Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	militant_a	5,036	5	12.4963	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10056	Recusants conversion a sermon preached at St. James, before the Prince on the 25. of Februarie. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20301; ESTC S115205	21,005	38

RECVSANTS CONVERSION A SERMON PREACHED AT St. JAMES before the PRINCE on the 25. of Februarie 1608. BY DANIELL PRICE Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge in Oxford At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1608. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE HENRIE PRINCE OF Great Britaine and DVKE of CORNWAYL the glory of grace in this life and the grace of glorie in the future REligious most Gratious Prince let me craue pardon for my presumption in offring that vnto the eie of the world which I lately preached in the eare of your Highnesse The vnde served vnexpected attention and former acception of these labours haue drawne this little gift in representation of my remembrance therein VVith this I present my selfe and service being ever ready with all my power to doe your Highnesse the humblest duty thinking my selfe happie when I may performe any thing which may testifie my true zealous and dutiful affection Your highnesse hath already cunning Aholiab and Bezaleel sweet singing David Parable speaking Ecclesiastes Sinne smiting Micaiah Ionas powerfull for Contrition Peter potent for compunction Barnabas singuler for Consolation These all haue dedicated and consecrated their labours to the building of Gods temple in you For my owne part I confesse I am not able with these to bring taches or rings or earings or bracelets or iewels of gold or Onix stoÌ„es or Sittim wood or ointmeÌ„ts or spices or perfumes but the little oile which I haue I desire to present for the light of the Temple Your Grace is the comforte of the old the hope of the young and the ioy of all tanquaÌ„ ad clarum beneficum sidus certatim ad volant they striue to flocke to your Highnesse as to the comfortable starre of their happinesse wishes praiers presents be their offrings VVith me it is worse then with many I haue nothing to present vnlesse as Eschines did to Socrates I should present my selfe and ah las in my selfe I finde that there is such a disproportion betweene a presents worthinesse and my weaknesse that even in this I had beene disanimated had I not beene by your gratious favour encouraged It now remaineth that in the huÌ„blest manner I can devise I wholy resigne my selfe studies labours endeavours course of life to your Highnesse protection and disposition craving pardon for my boldnesse and ever praying for your Highnesse blessednesse that you may be truly gratious in this life and truly glorious in the life to come Your Highnesse most humbly devoted in all service DANIELL PRICE Esay 2.3 Come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob WHen the Lord for many yeeres togither had manifested himselfe to be the God of Israell expected that his people would become the Israell of God it proved at the leÌ„gth that Israels sins made them to become Ismaels sonnes of a chosen generation a royall Priesthood a peculiar people a holy nation they became an vnwise and foolish generatioÌ„ a disobedient and rebellious generation a generation that set not their harts aright whose spirit was not confident in their God dishonouring Gods Maiestie despising Gods mercy abusing his goodnes abasing his glory prophaning the Kings holyday the Saboath of the Lord poluting the Sanctuary the Chamber of Presence of the Lord neglecting his precepts the Acts of Parliament of the Lord conteÌ„ning his holy-ones the Privy Counsell of the Lord not regarding him as a father who had adopted them his sonnes or as a Master who had hired them his servants or as a husband who had espoused them as his wife or as a Lord who had delivered them as his people out of the fieâ—y furnace of the land of Aegypt of the house of bondage HerevpoÌ„ the Lord sent forth his heavenly heralds the Prophets with their celestiall proclamations to signifie his anger conceiued against their sinnes and yet his mercie if it were received by sinners that so he might inviâ—e those that did rebel incite those that did neglect hasten those that did linger and recall those that did wander to sue out their pardons and to recouer those places that they had lost in the house of his Courts Etym. nom Prophetarum Thus sent hee forth Esay his health to heale their sicknesse Ieremie his exaltation to bring them to humiliation Esekiell his strength to helpe their weaknes Daniel his iudgement to manifest his mercie by these 4. as by 4. truÌ„pets or by the 4. windes or by the 4. rivers of Paradise or by the 4. Evangelists he doth send out his spirituall Pursevants with their celestiall proclamatioÌ„s Our Prophet Esay is one of these foure who having sounded a Parle in the former Chapter and having contested with this people Summa totius primi capitis proueth that they are a sinfull nation a people full of iniquity seed of the wicked corrupt children their whole head sicke and their whole hart beauy so that from the sole of the foote to the crowne of the head nothing but wounds and sores swelling corruptioÌ„ the land wast the cities burnt Zion like a beseedged Citie the faithful Citie become a harlot the siluer drosse the wine water the Princes rebellious and that therfore the Lord would consume theÌ„ and vtterly ouerthrowe them Yet not withstanding all this their miserie in this Chapter hee prophecieth of Gods great mercie that there shal be a time of the restauration of the Church of the erection of the Temple of the election of the Gentiles the house of the Lord shal be prepared vpon the mountaine and the mountaine of the house of the Lord shal bee prepared on the top of the mountaines shal be exalted aboue al the hills and the people shal resort thervnto and shal mutually and reciprocally excite and solicite each others with these words of my Text. Come let vs goe vp to the house of the Lord to the mountaine of the God of Jacob. Which words emblematicallie doe describe Ecclesia militantis symbolum triumphantis exercitium the true signe of the Church militant on earth and the holy exercise of the Church triumphing in heauen Wherin if devotion compunction conuersion assention or religion may moue let him that hath an eare heare what the spirit saith vnto the Church or rather what the Church speaketh with the spirit come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob. If vnitie amitie or vnamitie maie moue if the prophet who was a noble courtier or the people who were worthy Converts or the place they goe to to the house of God or the God of that house Deus Iacobi maie draw attention from you O then come see and heare tast the gratious goodnes of the Lord in the society of his Saints with one minde one mouth inuiting one another with these words come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the

then the oile of Aaron more fructifiing then the deawe of Hermon That so we maie be al knit together without anie disiuÌ„ction that whether we bee supplicants to the throne of grace wee maie al of vs come togither as ioint petitioners or whether we be the singers of thanksgiuing in the house of the Lord we maie al sing in the harmonie of the spirit or whether we be as the company of an army to stand in the gap to entreat for CoÌ„ditions of peace we may all cry togither Spare vs good Lord spare thy people bee not angrie with thine inheritance so al of vs being as so many beames issuing from the Sun of righteousnes all as brookes comming froÌ„ the fountaine of goodnes al of vs as nerues proceeding froÌ„ the head of wisdom al of vs as arteries springing from the hart of loue all of vs as veines deriued from the liver of life al of vs as lines drawne from the center of grace Al of vs going one way through truth vnto life through light vnto truth through loue vnto light hauing one hope one faith and grace of God in Christ Jesus the one only meanes of our saluation The vse hereof is to exhort al the Saints Vse seruaÌ„ts of God to an vniformity in Christianity and the profession thereof that so there may be no diuision in the body for seeing a body a house a kingdome cannot stand if once deuided Alas how shal the Church of Christ the body of Christ the houshold of the faithful the kingdome of heauen vpon earth stand if there be so manie Sizers and Concisers Cutters Carvers of her members Liuie Rome in that ciuil or rather vnciuil discord betweene Crassus and Caesar and Pompey had almost lost by this threefold discorde the threefold cord of their concorde and many other CoÌ„mon wealths haue been much wasted and impaired by the monster dissention Tacitus in vita Agrico lae Tacitus in the life of Agricola describing the figure fashion complexion chiualrie and resolution of the Britaine 's in that time obserueth this also that they were then drawne into pety partialities and factions Britan gens vali dissima Tacit and the greatest helpe that the Romanes had adversus validissimas gentes as he calleth our natioÌ„ was that they had no coÌ„mon couÌ„cel togither but each citty fought against their neighbours Et ita dum singuli pugnant vniversi vincuÌ„tur whilest one by one fighteth al are subdued The Romanes are againe entring our land they expect an aduantageous successe by our home-bred factions and schismes dissentions But Lord let it neuer come to passe let our Common-wealth and Church be as Ierusalem a Citty at vnitie safe as Mount Syon that shal neuer be remoued Let thy Church here be for euer the house of peace O let not her Peace-makers be her Peacebreakers let not her fathers be foster-fathers of dissention but let Patrones be patternes of vnity let her Presidents be the presideÌ„ts of vnity her Antients beare the standards of vnity let her be begirt with the wals of vnitie let her and her seruants her sonnes be guided by thee O God the God of vnity till the comming of thy Sonne Christ Iesus to iudgment J knowe J speak to an intelligent and ingenious auditorie J need not expatiat in this of the profit pleasure blessing faelicitie of vnitie You al know that she is the greatest gift of God cheifest ioy of Angels highest happines of meÌ„ fearfullest terror of diuils holiest harmonie of Saints heauenlyest Antheme of Celestial Cherubins The Empresse of the world whose priuie Counsel be the vertues whose Ladies of honor bee the Muses whose nearest attendants bee the Graces whose Gard be the Angels whose Court is prosperitie whose state is felicitie whose statuts veritie whose continuance eternitie David his Ecce as the roial vsher of this Empresse bids you behold how good gratious and happy and holy and heauenlie a thing it is to dwel together in vnity Hold it and behold it entertaine her retaine her that you maie al saie as these converts Come let vs goe vp And so J end this point and follow them in their going vp Come and let vs goe vp The life of a Christian is not the life of speculation 2 Obs not a professing life but a practising not a talking life but a walking they must not only Come together but goe together they must walke goe clime goe vp Goe repent goe vp perseuerance 1. Repent This ditty their dutie Come and let vs goe vp Jn the word go we may note their repentance in their going vp their perseuerance For the first they had loÌ„g layen vpon the lees of vngodlines vnstird vnmoued they sat in the seat of the scornful or if they stood vp they stood but in the waie of sinners or if they walkt they walked but in the counsell of the wicked gressus digressus but now they take a newe iourney in hand they chuse new liuing waies they goe egressus regressus they goe goe out and goe on and goe vp and turne from the waie of their wickednes and from the wickednes of their waies Doctrine The doctrine gathered from the word goe is this that it is a certaine signe of salvation in a penitent sinner vpon the first knowledge acknowledgment of his sinnes to goe to the throne of grace Austin Reason St Austin giueth the reason of this doctrine Man by his going from God is deformed and poluted and altogether void of al spiritual blessings and by his returne and going back to God he obtaineth al those blessings he formerlie lost Excedendo frigescit ascendendo fervescit Recedendo tenebrescit revertendo clarescit therfore these conuerts resolue here as those did of whom St Austin speaketh In 70. Psal Conferamus nos ad te bene erit nobis de nobis malum est nobis de nobis quia commisimus malum dimisisti nos nobis The state of Christians in their conuersion is vndoubtedly most heauenlie that though Sathan hath assaulted them and sinne hath wounded them and the world tempted them and the flesh betraied them and temptation entrapped theÌ„ yet al these enimies remoue their beeseedg when the soule is desirous to turne to his God O how happie is the Christian then when he hath the father calling the sonne mouing the holy spirit perswading the word directing the rewarde inuiting Saints conuersing Angels reioicing and he himselfe singing that sweet holy Hymne NuÌ„c dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace from the wicked waies of the world the flesh the deuil and froÌ„ the companie of al infernall complices loe J come J walke J goe J runne J clime J goe vp to the house of the Lord J repent my sinns past video meliora proboque J follow hard to the marke for the high price of my saluation Thus

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