Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	2,324	5	11.8389	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72538	The drumme of deuotion striking out an allarum to prayer, by signes in heauen, and prodigies on earth. Together with the perfume of prayer. In tvvo sermons, preached by William Leigh, Bachilor in Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish in Lancashire.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423.7; ESTC S103218	38,386	111

hollow vault at Endor spake to teach vs that if we will not know there is a God we shall be taught that there is a diuell Zim and Ohim wil haunt our habitations and the witch at Endor will endaunger our dwellings A third wall of separation stopping the passage of our prayer to God is the sinne of vnmercifulnes towards the poore for as the wiseman saith He that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore he also shall cry and not be heard vnmercifulnes towards the poore was one of the sins of Sodome and little doe I doubt but it stopt the passage of Abrahams prayer euen froÌ„ fiftie to tenne mercifull men not found in Sodome for whose sake the Lord might spare the rest The vse is good I pray God the teares of the poore hinder not the prayers of the rich many are oppressed yet are not pittied we can goe to no pulpit but they presse our harts to prouoke our speech all I can say is this take heed for as ye know he y t would not giue a crum of comfort was denied a drop of mercy and not to pittie the poore on earth it cannot but hinder your prayer in heaueÌ„ Fourthly if you long after audience and answere froÌ„ God of that ye pray for you must beware of malice and picke out that poyson you must forgiue that you may be forgiuen yea and which is yet more you must pray for your worst enemie that you may preuaile with your best friend That friend hath well aduised thee as a friend saying When ye shall stand and pray forgiue if ye haue any thing against any man that your father also which is in heauen may forgiue you your trespasses Ye aske saith a brother of the Lord and yet ye receiue not because ye aske amisse that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures It s a foolish pleasure on earth that beates backe a prayer from heauen It s a foolish passage with man that stops a passage with God And so for conclusion of this poynt be warned that as you heighten your prayers vpward so you lessen your sinnes downward And with Siracides returne vnto the Lord and forsake thy sinnes make thy prayer before his face and diminish the offence Lastly as wickednes in our selues and proper sinnes doe hinder our prayers So when sinne is in those we pray for it often stoppeth our passage vnto the Lord and maketh him inexorable As in Ieremiah the Prophet when the Lord said I will cast you out of my sight as I haue cast out all your brethren euen the whole seede of Ephraim Therefore thou shalt not pray for this people neither lift vp cry or prayer for them neither intreate me for I will not heare thee Seest thou not what they doe in the cities of Iudah and in the streetes of Ierusalem As and if he should say exemplarie sinnes shall haue exemplarie iudgements for I will power my wrath vpon this place vpon man and vpon beast and vpon the trees of the field and vpon the fruit of the ground it shall burne Ã´ Ieremiah and thy prayer shall not quench it Nay and as it is in an other Prophet If these three men Noah Daniel and Iob were among them they should not but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes saith the Lord God All I haue said is but this if our prayers be not heard it is quia petimus 1. indignÃ© 2. indigna 3 pro indignis either the thing is vnlawfull we pray for or we are vnworthie who pray or they for whom we doe pray The mother of Zebedes childreÌ„ had not her boone at the hands of Christ for that her demand was not lawfull Esau had not that he prayed for because he was vnworthie And if you poure out ten thousand praiers either for the diuels or damned ye shall not be heard for their sinnes are gone before them to their iust condemnation And here spare me a while and I hope it shall not be vnprofitable to the further sanctifying both of your will and skill in prayer if I lay downe certaine Rules whereby you may know how diuersly y e Lord doth answere the requests of his Saints yet all to their endlesse comfort if they can but be patient of his answeres And first obserue and you shall find it to be true that God heareth some ad voluntatem non ad vtilitatem he answereth their pleasure but not their profit what they would haue but not what they should haue As when the people lusted after flesh in the wildernes and loathed Manna God gaue them their fill yet while the flesh was betweene their teeth before it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people the Lord smote the people with an exceeding great plague in so much as the place of their buriall is called vnto this day kibroth hattauah graues of lust Againe it was their desire to haue a king like other nations whervnto y e Lord yeelded yet told them it had beene better for them if they had not forsaken him but kept him still their guidon The vse is good against all such as pray for nothing but for the pleasures and profites of this world beautie wealth and plodding wit which oftentimes God putteth into their hands like a sword into the hands of a lunatike man wherwithall he endangereth himselfe and so the Lord answereth all such ad voluntatem non ad vtilitatem The second rule is religious too much to the solace of Gods Saints who often heareth and answereth ad vtilitatem non advoluÌ„tatem answereth I say our profit and not our pleasure As he did Paul who praying thrice that Sathans buffettings which were the prickes of the flesh might be taken from him Christ answered no Paul not so my grace is sufficient for thee and my power is made perfect through thy weakenes And this made the Saints of God to reioyce in nothing more then in the crosse of Christ where by the world was crucified vnto them and they vnto the world they reioyced in their infirmities anguish and persecutions though buffettings of Sathan and prickes of the flesh yet purging fire fyning them for their God whiles they were resolued that all the afflictions in this world were neuer worthy of that glorie which should be reueiled and all such the Lord doth answere ad vtilitatem non ad voluntatem whiles they seeme to shrinke vnder the burden of their afflictions The third rule is not irregular with God who for the most part doth answere all his Elect children ad voluntatem ad vtilitatem making them glorious by deliuerance in the daies of their afflictions answering their pleasure with their profit and what they should with what they would as he did the Niniuites when he deliuered them from their destructioÌ„ The woman of Sirophenishia from her diuell the children from

the fiery furnance Lazarus from the graue and Christ from his crosse yea and all his Elect from death and doome when they shall meete him in the cloudes and be caught vp to raigne with him for euermore with palmes in their hands in signe of victorie and crownes vpon their heads in signe of glory Lastly and not the least to our comfort read and you shall find how oftentimes and for the most part the Lord doth answere vs according to that we should aske and not according to that we doe aske as he did Iacob who sought a leader to Haram and God shewed him a ladder to heauen And Saul who sought his fathers asses found a kingdome the Maries sought Christ dead but they found him risen And that Saint at Sychar sought but puddle water at Iacobs well but she found went away with the water of life Surely the rule is true vberior gracia quam precatio Gods grace is more abounding then either we can desire or deserue the theefe vpon the crosse craued but a memento when Christ should come into his kingdome and he had a promise euen that day of a perpetuitie in paradise To iustifie that I haue said Vberior gracia quam precatio and therefore pray with good hope to be heard be your prayers neuer so many powerfull or piercing yet shall ye find his grace wil be euermore abouÌ„ding brimfull and flowing ouer I may not be long and therefore passe to the last part of the text which is the reward crowne and diadem of our prayer bossed with many blessings from the Lord more precious then the Carbuncle Topas or Chrisolite And seldome haue you heard or read of a powerfull prayer from an holy heart without remuneration froÌ„ the Lord for as you here see inuocation is crowned with saluation It shall be that whosoeuer shall call vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued who euer prayed and found not the Lord propitious who euer made intreatie vnto his God and had not a blessing returned into his bosome It is said of Augustus Caesar that neuer suter departed from him disconteÌ„ted that Titus Suetonius thought the day lost wherein he did not good to some A milder more mercifull Sauiour is here then all the Caesars clapt in one euen our good God called Deus a dando God in creating but good in giuing for who hath gone from him discontented who hath trusted in him and beene deceiued Come vnto me all ye that trauell and be heauie loaden I will ease you it is his gracious call Be of good comfort my little flocke it is your fathers will to giue you a kingdome it is his glorious crowne Aske ye shall haue seeke ye shall finde knocke and it shall be opened vnto you it is his irreuocable promise at which the gates of heauen fly open and against which the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile only wrastle with God for a blessing till you haue wearied both God and your selues The aduertisement is good from the prophet Ye that are mindfull of the Lord keepe not silence and giue him no rest till he haue repaired your ruines and set vp Ierusalem the ioy of the world But what may be the different blessings we receiue from God by our prayer and wherunto the Lord hath tyed himselfe by promise for the performance not for our merit but for his mercies sake Surely they are many and they are Remarkable if you please to rancke them thus First by the sufferage of prayer all the creatures of God are sanctified to our vse so saith the blessed Apostle Euery creature of God is good and nothing â—ought to be refused if it be receiued with thankesgiuing for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer Stamped with the word of God vpon the one side and with the perfume of prayer vpon the other then is it a Shikel for the sanctuarie Our meate our drinke our corne our cattell our clothes and lodging our wiues children and families our labours in our vocations our King and kingdome our Church and Common-wealth nay our liues and deaths must be sanctified with our prayer otherwise though the creatures be good in themselues yet are we profane in the vsage And therefore our Sauiour when he had performed all to his death and passion yet shutteth it vp with this powerfull prayer Father now the hower is come glorifie thy Sonne As and if he should haue said I haue prayed I haue preached I haue wached I haue fasted I haue cured malladies and saued soules I haue giuen life and forgiuen sinnes I haue done my fathers busines on earth now let me be glorified in heauen I pray for that which is past that it may be sanctified and I pray for that which is to come that it may be glorified Father now the hower is come glorifie thy Sonne c. Ierom in his booke de laudibus Bethlem doth much commend the Christian carriage of that place and people in the vsage of Gods gifts and creatures euen from the Prince in his Pallace to the Plowman in the field Of whom he saith Arator ad Stiuam semper aliquid cantat dauidieum The Plowman with his stilt in his hand doth still folace his soule with some psalme of Dauid And surely God speed the plowe were no bad prayer when the labourer taketh the stilt in his hand but I feare it is done of fewe And if all our manuall trades were sanctified first and last euery day with prayer and prayses for a blessing they could not but prosper much better There is much pouertie in y e world and it is no maruell for that men worke not yea but many worke and yet are neuer the richer that 's possible too for that men pray not they spend their thrift in drinking when they should bestow their time in praying the creature is not sanctified with the word of God and prayer In the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy Ghost is neither fond begninng nor foolish ending of all thy labours blessed worke so begun blessed worke so done so it be said of conscience and not of course without hypocrisie in the heart or superstition in the thought surely such perfume is like the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed its sweet as balme and therefore breake it its fragrant as Myrrhe and therfore vse it euer dropping from the binges of thy heart lippes and hands A second blessing that commeth by prayer is the forgiuenes of sins for by the sufferage of prayer sinnes are pardoned couered concealed As may appeare by Moses his intreatie with God for the people either to forgiue the trespasse Israel had committed or else to rase him out of the booke of life he had his prayer and the people were both spared and pardoned Blood and prayer shall reconcile God and the people for as the text saith the priest shall

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