Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	earth_n	water_n	world_n	5,553	5	4.9981	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02225	The burthen of tyre A sermon preach'd at Pauls Crosse, by Iohn Grent, then fellow of New Colledge in Oxford.	Grent, John.	1627 (1627)	STC 12360.3; ESTC S118299	24,308	50

himselfe with Wars and Captiuities and Wounds and Slaughters and Deathes and Funerals Are such voyces as these befitting him Slay euery man his brother and euery man his companion and euery man his neighbour Exod. 32. 27. Those mine enemies which would not that I should raigne ouer them bring hither and slay them before me Luke 19. 27. Is this the same God wee spake of before and not rather some other or is he turned on the sudden from being mercifull to be cruell Sure there is not one God of mercy another of iustice one working good another working euill nor is the God of the olde Testament more cruell then the God of the New as some Heretiques blasphemously affirmed nor the same God at one time more cruell then at another but he that warneth as a Father is the same that decreeth as a Iudge Cuius amanda bonitas saith Saint Augustine timenda seueritas with whom there is mercie but so that hee may be feared 130. 4. Not altogether composed of Compassion excluding Iustice but so participating of either that as we oft heare him promising so sometime threatning as we oft see him pardoning so sometime punishing Tyre was fairely warn'd when the Lord sent his Prophets vnto her rising vp earely and sending them adding line vnto line precept vnto precept heere a little and there a little in this see we God as a kind Father shewing mercy but Tyre would not take that warning forcing him to decree to purpose that Her owne feet should carry her a far off to soiourne In this wee see the same God as a iust Iudge executing Iustice there is mercy indeed in the one of his Acts but there cannot be cruelty in the other It belongs to the Iudge of heauen and earth to doe right therefore t is no more proper to him to shew compassion then t is vpon iust occasion to inflict punishment Well then if the Lord bee hee that punisheth beware yee Sonnes of men of offending and beware in two respects First in regard he is Omniscient can so easily find out what euer euill you doe And secondly in regard he is Omnipotent can so easily punnish when he hath found out euill done As for the former trust him thou Adulterer if thou dare get thee forth in the twilight and in the blacknesse of the night commit thy deedes of darkenesse hope to walke in a cloude and say in thy heart tush the Lord sees it not But marke whether he doe not one day reproue thee and set before thee the things that thou hast done assure thy selfe he sees thy works heareth thy words vnderstands thy thoughts long before he is about thy pathes and about thy bed and spieth out all thy wayes That which thou dost in secret hee sees openly and what thou plottest and contriuest on thy bed by night in the darke Closet and Cabinet of thy heart is to him as cleare as the Sunne at nooue day and as it were apparently set vpon the House top the eye of heauen that neuer slumbreth nor sleepeth is still waking and waiting and watching ouer thee and when thou thinkest it closed vp and fast at most it doth but winke And as the Lords eye is thus piercing to desery thy wickednesse so is his hand powerfull to take vengeance on thee for it therefore in the second place beware It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God Heb. 10. 31. For if hee be once displeased with thee he will muster vp an Army euen of the vnsensible creatures which shall fight against thee Earth Water Fire Sunne Moone Starres the Earth opens her mouth and swalloweth vp Korah Dathan and Abiram Num. 16. The Waters that before stood on heapes rush suddenly vpon Pharaoh and drowne him with all his Hoast Exod. 14. Fire commeth downe from heauen and deuoureth the two Captaines with their fifties 2 Kings 1. The Sunne stands still in Gibeon and the Moone in the Valley of Aiialon that vengeance may be taken on the Lords Enemies Iosh 10. and they fight from heauen euen the Starrs in their courses fight against Sisera Iudg. 5. How theÌ„ are we to deale with this Lord of Hosts and his so strange Army not resist him by any meanes but presently yeeld and turne vnto him that so his hand like Achilles Speare Vulnus opemque as it wounds may bind vp and as it smiteth may also make whole Iob 5. 18. T was neuer so truely said of the Kings of Israel that they were mercifull Kings as t is of the God of heauen that he is a mercifull God if we come vnto him in all humility as Benhahads Seruants did vnto Ahab with Sackcloath on our bones and ropes about our heads beyond all Peraduenture he will saue our liues for he giueth grace vnto the humble as he beholds the proud a farre off and scatters them in the imaginations of their hearts yea he so respects the meeke Spirit that he can least abide him of all other that is most contrary to him and therefore is haughtinesse so the obiect of his furie nor doth any sinne more then it prouoke him to take vengeance the second Conclusion arising from the Impulsiue cause of Tyres iudgement Pride and glory 2 That that chiefly seemes to mooue God to inflict punishment is Pryde and Glory Though I confesse there were other faults in Tyre as well as Pride that moued the Lord to take vengeance on her As first a reioycing at Ierusalems calamity Ezek. 26. 2. which shee might haue forborne for that ancient league that was betweene King Solomon and Hiram King of Tyre King 5. Secondly Imposture and iniquity in her Trafique Ezek. 28. 18. Thirdly Deliuering the whole Captiuity to Edom and not remembring the brotherly couenant Amos 1. 9. Fourthly Robbing God of his siluer and gold Ioel 3. 5. and the like Yet the chiefe and principall was Pride as appeareth both by this my Text and by the 28. of Ezekiel Where the Prince of Tyre is challenged by God for hauing his heart lifted vp and for being so proud as that hee said hee was God and sate in the seat of God Which Pride described to be A peruerse and inordinate desire of a mans owne excellency seemeth a thing wholly irregular a breaker of all ranke and order impatient of the state and place wherein God hath set it still arrogating to its own glory derogating from his And it shews its selfe saith Gregory the Great foure manner of wayes First when arrogant men thinke the good they haue proceeds from themselues Secondly when they yeeld t is from aboue but giuen for their owne merrits and deserts Thirdly when they vaunt as if they had that which they haue not Fourthly when despising others they would seeme to haue what they haue in some singular manner Now in which kinde soeuer of these proud Tyre advanc'd her Peacock plumes and gaue the Almighty an affront shee could not choose

the Rocke on which she had long stood could neuer be moued See see whither her glorying is now come Her owne feet shall carry her a farre off to soiourne T is not her ancientnes that can Patronize her from heauens vengeance no nor yet her present flourishing estate though a ioyous City a crowning City whose Merchants are Princes and her Chapmen the Honourable of the Earth the second part of Tyres glory and in the second place saluteth your attention 2 Very excellent things are spoken of this renowned City and yet no more then her pompe and glory might sometime iustly challenge they that dwelt in her and that dealt in Traffique with her were so enrich'd saith my Prophet by her Merchandise that they came not behind the greatest Personages of the earth Kings Princes Nobles Famous may be the Merchants of Venice Florence Antwerpe but these of Tyre surpast them all the admiration of whose wealth and glory brought forth the word Tyrant King then noting Maiesty not cruelty so that Cyneas Pyrrhus his Embassadour might farre better haue call'd Tyre then Rome Ciuitatem regum A City of Kings What place in the world could show such a Shop of Wares as shee doth Ezek. 27 Which the City that so had the harnest of the Riuer for her reuenewe and was her selfe a Mart of Nations vers 3. of this Chap Where since the Deluge but in her and Sodom could you see an Eden and garden of God as shee is called Ezek. 28. 13 Whose Prince but hers was stiled The annointed Cherub that couereth that was vpon the holy Mountaine of God and walked vp and downe in the midst of the stones of fire Ezek. 28 14. What City but this Tyre could haue so dazled the eyes of the Easterne World as to put her owne name on a whole Region Tyria or Syria Once what place besides her could haue stood in aemulation with that Queene of Nations and Lady of Kingdomes the perfection of beauty and ioy of the whole earth Ierusalem and make her selfe as much frequented for wealth as Ierusalem for religion and yet all this and more too is true of that crowning Citie whose Merchants were Princes and her Chapmen the honorable of the earth Which gay trimming of Tyre with so specious priuiledges makes a man thinke her a peerelesse Princesse Paragon of beauty faire Ester but loe a Harlot drest in strange apparell by a flattering glasse painted Iezabel outward ornament enough wealth and glory and pompe and maiestie like the rayment of Needle worke the Kings Daughter wore and like the Vesture of gold wrought about with diuers colours but none of that which should make her all glorious within and cause his Maiestie take pleasure in her beauty pure Religion holines of life practise of vertuous actions Which Pearle of price the one thing necessary when our Prophet seeth neglected and yet other seeming Iewels of little or no value much set by he can tell Tyre that her temporall blessings without blessings spirituall are but a faire preface to foule ruine and therefore if hee can finde nothing else to commend her by but that her Antiquity is of ancient dayes that she is a ioyous City a crowning City whose Merchants are Princes and her Chapmen the Honourable of the earth he will giue her anone a most heauie doome her owne feet shall carry her a farre off to soiourne O consider this and lay it to heart all ye that inhabite the like ioyous Citie for who in this point of flourishing Estate sees not Londons face in Tyres looking glasse Flatter not your selues with your wealth and pompe like her Merchants as if you forsooth were Gods onely Fauourits and your Fleece alone like Gedeons wet with the dew of heauen and all the ground drie round about Dreame not of secure possessing the Fortunate Islands nor of being begirt with the Sea and hemmd in with watry walles from all danger Think not by heaping togeather thicke clay and therewith building your nest on high you shall escape wrath and iudgement to come Know rather that the Christian Armour Faith and Rightcousnes and the Churches Weapons Prayers and Teares must be your best bulwarke against destruction If you would bee couered with the defence of the most high and be safe vnder the shadow of the Almighty be sure such shelter is not procur'd by your glorious pompe and ruffling pride but by your fearing God keeping his CoÌ„mandements Strangers eyes can witnes a daily increase of your outward glory Ã´ that wee could see in you the like growth of inward grace we walk about your SioÌ„ go round about her we tel the towers therof note her Temples we mark wel her bulwarks and set vp her houses that wee may acquaint them that shall come hereafter and the children that are yet vnborne but wee had farre rather take notice of your piety charity sobriety toward God your Neighbours and your selues without which all your pomp in the ende will proue but vanitie and vexation of spirit You haue lately extended your Cities wings as if you ment to make her fly ouer a good part of this Island and by sumptuous buildings haue perfected her beautie you haue enlarg'd your roome encreas'd your border ioynd house to house at home procur'd goodly Colonies abroad you first get the riches of the Kingdome then her honors long may you enioy both if you be firme friends to God and goodnes Your course of Trading is pleasing to the Lord and your Merchandise blest if you make not shipwracke of a good Conscience Not onely the Kingdome of heauen is like a Merchant man seeking goodly pearles Mat. 13. But euen the Church is a Ship of Merchants fetching her food from far Pro. 31. Buying and selling are the nerues and sinewes of a Kingdome exercises not misbeseeming the Saints of God Ioseph was a Merchant of Corne Lydia a seller of Purple Dauid bought a floore and Ieremy a field But yet amids your great dealing traffique in the world let me put you in mind of two sorts of MerchaÌ„ts most odious among you Merchants of Time and merchants of the TeÌ„ple of Time Vsurers of the Temple Church-robbers Time TeÌ„ple are both Gods wares therefore take heed Ã´ man of setting to sale what is none of thine own Wilt thou that canst not with all thy wealth purchase an houres additioÌ„ vnto thy life yet offer to sel a yere to thy neighbor for ten in the huÌ„dred wilt thou whose own soule must be saued by the constant exercise of a painful Ministry sel thousaÌ„ds of souls to the deuil by putting a hireling ouer the flock of Ch Princes Nobles either should not be such broking merchants or I am sure such broking merchaÌ„ts are not Princes Nobles but base degenerate persons that haue not the least sparke of true nobility in theÌ„ He that is wise wil beware of such trading for feare of the gold of Tolouse that will

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