Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bread_n	life_n	manna_n	4,497	5	12.2368	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01452	a pearle of price or, The best purchase For which the spirituall marchant Ieweller selleth all his temporalls. By Samuel Gardiner, Batchellor of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1600 (1600)	STC 11578; ESTC S118892	98,748	224

his armes to sleep he must not keepe his tabernacle or stand in the market place but he must gird vp his reynes put his sandalls vpon his feet he hath a painfull pilgrimage chargeable voiage he must haue the feet of an Hind and the wings of a Doue Abac. 3. and giue all diligence to find out this hidden and vnspeakable treasure Psal 55 and to make purchase of it I know that God hath opened vnto some the treasures of his grace who haue bin carelesse enogh of it as little or not at al inquiring after it clocking like a hen putting out his hand vnto a wicked gain-saying people as to Mathew the Publicane Math. 8 to the woman the Samaritan to Zachee the vsurer Iohn 4 Luke 19 1. Tim. 3. Hai. 6â— to Paul the persecutor and to the nation of the Gentiles generally of whom by the mouth of Isaith he saith planly I was found of them who neuer sought me Thereby manifesting that the riches of his goodnesse without our merites depend vpon his mercies yet vnto such to whom he giueth this particular grace he requireth their diligence for their better furtherance and that we should vse his appointed meanes to attaine vnto that end he hath propounded vnto vs. That our eies should not be euill because he is good nor our pains and carefulnes be in the rereward because his louing kindnes is in the foreward Isal 55 And therfore by Isaiah he crieth alowd saying Seek the Lord while he is to be found Amos. 5 call vpon him whilst he is nigh Answerable wherevnto is that of Amos the Prophet seeke the Lord and your soules shall liue whom our Sauiour Christ answereth like the Eccho seeke and ye shall find knocke and it shall be opened vnto you Math. 6. The estate and condition of a christian life is laborious and painfull It was a law before the law Gen. 3 that with the hard sweat of our foreheads and labor of our hands we should bring in our liuing And the couenant of the law of the Gospel is so streight as he that refuseth to vndergo this labor 2. Thes 3 his mouth must be muzled and he must not eate The first Adam was not seated in the garden of Eden Gen. 2 there to take his perambulations and his pleasure and there to sit at ease but to digge and dresse it and to take due paines with it And the second Adam came not into this world here to rest himselfe in a chaire of ease and to liue without labour but he did eate his bread not onely in the sweat but also in the very bloud of his face and made his whole life vnto his very death an exceeding painfull pilgrimage Math. 25 He excluded the nodding and drowsie virgins and did shut heauen gates against them And he shaketh vp very roundly the idle gazers and standers in the market place Math. 20 and sent them into his vineyard for to labour in it This life is the vineyard of the Lord of Hostes into which none but labourers are called In this life we haue but our labour onely our penny and wages for our labour is kept for vs to the life that is to come where we shal hunger and labour no more and where all teares shall be wiped from our eies Therefore the spirit in the Reuelation saith Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord they rest from their labours and their workes follow them Iob calleth our life a warfare Iob. 7 to expresse the painful nature and condition of it which rowseth vs and maketh vs to trusse vp our loynes and to looke about vs. Else where he likewise saith that a man is borne to trauaile Iob. 5 as the sparkes flie vpwards yea as we may so say Gen. 47 as the bird is made to flie wherfore Iacob termed his life a pilgrimage and Paul properly compareth it to a race Iacob his life 1. Cor. 9 whenas he soiourned with his vnckle Laban is the right line and leuell of our liues if we liue as we should do which he storieth out himselfe and rippeth vp to Laban in this wise Gen. 31 These twentie yeeres haul I been in thy house I was in the day consumed with heate and with frost in the night and the sleep departed from mine eies Seemeth this a hard thing it cannot be but that hard things must be gotten hardly A similitude He that is desirous to haue the gold of India must take a painfull iourney and abide a great aduenture before he may attaine it As euery thing hath his end so there are meanes which we must vse which may bring vs to this end He that will be cured of a most grieuous disease must not refuse such phisick as best serueth therevnto Similitudes Hee that buyeth a bargaine and purchase of land immediatly bethinketh himselfe therewithall what may be the price of it I know it that albeit al labourers are not chosen yet there are none but that are labourers chosen and haue their penny of the master of the vineyard The fruitlesse fig-tree that hath nothing but leaues Marâ— 11 is blasted at the breath of Christs heauy displeasure and so being dead in naturall vegetation it is twice dead in spirituall malediction The edge of the sharpe axe is put to with force to the roote of the seare and vnprofitable tree so as seruing not for fruit it shal be hewed downe and serue for the fire Be our labour neuer so sower to vs yet it giueth a great sweetnes and pleasure to those things which we bring in by labour Wherfore that may be argument enough vnto vs if there were nothing else to minister encouragement to be painefull and industrious in all godly enterprises Do not all things seem sweete and delitious vnto him whose life is most laborsome I refer you to the husbandman and day-labourer heerein whose diet and quiet through worke and wearinesse is more toothsome and delightsome than his that surffeteth himselfe with ease cowcheth on soft pallets stalketh and strowteth sluggishly enough in his orchardes and galleries and pampereth himselfe with his new deuised dishes He that neuer laboureth can neuer recreate and refresh himself with ease The pauement is a pallet more pleasurable to the laborer than the field bedde of dowlne is to the lordly loyterer A course and grose diet batleth and better goeth downe with the pesant sweating at the plough than the finest foode doth with the curious Courtier sweating in his bedde or in his drowsie chayre by the fire side Suruey the common course of all creaturs vnder heauen and wee shall finde that their condition and nature is such as directly crosseth and ouerthwarteth all securitie The heauens the planets Psal 1â— and the whole frame thereof haue their distinct and peculiar motions they goe as a bridegroome out of his chamber and reioyce as a Giant to run

Exhortation to the loue of the worde and the spirituall life the purport of the premisses IT is not gold but drosse not hony but gall not credit but shame not life but death not good but euil which the world yeeldeth vs diuide the worlde aright with the sworde of truth and the vanitie of it will soone appeare vnto thee But thy word Psalme 119 O Lord endureth for euer in heauen Mat. 13 It is the word of the kingdome because it bringeth vs to no lesse than a kingdome It is Iohn 6 the word of life which giueth life vnto all creatures Mat. 2 It is the starre which conducteth vs to Christ Gen. 28 The ladder whose toppe reacheth vp to heauen The water which purgeth and cleanseth our leprosie 2. Reg. 5 Psalmey â— The manna which satisfieth our hungry soules Iohn 6 The booke that we should study vpon day and night The royall and celestiall Testament of God The Oracles of his Sanctuarie Psal 1 Ierem. 31 Isai 22 The Key that openeth his counsell chamber doore The milke of his breasts Mat 16 1 Pet 2 Psalm 11â— the gage of his loue The light of our paths The breath of our nostrells The piller of our faith Pro 3 The anchor of our hope The ground of our loue Heb 6 The charter of our happinesse Pro 4 The Schoole and Library of all spirituall learnings This is the pathway that leades vnto heauen Luke 18 so saith Christ to the yong man in Luke If thou wilt enter into heauen keep the commandements So saith the Spirit Reuel 2â— Blessed are they that heare the word of God and keepe it So saith the Angel Blessed are they that keepe the words of this booke So saieth Solomon Prou. 29 Blessed is the man that keepeth the Lawe So saieth Isaiah He that doth this is blessed Isai 56 Iames 1 So saith Iames The doers of the Lawe are iustified And to this giue all the Scriptures witnesse if we wil consider them Good cause therfore haue we to loue this Lawe and all the day long to haue our study in it Worldly Lawyers increase daily they are called common lawyers because they are too common and they are not weary in following that study but Gods Law which speaketh of farre better things and promiseth to the faithfull professors thereof not the golde of Ophir or India but the infinite and vnspeakeable treasure of a kingdome lieth open in the windowe or shut in the studie altogether neglected or retchlesly regarded Sommon all the Law giuers and conuent them together and lette them worship their politique ordinances and statutes as they list they must not bee matched and consorted with this Lawe None of these euer durst or did promise vnto any that were keepers thereof the recompence of a kingdome Mercurius Trismegistius gaue Lawes to the Aegyptians Phoronaeus to the Graecians Solon to the Athenians Lycurgus to the Lacedemonians and Numa Pompilius vnto the Romanes yet none of these pricketh them with that praise as to assigne such a recompence and rewarde vnto them Such glory hath all his Saintes saieth the Kingly Prophet 1 Chro. 12 As one of the least of the captaines of the sonnes of Gad could chace away a hundred and the greatest a thousand so one of Gods books exceedeth a thousand of humane constitutions Prou. 31 Many daughters saith King Lemuel haue done vertuously but thou surmountest all so many writers haue written learnedly but the actuaries of the scriptures haue gone beyond them all Wheras others of Gods blessings as food light and life are communicated to others of his creatures as to birds beasts and fishes this priuiledge of the word as a preheminence and prerogatiue royall aboue all other creatures he hath appropriated only to man And this is argument pregnant to perswade vs to the loue of the word As man is most happy by his hauing the word so had he bin of all most miserable if he had bin destitute altogether of this word For what comfort saith Tobias can I haue now I sit in darknes so what comfort could we haue had whilst we sate in darknesse and in the shadow of death whilst we were without knowledge and hope of our saluation aliants from the common wealth of Israel Ephe 2 strangers from the couenant of promise and were without God in the world Whenas God would checke the ingratitude of his people he calleth to mind his benefits done vnto them and as the chiefest among others Miea 6 he grateth their eares with a rehearsall of his word That as he had giuen them Moses to gouerne them Num. 34 so he had sent them Aaron to instruct them as he had giuen them a Iosua to leade the people Iosua 15 so he did giue them a priest to beare the Arke a Iehozadach with Zorobabel Agge 1 and a Iayrus in the Synnagogue with a Centurion in Capernaum Mat 8 9 His word hath bin the badge and cognisance of his people the hedge and partition whereby they haue bin distinguished from all other people So singeth the melodious musition of Israel Psalm 147 He hath not done so to any other nation neither haue any people such knowledge of his laws This is that one thing that is necessary as Christ said to Martha howsoeuer many other vnnecessary things are preferred before it Luke 10 and we preferre with the vngentle and vnmannerly guests in the Gospel Luke 14 our wife our farme our oxen before it Herein we resemble and imitate such porters A similitude who letteth euery one that is costly apparrelled into his masters gate and keepe out such who are farre their betters because they carry not such an outward shew Or they are like the raueÌ„ A similitude who wheÌ„ sheseeth her young ones in the nest first doe begin to fether and then their fethers seeme white she doth not know them but afterwards perceiuing how the fethers grow blacke she nourisheth and preserueth them The world loueth not a godly man because he seemeth to be of a contrary fether but let him turne blacke and be like the world and the world will know him for his owne and make much of him As in desperate diseases A similitude such medicines as do serue simply in their nature as preseruatiues of life are turned thorough the dangerous corruptions of the patients into occasions of death So in some most dangerous diseases of the soule the word which otherwise in nature is a salue is a corsiue vnto vs. For the word is of sundry effects according to the diuerse dispositions of the subiects that it principally worketh vpon The Sun worketh diuersly as we see A similitude according to the variable nature of the matter vpon which it hath his force For as it softneth waxe so it hardneth clay as it whiteth some things so it blacketh othersome things and yet the

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