Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	death_n	saul_n	1,009	5	9.4042	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10111	An exposition, and observations upon Saint Paul to the Galathians togither with incident quæstions debated, and motiues remoued, by Iohn Prime.	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1587 (1587)	STC 20369; ESTC S101192	171,068	326

discretion Paul as he was paineful in vndertaking this iourney so was he warie and careful in collating the matter with the chiefe and that in priuate maner Learne my brethren learn this wise and worthy lesson If any thing fall out in the variance of causes and varieties of iudgementes first to confer and then conueniently and in due sort to go * Matt. 18.15 to thy brother secretly to deale with thy equals reuerently much more with thy betters and with men in place and placed in authoritie dutifully and as thou shouldest yea if thy cause bee * Iudae Epist vers 9. good as was Pauls and therefore much rather in causes vncertaine There is most ease in so doing and lesse shame in the eies of those who are enemies and gladly behold the troublesome conferences of vs whom yet otherwise they knowe to be the verie children of God but that men are men and haue their imperfections and that the soundest body sometimes sendeth foorth an angry whelck which is made much more the worse for scratching I say much more the worse both for the inwarde paine and also to the outwarde shew of the beholders In the 2. book and of Samuel the first chapter Dauid being certified of Sauls death amongst other lamentations in most lamentable manner breaketh forth into these words * 2 Sam. 1.20 Tel it not in Gath publish it not in the streetes of Askelon least the daughters of the Philistines reioice least the children of the vncircumcised triumph Gath and Askelon were of the chiefe cities of the vncircumcised who were Gods enimies Dauid wisheth that Sauls death might bee concealed from them if it were any way possible and it greeued Dauid the more that most gladded and reioiced them that were Gods enemies With like affection brethren it were to bee wished that imperfections either were not at all or at the leastwise because offences must bee that they were not growen to that groth and bignes that they may be discerned among the enemies of vs and of our God For a priuate conference and a quiet composition were far better 3 My third note was why Paul went again to Ierusalem prouoked by reuelatioÌ„ but to what end To the end that hee neither might hereafter run neither that his running for he calleth the execution of his office no idle * Matt. 20.6 standing but a laboursome running that his running in former time also might not be in vaine Paul had an eye to the fruit of his labour and to the end of his function In vaine diversly taken But was it possible that Paul whom God set a work should worke in vaine In vaine is here that which did not answere to the Apostles wish when his purposed entent took not effect Which the rather came to passe because of slaunders raised vp that Paul forsooth varied from the chiefe Apostles that hee impeached the dignitie expresly of circumcision and that he generally sought the abolishment of ancient receaued rites and ceremonies ordained by God himselfe which when weake mindes heard they were soone enueigled with entising woords and Pauls preaching became in vaine to them and vnto them vnprofitable Wherefore to declare that the rest of the Apostles with him and hee with them were of one vniforme iudgement he taketh sufficient witnes vndertaketh the iourney conferreth his doings to the end to stop the mouthes of cauillers and to the farther confirmation of the infirmer sort that his running might not be in vaine to them ward For doubtles otherwise diuine operations seruices according to Gods secret purpose they neuer are nor can be in vain Which way soeuer his two edged sword striketh it striketh to the glory of God whose sword it is Humane labors many times loose their ende and misse the marke with * Esay 55.10 God it is not so If thou sowe thy field ouer-much moysture rotteth cold killeth and heart parcheth and marreth all But the spirituall seede of the worde whether it take roote or no or how-soeuer it spring vp whether it rest or not rest in the hartes of the hearers in respect of Gods glory whose husband-men wee are or in regarde of the certaine * 2 Tim. 4.8 Crowne reposed and of the rewarde prefixed which God will assuredly render to all his faithfull seruantes it is neuer it cannot bee in vaine In vaine they heare who heare with an euill or a itching eare but the preacher after his dutifull paines at the * Matt. 20.8 euening of the day and end of haruest though the sheaues though the people will not bee gathered hee shall receiue his penny neuerthelesse The laborers paine is neuer the lesse though the euent be not aunswerable The blacke Aethiop goeth into hath and commeth out as blacke as he went in notwithstanding the keeper of the bath hath his fees as well for the Aethiop as for the fayrest But here Paul respecteth onely the profit of his auditorie and speaketh not of the purpose of God either in rewarding himselfe or reuenging them 3 My last obseruation out of the former verses was to marke how wisely Paul dealeth how stoutly and vpon what occasion Certaine false brethren were craftilie sent and priuily crept in as fine intelligencers and vnder-mining pioners of Christian liberty But Paul wiselie discerneth and couragiously resisteth them and suffereth not Titus to be circumcised for al that neither would hee yeelde so much as a foote of ground vnto them neither in an inch of trueth nor for a moment of time For a litle yeelding in so great matters is not a litle There is difference between a necessary contention and a desire of contending But the controuersie was but a quarell of ceremonies and what neede so much a-doo then Had it not beene better to haue beene quiet To haue slept in a hole skinne And to haue redeemed peace though it were with losse nay verily the losse of liberty of trueth and verity is more than may be easily borne or quietly digested and the root of true peace is the bond of peace And he Who is the trueth he is our peace also * Eph. 2.14 which hath made both one viz. by taking away quite the partition of ceremonies And therefore the reteining of these ceremonies either in whole or in part is a very breach of perfect peace and a bringing in of an heauy yoak a Iewish seruility Wherefore no marueil if Paul were earnest For what reason that because some wily and wilfull men brethren in name but false indeede and therefore no brethren nay what if very brethren should hap to linke and knit and band themselues and runne all in one as it were a shole of fish being caried and driuen in heapes vpon an opinion what reason that the trueth of God should yeeld that the Lord himself should stoupe rather than men should be at variance some holding with and many times many siding and sorting them-selues against a good

who can so doe can do as much for the auoiding of this sinne as I can say if I should pen all that was exemplified and debated more largely by the fall of Adam the confusion of Babel Hamans gallowes and Absolons tree and the rest of such like ambitious heads hung vp in sight and view of al to deterre men from this aspiring sin whereby many get vp hardly and come down headlong and leaue behind them a shamefull remembrance in their ruines Contention 2 The second principall bile in the body of the Church or common weal is Contention For though ambitioÌ„ be euer contending yet euery contention is not ambition For a contentious nature wil striue for a straw and except he striue hee cannot liue Ismaels hand must needes bee against euery man though euery mans hande be against him againe euen for that cause because he is contentious I neuer speak to rebate true zeal and to make men as we term them rebated protestants or to blunt the edge of good contending For it is a good thing to striue for good things If the cause be gods if it be a cleare case ruled by the Scripture if it be a matter of faith truth that is oppugned contend but yet wisely according to the place of thy calling and the ability of thy person in al orderly proceeding If it be an o th matter a statute of your towne whereunto you are sworne a peece of your charter a common vtility touching your hospital and the benefite of many contend and spare not yet lawfully and warily for contention eueÌ„ in a good cause is an edged toole and must be warily dealt withall And the meeke answere refracteth anger remedieth all many times as the soft woolpack or featherbed deadeth the gunshotte and breaketh the sword But the froward nature enioyeth nothing but vnquietnes And happy are they that blesse him who curseth them Againe if thou see a theefe stealing and thy neighbor spoiled if thou bee ouer mannerly in making out the fresh pursuit and so conceall the trespasse thou art an abetter of euil and a maintainer of theft and guilty before God who euer thou bee and in this respect it is better to be reputed a busie iustice than a quiet gentleman Againe if thou knowe the haunt of practising Recusantes of perilous Iesuits and traiterous Priestes and sayest in thine heart let him that is a cold blow the cole I wil be no buzy-body nor contentious accuser I am no officer I am no keeper of my brother euen so said Cain But in attaching a traitour euery man is an officer and euery man is bound to giue in euidence And art thou a keeper of thine owne life and soul Then care for thy neighbour care for the weale-publick care for the mother of our Country care for the Church of Christ as carefully as for thy selfe and seeke to tread vpoÌ„ those spiders that would poison a whole Realme If it were thy priuate case thou wouldest bestir thee and yet thy priuate case is infolded in the common therefore striue and contend to the vtmost For the end of this strife is perfect peace Enuie 3 The third caterpiller was Enuy. As charity is not suspicious to mistrust the worst so enuy misconstereth al controuleth euery thing If there be any good thing in a man it is an eye-sore to the enuious man If there by any fault it is meate and drink to him he hath somewhat to alleage why he should generally mislike Where this vice rooteth it is the mother of murther the coÌ„fusioÌ„ of nature the enemy of frindship the banishment of vertue the very ruine and bestruction both of the enuied and the enuious and Sathan who thrue Adam out of Paradize thrue himselfe first by enuying out of heauen And yet such is the cecity and blindnesse of Adams children that some who woulde seeme most perfect thinke that perfection consisteth in this that they caÌ„ speak most bitterly against their betters and if his or his nose driuell they see it but their owne ishues of blood passe from them without any sense There were in Austines time that were pale with fasting but blew with enuy abstained from wine but were drunken with poison Enuy is compared to smoke which goeth vpward and yet not verie high but skimming vppe and downe and so doth enuy For no meane man enuieth the Prince or Pieres of the Realme And as the smoke vanisheth away when it riseth to any height so if a man be past reach enuy manie times turneth into flattery and when a man is dead enuy entreth not into the graue While men haue the presence of an austere sincere and godly wise men O wee say he is too precise he reproueth our waies When he is departed then we can say we shal neuer haue the like So that euidently Enuy is a thing which is conceaued by the eye or the care as when Caine saw the Abels sacrifice was accepted he enuied his brother and proceeded to the slaughter of Abel And euen such was the rage of this fury that neither brotherly affection nor the immanity of the fact nor the feare of God nor the greeuousnes of the punishment could withhold him from committing the trespasse In the first of Samuel we read how the soul of Ionathan was knit to Dauid how Micol loued Dauid as her beloued husband how the people had Dauid in deserued admiration for his noble Acts how the daughters of Israel receaued Dauid comming from the conquest with Musick and instruments singing Saul hath slain his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand Dauid indeed behaued himselfe valiantly and wisely the people and the weomen gaue him his due But what followeth vpon this Saul looketh awry vpon Dauid and waxeth exceeding wrath at the faburden of the song in somuch that the morrow after the euil spirit came vpon Saul But Dauid endeuouring to doe good for euill plaieth vppon his harpe wherein he was skilled and seeketh by al meanes to asswage his Masters maladies But what doth Saul He riseth vp and throweth his Iaueling with full purpose to naile his faithful seruant fast enough vnto the wal In which story at large we see enuy no doubt bred vpon an inwarde corruption but stirred vp greatly by the sight and commendation of the good things in Dauid and therin wee see how hee chafed in mind and hee changed his countenance and it cast him into a raue And albeit wee reade that Dauids playing did somtimes qualifie his troubled spirits yet al that Dauid could doe as the conquering of Goliah his cunning on the instrument his valiantnes against Gods enimies his familiarity with Ionathan his mariage with Micol his fauour with the people his sparing Sauls owne person in the den all these things could neuer scoure out the rust doe awaie this rancor and make cleane the glasse of his conceat whereby he might haue discerned a true subiect a faithful seruant an excellent and

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