Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bind_v	remit_v	retain_v	2,099	5	9.6847	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02400	The Romish chaine. By Edmund Gurnay, parson of Harpley	Gurnay, Edmund, d. 1648.	1624 (1624)	STC 12530; ESTC S121205	26,705	112

diuers of the rest also had new names giuen theÌ„ as Leui being new-named Matthew Saul Paul Iames and Iohn Boanerges which name being by interpretation the sonnes of thunder may farre better resemble persons of Authoritie then Peters new name of Cephas or Petros for that a Stone as those names signifie is more fit to make a Subiect then a Head if names should bee regarded 7. Now as for our Sauiours tearming Peter a Rock and promising to build His Church vpon him we answer that neither doth that Text giue Peter any higher preheminence for that the rest of the Apostles were styled by higher termes then so euen no lesse then absolute and seuerall foundations of the Church the wall of new Ierusalem being said Reuel 21.14 to haue twelue foundations and in them the names of the twelue Apostles Another Text also Ephes 2.20 making not onely the rest of the Apostles but also the Prophets as deepe in the foundation as he when it saith that the Church was founded vpon the Prophets and Apostles in which Text also it being further added that Iesus Christ is the Head Corner Stone If Peter should so be esteemed a Rock as to bee the Rocke alone hee should so not onely surmount his fellowes contrary to those Texts but also our Sauiour himselfe 8. Nor againe does our Sauiours giuing Peter the Keyes of heauen any whit aduance Peter aboue the rest of the Apostles vnto whom these heauenly Keyes whether the keyes of knowledge the keyes of binding and loosing the keyes of remitting and retayning or the Keyes of Dauid if there be any odds or difference amongst these keyes were as expressely giuen For first as touching the keyes of Knowledge those we find euen the Scribes and Pharisees and common Lawyers not to bee destitute of and as for the keyes of remitting and retaining sinne those also our Sauiour does plurally giue when hee sayeth Whose sinnes yee remit they are remitted c. though to speake truely and properly neither Peter nor any mortall man euer had power to remit sinne but onely as the Priests in the Old Law had power to cleanse Leprosie which was only by pronouncing according vnto the Leuiticall Rules who were cleane and who not the cognizance of Leprosie being confined onely vnto them and none in the Congregation beeing reputable for cleane after presumptions to the contrary but onely whom they so pronounced Thirdly the keyes of binding and loosing if they must differ from the former are likewise found giuen to the rest when our Sauiour saith Whatsoeuer yee binde on earth shall bee bound in heauen where the Relatiue yee is thought to extend in the iudgement of good Expositors not onely to the rest of the Apostles but also in case there spoken of to euery member of Christ Finally concerning the keyes of David which our Sauiour in his glory professing himselfe to be the keeper of may seeme to haue the preheminence wee finde long before Peters time to haue been committed vnto the Prophet Ieremie vnder the name of Eliachim in these words I will lay the key of Dauid vpon his shoulders hee shall shut and none shall open hee shall open and none shall shut Wherein then consists the peculiaritie of Peters Keyes For though when our Sauiour promised him them hee tearmed them the Keyes of Heauen yet for as much as the Keyes of binding loosing opening shutting remitting c. doe concerne no other gates then the gates of Heauen such nominall explications annexed vnto Peters Keyes can giue no reall Specialty vnto them Especially considering how the Key of Faith which euery beleeuer must haue as well as Peter is also the Key of Heauen yea and such a Key as without it none of the other Keyes can and yet it without all the rest is able to open Heauen Gates alone Though truly and properly we must alwaies remember that he only is able to open the heauens which hath made the heauens His precious blood being the only true Key indeed and his Word reuealing so much being the handle of that Key and the faith of man beeing the hand which by meanes of that handle His Word does turne that Key his bloud vpon the maine boult sinne which only hath shut Heauen gates against the Sonnes of Men. 9. Finally concerning Peters agencye and imployment in the Church affaires more then others we answer that the principall Agents and Speakers are not alwaies of necessity the principall persons Aduocates and pleaders exceeding Iudges and Presidents in such Offices the High Priest Aaron being as a mouth vnto Moses though Moses was as God vnto him and the men of Lystra esteeming Paul to be therefore inferiour vnto Barnabas as much as Mercurie was vnto Iupiter because Paul was the chiefe speaker Secondly though wee find Peter in the Acts of the Apostles to take vp the occasions of Speech very often and abundantly yet may we obserue diuerse tokens of more eminency in others especially in Paul Iohn and both the Iameses the one of these being graced with no meaner tearme then the Lords brother the other being named of Paul and before Peter amongst those which were accounted pillars mention also being made of him with more authoritie then of any the rest as when Iames did but say Act. 15.19 my sentence is c. presently without more ado the Text addeth v. 22. It seemed good vnto the Apostles to send c. Iames also being only named when Paul was dispensed withal for his coÌ„desceÌ„ding vnto the Iewish rites And as coÌ„cerning Iohn we find first that he is vsually called the Disciple whom Iesus loued that our Sauiour permitted him to leane on his breast at his last Supper made him the Son of his owne Mother as a gardian vnto her gaue him the grace to write his Gospell in the diuinest manner with answerable Canonicall Epistles as also made him the immediate pen-man of his special Epistles to the seauen Churches finally reuealed vnto him the future estate of the whol Church vnto the end of the world And as touching Paul these peculiar excellencies we find concerning him First that his calling was by the Lords immediate voice froÌ„ heauen was seperated by the appointmeÌ„t of the holy Ghost was reckoned amonst the Prophets of his time abounded in vnwritten reuelations as Iohn did in the written foretold the immediate blindnes of Elimas which was answerable vnto Peters like prediction of the death of Ananias Tooke the care of all the Churches Labored more theÌ„ they all would not build on anothers foundation had the largest Prouince namly ouer al the GeÌ„tiles wrot most canonicall Epistles most magnified his Office stood most vpon his Authority affirming that who so despised his Doctrine despised God commending his owne example and citing his owne authority behold I Paul I say vnto you c. and finally rebuking Peter to the face Whereas coÌ„cerning Peter as he is

should seeme to take vpon him the Office of a Iudge and so leaue a conceit in his followers that some degree of Authority might bee deriued from him euery where finally prescribing such courses and aduising all that desired to grow great in him to exceed only in humilitie preferring therefore a child before them all when they stroue who should be the greatest and telling them in effect that authority and greatnesse was to bee deriued only from the Kings of the Nations For whereas after his ascention hee tells vs that All power was giuen him both in Heauen and in Earth His meaning therein is only this that now all power both in Heauen and Earth should be vnder his humanitie as before it was vnder his Deity and that as all men euen Adam himselfe and all his race were formerly vnder him as he was the Sonne of God so now they should likewise bee vnder him as hee was the Sonne of man For the effecting thereof there needed no alteration of States or new conueyances for that as all other creatures both in Heauen and in Earth whether Angels Beasts Wormes Plants Stones or whatsoeuer are likewise become subiect vnto this manhood and yet still retaine their orders natures and properties as before Angels remaining Angels Beasts remaining Beasts Lyons Lyons Stones Stones c. so does it no otherwise follow but that mankind may likewise become subiect vnto the manhood of God and yet all men still to continue in their former properties Kings remaining Kings Princes Princes Fathers Masters Husbands Wiues Subiects Sonnes Seruants in their former condition and as the Apostles tell vs Euery man in the same calling wherin he was called as well after his birth in the Second Adam as in the first For as the second Adam did not thinke good to be the Father of a new generation by the course of Nature wherewith to propagate his Church but made choise of the old Adams issue to new graft vpoÌ„ So may we conceiue it to be a course most answerable thereunto that when he meanes to adorne and bespangle his Church with Scepters Crownes and Authorities He will not make new Crowns or new Scepters or take away Crownes and Scepters from the old possessors to adorne his followers withall but only new graft vpon those old Crownes and Potentates and so most sweetely bring it to passe that though hee does not make his followers Kings yet does hee make Kings his followers Which as it is all one for the outward glory and countenance of the Gospell so it is farre more agreeing with the propertie and profession of the Gospel namely in winning Kings vnto the grace of God by gentle easie weake and peaceable meanes making choice of Sheepe and not Wolues or Lyons for his Ambassadors and that when hee sends to Wolues and Lyons and worse then Tygers that so those Rebells in the day of visitation when they see how the Lord hath dealt with them and how in stead of sheepe hee could haue sent wolues and Lyons in their owne kinde to haue worried and destroyed them then as ouercome with the coales of fire which his long suffering had cast vpon them they with all their hearts and soules present him and his Gospell with their Scepters Crownes Dignities and Possessions yea they thus breake forth into most vehement and sincere protestations as our so Christian Soueraigne hath taught them vnto his Maiestie alone I haue deuoted my Scepter my Sword my Penne my whole industry my whole selfe with all that is mine in whole and in part I doe it I doe it in all humble acknowledgement of his vnspeakable fauour c. to whose seruice as a most humble homager and vassall I consecrate all the glory honour lustre and splendor of my earthly Kingdomes Wee conclude then that neither diuine ordinance nor Church benefit does inforce or perswade this ground without which Saint Peter cannot be intitled vnto Soueraignty that the more spirituall men are the more they ought to bee possessors of Authority which conclusion also were it granted yet would not Peters Supremacy thereupon insue vnlesse it bee also proued that in Spirituall gifts and graces Peter must of necessity bee acknowledged to surmount all persons which we grant not For as concerning the Text and collections which vse to bee alleadged for that purpose as namely that Peter is ordinarily first named when the Apostles are rehearsed 2. That our Sauiour three seuerall times gaue him charge to feede his sheepe 3. That our Sauiour particularly told him that he had prayed for him 4. That our Sauiour payed the tribute for him 5. Did more ordinarily discourse with him then any of the rest 6. Gaue him a new name 7. Tearmed him a Rocke and promised to builde his Church vpon him 8. Gaue him the Keyes of heauen 9. And finally wrought especially by him in the Primitiue Church affayres We thus shortly answer them in order And first concerning his nominall priority we answer that it is not of force to intitle him vnto any principality it being not auoydable amoÌ„gst the most equals but that there must bee such kind of precedency as for example in the Trinity though neither is Peter euery where first named both Iames and Andrew being sometime named before him 2. And as for our Sauiours triple charging him to feed his sheepe wee answere That it is rather a checke then a grace to bee often called vpon to doe a dutie and in that it is said that Peter was sory when it was said vnto him the third time c. it may seem that Peter took it no otherwise as perhaps conceiting such tripling of his charge to bee in the way of a glance at his triple denial 3. FroÌ„ the like consideration of Peters weaknesse wee answere to the third might proceed our Sauiours telling him that He had praied for him For no doubt our Sauiours praier was as frequent effectuall for the rest though he saw not the like cause to tell them so much 4. And as for our Sauiours paying the tribute for him we answer that it may rather argue Peters pouerty and subiection then any kind of excellency and dominion the rest also perhaps not being lyable to the tribute which was then demanded either because they were no dwellers at Capernaum as Peter was and so it might bee if it were the Emperors tribute or for that they were not the first borne in their Families of whome onely the other tribute toward the Temple was demanded 5. And as for our Sauiours so ordinary discoursing with Peter wee answere that it is ordinary with natural Fathers to make choice rather of their little ones to oppose and discourse withall then their men growne sonnes especially when their intent therein is to teach standers by the most ready answerers rather then the more wary being fittest for such purposes 6. And as for the new naming of Peter wee answere that

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