Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	iniquity_n	lord_n	transgression_n	3,081	5	9.7813	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19502	A most comfortable and Christian dialogue, betweene the Lord, and the soule. By Mr. William Covvper, minister of Gods word	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1617 (1617)	STC 5930; ESTC S115089	12,528	72

dispensation and doubt not but all thy wants and holy desires shall once be satisfied remember how carefull thy Sauiour was of those people that followed him I haue compassion saith he on this people because they haue continued with me already three dayes and haue nothing to eate I will not let them depart fasting lest they faint in the way O most sweete and comfortable speeches they seeke not from him and he is carefull to giue them If he was so carefull to satisfie their bodily necessities will he neglect the spirituall necessities of his owne They followed him three dayes and he counteth it a long time they are to goe from him and hee feareth lest they faint O my distrustfull Soule wilt thou once learne to trust in the mercy of thy God assuredly will he not saciate thee who seekes him will he not answere thee who cries vnto him will he not care for thee who hast waited vpon him not three dayes but many yeeres will he let thee faint in following him who would not let theÌ„ faint who were to go from him O sweet Sauiour happy are they who trust in thee Lord therefore increase my faith in thee that nothing be able euer to sunder me from thee The LORD AS for the weaknes of thy Faith which I see is the ground of all thy trouble it proceedeth either from the want of knowledge or else from the want of application It is indeede a speciall benefit to haue the minde enlightened with true light Seeke therefore my light to shine vnto thee by continuall prayer and searching the Scriptures that thou be not troubled with the error of Conscience as if it were a iust accusation I haue set conscience indeed to be a warner vnto thee but then shalt thou take heed to her warnings when they are warranted by my word If the error of thy conscieÌ„ce terrifie thee in any thing and make thee think that thy crosses and visitations do come from mine anger go and informe conscience better by the Word remember whom I chastise I loue when I chastise thee I am not seeking a satisfaction to my iustice what maruell such thoughts disquiet many Consider I pray thee that notable promise of mine made to my seruant Dauid and in him to all the rest of my Saints If they breake my statutes I will visite their transgressions with my rods yet my louing kindnesse will I not take from them neither alter my Couenant The SOVLE O Word full of comfort my Soule forget it neuer that euen when his rods are layd on thee yet his louing kindnesse is not taken from thee and though thy transgressions be many yet will hee not alter his Couenant with thee remember it I say that in thy trouble thou giue no more place to these misconceptions of Gods working with thee As godly Iob thought in his trouble that the Lord was pursuing him for his sins and making him to possesse the iniquitie of his youth which as yet appeares by the course of that Historie was not the Lords intention so haue I thought many times that the heauie hand of the Lord laid on me had proceeded from his wrath as if hee had shut vp his tender mercie in displeasure from me for euer but Lord let thy light abide with me that I sinne no more with such distrustfull motions against thee and now Lord speake on yet further to thy Seruant for thy comforts haue reioyced my Soule The LORD NOw concerning the weaknesse of thy faith in the apprehension and the application of my promises remember that I am he who will not breake the bruised Reede nor quench the smoking flaxe what smaller thing is there then a graine of mustard-seed albeit the measure of thy faith were no more yet haue I not excluded it from the participation of my promises A louing Father will delight to be holden by the hand of his tender Child and knowest thou not that as a father spareth his son so will the Lord spare theÌ„ that feare him hast thou not read that although the faith of my seruant Iacob was very weak as thou maist perceiue by the great feare he conceiued of Esau yet his weak faith was able to hold me till I blessed him Be not therefore discouraged for albeit thou canst not lay hold on me with the hand of strong faith if thou canst but touch the hem of my garment with thy finger thou shalt draw vertue out of me Consider also with thy selfe that the Faith of my children is neuer greater then when their feeling is weakest and least perceiued It is easie for euery one to beleeue in the middest of glorious feelings and vnspeakeable ioyes but when a man can feele no sensible comfort in mee and yet beleeueth in mee and waiteth on me for comfort certainely the Faith of that man is great and such was the Faith of my seruant who in his greatest trouble gaue mee this answere Albeit thou wouldest slay me O Lord yet both against sence feeling will I trust in thee And did not also that woman of Canaan with inuincible Faith cleaue to my mercy euen then when she had no feeling of mercy and I gaue her no fauourable answer for which in the end I called her faith a great Faith The SOVLE O My Sauiour thou art the strength whereby I stand in temptation cursed be he that would make my Soule to conceiue wrongfully of thee Be mercifull O Lord vnto me and neuer let the malice of mine enemie preuayle ouer me Sweete Iesus keepe the heart that through thine own Grace would faine keep thee and now my Soule remember that this is but the time of fighting the time of triumphing will come why then shall the continuance of these restlesse assaults disquiet thee If thou haddest neuer beene victorious but ence in all thy life-time yet what mercie had it beene that the Lord in the middest of the battaile should make thee to triumph but thou canst not deny that many ioyfull victories now and before hath the Lord giuen thee Therefore now my Soule reioyce and returne to thy former rest For the Lord hath been beneficiall to thee and account thou euery one of these temporall victories a pledge to thee of that full and finall victorie that once thou shalt enioy ouer all thine enemies when the God of peace shall tread downe Sathan vnder thy feete The SOVLE reioyceth in the LORD O Lord if such comfort be in thy crosse what is in thy Crowne and if thou dost giue vs such ioy when thou takest vs into thy hand to correct vs with thy rods Lord what wilt thou make vs to finde when thou shalt imbrace vs in thy armes to kisse vs with the kisses of thy mouth Oh that these feelings might for euer abide with me what trouble would not be easie where thy comforts are present Surely O Lord all trouble vanisheth so soone as thou dost beginne to glance vpon my soule Therefore O my

A MOST COMFORTABLE AND Christian Dialogue betweene the Lord and the Soule BY Mr. WILLIAM COVVPER Minister of Gods Word MATTHEVV 11. 28. Come vnto mee all yee that are wearie and heauy laden and I will refresh you The seuenth Edition LONDON Printed by G. P. for Iohn Budge and are to be sold at the great South-doore of Paules and at Brittaines Bursse 1617. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sir DAVID MVRREY Knight speciall Gentleman of the Prince his Bed-chamber IT is right Worshipfull the common condition of all Christians howsoeuer disioyned in place that they are militant in one warfare against Sathan with his Principalities Powers and spirituall wickednesse whose stratagems are innumerable and the manner of his assaults manifold he troubleth not all Gods children one manner of way for so euery one might easily espie wherein his strength lyeth but makes choise of the temptation as by long experience he hath learned it may bee most effectuall to worke vpon our naturall disposition Like as on the other hand the Grace by which God strengtheneth his Children to resist him is much more manifold whereby they are instructed to vse the Armour of God with such variety of heauenly wisedome that is a wonder to see how by one and the selfesame senteÌ„ce of Gods word at sundry hands sundry manner of wayes Sathan is confounded therefore it is very needfull that in the spirituall warfare there should be a mutuall intelligence among the Souldiers of Christ as well for discouering of Sathans seuerall sleights in assaulting for the more his policie is detected the better may we eschew it as also for the manifestation of GODS rich mercy in assisting For this cause haue I been induced to communicate vnto others these Meditations as it pleased God by experience to communicate them vnto me for in the middest of darknesse which couered the mind and restlesse feare which disquieted the conscience the Lord made them sodainely to breake out like sparkles of light sent from his owne Throne of Grace bringing with them light peace and ioy which in a moment remoued the former feares and pacified the perturbations of my troubled soule As they were vnto me so I wish they may be meanes of comfort vnto others but I know that the same argument of comfort which hath comforted one in temptations doth not alwaies comfort another Nay not in the selfe-same temptation for the Lord will haue his praise reserued to himselfe that hee onely is the God of al comfort It is not the word saith Dauid but God by the word that did quicken him Psal. 119. 9. Yea the most comfortable promise of the Gospell is most terrible to the troubled conscience except the Lord by it worke in the heart a sence of his mercy and therefore such as want comfort let theÌ„ seeke it from the God of comfort Neuerthelesse that which we haue we giue euen as we haue receiued it that it may stand as a memoriall of my thankfulnes to God who shewed his great mercy vpon me when within my selfe I had receiued the sentence of death and a testimonie of my loue toward them who are militant against Sathan And specially of that Christian remembrance I haue alway of you in the Lord Iesus to whose grace I commend you now and for euer Your Worships in the Lord Iesus William Cowper Minister at Perth A RIGHT COMFORTABLE DIAlogue betweene the Lord and a troubled SOVLE The LORD O My beloued why fearest thou and art so cast downe and disquieted within thy selfe dost thou well to bee angry with my chastisements and why art thou offended that I should make thee like to my selfe causing thee to walke in that way of inward outward griefes which I did tread before thee why refusest thou to take vp my crosse and follow me and to taste of that cup which I dranke before thee and for thee The SOVLE O Lord giue mee of thy Spirit and all trouble with thee or for thee shal be sweete vnto me what euer thou didst beare O Lord it was for me and if I were so disposed as I should then would I be content to beare all that thou my God shouldest please to lay on me But alas it is my cursed corruption that makes me think thy crosse my burden Lord therfore vphold mee with thy grace that I may count thy yoke easie and finde ioy in these sufferings with thee The LORD I Know the cause of thy griefe and terror to bee the coÌ„sideration of thy sins but I pray thee why lookest thou so to thy sins that thou lookest not also to my mercies why wouldest thou so extoll thy euill deeds that thou shouldest extenuat my rich mercies or in any way coÌ„pare the one with the other was it for thy good deedes that first I entered into friendship with thee thinkest thou now that for thy euill deeds I will vtterly forsake thee seeing it is among my praises that the worke which I begin I perfect it I like it well indeed to see thee grieued for the sinnes thou hast done against me but I would haue thee also comforted in the mercies that I haue shewed thee Call to minde my workes of old and what I haue done to thee since thou canst remember how cared I for thee in thy young and tender yeeres Looke backe now see did not the Angel of my presence leade thee wheÌ„ thou haddest neither wisedome nor strength to gouerne thy selfe did I not then begin to acquaint thee with the knowledge feare of my Name canst thou denie now that my mercy preserued thee from many sins whereunto thy nature was prone and ready to haue declined and when thou sinnedst with what long patience haue I wayted thy turning how louingly haue I winked at thy transgressions when I had giuen thee grace to repent of thy sins and to seeke my fauour mercy for the sins of thy youth with a melting heart a mourning eie canst thou denie that I haue filled thy heart with my ioyes and made thy toung burst out in glorying speeches and why theÌ„ wilt thou not trust in my mercies to the end The SOVLE I Were O Lord most vnthankfull if I should not confesse that many a time in the multitude of my thoughts thy mercies haue comforted me but alas I haue not answered thy louing kindnesse for after many mercies receiued I haue sinned against thee contrary to my light my sins are now before me witnessing that I am vnworthy to taste of the sweetnesse of thy mercy any more The LORD IS my mercy onely for a day or for a yeere or is it for euer euer toward those whom I haue made mine in Christ Iesus wilt thou restraine my mercies and limit them within so narrow bounds as to think they cannot be extended ouer all thy transgressions wilt thou measure my mercies with so narrow a span as to think I haue no more to giue then thou hast an heart to receiue

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