Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	descend_v	ladder_n	1,870	5	11.7110	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12361	Iacobs ladder, or The high way to heauen Being the last sermon that Master Henry Smith made. And now published, not (as many forged things haue beene in his name) to deceiue the Christian reader, but to instruct and prepare him with oyle in his lampe, ioyfully to meete the Lord Iesus in his second comming.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1595 (1595)	STC 22677; ESTC S122459	18,803	31

and did not see it at last he dreamed and beholde a Ladder which reached from earth to Heauen and all the Angels descended and ascended by it to shew that no man ascendeth to Heauen but by that Ladder this Ladder is Christ which saith I am the way and therefore he biddeth vs to follow him If we must follow Christ his steps let vs see how hee went to Heauen hee begunne betime for at twelue yeares of age hee saide I must goe about my Fathers busines hee made speede for Iohn saith That hee spake and did moe good thinges in three and thirtie yeeres than could be written he kept the right way for when he said who can accuse me of sinne none would accuse him of any though they watched him for that purpose Hee continued well for hee dyed like a Lambe and prayed to his Father and forgaue his enemies Therefore we will call the steps of this Ladder MaturÃ¨ properÃ¨ rectÃ¨ constanter that is begin betime make hast keepe the way and holde to the end and thou shalt goe after thy master Touching the first beginne betime God requiring the first borne for his offering and the first fruites for his seruice requireth the fâ—â—st labours of his seruants and as I may say the maidenhead of euery man because the best season to seeke God is to seeke him early and therefore Wisdome saith They which seeke mee early shall find but to them which deferre she saith Ye shall seeke me but ye shall not find me Wee haue long purposed to serue God and euery man thinketh that he should be serued but wee cannot accord of the time when to beginne One saith when I am rich another saith when I am free another saith when I am setled another saith when I am old then I shall be fit to fast and pray Thus because wee are giuen to set the best last that we may haue a longer time for our sinnes and pleasures like the Iewes in the first of Agge which said alway The time was not yet come when they should build the Temple Therefore the holy Ghost crieth so often This is the acceptable time this is the day of saluation to day heare his voice like Rebeccah which taught her sonne the neerest way to get the blessing So soone as man was created a law was giuen him to shew that he should liue vnder obedience from the day that he is borne so soone as he is borne he is baptized in the name of God to shew that when we cannot runne to Christ we shuld creepe vnto him and serue him as wee can in youth and age so soone as hee beginneth to pray he saith thy name be hallowed thy kingdome come thy will be done before he aske his dayly bread to shew that we should seeke the will of God before the food that we liue by much more before the sinnes pleasures which we perish by So soone as the Lord distributed the talents he inioyned his seruants to vse theÌ„ who is so young that hath not receiued some talent or other Therefore youth caÌ„not excuse him because the talent requires to be vsed of euery one that hath it so soone as God created the man the woman he coÌ„manded them to encrease multiplie shall we encrease and multiply in the flesh before we encrease multiplie in the spirit the first thing that God did after he created heauen earth he did separate light from darkenes shewing vs how wee should separate our good from euill before our good become euill The first lesson that Iohn taught was Repent for the kingdome of heauen is at hand The first lessons that the Disciples taught was Repent too for the kingdome of heauen is at hand And the first lesson that Christ taught was Repent for the kingdome of heauen is at hand To teach what we should doe first Repent was the first lesson to young and olde Therefore Dauid prayed Teach me O Lord to number my dayes not my yeares nor my months nor my weekes but my daies shewing that wee shall answere for dayes as well as for yeares for today as well as tomorrowe and for our youth as straightly as for our age euen as the little children were deuoured with Beares for mocking the Prophet which made Dauid to crie Remember not the sinnes of my youth which hee would not haue spoken if God did not marke the sinnes of youth as well as of age Therefore the Fathers were charged to teach their children the same law which they had themselues Therefore Christ rebuked the Disciples which forbad the little children to bee brought vnto him For should children honour their Father not honour God it was a sweet consorte when the children went before Christ to his Temple sang their Hosanna to make their fathers ashamed which did not know the Messias when he came when their little children knewe him It is written when Christ heard a young man answere that hee had kept the Commaundements from his youth Christ began to loue him which shewes how Christ loues these timely beginnings when wee make him our nurse and draw our first milke from his brests There is not one confession for olde men and another for young men In the Creede the olde man saith not I did beleeue in God and the young man sayth not I will beleeue in God but both saye I doe beleeue in God for he which is called I am loueth I am and careth not for I was nor I will be When Christ asketh Peter Louest thou me he looketh that he should answere him Yea Lord I loue thee and not driue off as Felix did Paul I will heare thee I will loue thee when I haue a conuenient time nay when thou hast no conuenient time for if this be the conuenient time after this the time conuenient is past Manna was gathered in the morning because when the Sunne rose it did melt away So virtue must bee gathered betime for if wee stay till busines and pleasures come vpon vs they will melt it faster then wee can gather it therefore in the fourth of Prouerbes Wisdome is called the Beginning to teach vs to seeke wisdome in the beginning as a man taketh the best first If Eliah would be serued before the widdow when shee had not enough to serue her selfe will God be serued after thee nay after the slesh and after the diuell what canst thou owe him to morrow which thou art not indebted to day yea doth not God require Morning sacrifice as well as Euening sacrifice It is an olde saying repeÌ„tance is neuer too late but it is a true saying repentance is neuer too soone for so soone as we sinne we had neede to aske forgiuenes beside repentance is a gift and therefore must be taken when it is offered For if Iudas could haue repented when he listed hee would neuer haue hanged himselfe

IACOBS LADDER OR THE HIGH WAY TO HEAVEN Being the last Sermon that Master Henry Smith made And now published not as many forged things haue beene in his name to deceiue the Christian Reader but to instruct and prepare him with oyle in his lampe ioyfully to meete the Lord Iesus in his second comming 1. THES 5. 21. Trie all things but keepe that which is good AT LONDON Printed by the widdow Orwin for Thomas Man 1595. Iacobs Ladder or the way to Heauen 1. COR. 9. 24. So runne that yee may obtaine BEcause I haue but one houre to teach you all that you must learn of me I haue choseÌ„ a text which is like Iacobs ladder that shewes you the way to heauen This is all that you would know and it may please God to open your eyes that you may know it before ye depart Heare to practise hinder not the spirit but let it worke without resistance recorde when you are gone and you shall see the great power of God what he is able to doe for you by one sentence of this booke if ye digest it well So runne c. Then wee must see first how we should runne Secondly what we shall obtaine Thirdly what will hinder vs that is we must see the way the lettes and the ende Foure thinges marke in the way first begin betime secondly make hast thirdly keepe the way fourthly continue to the end thou shalt obtaine heauen whither Christ by these steppes is gone before thee When I haue set you in the way I will point at all the lettes stops rubbes and blockes which are before you behinde you beside you the temptations of prosperitie the temptations of aduersitie the temptations of heresie which stand in the streetes like the fierie sworde to stop the way to Paradice Then I will leade you to the mount as God did Moses and shew you a far off the blessed land the countrie aboue that you may see where heauen is what is the way to it and what glory and happines is there When I haue shewed you the way the lettes and the end I will commit you to the race and end as I began So runne that ye may obtaine So often as I haue read or considered these words which you heare they seeme me thinks to put vs in mind that we are out of the way and that there is another way if wee seeke it nearer yet to the kingdome of heauen then that which wee take therefore the holy Apostle doth waâ—â—e euery man to ponder his steps that running wee may obtaine that which we runne for which is the worthiest price that euer was giuen and neuer was giuen but to him which kept this way that I will shewe you The Apostle sayth that you must runne It is not an easie nor a short iourney which a drone a dreamer a snaile or any carelesse man may performe and take his ease set forth when hee will stay at his pleasure goe againe at his leasure but he must alwaies runne from the first day he setteth sorth till he come to his iorneyes end for the glorious heauen is farre from the darke earth much adoe to aspire the top of Mount StoÌ„ but much more adou to aspire the top of Mount Heauen The violent take it from the slothfull and the wicked runne to hell with more paines which they take to doe euill than the righteous need to take for heauen The Apostle putteth the word so before runne to teach vs to looke to our way before wee runne farre So runne c as if he should say moe runne than come home as moe shoote than hit the marke The heathen Philosophers Plato Socrates Aristides Phocion Pericles Solon in their way did runne faster than we Constancie Temperance Patience justice humilitie simplicitie integritie contempt of death contempt of the world seeme to be buried with them and hid in the graue before this Iron age was borne yet because they ranne without Christ they did not obtaine but lost their labour like a man which makes hast out of his way takes more paines than if he kept the way and yet neuer comes whither hee would The blinde generation which knowe not God in their way runne faster than wee Aske the Marchants which haue seene their life and our liues or looke in histories and they will tell you that our Religion is not like their superstition our knowledge not like their ignorance our faith not like their feare our worship not like their seruice our christianitie not like their Idolatrie yet because they runne to the creature for the creator and followe vncertaine dreames before the worde which came from heauen they runne in vaine for their Religion deuotion and seruice is to them that cannot requite it Many of our aduersaries Papists Anabaptists Donatists and the grossest heretikes in their way runne fasten than wee They watch they pray they fast and distribute more than we yet because they runne to traditions to Angels to Saints to Grosses to Images to Reliques insteâ—d of Christ and challenge merite of all that they doe and would bee canonized beside that all posteritie might honour them as they doe Saints therefore as the Pharisies had their rewarde when men praised them so haue they when one doth worship another If many runne and do not obtaine how easie is it to runne in vaine and how happie is he which obtaineth that that all men wish when so many misse it for nothing but for this because they runne out of the way You haue heard read and done much and more would doe to obtaine eternall life with the Angels in heauen for this ye pray and fast and watch and obey the lawes of God and come together euery Sabboth to heare to pray to praise and serue him which giueth How many prayers how many fastes how manie watches how many works how many houres in reading the word in hearing the word in receiuing the sacrameÌ„ts in examining your hearts in chastising your flesh were speÌ„t lost if you shuld run in vaine as Esau hunted for a blessing weÌ„t without it Therfore the holy Ghost doth say nothing but it is like a marke in our way to shew vs when we are in when we are out for God would not haue vs lose our labour like LabaÌ„ which could find in his hart after Iacob had serued him twentie yeeres to send him away emptie but he would haue you to seeke and finde to aske and receiue to runne and obtaine therefore hee saith so runne that ye may obtaine As there is a heauen so there is a way to heauen one way Adam came from Paradise and by another way hee must returne to Paradise the passage is not so stopt but there is a way though a straight way and a doore though it be a narrow doore and therefore few doe finde it onely they which are like Iacob doe see a Ladder before them as Iacob did he had many dreames before

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