Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	let_v	love_v	11,229	5	6.1289	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03585	A learned and comfortable sermon of the certaintie and perpetuitie of faith in the elect especially of the prophet Habakkuks faith. By Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford.	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13707; ESTC S121047	10,094	20

vnbeleefe hath full dominion it hath taken plenarie possession of me if I were faithfull it could not bee thus Not marking the motions of the spirit and of faith because they lie buried and overwhelmed with the contrarie when notwithstanding as the blessed Apostle doth acknowledge that the spirit groneth and that God heareth when we doe not so there is no doubt but that our faith may haue and hath her privie operations secret to vs in whom yet knowne to him by whom they are Tell this to a man that hath a mind deceaved by too hard an opinion of himselfe and it doth but augment his griefe he hath his answer ready will you make mee thinke otherwise then I find theÌ„ I feel in my self I haue throughly considered and exquisitely sifted all the corners of my heart and I see what there is never seek to perswade me against my knowledge I doe not I knowe I doe not beleeue Well to favour them a little in their weaknesse let that be granted which they doe imagine bee it that they are faithlesse and without beleife But are they not grieved for their vnbeleife They are Do they not wish it might and also striue that it may be otherwise We know they doe Whence commeth this but from a secret loue and liking which they haue of those things that are believed No man can loue things which in his owne opinion are not And if they thinke those things to be which they shew that they loue when they desire to beleeue them then must it needs be that by desiring to beleeue they proue themselues true beleevers For without faith no man thinketh that things beleeved are Which argumeÌ„t all the subtiltie of infernall powers will never be able to dissolue The faith therefore of true beleevers though it haue many and grievous downfalls yet doth it still continue invincible it conquereth and recovereth it selfe in the end The dangerous conflicts wherevnto it is subiect are not able to prevaile against it The Prophet Abacuck remained faithfull in weaknesse though weake in faith It is true such is our weake and wavering nature that we haue no sooner receaued grace but wee are ready to fall from it we haue no sooner given our assent to the law that it cannot faile but the next conceit which wee are ready to imbrace is that it may and that it doth fail Though wee find in our selues a most willing heart to cleaue vnseparably vnto God even so far as to think vnfainedly with Peter Lord I am ready to goe with thee into prison and to death yet how soone and how easily vpon how small occasions are we changed if wee bee but a while let alone and left vnto our selues The Galathians to day for their sakes which teach them the truth in Christ content if need were to pluck out their own eies and the next day ready to pluck out theirs which taught them The loue of the Angell to the Church of Ephesus how greatly enflamed and how quickly slacked The higher we flow the neerer we are vnto an ebbe if men be respected as meere men according to the wonted course of their alterable inclination without the heaveÌ„ly support of the spirit Againe the desire of our ghostly enimy is so vncredible and his means so forcible to overthrowe our faith that whom the blessed Apostle knewe betroathed and made handfast vnto Christ to them he could not write but with great trembling I am iealous over you with a godly iealousie for I haue prepared you to one husband to present you a pure virgin vnto Christ but I feare least as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. The simplicitie of faith which is in Christ taketh the naked promise of God his bare word and on that it resteth This simplicitie the serpent laboreth continually to pervert corrupting the mind with many imaginations of repugnancie and contrariety betweene the promise of God and those things which sense or experience or some other fore conceaved perswasion hath imprinted The word of the promise of God vnto his people is I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee vpon this the simplicity of faith resteth and it is not afraid of famine But mark how the subtilty of Sathan did corrupt the minds of that rebellious generation whose spirits were not faithfull vnto God They beheld the desolate state of the desert in which they were and by the wisdome of their sense concluded the promise of God to be but folly CaÌ„ God prepare a table in the wildernes The word of the promise to Sara was Thou shalt beare a Sonne Faith is simple and doubteth not of it but Sathan to corrupt this simplicitie of faith entangleth the mind of the woman with an argument drawn from common experience to the contrarie A woman that is olde Sara now to be acquainted againe with forgotteÌ„ passions of youth The word of the promise of God by Moses and the Prophets made the Saviour of the world so apparent vnto Philip that his simplicitie could conceaue no other Messias then Iesus of Nazareth the sonne of Ioseph But to stay Nathaniel least being invited to come and see hee should also beleeue and so be saved the subtilty of Sathan casteth a mist before his eies putteth in his head against this the common conceaved perswasion of all men concerning Nazareth Is it possible that a good thing should come from thence This stratagem he doth vse with so great dexteritie the minds of all men are so strangely ensorceled with it that it bereaveth theÌ„ for the time of all perceavance of that which should releeue them and be their comfort yea it taketh all remembrance from them even of things wherewith they are most familiarly acquainted The people of Israel could not bee ignorant that he which led them through the sea was able to feed them in the desart but this was obliterated and put out by the sense of their present want Feeling the hand of God against them in their food they remembred not his hand in the day that he delivered them from the haÌ„d of the oppressor Sara was not then to learne that with God all things are possible Had Nathaniel never noted how God doth choose the base things of this world to disgrace them that are most honorably esteemed The Prophet Abakuk knewe that the promises of grace protection and favour which God in the law doth make vnto his people do not grant them any such immunitie as can free and exempt them from all chastisements he knewe that as God said I will continue my mercy for ever towards them so he likewise said their transgressions I will punish with a rod he knew that it cannot stand with any reason wee should set the measure of our owne punishments and prescribe vnto God how great or howe long our sufferings shall be he knew that we were blind and altogether ignorant what is best

for vs that wee sue for many things very vnwisely against our selues thinking we aske fish when indeed we craue a serpent he knewe that wheÌ„ the thing we aske is good and yet God seemeth slowe to grant it he doth not deny but defer our petitions to the end we might learne to desire great things greatly all this hee knewe But beholding the land which God had severed for his owne people and seeing it abandoned vnto heathen nations viewing how reproachfully they did tread it down and wholly make havock of it at their pleasure beholding the Lords owne Royall Seat made an heape of stones his temple defiled the carkases of his servants cast out for the soules of the aire to devoure and the flesh of his meeke ones for the beasts of the field to feed vpon being conscious to himselfe how long and how earnestly he had cryed Succour vs Ã´ God of our welfare for the glory of thine owne name and feeling that their soare was still increased the conceit of repugnancie betweene this which was obiect to his eies and that which faith vpon promise of the law did looke for made so deepe an impression and so strong that he disputeth not the matter but without any further enquiry or search inferreth as we see The Law doth faile Of vs who is here which cannot very soberly advise his brother Sir you must learne to strengtheÌ„ your faith by that experience which heretofore you haue had of Gods great goodnesse towards you per ea quae agnoscas praestita discas sperare promissa By those things which you haue known performed learne to hope for those things which are promised Doe you acknowledge to haue receaved much Let that make you certaine to receaue more Habenti dabitur To him that hath more shal be giuen When you doubt what you shall haue search what you haue had at Gods hands Make this reckoning that the benefits which he hath bestowed are bils obligatorie sufficient sureties that he wil bestow further His present mercy is still a warrant of his future loue because whom he loveth he loveth vnto the end Is it not thus Yet if wee could reckon vp as many evident cleere vndoubted signes of Gods reconciled loue towards vs as there are yeares yea daies yea howers past over our heades all these set together haue not such force to confirme our faith as the losse and sometimes the only feare of loosing a little transitorie goods credit honour or favour of men a small calamitie a matter of nothing to breed a conceit and such a conceit as is not easily againe remoued that we are cleane crost out of Gods book that he regards vs not that he looketh vpon others but passeth by vs like a stranger to whom we are not knowne Then we thinke looking vpon others and comparing them with our selues their tables are furnished day by day earth and ashes are our bread they sing to the lute and they see their children dance before them our harts are heavie in our bodies as lead our sighes beat as thick as a swift pulse our teares doe wash the beds wherein we lie the sun shineth faire vpon their foreheads wee are hanged vp like bottles in the smoake cast into corners like the sherds of a broken pot tell not vs of the promises of Gods favour tell such as doe reape the fruit of them they belong not to vs they are made to others the Lord be mercifull to our weaknesse but thus it is Well let the frailtie of our nature the subtiltie of SathaÌ„ the force of our deceavable imaginations be as we cannot deny but they are things that threaten every moment the vtter subversion of our faith faith notwithstanding is not hazarded by these things That which one somtimes told the Senators of Rome Ego sic existimabam P.C. vti patrem saepe meum praedicantem audiveram qui vestram amicitiam diligenter colerent eos multum laborem suscipere caeterÃ¹m ex omnibus maximÃ¨ tutos esse As I haue often heard my father acknowledge so I my selfe did ever thinke that the friends favourers of this state charged themselues with great labor but no mans condition so safe as theirs the same we may say a great deale more iustly in this case our Fathers and Prophets our Lord and master hath full often spoken by long experience we haue found it true as many as haue entred their names in the mysticall booke of life eos maximum laborem suscipere they haue taken vpon them a laboursome a toilesome a painefull profession sed omnium maximÃ¨ tutos esse but no mans security like to theirs Simon Simon Sathan hath desired to winnow thee as wheat Here is our toile but I haue praied for thee that thy faith faile not this is our safety No mans condition so sure as ours the praier of Christ is more then sufficient both to strengthen vs be we never so weake and to overthrow all adversarie power be it never so strong and potent His praier must not exclude our labour their thoughts are vaine who thinke that their watching can preserue the citty which God himselfe is not willing to keepe And are not theirs as vaine who thinke that God wil keepe the cittie for which they themselues are not carefull to watch The husbandman may not therefore burne his plough nor the Marchant forsake his trade because God hath promised I will not forsake thee And do the promises of God concerning our stabilitie thinke you make it a matter indiffereÌ„t for vs to vse or not to vse the meanes whereby to attend or not to attend to reading to pray or not to pray that we fal not into temptation Surely if we looke to stand in the faith of the sonnes of God we must hourely continually be providing and setting our selues to striue It was not the meaning of our Lord and Savior in saying Father keepe them in thy name that we should be carelesse to keepe our selues To our owne safety our owne sedulitie is required And then blessed for ever and ever bee that mothers childe whose faith hath made him the childe of God The earth may shake the pillars of the world may tremble vnder vs the countenance of the heaven may be apaled the Sun may loose his light the Moone her beauty the Starres their glory but concerning the man that trusteth in God if the fire haue proclaimed it selfe vnable as much as to finge a heire of his head if Lyons beasts ravenous by nature and keene with hunger being set to devour haue as it were religiously adored the very flesh of the faithfull maÌ„ what is there in the world that shal change his hart overthrow his faith alter his affection towards God or the affection of God to him If I be of this note who shall make a separation betweene me and my God Shal tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednes or perill or sword No I am perswaded that neither tribulation nor anguish nor persecution nor famine nor nakednes nor perill nor sword nor death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor anie other creature shall ever prevaile so far over me I know in whom I haue beleeved I am not ignorant whose precious bloud hath beene shed for me I haue a shepheard full of kindnesse full of care and full of power vnto him I commit my selfe his owne finger hath engraven this sentence in the tables of my hart Sathan hath desired to winnow thee as wheat but I haue prayed that thy faith faile not Therefore the assurance of my hope I will labor to keepe as a iewell vnto the end and by labour through the gracious mediation of his praier I shall keepe it FINIS

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