Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01883	The fall of man, or the corruption of nature, proued by the light of our naturall reason Which being the first ground and occasion of our Christian faith and religion, may likewise serue for the first step and degree of the naturall mans conuersion. First preached in a sermon, since enlarged, reduced to the forme of a treatise, and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. By Godfrey Goodman ...	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1616 (1616)	STC 12023; ESTC S103235	311,341	486

husbandrie if any one of the stocke doe miscarrie the shame shall be impured to all Not vnlike the state of the Citizens if one breakes others must crack there must be a fellow-feeling of the blow how happy are they whose state is whole entire and absolute within themselues and this is the condition of dumbe creatures in respect of man Suppose any man were freed from these annoyances as indeed few there are whom neither kindred nor friends nor followers did any way grieue or molest yet in the streetes or high way side we shall not need to visite the Spittles or Hospitals how many lame how many blinde some vpon crutches some vpon pallets what broken bones maimed limbes seared armes mangled legges vlcerous heads scortched flesh some without chinnes some without noses some without hands to receiue or feete to follow yet still begging your almes Will you not vouchsafe to behold them Behold they shall waite and attend vpon you at your owne door eseither you must put on hardnesse and despise your owne flesh or otherwise you must melt in compassion You may thinke that I am driuen to some great exigent that now at length I should speake of the outcast of men as if I were to visite some Hospitals or to make a diligent search or inquisition for all those miserable creatures in whom the frailties and infirmities of our flesh doe most eminently appeare But in truth I haue here onely spoken of them as the present occasion did offer it selfe I met them in the streete or by the high way side and therefore I will slightly passe by them and I will hasten to ouertake whole mankind whom I will intangle in one common depth of our miseries I will acquit none from the highest to the lowest And because hitherto I might seeme to haue sunke to the bottome I will therefore now recall my selfe and leauing such miserable states of men I will runne ouer all those actions and qualities wherein our pleasure may seeme to consist or wherein there may seeme to be any appearance of happinesse and therein shall appeare our miserie and wretched condition The qualities I will thus diuide They are such as either are in our selues 1. as are the gifts of the bodie the beautie and comelinesse of parts 2. or the gifts of the minde as profound learning and true wisedome or else they are such as stand in relation to others and outwardly concerne vs 3. either in our possessions wherein I will speake of our wealth and abundance 4. or in our esteeme and reputation among men wherein I will speake of our honour 5. or in our actions our pastimes and sports wherein I will speake of our pleasures First for beautie for it appeares first to the sight and carries the best glosse the fairest beautie and complection though proudest of her selfe yet she neuer enioyes her selfe and if in a glasse onely by way of reflection yet she presently forgets her selfe it serues as a white garment aptest for soile and in old age proues the most wrinkled and withered If a Feuer but for a few daies possesse a faire Ladie then you shall best iudge of her complection a pale countenance hollow eyes leane châ—â—â—es fur'd mouth panting breath slow speech weake and trembling ioynts all which could hardly allure or entice her fond wooer When beautie is at the best yet if it bee not adorned and set foorth with Iewels with silkes with colours which rich and costly attires if it were naked and desolate clad in homely weedes it would hardly moue thy affection and when thou beholdest it at the best thou seest but onely the outside for beautie is but skinne-deepe if thou couldest discerne the vncleane maw the noysome bowels the vnsauourie parts thou wouldest finde it a painted sepulcher But suppose the face were besmeared with bloud thou couldest not endure the sight suppose it lay rotten in the graue as one day it shall and then goe young man please thine owne fancie reioyce with the wife of thy youth see how louing and amiable she lookes This was the Hermites practise to abate the heate of his lust and let it serue for thy example and imitation In truth I doe much pitie many who seeme neither to regard their owne ease nor their warm'th so that they may adorne their owne beautie which beautie might aswell bee adorned with their ease with their warm'th not indangering their health not indamaging their bodies if it stood with the fashion and condition of the times How costly how chargeable how troublesome is their beautie vnto them dum comuÌ„tur dum pectuntur annus est all their whole time must bee spent in their dressing You may assoone furnish an armie as supplie all their trickets and toyes there are more fashions extant then there is varietie in nature the French attire the Spanish band the Dutch coller the Flemish bodies you would wonder of what countrie or nation they were c. What an excellent sight it is to see the old mother Matron-like full of wrinckles and withered leading the way as it ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ to the graue but the young daughter following her a faire damosell of a fresh and a beautifull colour and yet both of them consisting of the same flesh like one and the same tree rugged and harsh in the rinde or the barke but faire and delicious in the fruite and both take sappe from the same roote and both together tend to corruption From the beautie and comelinesse of members let vs come to the inward light and beames of the vnderstanding The world is a Sophister and frames a fallacie Ã bene compositis ad malâ— diuisa making a strange difference and separation betweene true wisedome and learning whereas indeed there is no difference at all but they are one and the same facultie wisedome is learning and learning is wisedome and he that found out this distinction between them was indeed an enemie to learning and in himselfe the sonne of ignorance Learning I confesse of it selfe is eleuâ—ted aboue the vulgar capacitie otherwise it should not require mens studies and labours but being tempered with discretion and experience may well bee accommodated and applied to many good vses euen in the meanest capacitie For certaine it is that there is no true learning which is not grounded in nature neither can it receiue any iust rule and direction but only from nature for Grammar is only a step or an entrance to learning he that shall doubt of the wisedome of nature must needs confesse himselfe an ignorant foole I confesse that the great Clerke may be ignorant of the meanest and basest things or happilie of their price their vse or valuation doth this any way disparage his wisdome his learning his iudgment As if a priuie Counseller should therefore be reputed an vnwise man because he hath no skill in husbandrie and tillage when his leisure will not serue him to intend such drudgerie But for

vacation some of them drop and here the Iudges like condemned men are now brought to the place of execution they that can giue life to others in sparing their liues cannot adde a daies respite to their owne Iudges they are and yet like poore delinquents they shall stand at Gods barre where no appeale shall be allowed them and therein their condition is no more then equall to ours From the suburbes where I will leaue the Lawyers let vs come to the rich Citizens If now they liue in plentie and wealth it is well knowne that in their younger yeeres their wealth hath been gotten by sparing thriftinesse and wants if they please to cast vp accounts they shall finde themselues so much indebted to themselues as that besides the interest they shall hardly bee able to make restitution for the principall Now that their stomackes begin to faile them no marueile if they bee serued vp with full dishes and a plentifull table for if they would suppose the meate to bee painted it would as well suffice their appetites Now that they are troubled with gowtes with palsies and the weaknesse of old age they begin to keepe a stable well furnisht with horses as if they were to grow young againe and did intend to become horsemen or tiâ—ters they conceiue as much ioy to see their seruants vse them as if their owne crasie bodies were thereby exercised In telling ouer great summes of money our fingers grow black as yet I neuer knew any man that by his husbandrie and honest manuall labour could euer attain to an Aldermans wealth The Citizens know how to estimate the laying out of their money their freedome and trade their skill in buying and selling playing vpon aduantage with other mens ignorance and to vnderualue poore mens labours yet they must not take it vnkindly if sometimes their Charters be called in question for the Church hath lost al her priuiledges which certainly were grounded vpon a farre greater right Neither will I examine whether Companies and Corporations bee preiudiciall to a publike state sure I am that such societies of men neuer made lawes or orders amongst themselues preiudiciall to themselues God send that the secrets and mysteries of trades whereof I am wholly ignorant and which are best knowne to themselues may well stand with vpright and iust dealing Indeed being once made Magistrates then they begin to looke vnto measures and weights and therein wee commend their iustice and doe well hope and doe heartily wish that their own wealth had been gotten with like measure But if by ingrossing of wares and monopolizing of commodities they haue exceedingly enriched themselues let them not thinke with a small summe of money bestowed upon Hospitals to make restitution for the punishment must alwaies be answerable to the offence Their daintie liuing makes them the more tender being well fed and warmely clothed yet they cannot preuent all vnseasonable weather and therefore sometimes they are ouertaken they sicken and dye with a little wet or a small cold according to the fashion of the old world euery man ought to accustome himselfe to endure some hardnesse The greatnes of their wealth is not alwaies for the safetie of their persons sometimes it serues to stirre vp ielousies and feares full often haue I seene it scattered by heires and executors I commend their wisedome in getting of wealth if it be by honest and iust meanes but I doe not commend many of their iudgements who know not that the happinesse of wealth consists in the vse Or rather I will proue charitable to thinke them very iust in all their dealings iust I say if not to all others yet to themselues for knowing that they deserue little they desire to bestow little vpon themselues but to leaue it to others who happily may better deserue it And as it is gotten so it is spent we must passe our inheritance with the same right and title wherewith it was purchased if it were gotten with dishonestie assuredly it will bee spent with dishonestie res transit cum suo onere When all their whole life is past me thinkes it is like one of their shewes wherein Pageants are gazed vpon in the day time and in the night are dissolued the day following some little remnant is hung vp in their Halles and the rest passeth away like a shadow without any further mention or memorie Suppose me to be a wandring pilgrime now in the state of the way directing my course vnto happinesse I should lose my selfe in these thickers and groues and should proue very tedious to the reader vnlesse I should haue often recourse to my Carde consider my first intended scope and giue an account of my trauell Hitherto I haue made a diligent search where in this world I might finde out contentment and happinesse or where any true ioy might seeme to inhabite First I began with the Church where I found nothing but ruines all in decay spoyled of her substance From thence I went to the fruitful and pleasant soiles where I found that the Gentrie were likewise very miserable in their owne kinde At length I made bold to speake of the Law as if I had been serued vp with a Processe to appeare at the barre where I found no rest no peace no contentment Then I went to the Citie walles where in euery streete I made inquirie for happinesse at what signe this happinesse might dwell in what trade course and condition of life And receiuing no manner of satisfaction yet hearing much talke and newes of the Court and of the greatnes of our Nobles I will presume to goe and knocke at the Court gates there to enquire whether true ioy and happinesse be a follower and attendant of theirs to what stocke or familie to what state or faction she is chained and vnited whether she keepes her certaine lodging or sometimes vndertakes a progresse yet still resides and is conuersant with them or at least with some of them as the fauour and fortune of the times shall best serue for their greatnesse When I looke vp to the Nobles they seeme at first sight to bee like starres in the firmament all clothed with happinesse and honour but when I come neerer I see that no state of men is so dangerous Some of theÌ„ in their owne proud and ambitiouâ— desires preuenting and supplanting each other in so much that in stead of noble bloud they seeme to consist of quicke-siluer or some spirit of bloud either they must build castles in the ayre or else they will pull downe vpon their owne heads the tower of confusion they know not the state of consistencie that things may exceed as well in their greatnes and growth as in their smalnes and diminution Looke to the framing and constitution of mans bodie all other parts excepting the head must haue their fellowes their associates in like proportioÌ„ with themselues feete legges thighes armes ribs al of them haue

others equall to themselues to exceede and to swell vp were as great a deformitie and as dangerous as to pine and to bee diminished they must all of them keep the same proportion and all come vnder the head by the length of a whole necke Be their estate neuer so great their reuenewes neuer so large yet still their charge and expense seemes to ballance them if not to exceed them and all things deducted little remaines which in effect is as much as if I had little substance and lesse vse and employment for my little substance The last age hath much eclipsed their greatnes reducing as all waters to one fountaine all light to one Sunne so all power and obedience to one stocke obseruing an equalitie of iustice to all the seuerall members vnder one head for you shall obserue that the great offices of the kingdome haue failed whose power did seeme to exceede the fit and due bounds of subiection The highest titles of dignitie and honour haue failed for as in the naturall bodie so in the politicall bodie there should be a certaine distance between the head and the members yet still they continue the spectacles of the world and sometimes to their great charge they purchase the loue of the people which they shall finde if not dangerous yet fruitlesse and wholly vnprofitable But most commonly they are subiect to hate and therefore seruants must be appointed as to carrie vp their traines behinde them so to support their hate that they themselues might be secured from feare and that the least aspersion of words might not touch their honors And sometimes these seruants though innocent in themselues and very well deseruing but Lords must not be ouer much indebted for great seruices they must be made a publicke example of iustice for thus it fals out with nobles euen from the time of their infancie being taught and instructed by their schoolemasters others whom they loue shall smart and be corrected for their negligence From nobles I must ascend by degrees vnto Princes and if there were any true ioy in the creature I do suppose it would be found in their persons for so the world esteemes them happy and great And no maruell for they beare the person of vs all and therefore great reason that as we receiue from them our plenty our peace and our happinesse so we should againe returne and restore vnto them with due thankfulnes as part of our plenty in our subsidies our labours and seruices in performing our homage to recompence their care and watchfulnes so likewise part of our happinesse for nothing should be excluded from the royall prerogatiue And thus wee should conceiue that as the princely estate containes all other states of men within the Spheare of his gouernment so it should paâ—â—ake in a large measure all their happinesse And as it is the highest estate heere vpon earth so it should most freely escape from these earthly contagions while the whole burthen and weight of the miseries doe fall and light vpon others And thus in their persons I might consider all the happinesse which is incident to whole mankind not presuming to speake of Gods annoynted without due reuerence I will briefly touch their miseries First for their persons notwithstanding their continuall intelligence their watchfulnes and care for the security of their owne persons and states yet certainly the poore man in his homely cottage liues with far greater safety and sometimes with much more contentment then they doe in their royall pallaces They haue a guard I confesse many seruants and officers appointed for defence of themselues but here is the mischiefe quis custodiet ipsos custodes who shall guard them from their owne guard or who knowes whether their seruants receiue any pensions from their enemies As they sit highest and in the greatest view and appearance so they serue as the fairest markes to be aimed at And therfore in regard of the eminencie of their estate and the greatnesse of their personage amiddest the throng and multitudes of dangers and perils many things may be allowed and tolerated in them for securing themselues which to a man of a priuat condition were meere iniustice wrong and oppression Suppose the imprisonment or punishment of any one of his subiects by way of preuention or caution to an ensuing mischiefe this is tolerable I confesse but herein I feare least many Princes haue exceeded the boundes of honesty and iustice Yet I may speake it to Gods glory and to our owne comfort the dayes heere in England were neuer so free from feare and suspition as they are at this present vnder the happy gouernment of our most gratious King Iames who herein seemes to excell all other princes that so great learning and such a deepe vnderstanding should bee accompanied with such a harmeles and innocent disposition And this serues for his best sheild of defence against all forraine inuasions or home-bred conspiracies God make vs thankefull for these blessings and long preserue his raigne ouer vs c. In the times of their wars the common practise and desire of Princes is to ad kingdomes to kingdomes which if they should effect with much bloudshed and slaughter of their people yet therein they should not any way increase their owne wealth they should not strengthen their power but should fight with distracted forces and make themselues lesse secure of their owne imperia mole ruunt sua kingdomes must haue their boundes and I hope by Gods grace I shall see the Turkish Empire fall with his owne weight Againe in peaceable times and at their owne homes as all men desire to obserue and to please them so sometimes they desire as much and shall finde it a worke of far greater difficulty to giue contentment to the whole commons in generall as their subiects do to them in particular and heere is some part of requital some kinde of recompence as all to one so one to all If their happines consists in their gouernment and rule for in all other things their seruants do share with them in their diet their garments their gardens their pallaces their pleasures yet all men haue not the like practicall disposition to delight in gouernment sometimes it is committed to others and there may be an angelicall contemplation full of sweet comfort without this worldly and troublesome imployment The last Roman Emperour was more addicted to his priuat studies then to the managing of his owne publicke state But suppose that as Princes are the fountaines of power and cannot bereaue themselues of their power nor cannot impart an independent power vnto others they should therefore take the sole gouernment into their owne hands yet sometimes through a tractable and good nature they are easily entreated I will not say ouer-ruled which is the same in effect by others especially considering that it cannot stand with their owne greatnesse to search all things themselues and therefore they

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