Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	father_n	son_n	spirit_n	15,521	5	5.1364	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19270	A briefe homily wherein the most comfortable and right vse of the Lords Supper, is very plainly opened and deliuered, euen to the vnderstanding of the vnlearned and ignorant. Made to be vsed throughout the Diocesse of Lincolne, before euerie celebration of the Lordes Supper, in all such churches and parishes as haue not a sufficient hable preacher allowed vnder the hand and authentike seale of the Bishop there, and to be read by the minister of each such place, so distinctly and in such sorte, that all which shalbe then assembled, may well heare and marke the same.; Certaine sermons wherin is contained the defense of the gospell nowe preached	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1580 (1580)	STC 5684.5; ESTC S118236	7,401	16

vnto him most heartie thankes for the same and the residue of his benefites not at this present time onely but euer hereafter vntill the time of his comming This is the godly and Christian trial of our selues which if we do vse by the grace of Gods spirite working in vs we shall become either worthie guestes or much more fit then otherwise we should be without such triall Happily some will thinke that this admonition is a terrour and torment to their consciences to feare men from comming to this blessed Sacrament rather then an exhortation or incouragement vnto it For if the danger be in it selfe so great as the vnworthie receiuer eateth dampnation to himselfe and the preparation and triall so straight as you haue made it it were better neuer to come to it For what one is there among a thousand that doeth in this manner trie his conscience or if he doe he must needes feele so great want and imperfection either in sorrowe for his sinnes or in sense of Gods wrath or in weakenesse of his faith or in the study of new life or in the coldnesse of his charitie or in his feblenesse to giue thanks to set forth the glorie of God or in al these things that he must needes be ouerwhelmed in conscience and feared to make himselfe partaker of these holy misteries But dearely beloued Let not this feare shake our consciences nor driue you backe from this blessed table This examination and triall must be within the bounds of humane frailtie and God in this as in all other doinges for Christ his sake will vse his mercie and clemencie for he knoweth our corruptions and imperfections and will haue regard of our infirmities Onely let vs not be secure slack and negligent but feeling by this triall great want in our selues let vs with lowly humble confessing heartes acknowledge the same and say vnto God I am sorie O Lord for my sinnes but not as the grieuousnesse of them requireth augment O Lorde by thy spirite the sense of thy wrath in mee I beleeue and knowe with other Christians that thy sonne hath shedde his bloud for me but increase my faith O God helpe mine vnbeleefe I desire to liue according to the calling of a Christian but the fleshe and the world maketh this study colde in me therefore doe thou strengthen me with thy blessed spirite I knowe it is my bounden duetie to yeeld vnto thee immortall thankes aswell for all other thy benefites as principally for the whole worke of our redemption by the death of thy dearely beloued sonne But I feele this zeale to be so faint and feeble that it is nothing according to my duetie and for that cause I lift vp mine eyes to the throne of thy mercie humbly desire thee to pardon al my imperfections and to heale all mine infirmities The sense and knowledge of my weaknes may not feare me froÌ„ this holy table For this heauenly feast is a medicine for them that be sick a comfort to them that be penitent sinners a free and liberall gift to such as be poore and haue nothing of them selues Christ in this feast is giuen as meat without which we know we must of necessitie perish And he is giuen as life vnto vs therefore without him we can haue nothing but death The best worthinesse that we can bring to these reuerend and holy misteries is that we confesse our owne vnworthines that thy mercie may make vs worthy that we despaire in our selues that thy grace may comfort vs that we humble our selues to the end thy goodnesse may raise vs vp that we accuse our selues to the end thy sonne by his merite may iustifie vs. For though of our selues we are hable to do nothing yet by him we shalbe hable to do all thinges These or like cogitations if we haue in preparing our selues to that blessed nourishment of our soules he that breaketh not a bruised reede nor putteth out smoking flaxe will not cast aside our infirmitie but wil mercifully receiue vs. The sorrowfull Father which with care for his sonne cried vnto Christ I beleeue Lord but helpe mine vnbeleefe Though his faith as it might appeare was very weake yet obtained he his purpose at Christ his hand to haue his sonne by miracle healed If our faith be but as a graine of mustard seede yet it wil much preuail with Gods mercie The Apostles of Christ which were admitted to his last supper were notwithstanding weak touched with many infirmities although thei were not altogether wicked faithlesse as Iudas was they beleeued in Christ they loued Christ they loued one another yet at the very table of the Lord they shewed their weaknes Peter not w tout some reproch of y e residue preferred himself before theÌ„ al Though al other saith he be offeÌ„ded by thee yet wil not I be offended by thee They ambitiously contended among themselues which of them shold be the greater I wil not mentioÌ„ that immediately after Supper they through timerousnes fled from Christ for the time forsoke him which was an euident token of the weaknes of their faith after the knowledge of his doctrine experience of many wonderfull miracles Yet it pleased the great mercie of our sauiour fauourably to accept them and to admit them as singular instrumeÌ„ts of his grace We may not therefore for our weakenes imperfection despaire or refuse the comfort of that heauenly table but rather let vs in all dutifull sort approch thervnto pray most hartily euerie one of vs al that we may be fit and worthy guestes for the same which God our Father grant vs for his sonnes sake Christ Iesu our sauiour by the working of his moste holy comfortable spirite to whom be all honour prayse and glorie for euer and euer Amen FINIS Matth. 26.26 Mar. 14 22. Luk. 22.19 Rom. 10.17 1. Cor. 11.24 1. Cor. 11. ver 24 25 26. Gen. 6. ver 18. 9. ver 9. 19. ver 9 11 12. Rom. 4. ver 11. Gal. 3. ver 26 27 28. 1. Cor. 12. ver 12.13.27 Io. 6. ver 57. 1. Cor. 11. ver 18 21 22. Ephe. 3. ver 17. Io. 1. ver 29. Heb. 9. v. 14 Io. 6. ver 47 Ephe. 3. ver 17. 1. Cor. 11.28 Deut. 6. ver 5. Leuit. 19. ver 18. Matth. 22 ver 37 39. Deut. 27. ver 26. Gal. 3. v. 10. Iohn 6. ver 47 53 54. Iohn 3. ver 16. Marke 1. ver 24. 3. ver 11. Rom. 6. ver 1 2 3 c. 1. Cor. 1. ver 24 25 26. 1. Cor. 1. ver 27. Psal 78. ver 39. Iohn 6. ver 36. Marke 9. ver 24. Matth. 17. ver 20. Matth. 26. ver 33.

acknowledge my selfe vnfaignedly to be of the nomber of them that hope to haue the fauour of God and to be saued by the mercie and passion of Christ onely The worde of God teacheth that sacraments are as it were seales to confirme the truth of Gods promises and to strengtheÌ„ our faith Therfore by this seale of the Lords supper we assure our selues that we are partakers of all y e legacie which Christ our sauiour in his last wil bequeathed to vs that is that his bodie was broken vpon the crosse for our redemption his bloud shed for the remissioÌ„ of our sinnes The scriptures teach that in the vse of the sacrameÌ„ts through faith we be vnited vnto Christ and ingraffed into his mysticall bodie so that we liue now onely by him whatsoeuer is his by the truth of his promise is ours also The word of God teacheth that the sacrament of the Lordes supper is a linke of vnitie that knitteth vs together as members of one misticall bodie and therefore that we ought to be ioyned in mutuall loue charitie among our selues and that it is a foule reproch both to Christ our head and to the whole bodie if we hate hurte or hinder one another For by the vse thereof we confesse that we are all members of one bodie all seruants of one Maister all children of one Father all subiectes vnder one Lord and king all partakers of one redemption all heires of one heritage and gift of eternall life And in so many linkes of vnitie to be at discorde among our selues is in Gods iudgement an heauie testimonie against vs in the day of his wrath Finally the word of God teacheth vs that the Sacrament of the Lordes supper is our heauenly feast in which the lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world is offered vnto vs spiritually to feede vpon in our faith that by him as I haue before declared we may be nourished strengthened and preserued to eternall life And therfore that we ought to be very careful so to prepare our selues that we may be worthie guests for that blessed table Wherefore I thinke it necessarie in a word or two to teache you howe Christians should prepare themselues as worthy guestes to come to the Lordes Supper And how that may be done S. Paul in generall wordes briefely sheweth Let euerie man saith he proue himselfe and so let him eate of this Bread and drinke of this Cup. The meanes therefore to come worthily to it is to proue and trie our selues whether those thinges be in vs which the worthie guestes of that table should haue First therefore we must looke vnfaignedly into our selues whether we haue an appetite or desire to eate of that blessed foode for a loathing stomach neuer perfectly digesteth any meate that it receiueth but turneth it to the hurt of the bodie This appetite or desire cannot be in vs vnlesse it be wrought by the sharpe sauce of seuere repentance for our sinnes which we shall the better prepare if we examine our selues by the perfect rule of Gods iustice in his lawe and consider how farre we are from the same what daunger hangeth ouer our heads for the want thereof God saith in his lawe Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with al thy hart with all thy soule with all thy minde with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe that is we should loue we should hate we should feare we should hope for nothing but in God and to his glorie we should think and muse vpon nothing in our minde vnderstanding but that which may make to the honour and glorie of God we should imploy all the powers of our bodie and all our worldly gifts to the same end we should do nothing to any other man which we would not willingly be content should be done vnto vs. If we examine our selues by this rule we shall see we be so farre from that we should be that almoste we haue not one braunch thereof in vs whiche will more euidently appeare if we wil trie our selues by euery particular commandement rightly and truely vnderstanded Seeing then we be so farre from the iustice of Gods lawe the curse thereof must needes be due vnto vs. For God saith Cursed is he whosoeuer keepeth not all thinges written in the Booke of his law In this maner if we examine our selues sincerely we shall throughly knowe what we are in the sight of God as well by the corruption of our nature as by the course of our euill and naughtie life we shall haue sense of our owne sinne we shall hate and detest it we shal from the bottome of our heartes be sorie for it with trembling mindes we shal feare the heauie iudgement of God against vs and so will be stirred vp in vs that godly appetite greedy desire to eate of that spirituall meate whiche onely can satisfie our troubled conscience cure our repentant and broken heartes But though the appetite desire be neuer so great in vaine he commeth to any table that hath no mouth to eate nor strength of stomacke to digest A true and strong Christian faith is the mouth of the soule and the power wherewith we doe receiue and digest Christe Iesus crucified as the foode of our saluation We must looke therfore to our selues first whether we knowe and vnderstand the mistery of our redemption that is that the vnspeakeable mercie of God sent downe the seconde person in Trinitie to take fleshe of the blessed virgin to liue in the shape of a most contemptible man in this world and in the end to suffer cruel death for the redemption of mankinde Secondly whether we feele in our heartes a strong perswasion that we also through the merciful promises of God are partakers of the same worke of our redemption For a true Christian must not onely haue a generall knowledge but also by a firme faith he must haue a particular application of the same to him selfe Furthermore as it is necessarie to haue both a desire to eate stirred by a sense and feeling of true repentance and also an assured faith to receiue and digest this wholesome and comfortable medicine of our soule so because God bestoweth not his mercie by his Sonne Christ in vaine or to the end we should stil continew in sinne we must further trie our selues whether we feele an vnfained desire to rise to a newnesse of life and in earnest studie hereafter to amend our former faultes and to frame our selues to a godly and honest conuersation that God in vs may be glorified and the mouthes of the enemies stopped Lastly we must examine our consciences whether we haue a feruent great desire to call to our remembrance the vnestimable benefite of our redemption made by the price of his body and bloud and to acknowledge and confesse the same vnfainedly before God and the worlde and to yeelde

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