Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	ark_n	let_v	lord_n	1,074	5	5.1535	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09176	Royall exchange to suche worshipfull citezins, marchants, gentlemen and other occupiers of the contrey as resorte therevnto. Try to retaine, or send back agayne. The contents ys after the preface. Sene and allowed here.	Payne, John, fl. 1597.	1597 (1597)	STC 19489; ESTC S102533	39,869	52

Christians good ynoughe for there presens in the congregations for there thrustinge to the communion or for there bare taulke of the scriptures God bless vs from suche an hypocriticall faythe The possessors wher of stand in more nede of the terror of the law as fyrst a hammer to beate theme downe then of de gentle voyce and hand of the gospell to lyft theme vp The second cumpanie be marchant venturers and marchant retaylers who most rightly beare the name of changers in that reputable exchange changinge wares for money and money for wares Marchants And therfore our soueraigne Ladie in abolishing the fyrst title Buss and imposinge a new as ther by she had prudent consideration to tearme yt the exchange accordinge to the nature of that marchantlike trade so in greate favour she bare to it and the whole Cittie she added thereto a regall title and then tearmed it the Royall exchange God preserve and bless her Princely hart wth his grace and spirit for the further and more ample advancement of his glorie bothe in England and her wonted helpe for other troubled contreys a bowt her And the lord chaÌ„ge there harts or cutt of ther bodies from the yerthe that wyshe or practys the contrarie to the pleasinge of Gogg the Pope and his Catholike kinge wth his spanishe mynes the horne of his strengthe Now that your traffyke ys hyndered navigation restrayned and your former gaynes greatly Impayred I wyshe you fyrst to acknowlege the finger of God in all this for synn and next to wey and consider of the spirituall marchantdise mencioned of in the gospell wth the hydden threasure not fownd wthout paynfull digginge and of the good marchant buyeng the preciouse pearle Implieng therby that devine rytches cannot be obtayned wthout zeale and earnest affection wthout searche and diligent sekinge and vnlest they be redemed wth the best things you affect and to esteme all other marchantdise but trifles whether from Turckie or Denice in comparison of that devine threasure And marck that no adventurers nor the secure or careless can fynd the sayde hydden threasure The Kyngdom of God must be sought ere yt can befownde therfore let the name marchant teacht all to make singuler accowmpt of spirituall and sacred things and of the gospell Sacraments readinge hearing prayeng Psalmes and songs from the hart O that we could love and regarde these preciouse pearles the supernaturall threasure hyd from the worldly hart and the gospell of Christ as they are to be estemed wch ys the gladdest news and ioyfullest tydings the light of the churche and every soule therof the preservative of the Prince and the pyller of her Kyngdom the wch beinge taken a way despised or lothed as manna was of the lothinge Iscalites yt must nedes fall out wth vs as it did on that full gorged people when the ark of God was taken from theme namely bloddie warrs hunger famine pestilences and confusions before and behynde Iff you dyd but sum tymes wey and consider this then would you be as desirouse of the continuans of the gospell by due estimation of suehe a threasure for to save and defend you from Gods wrathe as the elders of Israell coveted the preseÌ„s of the lords ark the figure therof to save theme from the Philistines who in there miserie crped out sayeng wherfore hathe the lord smitten vs let vs bringe againe the ark of Gods covenant a mongest vs that when it commeth it may save vs from the hands of our enemies And then as dagon could not stand but fall downe and breake his neck at the presens of Gods arck so can neyther the second spanishe flete the power of papists wth the indian gould be able to stand but rather flee and consume from the Quene of England and her religiouse subiects when they put this Evangelicall arck in revereÌ„t and hartie maner betwene theme and there adversaries otherwise then the wch love and reverens yt wil be as meake a buckler at the fierce assaulte as the arck of God was to the Isralites when they there Kinge and preist were all over chrowen Secondly remember that you must be changed you know not when from your ritches from this vitall lijfe and the whole worlde vnto a nother place paynefull or Ioyfull none otherwise then the sayde preciouse pearle and hydd threasure is of price and valure wth you for the present tyme. Thinck of this and on hym that exhortethe to be changed and renewed in the inward man carefully studienge to change the owld life for a new even as you tender the changinge of this mortalitie to Immortalitie of this drudgerie beneathe to the felicitie above seing yt is written that suche as shal be burgeses there they must be so enfranchised here as to be made Kings and preists to overcom and to offer no less then Prophetts to instruct theme selves and there familie and al to shew forthe the vertues of hym that hathe caulled theme out of darckues into his marvelouse light Evill Marchants And further vnderstand that as there be honest and Godlie men of your trade so the very contrarie are bothe knowen and felt who yet marche vnder the ensigne of honest marchants and would appere as religiouse as they be covetouse or impiouse beinge as greate a scandale to that worshipfull companie as corrupt lyvers and teachers do greyve the Godlie learned in the ministerie These marchants deceyve moche by there paynted faulshode and lipp religion wherby they endamage others to inritche there estate Suche ys the choyce that these make of duplicitie and hypocrisie when they affect so little the grace of truthe and simplicitie These fellows wyll brave yt out how slender so ever they be wthin and prease to be eyther equall or higher then there betters fleinge the meane estate wch is the happiest and steale credit by other mens valure vntill they become eyther breakers or banckerers God in mercie geve suche repentans for borrowinge and dealinge wth many and to kepe towche wth few Exceptinge here nevertheles suche honest men as come to decaye neyther by the pryde of there backs wyfe nor table but by shipwrack on the sea or by trustinge the vntrustie that borrow moche and repay eyther little or nothinge But God that never chastiseth wthout cause dyd se yt tyme to correct for eyther beinge over gredie to aspire or by covetouse desyre of excessive gaynes dyd rather chuse to write there bad creditors names in there bookes then to take present pay in there purses of honest customers or otherwyse the Lord saw cowldnes and backwardnes in religion by nuszlinge to depely in the world wherby at lengthe to borrow of three and scarce to paye one Seinge then that God so sharplie correcteth suche professors as by toyles and cares retire from there religiouse affections yt ys good to pray for a contented mynde to norrishe your first love and zeale to God by all due meanes and not to suffer the

for our punishements and that no suche afflictions can come into the cittie wthout the Lords sendinge The Anabaptists are outrageouse by there rashe sensures to condemne warrs and warrlyke affaires or the souldiers obediens to Princes therein whether offensive or defensive and that vnder collor that we in the gospell should not warr as the Isralites dyd wherin they neyther respect the providens and ordinans of God in this nor the greate desert of there sinnes wth ours procuringe the swerde Besydes that they do greatly abuse these words law and gospell seperatinge theme further a sunder then they ought forasmoche as the gospell was in the law and the law in the gospell seinge the gospell was from Abam Secondly they deceyve theme selves in this vse of warrs by a fauls understandinge of Christ his reprehencion to Peter drawinge forthe his swerde whervpon they conclude that Maiestrates ought neyther to warr nor to punishe malefactors wth deathe Surely Princes and all Estates are smally behowldeÌ„ to suche fauls teachers and erroniouse people for maynteyninge those dangerouse opinions agaynst Maiestracie in these spanishe warrs aswell as notoriouse herisies agaynst the articles of the Christian faythe Princes and States spendinge there threasures and people in the defens of theme and there goods aswell as in ours otherwyse bothe clamerouse Anabaptists and Papists should no less be swallowed vp of the enemie then vs the professors of Christ his religion God make theme less contemptible and more thankfull wth vs for the Lords Leyvetenants vpon yerthe Now to the spirituall warr wherein we must be all exercised souldiers if we looke to be partakers of Gods Kingdom wherof our savior Christ the Lord of true peace speaketh sayenge I came not to send peace in to the yerthe but warr Spirituall warr in wch kynd of warr he appoynted none other weapons then thus he that taketh not vp his cross and follow me ys not worthie to be my disciple ordayninge the chefest poynt of this warr to consist in suffringe iniuries and not in doinge theme Well we must become spirituall warriors and fight vnder Christ his ensigne wth the complete armure mentioned by his worthie warrior S. Paul sayenge put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to refist in the evell day remember that in baytysme we bownd our selves so to become Christian souldiers as continually to fight agaynst suche mightie enemis as never cease the crafty assaults but ever seke to scale the walls of our poore soules wth whome to take peace is to breake the truce and covenant betwene vs and our heavenly Captayne to our vtter destruction Let vs not then snarle and intangle our selves wth over moche toyle and care of the world that so we may the more easily please him that hathe chosen vs to be fyghtinge souldiers Christian reader note well this seinge by slender footing in the Lords feylde many on every syde do take suche foyles and deadly wownds as they depart from there souldierly ranck by necglect of armure and by faynines of fight in the tyme of assault but let vs be ready to say wth the Apostle at the surreÌ„drie of our last gaspe I have fought a good fyght I have finished my course kept the fayth and then the crowne of glory shal be ours Musers on Gods provides There vs another sorte walkinge there betwene the ordinary howers of the Exchange who be greate musers on Gods longs suffringe and on his highe providens by weakenes of fayth and knowlege being racked and troubled to be howld sum egregious wycked men to have the fayrest shew and greatest florishe and therfore do marvell on Gods longe suffringe At wth common block many weakelings do stumble when they se the Lord one while to delaye his punishements another while hastily to execute the same and next in that he putts of the fuccouringe of his churche or sum distressed member thereof not consideringe the words in Tim. 5. sum mens sinnes are open before hand and go before vnto iudgement and sum sinnes follow after We must beare wth that wch the Lord thinks not good by and by to correct nor to geve the remedie or succor when we lyft but when he hym self will Agayne sum mens enormities are discouvered and come vnto iudgement soner then men loked for and others be revealed and punished alonge tyme after as though yt slept But albeit Gods gentle chasticements or heavie iudgements do not hasten theme selves yet they come on thoughe sayre and softlie after Symon the sorcerer his sinnes came before hande whyle Saul Iudas and other hypocrites there finnes came after and were detected at length thoughe for a tyme they deceyved many evenso Godlynes holynes and vertu have there tymes limited of commendation and fame and although it be long fyrst by reason of sum clowde obscuringe theme for the tyme yet in comminge they come and bring the greater ioye therfore standfast and faint not And further to answere fuche weake parsons so ready to stumble at this poynt the 13. of Esaye speakethe of the destruction of the Babylonpans as though it were presently to be donn when in dede yt fell out more then 200. yeres after sayenge the day of the Lorde is at hand meaninge the tyme of the Babylonicall extermination vy Eprus so long tyme ere it came the wch scripturely phrases of present speches for things to come ys to be vnderstand fyrst that the events and decrees of the Lorde do not pass beyonde the tyme of hym prefixed and limited but shall as certainely come to pass as of they were already For that wch was don from Adam almoste 5600. yeres a go and that wch shal be from hence to the worlds end yt ys present before God because S. Peter sayeth one day before the Lord ys as a thowsand peres and Abacut 2. sayeth the vision is yet differred to a cectayne tyme speakinge of that wch he wyll finish wthout any fayle sapenge thoughe yt tarry wayte for yt shall come and not staye Wth ys bothe a compforth and a terror to dyvers sorts of parsons quayle not brother vnd thy cross for the 8. of No. sayeth I esteme that the afflictions of this tyme are not worthie of the glorie that shal be shewed on vs and 4. of the Cor. for our light affliction wch is but for a moment causethe vnto vs a farr more excellent and aneternall wayght of glorie Wherfore cease thy admirations on Gods louge suffrings and providens neyther mervell any more why God delayeth his help or succor sum tymes from his people for in Esaye his tyme the faythefull behowldinge Senacharib to be victoriouse over dyvers people in Iudea and parceyvinge the churche of God vpon the poynt of vtter ruym they in lyke weakenes thought thus in effect Esay hathe promised vs ease and deliverans but when shall this come to pass the Prophet intendinge to remidie suche a temptacion in the 18. Chap. dothe consent

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