Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	death_n	sin_n	wage_n	3,467	5	11.7433	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17917	Three sermons The former discouering a double and false heart, vpon the I. King. 21. 9. and 10. The second called, the blessednes of the righteous, vpon Psalm. 37. verse 37. The third, the court of guard, or watch of angels: I, Sam. 17. 37. By Nathaniel Cannon, Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4578; ESTC S117074	22,426	70

Mendaci ne credas ne iurantiquidem thou hast lost thy birth-right for the lyars cannot call God their Father for they haue a father by themselues euen the diuell who is the father of lies t Iohn 8.44 stay therefore these beginnings lest the latter end proue fearefull vnto thee for thou canst not shake of these things when thou wilt and therefore doe it when thou mayest Consuetudo est altera natura take heede of a custome in euill for a Blackemoore shall sooner change his hue or a Leopard his spots then they shall euer doe good that haue been accustomed vnto euill u Ier. 13.23 So then let vs conclude this vse cure the disease in time before it grow incurable whether it be pride enuie slander disobedience deceit oppression reuenge prophanenesse adulteries falshoods murmurings treacherous practises or the like clense thy heart in time lest thou become incorrigible and inconuertible which must needes be damnable in the latter end Vse 2. This serues to display the diuels hatred vnto mankind who doth not onely seeke like a Lion whom to deuoure but also is alwaies tempting vs to deuoure w 1. Peter 5. one another as here Iezabel hath nothing to ease her stomack withall but blood and reuenge thus we deuoure one another as if man who is created after the Image of God were of no more account but presently vpon our priuat discontentments and grudges to butcher them vp as if we were Canibals euen to feede vpon our brethren and to drinke vp their blood as it were in boules Hence it is that if any man stand in our way or in our light wee conclude him presentlie and either by potion or some other sinister practise wee pronounce him dead so little account doe wee make of that blood which is so pretious in the eyes of God thus wee fall one vpon another vpon a displeasure as Caine doth vpon Abel x Genes 4.8 and ease our stomacks and haue our desires forgetting that blood must haue blood and that it cries for vengeance against vs this is the Diuels mallice against vs who stirres vppe after this manner Wilt thou endure and pocket vp these wronges wilt thou bee accounted base minded and wilt not maintaine thy reputation this is rhetorique and the rule is that the lie deserueth the stabbe that it is honourable and the tryall of an Heroicall spirite to enter into single combate and their honour is their life and these Maximes maketh them like fierce Tigers one against another so cruell are wee growne so dangerous the times as that Ieremies caution may well bee our obseruation for our latter times y Ier. 9.4 Take you heede euerie one of his neighbour and trust you not in any Brother for they will vtterly supplant and destroy one another Thus vindicta vindicta is our coÌ„mon place among the common people yea nobler brests haue been set on fire with reuenge as if the blood and death of innocents would not as wel cry for vengeance against them as against other men but he that lookes into the booke of God finds that the greater the offender is in this kind the greater the punishment hath bin not one of Ahabs house shall bee left to make water against the wall and as for Iezabel her selfe the very dogs shall licke their lips after her blood and be glutted with it let this therefore but especially the feare of the Lord temper our passions so guide our vnderstandings that we giue not place vnto the diuell z Ephes 4. in these so deadly and damnable enterprizes Vse 3. This serues for our animaduersion as concerning the condition of them that thus proceede in the degrees of finne surely their iudgement sleepeth not but increaseth as their sins are enlarged Hell is said to be enlarged with these augmentators for they are vpon the skore and it runs vpon the reckoning vntill the Lord come to render vnto euery man according to his works the mercifull Aduocate Iesus Christ the righteous pleadeth the causes of all penitent sinners a 1. Iohn 2.1 but these men in their hearts that cannot repent heape vnto themselues wrath against the day of wrath and declaration of the vengeance and iudgement of God who as the Apostle saith will render it vnto them b Ro. 2.5.6 This is a fearefull condition for if euery sinne in his owne nature deserue death and that is the wages of it 1 Rom. 6.23 how then shall these men answere the many thousand sins that haue been committed by them without feeling The Apostle shewes that the destruction of such men sleepeth not d 1. Pet. 2.2.3 The Lord will awaken vnto them and suddenly come with the account they haue beene long inthe action but their destruction shall sweepe them away in a moment and their confusion must be of longer continuance for as they haue beene continuall transgressors so must they be continually tormented with flames vnquenchable with horror vnspeakable loe thus they stand or rather fall who doe not thinke our God is iust to recompence their wickednesse When they are ripe or rather rotten in their sinnes then comes the dreadfull haruest they shall bee serued as God threatneth the Amorites e Gen. 15.14 When they haue filled vp the measure of their sinnes then shall they be rooted out saith the Lord. This is the same which was declared vnto Amos in a Vision f Amos 8.1 â— where hee saw a basket of Sommer fruite whereby is meant ripenesse or the time that the fruite should be gathered Now saith the Lord the end is come I will passe by this people no more Let this be considered O yee men of earth the God of heauen will not be mocked and therfore be not you deceiued whatsoeuer sins are newly committed doe not thinke the old sinnes are forgotten vnlesse thou be a new man then thy sins of old shall not be imputed vnto thee g Psal 32.1 otherwise it will goe hard against vs vnlesse that garment of righteousnesse couer vs the Lord will write bitter things against vs and make vs to possesse the iniquities of our youth h Iob 14.26 Vse 4 Seeing the wicked grow worse and worse let the righteous worke by contraries let them grow better and better from grace to grace from vertue to vertue Let them proceed in goodnes Christians ought to be Graduates in godlinesse as the other doe in wickednesse let them bee the Lords Graduates and proceede in that famous Vniuersitie of Sion euen in the Church of God of this proceeding the Propher Dauid speaketh in the Psalms i Psal 84.7 The righteous grow from strength to strength vntill they appeare before God in Sion there they are to bee presented and there it is that they shall bee eternized let them therefore begin with godlines and ende with golinesse and they shall not loose their labour for it hath the promises both of this life and the life to come k 1. Tim. 4.8 proceede therefore O you Saints and seruants of the Lord you feare the Lord they that doe so neede to feare nothing else keepe your inheritance it is farre beyond Naboaths Vineyard Iezabel shall not hurt you the gates of hell shall not preuaile against you the Kingdome of heauen is prepared for you and for all those that loue the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and the most blessed Spirit one eternall immortall inuisible and God onely wise be praise and dominion with al glorious ascription now and for euermore Amen FINIS

body but onely feare him that can kill body and soule and cast them both into ouerlasting hell fire d Mat. 10. And herewithall let vs conclude this point Now in the last place we shall be brought to behold the wofull tragedie of poore Naboath Stone him to death saith she that is the Terminus ad ad quem of all this businesse hee must die and thereby he shall know what it is to crosse such a woman as Iezabel was of her will Here sinne begins to troope and march forward one after another very fairely and as if they had learned a hellish discipline they keepe ranke in such an orderly manner that you may tell them and easily discerne how one hath begotten another let vs therefore calculate how this begun and to what passe it is now come First Couetousnesse as a mother sin conceiued and in this conception or breeding fell to long and that so eagerly that the very delay of obtaining brought foorth hatred in so deadly a manner that nothing but the death of the obstacle Naboath can serue the turne this cursed daughter I meane hatred the daughter of couetousnesse hath sat in counsell and hath concluded that if Naboath were done to death then all were hers but this will require help the helpe of such bloodsuccours as must draw from Naboath both life and breath and blood and vineyard and all Thus one sinne waites vpon another and one begets another Vno dato absurdo mille sequuntur and you may tel them how they proceed in a hellish order First here is hypocrisie Proclaime a fast Secondly Slander let two accuse him Thirdly Murder Stone him to death This progresse of sinne will produce this doctrine very naturally from this latter part Doct. 3 That the vngodly proceede by degrees from one sinne to another As Romulus made slaughter of his brother Rhemus to that end that hee might settle the Kingdome in his owne person August de cinttat Dei lib. 15. cap. 5. as Saint Austin reporteth so verily this woman butcher or butcherly woman wil not giue ouer vntil she bath her selfe in blood euen in the blood of her adioyning neighbor that she may settle his vineyard into her owne possession how shee hath begun we haue heard like a mother in shew Proclaime a Fast as if a father would haue at the death of a child a solemne funerall together with a sermon of the same nature to preach mortality vnto the liuing thus with a shew of natural affection shee appeareth in the 1. scane in the 2. she hath her deponents who with graue aspect before the iudges of the land call God to witnes by vertue of an oath that Naboath was a blasphemer and in the 3. she strikes him downe euen with a deadly blow Stone him to death this is the perambulation of the wicked they proceed from worse to worse from one sinne to another This e Esay 5.18 Esay noteth in the fifth Chapter of his Prophesie when hee saith that the vngodly doe draw sinnes together as it were with cart-ropes let vs note the phrase the Prophet vseth they draw sinnes it is a phrase to expresse the greatest strength of any creature the horse in his greatest strength and force is said to draw and it intimateth in mankind the putting on of forces as if we should say they vse their wits words workes and all their endeuours to this purpose and they pull them as it were with cart-ropes where the Prophet giueth to vnderstand that besides their owne strength they vse all other meanes and adiunctes heereunto that so the full measure of sin may bee made vp Saint Iames shewes the same gradation euery man is tempted f Iames 1.14 saith he when hee is drawne away by his owne concupiscence Then 2. when this lust hath conceiued it bringeth foorth sinne And then 3. this sinne must haue a time to worke and at length to finish And then fourthly when that is finished it bringeth foorth death This wee see both in the falles of them who were giuen ouer to wickednesse and also in the failings of those whom God did raise and restore againe Caine first of all did secretly murmure at his brother Abel Examples of both sorts but afterwards hee bore deadly hatred vnto him Thirdly he murdered him with the jaw bone of an Asse Fourthly being conuicted as it were before God in a question that might haue led him to repentance he answeth as wickedly as before he had done g Genes â— Am I my brothers keeper The like we find in Indas his first sinne noted vnto vs was couetousnesse hee grumbles at the poore womans liberalitie when she powred that pretious vnguent vpon Christ Iohn 12.5.6 this would haue bin sold and giuen to the poore his meaning was for his own priuat purse for the text saith He carried the bagge After this not hauing repented he falls into a higher degree of couetousnesse for now for thirty peeces he will sell and betray his owne Master h Mat. 26. After that he proceeds vnto the worst of all and that was to despaire of the mercies of God Augustine O nomen sub quo nemini desperandum est notwithstanding this strong anchor of saluation to all beleeuers i Heb. 6.19 yet hee proceedeth to his owne execution he went and hanged himselfe thus wickednes doth multiplie and huddle vpon the heads of them who haue not called vpon God for true repentance This wee may further see in those whom God hath forgiuen and restored First our first parents how did they multiply euen at the first Euah lookes vpon the fruite Secondly she holds a conference with Satan Thirdly she tasts of it though it were forbidden Fourthly shee giues her husband to make him as guilty as her felfe Fiftly shee excuseth her fact and extenuateth it when God questions her k Genes 3. The like wee finde in Dauid that man of God who l 2. Sam. 1. first hauing seene the nakednesse of Bethsheba sends for her then hee committeth folly with her then vpon her proouing with child sends for Vriah her husband and at his comming vseth all meanes to make him lie with his wife that so he might haue shadowed his wickednesse and to that ende laboureth to make him drunke but when this would not take place then he proceedes to blood and for this purpose writes vnto Ioah the Captaine of the Hoast that he might be placed in the forefront of the battell that so he might be smitten and die the which was effected and so innocent Vriah murdered The like gradation we find in Peter who at the first out of a fainting feare is afraid to confesse his Master but very peremptorily denieth that euer he knew him afterwards being thereunto pressed he growes deepely offended and at last hee sweares and curseth he neuer knew the man all which will shew vs how farre wee shall goe in a course of wickednesse

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