Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	david_n	lord_n	nathan_n	4,238	5	12.7447	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51595	A remembrance for the living to pray for the dead made by a Father of the Soc. of Iesus.	Mumford, J. (James), 1606-1666.	1641 (1641)	Wing M3069; ESTC R26206	65,319	231

Wherefore we must be lyable to some punishmeÌ„t for euery idle word so that if a man of full age conuerted from idolatry be baptized and by and by after killed before he commit any other sinne then the speaking of one idle word onely shall this man be tormented for euer and euer so long as God shall be God And shall the Father of mercyes giue this vnmercifull sentence Doubtlesse if any man can do a thing worthy of stripes for doing it deserue only to be beaten with few stripes this maÌ„ may hope for this mercy but for greater theÌ„ this he cannot hope seeing that Christ saith that some accouÌ„t is to be giuen for that idle word Some punishment therefore he must suffer but not eternall consequently not in hell but in Purgatory for he must be beaten with few stripes not with many or euerlasting stripes 4. The second Principle is taught vs in the Apocalips cap. 21. to wit That nothing defyled shall enter into the kingdome of heauen consequently a man defiled with one onely idle word and so dying shall not enter into the Kingdome of heauen vntill he be cleansed in Purgatory-fyre For he who buildeth â—tuble vpon the foundation shall be saued yet so as by fyre saith S. Paul 1. Cor. 3. But saith S. Ambrose wheras S. Paul saith yet so as by fyre he sheweth indeed that he shall be saued but yet shall suffer the punishment of fyre that being purged by fyre he may be saued and not tormented for euer as the Jnfidels are with euerlasting fyre Serm. 20. in Psal 118. Most agreeable to this doctrine be the words of our Sauiour Be at agreemeÌ„t with thy Aduersary betyme whilst thou art in the way with him least perhaps thou be cast into prison Amen I say vnto thee thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repayest the last farthing Matth. 5. That is vntill thou shalt haue made satisfaction for euery one of thy least sins according to the expositioÌ„ of S. Hierome who telleth vs This is that which he sayth Thou shalt not go out of prison vntill thou shalt pay euen to thy little sinnes In c. 5. Matth. 5. The third Principle is that although our sins both mortall and veniall be forgiuen vs whensoeuer we are truly penitent for them yet all the paine due to these our sins is not always forgiuen togeather with the sins This may be demonstrated by many examples in the Scripture For breuity sake I will specify only two The first it this Originall sinne is forgiuen vs by baptisme yet the paines which are inflicted for originall sinne be not wholy taken away by baptisme but euen those innocent infants vnto whom by baptisme original sinne was forgiuen do suffer the punishment of death due vnto them for no other cause but for that very originall sinne which was forgiuen them by baptisme for that I say they endure death because by one man sinne entred into the world and by sinne death and so vnto all men euen vnto innocents death did passe Rom. 5. The second example is this Dauid did so truly repent him of his sinne of adultery murther that God told him by the Prophet Nathan Our Lord hath taken away thy sinne 2. Reg. 12. Behold heere the sinnes of Dauid forgiuen and yet presently God tels him Neuerthelesse because thou hast made the enemyes of the Lord to blaspheme for this thing the sonne which is borne vnto thee dying shall dye Behold heere a punishment inflicted vpon Dauid euen for this thing for which God had pardoned him 6. Out of this Principle it clearly followeth that there is a Purgatory For seing that as we haue proued there remaineth many tymes some punishment due to the sinne which is forgiuen and seing that a man may dye before he hath suffered this punishment due by iustice vnto him it doth necessarily follow that this punishment must be giuen him in the world to come not in hell because the sinne is forgiuen but yet in the prison of Purgatory out of which he shall not goe vntill he hath payd the last farthing 7. But heere it may be demanded how this doctrine agrees with the saying of God When the wicked maÌ„ shall be conuerted from his impiety I will not remember his iniquities Ezech. 18. I answere that God is said not to remember them in his wrath vengance by remitting the eternal paine due vnto them So he did not remember the sinne of Dauid but did take it away from him yet neuerthelesse for this thing he took from him by an vntimely death his sonne whose life he begged so earnestly The matter may fitly be declared by this similitude If a man should owe me a millioÌ„ of pounds should beg of me to forgiue the debt I might be most truly said to grant his request though I should forgiue the debt on this conditioÌ„ that he should pay me only twenty shillings as it were for a fine Now we know our sinnes be our debts for one mortall sinne only a man is lyable to euerlasting torments but if this man being truly penitent beggeth pardon of this his sinne God is so mercifull that he will forgiue and forget it yet withall he is so iust that in place of it he will impose some small fine as I may say though this fine be far smaller then twenty shillings in comparison of a million of pounds for one pound a million of times doubled will come to be a million but a Purgatory euen of a million of yeares though it should be neuer so often doubled or redoubled can neuer come to make a summe of yeares equall to the yeares contained in the Eternity of paines due to this sinne before it was forgiuen This I haue set downe at large that all may see how mercifully God doth deale with vs wheÌ„ for one act of true pennance he exchangeth an Eternity of paines into the temporall punishment of some yeares in Purgatory for this caÌ„not be but a great mercy thogh this Purgatory were to last neuer so many yeares in number because the yeares of Eternity be without number CHAP. III. The first Motiue to pray for the Soules in Purgatory which is The greatnes of the sensible Paines they suffer 1. NAture doth teach vs that the most forcible Eloquence to mooue compassion is that which setteth forth the greatnes of our misery The miseryes which these poore soules suffer are reduced to two The one Paena sensus which is the sensible paine they feele caused by the excessiue bitternes of their torments The other is called Paena damni which is that inexplicable anguish of mind and grief arising from the liuely apprehension of the losse of God which for a tyme they are to sustaine To which we may add the long continuance of their torments From these three we will draw the motiues which if they be well pondered may make the hardest Pharao-like hart in the world to take some compassion on

lesse then three thousand six hundred and fifty But if this honest man should liue euen in this good manner ten yeares he should at ten yeares end haue coÌ„mitted the former summe ten times because he doth double it euery yeare which suÌ„me also is easily had by adding one cypher to the former summe of 3650. which if we doe we do find 36500. What a thing is this An innocent man not a man but a youth doth commit thirty six thousand and fiue hundred sinnes all in ten yeares wherfore if the youth should for ten yeares more continue this his vertuous course of life he would double the sinnes of his former life and make them amount to seuenty three thousand before he came to be a middle aged man O saith S. Augustine perhaps when thou dost consider a little sinne a part by it selfe thou dost slight it yet saith he si comtemnis quando appendis expauesce quando numeras Jf thou contemnest thy little sinnes wheÌ„ thou dost weigh them yet tremble when thou dost number them in epist. Joan. tract 1. 4. Let vs reflect now a little before we go any further what a kind of Purgatory this man a maÌ„ not fully of midle age a man very pious a man who neuer committed one mortall sinne would be lyable vnto if he should dy at this age for perhaps of those seuenty three thousand sinnes he hath not fully satisfyed for the odd three thousand or if he hath he hath done more then most men vse to doe for of all miseryes one of the greatest is that those who sinne most haue least care to satisfy for their sinnes now what a Purgatory thinke you seuenty thousand sinnes will deserue Thy iudgments O God are a deep bottomles pit Psal 35. 5. But why put we a case which so seldome happens The ordinary course of men is to commit many and enormous mortall sinnes and veniall without all scruple consequently without all number yea many hould on this straine vntill they come to be very old vnable by reason of their yeares vnwilling by reason of their ill habits to do any Pennance and so they content theÌ„selues with spending some few houres to deplore and confesse those sinnes which amount to far more thousands theÌ„ there be minutes in the houres which they spend in lameÌ„ting theÌ„ Consider now how vnsufficiently the grief of one minute is to cancel out all the paines due to a whole thousand of sinnes and many of them very enormous 6. There is also another thing in this reckoning to be much reflected on that he who should haue but one only mortall sinne would be lyable after the forgiuenes of it to a punishment far different God know's how far from that which he is lyable vnto who hath only veniall sinnes to satisfy for though their number be exceeding great for if one mortall sinne before it be forgiuen be lyable vnto an eternity of punishment most bitter punishment consequently to such a punishment as all the veniall sinnes a man can commit would neuer deserue the hundreth thousand part of it I will leaue it to a right valuing iudgement to esteeme how much more paine God is like to impose vpon him who hath this one forgiuen mortall sinne to satisfy for then on him who hath onely veniall sinnes and those also forgiuen to satisfy for though the number of them should be exceeding great Well then if one mortall sinne bringeth with it such a dreadfull Purgatory how are they like to be dealt withall who euery day run vpon the score thus continue not for many dayes but years together during which time they being alwayes in sinne neuer make satisfaction for the least they commit If holy Dauid said Psal 39. My iniquityes haue layd hold on me J was not able to see them they were so many for they were multiplyed aboue the hayres of my head what may these men who drinke vp iniquity like water Iob. 15. think of the multitude of their sinnes who perhaps haue a hundred for Dauids one Such like considerations as these made the deuout S. BouaueÌ„ture cry out I haue sinned aboue the number of the sands of the sea How then shall J number that which is without number How shall I suffice when I shal be inforced to pay my debt to the very last farthing S. Bonau in paruo bono 7. But let vs marke a litle what satisfaction is vsually made by those that stand in so great need of it The ordinary wayes to satisfy be these Fasting Prayer Almes-deeds and sometimes by Indulgences and all these things must be done in the state of Grace in which these men are seldome long togeather and therefore most of these workes of which they doe so few come wholy to be lost but when they are not thus cast away let vs see what they will come to As for fasting when it cannot be shifted of by any pretence fast they do but God knowes how many times they loose eyther the whole or the greater part of this good worke for they haue so many inuentions to sweeteÌ„ their fasts with such variety of dainty dishes that it is much to be feared least in place of satisfying for their old sinnes they commit new sinnes of gluttony which require a new satisfaction Now for prayer it is coÌ„monly performed by them with so many distractions irreuerences and other imperfections that the world may seeme not to goe amisse if there be inough of their Prayers made so well that it may suffice to make due recompence for that which is made so ill Almesdeeds the poore cannot giue the rich will not for they do liue meane euer to liue say what you will at so high a rate that they thinke they do a great matter if they can get inough honestly to maintaine their brauery to discharge their debts For as for paying the debts they owe to God they are resolued that he shal be payed last Indulgences indeed are one of the great mercys of God which in how great need we stand of any man of iudgement will see clearly by this whole discours but such is eyther the infidelity or strange carelesnesse of most men especially of such as haue most need that perhaps the grosse neglect of them may well be reckoned for one of the chief causes why many broyle so long in the flames of Purgatory 8. It is now high time to end this discourse and I humbly earnestly beseech the reader to take soÌ„times into his consideration the poynts mentioned as well for his owne spirituall profit as for relief of his poore brethrens soules burning in Purgatory-flames supplicating to his Charity for succour which if he do I doubt not but he wil be moued to compassion and to a speedy and liberall contribution of many satisfactory good works CHAP. VI. That for the loue we beare to God we ought to be much moued to help the Soulet in

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