Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
rest_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	3,395	5	9.4853	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15108	A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25406; ESTC S111738	33,572	100

their dealings There is nothing prouoketh god more thaÌ„ when with a cloke or colour of religioÌ„ his people shall wallow in sin or superstitioÌ„ Read the 50. Psal. Unto the vngodly man sayde God why doest thou preach my lawes takest my couenant in thy mouth wheras thou hatest to be reformed hast cast my wordes behind thÃ©e So be you well assured that it is not inough to haue a gospel in our mouths but we must expresse the truth therof in our liues it is not inough to haue a name of a Christian but to be founde a ChristiaÌ„ in dÃ©ede Many haue a shew of godlinesse saith S. Paul but they haue denied the power thereof If nature helped not Abrahams owne children but bycause they lacked AbrahaÌ„s workes they are called Deuils sonnes Iohn 8. alas what shall a naked name without vertue a bare tytle without veritie profite vs at all Doth not Christe foretell of such in the day of iudgemeÌ„t who haue done manye thinges in his name and yet when all is done he knoweth them not Math. 7. Surely the blinde charitie of Papistes dothe laye sore to the lame and halting faythe of Christians Our knowledge shall but helpe vs to Hell if we do not that wÃ©e know for the seruaunte that knoweth his maisters will and doth it not must looke for many stripes and to whome more is giuen more is to be required We haue receyued plentifully but if we yÃ©elde barrenly Christe cursed a figtrÃ©e surely he will not spare thÃ©e The Author to the Heb. 6. sheweth that the grounde that drinketh in the deaw or receyueth the rayne falling oft vpon it and yÃ©eldeth fruite is blessed but the barraine and vnfruitefull is to be cursed and burned The Are is at the roote of euerye trÃ©e and iudgement is not farre by his fruit shall euery maÌ„ be knowen no fruite aswell as naughty fruite is both for the flame It was abhominable before God for Israel to sweare the Lord liueth yet to deceyue Ier. 5. to fast and yet to do no lesse violence to wash and yet to be vncleane to sacrifice and yet to sinne to kÃ©epe Sabbothes yet to tumble in al sensualitie For swearing it was neuer so coÌ„mon custome maketh it nothing in these dayes in euery place in euerye person the magnificeÌ„t name of God who is glorious great fearefull is tossed to fro as a tennis ball that for very trifles The Iewes yet wheÌ„ they heard blasphemy woulde rend theyr clothes It woulde grÃ©eue a Christian hart to heare at euery word an othe at euerye lye an oth bying selling is not without lying and swearing but if the mouth that lieth slayeth the soule Wisd. 1. what dÃ©epe damnatioÌ„ euen in the nethermost hel remaines for the periured person There would be some exquisit punishment for such helhoundes sÃ©eing God wil not hold them giltlesse lette al Magistrates that feare God condemne theÌ„ to some paine for they are past shame And bycause I spake of Sabbothes knowe you that euery day is a Christian Sabboth yet one amoÌ„gst the rest was specially coÌ„manded to the Iewes and commended vnto vs both to reste oure bodyes our beasts but the chiefe end was for Israel to go to the Sanctuarie for vs to come to the house of prayer The ceremonie of the seuenth day is not muche amisse and that the number of .7 signifieth perfectioÌ„ you may ofteÌ„ reade in scriptures especially in the ReuelatioÌ„ Of churches stars spirits truÌ„pets seales Angels and al appeared by seauen as a most absolute perfect nuÌ„ber multiplyed in it self albeit this is somwhat mistical yet no harme followeth if we say God rested the vij day to shew vnto vs the perfectioÌ„ of his workes laboured .vi. days to giue vs an exaÌ„ple of vocation It may be not one of the least causes that God ceassed the seauenth day to beholde the excellencye of his creatures and though he sÃ©eth them alwayes from whose eyes nothing can be hidde yet to take delight in their assemblings singing of hymnes in their praying vnto hym and praysing hys name in their reading and hearing his word And if he looke downe on oure Sabbothes what shall he finde I pray you euery daye euill and the Sabboth worst RedÃ©eme the time for the dayes are euill If the Apostle saide so then what woulde he say if he liued nowe when the Lord can not haue a pÃ©ece of a daye no scarce of the Sabboth day which he hathe so charged to be kepte and straightly commaunded to be obserued But it was to the Iewes you will say it is true indÃ©ede for those solemne and ceremoniall assemblies sacrifices and feasts but otherwise there hath bin euer in the primatiue Church and from the Apostles some obseruation of one day among the rest and for speciall consideration albeit the whole life of Gods chosen is a perpetuall sabboth and euery day sanctifyed and euerye houre holy vnto them Assuredly we come nothing nÃ©ere the Iewes in this pointe for on oure Sabbothes all manner of games and playes bankettings and surfettings are very rife If anye manne haue anye businesse in the world Sonday is counted an idle daye If he haue none then it is bestowed in other pleasure Trahit sua quenque voluptas Euery man followeth his owne fansie And the wealthyest Citizens haue houses for the nonce they that haue none make shift with Alehouses Tauernes and Innes some rowyng on the water some rouing in the field some idle at home some worse occupyed thus what you gette euelly all the wÃ©eke is worst spente on the Sabboth day according to the Prouerbe Il gotten ill spent blame not your seruantes if they follow your example for youre prodigalitie makes them vnthriftie But what accompt how answer you is this the Lordes daye or no if it be howe intollerable nay howe accursed moste condemnable are these outragious Bachanalia Lupanaria I can not tell what to call them such as HeatheÌ„ menne were euer ashamed of I am sure and therfore practised better maters although prophane exercises but ours sauors so of Venus Court and Bacchus kitchin that it may rightly be entituled an abhominable and filthy Citie and withoute doubte London shall iustifie hir elder sister Hierusalem if in time she turne not to the Lorde I saye nothing of diuers other abuses whych do carrie away thousands and drowne them in the pernicious vanities of the worlde Looke but vppon the common playes in London and sÃ©e the multitude that flocketh to them and followeth them beholde the sumptuous Theatre housee a continuall monument of LoÌ„dons prodigalitie and folly But I vnderstande they are nowe forbidden bycause of the plague I like the pollicye well if it holde still for a disease is but bodged or patched vp that is not cured in the cause and the cause of plagues is sinne if you looke to it well and the cause of sinne are playes

more except you would haue vs sÃ©e all and say nothing And though hÃ©ere I shall say nothyng but that that hath bin sayd yet that is no shame to me But I woulde fayne knowe of all that hath bin sayde what hathe bin done whiche is or may bÃ©e a great shame for you Desperate were the dayes of Ieremye wherein superstition and sinne as two scorpions were growen so ranke that high time it was for the very safegard of Gods remnant that the sounde of vengeance the exclamations of wee and terrible threatnings of God shuld be giuen out to terrifye and staye aâ— many as he had appointed to repente And oure age being in no better case but well worse hath extreame nÃ©ede of eiulation and exclamation of the like woes and curses to stoppe and it maye be the intollerable abuses of our time to turne and it be possible our stubborne and stony hartes at length vnto the Lord. It is lamentable my brethren that the husbandmans corne can fynde no good ground but the enimies tares not sowne but shed and scattered doe yet take roote prosper and preuayle to the vtter choking and smothering of the Lords haruest But as where the word is not preached there the people perish So where it is plentifully deliuered and the people wilfully negligeÌ„t there is dÃ©epe damnation and vtter distruction shortly to be loked for Our Sauiour truly sayd the Haruest is greate and the labourers are fewe let vs follow his couÌ„sel therfore pray the Lorde of the haruest to sende in more paynefull and faithfull labourers leaste the Bore of the woodde doe roote vppe the vyne leaste the cockle doe ouergrowe the corne leaste the Diuell make hauocke of altogither And in this prayer let vs commende vnto him his vniuersall Church and specially England and Irelande and herein particularlye our most gracious soueraigne Queene Elizabeth and all hir moste honourable Counsellers the whole ministerie and euerye priuate member of his body praying for the reste that in his good time they may be plaÌ„ted in or else supplanted out that if they wil neuer bee good that they may yet neuer do harme vnto Israel which is of god Amen Wo to that abhominable filthie and cruell Citie she heard not the voice she receiued not correction shee trusted not in the Lord she drew not neere vnto hir God hir Rulers within hir are as Roring Lions hir Iudges are as Wolues in the euening c. THis Texte maye well be deuided into foure partes as it lyeth and sÃ©eing the words themselues doe leade me to so good an order I will contente my selfe and not sÃ©eke to be wyser than the holy Ghost The firste and principall parte is a grÃ©euous accusation of the whole state of Ierusalem both for life and religion Secondlye an enumeration of the particular causes thereof Thirdly a reprehension of the persons but especially of Magistrates and Ministers And fourthly a denouncing of woes and plagues against theÌ„ For the firste it is wonderfull to sÃ©e that nothing will doe the wicked anye good And agayne there is nothing can doe the godly any harme All the woes in the world will not make the wilfull once to beware but to the faithfull seruaunte of God one worde is ynough When the Lyon roreth who quaketh not and when God threatneth who is not afrayde Wide open were all the Prophets mouthes and euery one cryed woe but words are but winde and will not preuayle with the wicked who are sworne to sinne and solde ouer to worke wickednesse without measure And Gods owne children sometymes are taken tardy too and threatninges are in vayne euen to theÌ„ But as where wordes will take no place there blowes must be put in proof So where one nor other can doe anye good at all there remaynes nothing but a horrible expectation of destruction Neuerthelesse the verye reprobate and cursed wretch should quake at Gods checke who though he haue no holde nor hope of Eternall life for lacke of faith yet to auoyde the verye bodily plagues and miseries of this mortall life shoulde tremble and shake at his irefull and fearefull Iudgements Gods threatnings haue a twâ—folde operation and effect the one in the chosen and it toucheth them verye nÃ©ere and turneth their hearts and humbleth them in all their soule as Niniuie may be a liuely example the other in the wicked and they are made more obstinate froward and hard at the hearte and thereby more inexcusable as the example of Pharao in Egipt doth testifie It is and hathe bin euer a mercifull manner of our God to speake before he strike and he is not by by at a worde and a blowe neither but giueth time and space for repentance but and hys patience be wounded once then hys wrath kindleth as the coale and flameth as the fire and no man is able to abide the rage therof Flintie and peruerse were this people and this Prophet preuayled not amongst them hÃ©e was one of the last that preached to them before their captiuitie into Babylon Yet I trust better of you and pray better for you and am perswaded that you will doe those things that wÃ©e warne you of though we thus speake as Saint Paule saide of the ThessaloniaÌ„s 2. Eph. 13. Cap. Let this driue you somewhat more nÃ©ere your selfe that God will not be mocked and when hÃ©e accuseth it is but lost labour to excuse and as his word endureth for euer and euerye iotte thereof is perfecte to bÃ©e performed so these woes being a parte of his word can not returne in vayne thy Prophete yet be perused and read Ieremies bookes as it seemeth and fouÌ„d out the Prophecie of the peoples captiuitie .70 years which he calles wâ—â—â—s that so long Iuda shoulde lye by it and that for theyr transgression And the Angell Gabriel reuealed to him afterward that the Lord in mercy would yet restore them seuen fold again that is .70 times seuen which amouÌ„teth or multiplieth in accoumpt to 490. yeres and then this Messias should come Ieremy here speaketh indefinitelye and sayth the time commeth where the present tyme is put for the future as I take it not to expresse the shortnesse but the assuraunce of the tyme when Christe shoulde come The Wyse man sayth all thinges haue a time and it is a high poynt of wisdome to knowe the tyme of all thinges but to knowe this tyme of all tymes is wisdome of all wisdomes The Prophetes foreshewed it to the Iewes but yet he was chieflie receyued of the Gentiles for he came to his owne his owne knew him not I pray God for the second triumphant kingly coÌ„ming it fall not out so that to whoÌ„ he is most preached they be least prepared How long was it I pray you that Israel longed to come out of Egipts bondage and how loÌ„g loked Iuda to be deliuered froÌ„ Babilons captiuity But for the great frÃ©edom indÃ©ed from the perpetual euerlasting

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