Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	11,191	5	4.5836	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10052	Prælium & præmium. The Christians warre and rewarde A sermon preached before the Kings maiestie at VVhitehall the 3. of May. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge, and chapleyn in ordinarie to the prince	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20298; ESTC S113692	18,212	36

this Christian euerie true Christian must thus arme watch stand run wrestle resist striue fight and ouercome The vse of the doctrine is to encite al the seruaÌ„ts of the Lord to be Martialists to be souldiers in this wicked world Our life is militia Vse we haue an oath sacramentuÌ„ militiae we haue an armour Armaturam militiae we haue a place locum militiae we haue a combat luctam militiae we haue a reward coronam militiae our daÌ„gers diuerse our conflicts mightie our adversaries many Cic. pro Arch Poet. Nihil horuÌ„ ora vultus mouerunt within vs guilty consciences oppressing vs before vs trapps for our destruction to ensnare vs behind vs memorie of sinns past to torture vs ouer our heads the wrath of God to terrifie vs vnder our feet the dungeon of damnation to entrappe vs the flesh insulting the world triumphing the deuil tempting sinne slinging Nihil horum ora vultusque mouerunt Wel my beloued at the length Arise arme your selues fight the Lords battels Alexander the yonge Prince did more earnestly desire to learn because Arist the Prince of Philosophers taught him And the souldiers did more streniously fight because that the renowned Alexander did lead them Beloued your Arist is Alexander your Alexander is Christ hee doth teach you to fight and doth fight to teach you In him yee are Conquerours by him yee are more then Conquerours Neuer did any Conquerour so victoriously if you fight as ye haue him for an example The Philistin with his speare the Israelite with his slinge the Indian with his darre the Persian with his bow the Schithian with his launce the Mirmadon with his strength was neuer able to be so powerfull in conflict as thou mayst bee And as the conflict is victorious so the victorie is as glorious neuer had Moses such a victorie ouer the Caananits Ioshua ouer 31. kingly Captaines Israel ouer the Philistins Dauid ouer the Amalekits Alex. ouer the BarbariaÌ„s Themistocles ouer the Persians Aemilius ouer the Macedonians Marcellus ouer the SithiaÌ„s or Scipio ouer the Carthaginians as thou maist thy selfe obtaine by thy Christ O theÌ„ who would not in a spiritual ambitioÌ„ desier so to triuÌ„ph so to Celebrat his Trophies But yet if any wil desire this let him remember the tenour of his knights seruice is the Crosse and as the Romans coulde not come to the temple of honour but by the Temple of vertue so hee by noe meanes can come to the Crowne but by the Crosse Hee must come to fight before hee fight to ouercome He must ouercome the world the deuil the flesh in the world he must ouercome himselfe a little world in himselfe he must ouercome his tongue a world of wickednes himselfe a little world in the great worlde his tongue a great worlde in that little world a world of wickednesse Iames 3.6 If he can ouercome the world and himselfe he shal be able to ouercome tribulation anguish persecution famine nakednesse perill sword life death angels principalities powers things present or things to come height or depth or any other creature especially if he be able to ouercome to hold fast til C. come For the promise is made to him that ouercometh and keepeth my workes to the end and so J end this point come to shew that wee must ouercome to the end Not the hearers but the the doers of the lawe are iustified Rom. 2.13 2. Obs 1. part Not the doers for a time but the continuers beyond time the faithful vnto the death Reu. 2.10 Many herd C who vnderstood him not so the vulgar Iewes many vnderstood him who beleued him not so the Scribes Pharises many beleeued him who profest him not so the Hypocrite many professed him for a time but after fel away so the Apostats This answereth al Iewes-Scribes Pharisais Hypocrits Apostates hee that keepeth my workes to the end Not heareth but keepeth not words but workes not for a time but to the ende hee that keepeth my woorkes to the end to him and to none but to him It was a brutish speach of Brutus Liuy Te colui virtus vt rem ast tu nomen inane es that Pietie Honestie Religion bee but names for Christ here makes a sufficient explication of his will in these words Hee that keepeth my workes vnto the ende giueth the name and nature the words and workes affections and actions al that is to be performed The in vndation of hipocrisie hath almost drowned the world how many good woordes in the world how sewe good workes how many bee like Christians yet noe Christians like Professours yet no Professors of whom the obseruatioÌ„ of Guicciardine maie be true Caesar Borgia and his father Pope Alexander the 6 had a prouerb fastened on them by the Italians of that time Guicc lib. 5. that the one of theÌ„ neuer thought as he spake and the other neuer spake as hee thought Many are like to Panarches aenigma to the Poets Hermaphrodites Athaen Dipnosoph to the Grammarians Participles to Banacles which are fish and noe fish foule and noe foule many are outward not inward Christians extra mittendo non intramittendo by profession not by practise by sight not by faith God requireth the externe and interne soule bodie hart and face words and works hee requireth that his seruaunt shoulde not onlie keepe the waies of the Lord Gen. 18.19 and the couenants of the Lorde 1. Kings 11.11 and the commandements of the Lorde Neh. 1.5 and the Sabaoths of the Lord Levit. 26.2 and the ceremonies of the Lord 1. Kings 2.3 and the iudgements of the Lord Esec 18.19 the statuts of the Lord Ps 119.5 and the words of the Lord Rev. 22.7 but here the works of the Lord which Hugo expresseth to be mandata the precepts or as he expresseth himselfe the practise of the precepts of the Lord. In which words to keepe my works hee ioineth faith works togither to keepe credendo my works faciendo to keep by beleeuing to expresse by practising For the Gospel is not a doctrine of libertie Epicurisme or sensualitie but a Gospel of exact action perfection not a gospel of beleeuing only but of liuing not of Theorie onlie but of practique consisting not in hearing but doing not in affecting but an effecting faith So that hence J obserue this doctrine that true Christianitie must be manifested in a liuely effectual Doct. powerful practise otherwise our faith is no faith our faith must differ from the only knowing faith of the Deuils for that is Historical from the bragging faith of the Iewes for that is Pharisaicall from the bare faith of Hypocrits for that is vneffectuall from the fained faith of the Apostates for that is but Temporall from the false faith of the Papists for that is phantasticall A doctrine verie needful in these our times where in works are changed into words walking into talking hands into tongues harts into eares which

is not so properlie said to doe good as to be compelled to doe it by the good spirit of God And the Apostle teacheth that it is not in him that willeth or in him that runneth but in God which enableth vs we can doe al things Austen endeth al this in his 3. booke de lib. Arbit 16. Esay Deus velle praecepit posse praebuit et non impune nolle permisit God commands all men to be willing he giueth vnto some his grace to be able he permitteth others to remaine vnwilling but neuer to remaine vnpunished And therfore our prayer must be as the same fathers is Da Domine quod iubes iube quod vis giue vs O Lord abilitie to doe what thou commandest and coÌ„maunde what thou wilt for without thee our knowledge is ignorance our power is infirmitie our sight is blindnes our light is darknes our strength is weaknesse But J have founded a retrait too longe from my warfare he that ouer commeth The heathens had sundrie times at which they did especially practise militarie actions and points of chiualtie had their Nemea Istmia Pythia Olympia in which they did exercise striuing wrestling runing fighting and other feats of Martialisme The verie saÌ„e exercises hath God appointed for his seruaÌ„ts he hath appointed them to runne 1. Cor. 9.24 per viam man datorum Ps 119.32 per viam patientiae Heb. 12.1 he hath appointed them to resist Eph. 6.13 in fide 1. Pet. 1.9 In sanguine Heb. 12.4 hee hath appointed them to wrestle Eph. 6.12 vsque ad auroram Gen. 32.35 adversus principatus adversus potestates adversus muÌ„di dâ—minos adversus spirituales astutias Eph. 6.12 hee hath appointed vs to fight Iob. 14.14 non secundum carneÌ„ 2. Cor. 10.3 sed bonam militiam militare 1. Tim. 1.18 and in all these the life of a Christian is a busie stirring agonizing trade of life a pressing to the marke a striuing to enter in at the narrowe gate and a violeÌ„t suprising of the kingdome of heauen So the doctrine hence to be obserued is this Doct. that Christianitie is not a liceÌ„tious or a libertine like securitie but an earnest painful watchful Conflicting Combating life And whosoeuer wil vndergoe this be coÌ„teÌ„ted to take presse mony in this warfaring life shal be sure to haue God stil helping strengthning encouraging CoÌ„forting and assisting so that what is faynedly reported of Pindarus to be continuallie assisted by Apollo Lycurgus by Pithia Numa by Aegeria Socrates by his Genius Phiddias by his Iupiter and Philemon by the Muses may more truelie be said of the Lord our God who doeth continuallie assist his seruants to the last of their life to ouercome Manie things are said to ouercome the word of God to ouercome man that word made man to ouercoÌ„e for man man himselfe by repentance and praier to ouercome God by faith hope charitie to ouercome al spiritual aduersaties The word of God powerful to ouercome strong holdes and to cast downe and ouerthrow euerie high thing 2. Cor. 10.5 witnes Niniueh imperious insolent intollerable Niniueh Niniueh the imperial coÌ„mander of the Easterne parts prowde of her wals and bulwarks Niniveh the mother Cittie of Assiria the Metropolis of the Countrie the goldeÌ„ head of the picture the glorie of the earth the seate of the Empire the Ladie of the East and the Queene of the Nations so strong so potent ouercome with this word yet fortie daies and Niniveh shal be destroied The message of their ouerthrow ouerthrew the messuage saith Chrysost the prophecie fel the Cittie fel not because her fal was prophecied Vincit verbuÌ„ The word made man ouercame for man Christ saith Ioh. 16. I haue ouercome the world witnesse that bloodie conflict when Mount Calvary was the field the Crosse the bloody banner his blessed body the weapon of his warfare his anguishes his armies My God why haste thou forsaken me the Trumpet his death the life his miserie the victorie his crucifying the conquest his Tortours the Triumph Vincit Christus Repentance overcommeth Affliction is said to ouercome man and Repentance is somewaie said to ouercome God for as Affliction causeth man to turne to God so repetance causeth God to turne to man Apostrophe in man froÌ„ God breeds Apostrophe in God from man Epistrophe in man to God begets Epistrophe in God to man Repentance in man begets Repentance in God non per naturam sed per effectum though the heauens bee readie to plague vs the sun moone to raigne downe blood vpon vs the fire hote burning coles the aire I hunderbolts the earth readie to swallow vs the water to drowne vs hel to deuour vs nay al the hosts of the God of hosts to ouercome vs yet by faithfull repentance wee ouercome them all Vincit Penitentia Praier doth ouercome For it is not onlie Angelis solatium Aug. Daemonibus flagellum animae praesidiuÌ„ as Austine speaketh But it is more it is Eliahs key Moyses rod Iacobs sword and bow Davids shield and speare the most powerful of al the weapons of a Christian I wil fetch but one drop from the Ocean to proue this When Egypt was smitten and Pharaoh plagued and their waters and riuers and streames and ponds and pooles and vessels of stone were silled with blood and frogs and lice and botches and soares and haile and thunder and lightning and grashoppers morreine and darknes were sent vpon the Countrie By Moyses praiet they were remoued dispersed scattered demolished vtterlie dissipated as the dust before the winde Vincit Oratio Oratio paenetrat coeluÌ„ So might I speak of faith hope and charitie which be most forcible singuler effectual powerful energeticallie potent I had almost said omnipotent in the trials trauils battels warfare combates conflicts conquests victories triumphs trophes of the Saints To end this point God hath made man a Christian and dubd euerie Christian a knight Eph. 6. prouided him the armor of God nay God for his armor giuen spirite to his sword for it is the sword of the spirit giuen safety to his helmet for it is the helmet of saluation righteousnesse for his brestplate for it is the brest plate of righteousnesse faith for his shield for it is the shield of faith veritie for his girdle for it is the girdle of veritie giuen him the Gospel of Peace for his feet for his feet bee shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace This is now that Complete knight Hauing on his feet spurs guilt with his blood who tooke awaie the guilt of the law on his head a helmet saluation on his hart a brest plate righteousnesse on his loines a girdle veritie in his hand a sword the spirit on his whole bodie a robe the seamelesse garment the Lord Iesus Christ and vpon this garment putting on an armour Armaturam Dei naie more Armaturam Deum the whole armour of God naie whole God for his Armour Euerie man is

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