Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	good_a	will_n	3,330	5	5.9191	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19091	A vvedding sermon preached at Bentley in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past anno Domini. 1607. Wherein is set forth the bond and preseruation. ... By R. Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 55; ESTC S100549	22,610	74

A VVEDDING SERMON PREACHED AT BENTLEY in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past Anno Domini 1607. WHEREIN IS SET FORTH the Bond and Preseruation 1. The spirituall coniunction betwixt God and man 2. The Corporall marriage betwixt man and vvoman 3 The neighbourly societie betwixt man and man By R. ABBOT Doctor of Diuinitie Printed at London by N. O. for Roger Iackson dwelling in Fleetstreet neere to the great Conduit 1608. To the right worshipfull Sir John Stanhope Knight the Father of the bridegroome Knight my most louing and good Patron RIght worshipfull Knight my verie good Patron albeit I made a question of vsing your name for the publishing of so small a matter as this sermon is yet I easily resolued that sith it had pleased you to craue the copy thereof you would pardon mee to grace it with the dedication I might wel doubt to offer so little wher I owe so much but that I considered that small offices sometimes are testimonies of great affectioÌ„s presumed that according to your wonted loue you would take the wil in good worth howsoeuer the worke seeme to bee of small import Accept it therefore I humbly pray you as a very thankfull acknowledgement of your great fauour towards mee both in calling me first to the place where now I liue and giuing me since such respect and countenance as whereby I haue with comfort and contentment enioyed the same And surely if therein I haue done in publicke any profitable seruice to the Church of God a great part thereof is to bee reputed to you who so freely and graciously of your owne voluntary accord and onely for the workes sake which I performed being my selfe wholy strange and vnknowne to you vouchsafed by your gift to free mee of that incessant labour wherein I had beene imployed before for the space of tenne yeares in reading and preaching in the Cathedrall Church and Citie of Worcestor and to setle mee in a place where I might more freely dispose of my selfe though not to withdraw my selfe from the seruice to which I had deuoted my selfe yet in some part to bestow my time to the common benefit of the whole Church which before was limited to one onely congregation Amidst which imployments either publicke or priuate if I attaine to doe any thing to yeeld you any helpe or furtherance in things appertaining to God and in Gods behalfe to answer the end wherat you aimed in your first acceptance of me I much reioyce therein and euer shal reioyce and thinke that houre or time happily bestowed wherein I shall be the helper of your ioy and 2. Co 1. 24 of that faith wherby you shall stand in the day of the Lord Iesus As for this sermon being but a countrey exercise if any shall thinke it not so well polished as that it should bee fit in this sort to goe abroad your approbation shall be my excuse and in that nature I commend it to you that haue desired it wishing with it to you and to your whole house all happines and honour and that the Oliue by my seruice implanted into your stocke may yeeld many branches to the enlarging and strengthning thereof so resting alwaies Yours in all dutie much bounden and deuoted R. Abbot A WEDDING SERMON PREACHED AT the mariage of Sir Iohn Stanhope Knight second son to the right worshipfull Sir Iohn Stanhope Knight of Eluaston in the same County to Mistres Oliue Berrisford now the Ladie Oliue Stanhope sole daughter and heire to Master Edward Berrisford of Berrisford Esquire Amos 3. 3. Can two walke together except they bee agreed THe words are but few yet fewe as they are doe minister matter of a large discourse of the bond and preseruation of spirituall amitie and coniunction betwixt GOD and maÌ„ of corporall marriage betwixt man and woman and of neighborly sacietie betwixt man and man The locall vse and application of the words is to shew a iust reason of Gods withdrawing himselfe froÌ„ them to whome he speaketh and therefore they giue vs occasion principally to consider what is the occasion of breach betwixt GOD and vs. But the same reason being takeÌ„ from the affections dispositions of men in sorting theÌ„selues one with another do lead vs also to consider wherein standeth either the maintenance or the breach disunion of those coniunctions societies which god hath ordeined amongst vs. The Prophet hauing in the first verse of the chapter called the children of Israel to heare the word of the Lord propoundeth to them in the second verse to call to minde the great loue and mercie wherewith hee had respected honoured them aboue al the nations of the earth You onely haue I knowne saith the Lord of all the families of the earth Where by knowing he meaneth acording to the scripture phrase the taking knowledge of them in speciall loue and kindnes to be their God to do them good when as hee passed by other nations as a stranger as if hee had no respect or regard vnto them Now wheras the consideration of this great mercie should haue moued theÌ„ to all thankfulnesse duty towards God they contrariwise a Esay 5. 4. 7. in steede of grapes brought forth wilde grapes for iudgement righteousnes oppression and cruelty so as that they seemed nothing lesse theÌ„ to know or regard him who had so graciously of his owne meere and voluntarie loue accepted them Hereupon the Prophet addeth Therfore I will visit you for all your iniquities saith the Lord implying herein that rule of iudiciall proceeding which our sauiour Christ setteth downe as a thing certainly determined with GOD b Luk. 12. 48 To whomsoeuer much is giuen of him much shal be required the greater mercie the greater iudgement the higher the place the more deadly the fall c Bernard in cant ser 84. they saith Bernard who for grace receiued seemed to be the greatest for not beeing gratefull become of least reckoning with God In effect therefore hee saith vnto them as ye haue beene best beloued so ye shal be most greeuously seuerely punished somewhat may in equitie bee remitted to others but all shal be required of you I wil visite you for all your iniquities saith the Lord. And that it might not seeme strange vnto theÌ„ that he who had vndertaken d Leuit. 26 11. 12. to dwell amongst them and to walke with them should thus cast them off leaue their company in the words which I haue proposed he appealeth to themselues and maketh them Iudges whether his doing therein bee any other but what they themselues out of their owne conuersation must needes iustify and make good Can two or wil two walke together except they be agreed Will any two of you sort your selues to conuerse liue together who haue no accord or agrement each with other It is expedient to haue company on the way and there is comfort in it but will any man be companioÌ„

or commander but of the side and though as a companion yet an inferior to her husband and therefore that she ought a Eph. 5. 22 to submit her selfe to her husband that b Gen. 3. 16. her desire is to be subiect vnto him and he is to rule ouer her that c 1. Tim. 2. 12. she is not to vsurpe authoritie ouer her husband but d 1. Cor. 14 34. to be in subiection as the lawe teacheth It teacheth husbands e 1. Pet. 3. 7 to dwell discreetly with their wiues giuing honour to the wife as vnto the weaker vessell euen as they who are heires together with them of the grace of life Againe it teacheth the wife to be f Gen. 2. 18. a helper to her husband as was said before and not a hinderer g Eccles 36. 24. a pillar for him to rest vpon not a stumbling block to make him fall h Pro. 12. 4 the glory of her husband not an infamy and reproch to him a meanes i 1. Pet. 3. 1 to winne him by her good conuersation if he do not yet obey the word not an occasion to offend him and driue him further off from the liking of the word It teacheth k 1. Cor. 7. 33. 44. the husband in the things of the world to care how hee may please his wife and the wife likewise in the same to care how she may please her husband In a word it teacheth both husband wife to set God before their eies and to consider mariage as his ordinance and institution and that to him they shall giue account how they haue vsed it with that honour and regard which he hath required as due vnto it 18 Which that it may be the more duely performed necessary it is that with religion there be ioyned affection and without affection religion sufficeth not Affection I say whereby each is entertained and lodged in the heart of other and do yeeld each to other that contentment and delight as that it may bee betwixt them which Solomon saith l Pro. 5. 18 Reioyce with the wife of thy youth let her bee vnto thee as the louing Hinde and as the pleasant Roe let her breastes alwayes satisfie thee and delight thou in her loue continually It is very worthy to be noted how the holy Ghost in the Canticles to describe the amitie betwixt Christ and his Church demeaneth himselfe to the phrases of amitie betwixt the husband the wife m Cant. 2. â—0 4 10. 5. 2. my faire one my sister my spouse my loue my doue my vndefiled and such like as to consecrate and sanctifie the same to the vse of chaste and faithful loue so to import what the affection ought to bee which is to vtter it selfe by the issues and streames of such gratious and louely wordes It was truly said by him that said it that n Bodin de repub lib 1. cap. 3. ex Artemidore marriage loue ought to exceede and ouerpasse all other kindes of amitie and loue and therefore the foundations of mariage are to be laid accordingly that affection truly and faithfully obteined on both parts may be thenceforth as an impregnable fortresse castle neuer to bee conquered or ouercome Therefore rash and hasty and casuall marriages are to bee condemned wherin their wanteth time and occasion and meanes to linck together the hearts and affections of them that are to liue together and that barbarous and wicked couÌ„sell is followed which sometimes is giuen to marrie first and to loue after Whereby it commeth to passe that marriages many times are but discontentments and draw after them a long cord of miserie and sorrowe and grieuance of the one party against the other and both aduisedly repent of that which they vnaduisedly begun Of the same kind are those marriages which Hierome speaketh of wheÌ„ men make choice of wiues o Hieron idu Iouini au lib. 1. non oculis sed digitis not by their eies but by their fingers not by their eies by which the person and behauiour is discerned approued but by the fingers by which the money is told that only being respected how rich she is in the purse not how well to bee liked in her selfe the man many times by this occasion thinking that he hath a good marriage if the woman were away and the woman by like occasion thinking her selfe well married if the husband were away and the one hoping and wishing soone the sooner the better to bee rid of the other Lasciuious and wanton eies are indeed greatly to be condemned but yet in honest and lawfull loue the eie is the window by which affection and loue entreth into the heart and if the eie beare not some stroke in choice of a companion to liue so neerely with so as that the husband be to the wife p Gen. 20. 16. the vaile of her eies to stay her from looking to any other and the wife to the husband q Ezech. 24. 16. the pleasure of his eies that hee may ioy to behold her ill is that mariage sorted and whatsoeuer other contentments there may bee in it there wanteth that which should be the seasoning sweetnes of all the rest 19 From religion and affection must grow patience both in husband and wife whereby vpon occasions of heare and anger without which hardly caÌ„ our life passe each can kindly beare with other and each is carefull to take that notice and knowledge of the nature and disposition of the other as may serue to preuent and exclude those vncomely extremities to which intemperate and vnbrideled fury carieth headlong both one and other Wee are all flesh and bloud we all haue our imperfections and ouersights but patience and loue digesteth all and still healeth that which offence woundeth But if there be no patience if by impatiencie the one be fire and the other flax and gunpowder what must needs followe but the blowing vp and burning of the whole house To be short r Eccl. 25. 1. three things are there saith the son of Syrach which reioice mee and whereby I am beautified both before God and men the vnitie of brethren the loue of neighbours and a man and wife that agree together The more gratious gladsome these things are and namely the amitie betwixt the husband and the wife so much the more it concerneth all partes to vse all care for the preseruing of amitie and vnitie as a iewell most pretious in the estimation and acceptation both of God and men 20 Now here I might further speake of the other two the vnity of brethren the loue of neighbors and generally of peace and concord as the garland crown of heauen the glory of the earth the strength of kingdoms the preseruation of families the ioy and happines of all societies the light of all mens eies and the marrow of all mens bones as on the other side discord and variance to be vncapable of heauen the confusion of the earth the destruction of kingdomes the ouerthrow of families the bane of all societies as thornes in all mens sides and as fire in the bones of all men But I haue already stood long and therefore will here end leauing the rest to be vnderstood by that that I haue sayde c. To God the Father God the Sonne God the holy ghost bee all honour and Glory for euer and euer Amen FINIS

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