Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	alexander_n	edward_n	king_n	2,766	5	5.1318	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16485	An exposition vpon the prophet Ionah Contained in certaine sermons, preached in S. Maries church in Oxford. By George Abbot professor of diuinitie, and maister of Vniuersitie Colledge.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1600 (1600)	STC 34; ESTC S100521	556,062	652

of purpose caused by Sathan that supplications might be made and sacrifices to him as the heathen people did commonly vse in such fearefull frightfull times thinking that they had performed some deuotion to some Gods when all was to the Diuell Abraham was commaunded to sacrifice his sonne to please the Lord Agamemnon was bid to sacrifice his daughter to please the prince of darknesse A ram was slaine for Isaac for Iphigenia an hind As Iephthe offered vp his daughter which was supposed by some to be a point of religion so the Carthaginians and many other Gentiles did offer men to their idols vpon their altars There came from God answers in obscure and darke causes the Oracles of the heathen as at Delphos and elsewhere did resemble that when foule spirits did there giue answere The true Temple at Hierusalem had in imitation of it a false temple at Ephesus to Diana and in diuerse other places the like to other as the Capitoll at Rome Aulus Gellius in reckening vp the apparell and ceremonies of the Romane Flamen Dialis hath many things meerely taken from the high Priest of the Iewes as he may see who compareth them Ambrose in his Commentarie on the eighth Chapter to the Romanes sheweth that as Christ was taken vp to his Father in a cloud so Simon Magus also to procure himselfe credit did flye aboue in the ayre which no doubt was done by the speciall meanes of the Prince of the ayre who aduaunced such a businesse This is the fraude of him who is the fountaine and welspring and chiefe Lord of all deceipt And as on the one side by his vndertaking of such actions or semblances rather his great vaine-glorie doth appeare and that the meanes whereby he seeketh it is the imitation of God so on the other side it is a great argument for the truth against all Epicures and Atheists conuincing that in the bookes of the Bible there is a diuine and most vndoubted veritie For as counterfeits do euermore presuppose that there be some such indeed as whom they take on them to resemble as he who made shew to be the sonne of Herod the Great did argue that there had bene such a one who was in truth called Alexander and in England in the dayes of King Henry the seuenth Perkin Warbecke who pretended to be the Prince Edward the fifth did manifestly declare that there had bene one of that name And as the coyners of false money do imply by their attempt that some of that stampe is good and currant in one place or other And as Alchimistes who do labour to make gold by proiection do intend that there is naturall gold Yea as painters howsoeuer they may somtimes make pictures of fained deuises yet account their art to be a resemblance of that which verily is or hath bene So the manifold and laborious affected imitation of the sacred stories and such things as were done in them doth giue the wise and holy soule fully to vnderstand that the patterne which is so followed and curiously shadowed by so many inuentions is a matter of truth of iustifiable verity and absolutely without exception But I vrge not this any farther 17 In the second place if we will take the whole tale of Arion for an vntruth which it much rather doth deserue it doth remember vs of as fruitfull instruction another way And that is the wonderfull suttlety of Satan to discredit the writings of the Scriptures as farre as lyeth in him For when it should be spoken ouer any part of the world that such or such a thing was done which was true in our Prophet if he might be able to bring another matter like to it in resemblance which yet in truth should be but fabulous the first might be disgraced with the common sort of men in comparing it with the second Quintilian in his sixth booke of the Principles of Rhetoricke going about to teach how one false thing may be displaied and discouered with another bringeth this for an example When one Victoriatus had sayd that in Sicily he had bought a Lamprey which was fiue foote long another called Galba did make him answer that it was no maruell for in that countrey saith he the breed of them is commonly so large that fishermen do vse them for the lines of their angles Here if any man had inferred that the latter tale was certainly a lye Galba by and by would haue replied so also is the other The old and crafty serpent saw this to be a good way to bring the Scripture in doubt by fables like to the Scripture And this doth Iustinus Martyr assigne to be the reason why so many things in the old tales are like to the truths of the word of God He principally insisteth in the person of Christ Iesus himselfe The diuels sayth he being taught by the Oracles of the Prophets many things concerning Christ vvho was to come caused like things to be spread touching diuerse sonnes of Iupiter hoping that those who heard those monstrous trifles would beleeue no more of Christ then they did of the other For an example he citeth that of Aesculapius who by the Heathen was reported to be able to cure any defect and was held to be the sonne of God which was drawne from hence because it was fore-prophecied of Iesus that his power should be such as to giue sight to the blind to restore limmes to the lame to raise vp those which were dead He reputeth this to be the worke of Satan that men might no more beleeue the true reports of our Sauiour then the fained things of the other 18 If we will looke on their old Poets as well Latine as Greekes we shall see how this purpose was pursued in very many matters The confusion of all things which was before the world was made and the manner of the creation is shadowed and pointed at by the Chaos of Hesiodus but most elegantly by Ouid in the beginning of his Metamorphosis If God haue a tree of life in Paradise whereof who so euer eateth shall not dye but by the restauratiue force thereof shall be kept and euermore maintained in cheerefulnesse and fresh youth the Poets will haue Nectar and Ambrosia which shall worke with their Gods the like effect The deluge in Noahs time is quitted among the Greekes with the deluge of Deucalion If Noah did see things before and after the floud they will haue Ianus for him who shall be double-faced and looke forward and backward for the learned do suppose that Noah was meant by their Ianus If the people do go about to build the tower of Babel vp to the heaueÌ„ so to get themselues a name the Giants shall be sayd to lay Pelion vpon Ossa and Olympus on the top of both so to plucke Iupiter out of heauen Iustine Martyr who is auncient sayth expresly that all the tale of the Giants

water the wares are cast into the sea to lighten the ship withall Her burthen might make her sinke and therefore ease her of it In what a case were these poore men for harbouring such a guest As the host who hath lodged a traitor and because he seemed a man of faire conditions hath vsed him very kindly doth not know what he hath done til the Sheriffe come seaze his guest and himselfe to the Princes mercie so was it here with these mariners These men had money of Ionas to let him come into their vessel but by this time I think they could haue wished that they had giuen him money to keepe him farther of Ionas thou mightest haue gone to thy Niniue and saued them from this paine and thy selfe too from this hazard 15 You see the words are not manie three or foure lines at the most but what more can be said of a tempest then is here said in the text The sea-men are afraid a stiffer kind of men then other people are and who do not regard a small thing they had borne many brunts before and of likelihood escaped many dangers they were acquainted with the working of the sea and the egernesse of the wind An hote storme and away after a tempest cometh a calme A man who were new come thither and perhaps at first were sea-sicke might be agast at a litle his heart might be in his mouth to feele but a litle rocking But that this trembling feare should take these old beaten souldiers it doth import a vehement daunger The passengers must needs quake when the mariners did so dread If Ouid had bene there he wold once againe haue said that his Elege quite to the end Dijmaris coeli quid enim nisi vota supersunt Surely effeminate Ouid would haue betaken him to his deuotions when these forgetfull mariners who thinke not oft of their maker did fall so fast to their prayers It were to be wished that our Christians in all their nauigations would more remember true godlinesse pray oftener play lesse vse better rule at their going out and fewer sinnes at their landing Doubtlesse they which feare God are carefull but an ill name goeth of manie of them 16 I should here touch that circumstaunce that these idolatrous persons cried euerie man on his God but in the next verse folowing the text yeeldeth that againe and I do deferre it thither I will ad the other argument of the greatnesse of the tempest that is the throwing out of the wares This is neuer atteÌ„pted but when there is daunger indeed As it seemed vnto mans reason there was no way but one wheÌ„ the mariners amoÌ„g whoÌ„ Paule was did first throw out their cariage then the tackling of the ship For how farre are men driuen when with their owne hands they must robbe themselues of their helpes of their comfort of their wealth Many had as willingly dye as be put froÌ„ that which they haue As good to lose life as liuing A speech which is often vsed but verie few times performed A man will giue much for his life which Satan knew well inough when he could say in Iobs case Skin for skin and all that euer a man hath wil he giue for his life For money may be recouered by industry or Gods blessing or by some other meanes but so can life be neuer for now we looke not for miracles This maketh so manie ransomes to redeeme froÌ„ death with money yea to giue incredible suÌ„mes to the impouerishing of the parties of their freÌ„ds nay sometimes of a whole State as Richard the first of England once knew wel in his returne froÌ„ the holy land so did FraÌ„ces the Great that king of FraÌ„ce wheÌ„ after his captiuitie he was raÌ„somed froÌ„ Charles the 5. then Emperor Here the felowes of Ionas being put to very hard shifts do chuse the lesse of two euils their liues rather without wares theÌ„ to lose both wares liues WheÌ„ AlexaÌ„ders soldiers were to passe the swift riuer Tigris by the violence of the streame many of theÌ„ lost their packes striuing there for their fardels to take them vp again they were almost drowned in the water The king who saw their follie bid theÌ„ looke to their liues to hold their armor fast let the rest go he himself wold make theÌ„ recoÌ„pence The wise captaine thought it far better to lose the AccideÌ„t then the substance That which nature teacheth all men these mariners did here practise 17 But that the text doth giue a reason that it was to lighten the ship it might be thought that their casting of the wares into the sea was in this desperate moode to make some kind of satisfaction for that which they had gotten by fraude or piracie or deceit in bargaining as being now most vnwilling in this extremitie to haue in their possession such things as were by ill meanes obtained For oftentimes when death doth draw nigh the conscience of men is pricked to go from that which before hath both vniustly bene obtained and most stoutly maintained As Lewes the eleuenth king of France did in his death-bed restore two Counties to the heires of Iohn the king of Arragon to the which in all his life time before he would neuer condescend Yet theÌ„ his conscieÌ„ce so wrought with him Or else it may be supposed that it might haue bin for some vow whereof sea-men are not sparing when they do feare a wrack as Erasmus in his Naufragium doth wittily let vs know They vow much and pay nothing but these idolaters here throw out much and vow nothing vnlesse it be afterward as it is in the end of the chapter Or else it might be imagined that they threw in their most precious substance as a raunsome for their liues to their idolatrous Gods as men in our time vse to throw in rings or iewels or chains or other things of price to buy their liues with their substance that they may seeme to God to be willing to part with somwhat that of moment also So that life may be saued not to go away but with losse Now although the expositours do meÌ„tioÌ„ these things it is not amisse to obserue theÌ„ yet the spirit of God doth say that necessitie made them drown their wares euen that hard dart of necessitie which will plucke froÌ„ men any thing that doth not immediatly coÌ„cerne their being rather then all shal run to ruine Apparell wealth brauerie house land bewty shall away if need require Dionysius leaueth his kingdome PoÌ„pey forsaketh his couÌ„try being vrged both by necessitie Although nature do teach the coÌ„trary as Paule writeth to the CorinthiaÌ„s yet rather theÌ„ the citisens of Salonae will yeeld to Octauius the haire of their womens heads shall be cut of to helpe make engins for them and deuises in the warres Iosephus telleth of one Clitus an eminent

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