Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	affliction_n	see_v	weight_n	2,658	5	9.2701	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86138	A three-fold cord to unite soules for ever unto God. 1. The mysterie of godlinesse opened. 2. The imitation of Christ proposed. 3. The crowne of afflicted saints promised. / As it was compacted by M. Richard Head, M.A. and sometimes minister of the Gospel, in his labours at Great Torrington in Devon. Published now, after his death, for publike profit.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1647 (1647)	Wing H1277B; Thomason E410_13; ESTC R204453	37,489	56

c. Nay farther Wee must not onely {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not only not shrinke from but not sinke under the pressures God is pleased to lay upon us So then the next point is 2. When God is pleased to trie us by afflictions we must not onely suffer them to the end but all the while with strength and courage not onely with constancie but magnanimitie If saith Solomon thy heart faile thee in the day of trouble thy strength is small Wee must stand up under our burthens as the Palme-tree under weights not onely not stooping or declining but springing up the more towards Heaven As in the Deluge the higher the Waters rose the higher still mounted the Arke so the greater our trouble are the higher must wee goe in our thoughts towards God 2 Cor. 4.8 10. Wee are troubled on every side yet not distressed wee are perplexed but not in despaire alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body Say wee then of our severall pressures as it is Ier. 10.19 Truely this is my griese and I will beare it They who being under affliction doe either shrinke from it or sinke under it are Cowards both alike If at any time either through the greatnesse or the length of any miserie our hearts begin to faint check wee our selves and say as David Psal. 42. Why art thou â—ast downe O my soule and why art thou so disquieted within me Trust in God for I shall yet prayse him who is the health of my countenance and my God To this end labour wee for spirituall strength My Grave saith God as to the Apostle so to all in like case 2 Cor. 12.9 shall be sufficient for thee And Philip 4.13 I saith the Apostle am able to doe all things through him that strengthneth me Understand him transcendently strengthned by Christ wee shall be able not onely to doe but to suffer any thing for his sake Labout wee for courage fortitude heavenly-mindednesse so shall nothing be hard unto us Aliquando vincitur quis non quia fortior sed quia cum timidiore congressus Tertull. Wee are sometimes beaten not because weake but because more cowardly and fearefull Well say you here is the Man that suffereth and thus suffereth a Man that both stayeth in his affliction and stands up under it What then Secondly The thing affirmed of him He is blessed And hence shall I commend unto your tenderest Meditations two Instructions First As we would be blessed we must first be tryed by some affliction or other Acts 14.22 Where you see the way to Heaven lyes first through tribulations secondly through many tribulations and this thirdly necessarily it must be so God hath appointed it 1 Thess. 3.3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that wee are appointed therecunto And if wee goe forth by the foot-steps of the flock as it is in one of the Songs of Love wee shall finde all that are now in Heaven to have gone this way Heb. 2.10 For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many Sonnes unto glory to make the Captaine of their salvation perfect through sufferings And Heb. 13 1â—Wherefore seeing wee also are compassed about with so great a Cloud of Witnesses let us lay aside every weight c. Iamâ—es 5.10 Take my brethren the Prophets who have spoken to us in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience 1 Pet. 5.9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world And this way must all follow after Whosoever saith the Apostle will live godly in Christ note that in Christ that is in opposition to the world must suffer persecution Blessednesse at the first required nothing but obedience active Doe this and live but since the Fall it requireth obedience passive also the way to Heaven is by weeping-crosse Heb. 12.6,8 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every sonne whom he recerveth if ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sonnes for what sonne is he whom the father chasteneth not Those eight Beatitudes or rather eight parts of Beatitudes which is one and intire in Christs first Sermon upon the Mount if you marke them run most of them in obedience passive wee must goe to Canaan through the Wildernesse amidst Scorpions and by the waters of Marah They then are much deceived who thinke to passe hence Ã delicits ad delicias from fleshly and worldly pleasures and delights to the joyes of Gods presence deceived they are as they shall one day find when it shall be said unto them amid their torments and too late repenting as unto Dives Remember thou hadst thy pleasure upon earth Art thou yet at ease in Sion c Well thou mâ—yst yet suffer nay thou must there is no scaping in a mist though going forth wind and tide serve thee yet suddenly both may turne against thee 'T is reported of Nero that having a faire Empresse hee used sometimes to take her by the chin saying Here is a faire face but when I list I can cut it off So say thou of all thy sairest externall blessings here is a strong body but God can when he pleaseth turne it into dust here are sweet children but God can when he will take them from me c. Provide for a storme and the rather because now the heavens lowre our bankes are broken downe and the tide is breaking in O let us no longer like little children play with cockle shells upon the shore Art thou under any affliction any distresse any extremity c be not dismayed the worst of the wayes of God are better then the best of the wayes of sinne for these lead to the chambers of death 1 Pet. 1.12 thinke it not strange nay think of it both as right and comsortable for this is your land-marke now may you assure your selves that you are in the way onely looke not back to Egypt againe nor sit still as weary yet a little farther and you are happy Heb. 12.11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous neverthelesse afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruit of Righteousnesse unto them which are exercised thereby It followeth Secondly As they who would be blessed must endure tentation so they that endure tentation shall be blessed Rom. 8.17 And if childrens then heires heires of God and joynt-heires with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may bee also glorified together Revel. 2.10 Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer bee thou faithfull unto the death and I will give thee a crowne of life Nay they are already blessed in the comfortable assurance of Gods love and

suffer in love and if wee love wee shall serve and suffer long as Jacob for Rachel and think all nothing only because we love Love is that lively motive which makes our obedience full 't is that vertue which comprehends all other vertues Gradn eminentia for if we doe and suffer out of love we are at the highest pitch possible attainable Love saith the Apostle fulfils the Law nor can any vertue so long hold out 'T is as strong as death Cant. 8.6 7. Acquaint your selves with Gods transcendent excellencies but above all set your thoughts a working in deepest and humblest meditation of his love to you in Christ God loved us loved us first loved us being enemies yea so loved us as to give his Sonne to us yea as to give him to death for us to an accursed and shamefull death and he asketh nothing of us but this that we beleeve in him and so hee good to our soules If Faith be in the worke Love will break out yea break out into teares of joy to an exrasie Psal. 31.21 Psal. 116.1 I love the Lord because hee hath heard my voyce and may supplications because hee hath inclined his eare unto mee therefore I will call upon him so long as I live Gal. 2.20 The result of all is this Wee must suffer and indure afflictions as out of love so with joy The Argument That which makes for our eternall blessednesse is to be indured with joy But Afflictions makes for out eternall blessednesse erge not that we are to rejoyce in our afflictions but in the act exercise of our patience or rather Christs working them in us and so in the assurarce of Gods love and favour as the penitent not in his sinnes but in his teares for sinne Acts 5.41 And they departed from the presence of the counsell rejaycing that they wene counted worthy to suffer shame for his Name And 2 Cor. 12.10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmâ—ies in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christs sake But be you therefore cheerefull in afflictions they are but for a few dayes and then comes glory Every Bird can sing in a cleare Heaven onely the Nightingale sings in a storme Rom. 5.2 3. By whom wee have accesse by faith into this grace wherein wee stand and rejoyce in the glory of God and not onely so but wee glory in tribulation knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. If your hearts grow heavie recover your selves with David Psal. 42.5 Why art thou so sad O my soule and why so disquieted within me Trust in God for I shall yet prayse him who is the health of my countenance and my God Soli Deo gloria THE MYSTERIE OF GODLINESSE I TIMOTHIE 3.16 And without controversie great is the Mysterie of Godlinesse God was manifest in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seene of Angels preached unto the Gentiles beleeved on in the World received up into Glory WHat the Evangelists speake of Christ by way of Historie the Apostle here discovers as a great Mysterie Without all controversie great is the Mysterie of Godlinesse c. Where behold as in a Scale of Gradation first a Mysterie secondly a great Mysterie thirdly a great Mysterie of Godlinesse fourthly a great Mysterie of Godlinesse without all controversie Next the Veyle being as it were rent wee see what that great Mysterie is God made manifest in the flesh So then the Apostle here shewes you first that there is a Mysterie secondly declares what that Mysterie is First a Mysterie This word in its owne language speaks some sacred and secret thing full furnished with matter of knowledge but not clearely understood either because there is something betweene us and it or because it selfe is too hard for us and Mysteries there are many 1 Cor. 13. If faith the Apostle I knew all Mysteries thereby giving us to understand that there are Mysteries of severall sorts some greater some lesser whatsoever others are this is great Secondly a great Mysterie {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} This saith the Apostle speaking of Marriage Eph. 5.32 is a great Mysterie because it shadoweth forth unto us the Union that is betwixt Christ and his Church But Thirdly 't is not onely great but godly a Mysterie of Godlinesse Godlinesse is the scope of it it teaches not onely to beleeve what God promiseth but to obey what God commandeth and godlinesse faith the Apostle is great gaine it hath the promise of this life and the life to come it s therefore a Trade saith one of a good returne which way soever you looke Nay more Fourthly the Mysterie here is not onely great a Mysterie of Godlinesse but all this without controversie There are many great Mysteries in the world but not great without controversie nay not without great Controversies The world you see is full of desperate Disputes about Truth whilest Truth her selfe lyes neglected in the middle like Moses his body when the Devill and the Archangel strove about it dead and buried no man can tell where Religion as one complaines of old is even lost in Questions about Religion wee pull so violently in our unprofitable Disputes that at length breaking the Rope wee sall more asunder yea the one side if not both must at last fall to the ground But what is the Mysterie here so great so godly and both without controversie God made manifest in the flesh So that here is first Height God secondly Depth in the flesh thirdly Breath manifest that is God not onely made man but shewing himselfe a man First Height God Job 6.26 Secondly Depth God in the flesh that is the Godhead not absolutely considered but as personally restrained to the Sonne and to him not simply neither as he is God but as a Person subsisting in the Godhead The Word was made flesh saith S. John that is the second Person {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Word of God who as wee begat words out of our thoughts beget his Sonne out of himselfe as it were by thinking within himselfe an eternall Generation Not the Father nor the holy-Ghost is made man for then there should have beene two Sonnes but the middle person betweene both as to preserve the integritie of the blessed Trinitie so the better to undertake the office of Mediation betweene God and man But yet though Father and holy-Ghost had no communion with the incarnation of the Sonne {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Damascen otherwise then by assent and approbation yet for as much as the Sonne is of the same substance with the Father coeternall coessentiall with him God blessed for ever Amen for as much as the Word and Deitie are both one subject should wee exclude the nature of God from incarnation wee should make the Sonne of God not to be very God Undoubtedly therefore the Nature of God in the Person of the Sonne is incarnate and therefore though incarnation may not be granted to any

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