Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	brethren_n	father_n	joseph_n	2,518	5	9.7131	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05185	The book of Ruth expounded in twenty eight sermons, by Levves Lauaterus of Tygurine, and by hym published in Latine, and now translated into Englishe by Ephraim Pagitt, a childe of eleuen yeares of age	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1586 (1586)	STC 15319; ESTC S108368	118,172	336

themselues to be called Christians against the professors of pure doctrine In this place also may be noted that it is written that ELIMELECH was a straunger in the field of Moab Sometime it is said that NAOMI returned out of the Field of Moab the Hebrue worde signifieth a field also a country and the earth Peraduenture he would not dwell in the Cities but in the fields that he might the lesse be corrupted In the Cities many occasions are layd before vs to entrap vs For this cause it was that many dwelt in vilages and desert places IONADAB counselled his sonnes the RECHABITES as it is in the 35. chap. of Iere. that they shoulde dwell in Tabernacles and keepe sheep by which meanes they might serue God best Generally we say out of the word of God that wee must not forsake those places where the pure worde of God is preached openly For it is most daungerous to dwell there where the worde of God hath no free passage For if thou be in those places where thou hast the pure exercise of the word of God and then thou art sometimes in coÌ„panie with theÌ„ who doe not loue the trueth although thou doest heare some sermons yet by little and little thy faith will be weakened what will be done then where no mentioÌ„ is made of Christ or of true religion and where we haue so many things before our eyes which may weaken our fayth But if necessitie doth constraine vs to dwell in those places as it sometimes doth where wickednesse doth raign we must take heede that wee doe not denie Christ. IOSEPH liued holily in the courte of Potiphar in Aegipt at last being gouernour of al Aegipt the called vnto him his father and hys brethren for the greatnes of famine to come to him DAVID with sixe hundred men went into the land of Moab great necessity driuing him therto though many interpreters finde fault with this his flight 1. SAM 27. NEBVCHAD-NEZZAR tooke Daniell his fellowes and many others captiues as the Turke now hath in captiuitie flockes of Christians in euerlasting bondage to dwell amongest idolaters whether they will or no. But they should endeuour to liue amongest wicked men vnblameably Ierem. 29. chap. hee doth teach his people howe they should behaue themselues in Babilon vnder Nebuchad-nezzar There are some who will say commonly If thou beest at Roome liue after the maner of Roome They commaund to apply themselues to the times But Christ in the 10. chap. of MATHEVV doth require of his beleeuers a confession of faith They are greatly to be reprooued who of theyr own will for gaine and such other light causes forsake Ierusalem and goe into Babilon We may learn by the example of the Moabites to yeeld harbor to good men for though they were molested by the Israelites yet we read not they did annoy ELIMELECH or anie of his If thou sayst that they were so oppressed of the Israelites that they did that against their will yet it is euident that they did yeeld harbor to DAVIDS parentes when they were olde as it is in the 1. SAMVEL 22. chap. So the Aegiptians yeelded harbor to Christ his mother God doth oftentimes commend vnto vs the state of straungers Men are banished for manie causes wee cannot alwaies stay in our own countrey though we would most willingly there liue let vs not shew our selues in this part worse than Gentiles Aduise with thy self that the auncestors were not alwaies in their owne country but were straungers and pilgrimes and consider the wonderfull conuersions which are of things and the dayly changing of Empires so that greeuous warrs may easily arise by whiche many men are shutt out of their seates and possessions and being mindful of the changes of worldly thinges let vs deale wel one with an other ELIMELECH is constrayned to depart with his But if thou sayst that he was wicked and that hee went with his will and no necessite driuing him yet it is euident that there haue bene many godly and good men in all ages which haue forsaken their countrie and left their houses against their willes God doth in ISAI 16. chap. threaten the Moabites that hee will pull them out of their nestes and yeeldeth this reason because they do not harbour the Israelites that flee in the time of warre or if they do receiue them they betray them to their enimies Also women haue a notable example of NAOMI who followed her husband into a straunge countrie SARA also did not forsake ABRAHAM for his troublesome estate though she did suffer great daunger not onely once for his sake and fault And also other godly matrons haue with their husbandes borne bannishment and other troubles patiently But if men are despisers of true Religion and go into a place in which godly men cannot be conuersant with a safe conscience they ought not to cast themselues into open daunger What doest thou thinke of those women which will shew themselues hard to goe with theyr husbandes from one street to another what doe ye thinke say I of those women if theyr husbandes should take great iournies with great daungers and labours Truely it is a troublesome thing to dwel amongest straungers but necessitie that sharpe darte doth oftentimes pricke vs. The 3. Sermon 3 Then Elimelech the husband of Naomie died and shee remayned with her two sonnes 4 Which tooke them wiues of the Moabites the ones name was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth and they dwelled there about ten yeares 5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both twaine So the woman was left destitute of her two sonnes and of her husband IF any man wil be conuersant in the reading of the holye scripture with profite first he must marke the sence scope of euery place next euerie thing must be referred to the confirmation of faith and the amending of manners as to the especiall end As concerning these fewe wordes our writer saith ELIMELECH departed out of this life leauing NAOMI and her two sonnes whiche married them wiues of the Moabites as it is noted after in the fourth chapter MAHLON maried RVTH CHILION maryed ORPAH they taryed ten yeares out of their owne countrie Afterwards they both died NAOMI was left aliue destitute of her husband and her two sonnes The Hebrues say that this RVTH was the daughter of EGLON King of Moab whom EHVD who is also called Aâ—OTH thrust through with a dagger IVDG 3. whome some Christian interpreters doe follow but it is not probable that that king woulde marry hys daughter to a Hebrue a poore man and a man dwelling out of his countrie or suffer her to liue in pouertie neither semeth it to agree with the accompt of the times But the Iewes are woont to vaunt much of theyr countrie men and ambitiously to counterfait I know not what nobilitie according to the maner of them which being poorer then Coâ—DRVS and of no estimation yet somtime they doe falsly brag of

bee called the house of bread for that misterie that Christ who said in the 6. chapter of IOHN that hee was the bread of life shoulde bee borne there But HIEROME calleth EPHRATA KARPOPHORIAN which signifieth plentifulnes So this Citie for the agreement of the signification of the names is called both Ephrata and Bethlehem Some will haue this Citie to be called EPHRATA of EPHRATA CALEBS wife but that doth not please me for that Citie was called so long before This Citie hath a third name for it is called the Citie of DAVID as it is in the second chapter of LVKE Ioseph went into the Citie of DAVID which was called BethleHEM and afterward the Aungell sayd vnto the Shepheards this day a Sauiour is borne vnto you in the Citie of DAVID which is Christ the Lorde It was so called because it was DAVIDS countrie partly because he did reedifie it partly because Christ the sonne of Dauid was borne there who is also by the Prophetes simply called DAVID ZVPH in the 1. of SAM 1. chap. is called an EPHRATHITE because he dwelled in mount EPHRAIM these men were called EPHRATHITES because they dwelled in the country of Ephrata an EPHRATHITE and a Bethlemite are both one SO ISAI DAVIDS father is called an Ephrathite because he came out of Bethlehem which was woont to be called Ephrata for it is written in the 1. booke of SAMVELL the 17. chap. Dauid was the sonne of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem named Ishai or peradueÌ„ture those which haue bene of that familie are called Ephrathites eyther for some excellencie in them or by the figure antonomasia the Chalde interpreter doth adde noble men It is accompted amongest the externall goodes to be borne in a notable countrie and of noble parentes who haue descended of good and noble families let them take heede that they do not any thing vnworthie of theyr parentes But they that come of base parentes let them vse diligence that they excell their parentes in vertue It was set downe where they are borne that it shoulde not be thought that they were borne in the land of MOAB What did ELIMELECH when he went with his out of the land of IVDA into the land of MOAB and dwelt there did hee well to depart from the habitation of his auncestours into the land of Moab Of this deed it may be disputed of in both partes They which doe accuse him maye vse these or some other argumentes First the Israelites were forbidden the companie of that nation For in the 23. chapter of DEVTERONOMIE God made a law that the Ammonites nor the Moabites should come into the Church vntill the tenth generation not that he would forbid them from the hearing of the word of God or embrasing of the true maner of worship but that they should not be put in anie office in the church or common wealth and least they should haue anie voyce in the elections or marry with the Hebrue daughters the Interpreters say that the Hebrue phrases do signifie this There may be two reasons of that lawe the first is because they denied their brethren the Children of Israell passage comming out of Aegypt The other is that the hired Balaam the false Prophet to cursse the Israelites NVM 22. and 23. chapter and because they made them sinne in BAALPEOR for the which cause many of them fell c. Therefore because Elimelech went with his to that nation which is an enemie to God it seemeth a mater not to be praised next to forsake Israelll in afflictions againe they were not his kinsemen For as they who doe forsake theirs in the time of warre and pestilence doe seeme to offend so they which forsake theirs in the time of famine Especiallie when it may be gathered by the wordes of NAOMI that he was riche Men fleeing out of theyr countrey are alwayes badly spoken of Who will not disalow of their purpose nowe at this time who will get themselues in dangers amongst the enemies of the Gospell Also those thinges seemed to fight with sayth for he thought that hee coulde auoyd the punishment of God The Israeliteâ— had the promises that God would help them in afflictions and that they ought to beleeue in him and hang vppon hys prouidence and pray and looke for a good and happie end of the famine For God might aswell haue preserued him in so fruitfull a ground as in the land of Moab For that which he doth is against the fortitude and courage of the minde For hee shoulde rather haue borne anie thing then forsake the tabernacle and worship of God and goe to a prophane people Further he casteth hys wife and children into daunger of idolatrie For euery bodie knoweth howe daungerous a thing it is to dwell amongst Idolaters Amongst men of our own professioÌ„ we are not without danger what then if we dwel amongst wicked men Some of the euent doth argue of his going that hee did not wel because hee was punished for forsaking his countrey for he fel into extreame pouertie the which he fled and died with his sons in a strange land After this sort it fel out with IACOB and IOSEPH and diuers of good men so that they may not iudge of the maners and faith of a man by things which befall to him heere They who defeÌ„d this deed may bring in these arguments first that that hee did he did not by wordly couÌ„sell without the coÌ„mandement of God but by the examples of godly men recited aboue whome famine hath not once constrained but manie times to liue as straungers Next wee must not tempt God his promises maketh not vs slothfull and that hee ought to prouide for himselfe and his and hee left his countrie without the hurt of his couÌ„trimen that hee might get foode for his owne houshold Further these thinges that he did prospered well by this the glory of God was set forth and the oracles fulfilled Although this argument may be aunswered that God often-times vseth the falles of his to good in hys goodnes coÌ„uerteth those things which are euill to a good end It is true holy men doe fall somtime into great sinnes But because we know not whether he went to the MOABITES in contempt of the lawes or of couetousnes as the Hebrues will haue or by the commandemeÌ„t of God or by some speciall reuelation or led by some other necessary cause nor how hee gouerned himselfe in a straunge land wee wil neyther prayse his deedes nor condemne him When the scriptures doe not accuse men let not vs accuse theÌ„ especially when the matters are doutful we ought rather to thinke the best of men It may be that they had the libertie of their religion Truely it appeareth that the IEVVES kept their religion vnder the ETHNICKE kinges as they doe this daye vnder the Christians There was not so great crueltie of those kinges against the IEVVES as there is now at this daye of some Kinges and Princes which will haue

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