Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	great_a	saul_n	1,241	5	9.2078	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21051	The litle memorial, concerning the good and fruitfull vse of the sacraments Wherein be handled such defects as some persons commit in the vse of them, and the remedies therein to be practised. Composed in Spanish, by the R. Father Francis Arias of the Society of Iesus, and newlie translated in to our English tongue.; Del buon uso de los sacramentos. English	Arias, Francisco.	1602 (1602)	STC 742; ESTC S113868	73,129	278

put it in execution and a greater punnishment it is and inflicted for some greater sin for a man not to see nor knowe that which he is bounde to doe Of these secret sinnes which are committed through ignorance and yet for all that bee imputed by God and seuerelie by him punnished we haue many examples in holy scripture I will here onely make mention of two but those of the most notable to giue more light to that which hath beene saide God commaunded King Saul to inuade the countrey of the Amalachites and vtterly to destroye 1 Reg. 15. them not leauing either man or beast aliue because they did not shewe mercy but crueltie towardes the Israelites when they came out of Aegipt Saul went and conquered the couÌ„try slew men and beastes as he was commanded but yet he did spare the life of the king called Agag and some of the best cattell and in this facte hee neuer thought that hee had committed any sin at all for to saue the kinges life he did it vnder the title of piety and some of the beastes hee reserued for outwarde shewe of religion to offer them in sacrifice to God and therfore when the Prophet Samuell did reprehende him for not hauing kept the commaundement of God he answered confidentlie that he had done all that which God had willed and appointed him Albeit Saul sinned because hee should not haue interpreted the commandement of God according to his owne fancy nor to haue donne expreslie contrary to that which God gaue him in charge either vpon any pretext of piety or colour of religion yet he thought that he had not committed any sinne therein nay rather hee supposed that he had donne verye well and so that which hee reputed for no faulte God very iustlie did impute vnto him for a grieuous sinne and did punnish him most severelie for the same depriuing him of his kingdome and casting him out of his favour and suffering him by a naughtie death to 2 Reg. 24. ende his daies Dauid had a desire to number his people and to muster all the men of war in his kingdome he put this his desire in executioÌ„ This was in him a great sinne both because it was very chargeable to the king very troublesome to the people without any necessity or iust cause and also because it was a kinde of pride and vaine ostentation as Saint Gregory saith and to this may be also added howe it was against the law which commanded that when vpon necessitie the people were numbred that euery one shoulde offer a certaine quantity in almes to bee imployed about the vses of the tabernacle This being so grieuous Exod. 30. a sinne and for so many reasons contrary to the lawe of God yet when Dauid did it he thought it not any such vntill afterwarde he sawe the punnishment thereof to consume his people by so pitifull a pestileÌ„ce that there were alreadye dead thereof seauenty thousand persons Then he perceaued what a great sinne he had committed and did confesse it saying I haue sinned much in this fact and haue done Charthusianus 2 Reg. 24. foolishlie And Dauid fell into this sinne because beholding himselfe so potent in battaile and to ouercome al his enemies he suffered some presumption to enter into his hart and for this sin and for the sinnes of the people God did suffer him to fall into such an ignorance and blindnesse that hee knewe not howe greate a sinne that was which he then committed So that both Saul and Dauid offended God in doing these sinnes not knowing howe greate the faulte was which then they did and in like manner many fall into verie grieuous sinnes through culpable ignorance as hath bin saide and some of them as Saul neuer come to know or confesse them and so die in their sinnes and perishe for euer Others as Dauid come to the knowledge therof and doe purge them by true penance and contrition To the end therefore that wee may preserue ourselues from falling into so great blindnesse as this is and if we be already fallen that wee may come out of it let vs nowe see what remedies are for this purpose to be vsed and put in practise Chap. X. Of a very profitable remedye against the harme which commeth by secret sinnes and that is euery day to examine our conscience and the manner how this is to he done HAuing now declared how great an hinderaÌ„ce it is to a good confessioÌ„ lightly to examine our conscieÌ„ce the great harmes which from that negligence doe growe and that is for a maÌ„ to fall into those sins which he knoweth not requisite it is likewise to giue some instructions how we may ouercome this carelesnes deliuer our selues from these so great harmes The first is for a man willingly to take paines to enter vvith consideration into himselfe and to search all the corners of his conscience and crauing light at Gods handes that he may know himselfe to stay there for some space pondering the motions desires of his owne soule and the workes which from that doe spring For to applie carefully and with diligence the hearte troubled with such varietye of tentations to consider with quiet the inward actioÌ„s of the soule and the outwarde of the body is a thing of trauaile paine and therefore necessary it is that a man should resolue him selfe to imbrace this labour and to overcome this difficultie And to the end that a man may by vse make this examination well and get a facility therein let him not thinke it enough to examine his conscience once before he goeth to confession but let him make it daiely And for that purpose at night when he goeth to bed let him retire himselfe into some secret place before some image and there let him call his soule to account how it hath bestowed that day and let him examine well all that hee hath thought said or done and such sins as he findeth himself to haue fallen into let him purge with the teares of pennance for so did holy Iob and this was his meaning when he saide I considered O Lord with feare all my workes because Cap. 9. I knowe that thou wilt not leaue any sin vnpunnished as though hee had said To preuent thy iudgment and punnishment I haue iudged and punnished my selfe and that euery day and euery hower because the holye man coulde not make this examination of all his workes had hee not vsed it very often And king Dauid so employed about the affaires of his kingdome and so charged with businesse of great weight was not for all that carelesse herein but did euery night recollect himselfe to make this examination of his conscience and to bewaile all the wickednesse which he had committed against the will of God This doth he plainly declare when he saith thus I haue labored in sorowe and sighing for my sins and euery night haue I exercised my felfe vntill I haue

that bounde hee is not to make a generall confession nor to confesse againe those sinnes which before he did confesse but although there be no bande or precepte yet verye good and heauenlie counsell it is and a worke of wonderfull profit for many reasons founded in the lawe of God and in experience which briefely now I meane to runne ouer One of the thinges which doth much humble man is the knowledge of him selfe his owne infirmitie his owne ignorance and especiallye of his sinnes and vvickednesse And for this cause Saint Augustine Tract 25. in Iohan. calleth humilitie the knowledge of a mans selfe because it springeth from that as from the cause and roote thereof And Saint Bernarde saith that humilitie is a contempt of him selfe as of a verie Tractat. de gradibus humilitatis vile thing growing from the true knowledge thereof Seing therefore a man in a generall confession calleth to minde all his sinnes and beholdeth them all mustered togither before him doth consider and note them more attentiuely more clearly doth perceaue all his infirmity all his ignorance and all his malice by that meanes doth he humble himselfe thinke basely of himselfe as hee deserueth and dispiseth himselfe as a most vile and vvreatched creature To this may bee also added that hee doth open all his ignorance and malice to an other man like vnto him selfe and of all that doth accuse and blame him selfe crauing at his handes that hee vvould correcte and punnishe him and inioyne him such pennaunce for his sinnes as hee iustlye deserueeh And as all these bee such actions by which a man doth abase contemne and handle himself as a miserable wretch so of them humilitie of hart doth encrease and hereof it proceedeth that Almighty God whose property is to exalt the humble and to bestow vpon them grace light and comfort seing a man in this manner to bee humbled giueth him newe and plentifull giftes of grace wherewith hee doth enriche his soule and giue it new beames of heauenly light by meanes whereof he doth lay open before him all such grieuous sins as through ignorance lacke of consideration before time he left vnconfessed One of the thinges likewise which maketh a man patientlie to endure the miseries of this life as infirmities of body pouerty iniuries persecutions of men the scourges of the Diuell is to knowe and consider the punnishmeÌ„ts which for his grieuous sinnes he deserueth when a man examineth and confesseth onely his veniall sinnes which hee did since his last confession doth not consider nor ponder those which in other times he hath coÌ„mitted vnwillingly doth he suffer any punnishment or iniurie and doth complaine and grieue at litle thinges but when he maketh a generall confession then doth he enter into the closet of his owne conscience and doth there behold the bottomlesse pit of wickednesse and doth looke vpon his heart as an impostume from whence such corruption of sinnes did proceede and then doth he think vpon the grieuous paines which for them hee hath deserued and iudgeth hel fire to be to litle for the iust punishmeÌ„t of such horrible sins committed against the maiesty of God And so doth hee willinglye offer him selfe with patience to endure all the afflictions miseries of this life and dare not complaine of any harme or aduersity that befalleth him knowing how litle all is to that which he deserueth Blessed Saint Gregory the Pope who was a mirrour of all vertue being vniustly persecuted by Mauritius the Emperour and very iniuriouslie entreated the holy man calling to minde such sinnes as hee had committed in not seruing of God with such puritye and perfection as hee ought endured all those iniuries with such patience that writing to the same Emperor he vttereth these wordes I beleeue Ep. ad Mauritium that thou shalt so much the better appease the wrath of Almighty God by how much more seuerely thou shalt afflict and punnish mee because I haue so badly serued him If the knowledge of such small sinnes did cause this Saint to thinke that hee deserued any kinde of punnishmente for them and was a motiue so vvillingly to haue suffered them how much more will the consideration of so many and so greate sinnes accompanied with that heauenlye lighte vvhich God bestoweth vpon him that humbleth him selfe in makinge of a generall confession cause him to thinke that farre more iustly he doth deserue any paines that God shall in this life lay vpon him with patience to endure the same Besides all this that which doth very much mooue a christian man to loue God and to be loued of him is to consider well the particular benefits and mercies which of him he hath receaued and this falleth out in a generall confession wherein a man by calling to mind his sins and confessing them doth enter into consideration and ponder what greate mercies God hath shewed him in deliuering him from so great euils from so many great dangers of euerlasting damnation in suffering with so great patience such notable iniuries as he hath done against him and pardoning with so great clemency such heighnous sinnes and that whereas he hath so longe time offended God so boldely and so without all shame yet hath he lik a most mercifull father continually bestowed vpon him incomparable benefites and at that very time when he did displease and contemne him by his wicked life did the same good Lord preserue him cherish and maintaine him with his creatures inspired into his soule holy cogitations and did offer for him vnto his eternall father the merits of his sacred passion And whereas hee might most iustly infinite times haue throwne him into hell as he did diuers other sinners yet delt he not so with him but expected and preserued him from the furie of the Diuelles and with his potent hand deliuered him from the bandes of his sins and the daunger of euerlastinge damnation The knowledge of these verities doth a generall confession worke bringing to a mans memory all the sinnes of his life past and making him to accuse himselfe for committing them and with this spiritual feling doth hee encrease more more in the feruent loue of so pitifull a Lord and maister who with such incredible longanimity hath expected and endured him and with so greate loue sweetnes hath cherished made much of and drawne him vnto him selfe and with such father lie pitie hath pardoned him and therefore doth hee praise him blesse him giue him thanks and sing foorth his mercies saying vvith the Prophet Dauid If our Lorde had not helped me my Psal 93. soule had now beene in hell Blessed be Psal 123. our Lorde who hath not suffered me to perishe betwixte the teethe of mine enemies the Diuelles beeinge made their pray my soule throughe his pietie and grace hath beene deliuered from the wicked snares of them that woulde haue carried me to euerlasting damnation Thou haste broken in

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