Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	accept_v	according_a	action_n	30	3	6.1605	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12376	Heauens ioy, for a sinners repentance A sermon preached at VVhite-Hall the 4. of March, 1623. By Iohn Denison, Doctor of Diuinity, one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1623 (1623)	STC 6590; ESTC S109579	71,485	186

our selues Yea S. Iames acknowledgeth without excluding himselfe that in many things we offend all Quomodo potest esse iustitia vbi non potest deesse culpa How then Bern. serm 5. in Isaiah saith Bernard can we stand vpon our righteousnesse when as wee cannot be free from sinfulnes There is no man so righteous but it may bee said vnto him in our Sauiours words Vnum tibi deest There is one thing wanting to thee Marke 10.21 Yea surely many things Therfore S. Augustin said truly August de ciu Dei 19.27 our iustice consists rather in remission then perfection Where then are these ninety nine iust persons I answer the Scriptures speake of two sorts of iust persons there are some iust opinione in conceit and opinion some veritate in truth There are some who are iust in conceit only such were they of whom our Sauiour speaks Mat. 9.12 13. The whole haue no need of the Physicion but the sicke I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Those whole and righteous are the same that these iust persoÌ„s are Nomine iusti te superbi Chrysost men iust in title but proud in truth whose proud spirits raised vp in them a high conceit of righteousnesse and as those needed not the Phisicion so these need not repentance And the like stupifaction we find vpon the conscience of the vaunting Pharisie Luke 18.11 I thanke God saith he I am not as other men extortioners vniust adulterers I fast twice in the week I giue tythes of all I possesse Here is a man that is iust and sinneth not as appeareth by the negatiue and affirmatiue branches of his confession But this was opinione tantÃ¹m only in his own conceit And such were these Pharises whose folly our Sauiour heere checks very iustly as if he should say I tell you there is more ioy for one of these penitent sinners which you despise theÌ„ for ninety nine such iust persons as you are who are iust onely in conceit Againe as there is iustice in conceit so is there also in truth and that both passiue and actiue there is iustice by imputation iustice in action So Abraham beleeued in God Gen. 15.6 and that was counted vnto him for righteousnes and in obedience to Gods coÌ„mandement he was ready to sacrifice Isaack Gen. 22.10 and so he was iust in action So was hee iust as S. Paul describeth Iustice Rom. 4.6 and as S. Iames doth Now this passiue iustice which is by imputatioÌ„ Iam. 2.21 is perfect Rom. 4.5 because it is the act of God which caused the Apostle to make that comfortable challenge Who shal lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen It is God that iustifieth Rom. 8.33 But the actiue and inherent righteousnes is not so A house begun Bern. in Psal 91. it is but domus inchoata as S. Bernard saith and this building is neuer perfected vntill wee come to that House whose founder builder is God It was therefore a worthy speech of famous Constantine to Acesius the Nouatian Socrat. histor lib. 1. cap. 7. that stood vpon this absolute Iustice Para tibi scalam Acesi c. Get thee a Ladder Acesius by which thou maist climbe to heauen alone Brightman vpon the third of the Reuelation hath a harsh comparison and a worse Conclusion He makes the Church of Laodicea a type of the Church of England but most iniuriously For what can he finde nothing that is good and worthy of coÌ„mendation in this Church as our Sauiour found none in the Church of Laodicea This comparison is bad but his Conclusion is worse Would to GOD thou wert totally Romish Vtinam totus Romanus esses vel plenaÌ„ reformationeÌ„ susciperes Eccles 7.16 or wouldest embrace a full reformation You see here that there is a reason of Salomons Counsell Be not iust ouermuch Shall a Church because she caÌ„not obtaine a perfect reformation reiect her vnion with Christ What more impious And shall a Christian because hee cannot attaine to an absolute perfection cast off all care of Christianity and betake himselfe to a debosht kinde of life What more absurd If Brightman had that full reformation he desires yet a Brownist would take vp that vtinam against him because his would not bee a perfect constitution of a Church And were hee turned Brownist the Anabaptist would vse his vtinam also because hee hath retained the marke of the Beast And Tertullian said truely Et pariter laedunt gelidum feruensquÃ¨ lauacrum sic nimium sapere stultum facit improba secta ad SenatoreÌ„ if hee should imbrace Anabaptisme the Familist would come vpon him with that vtinam because hee had not obtained the louely being Thus erroneous singularity hardly finds any Center and when men run into extremes they precipitate themselues into endlesse vanities The Apostles sapere ad sobrietatem to bee wise to sobriety is a singular blessing Rom. 12.3 Wee know there are diuers degrees of actiue righteousnes according to the measure of grace seuerally imparted to the seruants of God Some there are who for their eminency in grace 1. Chron. 11. are like Dauids three Worthies some like his thirty who were valiant yet attained not to the honour of the three some of an inferiour ranke yet good Souldiers too And so are there scholers of diuers formes in the Schoole of Christ and souldiers of diuers ranks in his camp yet good Christians too As one Star differs from another in glory so doe the seruants of God in grace Iob shined like the day-starre in the East Iob 1.1 8. He was a perfect and vpright man and none like him in the earth yet may a lesse measure of grace make a man capable of this title of a iust person For whosoeuer is iustified by faith in Christ and sanctified in some measure by the Spirit of God may truely be called a iust man albeit hee be not free from infirmities frailties because his frailties and imperfections are couered with the mantle of Christs merits and his sincere though weake indeuours are accepted of Almighty God as perfect actions according to that 2. Cor. 8.12 If there be in vs a willing minde God accepteth not according to that we haue but according to that we haue not And so these ninety nine may bee called iust In their degrees suis gradibus and need no repentance comparatiuÃ¨ by way of comparison as hauing not so much need as others who haue sinned more grieuously For as it was in the legal pollutions some had not so much need of clensing as others so is it in the spirituall according to our Sauiours saying He that is washed Iohn 13.10 needeth not to wash sauing his feet onely And such iust persons also may our Sauiour seeme to speake of in regard of the comparison For to speake exexactly there is small yea no ioy in

the open streets Nay such is the height of their impudency that they will not forbâ—are to offer violence vnto the honour of our Calling euen before Gods own face euen in the Sanctuary it selfe which hath alwayes bin reputed a place of priuiledge as if they would out-beard out-braue almightie God himselfe Is it possible such a high-handed disrespect and contempt should raigne where the Gospell of Christ is so plentifully and so sincerely preached But I doe the lesse maruell at it when I call to mind the base vsage wherwith the Son of God Hebr. 6.20 that High Priest for euer after the Order of Melchisedeck our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was saluted in the dayes of the flesh He was in the world saith the beloued Euangelist and the world was made by him Iohn 1.10 11. and the world knew him not He came vnto his owne and his owne receiued him not Nay they did not onely not receiue him but did as ye may read at large in the History of his life prosecute and persecute him with a world of indignities euen vnto the death Math. 10.24 25 Now the Disciple is not aboue his Master nor the seruant aboue his Lord. It is enough saith our Sauiour for the disciple to be as his master is and the seruant as his Lord. If they haue called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more them of his houshold Our Lord hath drunke vnto vs out of this bitter cup and we must resolue to pledge him round O thrice happy we if wee could so apprehend it that he is pleased to accept vs into his sufferings For if we suffer with Christ 2 Tim. 2.12 we may bee assured we shall also raigne with Christ But vnhappy all those whose delight to grieue our spirits by their disrespectiue cariage and vnconscionable courses shall make vs to be called Great in the kingdome of heauen yea thrice vnhappy and accursed if they breake not off this their sinfulnesse by a more sanctified and conscionable course of life We are indeed but weake Earthen vessels 2 Cor. 47. as the Apostle stileth vs. We are sinfull men men full of sinne and therin not vnlike your selues let him that is among you with out sinne cast the first stone at vs. Iohn 8.7 Yet consider that we are your Spirituall fathers 1 Cor. 4.15 Reuel 3.1 that wee are the Angels of God and Ambassadours for Christ 2 Cor. 5 20. If we be your Fathers where is our honour What though Elisha be bald shall the children of Bethel cal him Baldpate vnpunished 2 Kin. 2 2â— 23. No two Beares come out of the Forrest and tare them in pieces What though Noah be drunken shall his sonne Ham mocke and deride him without a curse Genes 9.25 No Canaan is cursed a seruant of seruants shall hee bee vnto his brethren If we be Angels of God and Ambassadours for Christ where is that homage and reuerence you owe vnto vs in the name of our Lord and Master Will an earthly Prince which is but a piece of clay take to heart as done to himselfe whatsoeuer indignitie is offered vnto his Ambassadours And will not Almightie God be sensible of that dishonour which is daily done vnto his Ambassadours I haue heard credibly related how superciliously and contemptuously the Palsgraues Countrey hath looked vpon their Clergie In what case that Countrey now standeth I suppose the remotest Christian Region is not ignorant I will not presume peremptorily to determine that this one sinne hath been the procuring cause of so fearefull a Iudgement Thus much I am sure of that the contempt of the Messengers of God cost Ierusalem a desolation 2 Chron. 36 16 God is so tender ouer his Prophets that he will not haue them so much as toucht hee hath reprooued euen Kings for their sakes So sensibly he is affected with the wrongs they sustaine that hee taketh them as done to Himselfe Do ye rob them of their Tythes Malac 3.8 Ye haue robbed me saith the Lord. Doe ye neglect and despise them Ye despise me saith Christ Luke 10.16 and him that sent mee euen God the Father And wil not the Lord reuenge these wrongs Yea hath hee not already in some measure punished this land for them Haue not the Coales your Forefathers haue stolne from Gods altar set their neasts on fire brought a curse vpon their substance that it hath not thriued vnto a third generation yea whilst they and you haue denyed God his Tenth part hath not God taken away your Nine parts and giuen you onely a Tenth Againe hath not the Lord taken vnto himselfe many conscionable and painefull Ministers which according to the course of nature might haue liued long to haue bin worthy Instruments for your euerlasting good because ye haue so vndervalued them and set so low an estimate vpon them But alas my Beloued these are but flea-bitings if compared to the remoouing of our Candlesticke from amongst vs Reuel 2.5 and is it not iustly to bee feared that he hath euen at this present some such work in hand I pray God he hath not But say he doe continue the light of his Gospel amongst vs yet what benefit can accrue vnto vs by this light if we be taken from it and cast into vtter darknesse This God can doe and will doe if wee doe not bring forth better fruit for euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall bee hewen downe and cast into the fire O consider of this all yee whose greatest glory is to bee the scourge of the Clergie lest that High Priest Christ Iesus take you in hand and ye be made to howle eternally in Hell for contemning his Substitutes his low Priestes here on earth Let the Word of the Lord and the Ministers therof be precious in your sight that you your posterity may be precious in the sight of the Lord. Haue those that are ouer you in the Lord labour amongst you in singular loue if not for their owne sakes yet for their Masters sake and for their workes sake considering how like Candles they consume and waste themselues away to light you in the way vnto perpetual happines Giue vnto them double honour and cut them not short of their due reuerence maintenance lest the Lord in his fury cut you off from the state of mercy lest ye be hewen downe and cast into the fire I haue I suppose not a little exceeded your expectation I am sure my first intention in giuing so much way vnto this last particulars extention but the time I haue borrowed of you in it I will God willing repay you to the full in the rest that follow Shal euery tree not bringing forth good fruit be hewen downe and cast into the fire My Honourable Lord 3 The Lord Maior I will giue you but a word take heed God doe not one day giue you a blow Hee hath

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