Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	9,635	5	10.3237	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10553	The redemption of lost time	Powel, Daniel.	1608 (1608)	STC 20825; ESTC S105744	52,135	280

set termes and prefixed times for their triall whether they would stand or fall very short spaces and moments as som say they were but two or three momeÌ„ts othersome extendes them more largely to foure which in truth to them sufficed because of their quick apprehensions and perfection of their natural inclinations but to slowe vnconstant and changeable man God hath granted many yeares and ages Howbeit not to liue idle and secure nor to waste and consume it in play delights iestes pleasures meriments pastimes and carnall sports much lesse in sinne and the hurt of himselfe but that it be imployed in good workes in lawfull exercises honest recreations should labour in the vineyard Math. 20.2.4.6 c. and painefully in the sweat of his browes gaine his daily food and stipend which is the workemans wages and the reward of his good aduenture Whereupon the Apostle saith Gal. 6.9.10 Doing of good works and vsing the Time in such things for which it is lent vs. Let vs therefore neither deceiue our selues nor be dismayed nor be wearie to reape and mowe Time and we shall gather our haruest and fruit in due season For which in all that time we enioy let vs performe what good wee may And Seneca Seneca though an heathen man saith that Time was not so liberally so bountifully bestowed vpon vs that wee should loose anie part of the same which by the Apostle is called the acceptable time 2. Cor. 6.2 and the day of saluation Wherfore my good bretheren imploy the same for your soules health to doe workes acceptable and grateful vnto God And therefore also the time of this life is called the Fayre time or Market time For as in the same wares are solde and bought most cheape and at a small rate So in this life great marchandizes iewels of infinite value may be bought at a small rate 2. Cor. 4.17 and for one momentanie and light tribulation or affliction may be caused an eternall weight of glorie as the same Apostle S. Paul saith which in Heauen is to bee possessed and enioyed And by the way let vs heere note how by that holy and blessed Apostle it is tearmed a waight because that with the weight and greatnesse thereof it maketh light and easie all the difficulties and troubles of this life and that which we suffer and abide here in the same makes vs to waigh all which in coÌ„parison is as easie and as light to beare as one straw or chaffe Euen as a great heauie waight in one end of a paire of scales doth highly lift vp out-waigh the other end wherein there is but one single strawe or chaffe So the waight of our reward being put in the one end of the ballance doth lift vp the other end wherein our labours and worldly businesses are weyed Wherevnto agreeth that which the same Apostle in another place hath written namely That the passions and tribulations of this life Rom. 8.18 are neither comparable nor equall to the glorie to come which heereafter shall be reuealed and manifested in vs till such time by all coÌ„parison they are very smal light and of no waight And vpon that similitude of the Fayors for application sake to our present purpose it seems our Sauiour CHRIST hath meant and vsed it Luc. 19.13 when he compared the kingdome of Heauen to a man trafficking merchandizing in this worlde Math. 13.45 considering when he spake to all the faithfull as to men full encombered with many businesses Occupie till I come for heereafter there will be no place Furthermore the time of this life is called Time of vacation from all other businesses whereby man may solly wholy addict and imploy himselfe in the seruice of our Lord. It is called Time of imployment according to those wordes of our Redeemer spoken by the mouth of his Euangelist S. Iohn Now is the time to worke Io. 9.4 while it is day the night commeth when no man can worke It is likewise called the time of sowing and the time of mowing and gathering of the Haruest because it is the time of grace and faith wherby the reward of heauen is to be wonne obtained And therefore by the example of the heedefull diligent and carefull Emmet the Holy Ghost sendeth to reproue confound the idle and sloathfull person Prou. 6.6 Goe and behold the Emmet saith hee in the Prouerbs of Salomon Shee prepareth her meate in the Sommer Verse 8. and gathereth her foode in haruest which shee layeth vp and keepeth in her storehouse or granarie for her prouision against Winter which season is counted no time to get but to eate and spend that which before was gathered and layd vp Time was bestowed on vs by the Lord saith Laurence Iustinian for to lament bewaile vs of our sins Lau. Iustin to be very penitent to purchase vertues to increase in grace to atchiue faith to discharge vs from hellish torments and to obtaine heauenly glorie And it is so true that Time was giuen vs to be imployed in good works as onely that which we spend about the same and in vertuous and necessarie exercises is most properly OVRS and onely entereth within the reckoning of our lyues and account of our dayes For all the rest there is neither respect nor memorie therof in Heauen nor in the booke of life albeit the world makes reckoning of them records and inrolls them for long continuance but our Lord knoweth no such at least hee saith that hee acknowledgeth no such as a thing which neither pleaseth delighteth nor yet contenteth him but rather much vexe and sore offend him So Origen Orig. in Psal 37.18 expounding the words of Dauid The Lord knoweth the dayes of the vndefiled which are the Iust saith thus In the sacred Scripture it is saide That God knoweth but onelie good things and that he is ignorant of the euill and them hee forgets not in that his knowledge cannot comprehend all things both good and bad but in regarde the euill are vnworthie of his sight notice I knowe you not Math. 25.12 saide he to the foolish Virgines and as much againe to the workers of iniquitie The Lord knoweth the wayes of the iust sayed that kinglie Prophet Dauid Prou. 4.18 And Salomon saith that the Lord knoweth the way of the right hand And so saith Dauid that the Lord knoweth the houres and the dayes and the Time of them that liue without spot of sinne but is ignorant of the dayes of Sinners The holy Scripture makes no reckoning of the time of Sauls raigne saue onely of two yeares 1. Sam. 13.1 though hee raigned 40. yeares because onely two yeares hee liued well and without blemish of sinne and the residue were dayes stayned and tainted therewith So of S. Paul Act. 20. verse 31. Dion Cassius writeth Dion Cassius that in a Citie of Italie was sound an auncient

Present and the Time to be Could a man tell or were there mortall wight So farre aboue earth raised to that hight That heauens dimensions he could clearly see Better that man were to report from thee The Benefites mortallity might raise From thy iust labours then th' vncertaine praise Attending books which not their worth can free From the Taxation which foule Enuie laies On Vertues faire-selfe and with hellish spight Is euer blasting the deserued Bayes That should adorne her But receiue this right From TIME it selfe that must thy fortresse be Whose perfect vse is onely taught by thee M. Drayton The Authors besides sacred Scriptures who are cited in this present Treatise A Alphonsus de Castro S. Ambrose Andreas Bishop of Caesarea Aristotle S. Augustine B S. Basil Bede the venerable Bernardinus de Sena S. Bernard Bonauenture C Cassianus Cesarius Helisterbacchensis S. Chrysostome D Dion Cassius Dionysius Carthusianus E Elianus Euthymius G Gregory Nissen Gregory the Pope H Haymo Horace I S. Ierome Iohn Chrysostome Iohn Damascen Iohn Orozeus Iohn Stobeus L Laertius Laurence Iustinian Ludouicus Blosius M Maldonatus N Nicholas Diukespu O Origen Ouid. P Plutarch S Salmeron Seneca Simon de Cassia Suarez T Thaulerus Theodoret. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Kempis V Viegas Virgil. Z Zedrenus CHAP. I. What a precious Iewel TIME is IT is the maner and stile of the sacred Scripture that wheÌ„ any notable cause of importancie is shewed and noted vnto vs some wonderfull vision or miraculous type euer goeth before which doth awake stirre vp our spirits and senses for attention leauing them in suspense and admiration as very ordinarily may bee seene in the booke of the Prophets and specially in the Reuelation of the blessed Euangelist Saint Iohn where amongst many other admirable visions strange figures chiefely that is to bee noted which hee hath vvritten in the tenth Chapter which together with those wordes of the Apostle in his Epistle to them of Ephesus Ephes 5 16. Redeeme the Time because the dayes are euill shall bee the very Theame or ground of this our Treatise and exhortation saying Reue. 10.1 that then hee sawe a mightie Angell come downe from heauen cloathed with a cloude and that hee wore vpon his heade in steede of a Dyademe the rainebow and his face shined as the Sunne in midday His feet were as pillers of fire And he had in his hande a little Booke open Ver. 2. and hee put his right foote vpon the Sea and his left vpon the earth 3. And cried with a loud voice after the maner of a Lyon when he roareth 5. and lifting vp his finger towards heauen 6. sware by him that liueth for euermore which created heauen and the earth and the Sea all things in them conteined That from the daies of the seauenth Angell there should neuer be any more TIME And briefly to manifest the mysteries which here are comprised Refert illos Viegas in Apoc. cap. 10 Andreas Episc Cesareae in c. 5. Apoc. Act. 1.2 This Angell according to the exposition of many Authors is Christ our Lord the Angell of the great Councell or els is one of the blessed Angels which representeth his person and executeth the office of Legat-ship as his Imbassadour He came downe from Heauen because visibly he is to discend from thence in a cloude shining with great power and maiestie to iudge the whole world Howbeit his comming clothed with a cloud doth signifie the confusion and turmoile which shall happen as well in those last dayes as also in that space and time in which the persecution of Antichrist shall indure when specially they shall behold those hideous signes and terrible tokens which are to happen before the day of the vniuersall Iudgement are euery moment to expect that fearfull presence of the Iudge The Raine-bow signifies peace and the Fire wrath furiousnesse and punishment and in those two extremities of mans body which are the feet and the head both the end and beginning thereof viz. both top toe are pourtrayed both the commings of our Sauiour CHRIST into the world The first was of meere mercie to make peace and attonement betweene God and men and because of that for his Escutchion and speciall difference hee bare vpon his head the Raine-bow of heauen in token that the Deluge of his former anger displeasure and passed punishment were now ceased And in the latter comming hee shall come as Iudge and therefore hee shall carrie feete of fire which betokens inflexible rigour and terrible wrath Ignis ante ipsum praecedet Psal 50.3 saith Dauid There shall goe before him a consuming fire The Forme and shape of the Pillars signifies the mighty strength and force he shall haue for the execution of his final sentence and last Iudgement The Booke open in his hand in respect of his God-head representeth the eternal wisdom he hath for the which he appropriateth to himselfe the office of Iudge in respect of his Manhood it signifieth the absolute knowledge he apprehendeth to vnderstaÌ„d the worth worthines of the causes processe and actions of all the sonnes of Adam and the scroll or proclamation of the diuine lawe wherevpoÌ„ they are to be iudged The putting of one foote vpon the Sea the other vpon the Land is as much to say as that he imbraceth coÌ„passeth comprehendeth all things sea and land earth and water that nothing can escape his hands free it selfe froÌ„ his power Psal 139. ver 3. 8. nor be hid from his presence The roaring as of a Lyon signifieth the wrath and vengeance wherewith hee shall pronouÌ„ce sentence against the condemned ones And the solemne oath signifieth the infallible certaintie assurednesse he shall haue in the accomplishment and execution of those things before prophecied preached to the people which in the dayes of the seuenth Angell when they shall heare that fearefull Trumpet sounding and summoning all the sonnes of Adam to Iudgement shall ende and finish the Time for euer afterwardes and they who made no profit thereof when they had it but haue deferred their good works vntill the vttermost day last houre of their liues shall eternally remaine without it And that publike sounding and proclamation of the Angell with such and so many circumstances That on some day Time should ende and cease when that should be is to giue vs intelligence that wee may vnderstand of what price value and estimation and what a great benefite of God bestowed vpon vs it is that hee hath made vs Lords of the same all the dayes of our liues And on the contrary what a great crosse and punishment is it for othersome to bee absolutely bereaued therof and to haue it quite taken away from theÌ„ as a thing by them mispent and ill imployed To manifest what a pretious thing Time shall be it sufficeth onely to know that in one instance of time one may gaine infinite eternitie

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