Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	love_v	soul_n	10,844	5	5.3323	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11219	A godly learned and fruitfull sermon Made vpon the fourteenth of Iohn in which is plainely set foorth the true looue of Christ, the markes whereby the children of God are knovven and the commodities vvhich that looue bringeth. By D. S. 1584.	D. S., fl. 1584.; Jordan, John, fl. 1584.; Squier, Adam, d. 1588, attributed name.	1584 (1584)	STC 21483; ESTC S112128	14,988	38

â§ A Godly lear ned and fruitfull Sermon Made vpon the fourteenth of Iohn in which is plainely set foorth the true looue of Christ the markes whereby the Children of God are knovven and the commoditie vvhich that looue bringeth By D. S. 1584. Iohn 15. 13. Â¶ Christ so deerely looued vs that he gaue his life for vs. AT LONDON Â¶ Printed for Yarath Iames and Thomas Lawe and are to be solde in new gate market ouer against Christe Chvrch gate To the right Woorship full Sir William Pelham Knight Leiftenant of the Queenes Maiesties Ordenaunce your seruant Iohn Iordan wisheth in this lyfe health and prosperitie with eternall felicitie in Christ Iesus AS it pleaseth the Lord of his vnsearchable wisdoÌ„e to plant in you the glistering beams of his gospell and so heaped vpon you as wel his blessinges for your body in this lyfe as also endewed you with his feare and loue that your soule may attaine to the euerlasing life So it hath pleased him also to ordaine the meanes that the same may be continued in you to the end namely by his secret gift of grace by his loue poured in your hart and by the pure preaching of his woord vnder so gracious a Prince whose looue hath a long time shined in this realme of peace of plenty to the terror of the blinde thirsting Papists our dayly aduersaries So that you may say with the children of God Blessed are that people which liue in his feare Yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord and liue in his looue Of which loue this Sermon heere Dedicated to your worship largely and learnedly entreateth the Author not knowen vnto mee onely the excellencie thereof caused me to put it in print that all that liue in the looue of God might bee partakers of so good a worke Heerein is set foorth the fruites of true faith the vanitie of worldly wealth the corruption of couetousnes the greatnes of our sinnes the punishment due thereunto and the meanes whereby wee may be deliuered from the some beeing a loadestone to direct our dooings from the rankor of couetousnes to bring vs to godlines Wherfore Saint Paule to withdrawe vs from it saith godlines is great ritches wee brought nothing into this world and certeinly wee shall carry nothing with vs wherefore while we haue foode and raiment let vs be coÌ„tent therwith and Saint Mathew writeth that if all men will seeke the kingdome of God and the righteousnes thereof they shall not want but shall haue all thinges cast vnto them from aboue For if wee haue to maintaine vs in this life and cast care on heauenly thinges wee shall posses heauen raigne with Christ foreuer Wherefore Maister Caluin vpon Paule to Timothy saith They that measure their religion by riches are heere taught that onely religion is the true riches Wherby it appeareth that there is nothing more necessarie and needfull vnto the Saluation of a Christian then the knowledge zeale and looue of God and his religion This bold attempt I doo offer vnto your worship as a true argumeÌ„t of my duetifull minde not as a meane to you now earnest in religion but vnto one of whose looue and godly zeale in that behalfe I haue all ready had sufficient triall Beseeching therfore that by your worships well accepting it at my hand though out of another mans caske it may be the better lyked accepted and followed of them that endeuour themselues to liue in the looue of our onely Sauiour In which looue the Lord of his great mercy cÃ´tinue your good worship my very good Lady your whole famely and that all which be partakers of his feare and looue may bee inheritours of his euerlasting kingdome Your worships humble Seruant alwaies to commaund Iohn Iordan If any man loue me hee vvil keep my vvord and my Father vvil loue him vve vvil come vnto him and vvill dvvell vvith him Iohn 14. I haue in this present text of holye Scripture three necessary braunches to intreat of offred vnto me First I minde God permitting to entreat of that loue which the children of God dutifully owe vnto Jesus Christe their alone God and Sauiour 2 Secondly my purpose is likewise to shew how and by what meanes the said children of God may be knowne to loue Christ Jesus as they ought to doo namely in kÃ©eping his woord 3 The third setteth forth the vtilitie profit and commodity which hapeneth vnto that man which rightly loueth Christ and kÃ©epeth his word namely not onely that God the Father will loue him but also that the whole Trinity will come vnto him and dwell with him The Sermon THe mindes of Gods choseÌ„ people haue neuer any peace or quietnes in the which they may stay them selues vntil they fÃ©el them selues vnited vnto Christ by meanes of a perfit and stayed faith with a ful confidence in him and a burning loue towardê him Augustine therfore hath aptly said that loue is a certain coupling of y t louer with the beloued which saying of Augustine may be approued true by the testimonie of S. Iohn in his first Epistle and fourth chapter where he saith That God is charity and he that dwelleth in charity dwelleth in God and God in him BetwÃ©en the which words charity and loue in this place and many more of the holy scriptures I take to be no difference Which loue of God is powred into the harts of Gods children by the holy spirite of God by the means of Christe for the spirit of loue was louingly giuen vnto Christe vnto this end that he shoulde powre it into his members And although the same loue in the children of God is vnperfit during this theyr mortall life because of sinne yet is it acceptable vnto God for that they by fayth are made members of Christe The manner and order of which loue is explicated and set foorth as wel by that seruant of God Moyses in y e Booke called Deutronomium sixt Chapter in these woords Thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thy hart with all thy soule and with all thy might as also the very same woords rehersed or rather coÌ„firmed by our sauiour Christe in the 22. Chapter written by S. Mathewe To loue God with all thine hart is to take dilligent hÃ©ed that thine hart hÃ©e not inclined to the looue of any thinge more then to the loue of thy God To loue him with all thy soule is to stay the trust of thy saluation and safety of thy soule onely on Jesus Christe the sonne of God To loue him with all thy might is to apply all thy sences to the setting foorth of his honour and glory For sÃ©eing wÃ©e bÃ©e wholy his he will haue vs holy to loue him I graunt there are things in this world that may kindle our minds and affectioÌ„s to looue theÌ„ for there be worldly honours the glittering golde she glistering precious stones the beuty of maÌ„kinde the excellent

law be not kept I grant there may bÃ©e some fault found in them touching this matter but what and y e party be to mightye for y e bishop to deale w t it sÃ©emeth that the papists wexe very bold wel it were good that the Magistrate and those y e bÃ©e in authoritie shold coÌ„maÌ„d such yea if it were a noble man vpoÌ„ his alegeance to the Prince to come to the Church Augustine doth testifie that through the straight coÌ„mandement of Theodosius the Emperor his church of Hippo was deliuered froÌ„ the Donatists were brought vnto the trueth by y e preching of the word of God for as S. Paule saith faith coÌ„meth by hearing surely this is not only a gret hindrance of the frÃ©e passage of y e Gospel when men sÃ©e the magistrats negligeÌ„t in punishing of such transgressors of Gods lawes the princes but also if they sÃ©e vnderstand that the rulers themselues their familie and houshold regard litle the word of God The third sorte of people that are to bÃ©e blamed for that y e word of God is no more regarded in these our daies be the coÌ„mon multitude In the which number I may include euen the most excellent sort of men vntil such time as they faithfully embrace the word of God and so be graffed into the body of the Church Of all the creatures that God hath created man against his maker hath bÃ©ene found most vnthankfull obstinate rebellions and disobedient which hath bÃ©ene sÃ©ene not onely by the disobedience of our first parents but also in vs so that wÃ©e hearing as it were Gods voyce by his woorde yet harden our harts cast of his yoke from vs and forget the benefits that hÃ©e hath bestowed vpon vs of the which greeuous offence I mean of y e contempt of his worde the messeÌ„gers of God Patriarches Prophets EnaÌ„gelists apostles and ministers haue froÌ„ time to time complained Moyses the seruaÌ„t of God speking of the peruerse nature of y e people of his time sayth vnto God Lord they wil not belÃ©eue nor harken to my voyce and y t which they did suspect would coÌ„e to passe others by experience found most true for Esay sayeth Lord who hath giuen credeÌ„ce vnto the things that we haue hard Elyas complaineth vnto God y t the childreÌ„ of Israell had not onely forsaken his couenaÌ„t but also killed his Prophets and that hÃ©e onely was left aliue the Prophet Ieremy saith that he taught the people of Iuda the worde of the Lord xxiij yÃ©ers that with great paines and trauel for thus he saith vnto them I haue risen vp early I haue giueÌ„ you warning in seasoÌ„ but you would not hear me And againe he saith though y e Lord hath sent his seruants al y e prophets vnto you yet would you not obay you would not incline your eares to hear After the prophets God sent his only soÌ„ in to the world who was coÌ„temned of y e ritch hated of the mighty scorned of y e lerned notwithstanding he gathered together y e poore refused not y e blind dispised not the lame forsaketh not y e sinners he abhorreth not y e penitent thÃ©efe reiecteth not the mourniÌ„g adulter esse dispised not y e huÌ„ble Cananite refused not the custoÌ„er lothed not the Disciple y t denied him let therfor the miserable wretch flÃ©e vnto the merciful the guilty to the fauorable the vnclean to the fountain the waÌ„derer to the way y e sick to the phisticioÌ„ the lost sheep to the shepherd the sinner to Jesus w c saueth people froÌ„ their sins w c Jesus although in corporal preseÌ„ce he is absent froÌ„ vs yet hath hÃ©e not left vs destitute of prechers techers which cal his people to eÌ„brace kÃ©ep obay his word wherby they may be knowen in loue him as is said in our text if any man loue me he wil kÃ©ep my word But why do not these cormoraÌ„ts say to theÌ„selues for whom doo I prepare these buildings laÌ„ds and farmes with y e losse of mine own soul I dout whether I shal possesse or they enioy theÌ„ to whom I bequeth them or not the rather may I so think for that my coÌ„science beareth me witnesse that they haue bÃ©en euil gotten and euil kept and therefore it is very likly they shalbe euil spent I know not whether mine heir wilbe awise man for a foole whether he wil spend that riotously which I haue gotten wickedly Why do they not acknowledg theÌ„ selues to be but men and man is as grasse as a flower of y e field the grasse shal wither y e flower decay to beshort you y t be godly minded pray you with the prophet Dauid and say Encline my hart O Lord vnto thy testimonies not vnto couetuosnes And surely this vice not onely draweth men from the loue of Christ and obedieÌ„ce to his word in these dayes but there is ioyned with it carnall plesure and fleshly delights which is such a snare chat it holdeth men that delight theriÌ„ so with captiuitie that their harts are with drawne from all the seruice of God and obedience of his word and only set there vpoÌ„ These vices are such hurtful harmes miserable mischeefes to those that lewdly loue them plesantly practise them that they drawe them into damnation except bothe spÃ©edely and earnestly they repent Will God think you suffer these vices long vnpunished no let vs thinke therfore that God speaketh vnto vs after this manner and faith O you vnthankful sonnes of Adam how many things haue I to speak iudge of you how often would I haue holpen you and you would not you haue dispised all my counsels and broken all my commandemeÌ„ts I haue therfore iust cause to be angry with you and to condemne you but I haue had compassioÌ„ vpoÌ„ you I haue sÃ©en your misery and decrÃ©ed to help your I saw you wander in exile far from your owne countrey and therfore I came in mine owne person from heauen to guide you into the right way I saw you scattered in mountains and lye in hedges yet I sent my seruaÌ„ts to gather you together who haue shewed you that all things are prepared and made ready for you This my goodnes and loue towards you ought to alure you to come vnto mÃ©e loue mÃ©e But hÃ©erin I haue to burden and accuse you namely for your ingratitude rebelioÌ„ and contempt of my woord you wey not the benefits that I haue bestowed vppon you you kÃ©ep not my commaundementê you regard not my word nor my Sacraments how you receue theÌ„ nor feare not my wrath you euill entreat my messengers you stifnecked vncircuÌ„sised harts and eares ye haue alwaies resisted y e holy ghost as your fathers did so doo you Thus we may sÃ©e that there is nothing that either sooner moueth Gods wrath or draweth vs into damnatioÌ„ then coÌ„tempt of gods grace offered vnto vs by his holy word We

found shall perish to giue because it ioyneth the hart of man vnto God to a fountayne for that it refreshed the minde to a precious stone because it beautifieth the soule to fire because it warmeth the affection to a garment for that it couereth the turpitude of offences to oyntment for that it supplieth the inward partes Experience of this loue hath bÃ©en seen in the death of many Marters they dyiÌ„g for the zeale and loue which they did beare vnto God and his trueth consider what they left what way they went and what they looked for what they left wÃ©e sÃ©e what way they went wÃ©e haue heard and perfectly sÃ©ene what they attayned vnto we sÃ©e not but bÃ©eleue they left things transitory and vayn they passed through torments paines they attained no dout vnto that which was promised them of God namely euerlasting ioy and endles felicitie Besides these there be many examples set foorth vnto vs in the holy Scriptures how ardently the holy men of God haue from time to time looued the Lord. Abraham shewed the zeale of his looue towardes God when hÃ©e was ready to offer his sonne Isaack in sacrifice Iosua bÃ©eing olde called the people of Jerusalem vnto him and warning them of many thinges aboue all other thinges hÃ©e said take hÃ©ede most diligently of this that you loue your Lord God It is written of Dauid that with his whole hart he did praise the Lord and looued God that made him The Appostle Saint Peter answered our sauiour earnestly sayiÌ„g Lord thou knowst I loue thÃ©e Saint Paule had such loue towardes God he that accouÌ„ted all things vile that he might winne Christ Again how earnestly dooth he encourage all men to continue in this loue saying Who shall seperate vs from the loue of Christ shal tribulation or anguish or persecutioÌ„ or famine or nakednes or perill or sworde Thus I wil end this first braunche with request which the said Saint Paule made to the Philippians saying if therbe therfore any consolation in Christ if any comfort of loue if any fellowship of the spirit if any compassioÌ„ and merry fulfil my ioy that ye be like minded hauing the saÌ„e loue bÃ©eing of one accord and of one iudgement which thing if we doo not wÃ©e shall shew our selues the vnthankfullest creatures that euer God created The second braunche setteth foorth hovv and by vvhat meanes our looue tovvards our sauiour Christe may bee knovven cheefly in keeping his vvord for thus he saith if any man looue me he vvill keep my vvord THe word of Christ in this place is takeÌ„ as well for y e doctrine which he hiÌ„selfe taught with his owne mouth Viua voce as also for that which his ministers haue set foorth doo or shall teach not only out of the newe but also out of the olde Testament as is manifestly shewed in y e xvi Chapter written by Saint Luke in these woords They haue Moyses and the Prophets let them heare them againe Christe speaketh of the Scripturs of bothe Testaments where he saith Iohn 5. Scru tamini scripturas search the Scriptures And the rather to mooue all people to credit and embrace his word he shewed y t it is not his word in respect that hee is man but in respect y t he is God for thus he saith Mea doctrina non est mea sed eius qui misit me My doctrine is not mine but his that sent mÃ©e again in the viij of Iohn he sayth I doo nothing of my self but as the father hath taught me euen so I speake these things which saying of Christ may not onely confirme the fayth of the godly knowing that y e doctrine which is taught them is the woord of God but also it is a lesson vnto all Preachers that they teach nothing to the people but that which may be confirmed by Gods words my doctrin is not mine but his that sent me for they are the messengers and Legats of y e most high God and of his sonne Christ Jesus not to teach the people what they lyst but that which is spyed within their commission of Gods worde whosoeuer therfore cannot rightly say of the doctrine which he teacheth my doctrine is not mine but his that sent me that man seduceth him selfe and the people which hÃ©e teacheth But the Papists and other here tiques caÌ„not rightly say the said words but they teach the doctrine of men and not the pure woord of God it followeth therfore that they seduce themselues and the people also It sÃ©emed good to our God and heauenly father that the holy scripturs should be sette foorth to men chÃ©efly for that cause which is set down in the twenty Chapter written by S. Iohn where it is sayd Haec scripta sunt vt creditis quia Iesus est filius Dei et vt credeÌ„tes vitam habeatis in nomine eius These things are written that ye might belÃ©eue that Jesus is the sonne of God and that in beleeuing you might haue life through his name HÃ©ere is plainly set downe the end why the holy Scriptures concerning Jesus was giueÌ„ namely that we might haue fayth in the sonne of God and the end of this fayth is to haue euerlasting life Sithence then that this woord is so profitable vnto vs it behooneth vs to kÃ©epe it not locked vp in chests and cloyesters as the papists kÃ©ept it not in woords onely as the Pharisies kept it but in faithfully hearing it belÃ©euing it and practysing it in our liues as the holy Vigin Mary kept it We haue many examples in the book of God how from time to time the word of God hath bÃ©en regarded with Gods people The people sayd vnto Moyses all the wordes which the Lord hath said wÃ©e wil doo Hely taught Samuel right wel that he should say vnto the Lord that spake vn to him speak on Lord for thy seruaÌ„t hear reth When Esdras redde the booke of the lawe from morning vnto midday it followed that all the people wept for ioye when they heard the wordes of the law of their God when the word of God came from Ionas to y e King of Niniuy without delay he rose out of his princely seate did his apparell off and sat him downe in asijes After the lame maÌ„ was healed which is spoken of in the thirde Chapter of the Actes of the Apostles and Peters sermon ended many that heard his sermon belÃ©eved as is shewed in the fourth Chapter of the Actes thus wÃ©e sÃ©e howe the word of God hath bÃ©en regarded in times past of Godlie people And what is the cause that the worde of God is not more regarded and followed in these our dayes sithence it is not so plentifully taught among vs what bÃ©e the Bishoppes and Ministers onely in fault or are the Maiestrates and Rulers only to bÃ©e blamed or bÃ©e the common multitude alone culpable herein no surely in mine opinion no one society

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