Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	soul_n	spirit_n	union_n	1,788	5	10.2285	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14923	The soules progresse to the celestiall Canaan, or heavenly Jerusalem By way of godly meditation, and holy contemplation: accompanied with divers learned exhortations, and pithy perswasions, tending to Christianity and humanity. Divided into two parts. The first part treateth of the divine essence, quality and nature of God, and his holy attributs: and of the creation, fall, state, death, and misery of an unregenerated man, both in this life and in the world to come: put for the whole scope of the Old Testament. The second part is put for the summe and compendium of the Gospell, and treateth of the Incarnation, Nativity, words, works, and sufferings of Christ, and of the happinesse and blessednesse of a godly man in his state of renovation, being reconciled to God in Christ. Collected out of the Scriptures, and out of the writings of the ancient fathers of the primitive Church, and other orthodoxall divines: by John Welles, of Beccles in the County of Suffolk.	Welles, John, of Beccles.	1639 (1639)	STC 25231; ESTC S119607	276,075	406

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this_o be_v when_o man_n give_v themselves_o over_o to_o commit_v sin_n with_o affectation_n and_o greedy_a appetite_n and_o oppress_v their_o conscience_n with_o the_o multitude_n of_o their_o committing_n so_o that_o such_o conscience_n do_v not_o remember_v we_o our_o sin_n for_o the_o outrageous_a conscience_n in_o the_o reprobate_n be_v when_o the_o conscience_n of_o the_o reprobate_n have_v for_o a_o time_n be_v silence_v and_o have_v give_v the_o sinner_n a_o unchaste_a liberty_n in_o his_o ungodliness_n yet_o so_o as_o that_o once_o apprehend_v the_o knowledge_n of_o his_o sin_n and_o know_v the_o state_n of_o condemnation_n wherein_o it_o be_v it_o break_v out_o into_o violence_n which_o want_v moderation_n urge_v the_o sinneâ—_n to_o execute_v upon_o himself_o some_o desperate_a vengeance_n such_o be_v the_o conscience_n of_o judas_n the_o traitor_n which_o sleep_v all_o the_o time_n he_o be_v plot_v and_o practise_v his_o treason_n but_o when_o his_o sin_n be_v bring_v 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