Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	believe_v	faith_n	justification_n	3,844	5	9.3520	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08202	An order of houshold instruction by which euery master of a familie, may easily and in short space, make his whole houshold to vnderstand the principall and chiefe points of Christian religion, without the knowledge whereof, no man can be saued.	Nichols, Josias, 1555?-1639.	1595 (1595)	STC 18539.5; ESTC S2248	53,178	122

two sorts of points What wee are of ourselues What wee are made by Christ The doctrines 1. 1 Otherwise there needed not the promise Eph. 2.1.2 Of ourselues wee are sinners and therefore accursed to damnation by Adams fall 2. 2 This is in a manner the text By Christ wee are made blessed that is heires of eternall life 3. 3 ExpouÌ„ded Heb. 2.16 Here is taught what Christ is touching his person as in the former Catechisme Christ is God and man of the seede of Abraham 4. 4 These two are gathered out of this text Gal. 3.6.8 Rom. 4.11.12.23.24 There is but one way of saluation which is common to Iew and Gentill 5. 5 These two are gathered out of this text Gal. 3.6.8 Rom. 4.11.12.23.24 Christ is applied vnto vs for iustification by no meanes but faith onely 6. 6 So gathered Gal. 3.17.18 Our saluation commeth not of workes in our doing or will in our choosing but of Gods free promise 7. Vnder this word blessed 7 Gal. 3.29 1. Cor. 1.30 Reuel 20.6 are contained all Gods graces and gifts which thorough Christ hee giueth to his Church and his protection in this life with the resurrection vnto life eternall 8. One part of this blessednes is 8 So applied Luk. 1.73 Act. 3.25.26 that Christ turneth vs from our sinnes and leadeth vs by the promise to walke in godlines and honestie 9. 9 For this promise is exclusiue as Act. 4.12 Gal. 1.8 Ioh. 3.18 There is no other meanes of saluation but Christ and therefore all other professions and religions which teach not the true beleefe in Christ are the synagogues of Satan and seminaries of hell fire 10. 10 Ancienter by 430 yeares then the law of works Gal. 3.17 Tit. 1.1 Heb. 13.8.9 That we are iustified and saued by faith onely is the most ancient doctrine being taught by God vnto Abraham long before euer there was any Church of Rome Here the master of the familie may applie vnto euery particular person how his faith should agree with these points by the example of Iob whose Creede thus followeth Iob. 19.25 I am sure my redeemer liueth c. Where thou maist see his faith in that he saith I am sure his acknowledgement of sins and expectation of Christ in the word Redeemer and in the word liueth hee sheweth that Christ is alway the onely q So expounded Heb. 7.24.25 sufficient fauiour his hope of the resurrection is plaine in the rest and the description of eternall life in this r So defined Psal 16.11 17.15 he shall see God CAP. 5. The third Catechisme for confirmation in knowledge The place of Scripture Esay 53.11 By his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many whose iniquities he shal beare The Interpretation THese words are euidently a prophesie of Christ Iesus wherin the master must teach his familie to coÌ„sider the persons First he that speaketh is God then the persons of whom he speaketh are two 1. Christ whoÌ„ he calleth his righteous seruant 2. all beleeuers which are many men and women whose sinnes hee beareth The Doctrine 1. 1 In the first person 2. Tim. 1.9 God decreeth the saluation of many by Christ 2. Mans works free-will 2 This followeth of the first merit and satisfaction are excluded by the vndesired and vndeserued good pleasure of GOD in so decreeing 3. In Christ we see two things 3 This appeareth in the two following what hee is in himselfe and what to vs the first we call his person and the second his office adioyned to his person 4. In his person hee is called a seruant 4 In the second person Gods seruant and a iust seruant A seruant because being God he became a man which is called the Å¿ Philip. 2.6.7 forme of a seruant Gods seruant because hee came to doe t Heb. 10.7 Gods will Just or righteous because it behoued that hee being u 1. Pet. 3.18 iust should die for vs who are vniust so that he being x Heb. 4.14.15 GOD was also man in all thing sauing sinne 5. 5 In that God assigneth and accepteth him to iustifie vs c. 1. Tim. 2.5.6 His office is here generally to be a mediator betweene God and man 6. The parts of his office 6 This is shewed in the two following Psalm 110. are his Kingdome his Priesthood 7. He being King of his Church giueth giftes that is Ministers to teach remission of sinnes and so as the righteous King he iustifieth all beleeuers 7 In these words by his knowledge shal c. Act. 2.33 Eph. 4.8.9.10.11 8. Hee being Priest beareth our sinnes 8 So expounded Heb. 9.11.12 when he made himselfe a liuely sacrifice to his father for vs. 9. 9 This expoundeth the former two in them is contained reade 2. Cor. 5.19.20.21 Rom. 4.25 and cap. 10.4.14 By his Priesthoode he performeth the worke of our righteousnes and by his Kingly office hee applieth it vnto vs. For being Priest he dieth for our sins and riseth to make vs righteous but yet till by hearing this kings Embassadors wee doe beleeue wee are not iustified 10. 10 In the third person Many c. Rom. 3.23.24.25 Wee are of our owne nature sinners and al our iustification and redemption commeth onely by the free will of God thorow beleefe in Iesus Christ 11. 11 Reade Rom. 8.30 Tit. 3.7 Vnder iustification is contained glorification or euerlasting life for these necessarilie follow each other 12. 12 Gal. 1.4 If Christ iustifie vs by bearing our sinnes then wee must knowe that aboue all things we ought to flie sinne Here the Master of the familie may applie to his people in a short summe the substance of this Catechisme by the words of Habbakuck cap. 2. ver 4. The iust shall liue by his faith In regarde of iustification thus y So expounded Rom. 1.17 Galat. 3.11 a good man findeth in himselfe no wisdome righteousnes power will or workes to leane vnto but looketh for his iustification and saluation onely by faith in Christ In regarde of sanctification thus z So opened Heb. 10.38.39 1. Pet. 4.19 Gal. 2.19.20 A good man forsaketh all his owne earthly deuises and all wicked workes in the maintaining of his estate and life beleeuing that his life shall bee maintayned without any euill deuises or shiftes and therefore committeth his soule life and all hee hath into Gods hands in weldooing depending vpon the mercie and promise of God in Christ CAP. 6. The fourth Catechisme for confirmation of knowledge The place of holy Scripture Psalme 130.3 If thou O Lorde streightly markest iniquities O Lorde who shall stand 4. But mercie is with thee that thou maiest be feared The Interpretation THis text is a confession of faith agreeing in substance with the former wherein the faithfull soule applieth the doctrine of iustification vnto a speciall vse in prayer

5. temple was not built but by men of all sorts in the time of Salomon and the d Nehem. 3. walles of Ierusalem vnder the guiding of Nehemiah So may priuate men very much further the building of the spirituall temple which is the congregation of Christ The Churches spring out of instructed families And as out of Abraham Isaac and Iacobs house sprang forth the Churches of the Iewes so the glorious congregations of the Gentiles began in the families For if seruants well nurtured e Tit. 2.10 may adorne the doctrine of God our Sauiour in all thinges and f 1. Pet. 3.1 husbands obeying not the worde may without the word be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues how much more may the master of the familie doe vnto God and his Church honorable seruice not only by sanctifying his house by the word of faith but also by hauing alwaies in a readines very notable matter to further the building of Gods dwelling place Which thing is auouched to thee by g 2. Tim. 1.5 and 3.15 with Act. 16.1 young Timotheus who being brought vp in the holy Scriptures from a childe vnder his faithfull grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice when he was yet a very young man became a companion of the Apostle Saint Paul in that great and waightie worke of planting Churches And h Act. 18.24 Apollos coÌ„firmeth the same who being an eloquent man and mightie in the Scriptures was yet more perfectly instructed in the way of God by the house of a craftsman by whom not onely they which beleeued thorow grace were very much holpen but also the aduersaries of Christ were mightily confuted by the Scriptures Moreouer I pray you to marke diligently how that the disorder of one priuate familie One familie well or ill ordered may saue or destroy both Church Common-wealth namely of one a Iudg. 17. 18. Micah of Ephraim was an occasion that Idolatrie did spread thorowe the whole tribe of Dan and so continued many yeares And so contrarily b cap. 6. 7. 8. Gideon being stirred vp by the goodnes of God to the reformation of one meane familie in Manasseh was the cause of a very great deliuerance to the whole nation from most mightie and cruell enemies and most abominable Idolatrie for the space of 40. yeares Where were those c 1 King 14.14.18 7000. in the daies of Eliah that had not bowed the knee to Baal when he thought there were none left in Israel that feared God were they not in the well instructed families Whence came it that d Gen. 37. 38. 39. c. Ioseph in his youth being sold vnto strangers passed thorow so great temptations the comfortles prison the stocks iron to be so worthie a father of the Common-wealth of Egypt so good a nurse to the people of God Ica name no other outward meanes but his good education in the familie of the faithfull Hence is it written e Eccles 4.13 Better is a poore and wise child then an old and foolish king which will no more bee admonished for out of the prison hee commeth for to raigne when hee that is borne in his kingdome is made poore Therefore God commaÌ„deth his people f Deut. 11.18 to lay vp his words in their harts and in their soules c. and to teach them their children speaking of them when they sit in their house and when they walke by the way and when they lye downe and when they rise vp c. that their dayes may be multiplied and the dayes of their children c. Behold then what good may come out of a well instructed familie namely that it may bee the preseruing of the countrie and Church in the time of extreame daunger and darknes the seedplot against the time of reformation and a meanes by which God doth multiplie his people and peace in a countrie and that by the contrarie an whole countrie may fall into Idolatrie and destruction Whereby euery man may see what honorable seruice I wish him vnto when I exhort him to the instructing of his familie Therefore I heartily pray and earnestly entreate all gouernours of families A request to the masters of families that they would set such wise order in the disposing of all their worldly affayres that they may haue conuenient leisure and quiet time for the vse of this duetie taking heede of all vaine excuses Vaine excuses which the diuell and our corrupt nature will set before vs as blockes and hinderances that we should not once meddle with such a Luk. 10.42 necessary matters First The Lords day the Lords day being an ordinary rest time of libertie doth call vnto you from the king of heauen to doe this seruice After morning and euening prayer when you haue tried your people what they haue learned at the Church by their pastour and called to mind the chiefe heads of his teaching then is it good to make it a drinke offering vpon the pastours lessons to teach them a point or two of the principles of Religion Two howers once in the weeke And if it be possible I would begge for these poore soules in the name of Iesus Christ who shed his precious bloud for you and them that you would bestowe some two howers euery weeke in some one of the working daies as euery man shal be able to find best and fittest leasure to instruct your children and seruants according to the order of this booke or some such like and that you would continue therein with al care and constancie And I doe not doubt but you shall see great gaine by this little labour euen a blessing from the Lord our God b Hebr. 6.10 who will not forget any mans faithfull labour and loue which is in Christ Iesus There are foure sortes of people Foure sortes of people haue most fit oppotunity to teach the yonger 1. Noble men Gentlemen whome I would especially moue vnto this most vertuous and laudable worke for that they haue most fitte opportunitie to doe greatest seruice herein to God and their countrie First al noble men and Gentlemen and all Masters of great housholds Whose families as they are the most in number so most commonly they stand vnder the most reuerend and humble submission of their superiours Therefore in regard of the one they may profit most and in regard of the other with most easines and conueniencie Vaine preteÌ„ce For although the greatest part pretend it a very hard thing in these daies to bring their familie to Christian knowledge and sobernesse yet the not hauing them so consisteth not in the hardnes of the worke or vnrulines of the people but in the common neglect of many gouernours Who passing ouer this dutie Libertie the spoyle of the familie as a matter either not much to be regarded or not pertaining vnto theÌ„ haue so hardeened the

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