Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	foot_n	heart_n	loin_n	3,464	5	14.9826	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08541	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seauenth of May, M.DC.IX. By George Benson ...	Benson, George, 1568 or 9-1648.	1609 (1609)	STC 1886; ESTC S101670	81,544	106

nouum after a newe maner but no other word then that which was from the beginning and they stand vpon the watch towers in your Churches to descry the danger giue you warning heare theÌ„ by their preaching together with the power of gods holy spirit a beam of the Sun of righteousnes you wil quickly perceiue your soules not to be virgins you wil see your own sins corruptions that you may amend as the beam of the sun shining in a house discouers many motes which before were vnperceiued woldst thou not be caught by the hooks of Satan then let not thy mind leap out of the poole out of the wel of the water of life at euery flie at euery wordly vanity wouldst thou haue thy affectioÌ„s deep died in religioÌ„ so that thy mind clothed with theÌ„ may be taken to wear the liuerie of God then let theÌ„ stay long in the liquor let thy body stay in the Church thy minde besetled vpon the word that is read preached so by the haÌ„mer of Gods word without and the fire of the holie Ghost working within thou wilt be beaten fashioned into a signet neer deer vnto God but if Coniah like thou being a signet on Gods finger dost rebell against him he will pull thee off But some will not be pleased when they marke but like Apes Monkies which break euery glasse they look into because euery glasse doth shew them their own deformitie so they quarel with al preachers and preaching because the truth deliuered cannot chuse but shew them their own ouglines They haue their galles in their eares whatsoeuer they heare turns into the gall of bitternes they loue to haue their ears sheaths for flattery they relish nothing but placentia if there be any sin that rules in them as who hath not one or other that is praedominant then they acknowledge no king but Caesar no ruler but that euill affection the word of God shal not ouerrule them by their good wils How much better were it for men when they are touched by sermons to giue God thanks for it because God hath sent a special messenger that day to take them aboue others as brands out of the fire like stinging spirits to bring them vnto God For such words bind kings in chaines and nobles in linkes of iron they carrie not away the eare vnto God for a present but a heart which he himselfe requires of all his sons O God may they say who are touched for their sinne I thank thee this day is saluation come into my house Some again be they pleased or displeased wil not obey Thogh the word of God like the Sun staÌ„ding stil in Gibeon and the Moone in the valley of Aielon hath beene a long time at the noone point and height that by the benefit of it wee might be reuenged of our greatest enemy yet I feare the Diuell may still walke in drie places as he delights to doe among those I meane that are not moystened with this well of liuing water or if they haue heard the word yet it takes little or no roote because it hath fallen in stonie or thorny places When Naaman murmured at Elisha saying that Abanah and Pharphar riuers of Damascus were better then either Iordan or any riuer in Israell the seruant of Naaman said vnto him If the man of God should bid thee doe a great matter wouldest thou not do it much more when he bids thee wash thy self seauen times in Iordan and be cleane So should wee doe any thing that God commands in his worde euen because hee commands much more when hee bids vs obey and bee saued The assurance that we haue for our saluation is in the word of God we know in whom to trust but God keepes a counterpane thereof hee is not ignorant but knowes whom wee must obey as he will on his so must wee on our parts performe conditions If hauing gone astray and being in daunger of Herod of the Diuel worse then Herod we will not with the wise men of the East returne home another way then God may say as Dauid sayde in the pang and burthen of his soule O my sonne Absalon O Absalon my sonne my son you would needes be rebels but as hee was hanged in his own haire so your lot is to perish by your own rebellion Heare the worde then as though the very message brought you wings to flye to God let not sinne that shot without noyse wound you vnawares and possesse you so strongly that you be loth to leaue it till it leaue you so that you say of it as Abraham sayd of the sonne of the bond-woman O that Ishmael might liue in thy sight And surely such is the nature of man that euerie one hath a sin which I may call a peculiar beloued with an extraordinarie loue for which he desires a dispensatioÌ„ though he can be coÌ„tent to forgoe all other sinnes but that As Lot sayd of Zoar O Lord spare it it is but a little City so euery man saith of his be loued sin O lord spare that it is but a smal sin I am naturally inclined vnto it and therefore to be borne withall from other sinnes I am content to bee weaned Thus euery man would be so sawey as to passe a faculty with God if he were not both wise iust The diuell is like Nimrod a great hunter O Lord keep vs out of his chase yet men like the pleasures of sin and though they be in danger to be molested with many spirits and terrors who come within the compasse of sinnes inchanted circle yet are they neuer willing out of the Diuels by-pathes to follow their mother the Church by the steps of the flocke Cant. 1. 7. not from vertue to vertue from grace to grace which is the progresse of Christians to whom Christ saith Arise my loue my faire one and come away Moisture in the feet strikes vp into the head the sinne of the meanest member dishonours our head Christ. Let theÌ„ the girdle of verity be straight girt about your loins I meane obserue strictly that which God commaunds he sayth Prepare your selues for heauen say you O God my heart is ready my heart is ready he sayth Seek ye my face answere you againe and say Thy face O Lord will I seeke lay your noses open vnto the sweet sauour of life vnto life your eyes vnto the Day-starre that is sprung from on high your eares vnto the charmes of the wise charmer and seeing God by his word knocks at your doores Lift vp your selues you gates and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores that the King of glory may enter in Let not the Ministers of Gods word rowe any longer against winde and tide but seeing they are appointed to raise vp seed to their elder brother Christ Iesus by preaching as Gregory doth moralize that leuitical

not and the pride of Israell his stubbornesse his impudency testifieth to his face and they doe not returne vnto the Lord their God nor seeke him for all this They did not know their daunger they did not returne vnto their harbour they did not returne vnto the Lord their God When wee haue sinned we must returne vnto the Lord our God first by repentance for our sinnes Hee is a iealous God Secondly by reforming of our sinnes Hee is a holy God Thirdly by hoping in God who doth pardon our sinnes hee is a mercifull God By repentance for our sinnes for in the first and second of Amos the language of the prophet is nothing but a volley of iudgements against Damascus Tyrus Edom Ammon Moab and Iuda vnder whose sinnes God was pressed as a Cart is pressedwith sheaues for they had threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron for three transgressions and for foure sayeth God I will not turne vnto them It concerned them then and vs also to turne vnto him by repentance left for 3000. transgressions or for foure hee come with the besome of his wrath and sweepe vs all away Wee are beleaguered and compast about with iniquitie of our owne heeles let vs not hypocritically dote vpon our selues saying peace peace when there is no peace let vs rather by the heat of zeale distill teares from our eyes for there is no peace as my God sayth vnto the wicked There was a woman in the 7. of Luke who as one in trauaile of a new soule had the grace to repent her of her sinnes and therfore shee wounded Christ with one of her eyes and with the cheine the cheine of graces about her necke shee came into the Pharises house boldly and stood behinde him shamefastly at his feete humbly and mournefully shee washt his feete with her teares and as one one neglecting her best ornament in respect of Christ shee wiped them with the haires of her head louingly shee kissed his feete and bountifully shee annointed them with ointment When a woman came to bee purified in the time of the Lawe shee was to offer a Lambe which if shee were not able to compasse then shee was to offer a paire of turtle doues the authors of the heroglyphickes compare a Lambe to innocency and a paire of turtle doues to a paire of mournefull eyes if any bee so poore in good workes that they cannot offer the one let them bee so forwarde in repentance as to offer a paire of the other and let them desire of God as the wife of Othoniel did of Caleb and Ioshua that seeing they are parched with sinne and with the heate of concupiscence as shee complained of an hote countrey there may bee giuen vnto them springs aboue springs beneath springs of tears in their eyes aboue and springs of bloud if it be possible in their hearts beneath It is Gods will that as Iacob was first married vnto Leah that was bleare eyed and after an other prentishippe vnto Rahel that was more beautiful so should the sonnes of Iacob first vnto repentance bleare eyed and full of teares and after the induring of that godly sorrowe which will cause repentance vnto saluation they shall inioye the ioyes of heauen which are beautifull like Rahel For all teares shall be wiped away from their eyes Grammarians deriue terra a terendo So why should not man who is earth and ashes terra quiateritur because hee is harrowed vp with a feeling of his sinnes When the wind is inclosed in the hollows of the earth it striues for passage so makes an earthquake many times O earth and ashes thou tremblest quakest at the remembrance of thy sinnes but fear not that sorrow comes of God it is because there is within thee the holy Ghost that winde which bloweth where it listeth When thy soule O man is troubled for thy sinnes that garboyle within thee is like the troubling of the water Iohn 5. Be thou sure the Angell of the Lord hath beene there that sorrowe of thine comes from God hope in Christ but sorrow for thy sinnes eate thy pascall Lambe with sower hearbes As they that looked vpoÌ„ Syllaes ring could not choose but take notice both of Syllaes seal and the treason of Iugurtha because that was grauen vpon vpon the seale so consider weigh both the seale wherewith you are sealed against the day of redemption and the treason of your forefathers also which gaue occasion of the sealing of such a pardon vnto you Therefore as the nightingale in the night time sings merily with a prickle at her breast so in this valley of the shadows of death sing prayses vnto your God but euer with a compunction a feeling of your sinnes and sorrow for them Neither must you only mourn for your sinnes but you must abandon them also for feare of the Diuelles reentrie with seuen Diuels worse then himselfe and then your latter end will be worse then your beginning But as I noted in the second place you must turne vnto the Lord by reforming of your sinnes and obseruing Gods commandements which iniunction vnto flesh and bloud is durus sermo For though we could be content to die the death of the righteous and say with Balaam Lord let my later end be like vnto theirs yet this liuing of the life of the righteous is hard of digestion as hard as the gayning of the land of promise was to those spies which coÌ„fessed that the land was a good land and full of fruits but there were in it the sonnes of Anach and they were gyants The reward of a Christian many think to be a good prize but they are loth to wrestle with the difficulties of Christianity those be the sonnes of Anach and they be giants it is better for flesh bloud to crowne themselues with rose buddes before they be withered then to sit vp late and rise early and eate the bread of carefulnesse though God so giue his beloued sleepe When they feele the paine that belongeth vnto the seruice of God they say with her who longed for children but could not indure the pain of child-bearing Seeing it is thus why am I so waÌ„ton Florus could say Ego nolo Caesar esse equitare per Britannos cursitare per Germanos pati pruinam c. I would not for any good be Caesar to indure so many frosts watchings amongst the Britans and Germans but Caesar thirsting after victory retorted it thus vpon him Ego nolo Florus esse ambulare per tabernas latitare per popinas c. I would not for any good be Florus to spend my time in vanity There is great difference betwixt a carnal man and those that desire through Iesus Christ to be more then Conquerours the carnall rather then they would lose their swine desire Christ to depart out of their coasts wheras the

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