Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01258	The reformed politicke. That is, An apologie for the generall cause of reformation, written against the sclaunders of the Pope and the League VVith most profitable aduises for the appeasing of schisme, by abolishing superstition, and preseruing the state of the clergie. Whereto is adioyned a discourse vpon the death of the Duke of Guise, prosecuting the argument of the booke. Dedicated to the King by Iohn Fregeuille of Gaut.; Politique reforme. English	Frégeville, Jean de.	1589 (1589)	STC 11372; ESTC S102664	75,347	102

it were from a long iourney saying Bring vnto me these my enemies that would not that I should raigne ouer them and slay them before my face I promised to make the readers a banket and they may complaine that it is a sclender banket where there is nothing but fruict no flesh but they must remeÌ„ber that I promised them nothing but fruictes as also it is but a tast for them vntill the banket of the Lambe wherein there shall be such and so great pleÌ„tie of flesh that the very foules of the aire shall haue enough yea so much as euen to tread vpon the flesh of kings of great mighty men for the very foules are also inuited to the banket of the Lambe there to be satisfied with the flesh of Kings Princes and mightie persons Thus doe Gods enemies enter great Leagues to the end to make the crowes a feast of their carkases Where our Lord saith Reioyce for your deliueraunce is at hand by that deliueraunce I meane the deliueraunce whereby we be deliuered from the tyranny of Babylon through her sodein fall wherein it shall be said restore vnto her double according to her workes for this restitution is not yet made but I looke for it very shortly And when this old Babell shall fall new Ierusalem shall be built euen the same Babell that saith I sit a Queene and am no widow neither shall I see any mourning yet shall she finde her selfe a widow naked and in heauinesse but the new Ierusalem shall be decked vp and adorned as a Nymph to her spouse Therein shall we no longer be subiect to the Babylonian yoke of Canons and traditions full of confusion but to the gouernement of new Ierusalem which is as S. Paule calleth it the gouernement of Israell Let therefore the Paranimphes adorne the spouse and decke her vp in her goodliest ornamentes that she may be worthely presented to her bridgrome let the Stewards labour to become such as may yeeld a good accompt of their administration and let the Virgines prepare their lampes as knowing the bridegromes comming to be at hand and blessed shall those wise Virgines be that may enter with the bridegrome to be partakers of the fruictes and food brought forth at the banket of the Lambe AN ADDITION CONTEINING A Discourse vpon the chaunging of the affaires by the death of the Duke of Guise IT is full twelue yeares and more since that discoursing vpon the state of matters and the bringing in of superstition by Helene the mother of Constantine the Great I knewe we should shortly see the ende therof through the destructioÌ„ of Babylon accompanied with a triumphant deliuerie of the Church triumphing at full ouer the Beast mentioned in the Reuelation This knowledge was pricked forward with a desire to stand in some stead wherevpon I suddenly purposed to make a search throughout Gods word for matter conuenient thereto And for as much as the knowledge of humane sciences was not vtterly vnprofitable I determined to seaze vppon an Encyclopedie This purpose haue I continued these twelue yeares with great labour small helpe neither could I be drawen therefro by mine owne particular affaires as preferring the study of Diuinitie before all other things as also Gods word is my heart life ioy pleasure peace and contentation my delight and vnto me all in all Then began I to peruse Gods lawes more exactly then as yet I had done and to distinguish them into a lawe simple figuratiue and figuratiue Ceremoniall then into a law of Ecclesiasticall Pollicie and Ciuill Policie thirdly into a Morall law and an Euangelicke Morall which teacheth that perfection whereat we ought to shoot and whereof the naturall man is vncapable These be sixe kinds of law after all which there is particularly a seuenth whereby the spirit of God giueth to some albeit to few the things that he will bring to passe in sundry ages as he did the comming of the Messias vnto Simeon Neither would I coÌ„found the simple figures with the ceremonies albeit the ceremonies be figures and most of the simple figures be histories hauing relation to some end out of the historie yet following the same as also doe the ceremonies As also I would not confound Ecclesiasticall gouernement with the ceremonie no more then with Ciuill gouernement Conferring therefore the Ecclesiasticall Mosaical gouernment with the Euangelical laying sundry peeces into one self worke I found that the gouernement of the Newe Testament did no whit abrogate the Old By the same meanes also I came to vnderstand that we did not so farre differ from the Catholickes as before I supposed as thinking that we had bene in strife both for the estate and superstitions and that the troublesomnesse of these two points which serued for a bad surmise to retaine the world in superstition might be taken away Herupon I conferred with some ministers of the ReformatioÌ„ who liked of this purpose also with some of the Catholique Clergie who likewise thought it to be good so as I was greatly confirmed in hope to see some good attonement come therof Then hauing layed my matters in steepe I went to Bourges in Berry where the warres soone after surprised me so as I found my retraite into Germany to be more safe then into the Low Countries There coÌ„posed I a treatise which I communicated with sundry notable persons both Diuines Lawyers and men of estate who all liked of my purpose neuerthelesse I could not find opportunity there to publish it afterward comming into England I ioined this my first purpose with the argument of an Apologie so of one stone to make two castes and composed this former Treatise which was in good time finished a-about the spring ascention of the sunne which was about the time of the Duke of Guises death My intent was to frustrate Achitophels counsell that is to scatter breake the purposes both of the Pope the League Also my booke was no sooner done but at the same instaÌ„t God began to effect my propounded purpose whereuppon I had a more faire path and free course for my booke Which fauour of Almightie God can not be but a good foreiudgement for the rest of the successe thereof For it as a goodly matter when a man findeth himselfe a fellow labourer with God and that God secondeth his purposes with the effects and successe of matters Moreouer I will boldly say that we may now assuredly affirme that Babylon is fallen that is to say that the Papacie is ouerthrowen that there is no greater certaintie of the Duke Gâ—ises death then of the destruction of the Papacie for the dissipation of the League is the subuersion of the Pope the League is now ouerthrowen both by sea and by land In the pursute of the League the Duke of Guises greatest ouersight was in that he dalied with the king after him self had offended him at Paris And now hath the king as much offended the Pope The king

wounded to death and then recouered againe which I saw accomplished as also the same that is spoken of the ten hornes of the beast that toke counsell together is fulfilled in the counsell of the League Besides that seing Satan worke his last endeuor to ouerthrow the partie of the Lambe I doubted not but Iesus Christ wold likewise work his for our deliuery I wist not that the League shold be ouercome by sea or that the King should withstand it as he hath done yet now do I see the effects succeede according to my discourse and saying in my Treatise In the Apologeticall Treatise going before I also sayd that the League would vndoubtedly breake yet knewe I not that the Duke of Guise should be slaine howbeit thereby I see my saying come to passe before it be brought to light And now do I not feare to say that the Papacie shall fall yea euen with a maruellous and sudden fall The death thereof will be knowen in a maner as soone as the sicknesse I was not daunted at the great preparations of the League neither ceased I in my Treatise to publish the same to be the reuolution of the Papall fall For I discoursed thus Cirus wrought great matters with smal power but that came to passe because the same was the reuolution of the Babylonian Empire and the accomplishment of the 70. yeares of the captiuitie of Iuda Alexander the Great vanquished the power of Darius which was farre greater then his but it was in the time of the period of the Persian Empire Iulius Caesar wrought wonderful exploits but in the same season wherein God was preparing the world that the Messias might be borne vnder the Romane Monarchie Sith therefore the Pope and king of Spaine made all these warlicke prouisions to the end to establish the Papacie in the same season wherein it should be rooted vp I concluded that their endeuors should be in vaine and that now the time of superstitions which haue detained the woman in the wildernesse being at an end Babylon can no longer continue And God who hath the hearts of kings in his hand will stir vp some one that shal destroy it yea that albeit no king would take that in hand yet that it is in Gods power to make some vnder braÌ„ch to spring vp in one night at the roote of the tree that may be able to prescribe law to the tree from out of whose roote it may be sprong Howbeit if it be lawfull to speake by coniecture I will say that the name of Henrie seemeth fatall to the Papacie for Henry the 8. in England gaue the Pope a maruelous checke and now in Fraunce we see an other Henry giue him an other checke after this let him beware the Mate The order of the League at Paris is a good order where porters and day labourers are in greater credit then the Presidents It seemeth that Spaine meaneth by her proctors to attempt somewhat against Fraunce but she were not best Spaine hath more neede to feare then to hope and to keepe her selfe then to enterprise against others She is but weake of walles and blood and hath no strength but in pense and Miluedies and those are also well shronke and wasted through the continuall warres in Flanders Hannibal supposed that for the pinching of Rome he needed not go to seeke her out of Italie I thinke if the Spaniard were well tickled in his owne countrey it would trouble him shrewdly and that were the surest succour that might be ministred to the Low countreys But especially it were requisite to carie thither some store of New Testaments and Bibles in Spanish with other small Treatises against superstition For Gods word is a good seede which can not but fructifie when once it is planted and hath taken roote in a place neither will it easily be plucked vp againe But in matters of estate I would wish circumspection and with moderation and modestie to win mens hearts rather then to stir them vp with vanitie idle speech rashnesse insolencie for such things do rather destroy then edifie The League hath sharpned it selfe to cut of the Huguenots but the edge is wel broken by the Duke of Guises death These be two bad prognosticatioÌ„s for the good successe of the League that is the scattering of the Nauie and the death of Guise as also they be good exaÌ„ples to teach subiects to attempt nothing against the state of their King for the Maiestie of a king is a sacred matter it is dangerous attempting any thing there against When a man hath coÌ„mitted a fault the best way is to reclame himself by making amends rather then obstinatly to cast away him selfe therin And therfore the Duke of Neuers the Lord of Antragues dealt wel wisely in taking the kings part as also the King did well and wisely in taking all that they had done vnder the League which return to him as not done at all If a man will be wicked he must execute his businesse cunningly or not meddle at all otherwise he doth iniurie to his occupation Euen so if they would needes enterprise the League they should haue begun by seazing vpon the Kings person seeing they could not compasse that they should haue attempted nothing But what euery one hath his time and he that must make a bad ende must labour to doe euill for euil neuer commeth of well doing for it is an excellent thing to do well to haue well to liue well to die well and to begin well to end well sith vertue only is to be rewarded with honor It is not impossible for a conspiracie against a King to take effect but linger it neuer so little it is hard to bring it to passe And the League hath lingered too long in France to be able to attaine any good successe It is said that the Portingall mares do conceiue of the wind euen so was the League conceiued but that which is bred of wind shall returne into wind and smoke Euery thing shal return to his first originall so the beast that came out of the bottomlesse pit shall returne to perdition yet will she make some defense set a good face on a bad game and with her only countenance seeke to terrifie the King his subiectes but what such a dogge barketh that maketh her soule to quake in her belly She wil wast of her self she wil breed brauls quarels discontentmeÌ„ts Where there is no lawfull head euery man will be Maister when by reason of coÌ„petitors they may not they grow to discontentment also not seeing any sufficient recompence presently or any future hope will knowe that without any net they haue snared themselues in too great a Labyrinth therfore will retire before they be deeper in and the wiser sort will be the first that will do so If I would hazard my selfe for the purchase of a hope truly it shoulde be both an honorable and a certaine

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