Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08277	The imitation of Dauid his godly and constant resolution in bearing all his trialls, troubles and afflictions being a king whose example of faith, patience, hope, obedience and deliueries, thankfulnesse and prayer, is left euen for princes, potentates, and all true Christians to imitate. Collected by way of meditations and prayers out of the 27. Psalme. By I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1624 (1624)	STC 18610; ESTC S113324	90,720	456

Wildernesse of Ziph in the holds of Engedy in Maan and Gath vncoth and solitary places hee found the Lord his God euen in his holy Temple for where God is present there is his Temple In the Lions den Daniel found him in the Furnace the three children in the Dungeon Ieremy in the Prison Peter vnder the stones Stephen in Sodom Lot in the floud Noah God is euery where where hÃ©e is called vpon faithfully Euery faithfull childe of God is alwaies in Gods house where Dauid desired so earnestly to dwell yet though he found God euery where where he called vpon him he had an earnest desire to bÃ©e conuersant euen in that materiall temple where the children of God did assemble to celebrate the praises of God and to heare his Word and though he were their King thought it no disparagement but the greatest part of his duty to accompany his subiects according to conueniencie in the holy exercises of Religion whereof being preuented by meanes of his enemies hÃ©e complaineth that hÃ©e was as a Pelican in the Wildernesse and as an Owle in the Desert And dÃ©emed the Sparrow more happy than he because that silly Bird could at all times resort vnto that holy place to which he could not come Lord saith Dauid who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle and who shall rest in thy holy Mountaine that is who shall worthily enter into thy holy Temple and behold thy beauty he answereth Hee that worketh righteousnesse c. for God is holy and requireth holinesse of life walking vprightly in a liuely faith And therefore though it be the duty of all men to frequent the materiall Temple of God to accompany the congregation in prayer praising of God and hearing his Word yet all come not with that holy desire that Dauid did nor qualified as Dauid was yet hÃ©e that is vnprepared to day may bÃ©e fit to morrow for the Word of God is as a Net and often times catcheth men ere they bee aware therefore ought all men to desire as Dauid did to visit Gods Temple where this Net of the Word is spread for being once taken hee will then with Dauid require that one thing namely to dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of his life and often to visit his Temple Dauid did not onely make a bare request vnto God but did euen presse him hÃ©e required him as if he had bÃ©en familiar with him as the faithfull may vse a holy familiarity with God in their prayers praying God to afford him that blessing of blessings as to admit him into his holy presence wherein is the fulnesse of ioy and at his right hand are pleasures for euermore not for a day a moneth or a yÃ©ere as worldlings haue and then perish but begun here and shall neuer haue end To dwell in the house of Iehouah is to dwell abide in his fauour to be partaker of his sanctifying grace to haue the true knowledge of his diuine will and to practice it by faith obedience zeale prayer and to beare about vs the markes of the Lord Jesus in patient vndergoing the burthen of the Crosse and in continuall exercise of holinesse and righteousnesse whosoeuer is in this case is safe in the holy Temple of God as in a safe Sanctuary and is a true member of the mysticall body of our conquering Christ the head of that Church which is the true Temple neither made with hands and which hands cannot pull downe Out of which are barred all such as trust in lying miracles and workes that cannot profit such as steale commit idolatry adultery such as sweare falsly and such as fall downe and worship false gods or the true God after a false and idolatrous manner Though these stand in the materiall Temple or seclude themselues in Cloisters in sÃ©eming deuotion to sequester themselues from the world to God and yet commit many barbarous sinnes and grosse impieties thinking themselues safe and to be reconciled to God by a confessory penance God will not onely not heare them but reiect them their prayers for they seeme religious and are not obedient to God and are not faithfull and are not but are mÃ©ere Hypocrites who resorting to the Temple of God commit rather sacrilege than offer sacrifice acceptable to God These visit not the Temple but rather defile if with their counterfeit holinesse who would sÃ©eme in shew Saints but in heart enemies to Christ and Christians yet cry they the Church the Church and yet farre from being members of it So many sÃ©eming-good Christians cry out Preach Preach and sÃ©eme neuer satisfied with Sermons this desire is good if their hearts desire it to profit and practise the word but if it be but to sÃ©eme religious and inwardly retaine their corrupt desires if they amend not their waies and their workes sÃ©eme they neuer so holy they are but Hypocrites for this is to bÃ©e in the Temple of God by his Word preached to learne to execute iudgement not to oppresse the poore nor the stranger the fatherlesse nor the Widow not to deceiue nor to walke after other gods after riches and pleasures If this fruit of hearing appeare in them they are no doubt of the family and house of God and shall dwell in his Tabernacle and rest securely vpon his holy Mountaine for they are of the generation of the iust but there is a generation saith Salomon that are pure in their owne conceits and yet are not washed from their filthinesse they follow the deuices of their owne hearts And assume vnto themselues a peculiar manner of seruing of God not according to the sincere truth but as God abhorreth all sacrifices of vncleane things so doth hee all counterfeit showes of sincerity God admitteth not sinners namely such as make no conscience of sinne to come into his holy presence much lesse to dwell in his holy Temple though they may sÃ©eme to honour him with their lips He detesteth their forged sacrifices and their very praiers are abhominable though they pertake of the holy Sacraments and performe outwardly other diuine duties Hee is not pleased with them neither behold they the beauty of the Lord but his seuere and fierce countenance is bent against them But such as desire with the like affection as Dauid did to behold the beautie of the Lord and to visit his Temple are such as the Lord enuiteth and willeth to come and louingly embraceth them They come not for a spirt and away but desire to make their continuall abode where they may still behold his beautie and his glory his louing kindnesse and mercies towards them shewed in his word as in a glasse which appeareth more swÃ©et and amiable to the cies of their sanctified soules than the most beautifull feature of Angels This most heauenly beauty Dauid desired to sÃ©e saw it as Paul teacheth saying That God coÌ„manded the light to shine out of darknesse euen in our harts that the light of the knowledge of the

if pouerty or want oppresse thÃ©e as it did sometimes Dauid feare not he will relÃ©eue thÃ©e for hÃ©e preserueth with little as with much hÃ©e fed many thousands with little meanes and when they were all well filled there was taken vp in the remainder more then was before they had eaten He increased the Oile and Meale of the poore Widow that she fed her selfe and hers and paid her debts with the remainder Hee brought water out of the stones and out of the dry Jaw-bone of an Asse HÃ©e fed his children with Bread from Heauen and sent them Quailes in the hungry Wildernesse He sent abundance of wheat extraordinarily vnto distressed Samaria This is he euen that great God that is the sustainer of my life my light and my saluation and not mine alone but the God of all that faithfully sÃ©ek him in their distresse Should I then feare though I be enuironed with enemies though I were in distresse nay should I feare though I were in penury and want though I were imprisoned for the constant profession of Christs truth did he not breake the fetters and opened he not the very iron gates and cast the watchmen in a slumber to fetch Peter out of prison did he not giue Ioseph and Paul fauour with their Jailors of whom or of what then may the faithfull bee afraid what crosses what troubles what afflictions what threats of tyrants can make Gods children afraid though the seas rage and rose though the world be in confused combustion though the mountains cleaue in sunder though the heauens melt though he that made all consume all I will not feare The Lord high mighty he is the strength of my life nay he is to mee life it selfe who then or what can without him force my death If he take away this life he hath prouided for me a better and permanent whom or what shall I be afraid of then Shall I be afraid of Hell or Satan HÃ©e my Lord in Christ my light and my saluation hath conquered both Satan and Hell what nÃ©ed I feare A Prayer that God will be our light and our saluation in all our troubles and dangers O Lord who art the light that neuer goeth out whereby thou guidest and gouernest those that acknowledge their owne darknesse thou art the strength that neuer groweth weake whereby thou sauest defendest thine from the hands of all that hate them Bee thou my light O Lord and lighten my darknesse that I may walke in that light and neuer goe astray for there is no agreement betweene error and thy truth giue mee therefore heauenly knowledge and I shall not be ignorant of that which I ought to know and assist me with thy diuine grace and I shall practise that which thou hast taught me to know Be thou my strength then whom need I to feare stand thou on my side and then of whom should I be afraid Stretch forth thy hand and hold me vp thou hast a mighty arme and strong is thy right hand in thee therefore I trust and will not feare what man can doe vnto me Be not farre from mee O my God for thou seest my troubles and knowest my dangers neglect me not but hasten to helpe me giue care vnto me and saue me and let not mine enemies haue their desires against mee nor triumph ouer me though they be many and in shew far too mighty for me yet in comparison of thy strength they are weake and of no strength they trust in their Chariots munition and multitudes but I trust in thee and in thy strength alone only praying thee to blesse vnto me the ordinary and lawfull meanes which it shall please thee to raise vp in thy wisdome for my defence Though I doe know and doe acknowledge that as a horse of it selfe is a vaine helpe to deliuer his rider by his great strength or swiftnesse so are all outward visible and carnall meanes vnable to defend mee without thee and vnlesse thou blesse the vse of them and dispose and manage them in thy wisdome for my defence they are also vaine Therefore come I vnto thee my God my strength my light and my saluation who hast promised and art able to send euen from Heauen to saue me Thou canst command an host of Angels to campe about mee though enuironed with many and mighty aduersaries yet hauing thee on my side I know there shall be more with mee than with them while I am vnder thy protecting wings I am safe I will not feare Giue thine Angels charge of me therefore O Lord to keepe defend me shew thy power in my weaknesse and the weaknes of mine enemies by thy strength then though an host pitch against me my heart shall not bee afraid though war be raised against me I will trust in thee my Lord my light my strength and my saluation VERSE 2. and 3. 2. When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon mee to eat vp my flesh they stumbled and fell 3. If an host pitched against me my heart should not be afraid though warre be raised against me I will trust in thee IN all actions Experience is as the mother of knowledge and knowledge the ground of Assurance which made Dauid strong in his resolution to encounter Goliah hauing formerly found that God assisted him in two seuerall dangers the one in killing a Beare the other in ouercomming a Lion two strong fierce and deuouring beasts and that when he was but young and a Shepherd yet it seemeth he had learned to feare God and to trust in him for that he acknowledged that he ouercame them not by his owne proper power but by the power of God which two conquests wrought in him-assurance that by the same aid hee should vanquish that monster of men Goliah though his vgly presence and furniture of armes amazed the whole host of Israel Dauid yet not daunted hauing a strong faith in God vndertooke the combat and preuailed though that monster scorned him and threatning that hee would giue his flesh to be deuoured of the Fowles of the aire and wilde beasts of the field which by the aid of him in whom Dauid trusted came contrarily to passe for Dauid tooke off his head and disarmed him and left his carkasse to the Fowles of the aire whereby he more and more increased in faith strength and courage and bold to assure himselfe that as this monster stumbled and fell at his flying stone that would haue eaten vp his flesh so should all his wicked enemies and foes when they should come vpon him to eat vp his flesh namely to take away his life they should euen so stumble and fall as by experience he after found that God still defended him so that to the praise of God hee sung When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eat vp my flesh they stumbled and fell When Saul a mighty King sought Dauids life to destroy it first by his owne hand

glory of God might shine in the face of Iesus Christ whose glory we sÃ©e in the preaching of his word wherein he declareth the riches of his glory vpon the vessels of mercy which he hath prepared vnto glory This glory the more the spirituall man beholdeth the more is he moued with desire to sÃ©e more and more and can neuer be sufficiently filled with that heauenly Contemplation Much were the Disciples moued at the sight of Christs transfigured glory in so much as they desired to haue enioyed the sight of it still so glorious it was that their minds were euen rauisht with the beauty thereof So Dauid desired to dwell in the Temple of the Lord not for a day but all the daies of his life to behold the beauty the goodnesse and mercies of God reuealed in his Word and to exercise himselfe in prayer Where God is duly and truly called vpon by a holy Congregation there appeareth the glory and beauty of Iehouah There is the Arke of the Lord the presence of the mighty God of Iacob whose glory filleth the Temple which the faithfull man sÃ©eth with a spirituall eye but the carnall man though bodily present in the same Temple apprehendeth it not As when Paul was conuerted he saw the glory of God shine vpon him but they that iournied with him though nÃ©ere him saw nothing So that God is onely sÃ©ene of them to whom hÃ©e pleaseth to reueale himselfe This beauty of the Lord shineth in the hearts of Gods elect children by the reuelation of the holy Ghost which none sÃ©eth but themselues And they take such sweet delight in the beholding of the face of God in Christ as they doe receiue in their soules the very Impression of the Image of the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father full of grace and truth euen as Moses receiued thorow the splendor of the glory of God vpon Mount Sinai in his countenance such an impression of that glory that the children of Israel could not endure to behold with their eies the glory of his countenance What remaineth then but that we neglect not the continuall visitation of the temple of God to accompany the Congregation in the hearing of that heauenly Word to pray vnto God for his blessings and to giue him praise for his benefits And the Lord open our spirituall eies that we may euen here behold his beautie and bee hereafter pertakers of his glory A Praier for spirituall knowledge and increase of our holy desires to visit the Temple of God to heare his Word to pray vnto him and to praise him O Gracious Lord God most louing who reiectest none that come vnto thee with a perfect heart and none can come vnto thee vnlesse thou call him as well by thy inward Grace as by thy outward Word Vouchsafe according to the riches of thy Grace to grant that I may be strengthned by thy Spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in my heart by faith and that my whole spirit soule and body may bee kept blamelesse to the comming of the Lord Iesus For thou knowest Lord what I am by nature a man vnworthy to enter vnder thy roofe or to presse into the place where thine honour dwelleth For thou art a God that louest righteousnesse and acceptest of such as are of cleane hearts and whose conuersations are vpright before thee but I am a sinner and corrupt as all my fathers were Cleanse me therefore O gracious Lord God in the bloud of Iesus Christ and make me fit to approach thine holy Temple that I may see thy beautie and behold thy glory Open mine eares that I may heare prepare my heart that I may vnderstand what thou teachest in thy word Enlighten mine inward eies the eies of my soule that I may see thee and take comfort in thy presence And open my lips that I may speake vnto thee in faith and answer mee againe in loue Teach mee that celestiall language that may moue thee to heare me For what booteth it me to come into thy house with deafe eares not to heare thee without attention to vnderstand thee mute and not be able to speake vnto thee Yet I know good Father that thou hearest them that cannot speake and thou teachest them that vnderstand not and thou openest the eies of them that see not such is thy loue towards vs as thou acceptest euen of the language of heartie sighes whither they be for sinne or for want of spirituall graces Thou knowest the inward desires of the heart tending to good or euill I am sorry good Father that any corruption lurketh in my defiled heart to keepe out that blessed guest thy Spirit I cannot of my selfe abandon corruption I cannot of my selfe so mortifie my sinne but that the dregges therefore will still remaine But cast me not out of thine holy Temple because I am a sinner but rather because I am a sinner admit to visit thy Temple to heare thy Word that I may learne to liue more and more obediently vnto thee Make thou my heart cleane and I shall bee all cleane so shall I visit thine house to honour thee and comfort my selfe by thy holy presence and shall take spirituall pleasure in thy beautie and be finally pertaker of thy glory Thou louest righteousnesse O make me righteous Thou hatest iniquity abandon my sinnes Knit my heart vnto thee that I may both feare and loue thy name Giue me a holy desire to seeke thee and to serue thee both in the materiall Temple with thy people and in all places at all times for thou art euery where to be found And where thou art there is thy house for thou dwellest not in Temples made with hands but in the heauens and in the hearts of them whom thou hast sanctified Turne thy face vnto me O Lord for thy face I seeke Shew me thy beauty and glory of thy countenance and change mee into thine owne Image by thy Spirit and in the same Spirit admit me continually to visit thy holy Temple Make my heart stable and vnblameable before thee in holinesse that I may serue thee with a sincere and pure heart and conscience vndefiled That I come not into thine house onely to seeme religious but in true faith and due reuerence and giue thou a blessing vnto my godly desires Amen VERSE 5. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his Tabernacle in the secret place of his Pauilion shall he hide mee and set me vpon a Rocke THe very name of Trouble is fearefull to a worldly man for he loues pleasure ease and when trouble commeth he is cast downe and is as it were at deaths doore but the true childe of God being fore-warned that if he will liue godly he must looke for and prepare himselfe to suffer trouble and affliction in this life Trouble therefore doth little or nothing moue him when it commeth because when he first entred into the schoole of christianity he learned that

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