Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	amen_n	lord_n	name_n	2,374	5	4.8459	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00272	A poore mans mite. A letter of a religious man of the Order of Saint Benedict, vnto a sister of his, concerning the rosarie or psalter of our blessed Ladie, commonly called the Beades.	Batt, Antonie.	1639 (1639)	STC 1589.5; ESTC S90417	14,190	74

Dominicke was giuen to his barren mother by the prayers of Saint Dominick Abbot of the Order of Saint Benedict whose name for that cause his Parents imposed vpon him Saint Franeis conceiued the first proiect of his religious course in a Monasterie of the Order of Saint Benedict Saint Ignatius for so he is now newly canonized receiued the first sparkes of his religious spirit in a famous Monasterie of Saint Benedict in Spaine called Monteseratta Of this Order there were of canonized or approued Saints Fiftie fiue thousand fiue hundred and ten in the time of Pope Iohn the two and twentieth which was loÌ„g agoe besides infinite others holy Men and reputed Saints And we haue had fiue or sixe glorious Martyrs in these our dayes of our small number here in England Father Roberts one of the first that were sent hither in Mission being one so happily did they begin neither did any one hitherto thankes bee to God fall or miscarry so happily haue they gone forwards The glorie of the children is to bee attributed a great part of it to the Parents The branches buds blossoms and fruit of a Tree vnto the Roote Of all these aforesaid infinite others our most blessed Patrone Saint Benedict is the Father the Founder the Roote All these went the way of blessed Saint Benedict so doe likewise all those who ioyne themselues vnto him in this holy Fraternitie or Societie of his ordayned for lay people that are deuoutly affected vnto the Order as I vnderstaÌ„d you are one Reioyce therefore and bee glad in our Lord Iesus and in his glorious seruant Saint Benedict that you are a blossome or bud of such a Tree that hath so replenished Heauen and Earth with such noble Fruit that you are a Childe of such a Father and haue such and so many worthy Brethren and Sisters in heauen and earth those in Heauen being readie to draw you vnto them by the golden chaines of their intercession merits and those on Earth to lift you vp with their charitable and brotherly assistaÌ„ce in what they caÌ„ these on Earth being bound so to doe as long as you are of their fraternitie walke with them in the way that our blessed Father Saint Benedict did and they in Heauen out of their respectiue charitie can doe no lesse The office of the holy Father S. BENEDICT At Matins Thou O Lord wilt open my lips And my mouth shall declare thy praise O God incline vnto mine ayde O Lord make haste to helpe me Glorie bee to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and euer shall be world without end Amen A Hymne A Vrora faire vnmask's her face And smiles vpon the earth to see Saint Benedicts soule adorn'ed with grace Ascend to Heauen so gloriously How gracious is he there aboue Who here on earth did shine so bright Whose wonders stonie hearts did moue And gaue to all the World his light Praise honour glorie without end To thee O sacred Trinitie Which Benedict thy faithfull frend Enioyeth for all Eternitie An Antheme There was a man of venerable life blessed in grace and name who euen from his Chilhood bearing a graue minde and transcending his age in vertuous conuersation gaue his minde to no voluptuousnesse Vers Pray for vs O blessed Father Benedict Resp That we may be made worthy of the promises of Crist A Prayer O God who didst call the blessed Father and Law maker Saint Benedict from all worldly tumults to serue thee alone graunt to all specially such as serue vnder his discipline constant perseuerance in vertue and perfect victorie vnto their end Through Iesus-Christ thy Sonne who with thee liueth and raigneth world without end Amen At Prime O God incline vnto my ayde O Lord make haste to helpe me Glorie be to the Father c. A Hymne GReat Conductor in sacred Warre Who neuer conquer'd wert by might Defend vs with thy holy prayer And strengthen vs when we doe fight Protect vs from all sinnes disgrace Who mad'st the Black-bird to retire Which fluttering came about thy face To tempt thee with vnchaste desire Praise honour glorie c. An Antheme Our powerfull Lord did so great a fauour to blessed Benedict that vnder one Sun-beame he did see the whole world Vers Pray for vs O blessed Father Benedict Resp That we may be made worthy c. A Prayer MAke vs we beseech thee O Lord to imitate here the labours of the blessed Father Saint Benedict that there we may be partakers of his glorie through Iesus-Christ our Lord Amen At the third houre O God incline vnto my ayde O Lord make haste to helpe me Glorie be to the Father c. A Hymne TO free thee from vnchaste desire Thy flesh the wounds of thornes indur'd And thus fire quenched was with fire And one wouÌ„d with another cur'd With signe of Crosse a poysoned Cup Thou brak'st in two with power Diuine Which poysoÌ„ thou hadst supped vp But Death was weaker then lif 's signe Praise honour glorie c. An Antheme The man of our Lord Benedict was of a pleasant countenance and adorned with Angelicall gray haires and so great was the brightnesse that shined about him that being yet vpon the Earth he seemed to dwell in Heauen Vers Pray for vs O blessed Father Benedict Resp That we may bee made worthy of the promise of Christ A Prayer VVE beseech thee O Lord that the intercessioÌ„ of the blessed Abbot Saint Benedict may so recommend vs that what by our owne merits wee caÌ„not by his patronage wee may obtayne through Christ our Lord. Amen At the sixt houre O God incline vnto my ayde O Lord make haste to helpe me Glorie be to the Father c. A Hymne A Monke there was when others pray'd Oft pull'd away from seruing God Who afterwards became most stay'd When he was touched with thy rod. The Earth their bones did vomit out Who did in thy disfauour die But those to thee that were deuout Did walke vpon the wathers drie Praise honour glorie c. An Antheme The glorious Confessor of our Lord BÃ©nedict leading an Angelicall life vpon earth was made a mirour of good workes to the world and therefore reioyceth in heauen without end Vers Pray for vs O blessed Father Benedict Resp That we may be made Worthy c. A Prayer O God in whose power holy Saint Benedict made the dead meÌ„bers of a childe to reuiue graunt we beseech thee that for is merits wee may by the breath of thy Spirit bee quickned from the death of our Soules through Christ our Lord. Amen At the ninth houre O God incline vnto my ayde O Lord make haste to helpe me Glorie be to the Father c. A Hymne THe compasse of the World so round He in a Sunne-beame did discrye Nothing on earth so strange was found That was concealed from his eye O holy Saint O heauenly Man To whom God

Wee desire that by the keeping of the ten Commandements signified by the ten Aue Maries betweene the Pater nosters We being of the Catholike Faith or Beliefe signified by the Creede in the vertue of the fiue wounds and death of Christ signified by the fiue Pater nosters wee may obtaine remission of our sinnes signified by the fiftie Aue Maries the number of remission of sinnes as aforesaid Besides this the Church addeth her Benediction or Sanctification to the Beades whereupon they are said wherewithall I haue caused yours to bee hallowed to make them being otherwise but plaine more precious vnto you That the Church hath such authoritie you need not doubt it being the vse in the old Law (a) Num. 7. vers 1. to blesse or hallow not onely the Temple and Altars but also all Vestments Vtensils belonging to the seruice of God And Saint Paul saith a that Creatures are or may be sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer especially that which is authorised and appointed by the Church of God to that end as this of the Beades is Moreouer if there be any vertue in wordes as certainly there is and if wordes can enchaunt Serpents as it appeares they can out of the prophet Dauid b and many naturall experiences there are of the same Then surely it is piously to be thought that Almightie God is pleased to bee as it were enchaunted with these most soueraigne prayers deuoutly rehearsed hath caused our blessed Lady and his Saints to bee so likewise and no maruaile though he make himselfe subiect herevnto 1. Tim. 4. vers 5. Psal 57. when he said to his seruant Moyses a Let me goe that my fury may be angrie against this people as if Moyses had forceably with holden him This Rosarie or Psalter of our blessed Lady is adorned with fifteene most pious and deuout Meditations to wit of the fiue ioyous fiue dolorous and fiue glorious mysteries of our blessed Lady well knowne to most Catholikes and vsed accordingly with sundrie other kindes of godly and deuout Meditations amongst which I lighted of late vpon certaine most deuout and ancient Meditations in latine called Rasarium aureum the golden Rosarie which in my opinion doth very well deserue that name These haue I translated into English meeter seÌ„t vnto you to stirre vp sweetneÌ„ your deuotion so much the more Exod. 32. vers 9. If you obiect the Aue Mary pronounced by the Angell Gabriel is no prayer but only a falutation I answer The Church hath made it an expresse Prayer by adding vnto the Salutation of the Angell these words Holy Mary mother of God pray for vs sinners now and in the boure of our death Amen Which thing supposing the doctrine of the Inuocation of Saints to bee true Shee may lawfully doe and hath great reason to doe vnto our blessed Lady as a general prayer for all vies especially considering the Salutation was intentionally said as a prayer before and was more then insinuated for such by our Sauiour Christ vpon the Crosse saying to our blessed Lady of Saint Iohn (a) Ioan. 19. vers 26. Woman behold thy Sonne and to him of her Behold thy Mother by which wordes he commended her mystically not onely to Saint Iohn but also to all others in him that are Iohns by grace and loue of God as hee was by name as a Mother of intercesssion to God for them and they as children confidently to entreat it at her hands If your conceit suggest vnto you It is a dishonour to God to pray vnto his Mother answer vnto it No more dishonour then to desire one anothers prayers here on earth which is to the greater honour of God commanded and commended vnto vs in his sacred Word If it vrge The Saints know not our prayers answer They reioyce at the conuersion of a Sinner Therefore they know the same If the often repetitioÌ„ of the same prayers seeme vaine answere It is full of mysterie and holy meditation as is before declared which mysteriousnesse together with the often repetition doe maruailously incite the soule to feruour and deuotion if it bee done with due attention The Angels vse the repetition of Holy holy holy (a) Matth. 26. vers 44. Our Sauiour Christ went three seuerall times together into the Garden and prayed as the text saith the same Prayer In the 135. Psalm the Prophet Dauid repeateth in euery verse for his mercy endureth for euer If one may vse often repetitioÌ„ of one thing in the prayse of God Why not in prayer This being so this holy Psalter of the Beades cannot be but a most acceptable seruice and deuotion to God and to our blessed Ladie the glorious Virgin Marie the Mother of of God and to all the Court of Heauen And to our enemie the Deuill a great confusion chasing him out of our hearts or at least repressing and much appeasing his deadly assaults and temptations against vs as that Psalter of Dauid did as aforesaid which was indeed a liuely figure of this Before euery Meditation following say the first part of the Aue Marie till you come to Iesus Then say the Meditation in verse then the other part of the Aue Marie in order as it lyeth The golden Rosarie of the most glorious Virgin MARY Pater noster Aue Maria c. IESVS 1. MAry of Virgins all most pure Receiue this golden Rosarie Deckt with the life of thy sweet Sonne Vnder a briefe compendiarie IESVS 2. Whom thou a Virgin voyd of sinne Conceiuedst of the holy Ghost When Gabriels newes thou did'st beleeue Gayning thereby what Eue had lost IESVS 3. Of whom thou being great with Childe Vnto Elizabeth did'st hie And Iohn the Baptist in her wombe Did'st with thy presence sanctifie IESVS 4. Whom in the Citie Bethleem Thou did'st bring forth with heauenly ioy Free from those paynes which euermore WomeÌ„ in I hil birth doe annoy IESVS 5. Whom newly in a Stable borne Thou did'st forth with as God adore And with thy Virgins milke distst feede A thing most strange ne're heard before IESVS 6. Whom thou didst wrapp in silly clowts And with brute beasts laid in a Manger And didst him serue in what thou couldst To keepe his tender Corps from danger IESVS 7. Whom troopes of Angels with great ioy And heauenly melodie did prayse Proclayming glorie vnto God And peace to Men on earth alwayes IESVS 8 WhoÌ„ being chiefe of Shepherds all The Shepherds of the field first found And finding worshipt as their Lord Though lying poorely on the ground IESVS 9. Who did vouchsafe like sinfull man To take the marke of Circumcision And eke the Name of Iesus sweet Our sinfull soules Physition IESVS 10. To whom three Kings did come with gifts Of Gold and Myrrhe and Frankâ—ncense Directed by a blazing starre And him ador'd with reuerence Pater noster Aue Maria c. IESVS 1. Who being fortie dayes of age Thou in the Temple didst present According

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