Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	assume_v	humane_a	union_n	3,291	5	9.5119	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00537	The mirrour of created perfection. Or The life of the most blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God. Written by the R. Fa. I.F. of the Society of Iesus	Falconer, John, 1577-1656.	1632 (1632)	STC 10677; ESTC S117677	40,184	172

chiefe Prince of their Court as a Paranymph to salute this pure Mayden from themselues and obtayne her consent to be diuinely fecundated by the holy Ghost and haue the Eternall Word Incarnate within her Who knowing the wonderful Excellency of her to whome he was sent saluted her with the highest Titles which could be giuen to an vnglorified Creature saying Hayle full of grace c. and he had further perchance dilated himselfe in her prayses had she not by her humble feare sweetly interrupted him Calling her Mary familiarly afterwards which at first for reuerence he did not he made her to know him with whome she had often and familiarly conuersed before as great Authours haue supposed and is gathered from the Euangelists words affirming her to haue byn troubled not as his sight but at his speach and high Titles therein giuen vnto her Feare not said he thou hast found grace with God such a Grace indeed as Hester found in Assuerus eyes and hart togeather when as a louely spouse and Queene he meant to exalt her Telling her further that she shold conceaue in her wombe and bring forth a Sonne promised by God as the rest of his wordes do import foretould by his Prophets Jsay especially whose very wordes he vsed vnto her diuine in himselfe glorious likewise eternall in his kingdome How sayd she shall this be done because I know not man Which question had byn idly made as sundry ancient great Fathers haue obserued had she not byn debarred by her virginall vow from knowing her husband When the Angell had cleared her difficulty told her the diuine pure maÌ„ner of her sonnes conception with great humility and deuotion she threw herselfe as it were into the opened armes of her omnipoteÌ„t gracious Spouse to be purely imbraced and fecundated with admiration and loue yielding herself vnto him Behold said shee the handmaide of our Lord be it vnto me as you haue said O Happy Turtles voyce sayth S. Bernard sweetly vttered heere in earth yet working wonders in heauen by causing forthwith Gods eternall sonne to descend from his Fathers bosome into her sacred wombe and therin to assume humane Nature personally vpon him Of the Eternall Word in her Blessed wombe Chap. 7. IN this miraculous Conception of God and Man our heauenly Redeemer not the Essence but the manner only of humane generation was many wayes altered and of the Virgins pure bloud a humane body was sodainly and perfectly framed but not vnited with a gracious and glorified soule then created also before they were by the diuine Word personally assumed that she maternally concurring in her sacred wombe to vnite them might be the true mother of him that was perfect God and perfect man in one Person vnited This Celestiall Babe behoulding himself at that happy instaÌ„t by created graces and a diuine greatnes aboue all creatures infinitely exalted adored likewise by all the Quires of Angells and orday ned to redeeme mortalls amongst all the designed children of glory then presented before him he first and most especially beheld his holy Mother in nature neerest in dignity chiefest in loue dearest vnto him actually then prepared in an humble ardour of heauenly loue to receaue what graces he would giue her whose guifts no doubt equalled his measurelesse loue towards her and aboundantly requited the harty welcome she gaue him And that her loue towards him naturally as to her sonne and supernaturally as to her God might then and afterwards become happly increased he is conceaued by great Authors to haue at that instant infused into her soule a clearer sight of his personall Maiesty and greatnes then Moyses or any other Saint before her enioyed lying in her wombe as a louely Bride in his marriage bed sweetly reposed as a tree of life newly planted in this heaueÌ„ly Paradise as a fragrant fayre flowre out of her flourishing braunches graciously budded as a pretious Margarite in a cleere mother-pearle safely inclosed finally as an amourous louer sweetly lulled in the Virgin-lappe of her his chiefly beloued corporally growing in her nature and liberally communicating his spirituall guifts and graces vnto her Of our B. Ladyes visit of S. Elizabeth Chap. 8. THis mayden-gracious-Mother was no sooner wakened out of her sweet traunce of loue diuine fecuÌ„dity but Humility prepared and feruent Charity incited her to vndertake a paynfull iourney of 3. dayes trauell ouer the craggy mountaynes of Iewry to visit her aged Cosen S. Elizabeth in Hebron and to sanctify S. John her sonnes Precursor by the breath of her salutation of which not the words but effects are by the Euangelist declared to haue byn heauenly light and aboundant graces diuinely infused into the child first and mother afterwards which he with exultation and she with outcryes of ioy and loue prophetically vttered conioyning in her blessings this sacred mother and her diuine son as in nature then and loue she beheld them graciously vnited Blessed sayd she art thou amongst women blessed is the fruite of thy wombe Blessed indeed in herselfe as hauing the height of all created blessings bestowed vpon her and blessed in her sonne the flowing fountayne of them He as the fruit of life growing in her woÌ„be was blessed and she was blessed as the tree that bore him surely such a heaueÌ„ly fruit as the Incarnat Sonne of God was could not but haue a tree of rare goodnes to produce him since the goodnes of trees are by their fruites to be chiefly discerned This diuine graine of corne falling from heauen into the earth according to his owne words in the Ghospell had no doubt a fat and fertile soyle to fall into this pretious margarit of Heauen had a cleere mother-pearle to breed it this bright sonne of Iustice finally had a fayre dawning to rise in by his most resplendent beames before other Saints mantled and adorned Whence is it sayd this Saint admiring the B. Virgins Humility and gratefull for her charity in comming to a person so much in dignity and graces inferiour vnto her that the mother of my Lord is come vnto me S. Elizabeth was a great Saint canonized and commeÌ„ded highly with her husbaÌ„d by God himselfe yet being humble actually illuminated to know the dignity and wonderfull graces of her Cosin she saw her owne sparcles by the others huge flames incomparably exceeded her smal light by the others suÌ„ny brightnes ecclipsed and the mother of a Creature by the blessed Parent of her Creatour and Redeemer himselfe incomparably excelled Then gladly thankefully she acknowledged the holy effects in her child and her selfe of her salutation praysing her beliefe yielded to the Angells speaches prophetically assuring her that all should be fulfilled which he had tould her concerning the greatnes of her sonne redemption of the world by him and glory of his kingdome Of our B. Ladyes Canticle and stay with her Cosin S. Elizabeth Chap. 9. SAint Elizabeth is sayd to haue byn newly replenished

had hers once wasted graciously agayne and with a great increase happily restored and both were to him in their sweet societyes especially delighfull contemplating his speaches and noting his actioÌ„s to enrich their soules holily by them she especially who from his childhood had byn accustomed to do so considering his miraculous curing of diseased and miserable persons not onely as acts of gracious loue and mercy towards them on whom they were wrought but as misterious representations likewise of the like spirituall wonders which then after he meant to worke in soules by his heauenly graces Honours likewise done and thankes yielded vnto him for benefits receaued delighted her humble soule not only because they were deseruedly giuen vnto him but for that wisely likewise she knew how liberally he meant afterwards to requite theÌ„ As coÌ„trarily his disgraces much grieued her not only as iniuries done vnto him who no wayes deserued them but as they were great sinnes in such as did coÌ„mit them meanes to increase their eternall damnation Of the woman blessing the wombe paps of the B. Virgin Chap. 27. IT cannot be doubted but that such as belieued Christ to be the sonne of God and their heauenly Redeemer highly also respected his gracious mother louely in her person and exemplarly holy in her coÌ„uersation amongst them inso much as a woman rauished with the heaueÌ„ly sweetnes of our Sauiours words and diuinely raysed in her thoughts to apprehend the blessednes of his Mother vttered first that mysterious outcry Blessed is the wombe that bore thee the paps which thou didst sucke and since enlarged by the Church in that sweet versicle sung by her Blessed are the bowells of Mary the Virgin which carryed the sonne of the eternall Father and Blessed be the pappes which nursed Christ our Lord fulfilling therein her owne humble prophesy that all generations should blesse her Neither did our B. Sauiour in his reply to the woman Yea but blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it coÌ„tradict the blessing of his mother but saith venerable Bede was couertly pleased to intimate a more high and imitable commendation of his Mother for that she had not only corporally but spiritually also conceaued him wherby she deserued not the womans blessing alone but to haue his own prayses added vnto it For as learned Interpreters note vpoÌ„ this misterious passage of the Ghospell this sacred Virgin may after two manners be conceaued to haue byn the Mother of God first barely to wit according to his corporall Conception and Natiuity and so it was possible for her to haue byn his mother without any graces at all therby obtayned and secondly as she was singularly chosen and prepared with wonderfull graces to that high office of giuing a new nature life and being to her omnipotent Creatour for the glory of himselfe and redemption of mortall Creatures wherby she was raysed to the highest dignity and greatest vnion with himselfe which a pure Creature could be assumeÌ„d vnto Gods vsuall manner hauing euer byn as he raysed his seruants to high dignities to bestow on them suitable graces And it were a most detestable wickednes to conceaue that he dealt otherwise with his owne most sacred and beloued Mother who as in Nature was neerest so in Loue was no doubt dearest vnto him It is true indeed that as his creature she was tyed in duty to do all motherly offices and seruices vnto him without any obligation on his part in iustice to requite them But supposing the gracious and free tye of his owne liberall promises not to let so much as a cuppe of cold water giuen for his sake passe vnrewarded togeather with the dutifull loue and piety of children towards Parents commaunded by himselfe and accordingly no doubt obserued may we not reasonably conceaue piously assure our selues that he was neither in the piety of a louing child nor bounty of a gracious Lord wanting vnto her who not only gaue him the integrity of human nature but spent her whole life afterwards in motherly offices and seruices towards him for which other children can make to their parents no equall requitall And supposing the sonne of God was able to rayse his most deseruing Mother to what measure of sanctity and heauenly nobility he would for the good of her and glory of himselfe to whome she so neerely appertayned why should any Christian against the knowne goodnes of such a Lord and Sonne doubt him actually to haue done so Of our B. Ladyes expecting her Son at the doore of a house in Capharnaum Math. 12. Chap. 28. OVr Sauiour teaching doing miracles within a house at Capharnaum being tould that his Mother Brethren for so his Cosins are called in Scripture stayed at the doore to speak with him eyther not willing to be interrupted in his holy discourses or glad rather of the occasion to teach his Auditory a profitable lesson to wit how they also might spiritually become his Mother and Brethren he extended his hands towards his Apostles asking who is my mother and who are my Brethren And then answering himselfe sayd with an earnest asseueration to the future comfort and instruction of his seruants He that heareth my words and keepeth them he is my brother my sister and my mother Insinuating so in the very order of his speach by naming a Mother last the especiall neerenes of a mother to a child and so consequently her dearenes to him who not only in her body corporally but spiritually also in her soule had conceaued nursed and brought him vp to a wonderfull ripenes of heauenly perfection and was like to become in others a fruitefull Parent and Nurse afterwards of him being by her examplar life as a sweet odour to draw others into the bedchamber of her sonne sayth S. Ambrose to be espoused fecundated also diuinely by him Her motherly power sayth an other deuout Author hath byn the protection and helping of innumerables soules to grace and glory her greatnes their gayne her treasures their enrichings by being able and euer ready to obtayne fauours blessings for her sounes children by himself therefore vpon his Crosse recommended vnto her So that they beloÌ„g not to him or her as children or seruants who haue vilified her in their thoughtes and debased her in speaches so farre as to teach that her diuine Sonne did in those former words blame her for interrupting him vnseasonably in his doctrine and plainely to renouÌ„ce her for his mother wheras the Euangelist only affirmeth her to haue stayed at the dore expecting him And it proceeded out of the respect rather of others towards her that he was could of her being there then that of her selfe she sought to speake importunely vnto him And should she for iust causes or not haue done so had it not byn against the very duty of a child towards a Parent as she was knowne to be vnto him common discretion also morality it selfe for

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