Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	cast_v	devil_n	fast_v	3,166	5	10.2336	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08819	A godly sermon preached at Detford in Kent, on Monday the ix. of Iune, in Anno. 1572.	Pagit, Eusebius, 1547?-1617.	1586 (1586)	STC 19105; ESTC S105805	17,687	50

more husbands It followeth Defraud not one another except it be c. In these words Paul sheweth a notable remedie against the feigned shew of holines loue of ourselues For Sathan many times pricketh vs with a shew of weldoyng to thinke our selues to be defiled by the coÌ„pany of our wiues therefore causeth vs to leaue our vocation and thinke of an other estate as we reade that many men and some kinges of this realme haue forsaken their calling left their wiues become religious persoÌ„s so many women haue forsaken the duties of marriage closed vp theÌ„selues in vnreligious cloysters Besides this mans nature is such it is so much addicted to the loue of it selfe that at Sathans instigation the man dothnot only neglect his wife but altogether loath her and likewise the wife the husband for these causes doth the Apostle so earnestly diligently reason of the mutual society and loue betwixt man and wife as if he should say if married persons purpose to lead a single life eyther because they suppose it to be more holy or els are pricked thereto with sundry kinds of lust not contenting theÌ„selues with that ordinary meane that God hath appointed let theÌ„ consider that they are tyed one to the other by a mutuall band the man is but onely the one halfe of his body so likewise the woman Wherefore they haue not free libertie to part asunder as they lust wheÌ„ they lust but rather they ought to weigh this we cannot be one wtoutanother we lack one anothers ayde God hath ioyned vs together to helpe one another let vs therfore one ayd anothers need If they go so far that they separate theÌ„selues the Apostle requireth first a mutuall consent wch is necessary because the continency not of one only but of both of theÌ„ is hasarded SecoÌ„dly that it be but for a time for perperuall chastitie is not in their power but is the gift of God Thirdly that they doe not therfore absteine from keeping company one with another as though that abstmence were of it selfe a good holy worke or a piece of Gods seruice but that we may giue ouer our selues to better exercises to wit fasting and prayer in wch words we haue to consider that the Apostle speaketh not of euery sorte of fasting and euery kind of prayer Sobernes teÌ„perancie are kinds of fasting prayer shold not only be dayly but also continuall He speaketh therfore of such a fast as is a publike and solemne testimonie of repentaÌ„ce by wch we turn away gods wrath vengeaÌ„ce or by wch the faithful prepare theÌ„selues to prayer when they take in haÌ„d som earnest matter The same may be sayd of prayer as for exaÌ„ple wheÌ„ some calamity or misery is nigh or if some tokeÌ„ of Gods wrath appeare or when some matter of great weight importance is to be taken in hand as the ordering of ministers c. And surely the Apostle doeth worthily ioine these two together not as though fasting were a piece of Gods seruice but because it is a preparation vnto prayer For the bodie being by fasting subdued the more willingly by the assistance of Gods spirite submitteth it selfe vnto the spirite being both ioyned they poure forth more harti supplications vnto the Lord. And therefore our sauiour Christ ioyneth them together in like sort when he saith This kind of diuils is not cast forth but by fasting and prayer Now theÌ„ in these words of the Apostle we haue a plaine ouerthrowe of that popish doctrine of diuorce a thoro mensa that is to saye from bedde boord They teach that for sundry causes and endes a man may be separated from his wife at the table and the bed yet the Apostle sheweth that such separation cannot be made for any ende but for this namely that they may giue ouer themselues to fasting and prayer Their causes are worldly fleshly but the Apostles end is spiritual heauenly No lesse vaynely and fondly do they deale in the whole matter of Diuorce for whereas our sauiour Christ maketh but one cause and that is Fornication they make nyne or ten at the least and wheras by the warrant of Gods word the faultles party may marrie if he haue not the gift of continencie for by the law of God the adulterer and adulteresse should both be put to death as before I shewed in the beginning and the woman is set free the husband being dead from the lawe of the man and the man from the lawe of the wife the wife being dead by the popish canon law yet in this realme mainteined it coÌ„meth to passe that neither the sin is so grieuously punished as of right it shold neither may the faultles person marrie but as wel the guiltles as the gultie yea though they haue not the gift of chastity enioyned to liue a single sole life nay wold to god it were not a shrewd sinfull life Now it followeth again come together c though the Apowle wil haue christian meÌ„ women for godly exercises sake to separate theÌ„selues yet he wil not haue that separatioÌ„ to endure ouer long the reason is added that Sathan tempt you not c. As if the Apostle should saye when ye take vpon you to abstein long froÌ„ the society one of another and occasion is profered to Sathan to oppresse you because you take that in hand wch you are not able to performe for such is the imbecillitie weakenes of the flesh that the one cannot long be wtout the coÌ„pany of the other and therfore you had need looke to yourselues saith the Apostle for the aduersary wil leaue no corner vnsought nor any stone vnrolled to prouoke you to wickednes incontinency Here we haue to learne that lesson wch I touched in the beginning namely that God requireth pure chast mindes as wel as cleane bodies And also we haue to note the malice of sathan who goeth about like a roring lyon seeking to deuour vs if we consider his force hee is stroÌ„g as a lyon if we weigh his subtilty he is called the great olde serpent can translate himselfe into the likenes of an Angel of light he spared not Christ but tempted him immediatly after baptisme therfore he will not cease to assaile vs we had need therfore to be sober watchful and to pray continually with the disciples for the increase of our faith because faith is the mean by wch we must resist though his power be in the scriptures couÌ„ted great yet this singular comfort we haue in the same scriptures reuealed vnto vs that he is but a coward playeth the part of a tyrant who when he hath gotten any people vnder him in slauerie and boudage doth miserably torment theÌ„ But if we resist him the diuill I meane and set our selues against him he wil flÃ©e far froÌ„ vs for his tyranie is exercised only vpon the children of vnbeliefe as for the faithfull he is not able to touch theÌ„ wtout gods sufferance and appointmeÌ„t he cold not enterinto a few sooine til Christ gaue him leaue He could not touch the body and goods of Iob til God suffered him his power is not increased nor the streÌ„gth and arme of our Lord any whit at al abated It remaineth then that we set our selues in conflict skirmish against the diuil we shrinke not for then we lie opeÌ„ to be wounded The Apostle hath in the Ephesians described Panopleian that is to say complet harnesse of a christiaÌ„ he appointeth euery one to haue their loynes girded about with veritie hauing on the breastplate of righteousnes their feete shod with the preparation of the gospell of peace that shield of faith that helmet of saluation the sword of the spirite Marke how the Apostle armeth a christiaÌ„ souldier in the fore parts appointeth him in harnes for his backe to defend that wtall by which the spirtt of God teacheth vs with what valiant courage we should be indued when we come to skirmish with the diuill we may not in any case turne our backs to him for then we lie opeÌ„ easily receiue his wouÌ„ds but resist him by faith as I said before he will flee far froÌ„ vs. The Lord indue vs with force and strength of his spirit froÌ„ aboue to wtstand Sathan all his wicked teÌ„ptations imprint these things in our hearts which we haue heard to the amendment of our sinfull liues and conuersation to the glory of his name thorow Iesus Christ to whom with the holy Ghost be al honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Let vs pray FINIS

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