Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	air_n	body_n	element_n	4,001	5	9.7677	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80577	An antidote against lust: or, A discourse of uncleanness, shewing its various kinds, great evil, the temptations to it, and most effectual cure. By Robert Carr, minister of the Church of England	Carr, Robert, fl. 1686-1696.	1690 (1690)	Wing C629A; ESTC R231166	82,048	192

and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts which war in your members and Rom. 7. 23. I see a law sin likened to a Law as claiming Obedience to be due to it all Mankind being fallen under the Dominion of sin in my members this Law this Imperium acting and stirring in my Members and warring against the Law of my mind or the Law of God in my mind and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of sin which is in my Members Sin doth as it were reside and dwell in our Members according to the import of these words sin which is in my members as inhabiting there as well in the Body as in the Soul And though the Body doth not always sin actually yet it is ne ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰ pure from sin but hath an habit of sin in wicked men the corruption of the Soul having overspread the whole Man but the principal sense that I insist on is that wherein the Members serve for the acting of sin and so they are called weapons of Vnrighteousness or as the common Translation hath it Instruments fit Tools for to work and do the deed when once sin is inwardly conceived in the Soul and hath made its motion for the consent of the Will and gained the point Voluntas domina Membrorum the Will is the Commandress of the Members which are as Servants ready to do their Mistresses pleasure in the execution of sin you know Lust works in the eye gazing upon Beauty in the ear hearkning to lascivious Discourse in the hand by a wanton Dalliance and in the Palate delighted in the tasting of dainty Meats and Drinks so that in a secondary sense it may be understood of these to be mortified keeping the Body under by Fasting and Abstinence 3. Our Lusts are called Members because they are as dear unto a carnally-minded man and as well bâ—loved aâ— his Members and therefore in Scripture our Lusts are called a right-hand and a right-eye that is they sâ—ick as close to the Heart and Affections and it is as hard to deny these to part with a beloved Lust as to part with â—â—e of our dearest Members I have read oâ— one who having sore Eyes it might have been better for Temperance if he had had a sore throat and being told he must leave off his Drunkenness else he must loose hiâ— eye-sight said Farewell then sweet Eyes so dear was that Lust to him that he would keep it with the loss not of one but ever of both his Eyes And I have heard of â— greater Person who having had a fit of thâ— Apoplexy and being much addicted tâ— Women was told if he did not leave of that ill-course it would shorten his Life yet his Peccatum in deliciis his sweet Morsel or as the Psalmist calls it Psal 18. 23 his own iniquity would not be denied anâ— proved eventually true of his untimely end Though Life is sweet yet you see a Lusâ— is sweeter so that Life and Honour anâ— Conscience and Heaven even all must gâ— for a beloved Lust They are not only called Members buâ— Members which are upon Earth First Because they are exercised upon earthly things as Riches and Treasures which are as â— were fetched out of the Earth as our Golden Silver Mines c. afford us our Money and other choice Jewels must not bâ— referred to Air Fire Water but Earth as the Element to which they belong anâ— into which they will be dissolved into a more pure and refined Dust or the delicious Fruits of the Earth which serve for Meat and Drink and are abused to Gluttony and Drunkenness even the Bodies of Men and Beasts are Earth in their Original and in the Funeral Service we say elegantly Earth to Earth Dust to Dust so that the pleasure which the Glutton hath from his Meat and the Unclean Person from his Lusts are but earthly pleasures Secondly Our Lusts and evil Affections are called Members upon Earth because they continue with us during our natural abode upon Earth We here are in a corruptible State and so we gather soil and defilement by conversing with an evil World and the flesh will be lusting in us and enâ—icing us to sin until we come to Heaven and that blessed State there more spiritual and refined from the Dreggs of Earth and the impurities of the Flesh Having handled in general the Doctrine of Mortification of Lusts I now come to particulars Fornication comes in the first place to be considered sometimes it is used more largeâ—y for actual Uncleanness as 1 Cor. 5. 1. The Incestuous Corinthians act in marrying his Fathers Wife called Fornication and this sense seemeth to be the more commoâ— sense of the Word in Scriptures as in Maâ— 15. 19. 1 Cor. 10. 8. yet in 1 Cor. 6. 9 Neither fornicators nor adulterers nor effâ—minate nor abusers of themselves with mankind where the other sorts of Uncleanness natural or unnatural are reckoned up aâ— but Bestiality which makes for the otheâ— sense of the word Fornication that of Whoredom which is committed between two single unmarried Persons and in that it differâ— from Adultery because it is not against anâ— Marriage-Covenant and so hath no Perjurâ— of that kind and because the Married havâ— the Remedy against Uncleanness and consequently the better may and ought to be satisfied therewith yet the place before mentioned 1 Cor. 6. 9. assures us no Fornicatoâ— shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven not excluding Repentance here as in otheâ— sins there remaining some place for Repentance and because we do not find in thâ— Law of God the Punishment of Whoredom to be absolutely Death as in case oâ— Adultery This Fornication must be Mortified iâ— those that have done thus wickedly thaâ— they do so no more and sin not for thâ— time to come as heretofore but work ouâ— of their Hearts the love of the sin and ceaâ—â— the practice of it until they have got the victory to relapse no more into it and loath themselves for their former Abominations bewailing that ever they were so foully spotted with the Flesh But the best way is to mortifie or subdue the temptations to it so as never to sin the sin None that carry Flesh and Blood about them should think it strange to be tempted to it that of the Apostle being true herein that no temptation hath happened to them â—ut what is common to men incident to â—umane nature to good as well as bad â—en the best have found themselves tempâ—ed and probable enough very strongâ—y tempted by their youthful Lusts â—hey are a sore temptation if not the â—reatest in our whole Lives and there is â—s much difficulty in conquering these unâ—ly Lusts as in breaking young headâ—rong Horses and taming of wild Beasts â—r the like and a great part of peoples â—eligion must be placed in it and they â—ust be very careful however they fall by â—sser guilt and the corruption of their â—earts to keep off from this greater

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