Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	israel_n	judah_n	1,785	5	9.8153	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10113	A sermon briefly comparing the estate of King Salomon and his subiectes togither with the condition of Queene Elizabeth and her people preached in Sainct Maries in Oxford the 17. of Nouember, and now printed with some small alteration, by Iohn Prime, 1585	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1585 (1585)	STC 20371; ESTC S115247	10,727	32

can dreame euen Iosephs dreame Genes 37. but not with Iosephes spirite that al the sheaues of the field must stoupe to their sheaue that the sun moon and starres the Queene Nobles and realme must bowe bend before a stinking snuf a Stukeley Thomas Stukeley a faithlesse person periured beast yet the best instrument of holy fathers pride But pride hath had hir deserued ruine As Absolons fancifal heade was hanged in his own lockes and Haman on his own gallowes so Stukeley Stukeleis like haue had their iust deserts drank the wine of their own vintage Notwithstanding all this to vse Hamans words to a truer sense most true it is So so and in greater truer incomparably better sort shal he be honored whoÌ„ God will honor with this most honorable calling of being a lawful prince to the end he be his own lieutenaÌ„t 2. Chro. 9.8 to sit in the throne in his own stead to be bear the image of his maiesty to haue the credit of kingdoms care of his people to feed Israel to guide Iacob to gouern Iudah to be a foster-father a nursing mother vnto his Church to bee the instrument angel of God as the woman of Thecuah said to Dauid to be the horse chariot the bones and strength to be the head the eie of direction for iustice equity good order in a commonwealth This is no small prerogatiue or common priuilege And in one word this was Salomons case was this no blessing 2 In the second place consider we the blessing loue of God towarde Salomons subiects As the wickednesse of the king bringeth the wrath of God vpon the whole realm Gen. 20.9 so when wise very wise men gouern the gouermnent is stable and they so gouerned are most happy As when Salomon should build the temple he cared litle for hey for straw for vnteÌ„pered morter for vnskilful workmen he sent for HyeraÌ„ prouided as Dauid his father had done before him for the gold of Ophir cedars of Libanus Euen so God in the edifice of his chosen peculiar people for the greater benefite and beuty of the whole work he chuseth no Nabal no foole as Nabal was to be their ruser but Salomon the wisest man that euer was If the prince bee wise the people be the wiser if he be blessed of God they be most happy Si caecus caeco praeierit If the head be il the members cannot prosper if the blinde lead the blind they both fal into the pit the pit is bottomlesse but if the ese be sound the fish is sweet A good neighbour as we say is a great coÌ„modity a grations prince hath no coÌ„parison to speake of A candle lighteth a house the sun the world a wel is competeÌ„t for a few it is the stream that caseth the couÌ„trie one beame beareth an other one peece of a bough feedeth another it is the foundation it is the roote that vpholdeth the building cherisheth the whole tree Somway semblably in this case Israel reaped mutual helpe ech of other but the sun the generall light the streame the foundation the root of their blisse whole repose next immediatly vnder God depended altogether and rested most in hauing Salomon to be their prince Vnder him their peace and plenty was more than woonderfull siluer was as common as ruble in the streetes and euery maÌ„ sate without any feare at ful ease vnder his vine Were these no blessings No dout the Lords blessings rare effects of his singular loue wherein he blessed Salomon and by him them powring the ointment on his head that it might descend be deriued to the rest parts of the whole body of the common-wealth Not the poorest woman but had accesse 1. Kin. 3.17 and inioyed her right as appeareth in the strife for the liue child and whose the deade should be So wise so willing a prince was he so happy a people were they and which was all in all so louing a God was God vnto them both And heere I pray you haue resort your selues vnto and view the story as it lieth in the Bible and you shal perceaue I haue but tripped ouer things And nowe because I am desired to bee short who neuer loued length right worshipful and deere countrimen looke wee homeward a litle and as it were out of the looking glasse of this scripture by way of reflexion I beseech you consider what blessings also on vs God hath bestowed by what meanes they haue been receiued what dutifulnes is due therefore Flattery becommeth no place but lest of al the pulpit Be it spoken to the praise of God for it is a truth and you who knowe anie thing and haue a true tast of things knowe I lie not God hath blessed her maiesty with a wise a wealthy a peaceable and a godlie raigne THE time was when Steuen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and canceller of England a wilier serpent than all his brethren worse than Abiathar and as bad as Achitophel laied his complot to preuent her preferment and in deede vpon vaine surmises without all proofe or legall caling to question most wrongfully brought her Grace to that heauy and doleful plight that for griefe of minde and sorow of heart she heartily wished rather to haue beene a poore milkmaid in Woodstocke park than a Kinges daughter and a Queenes sister and heire apparent to sundrie Bealmes The Lorde William Howard the Lord Williams some others could do no more than they could In al the world she found no friend no able friend no firme hope or present help but in God alone the sure rock of her foundation Only he that is mighty magnified her and tooke her from the prison as Ioseph from the stocks and made her our Queene and as it were a Martha to prouide for Christ in his members and as a Marie to heare him in his ministers and as a verie Debora to execute iustice equitie and trueth in this English Nation And hee that preferred her at the first preserueth her still and preserue her euer But all this was because he had a tender a fauourable and fatherly respect to her and our former troubles for euer more Since her happy raign some unhappy persons as what field hath not some blasted eares haue sought if they will needes be traitors long may they seek but all in vain the ruine of the realme and destruction of her person but they haue not preuailed at al. The master of all misrule Pius the fifth his Bull which Harding and his felow procured Felton affixed in her principal city Moortons conspiracy with Westmerland and his complices in the North Daluies promised aide the great and popular man with all his potent endeuours rumors and vauntings of the Duke of Florence and Don of Austria what haue they effected haue they preuailed In late times and very lately of greene

wisedom of God Kings raigne that is they beare their scepters and weare their swordes and sit in their thrones BY ME they raigne And great reason wee thus iudge of Soueraigne authoritie All thinges in the world the least the vilest the least of account the leafe of a flower the fall of a sparowe the feather of a bird the foode of rauens the fodder of oxen the brissell of a hogge as Augustine speaketh the teares of our eies and colour of our haire come all within the span and compasse of God almighties power-full doing and particular direction Nowe he that careth for litle thinges is he carelesse of the greatest He that careth for the haire he can not but care for the body and hee that careth for the bodie careth for the head and he that respecteth the bodie the head the haire the whole the parts great and lesse principall and excrementall of priuate men without all question regardeth much more the bodie politike and the heade of the common-wealth Rom. 13.1 1. Pet. 2.13 All autoritie is of God and therefore kinglie most of all euen as all the waters ishue from the Ocean but more immediatlie the great riuers This speach were vtterly needlesse were wee not fallen into the waining of the world Iude 8. wherein S. Iudes reprehension may iustly take place when men are not onely despisers of gouernours as Shimei was of Dauid 2. Sam. 16.5 but euill speakers and misconsterers of authoitrie it selfe and soueraigne gouernment in the highest degree Treason against the Prince is no sinne against God saith Euerard Hance as you may reade in the wise and True report of the Arrainment and execution of the Popish Traitor Euerard Hance alias Ducket Our present storie of the enthronizing of Salomon informeth vs better teacheth vs a contrary lesson and sheweth plainly whence princely gouernment is deriues and doth depend I know Berzabe Salomons mother Dauid his Father Nathan the Prophet Zadock the Priest were all for Salomon But Adoniah was the elder brother and Salomon the yonger Abiathar the high priest annointed Adoniah and not Salomon Salomons mother was a blemished woman and Adoniah was in a kinde of real possession of the kingdom and what humane meanes can we imagine then could hinder him and them and helpe Salomon to remedie all Ioab a great man and a mightie for valour cunning and courage would venter limme life and had set his rest vppon the cause Wherfore Bennaiah when he saw how the world went 1. Reg. 1.36 yet on the contrary side perceiuing how Dauid was resolued that Salomon for al this shold succeed wished from his heart it might be so So bee it said he not contented therewith addeth after in few but effectual words praying The Lord God of the Lord my king ratifie it As if he should haue saide Berzabe Zadocke Nathan and I yea Dauid himselfe would haue it so but God say so to For if God say no it can not be but if he say so notwithstanding all vnlikelihoods if God ratified it it shall stande and must be so A worthy and a wise and a true saying and to conclude this matter most agreeable to the Psalme Promotion commeth neither from the East nor the West No Psal 75.6 my brethren nor from the north nor south The Lord of Lordes and king of kinges and gouernour of all thinges ruleth ouerruleth al in al specially al these cases of regiment euen by his plenary power and at his owne and absolute pleasure as hath beene vouched in generall and in particular is declared that his meere loue to Prince and people it was that placed Salomon disappointed Adoniah But in sooth is it such a blessing so great a benefit proceeding all of loue to bee a king Howe saith one that the Princely cloke is lined all within with pinnes and pricking needles An other that a crown is not worth the stouping for A thirde that if profer were made necessarily to accept either present death or the Princely Diademe he would make willing choice rather to go straitway to his graue than any way to the chaire of estate And because domestical examples touch neerest affect most our soueraine careful queene the Lordes annointed ouer vs in an exhortation to her councell and iudges for a due consideration ouer her people amoÌ„g other words euer to be remeÌ„bred of their honors hath these of her selfe I care not for my selfe my life is not deere vnto me My care is for my people In. B. Iewels view of the Bull. I pray god who euer succeedeth me he as care full as I am They who might know what cares I beare would not thinke it so great a ioy to weare the crowne In the booke of Iudges the ninth chapter there is a parable and a storie to this purpose read you the story Iudges 9. I will touch onely the parable In deede the sweete figge tree the pleasant vine the fatte oliue refused preferment when it was offered But beloued figtrees vines and Oliues are geisen and rare grow not in euery ground The scratching braÌ„ble that is rife common in euery hedge redily accepteth the offer willed al the trees to come vnder his shadow without straining cursie at the matter Generally Adams children some more some lesse almost al haue some desire to ride the horse they caÌ„not manage 2. Sam. 15. AbsaloÌ„ in this affectioÌ„ embezelleth the harts of the subiects from his own most louing father Hester 6.6 Aman blown vp with this winde would needes ride the kingly horse and weare the Princely robe and ring with sound of trumpet proclamation made in open sight Thus shall the man be honoured whom the king will honor Cyprian de Ten. Ierunio Yea ambition saith Cyprian sleepeth and lodgeth in the bosom of Priestes No no Cyprian lodge it may but where it lodgeth it can not sleepne maketh men wake when other meÌ„ sleepe Neither will I wander abroade for proafe hereof It caused Yorke to striue with Canterburie Cardinal Woolsey and Canterburie often to struggle with the king and Yorke againe of later yeares it made to bee against and for the Pope and lastly to the end to be Pope himselfe he would venter all England as the Pope doth alwaies al Christendome to maintaine his triple crowne Philarchie lust for honour and loue of imperie troubled not onely some single men Nazian ad Procop. but as in Nazianzens time whole councels were so sea-sick with this passioÌ„ that Nazianzenes quiet nature was fully resolued neuer to resort to such distem pered assemblies But if it be thus in the priest hood much worse it can not choose but be in their minds whose life is a worldly glory whose only desire is to be aloft to be the monarks if it bee but of a mole-hill and yet some whole dominions are to litle for some sometimes meaner men of lower lot

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