime permitteth them to drinke / before the maturite of age / the bitter cuppe of corporal death / that therby they may receyue medicine and care from all infirmite / but who doubtith / but Ihon the Baptiser / desired to haue sene more dayes of Iesus Christ / and to haue bene longer with hym in conuersacion ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ 7. Or that Steuen wolde not haue labored more dayes in preaching Christes gospell / whome neuerthelesse / both he suffered hastely to vnderlye the statute and generall sentence And albeit / we se therfore no apparant / helpe to oure selfe / nor yet to others afflicted / let vs not cease to call / thinkinge oure prayers to be in vayne / whatsoeuer become of oure bodies CoÌ„forte to the afflictyd God shall geue vnspeakable comforte too the sprete / and shall turne all to our commodite / by our owne expectacion The cause I am so longe and tedious in this matter is / I knowe how harde the battaill is betwixt the fleshe the sprete Â¶ Impedimentes coÌ„mith of the weakenes off the fleshe SPrete vnder the heauy croceÌ„ of affliccion / where no worldely defence / but presence death doth appeare / I know the grudging and murmoringe complayntes of the fleshe / I know the anger wrathe indignacion / which it conceiueth agaynst God / calling all hys promises into doubte / beinge redy euery houre / vtterly to fall from hym Agaynst whiche all resteth in faith / prouoking vs to call instantly and to praye for assistaunce of Gods sprete Whereunto / yf we continew our moste desperat calamites / shall he turne to gladnes ioye and prosperous fyne Â¶ To the o Lorde alone be prayse / for with experience I write this speake it is not too be permitted / where / for whome / and at what tyme we ought to praye PRiuate prayer / Priuate prayer Matt. 6. such as men secretly offer vnto God by them selfe / require no speciall place / althoughe that Iesus Christe commauÌ„deth / when we praye to enter in our chaumber / and to close the dore after vs / so to pray secretly vnto oure father / To enter in to thi chamber to pray whereby he wolde we shoulde chuse to our prayers suche place as might offer least occasion too call vs backe from prayer / and also that we shoulde expell forthe of our myndes in tyme of oure prayer all vayne cogitacions / for otherwyse Iesus Christ hym selfe doth obserue no special place of prayers / for we finde hym sometyme pray in mounte Oliuete / sometyme in the deserte / sometime in the temple ActuÌ„ 10. Peter coueteth to praye vppon the toppe of the house / Paule prayeth in pryson / was harde of God / who also commaundeth men to pray in all places / Priuate places to praie in lifting vp vnto God pure and cleane handes / as we fynde that the Prophetes muste holy men did / wheresouer daunger or necessitie requyred Â¶ Apoynted places too praye in / maye not be neglectd BVt publike coÌ„mon prayers shuld be vsid in place apoynted / for assemblye of the coÌ„gregacion / from whence / whosoeuer negligentlye extracte theym selfe is in nowyse excusable / I meane not that to absent frome that place is sinne / because it is more holy than another For the hole earthe created by God / is equal holy / but the promise made / that whersoeuer two or thre be gathered together in my name / there shall I be in the middes of them / condemneth all suche as contemneth the coÌ„gregation / gathered in hys name / but marke wel gathered / I saye not to heare pyping / singing or playing / not to patter vpon beades or bokes / wherof they haue no vnderstanding / not to coÌ„mit Idolatrie / honoring that for God / which is no God indede / for with such wil I neither ioyne my selfe in coÌ„mon prayer / nor receyuing of the externall sacramentes / for in so doyng I should affirme their supersticion and abhominable Idolatrie / which I neuer wil do nor couÌ„sail other to do to the ende Â¶ What is to be gathered in the name of Christ THis coÌ„gregacion / which I meane / should be gathered in the name of Iesus Christ / that is to laude magnefye God the father for the infinite benefites they had receiued by his onely sonne our Lord / in thys congregacion should be distributed the misticall and last supper of Iesus Christ / without supersticioÌ„ / or any more ceremonies then he hym selfe vsed / hys apostels after hym indistribution thereof / in thys congregacion should inquisicioÌ„ be takeÌ„ of the poore among them / sufficient support whyle the tyme of their next conuencioÌ„ / shuld be prouided and distributed In this congregacion shoulde be made common prayers / suche as all men hearing might vnderstande that the hartes of all subscribing to the voyce of one / mighte with vnfayned ferfent mynde say AmeÌ„ Whosoeuer do withdrawe them selfe from suche a congregacion / but allace where shall it be founde / do declare them selfes too be no members of Christes bodye Â¶ For whome and at what tyme we shoulde praye FOr all men / 1. Tim. 2. Vvhen and for vvhome vve should praie at all times doth Paule commaund that we shall praye / principally for suche of the housholde of fayth / as suffer persecucion / and when coÌ„mon wealths tyranniously we oppressed / then incessantly shoulde we call that God of hys infynite mercy and power woll withstande the violence of suche tyrauntes Â¶ Gods sentence maye be chaunged ANd when we se the plagues of God / huÌ„ger / pestilence / or warre / commynge or apearing to raygne / then should we with lamentable voyces repeÌ„ting hartes call vnto God / that it wolde please hys mercy to withdrawe his haÌ„des / for with suche as do aleage / that God may not chauÌ„ge hys senteÌ„ce oure prayers / therefore to be in vayne / can I in no wyse agree / beynge otherwyse taughte in the scripture by hys infallable eternall veritie He sayeth I shall destroye this nacion frome the face of the earth / and when Moyses adressed to pray for theÌ„ the Lorde procedeth saying Suffer me that I may vtterly destroy them / and then Moyses falleth on hys face flatling / and fourtye dayes contineweth in prayer / for the saluation of the people / to whome at the laste obtayned forgeuenes Dauid in the vehement plague / lamentable calleth vnto God / the kynge of Niniue sayeth 2. King last who knoweth / yf God shal be conuerted and led backe by repentaunce Iona. 3. And be tourned from the furor of hys wrath / that we perish not / which examples

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