Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	adoption_n	receive_v	son_n	6,859	5	5.8529	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08279	A load-starre to spirituall life. Or, a Christian familiar motiue to the most sweet and heauenly exercise of diuine prayer With prayers for morning and euening. Written to stir vp all men to watchfulnesse and reformation of their carnall and corrupt liues. By I. Norden.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1614 (1614)	STC 18612; ESTC S100614	72,800	324

the duetie that God commands to make heauenly friends with their earthly Mammon Therfore our Sauiour pronounceth such impossibilitie for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of heauen euen because of his couetousnesse and oppression and because of his securitie and seldome or neuer faithfully seruing the liuing God and againe denounceth woes against them for that they haue their consolation in this world not for that they oppresse the poore and get their goods by vnlawfull meanes but because they haue their coÌ„solation namely their carnall delights and pleasures and not their spirituall ioy and inward comfort of the holy Ghost heere in this life Therefore behoueth it rich men to beware they place not their hearts consolation vpon these worldly fleeting vanities but according to diuine counsaile If riches encrease not to set their mindes vpon them but to vse them as they vsed them not For it is not meerely riches that maketh the vser but the abuser of them vnhappie And therefore as there may be a poore man proude and couetous euen in his small portion so may there be a rich maÌ„ poor in his owne conceit and so bestowe and distribute his goods as not onely not a woe but a blessing shall be pronounced vnto him as to the poor beleeuing in God for our Sauiour to encourage all as well poore as rich rightly affected and to stirre them vp to obedience and prayer saith Reioyce be glad for I haue prouided for â—ou a Kingdome CHAP. VI. The force of liuely faith and how hard a thing it is truly to apprehend the misterie of Christ and how easie historically to discourse thereof THE promises of future happinesse are able to stirre vp the dullest heart to waite and worke out his saluatioÌ„ with fear trembling with loue and obedience in faith prayer and yet it seemeth Not manie wise not many mighty not many rich beleeue this promise They seem rather to be leue a bond a statute a pawn or the promise of a rich maÌ„ then they wil giue credit vnto God vpon his oath who yet neuer was found to promise any thing but what he performed to the good of euery one that beleeuing asketh any thing fit for him to receiue he deceiueth no man that trusteth his bare word Abraham might haue cast many doubts being in a profane and Idolatrous countrey brought vp without the written will of God being called thence by an inuisible power to repaire into a remote country vnknowne and the conditions of the people strange vnto him But he contrarily cast off all difficulties and confidently resolued against his owne naturall reason and will of all his friends and familiars and betooke him to the iourney and ceased not till he came to Canaan Who would not haue consulted with his kinsfolks frends Who would not haue looked for better assurance of good successe before hee would haue aduentured to forsake his countrey and friends and betake himselfe to the hazard of such an attempt But he knew that he that called him was iust and what hee had promised hee was able to performe and would neither faile him nor forsake him Hee wauered not as the most of vs do touching heauen and heauenly things promised how can we affirm we beleeue it and yet giue our selues ouer to the world It is not indeed euery mans case to know the mysterie of Christ but in a kinde of generall apprehension as hee is deliuered in the outward word according to the Historie But to beleeue that he came in the flesh without man to containe two natures vnder one visible forme that hee was God equall with the father and man like vnto vs that he cancelled the hand-writing that was against vs that in him we are reconciled again to God the father that he sits at God's right hand a mediator for vs and that all beleeuers shall ascend and rest with him in glorie that our bodies that are corrupt shall either die and putrifie or be changed and in fine be glorified in the heauens And to apply all this to our owne selues through faith cannot but goe so farre beyond the ordinarie capacities of naturall men as the God of heauen is aboue the God of the ayre For as Christ said vnto Peter flesh and bloud reueiled not vnto him what Christ was neither can the natural man apprehend this heauenly mysterie and therefore cannot beleeue the promise of saluation to the comfort of his own soule and consequently cannot pray to God in Christ. He can speake of and dispute and beleeue the whole Historie of Christ both how he was promised and prophesied how he was crucified and can relate euery Article of Christian beleefe And so farre the diuels know beleeue and tremble But this is the peculiar portion of Gods children truly to depend vpon Christ thorough faith grounded vpon knowledge as beleeuing that heauen is his portion is the gift of God in Christ who being the liuely image of God the father teacheth vs to know God in the Trinitie and the Trinitie in vnitie whom who so knoweth not and by knowing him loueth him and in louing him obeyeth him and in oâ—beying him beleeueth him and in beleeuing him dooth not pray vnto him howsoeuer they seeme to vpholde their knowledge defend their obedience and bragge of their prayers they are all but counterfeit For no truly spirituall exercise can bee performed or diuine grace obtained but by a man spiritually qualified and beloued of God and who loueth God for vnlesse we feele in our selues the loue of God towards vs wee can neuer loue God for he loueth vs first and by the third person of the Trinitie worketh loue in vs towards him and loue being the band of obedience and obedience the marke of our election and coÌ„sequently the seale which hath the image of our Redeemer whereby our adoption to bee the sonnes of God is confirmed to euery one that beleeueth Not to euery one that pretendeth to loue obey and serue him but to him only whose heart is right before the Lord who heareth the word beleeueth the spirit that wrote it and bringeth forth the fruits of it namely to doe what is therin commanded and to auoyde things forbidden therein he euen he is the vndoubted adopted sonne of God and whatsoeuer he asketh the father by the spirit in the sonne hee shall receiue it for he hath the promise of the blessings of this life and the life to come Contrariwise such as neither yet haue nor desâ—re to haue thiâ— feeling this faith and this dependance on God howsoeuer they pretend that they are the sonnes of God for that they can only talke like and performe some outward duties as the true sonnes of God do yet let them not deceiue themselues they are not yet out of the lees of their originall neither haue they remission of their actuall sins but the Bond is yet against them depending vncancelled though they associate the

for all but the carnall man hath many Gods the Monie in his Chest his Friends that his Mammon hath got him his Corne in his Barnes his Cattle in the Fields his Plate and Iewels his Wit and Pollicy are the Gods of worldly men in them they trust and by som or one of them they hope to be relieued or steeded in whatsoeuer desperate occasion and therfore seeke they not the helpe of the inuisible God by fruitlesse Prayer as they deeme it But the faithfull man in deede knoweth these to be deceiuing Gods flattering Gods like vnto Ionahs Gourd that seemed faire for a day and when it should most haue sheltred him it withered by the worme at the roote So haue all these vain-glorious Gods their wormes that worke at their roote who wither when they that trust in them haue most neede of their helpe like the Manna that the Israelites gathered ouer night and kept till morning which withered stank when they thought to eat it Euen so do Friends faile Riches Strength and Pollicie deceiue them that trust to them or in theÌ„ And it is to bee admired that so many men not onely instructed by the Word of God but also by so many experiences which they euery day see that all the glorie of the world and vanities thereof are but deceiuing dreames and yet that they should suffer themselues to be bewitched with their flatteries inchantments like the followers of Vlysses transformed into beasts by the charmes of Circes who honour that which is to bee contemned and contemne God who aboue all friends riches whatsoeuer means is to bee loued embraced beleeued and praied vnto CHAP. IV. The faithfull mans God is the onely liuing God and in him is his chiefe good the carnall men haue manie Gods the ends of both THE friends the riches and whatsoeuer good the faithfull man hath or hopeth for is in heauen The Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost one Al-sufficient God the Angels heauenly societie these are will be for euer his and will neuer faile nor forsake him He that created him he will keepe him he that redeemed him he will iustifie him hee that sanctified him hee will reach him to pray to the Father in the Sonne hee will assist our spirits who know not how or for what to pray he will help our infirmities enkindle our godly desires he will make such a sacred vnion between himselfe and our spirits as wee shall become one with him and God the Father and the Sonne being one with the Holy Ghost shall in the consent of the sacred Trinitie beget vs anew giue vs new hearts new affections new loue liuely faith and furnish vs with all the graces of right regeneration yea wee shall become like vnto our elder brother and euen here in earth partake of heauenly consolation The Angels shall administer vnto vs all holy aide and support vs in all our waies walkings according to the good pleasure of GOD who giueth them charge ouer his children These are the goods of the godly Oh the sweet operation of liuely faith begotten by the promise of God in Christ made in his word it begetteth Praier and Praier truely powred forth by lippes vndefiled in the affection of a right qualified heart vnto God the Father in his Son doth truly assure vs of Gods presence and present reliefe in all our necessities more fully and more truely then all the false Gods and vaine goods of carnall men and their meanes What worldly or carnall aide had the three children in the Furnace What arme of flesh deliuered Daniel from the Lions What earthly helpe had that great God to ouerthrow the Armie of Senacherib Many in like dangers haue beene saued relieued and deliuered without humane aide The examples are infinite in Scriptures wherof the miracles done in leading the children of Israel out of Egypt through the Wildernesse their plantation in and vpon the borders of Canaan and the life of Ioseph may serue to satisfie any beleeuing man For neither were friends nor wealth nor strength nor pollicie aiding this great God in his works of greatest wonder Who then will preferre these base earthly deceiuing Gods and flattering goods before the good God of Israel Or who will trust any God but the God of Hoasts Haue any of the Gods of the Nations deliuered his land out of the hands of the King of Ashur Where is the God of Hamath and of Arpad Where is the God of Sepharnaim Hena Iuah Which of the Gods of worldly carnall men haue deliuered their most humble suppliants out of any their troubles or rid them or preuented any of their dangers It is a most execrable blasphemie against the God of heauen to preferre worldly goods and carnall meanes before the helpe loue and fauour of the God of Gods and of goodnesse as manie do testified by their works though they would seeme to shew the contrarie How did wicked Rabshakeh raile vpon the liuing God from Senacherib his master And did not the Angell of the Lord that night destroy one hundred fourescore and fiue thousand men of the Hoast of Ashur Here was the force of flesh confounded and Senacherib himself was slain by Adramelech and Sharazer his owne sonnes as hee was worshipping Nisroche his God in the Temple of the Idoll Who then seeing the successe of mans carnal confidence Idolatrous zeale will not seeke the God of heauen for succor in danger for reliefe in want and for comfort in all distresses what man of common sense obserueth not manie precedent examples of the weaknes and vncertaintie of carnall meanes And yet how many are there to be found in these times of common carnall securitie that do seek their helpe at God by humble and faithfull Praier doe they not rather depend vpon the broken Reede of their owne felt outward meanes and therfore despise the seruice of God and contemne his weake children The Glutton would not pitty Lazarus the false Iudges did accuse Susanna the rich will striue to wrong the poore and wrest Iustice vniustly by the meanes of their corrupting Mamon seldome or neuer considering that there is a God that careth for the poore who is able to raise vp a Daniel to cleere Susannaes innocencie a Salomon to decide the doubts arising by false pretences There is great difference betweene the pretended happinesse of the rich and poore And so much differ the felicitie of the one and other the one is great and fearefull to the poore and hath his felicitie in this life the other is despised of the rich and hath his miserie here but the first passeth from his mirth to mourning from his wealth to want from his glorie to griefe from a glorious life to an eternall death But the second is taken froÌ„ his basenesse to glorie from miserie to comfort from griefe to grace and from a kinde of worldly death to celestiall and endlesse life For it is

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