Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	great_a	3,866	5	3.4970	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01030	A preparatiue sermon, to the Lords table, preached by the Reuerend Mr. Iohn Forbes, pastour to the Companie of Marchant Aduentureres residing in Delff	Forbes, John, 1568?-1634.	1632 (1632)	STC 11133; ESTC S120856	19,249	70

at their doores and looke to be fed vvith the food of Angels and yet vvill not stir hand nor foote to labour for it I say such men can neuer expect to haue it from God VVe knovv it sufficiently rhat it is Gods vvill and ordinance that touching this temporall life a man should eate his bread in the svveat of his brovves vve doe vvillingly vndergoe paine labour for it But here is all our fault that hovvsoeuer vve be busied and pained for temporall things belonging to this life yet vve haue neither heart nor mind to take any paines for spirituall things And this is one of the greatest sinnes of this miserable age vvhere in men are so diligent laborious for the things of this life and yet so careles miserablie negligent in things concerning eternall life VVell this vve say that truly the greater diligence men vse the more paines they take about vvorldly businesses the greater shal be there conviction and their iudgment the more terrible in the daie of Christ his appearing If they haue not beene much more painfull about spirituall things vvhich do concerne eternall life VVe shall heare here after vvhat need vve haue to vveane our selues from the cares of this vvorld and of earthly things because it is the maine hinderance and let of our care and solicitude for heauenly things and therefore it must be first rooted out of the heart before the heart can be set as it ought vpon spirituall things But novv let vs consider vvhat is coÌ„prehended vnder this word Labour and vvhat are the things that the Son of God requires of vs to be done for the attaining to this bread of life Christ himself here after in the same chapter shevves this in ansvvering the Ievves question vvhen they asked him vvhat shall vve doe that vve maye worke the vvorkes of God Iesus ansvvered and said vnto them this is the vvorke of God that you beleeue in him vvhom he hath sent heere in steed of all vvorkes Christ places but one and that is the vvorke of beleeuing a vvorke not of the hand nor of the body but a vvorke of the heart For as a man must haue a mouing hand a stirring body in the busines that beloÌ„gs to this world so for obtaying of spiritual blessings he must haue a stirring and a beleeuing heart his heart must vvorke by faith if euer he thinke to haue any spirituall blessing from God for it is by faith alone that vve draw all good things from God in heauen and by faith alone it is that vve render to God any thing that can be acceptable vnto him for all though in the Scriptures our actions are attributed to loue yet they are in this life more properlie attributed to faith seing that faith vvorks by loue and so loue being but the instrument of faith and that by vvhich faith vvorketh and this is the reason vvhy all the doings and suffrings of the children of God are attributed vnto faith as you may see in the 11. of the Lev. for the vvhole operation of a spirituall man consists maynly in the vvork of beleeuing vvithout which vve shall neuer receiue ought from God that is able to saue our soules neither shall vve be able to doe so much as to send vp one sound desire or petition vnto God To conclud in a vvord there is no abillitie either to speake or to doe ought acceptablie to God vvithout faith This point is of great moment vve are to Labour aboue all things to attaine vnto this vvorke of beleeuing and to this end vve are care fully to vse all meanes by vvhich it pleaseth God to vvorke faith in our hearts as namely the hearing of the vvord of God preached the participation of the Lords supper instant praier to God vvith dayly meditations in the blessed vvord of God dayly conference talking of the holy things of God That faith by these meanes be both vvrought and nourished and dayly increased in our hearts vvithout vvhich it is impossible that euer vve can come to haue any feeling or sence either of the life or loue of God in our soules much lesse to shevve forth any euidences of them in our practise to the eies of men this is that vvork vvhich must haue place in all our vvorkes season them all before God therefore are vve commanded that vvhatsoeuer vve doe vvhether vve eate or vvhether vvee drinke that vve doe all in the name of the Lord Iesus which is as much as to say that vve doe all in faith for nothing can be done in the name of the Lord Iesus but it must of necessitie be done in faith this is then that which Christ means vvhen he vvills vs to labour Novv let vs goe forvvard here it follovveth that vve should next speake of that for vvhich vve should labour but before vve come vnto it VVe vvill speake first of the preparition vvhich Christ requires in vs for the fitting vs to this labour vvhich stands in the remouing of the lets impediments that hinder vs from labouring for that meat vvhich indures vnto euerlasting life And this is set dovvne in these vvords labour not for the meat vvhich perishes Heere vve see that vvhen Christ wils vs to labour for heauenly things he first restraines vs from the labour for earthly things The reason is because that if the loue and care of earthly things be not rooted out of our mindes the loue and care of heauenly things can take no place in them this is manifest by that speach of Iohn his 1. Epist 2. cap. 15. vers Loue not the vvorld nor the things of the vvorld if any man loue the vvorld the loue of the Father is not in him It is a most certaine truth that man vvhose heart affections is set vpon things belonging to his body must be a senceles man concerning the vvellfare of his soule It is expedient therefore and also necessarie that the care and solicitude of earthly things bee moderated and borne dovvne in our minds if euer vve vvill embrace this â—abour commanded by Christ for spirituall things for no man can serue â—vvo Masters it is impossible to serue God and the vvorld both and it is for this cause that Christ vvills his Disciples Not to care vvhat they should eate nor vvhat they should drinke nor vvhat they should put on put that first they should seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnes vvith a promise that all these things shall be cast vnto them And to moue them vnto this among manie other reasons he brings this for one to vvit that it is the disposition and custome of the heaâ—hen and men vvithout God to seek after things concerning this life namely vvhat they should eate and vvhat they should drinke and vvhat they should put on and therefore coÌ„cludes that they that knovv God and professe God to be their Father should not set their hearts vpoÌ„ these Temporall thing for it

for there is no promise of mercy of grace of holines of life or glorie vvhich God hath made in Christ to sinners but he hath stamped the same in Christ the man so that euerie man that sees the flesh of Christ vvith true spirituall eies may se that his flesh is stampt vvith righteousnes vvith the life of God and vvith immortall peace euerlasting glory But to come nearer to the consideration of this seale it is true that many men run to his Diety to find this seale and that because it is said in the first of the Hebrewes concerning Christ that hee is the brightnes of the glorie and the expresse or in grauen image of the Fathers person for vvhich cause it is said that he that sees the Sonne sees also the Father but not vvithstanding all this if the Sonne of God had bene sealed by the Father only in his diuine nature as he is the second person of the trinitie that this seale of God had neuer reached from his God head to his humanity his flesh could neuer haue bene the bread of life therfore we must labour to see this seale of God ingrauen in Christ the man else hovv can vvee knovv that by eating his flesh and drinking his blood vve haue eternall life since vvith out this seale his flesh and blood could haue no more force to giue life then any other flesh or blood of any other man therfore let vs consider vvherin this sealing of the Son as he is man coÌ„sists This seale hath fiue speciall things in it to be considered The first is Gods eternall ordinatioÌ„ appointmeÌ„t wherby he did ordaine Christ the man and none but Christ the man to be the food of our soules to be the mediator betvveene God vs so to be the only King Priest Prophet of Gods house for euer by vertue of this appointment of God Christ comes to bee that to vs that hee is and this eternall decree of God concerning Christ in his flesh to bee our redeemer is made manifest in the Scripture vvhen it is told vs that God ordained him before the vvorld vvas in the 1. of Peter the 1. chap. and againe vvhere it is said that there is not a name giuen vnder heauen by vvhich a man can be saued but the name of Iesus only and this is ratified in the Scripture by the testimonie both of God himselfe and Iohn Baptist and of the Apostle The Father from heauen did vvitnes so much vvhen as he said this is my vvell beloued Sonne in vvhom I am vvell pleased there by declaring that in Iesus Christ the Sonne novv made man his vvrath tovvards vs vvas taken avvay and he vvell pleased vvith vs not vvithstanding our manifold sinnes committed against him and all those speeches of God vvhereby God ratifies that Christ the man is his Sonne saying thou art my Sonne this day haue I be gotten thee vvhere by he confirmes him to be our euerlasting Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedeke and vvhereby hee vvitnesses him to be made Lord of his church saying the Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand till I make thine ennemies thy footstoole all these do make manifest the truth of this point that it is Christ the man vvhom God hath decreed to be both the Author and matter of our saluation And this is the first part of this seale of God this knovvledge that God hath ordained him only and none but him to be the bread of life The second part of Gods seale vvhere by he hath sealed Christ the man appeares in the vvorks of Gods ovvne power which the Father gaue him to doe as in raising the dead commanding of the seas and tempests the restoring sight to the blind curing of all diseases yea and commanding the very diuels c. therefore it is that Christ saith in the 5. of Iohn vers 6. after this manner The vvorkes vvhich the Father hath giuen me to finish the same vvorkes that I doe beare vvitnes that the Father sent me the Father himselfe vvhich hath sent mee beares vvitnes of mee and againe in the 10. of Iohn vers 25 If I doe not the workes of my Father beleeue me not But if I doe them though you beleeue not me yet beleeue the vvorkes that you may knovv that the Father is in me and I in him vers 37.38 These vvorkes vvhich none could doe but God him selfe being done by Christ the man are the second part of Gods seale vvhereby God the Father doth let vs see that this man Iesus is hee alone of vvhom vvee all must looke for life The third parte of this seale consists in this that God the Father hath laid vpon Christ the man the chastisments of our peace that by his stripes vvee might be healed for by inflicting vpon him in his flesh all the punishments and vvrath of God vvhich vvee by our iniquities haue deserued hee thereby sealed his manhood to be the food of life making him as a Lambe roasted vvith fire for our food And for this cause it is said of Christ Hebr. the 5. and the 9 That he being consecrated vvas made the Author of eternall saluation vnto all them that obay him for vvhen God did take vengeance vpon Christ his Sonne for our iniquities he made him sinne for vs that vvee might be made the righteousnes of God in him and by his crosse killed hatred and brought in euerlasting peace therefore in as much as it is hee alone that hath vndergone the curse of the lavve and the vvrath of God for vs that are sinners it is manifest that God giues none to be the bread of life to our soules but him alone and this is the reason vvhy the Apostle to correct that great schisme in the church of Corinth vvhen one said he vvas Pauls another Apollos c. and to force them all to acknovvledge none but Christ for their Sauiour he vses this forme of argument vvas Paul crucified for you c. as if he vvould say none but he vvho is crucified for you are you to depend vpon for life and saluation and the same is the reason vvhy the same Apostle vvritting to the Corinth the first Epist chapt 2. saith that he did determinate to know nothing among them but Iesus Christ and him crucified and againe he saith in the 6. of Gal vers 14. God for bid that I should reioyce but in the crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ. The fourth part of this seale standeth in this that God the Father hath raised Christ Iesus his sonne from the dead and hath taken him out of the povver of the graue and hath set him at his right hand in heauen and crovvned him vvith glorie and honour making him the head of men and Angels giuing him all povver in heauen and in earth and aboue all giuing him to be the head of his church thus setting him in that flesh vvherein he vvrought our redemption and

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