Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	flesh_n	sin_n	sinful_a	2,809	5	9.4946	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19265	A godlie sermon, preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam knight, late lord deputie of Irelande, Sir Iames Harrington knight, their ladyes and children, vvith many others, at Burghley in Rutlande. By the minister of God Anthony Anderson. Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer, good for all such as passe the seas: by the same author framed, and vsed in his aduentured iourney.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1576 (1576)	STC 568; ESTC S108500	29,532	74

Christe but it is the worke of God in him The order also in our conuersion to the Lorde is excellent The Father geueth to his Christe those whiche shall be called The holy Ghost he giueth into their hartes whom he hath predestinate to lyfe which spirite graffeth them into Christe who by his blood doth wash their soules from sinne and by the same his spirite doth forme them in his fayth whose Gospell he writeth in their hartes and sheedeth his loue into their consciences so that they walke in newnes of lyfe because they are taken vp and the olde man in them cast downe and as newe creatures they follow their leader Christe into the steppes besitting their condition These are they whiche are theodidaktoi all taught of god This elegant order is described at large by the Prophet Ezechiell in this sort A newe hart vvill I geue you and a new spirite vvill I put vvithin you I vvill take away the stony hart out of your body and vvill geue you an hart of flesh and I vvill put my spirite vvithin you and cause you to vvalke in my statutes and you shall keepe my iudgements and do theÌ„ And a little after I vvill be your God and you shall be my people And agayne thus Then shall ye remember your owne vvicked vvayes and your deedes vvhiche vvere not good and shall iudge your selues vvorthy to haue bene destroyed for your iniquities and abhominations Be it knowne to you that J doo not this for your sakes sayth the Lord God therefore be ashamed and confounded for your owne vvayes And Paule to the Romanes hath it thus Those which he knew before he also predestinate to be made like to the image of his sonne that he might be the first borne among many brethren Moreouer Whom he predestinate them also he called and whom he called them also he iustified and vvhom he iustified them also he glorified This is the golden gifte of god thus is oure newe creation lincked in this precious chayne The celestiall god hath inwardly beyonde tyme predestinate and created his people to the likenesse of hys sonne and hath by his holy spirite sealed them to him selfe and by thexternal Organ his holy worde through the ministerie of preaching in their seuerall times hath he called his sheepe to the knowledge of their shepheard Christ and state in him and by his bloody death hath iustified them before and with his supernaturall power hath made them glorious with the Angels So our conuersion as it is by the Lord so is it by his spirite and gospell wrought in vs Howe necessarie then the office of preaching is you see it is the instrumentall cause of our conuersion How miserable that place is which wanteth preaching may you perceyue by the glory that commeth through dayly teaching Christ by the truth in his word For this cause Christe so often Iohn Baptist so diligentlye the Prophetes seuerely the Apostles moste playnelye the Pastours and spirituall shepeheards in Gods Churche nowe moste comfortablye doe offer and exhibite vnto you the trueth of God to tourne your heartes By the preaching of the worde the worlde from tyme to tyme hath bene wonne to Christe the sonne of God and by the same the Gentiles are conuerted into him hereby this nation is chaunged into truth and Popery ouerthrowen by this shall the hartes of the children he turned to the fayth of their fathers in God and the Reprobate shall heerewith be condemned And this propertie Dauid giueth to the worde The Lawe of the Lorde sayth he conuerteth the soule the testimonie of the Lorde is faythfull and giueth light vnto the eyes The necessitie of teaching Paul preacheth to be great woe vnto me if I preache not sayth he where preaching fayleth the people perish sayth Salomon Fayth commeth by hearing of the word of God sayth Paule to the Romaines without fayth can not a man please God by faith we shall be more then conquerours he that beleeueth shall be saued but he that beleeueth not shall be damned sayth our doctor Christe Fayth is brought by hearing hearing wayteth of the Preacher the Preacher is dombe vnlesse he be sent pray therefore the Lorde of truth to send more store of true paynfull Preachers into this Churche of Englande and this shire and conuert in mercy or confound by Iustice these dombe Dogges whiche can not barke these watchemen whiche can not see these ydol shepheards which eyther can not or will nor feede the hungry Lambes of Gods holy Church and shepefold of this nation O Lord graunt this for thy Christ our chiefe shepheards sake Now deare freends examine your selues here present Is this holy chaunge wrought in you maye I say vnto you with Paule Ye were sometime Gentiles ye vvere dead in sinne ye vvere without God in this lyfe But you hath he quickened you hath he called you that were no people hath he nowe made the people of God you are no more straungers and forreners but Citizens with the Saincts and of the housholde of God buylt not vpon the Romishe rocke but vpon the doctrine of the Apostles and Prophetes Iesus Christe him selfe beeing the head corner stone in whom my brethren if you be by his spirite grafted and buylt you shall growe to an holy temple in the lord I trust to you I may say thus Ye were Gentiles but you are Christians of the cheefest I knowe it of the rest I haue great cause to thinke it and therfore with great comfort in God I proceede to the second point He leadeth vs in the pathes of righteousnes for his names sake In God is our conuersion in him also is the continuance of our vpright walking before him First of vs is here to be noted a double righteousnes whervnto we are brought by Christ The first is the righteousnes of Christ for vs to the Father The seconde is the righteousnes of man by Christe and is the worthy walking in holines of lyfe without ceassing The righteousnesse of Christ for vs consisteth in the person of him selfe who for vs hath so answered the fathers full iustice in his iuste sacrifice and hath so incorporate vs into him selfe by fayth throughe his spirite that the same his righteousnesse is accompted for ours so that though we by nature are wicked yet in respecte of his grace we are sanctified and iust in the sight of God whose it is to saue and to condemne Of this iustification or righteousnes Paule speaketh thus God sending his owne son downe in the similitude of sinfull fleshe for sinne condemned sinne in the fleshe that the righteousnesse of the lawe might be fulfilled in vs which walke not after the fleshe but after the spirite The seconde righteousnesse is the dayly walking in newnes of lyfe which is of euery man required that thus by the Lord is iustified The grace of God sayth Paule that bringeth saluation

aptly found in Christe our good sheperde He must be of sounde skill to know his sheepe from other mens cattel this is said of Christ I know my shepe by name am knowne of mine He must haue skill in pasturing his sheepe least he bring them to rotten soyle and wasting grasse In Christe is the onely pasture of mans soule in whom all safetie of foode is for his glorious gospel is our heauenly foode his spirite life is our celestiall diet by the mouth of our faith this our bread of lyfe is of euery of vs that beleue firmely eaten and the same is so sounde and sweete pasture that no rot and death can come vnto the worthy fieldes or any lesse able is yt then his diuine power to bring vs to life eternall Thirdly a good sheperde must haue will to feede according to his skill that so his sheepe may not be pyned for want of his louing paynes So Christ is most louing of all others to feede his lambes who hath not spared to lay downe his lyfe for the foode of his sheepe willing to feede for he calleth all men to hym for pasture most carefull of their diet and therfore he hath left their Pabulum his holy worde to the ende of the world whereby his beloued sheepe shoulde become fatte and well lyking in him and hath to this ende commaunded Peter to feede also hath from thence tyll nowe and will to the ende of this worlde select his pastors from among men to feede men with the breade of life Christ in his word Sacraments Further a good Sheperd taketh greate eare ouer his sheepe and vigilantly doth search if so any of them skabbe or be infected and finding them faultie hee addresseth him selfe to their amendment so Christe our Lorde doth dearely care ouer his flocke they be to him as the apple of his eye for them he hath payd the price of their synne and deadly disease namely his owne heart blood he seeketh the lost and caryeth theÌ„ on his owne shoulders he annoynteth their sores with the soueraigne salue of his mercy and iustice with the one he pacifieth and that because he fully satisfieth his iust Father with the other he couereth our sins healeth our infirmities He most louingly loketh into our weakenes and beareth vp our infancy he breaketh not the brused rede nor quencheth the smoking flaxe He suffereth not our lyues to be lasciuious but scourgeth and purgeth vs that we may bring forth more frute Lastly a good sheperd hath himselfe his staffe sheperdes dog to help aide his wandering flocke Euen so hath Christe giuen him selfe for our defence his preaching prophets haue of him especiall charge to feede his flocke and them protect continually and great plagues hath he appointed to suche ydle sheperds as no way fede his lowly laÌ„bes and though all men faile yet Dauid byddeth vs all be glad for the Lorde is our sheperd therfore shall we not want And now dearely beloued tyme and place requireth to speake something of the sheepes propertie which belong to that sheperde Christe the which thing knowne euery man and woman with their young ones may with examination of them selues best say to God I am thy shepe for thou O Lorde art my sheperd For of no other is Christ the Sheperd but of those which know their wandring wickednes feele their staie to stand in him their God and spedely submit theÌ„ selues vnder his tuitioÌ„ And to this is Dauid our guide who notwithstanding he was rich and a mighty king yet he freely confesseth his health to be in this that he is the Lords sheepe hath Christe to his euerlasting sheperd In a sheepe are sundry thinges agreeing with the corruption of our nature and therefore standeth in great neede of an expert sheperde She is foolishe and vnwares of harmes she runneth into dayly daungers in her selfe remediles So we by nature are vnwise and blynde to all heauenly thinges Or can the naturall man sauor the thinges which be of God or yet keepe hym from the wandring pathes of death The wandring wayes of all the beste may set downe this to the other sorte for all to true that man can not but sinne and dayly runne from God the Lorde Our Dauid he may stande as able among the rest to this for profe neither can any in the fleshe by the qualities fleshy please God. A sheepe for weakenes and want of courage is vnable to stande agaynste so many her deuouring foes the Foxe the Wolfe and the rauenous Lyon nor is the stoutest maÌ„ in the earth by nature of power to gyue checke vnto synne who like a subtill Foxe lyeth lurking and fawning for his pray of Christian soule or from the gaping gulfe of woluishe chappes that hipocritically seeke his spoyle or yet from the raging Satan who goeth roring abroade seeking euery where whoÌ„ he may deuour The good sheperde Christe therefore is moste requisite in whom against all these we may goe in and out safely and finde pasture But els the naturall sheepe hath qualities right good which are frequented in the children of God they know their Pastors whystle and thereat they yelde vnto his will. So the sheepe of Chrste refusing all straunge voyce they herken vnto the word of our sauiour Christ therin they take such comfort as hauing therin full contentatioÌ„ they eschew all others charme be they neuer so subtill sly The sheepe is euer feding with his flece those which no way haue pleasured him for he hath his lyfe of his sheperdes pasture So the children of God lyuing in their Christ are beneficiall to all for his names sake The sheepe is laid by the sherer to the losse of him selfe vpon the thrall and yet he openeth not his mouth So also the true christian abideth for his Christ all ignominy reprochful death not resisting at al but willingly abydeth the crosse expecting the euent in the Lord which is to them that suffer for his names sake euer prosperous Now my brethren of the pastors condition clasped in Christe and of the sheepes nature fixed by his spirite learne your selues to know to whom ye belong and yf you feele your selues the Foldimates of Dauid then may you be bold to say The Lord is my sheperd therfore can I not want The wants whereof the prophet here speaketh are of two sortes The one is called insaciable lust the other necessarie nede With the first as the godly are not combred for that belongeth only the reprobate so the other in them is euer remedied by the feeding sheperde Christ first in supplying their neede with present necessaries then in forming their harts to be content with their estate established by his diuine prouidence to his glorie and their beste good I haue bene young and now am I olde sayth Dauid yet neuer sawe I the righteous

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