Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	life_n	sin_n	13,827	5	4.6650	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08106	An epistle of a religious priest vnto his father: exhorting him to the perfect forsaking of the world.	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1597 (1597)	STC 22968.5; ESTC S95268	12,378	49

daies do but procure many deathes and others in a shorte space attein the life of infinite ages What is the body without the soule but a corrupte carcase and what the soule without God but a sepulcher of sinne If God be the way the life and the truth he that goeth without him strayeth he that liueth without him dieth and he that is not taught by him erreth Well saieth S. Augustine that God is our trew and chiefest life from whome the reuolting is falling to whome the returninge is rising in whom the staying is sure standing God is he from whom to depart is to dye to whom to repaire is to reuiue in whome to dwell is to liue Be not you therfore of those that beginne not to liue vntill they be ready to dye then after a foes desert come to craue of God a frends entertainment Some thincke to snatch heauen in a moment which the best scarce atteined in the mouÌ„tenance of many yeeres and when they haue glutted them selues with worldly delites they would iumpe froÌ„ Diues his diet to Lazarus croun and from the seruice of Satan to the solacy of a Saint But be you well assured that god is not so penurious of frendes as to hold him selfe and his kingdome salable for the refuse and reuersion of theire liues who haue sacrificed the principall therof to his enemies and their owne brutishe appetites then onely ceasing to offend when hability of offending is taken from them True it is that a theefe may be saued vpon the crosse and mercy found at the last gaspe But well saieth saint Augustine that though it be possible yett is it scarce credible that his death should find fauour whose whole life hath earned wrath and that his repentance should be accepted that more for feare of hell and loue of him selfe then for loue of God or lothsomnes of sinne crieth for mercy Wherfore good Sir make no longer delayes but being so neere the breaking vpp of your mortall house take time before extremitye to satisfie Gods Iustice Though you suffered the bud to be blasted the flower to fade thogh you permitted the fruite to be perished and the leaues to drye vp yea though you let the bougheswither and the body of your tree growe to decaye yett alas keepe life in the roote for feare least the wholle become fuell for hell fire for surely whersoeuer the tree falleth there shall it be whether it be to south or north heaueÌ„ or hell such sap as it bringeth such fruit shal it euer bear Death hath already filed from you the better part of your naturall forces and hath lefte you now to the lees and remissailes of your wearish and dyinge dayes the remainder wherof as it caÌ„not be long so doth it warne you speedilye to ransome your former losses For what is age but the calendes of death and what importeth your present weaknes but an earnest of your approching dissolution You are now impathed in your finall voiage and not far of from the stint and period of your course and therfore be not dispurueied of such appurtenances as are behoofull in so perplexed and perillous a iorney Death in it selfe is very fearefull but much more terble in regard of the iudgement that it summoneth vs vnto If you were layed on your departing bed burdened with the heauy load of your former trespasses and goared with the sting and pricke of a festered conscience If you felt the crampe of death wresting your hart stringes ready to make the rufull diuorce betweene body and soule If you lay panting for breath and swimming in a colde and fatall sweat weried with strugling against your deadly panges O how much wold you giue for an hower of repentaÌ„ce at what rate woulde you valew a dayes contrition Then worldes would be worthles in respecte of a litle respitte A shorte truce would seeme more pretious then the trea sures of Empires nothing would be so much esteemed as a trice of time which now by monethes and yeeres is lauishly mispent O how deeply would it wound your hart when looking backe into your life you considered many faultes committed and not confessed manye good workes omitted and not recouered your seruice to God promised and not performed How inconsolable were your case your frends being fled your senses frighted your thoughtes amazed your memory decaied your whole mind agast and no partable to performe that it should but onely your guilty conscience pestered with sinne that would coÌ„tinually vpbreid you with most bitter accusations what woulde you thinke when stripped out of your mortall weed and turned both out of the seruice housrome of this world you were forced to enter into vncouth straÌ„ge pathes with vnknowen and vgly company to be coÌ„uented before a most seuere iudge carying in your owne conscience your enditement written and a perfitte register of all your misdeedes when you should see him prepared to passe the sentence vpon you against whom you had transgressed and the same to be your vmpier whom by so many offeÌ„ces you had made your enemy When not onely the Deuells but euen the Angells should pleade against you and your selfe maugre your will be your sharpest appeacher What would you do in these dredfull exigentes When you saw that gastly dungeon huge golfe of hell breaking out with most fear full flames WheÌ„ you saw the weeping gnashing of teeth the rage of those hellish monsters the horrour of the place the rigour of the paine the terrour of the company and the eternity of all these punishmentes would you then thinke theÌ„ wise that would daly in so weighty matters and idly play away the time allotted to preueÌ„t these intollerable calamities would you theÌ„ account it secure to nurse in your bosome so many serpents as sinnes or to foster in your soule so manye malicious accusers as mortal faltes Would yo not then thinke one life to little to do penance for so many iniquities euery one wherof were enough to cast you into those euerlasting and vnspeakable torments Why then do you not at the least deuote that small remnant and surplusage of these your latter dayes procuring to make an attonement with God and to free your conscience from such corruption as by your schisme and fall hath crept into it Those very eies that read this discourse and that very vnderstanding that conceiueth it shal be sighted certaine witnesses of the rehearsed thinges In your owne body shall you experience those dedly agonies and in your soule shall you feelinglye finde those terrible feares yea and your present estate is in danger of the deepest harmes if you doe not the sooner recouer your selfe into the folde and family of Gods Church What haue you gotten by being so long customer to the world but false ware sutable to the shoppe of such a marchant whose traficke is toile whose welth trashe and whose gaine miserye what interest haue you reaped that maye equall

your decrementes in grace and vertew or what coulde you find in a vale of teares parageable to the fauour of God with the losse wherof you were contented to buy it You cannot be now inueigled with the passions of youth which making a partiall estimate of thinges sette no distance betweene counterfeite and currant For they are now worn out of force by tract of time or fallen in reproofe by triall of their folly It cannot be feare that leadeth you amisse seeing it were to vnfitting a thing that the crauaÌ„t cowardice of flesh blood should daunte the prowesse of an intelligent person who by his wisdome can-not but discerne how much more cause there is to feare God then man to stand in more awe of perpetuall then of temporall penalties If it be an vngrounded presumption of the mercy of God and the hope of his assistance at the last plunge the ordinarye lure of the Deuell to reclaime sinners from the pursuite of vertew it is to palpable a collusioÌ„ to misleade a sound and sensed man howsoeuer it preuaile with sicke and affected iudgmentes Who would rely eternall affaires vppon the gliding slippernes running streame of our vncertaine life or who but one of disteÌ„pered wittes would offer fraud to the decipherer of all thoughtes with whome dissemble we may to our cost but to deceiue him it is impossible Shall we esteeme it cunning to robbe the time from him and bestow it on his enemies who keepeth tale of the least minutes of our life will examine in the end how eche moment hath bene imploied It is a preposterous pollicy in any wise conceit to fight against God till our weapons be blunted our forces consumed our limmes impotent and our best spent and then when we fall for faintnes and haue fought our selues almost dead to presume of his mercy the wouÌ„ds both of his sacred body so often rubbed and renued by our sinnes and euery parcell of our owne so sundry and diuerse waies abused being so many whetstones and incentiues to edge and exasperat his reuenge against vs. It were a straÌ„ge peece of art and a very exorbitant course while the shippe is sound the Pilote well the sailers strong the gale fauourable and the Sea calme to lye idle at rode burning so seasonable wether and wheÌ„ the ship leaked the Pilot were sick the Mariners faint the stormes boisterous and the Sea a tormoile of outragious surges then to lanch forth to hoise vp sailes and to set out for a voiage into farre countries Yett such is the skill of these euening repenters who though in the soundnes of helth and in the perfitte vse of reason they cannot resolue to cut the gables and weigh the anckers that with-hold theÌ„ from God neuerthelesse they feed them selues with a strong perswasion that wheÌ„ their senses are astonied their witts distracted their vnderstanding dusked and both the body and minde racked tormeÌ„ted with the throbs and gripes of a mortall sicknes theÌ„ forsooth will they thincke of the weightiest matters become sodaine Saintes when they are scarce able to behaue them selues like resonable creatures If neither the canon ciuill nor coÌ„mon law alloweth that a man perished in iudgement should make any testament or bequeste of his temporall substance being then presumed to be lesse then a man how can he that is amated with the inward garboils of an vnsetled conscience distrained with the wringing fittes of his dying fleshe maimed in all his habilities circled in with so straÌ„ge encombrances be thought of dew discretion to dispose of his chiefest iewell which is his soule and to dispatch the wholle menage of all eternity of the treasures of heauen in so stormy and shorte a spurt No no they that will loyter in seed time and beginne onely to sowe when others reape They that will riotte out their health cast theire accountes when they can scarcely speake They that will slumber out the day enter their iorney when the light doth faile theÌ„ Let them blame their owne folly if they dye in debt and eternall beggers and fall hedlong into the lapse of endlesse perdition Let such harken to S. Ciprians lesson Let saieth he the greeuousnes of our sore be the sure of our sorrowe Lett a deepe wounde haue deepe and dilligent cure Lett no mans contrition be lesse then his crime Thinkest thou that our Lord can be so soone appeased whoÌ„ with perfidious words thou hast denied whom lesse then thy patrimony thou hast esteemed whose temple with sacriligious corruption thou hast defiled Thinckest thou easely to recouer his fauour whome thou hast auouched not to be thy Master We must rather most instantly intreat we must passe the day in mourning the night in watching weeping our wholl time in plainfull lamentinge We must fall prostrate vpon the ground humbling our selues in sackclothe and ashes And hauing lost the garment of Christ we should be vnwillinge to be clothed with any other hauing farsed our stomackes with the viande of the Deuell we should now desire to fast from all earthly food We should ply good workes to purge our offences we should be liberall in almes to auoid the death of our soules that Christ may receiue that the persecutour would haue spoiled neither ought that patrimony to be kept or phansied with which a man hath bene ensnared vanquished Not euery short sighe will be a sufficient satisfaction nor euery knocke a warrant to get in Many cry Lord Lord and are not accepted The foolish Virgins knocked and were not admitted Iudas had some sorow and yet dyed desperate Forslowe not saieth the holy ghost to be conuerted vnto God and linger not of from day to day for sodeinly will his wrath come and in the time of reuenge he will destroy thee Lett no man soiourne long in his sinfull securitye nor post ouer his repentance till feare enforce him vnto it Lett vs frame our premises as we would find our conclusion and endeuour to liue as we are desirous to dye Shall we offer the mayne crop to the Deuell and set God to glean the reproofe of his haruest Shall we gorge the Deuell with our fairest fruites and turne God to feed on the filthy scraps of his leauings How great a folly were it when a man pineth away in a perillous languour to prouide gorgeous apparell to bespeake sumptuous furniture and take order for the rearing of stately buildings neuer thinking of his owne recouery to let the disease take roote within him were it not the like vanity for a Prince to dote so farre vpon his subiecte as neglecting his owne regalty to busy him selfe wholly in aduancing his seruant Thus saieth S. Chrisostome do they that wheÌ„ their soule hath surfeited with all kind of sinne and is drenched in the depth of infinite diseases without any regard therof labour their wittes in setting forth her garment and in pampering the body with all possible delightes And wheras the

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