Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	punishment_n	sin_n	9,230	5	4.9399	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19267	An admonition to the people of England vvherein are ansvvered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by Martin the libeller, but also many other crimes by some of his broode, obiected generally against all bishops, and the chiefe of the cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church. Seene and allowed by authoritie.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1589 (1589)	STC 5682; ESTC S118522	145,211	254

in heauen he was borne vnder bondage and payed tribute to Caesar that hee might deliuer vs from the tyrannie of Hel he was debased euen to the company of bruite beasts that he might bring vs to the glorious company of Angels he lay in hay in a Crib that he might procure euerlasting foode for our soules finally he was accused of sin put to most cruel death that we being iustified by his merite might appeare innocent in the sight of God These be the sweet comfortable cogitations that good christians should conceiue vpon the consideration of Christs poore base state in this life For pouerty in Christ was not so much for exaÌ„ple of life as to satisfie a punishment due to sinne Riches is the good blessing and gift of God but pouertie came in at the same doore that death did that is by the disobedience of our first father Wee may not therefore thinke with Monks Friers that pouerty in it self is a more holy state of liuing then wealth riches is But of that more hereafter Novv let vs coÌ„sider what maner of pouerty this was in Christ Christ vvas in himself exceeding rich both as the sonne of God as the sonne of man As God he had all things common with his father All thinges that my father hath saith he are mine And againe All thine are mine and mine are thine As touching his humanitie he is likewise of great possessions For his Father saith vnto him Desire of me I shal giue thee the heathen for thine inheritance the vttermost parts of the earth for thy possessioÌ„ How hapned it then that Christ being in right Lord of so great possessions became in the time of his dispensation almost in the state of a beggar certainly quia ipse voluit because he would himself For he that filleth heauen earth was borne in an Oxe stall in Bethleem he that had al power in the vvhole vvorld vvas a banished person for a certaine time in Egypt he that feedeth with sustenance man beast foule fish partly by labor gat his liuing partly was fed with the liberalitie of other He that prouideth apparel foral things hung naked vpoÌ„ the Crosse he that sitteth in heauen as his throne hath the earth for his footestoole at an other mans charge was buried and layd in a strange Sepulchre Christs pouertie therfore was vvilling not of any necessitie of holinesse as I haue said but to beare that vvhich for sinne was due to vs. Now I pray you mark y e strength of the former reason Christ to sustaine the punishment due to our sinnes liued in great pouerty humility in this world therfore bishops ministers of the Church of necessitie must liue in pouertie and not haue any wealthy liuings by lands or otherwise I trust they that haue care of their consciences will not easily be led to any perswasion by such reasons They will say Christ did this also for our example I graunt in some respect he did so By his example he teacheth vs humblenesse and modestie that we may not be loath to doe those things that he did for the benefite commoditie of our Christian brother If we so swell with pride that in respect of our Noblenesse or birth or great estate in the worlde wee disdaine other and thinke our poore neighbour doeth vs iniurie if he in respect of Christian brotherhood require of vs a benefit for his better reliefe then is it time for vs to behold the Sonne of God lying poorly in a cribbe or manger betweene beastes who although he were God eternall with his Father and by his mother borne of the most noble family of many Kings and Prophets yet for our sake he did so humble debase himself that he came in so poore and vile condition before men Furthermore Christ by his example hath as it were consecrated pouertie trouble miserie and affliction that they may not be accompted tokens of the wrath of God or such things as do hinder true pietie holinesse or let the saluation of our soules For as mans nature doeth abhorre all afflictions so chiefly do men thinke pouertie and neede to be not onely one of the greatest miseries that can happen to man but also hatefull to God himselfe Thus we see men coÌ„monly to thinke of such as are any way fallen into pouerty misery Let Iob hereof be an example In this cause also it is expedient for vs to looke vpoÌ„ our poore Christ and to set him before our eyes that wee may both more patiently beare these things vvhen for Gods cause they light vpon vs and more charitably iudge of other whom God therewith toucheth yea it is good to teach vs to pul downe our brissles when we waxe proude of those gifts of plenty and riches that God hath giuen vs. Thus you see what profit the example of Christes pouertie bringeth but I pray you to whom is Christ an example to bishops and Ministers only did he liue in poore miserable state for Ministers only did he die for their sinnes only God forbid He was borne he liued he died for all mankinde and all faithfull haue the fruite of this his birth his life and his death Therefore the example of Christs life must stretch further then to Bishops and Ministers It is a farre truer argument to say Christ liued a simple and poore life while hee was here on earth therefore all Christians ought to liue in the same maner that he did then to apply the same onely to Ministers and Ecclesiasticall persons Therefore I will all Christians to beware of this hereticall and Anbaptisticall assertion Whosoeuer seeketh Christ in other state and sort then hee gaue example of seeketh not Christ but Antichrist and the pompe of the world For if this sentence be applied to the example of the poore state of Christ it is the very ground of Anabaptisticall communitie and that none can be saued but such as renounce al their goods possessions Albeit the example of Christ in this place be applied to Ministers onely yet in trueth it appertaineth to all other faithfull as well to them And if the Argument shalbe counted good now hereafter with as good liklihood and farre truer interpretation it may be vsed against al that shal truely professe Christ As touching that Christ chose so simple Apostles and of so poore estate Saint Paul sheweth the reason and cause thereof Brethren saith hee you see your calling how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mightie not many Noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things to confound the wise and the weake things to confounde the mightie and vnnoble things of the world and things that are despised God hath chosen and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh shoulde glorie in his presence If Christ in the entrance of his Kingdome going about to subdue the

Doctor Bridges was drawen by some of their strange and intricate assertions they woulde briefly without corruption lay downe his arguments and allegations touching the supreme authoritie of the Prince and the superioritie of bishops and modestly and soundly answere the same not reiecting the testimony of the ancient Writers and Historiographers especially such as were within 400. yeeres after Christ so farre as they may bee Testes temporum For if they shall otherwise deale and seeke to shift off the matter with reproches scoffes and slaunders they wil discredit their cause and make good men thinke that the spirite with which they are carried is not the milde spirit of Christ but the spirit of him that is condemned for the father of lying murdering and slandering from the beginning The reason that mooueth vs not to like of this platforme of gouernment is that when we on the one part consider the thinges that are required to be redressed on the other the state of our countrey people and common weale we see euidently that to plant those things in the Church will drawe with it so many and so great alterations of the State of gouernment and of the lawes as the attempting thereof might bring rather the ouerthrowe of the Gospell among vs then the ende that is desired The particulars hereof in some fewe things in steade of many doe here follow and hath bene opened to you before if reasonable warning would haue serued First the whole state of the lawes of this Realme will be altered For the Canon lawe must be vtterly taken away vvith all offices to the same belonging which to supply with other lawes functions without many inconueniences wilbe very hard The vse and studie of the Ciuil law wil be vtterly ouerthrowen For the Ciuilians in this Realme liue not by the vse of the Ciuill law but by the offices of the Canon law and such things as are within the compasse therof And if you take those offices and functions away and those matters wherewith they deale in the Canon Lawe you must needes take away the hope of rewarde and by that meanes their whole Studie And matters of Tithes Testaments and Matrimonie iudgements also of Adulterie Slaunder c. are in these mens iudgements meere temporall and therefore to bee dealt in by the temporall Magistrate onely Which as yet haue eyther none at all or very fewe lawes touching those things Therefore the Temporall and Common lawe of this Realme must by that occasion receiue also a very great alteration For it will bee no small matter to apply these things to the Temporall lawe and to appoynt Courts Officers and maner of processe and proceedings in iudgement for the same Beside this the Iudiciall law of the Iewes especially for such offences as are against the lawe of God must bee brought into this Common weale For to this opinion doe they plainely incline For they say already flatly that no Magistrate can saue the life of a blasphemer stubborne Idolater murderer Adulterer Incestuous person and such like which God by his Iudiciall lawe hath commaunded to be put to death The same assertion must haue like aucthoritie for the contrary that is that a Magistrate ought not to punish by death those offences that God by his Iudicial lawe hath not appointed to be punished by death and so may not our lawes punish theft by death nor diuers other felonies and so some of them haue openly preached The lawes also mainteining the Queenes supremacie in gouerning of the Church and her prerogatiue in matters Ecclesiasticall as vvell Elections as others must be also abrogated Those lavves likevvise must bee taken away whereby Impropriations and Patronages stand as mens lavvfull possession and heritage In these Impropriations and Patronages as I doe confesse there is Lamentable abuse and vvish the same by some good Statute to bee remedied so howe the thing it selfe can vvithout great difficultie and danger be taken away being so generall as it is in the state of this Realme I leane to the iudgement of the vvise and godly The lawes of England to this day haue stoode by the aucthoritie of the three Estates vvhich to alter now by leauing out the one may happily seeme a matter of more vveight then all men doe iudge it If there vvere no more then this one thing vvhich hitherto I haue spoken of that is the alteration of the state of all the lawes of this Realme I thinke there is no wise man but seeth what daunger may followe in these perillous times not onely by fulfilling the thing but also by offering to doe it It hath beene alwayes dangerous to picke quarrels against lawes setled And I pray God that the very rumour hereof spread by these mens bookes haue not already bred more inconuenience then without hurt will bee suppressed I may not put all that I thinke in writing The fourme of finding of Ministers by Tythes must with the Canon lawe be abolished For it was not vsed in the gouernment of the Apostles time nor a great many of yeeres after and therefore may seeme Papisticall and Antichristian There must bee some other order for this deuised Which with howe great alteration it must bee done and how hard it will be to bring to good effect I thinke there is no man but he seeth For the liuings of bishoppes and Cathedrall Churches whereat they carpe though they were all that way bestowed will not serue the third part If this gouernment whereof they speake be as they say necessary in all places then must they haue of necessitie in euery particular parish one Pastor a coÌ„pany of Seniors a Deacon or two at the least and all those to be found of the parish because they must leaue these occupations to attend vpon the matters of the church But there are a number of parishes in England not able to find one tollerable minister much lesse to find such a company The remedy hereof must bee to vnite diuers parishes in one wherof this inconuenience will follow that people in the countrey must come to Church three foure or fiue miles off whereas now they that dwel in the same town can scarcely be forced by any penalties of Law orderly to come vnto the church to seruice or sermons so that they will growe to barbarisme in many places Whereas it is required that the people shoulde choose their Pastours Elders and Deacons it is greatly to be feared that it wil be matter of schisme discord and dissension in many places or that one or two busie heads shall leade the residue to what purpose they will to the great disquieting both of the Church and of the common weale Examples heereof did commonly appeare in the olde Churches while that manner of Election did continue as the ecclesiasticall histories in manie places doe declare And that inconuenience caused Princes and bishops so much to intermeddle in that matter The common people through affection and want of right iudgement

In deed that coÌ„tentation of mind they should haue whensoeuer God calleth them to that necessity yea wheÌ„ they be in their wealthiest state that any coÌ„dition of a christiaÌ„ common weale doth giue them they ought not in those things to exceed but to keepe that moderation that godlines requireth whatsoeuer is aboue that they are bound in conscience to see godly and honestly bestowed or else they grieuously offende God and giue euil example to other This rule as I haue said pertaineth in like maner to all christians and therfore it can no more follow vpon this that the lands liuings of ministers must be taken from them because it bringeth superfluitie vnto them and more then the necessitie of nature requireth then you can conclude the same against all other Christians that haue more ample lands and liuings then will suffice them to the like purpose As I haue said before so say I now againe If our bishops other clergy men imploy the ouerplus of their large and plentifull liuings vnto euill and naughty vses neither I nor any other can therein defend them For the better vnderstanding of my aunswere to these places and of the imperfect manner of reasoning vsed by the aduersary it behoueth to consider that God in his worde layeth downe a perfect measure of his iustice and an absolute rule of that life that Christians shoulde leade As for example when he saith in the Law Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with al thy heart with all thy soule with all thy mind with all thy power and thy neighbour as thy selfe This commandemeÌ„t requireth that al the parts members of our soule inwardly and our bodie goods outwardly shoulde bee bent and giuen ouer to the setting foorth of the glory of God Our heart is the roote of our affections therefore we are commanded to loue or hate nothing to feare or hope for nothing to desire or shun nothing not to be sorie for any thing nor reioyce in any thing but onely in God his glory By our soule is meant al the course of our life our infancie our yong age our middle age our old age Wherfore in this it is required that the whole time of our life from the beginning of our birth to the houre of our death shoulde bee imployed to the seruice of God Our mind comprehendeth our reason and vnderstanding so that by that branch we are taught that our vnderstanding our reason all the cogitatioÌ„s of our mind should be occupied in nothing but in the loue of God Our power noteth al the strength and sences of our body and the abilitie of worldly substance and outwarde gifts of God So that there is nothing apperteining to vs either inwardly or outwardly as I haue said but God wholly requireth the same to his seruice and if wee doe faile therein we offende his iustice and want of that perfect rule of life that is prescribed vnto vs Insomuch that if the mercie of God in Christ our Sauiour helpe not wee deserue for the same euerlasting damnation To the declaration of the latter part of this rule that wee shoulde loue our neighbour as our selfe appertaineth the doctrine of Christ Matth. 5. that wee should not so much as once be mooued with anger toward our neighbour that we should not looke vpon a woman to lust after her that wee shoulde not onely loue our neighbour as our selfe but that we should loue our enemies blesse them that curse vs doe good to them that hate vs pray for them that persecute vs c. As for our money lands goods and possessions we should haue our mindes so little giuen to them and our hearts so smally set vpon them that we nothing at all should care for them further then that they may be vnto vs either instruments of vertue or necessary helps of our fraile life Yea there is nothing so nigh nothing so deere vnto vs by Christes rule eyther eye or hande or foote or whatsoeuer it bee but we shoulde cut it off and cast it from vs if it be a let or hinderance vnto vs to enter into the kingdom of God Finally our bodies being here in this vale of miserie our minds and hearts and conuersations should be in heauen they that haue wiues as though they had none they that weepe as though they wept not they that reioyce as though they reioyced not they that buy as though they possessed not they that vse this world as though they vsed it not To this rule of christian perfection appertain all those sentences and exhortations of Christ of his apostles which before you haue heard alledged teÌ„ding all to this ende to pull away the hearts of men from the loue of riches and care of this worlde that they may set the same wholly vpon God This rule is laid down not only for ministers of the church as though they only were the seruants of God but also for al other faithful Christians whom it bindeth as straitly as it doth the ministers For it is a marke vnto which they both should direct their whole indeuours They therfore that wil apply this rule to some one state of men and not to other fall into like error as Monks Friers did dreaming a more straite order by God to be appointed to one theÌ„ to another The Minister so much as he lacketh of this perfection so much is he indebted and in danger vnto God And if he flie not to the mercie of God purchased by the merite of Christ to wash away that want imperfection vndoubtedly there resteth nothing but eternall damnation Now as I haue saide of the Minister so must I say of al christians beside Therfore out of this doctrine is no particular applicatioÌ„ to be made more to one state then to another but only this that ministers because of their calling should shew themselues to come neerer to this marke then other Where the error in resoning is you may now by this perceiue which consisteth in two points First that the branches of the rule of christian perfectioÌ„ generally giueÌ„ to all are applied only to ministers of the Church as speciall precepts to binde them And secondly that the perfourming of this rule is more imputed as the monks friers did to the outward refusing of Gods creatures then the brideling of the affections huÌ„ble contentation of the mind before God By this corrupt maner of reasoning in these days are framed sundry daungerous arguments against the state of the Ministery here now with vs in England As for example Our Bishops and Ministers are euill men they aunswere not the perfect rule that is prescribed vnto them by the word of God therefore they should be deposed their state altered and their Lands and Liuings taken into the Princes hands or be otherwise imployed as it shal be thought good The daunger of this argument will be easily perceiued if you apply the same to other states as

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