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
B01207	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 3 of Nouember 1594. intreating of the second comming of Christ, and the disclosing of Antichrist. : With a confutation of diuerse coniectures concerning the end of the world, conteyned in a booke intituled, The second comming of Christ. / Preached by Iohn Dove.	Dove, John,	1594 (1594)	STC 7086.5; ESTC S91767	27,513	64

tokens of his wrath as he did vpon them which caused one to be stroken with a dart vpon earth and the other with an arrow from heauen yet there is an heauie iudgement reserued for them their damnation sleepeth not I beseech you pardon me though I refrain not to speak for I feare least being silent I should be guilty of their sins and incur the reprehension of the prophet Dauid When thou sawest a theefe thou Psal 50 didst run with him Salomon though a king not ashamed to bee a preacher sheweth vs that all things haue a time But one thing especially I note where he saith There is a time to gather stones and a time to cast stones away Eccle. 3 The time of gathering stones was a time of deuotion and it continued in England about 900. yeares and now that time is ended the time of casting away stones is gaped after to suppres that in one age which was not erected in many which time in vaine do they looke for as long as our most gracious lady and mistresse our dread soueraine Queene Elizabeth reigneth and most humbly I beseech God that if it be his most blessed will she may reigne ouer vs to the worlds end But when that time shall come it will be manifest to all the world that iniquity hath got the vpper haÌ„d that nothing can then be expected but fire and brimston to raine from heauen as it did vpon Sodom or else it wil be high time for vs to crie EtiaÌ„ Gen. 19. Apoc. 22. veni Domine Iesu venicito Come Lord Iesus come quickly I know my sharp reprehension doth offend them which be guiltie but I consider that I am sent as a sheepe to hunt after wolues and I know the worst that rauening wolues can do they can but deuour I must do my maisters message and if you Matt. 10 Acts. 12. and 8 regard it not I shake the dust off my feet against you and your blood bee vpon your owne heads I am cleare I feare not man which hath power ouer the bodie only but God which is able to destroy both body and Matt. 10 soule in hell fire The crying sin of simonie reigneth euery where and patroÌ„s of benefices chuse their ministers not as the gods chose their trees into their patronage for good qualities Iupiter the oke because it was good for building Neptune the pine because it serued to make ships Apollo the bay because it was greene Hercules the popple because it was streight and tall like himself notwithstaÌ„ding all these trees were without fruit because the gods were honorably minded and would not Fructu honoreÌ„ vendere sell promotions for commoditie but as the goddesse Minerua which chose the oliue tree because it was fat At the first the patronage of benefices was committed to Gentlemen vpon trust because great confidence was in them reposed but nowe they haue gotten it into their hands they do as it was said of pope Alexander Vendit Alexander claues altaria Christum Emerat ille prius vendere iure potest They accoÌ„pt the lords portion their own fee simple and inheritance they bought the patronage therfore they wil sell the presentation so that they which vpoÌ„ especiall trust reposed in theÌ„ aboue other men were chosen patroÌ„s defenders are become robbers spoilers of the church They cry out for a learned ministery wheras in deed they pick but quarels with vs intending nothing les thaÌ„ a learned ministery for they wil willingly present none but such as are base ignoraÌ„t beggerly because such persons wil easily accept of benefices vpoÌ„ vnlawful coÌ„ditioÌ„s Many painful studeÌ„ts do earnestly desire to enter into the lords haruest but they caÌ„not be set a worke for they know no way but one to be set ouer a flocke which is in right the gift of the holy ghost but by the sorcery of St. Magus whose art magick is so common throughout the land that there be few patrons which are not bewitched with the same they haue forgot the text he that taketh counsell of a sorcerer shall die the death Leui. 20 The voice of Iudas to the high priests wheÌ„ he sold Christ is coÌ„mon in their mouthes Mat. 24 quid mihi dabitis ego tradaÌ„ vobis What wil you giue I wil giue you the presentation but they remeÌ„ber not the answer of Si. Peter to Si. Magus thy mony perish with thee Acts 8 which thinkest c. This corruptioÌ„ wil be the decay of al religioÌ„ Wherfore it is now high time that Moses assist his brother Aaron But haue ye not hard the fable of the hors the asse which were loded togither ready to go their iourny the asse being ouerladen made his mone to the horse that he would ease him but was neied at by the horse that caried the lighter burdeÌ„ the Asse tired died by the way wherupoÌ„ the husbandman laid the dead asses pack vpoÌ„ the hors so that wheras before he bore but I. burdeÌ„ he was constraind to cary 2 when his backe was broken hee could but lament his miserie The horse betokeneth the nobility because he is fit for warre and is generosum animal a noble beast The sily asse because he is simple fit by nature to beare heauy burdens beaten kicked spurned at by euery one doth represent the cleargie which are sore loaded with slanders and manifest wrongs being strooken on the right cheeke turne Mat. 5 the left being robbed of their cote giue also their cloke being cursed they blesse reuiled reuile not againe I need not tell you the morall of this fable for Verbum sapienti dictum sat est A word spoken to a wise man will suffice Ye haue heard how the sonne of man standeth knocking at your doores and that now it is not an houre to his comming to iudgement and come he will suddenly when he is not looked for What then Shall the foolish Mat. 25 virgins slumber in the darke while the bridegroom passeth by Shal Sampson snort in Dalilaes lap in the middest of the Philistins Iud. 16 Mat. 3 Luke 12 Shall the disciples suffer Christ to sleep while the ship is couered with waues shal the couetous man enlarge his barnes say to his soule take thy rest for many years whereas that night his soule shall be taken from him shall Loth build stately towers in Sodom being warned by the Angell to depart thence with speed because it shal be destroyed with brimstone from heauen why then doe we purchase lands as if wee would dwell alone and lay vp money as if we would liue alone vpon the earth why do we erect such loftie buildings the ground-worke whereof is laid of strife and discord the morter whereof is tempered with the tears of widowes the windowes beautified with the spoile of Orphanes the beams and supporters of the fal of good yeomeÌ„ Why do we say with the IdumeaÌ„s of gods house

Asse in peeces then he bid the Fox mend the diuision the Foxe allotted the greatest part to the Lion and little or nothing to himselfe whereupon the Fox was commended to be the best geometrician As for the second God may now repent him as he did in the dayes of Noah that hee made man vppon the earth for the prophesie of Christ is fulfilled Charitie waxeth colde Luke 13 Mat. 24 iniquitie doth abound faith is not found vpon the earth There is a ripenesse of sinne Apoc. 14 and what can bee expected but an haruest that the Angell thrust his sharpe sickle on the earth and cutte downe the clusters of the Vineyard and cast them into the great wine fatte of the wrath of God Sinne is not now Peccatum habitans but regnans not making his abode with vs but raigning ouer vs it hath gotten a longer and larger iurisdiction ouer the world than Iulius Caesar had ouer the Senat which obtained Perpetuam Dictaturam An euerlasting Dictatorship the like not heard of before The sinnes which now raigne are so generall that it may well be said Vir bonus est animal rarum He which will find a iust and vpright man vpon the earth must take a candle at noone dayes and seeke in the rushes as it were for a pinne or a needle that is lost and say with Diogenes Quaero hominem I seeke a man And which is more they be Clamantia peccata Crying sinnes because the crie of them ascendeth vp into Gen. 4. heauen as did the bloud of Abell for vengeance against vs and the soules of the martirs vnder the altar vsury simony briberie Apoc. 6 Gen. 3 Psal 32 and contempt of the ministers of God pride which was the first cause of the fal of man The prophet Dauid said beati quoruÌ„ iniquitates sunt tectae c Blessed are they whose iniquities are couered and to whom the Lord hath imputed no sin but now it is become a prouerbe among vs Happy is that child whose father goeth to the deuill The Iewes which were accounted the extremest vsurers in the world tooke interest only of strangers and not of their owne nation but our countrimen worse than Iewes spare none and which is the greatest hypocrisie no man maketh more account outwardly of them which preach against vsury than doth the vsurer and those which wil hear 3. Sermons in a day thinke thirty pounds interest in the hundred to be too little And howsoeuer they seeme outwarly zealous yet haue they within them that I may vse the speach of the apostle conscientiam cauteriatam a conscience feared with an hot iron 1. Tim. 4 and notwithstanding their diligence in frequenting sermons and reading the Scriptures they forget what is written there that it shall be harder for any rich man to enter into the kingdome of heauen than it shal be for a camell to passe through the eie of a Luke 18 needle but that no vsurer shall dwell in the Lords tabernacle nor rest vpoÌ„ his holy hill Psal 15 William Rufus once king of England is noted for pride which pride in respect of these dayes were great humilitie His chamberlaine brought him in the morning a newe pair of breeches the best that could be gotten the price was foure shillings The king swore no small oath that he would haue a paire which should cost him a marke in siluer no breeches were theÌ„ of so high a price the chamberlaine to satisfie the kings mind brought a worse paire then the first affirming that they cost a marke I mary quoth Rufus here are a pair of breeches for a king Four shillings theÌ„ sufficed for a pair of breeches for a king but I feare shortly it will be a prouerbe 500. pounds for a paire of pantaples for a subiect Euery man can bee content to goe in soft rayment as they doe in Luke 16 the courts of princes to be clothed with purple as was the rich glutton which is buried in hell euery man can take delight in the Babilonian garmeÌ„t which is framed according to the fashioÌ„ of this world but few will put on the wedding garment which is Mat. 12 charitie and a good conscience men will be clothed like women and women like men not regarding the curse denounced of the Lord. But as for the girdle of truth the brest Deut. 22 Ephe. 6 plate of righteousnesse the shield of faith the helmet of saluation the sworde of the spirit and the shooes of peace they are layde aside as olde shooes and neuer come within our Wardrops You will not bee clothed as the kings daughter which is glorious Psal 41 within but like painted sepulchres which are faire without and within are full of dead mens bones Offices are commonly solde and therefore it is no maruaile though the officers be corrupt Whosoeuer can bee entertayned in the seruice of a noble man is in reputation for his maisters sake be he neuer so base but the ministers of Gods worde which serue the king of kings and Lord of Lords whose seruice is perfect freedome in whose house it is better to bee a doore keeper than to dwell in the tabernacles of princes euen him whome all other kings and lords ought to serue are despised for their seruice sake be they neuer so nobly discended But I haue text for them Whosoeuer Mat. 10 Iohn 10 Luke 13 Luke 21 heareth you heareth me and whosoeuer despiseth you despiseth me and hee that despiseth me dispiseth him that sent me Our Sauiour Christ tolde his Apostles that they should be hated of all men for his sake and at that time it was no great marvaile because they liued among Iewes and infidels but nowe we are in maner hated of christians most of al of them which make the greatest shew of zeale and profession of religion and are the greatest frequenters of sermons They are as cruell as Pharao of Egypt which Exod. 5 woulde compell the children of Israel in their bondage to make brickes and tyles but denied them straw and morter to work withall so they call vpon vs for hospitalitie but detaine from vs our tithes and commodities which are as due to vs as their lands are to them and without which it is as vnpossible to keepe hospiralitie as it was for the Hebrues to woorke without straw I deny not but in som sort the reuenues of the church are competent but they are in the hands of lay meÌ„ to maintain their pride we beare the name and they reape the commodity and yet slander vs because we keepe not hospitalitie Wil. Rufus was wont to say that the Church breade was sweet bread and Iulian the apostata would rob the ministers pretending conscience because so much liuing was a burden vnto them an hinderance vnto their ministerie we haue many as hungry as Wil. Rufus and as conscionable as Iulian the Apostata vpon whom though God doth not presently shew

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