Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	adversary_n	hand_n	lord_n	1,184	5	3.6502	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69048	The speach of the Kirk of Scotland to her beloved children	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1620 (1620)	STC 4365; ESTC S107176	43,447	131

generation which knew not the Lord nor yet the work which he had done for Israel A generation not onely unthankfull but contumelious against that glorious work of God worthie instruments therof and therefore ready to bless that which the Lord hath cursed and to build that which he hath destroyed For is there not start up of late within my skirts a new sect of shameless mishapen formalists my indignation cannot bear such monsters who blush not to joyne with my enemies the papists in breathing out reproachful obloquies against your reverend fathers and brethren Calvin Beza Knox etc. as though their zeale against Romish idolatrie the deformities whereof by new colours are now beginning to seeme beauties had been excessive and by disparaging their credite to bring the truth preached by them in suspition and that glorious work of reformatioÌ„ wherin they were so worthy instruments into question He that is the keeper of Israell vindicat his owne cause from the blasphemous mouth and uncouth stratageme of this generation of vipers Finally that the Lord might shew that he left nothing undone haue ye not experienced the blessing of Abraham hath he not blessed them who blessed you and cursed them who cursed you he hath been not onely our sunne but our shield What instrument framed against you hath prospered What tongue arysing against you hath not the Lord coÌ„demned that all the world might know that God was your saviour and the strong God of Iacob your avenger Your forraigne enemies haue bene made the objects of your pitie and so many as haue rent my bowels within have perished tragically in their own divices No sooner began they till now to reedifie the cursed walls of Iericho but they have beene buried under the ruines of them All which hath proceded of his own good pleasure If ye should say that the cause were any worthynes in your selves above other nations not onely my spouse Christ and his faithfull servant Moses would cry out against you but all the world that knowes what ye are in other respects would laugh you to scorne The Lord who shewes mercie on whom he will shew mercie hath done it It is wonderfull in my eyes and should have moved the most obdured and stonie hearts amongst you to melt answerably to spend themselves to his honour in the duties of holines and righteousnes which alas ye have not done as now shall appeare by the sequel of your iniquities casting me your poore mother into so great a doole desolation which is the second point of your Christian consideration propounded in the beginning Would God it might please him to blesse your senslesse soules with a holy remembrance of that which ye once were and from whence ye are fallen Ye would surely finde that as in manners and conversatioÌ„ from small beginnings by degrees ye are now come to great abominations so both in the lyfe of your profession and in the outward worship of God ye are further fallen from that which of late ye were then now your case is distant from that which ye feare To let pass the desperate profaness of many crying sins even beyond the cry of Sodome considering all the circumstances of the mercie of God of the meanes and space graunted to you to repent by continuall importunitie deaving the eares of divine justice that had not the Lord had respect to some of his secret ones who kneele before him day and night to continue his gracious favour with you misregarded of the world but my chariots and horsmen had he not a purpose to prevent the insolencies of my enemies I have sayd I would scatter them abroad I would make their remembrance to cease froÌ„ amongst men save that I feared the furie of the enemie lest their adversaries should waxe proud And which is principall did not the Lord for his own names sake and the praise of his mercy spare me we had long since beene consumed and the enemy had entered within my gates To let passe that lukewarmenes careles mediocritie in the matters of God that neutrall adiaphorisme in my affaires which hath in it a native and proper power to hasten at the hand of God the removall of my candlestick and to bring in the famine of the word For how can the Lord without indignatioÌ„ suffer men to esteeme basely of the least circumstance which he willeth to be observed And not to insist in that fall from your first love decay of your wonted zeale secret indevotion even in true christians where is that wonted power and demonstratioÌ„ of the spirit in preaching that cheerfulnes in holy exercises that circumspect walking before God in all your wayes that preparation to divine dueties that spirit of deprecations that spiritual profite of hearing communicating meditation and conference that consciencious diligence in winning of others working upon your acquaintaÌ„ce to bring them within the bosome of my love that jealousie over your hearts that indignation against errours idols Apostates Is not the life of religion condemned under the names of hypocrisie singularitie melancholie simplicitie puritanisme etc. And the light thereof either smothered under the ashes of this errant tymeâ— or put in a theefes bowet so that the godly now born down with a bastard modestie and spirituall pusillanimitie dissemble and conceale the grace of God for eschewing the shame offence of the world which the wicked not long since did simulat and counterfeyt for currying of credite with me and my follovvers But leaving all these I come to complaine of the alteration made upon my outvvard face and goverment May not I novv as once the vvorld becomming Arrian poure out my sighes and vvonder hovv so suddenly I am changed from that vvhich I vvas and become that vvhich novv I am All the rites of Rome are not more odious to many novv then my present ceremonial coÌ„stitutioÌ„ vvas to them of late The formes and fruites of preaching fearfully changed the crystalline fountaines of holy Scripture troubled with the mudd of mans putide learning the ministration of the Sacraments brought in under a new guise of mans shaping the painfull ministerie turned into a busie Lordship and these who are set over soules should warre unto God are become seculars intangling themselves with the affaires of this life nothing but a pompous shadow for Gods simple service Demas Diotrephes are become the paterns of wisdome and praeeminence Chrysostome is thrust out and Arsatius placed in his rowme beloved Liberius is set a syde and lightlied Foelix is set to feede the flock pratling tymeservers are become preachers powerfull pastors put to silence plaine and frequent preaching reproved a redd liturgie commended Alevite for a Preist and lesse then a levite for mouth and messenger to Gods people Non residents with their flattering varlots sit in the chaires of dignitic fed with pluralitie of benefices and painfull promoovers of the Kingdome of Christ and subverters of Antichrist

things the one that our orders condemned by them we ought to abolish the other that theirs wee are bound to accept in stead thereof And the other he that would bring in the use of the surplice into the reformed Kirkes where iâ— hath no place cannot be excused from schisme and superstition whatsoever hee alledge for his excuse As he speakes of one so hee speakes of all The drierie lamentations heavie complaints of the unsupportable burthen of the ceremonial yoke powred out in all ages by the holy men of God may provoke the compassion of the hardest hearts Augustine in his time complained that the Kirke was pressed contrarie to Christs mercifull institution with such a servile burthen of ceremonies that the state of the Iewes under the law was more tollerable then the condition of Christians seeing they were subject onely to Gods ordinances not to humane presumptions as Christians are How would hee at this time have mourned for the case of other Kirks and for the perill that I am in Erasmus Polidorus Virgilius c. â—ing the same ditta It is a certaine truth many ceremonies little faith Look how much is added to the midding of rites as much is withdrawen not onely from Christian liberty but from Christ himself and his faith while the multitude seeketh for that in rites which they should seek in the onely sonne of God Iesus Christ. The greater bulk of bodily ceremonies the lesse spirit of true devotion The true worshippers under the Gospel shall not say The Ark of the Lord they shall forget all those outward ceremonies and never revive them Moses his vaile farre more all other things that neither were nor are froÌ„ God is removed and now may we with open face behold the glory of God Then the sea about the altar was of brasse and could not be pierced with the sharpest sight but now our sea about the throne is glasse clearly convoying the knowledge of God unto our minds The Amphiscij can tell that the more shadow the lesse light The shadow alwayes accompanies the body sometimes it followes behinde but sometimes also it comes before Ye may be sure the dark body of error is not farre off when the shadowes of ceremonies are at hand and iustly may feare that they are the harbingers sent before by Satan whatsoever be mans intention to make place for their owne substance Oh if the Lord would open your eyes to see the subtill working of that mystery of iniquity The web may be divided in mens intentions who possibly mind no more for time to come then they urge for the present But in the iustice of God punishing the world for the contempt of the truth and in respect of Satans malice bringing in his lye it is all of one threed And that which is begun by one may be wrought out by another entring upon the preceeding labours Ye see not this weed growing but it will be perceived to have growen The seeds of Popery were secretly sowen in the Primitive Kirke and by degenerating ages grew up to that monstrous height which now the world wonders at But alas all our countrey wit is Mâ—tanoia after wit My people are like the Athenians who as Demades objected to them never intreated for peace but in mourning gowns that is after they had suffered great calamitie in battell When afterward ye are poysoned with errour and over laden with crosses ye and your children after you shall be forced to cry out upon your owne madnesse and folly that would not see and resist the beginnings of so great evils The remanent sparkles of natures light looking upon the common providence of God may let your Honours see that it serves most for the prosperity of Kirkes and Kingdomes that ilk constitution and order in a societie should sort with the nature disposition and condition of the people My people have from the liberal hand of their God externall abundance for the honest sustentation of their bodies with a substantial sound and simple religion for the salvation of their soules Yet farre from the artificial fulnes whereby the Tyrian spirits of the world do disquiet their neighbour nations striving to subject all to their formes that they may reigne over all as Queenes against the protestations made in all the confessions of faith of other Kirkes A single forme of policie is more fit for a plain people and mean provisions then the gorgeous shew of a pompous port necessarily requiring rents complements and carriage that neither this land may beare neither wee nor our fathers have learned Rites must have rents their service is both cumbersome costly they scorne the assignations of our plotted povertie they strive with Statesmen Earles and Lords for place precedencie they loath the preaching of the Gospell and like better the chief places of estate The restitution of the Kirk to her wonted possessions to her worldly dignities must goe on together with equall speed Neither can so long experience be denied but that ordinarily the estate of the common wealth accompanies the constitution of the kirk as the morning starre goes with the Sunne which Constantine acknowledged in his grant to the Kirkes of Africa thus beginning his Epistle Considering that the due observation of things pertaining to true religion and the worship of God brings great happinesse to the whole estate and common wealth of the Empire of Rome and Charles the 8. of France lamentably experienced For when he had faire occasions to reforme the Kirke of Rome at his pleasure and to help the Kirk of God he neglected both wherefore shortly after striken with a sudden sicknesse he died according to the forewarning of Savanarola who told him plainly that he should have great successe in his voyage to Italy for reforming the corrupt state of the Kirk which if hee did not he should returne with dishonour and God would reserve the honour of that work unto some other All the policie of Achitophel and wisdome of Salomon cannot establish a kingdome wherein the kingdome of Christ is misregarded His true worship is the pillar and wall of policies If the Lord remove his truth from you hee will deprive you also of your civill liberties and give you over into the hands of mercilesse enemies If he spare not his own strength and glory but give over the one to captivity and the other to the hands of his enemies he shall respect you no more theÌ„ the mire in the street The nation and kingdome that will not serve the Lord shal perish and these nations shall be utterly destroyed My faithfull ministers and obedient children to the meanest are all Gods people and his majesties loyal subjects and faithfull servants The testimonies of his love belong to them all for their comfort in this world and safe conduct to the world to come As they feare God they honour his highnesse they pray for him and his children and all

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