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	time_n	10,018	5	3.6095	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09439	How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts faile.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1601 (1601)	STC 19728; ESTC S2275	25,478	110

How to liue and that well Jn all estates and times specially when helps and comforts faile Printed by Iohn Legat printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1601. And are to be sold at the Crowne in Pauls Churchyard by Simon Waterson To the Reader GOod Reader if thou wouldest be saued by thy faith in Christ after death thou must here liue by it before death And faith for the time of this life hath two great vses The first is to cut off worldly sorrowes and cares It is the common fashion of men to multiplie their cares out of measure and thereby to make their liues most miserable For first of all beside necessarie labours they take vpon them many needelesse and superfluous businesses Secondly their manner is to care not onely for the labours to be done but also for the euent and successe of their labours that they may alwaies prosper and neuer be crossed but this care belongs to God alone Thirdly they content not themselve with their lot and condition but seeke by all meanes to increase their estate and to make themselues rich Lastly they exercise themselues not onely in disposing of things present but they forecast many matters in their heades and plotte the successe of things to come Now faith when we haue done the works of our callings according to the prescript of the word of God saith I say makes vs commend to God the blessing successe euent therof by prayer and affiance in his promises not doubting but he will giue vs all things necessary And if we want the blessing and successe we looke for yet faith makes vs to renounce our owne desires and in silence to quiet our hearts in the good pleasure of God And thus many worldly cares are cut off Secondly when a man at his wits ende knowes not what in the world to doe being as it were plunged into a sea of miseries faith giues direction and staies the minde For when all temporall things faile vs euen to the very skinne and life faith preserues within vs an affiance of the grace and mercie of God and the hope of life euerlasting Faith shewes vs hidden things not to be discerned by sense and reason Life euerlasting is promised vs but we die for al that we heare of the resurrection but in the meane season we rot in our graues we are pronounced blessed but yet we are ouerwhelmed with infinite miseries bundance of all things is promised but for all this we often huÌ„ger and thirst God promiseth to heare vs and to be present with vs but he seemes oft times to be deafe as it were at our cries Now then comes faith which is the substance of things hoped for and makes vs lift our minds aboue the whole world to apprehend the inuisible and vnspeakable things of God which he hath reuealed and promised vnto vs. These things I shewe more at large in this small treatise following read it at thy leisure vse it for thy good and see thou be a doer of them W. Perkins Hab. 2.4 The iust man shall liue by his faith IN the former chapter the Prophet complaines and expostulates the matter with God why the Iewes the people of God should be oppressed by the Chaldeans the enemies of God In the beginning of the 2. chapter the Lord makes answer to the Prophet and the effect of the answer is this They shall certenly be deliuered in the time appointed but they shal not yet be deliuered Vpon this answer the Prophet might happily obiect on this manner How then shall the afflicted Iewes be able to liue in the mean season the Lord answers by a distinctioÌ„ thus The vniust man puffs vp himselfe with vaine confidence but the iust man shall liue by his faith For the better vnderstanding of the words fiue things are in order to be explaned The first what is meant by the iust man Iustice mentioned in the word is twofold the iustice of the law and the iustice of the Gospel The iustice of the law hath in it all the points and parts of iustice and all the perfection of all parts and it was neuer found in any vpon earth except Adam and Christ. The iustice of the Gospel hath all the parts of true iustice but it wants the full perfection of parts as a childe hath all the parts of a man in the infancie though it want perfection of stature and talnesse And this kind of iustice is nothing else but the conuersion of a sinner with a purpose will endeauour to please God according to all the commaÌ„dements of the Law Thus was Noe iust Iob Zacharie and Elizabeth and thus must the iust man be taken in this place for one that turnes to God by grace indeauours to please God according to the whole law of God in his place and calling The second point to be considered is what life is here meant As death is here twofold the first and the second so is life The first is the coniunction of the bodie and the soule the second is the coniunction of the whole man with God The first is called naturall the second spirituall or eternall life and both are meant in this place For Paul brings this very text to proue the iustification of a sinner by faith and iustification is a part of spirituall life because it is the acceptation of a sinner to eternall life And for this cause the prophet saith The iust man shall liue hauing relation not onely to the time of affliction then to come but also to eternall life The third point to be considered is what is the faith here meant And that is iustifying or sauing faith because we must liue by the same faith whereby we are saued And faith hath his effect not onely after this life but also in this life We must liue first by it before we can be saued by it Paul therefore in his own example expounding this text saith And in that I liue in the flesh I liue by the faith of the sonne of God who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me The fourth point is the construction of the wordes and that is two waies The first is thus The iust by faith shall liue the words by faith being ioyned vpon the word lust And then the sense is this He that is iust by his faith shall liue or haue eternall life The second is thus The iust shall liue by his faith the words by faith being ioyned to the words shall liue then the sense is this The iust while he liues in this world he shall liue by his faith This latter construction and sense I rather choose and imbrace because Paul cueÌ„ in this sense brings this text to prooue that life eternall and consequently iustification comes not by working according to the law but by beleeuing and he makes an exposition betweene liuing by faith and liuing by workes The fifth and last point to be considered is How a man

of god which otherwise we might enioy If ye beleeue not ye shall not be established saith the Prophet In Capernaum Christ could doe no great wonders by reason of their vnbeleefe Lastly vnbeleefe plucks downe vpon men the plagues iudgements of God Moses and Aaron were barred the land of Canaan for their vnbeleefe A certaine prince was troden to death in the gates of Samaria because he would not beleeue the word of the Lord by the mouth of Elisha Zacharie was dumbe for a time because he would not beleeue the message of the angel Many at this day when the iudgements of God lie heauie on them say presently they are fore spoken and they crie out on this or that suspected witch But such persons are often deceiued For the great witch that doth them all the hurt is the vnbeleefe of their hearts whereby they distrust God in his word and this sinne alone if there were no witches in the world is sufficient alone to prouoke God to plague and punish vs sundrie waies and that grieuously Therfore let vs with bitternes of heart bewaile our vnbeleefe and the rather because it is a steppe to faith to acknowledge the want of faith The second thing to be done is to make examination whether we be in conscience conuicted of the certentie of the word or no. If we be not we must labour to be coÌ„uinced Because that naturall atheisme whereby we doubt whether the bookes of the Prophets and Apostles be the word of God or no hinders the certentie of faith For the setling of the conscience in this point these arguments may be vsed The first it is a principle in nature that there is a God if there be a God nature can say he is to be worshipped if he be to be worshipped he hath reuealed himselfe and his will to man for otherwise he cannot be worshipped And this reuelation is to be found in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles and in no other writings of men because we finde the doctrine of Scriptures to be agreeable to the very nature and maiestie of God and so is no other doctrine or learning whatsoeuer For it is the most auncient and all other religions come far short of it It is one and the same euermore consenting with it selfe without chaunge or alteration The Apostles agree with the prophets the Prophets with Moses and all with the first reuelation made at the creation Againe it discouers and reueales the secret thoughts of men that no art or learning can discouer and this argues that it was penned by him who is the searcher of all hearts The second argument is a wonderfull Euidence of the truth not to be found in any other writings in the world This euidence stands specially in eight things The first is that the writers of Scriptures fully and plainely set downe their owne faults yea their chiefest faults not sparing to shame themselues in mans reason and this argues that in writing they were guided by the spirit of trueth The second is that the books of Scriptures containe many mysteries aboue the reach of mans reason yet not against reason because we may discerne a truth in them and that by grounds principles of reason The third that the speeches of Scripture aime not at by-respects but simply and absolutely giue and ascribe all glorie to God alone The fourth is that the Scriptures containe full and perfect doctrine for the pacifying setling and directing of the conscience in all things The fifth is the holinesse and puritie of the law of Moses in that it accuseth and condemneth all men of sinne and prescribeth perfect righteousnes Herein it surpasseth the laws of all countries common-wealths kingdomes whatsoeuer The sixth is the wisdome that appeares in the pollicie or gouernment of the common-wealth of the Iewes set downe by Moses The seuenth is a reconciliation of iustice and mercie propounded in the Gospel For in Christ iustice and mercie meete and iustice after a sort giues place to mercie The eight thing wherein this euidence of trueth appeares is the consent of Scripture with it selfe for doctrine agrees with historie and euery part with euery part This manifold euidence of truth shewes that scripture is from the god of truth If any say that they finde no such euidence in Scripture I answer it is their owne fault for if they would seriously read the Scriptures with praier to God it would appeare The third argument is the Efficacie of the word which appeares on this manner Gods word is flat contrarie to the nature and corrupt disposition of man and yet for all this when being preached it conuinceth and condemneth men of sinne it turneth and conuerteth them to it selfe and causeth them to liue and die in the loue and obedience therof This could it neuer doe vnlesse it were of diuine operation The fourth argument is that the Prophets and Apostles wrought miracles for the ratifying and confirming of their doctrine Now these miracles surpasse the streÌ„gth of nature and were immediately from God and therefore the doctrine thereby confirmed was also of God The fifth and last is that the writings of the prophets and Apostles containe many prophecies or predictions of things to come that none could foresee or foretell but God The name of Iosias his doings are foretold 330. yeares before he was borne Cyrus his doings are mentioned more then an 100. yeares before his birth now these and the like prophecies argue that the whole doctrine is of God By these and like arguments are all that inwardly doubt of the word of God to settle and stablish their consciences This done then followes the third point and that is that we must search and inquire what is the substance and scope of the worde of god The scope of the whole Bible is Christ with his benefits and he is reuealed propounded and offered vnto vs in the maine promise of the word the tenour whereof is That God will giue remission of sinnes and life euerlasting to such as will beleeue in Christ. To this main promise God hath added a maine commaundement which biddes vs to beleeue the said promise or to applie Christ with his benefits vnto our selues Now then our third dutie is to subiect our hearts and wills to this commaundement that biddes vs beleeue in Christ. This is the subiection of faith of which two things must be obserued One is that this is the first subiection that we can giue to God to trust him vpon his promise for the pardon of our sinnes and for life eternall And from this subiection of faith ariseth our subiection to the whole word In Christ are all the promises of God yea and amen the law and the obedience of all the commaundements thereof is established by faith without Christ no good thing can be done The second point is that this subiection is easie in respect of that subiection

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