Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

for it is the seale off that leage / whiche the deuell hath made with the pestilent sonnes of Antechriste / and is the very chief cause / why the bloud of the sainctes of God / hath ben shed nere the space of a thousand yeare / for so longe almost hath it bene in deuising / and in deckinge with that whorishe garmeÌ„t / The longe parching of the popisshe â—â—asse wherein it now triumpheth / against Christ / againste the onely one sacrifice of hys death / merites of hys passion / which whole abhomination you confirme / and sheweth youre selfes / consentinge to the murther of those that hath suffered for speaking againste it / as oft as euer you decore that Idoll wyth your presens Note And therfore auoyde it / as that ye will be partakers with Christ / with whom ye haue sworne to dye and to lyue in baptisme and in his holye supper Shame it were to breake promys vnto man / but is it not more shame too breake it vnto God foolishnes it were to leaue that kynge / whose victorie you did se presente / and too take parte with hym / whome vnderstode perceaued to be so vanqueshed and ouerthrowen / that he neither might withstande / neither yet abyde the comming of his aduersarie Ioh. 12.16 O brethren / is not the deuel the prince of this worlde / vanquished cast out hath not Christe made conqueste off hym hath he not caryed our selfe vp to glorie in dispite of sathans malice Acto 1. Shall not oure champion retorne you vnderstande that he shall and that with expedition / when sathan and his adherentes Idolatours / Apo. 20. worshippers of that blasphemous beast / fylthie personnes / and fearefull shrinkers frome the truthe of God shal be caste in the lake burninge fyre and brimstone / which neuer shal be quenched Folishe feare But in the meane tyme / you feare corporall death / yf nature admitted any man too lyue euer / then had your feare some apareÌ„ce of reason / but yf corporall death be common to all / why will you leoperde to lese the lyfe euerlastinge to decline and escape / that whiche neyther ryche / neither poore / neither wyfe / neyther foolishe / proude of stomake / nor feable of coraige / and fynally no earthly creature / by no craft nor mene of man did euer escape / yf any hath escaped the horrible feare of deathe / it was suche as boldely did withstande mennes iniquitie in the earthe The fleshe can doo nothing but grudge But it grudgeth the flesshe saye you for feare of the torment / let it do the owne nature and office / for so must it do tyll it be burdened with Christes crosse / and then no doubte / shall God sende suche comforte / as now we looke not for Let vs not torne backe from Christe / albeit the fleshe coÌ„plaine / and feareth the torment Wonder it is that the waye too lyfe is so fearfull vnto vs considering that so greate a number of our brethren / hath passed before vs in at the same gatte / that we so muche alhorre Hath not the moste parte of the sainctes of God entred in to their rest / by tormente trobles of whome witnesseth Paule / some were racked / Others before vs hath past to lyfe by torment some heawin a sonder / some slayne with swerdes / some walked vp doun in shepe skinnes / in neade tribulatioÌ„ vexation Heb. 11. in mountaines / dennes / and in caues off the earthe / and in all those extremities / what complaintes heare we of their mouthes / except it be that they lament the blindnes of the world / and the perdition of their persecutors Did God comforte them / and shall he despise vs yf in obediens to him / we folow their footsteppes / he shall not do it / for he hath promysed the contrarye And therfore dearly beloued in the Lorde As that you purpose too auoyde the vengeaunce of God / that sodenly shall strike all obstinate Idolatours As that you wolde hane the leage betwene God and you to stande sure / and as that you will declare your selfes to haue true faith / withoute whiche no man euer shall entre in lyfe And fynally / as that you wil leaue the true knowledge of God / in possession to youre chyldren Auoyde Idolatrie / all participation thereof / for it is so odious before Gods presens / that not onely dothe he punishe the inuentours / and fyrste offendours / but oftentymes theyr posteritie are stryken with blindenes and dasynes of mynde Deut. 28. The battaylle shall apeare stronge / which you are to suffer / but the Lord hym selfe shall be youre coÌ„forte / he shall come in youre defence with hys mightie power / Zacha. 2â— Psal 46.57.61 he shall geue you vittorie / when none is hoped for / he shall tourne your teres to euerlastynge Ioye / he shall confounde your enemyes with the breath of hys mouthe / Apoc. 7.22 Psal 55. he shall set you se their destruction that now are most proude The God of all comforte consolation for Christ Iesus / his sonnes sake / grauÌ„t that this simple plaine admonition / yea / rather the warning of the holy ghoste maye be receaued / accepted of you with no les feare obedieÌ„ce then I haue written it vnto you with vnfayned loue / and sorowfull hart / then I doubte not / but we shall be comforted / when all suche as now motesteth vs / shall trymble shake by the comming of our Lord Iesus / whose omnipotent sprete perserue and kepe you vndefiled bodye and soule to the ende Amen â˜ž A godly prayer AH Lorde / moste stronge and mightye God / which destroyest the couÌ„sayles of the vngodly / and ryddest awai the tyrauntes of thys worlde / out of the earth at thy pleasure / so that no counsaill or force caÌ„ tesiste thyne eternal counsaill and euerlasting determination / we thyne pooreÌ„ creatures and humble seruauntes / do moste instantly desyre the for the loue that thou hast to thyne welbeloued / and onely begotten soune oure Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christ / that thou wilt loke vpon thyne cause / for it is tyme o Lorde / and bringe to naught all those thinges that are or shal be apoynted / determined and fully agreed agaynste the and thy holy woorde / let not the enemyes of thy trueth to miserablye oppresse thy word thy seruauÌ„tes / which seke thy glorie / tender the aduancement of thy pure religion / aboue all thinges wishe in their hartes that thy holy name may onely be glorefied amonge all nations Geue vnto thy seruauÌ„tes the mouth of thy truthe wysedom / whiche no man maye resiste And althoughe we haue moste iustly deserued thys plague and famyn of thyne worde / yet vpon our trew repentaÌ„ce / graunte we beseke the / we maye be

Â¶ A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London / Newcastell / Barwyke / and to all other within the realme off Englande / that loue the coÌ„minge of oure LORDE Iesus by Ihon Knox. Math. 10. â˜ž He that continueth vnto the ende / shall be saued Â¶ Imprinted in Rome before the Castel of s Aungel / at the signe of sainct Peter In the moneth of Iuly / in the yeare of our Lord. 1554. â§ Ihon Knox To the faythfull in LondoÌ„ / Newcastell / Barwyke / to all others / within the Realme of Englande / that leuith the comming of our Lord Iesus / Wissheth continuance in godlines too the ende With a declaration of prayer / annexeth to the same WHeÌ„ I remeÌ„ber the fearthfull threathninges of God / proâ—oficed against Realmes / Leuit. xx Matth. x. and nacions / to whom the light of Gods worde hath ben offered / and contemptiously by them refused / as my hart vnfaynedly / morneth for your present estate / dearly beloued in our sauiour Ihesus Christ / so doth the hole powers / of body soule / trymble and shake / for the plagues that are to come But that Gods trew worde hath ben offered to the realme of England can none denye / except suche as by the dyuel holden in boÌ„dage God iustly so punishing their proud inobediens hath neither eyes to se / Timo. ij nor vnderstaÌ„ding to dycerne good from bad / nor darkenes from light Against whome no otherwise will I contend at this present / then dyd the Prephete Ieremie / against the styffe necked stubborne people of Iuda / sayinge Ierem. xxiii The wrath off the Lord shall not be turned awaye till he haue fulfilled the thoughtes of his hart And thus leaue I them as of whose repeÌ„tauÌ„ce there is small hope to the handes of hym that shall not forget their horrible blasphemis spoken in dispitte of Christes truthe / and of hys trew ministerâ— And with you that vnfainedly morneth for the greate shipwrake of goddes trew relygion / purpose I to communicat suche counsailer / and admonicious / now by my writinge / as sometymes it pleased God / I dyd proclaime in your cares The ende of whiche my admonicion is / that euin as that you purpose / and entend to auoid Gods vengeaunce / bothe in this lyfe / and in the lyfe to come / that so ye auoid and flee aswell in body as in sprete al felowship / and societye with Idolaters in their Idolatrye You shrynke I know euin at the fyrst But yf an orator / had the matter in haÌ„dlinge / he wolde proue it honeste / profytable / easye / and necessary to be done / and in euery one poynte were store ynough / for a longe oration But as I neuer labored to perswade any man in matters of religion God I take to record in my conscience except by the very simplicitie plaine infallable truthe of Gods worde No more mynde I in this behaulfe But this I affyrme / that to fle froÌ„ idolatrye / is so profytable and so necessary to a Christian / that onles he so do / all worldly profyth turneth to his perpetuall disprofeit / and condemnacion Profijt aperteyning / either to the bodyes / or to the soules / of our selues / and our posteritie / corporall commodities consisteth in such thinges as man chiefly couetith for the body / as ryches / estimacion / longe lyfe / health and quietnes in earth The only comfort and ioye of the soule is God by his worde expelling ingoraunce / synne / and death / and in the place of those / planting trew knowledge of hym selfe / and with thesame iustice and lyfe / by Christ his sonne Yf any off these forsaide moue vs / then of necessitie it is / that we auoyde Idolatry / for playne it is / that the soule hath neither lyfe nor comfort / but by God alone / with whome Idolatours / 1. Cor. vl hath no other participacion â—hen hath the deuils / and albeit that abhominable Idolatours / for a moment â—rysiphe yet approcheth the houre / when Gods vengeaunce shall stryke / not onely their soules / but euin their vile carcasies / shal be plagued / as God before hath threatned Leui. xxv Their cyties shal be burned / their laÌ„de shal be layd wast / their enemies shall dwell in their stronge holdes / their wyues and doughters shal be defyted their chyldreÌ„ shall fall in the edge of the swerd / mercy shall they fynde none / because they haue refused the God of all mercye / when louingly and longe he called vpon theÌ„ / you wolde know the tyme / and what certitude I haue here off To God wil I appoint no tyme / but that these and mo plagues / shall fall vpon England and that ere it he long I am so sure / as that I am that my God lyueth This my affirmacion / shall displease many / and shall content few / God knowith the secretes of all hartes / knoweth that also / it displeaseth myselfe / and yet lyke as before I haue ben compelled to speake in your presens in presens of others suche thinges / as were not pleasable to the eares of men / wherof alas a great part this daye are come to passe / so I am coÌ„pelled now to wryte with the teares of my eyes / I know to your displeasur But deare brethreÌ„ / be subiect vnto God / and geue place vnto his wrath / that ye may escape his euerlastinge vengeaunce My penne I trust / shall now be no more vehemeÌ„t / then my tounge hath bene after then ones / not onely before you / but also before the chief of the Realme What was sayd in Newcastel Barwyke before the sweat I trust yet som in those places beareth in mynde / What vpoÌ„ the daye of all Sainctes / â—et Newâ—â—stel witâ—â—es the yeare that the duke of Somerset was last appreheÌ„ded What before hym / that then was duke of Northumberland / in the towne of Newcastell / other places moo What before the kynges maiestye at Wynsore / Hamptoncourt / and Westmynster / fynally what was spoken in London / in moo places then one / when fyers of ioye ryotous bankettinge were made at the Proclamacion of Mary your quene Yf men will not speake / the stones and tymber of those places / shal crye in fyer / and beare record that the truthe was spoken / and shal absolue me / in that behalfe in the daye of the Lord. Suspect not brethreÌ„ / that I delyte in your calamities / or in the plagues that shal fal vpoÌ„ that vnthankefull nation No / God I take to recorde / that my hart mourneth within me / and that I am crucyet for remembraunce of youre troubles / but if that I shoulde ceasse / then dyd I agaynste my conscience / as also agaynste my knowledge / Eze. xxxiij and so shoulde be gyltie of the bloud of

for hasty deliueraunce / but God who alone knoweth what is expedieÌ„t for vs. Â¶ Flesh striueth agaynste the sprete PercecucioÌ„ of the fayâ—â—ful Sometyme prolongeth the deliuerauÌ„ce of hys chosen / and sometime permitteth them to drinke / before the maturite of age / the bitter cuppe of corporal death / that therby they may receyue medicine and care from all infirmite / but who doubtith / but Ihon the Baptiser / desired to haue sene more dayes of Iesus Christ / and to haue bene longer with hym in conuersacion ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ 7. Or that Steuen wolde not haue labored more dayes in preaching Christes gospell / whome neuerthelesse / both he suffered hastely to vnderlye the statute and generall sentence And albeit / we se therfore no apparant / helpe to oure selfe / nor yet to others afflicted / let vs not cease to call / thinkinge oure prayers to be in vayne / whatsoeuer become of oure bodies CoÌ„forte to the afflictyd God shall geue vnspeakable comforte too the sprete / and shall turne all to our commodite / by our owne expectacion The cause I am so longe and tedious in this matter is / I knowe how harde the battaill is betwixt the fleshe the sprete Â¶ Impedimentes coÌ„mith of the weakenes off the fleshe SPrete vnder the heauy croceÌ„ of affliccion / where no worldely defence / but presence death doth appeare / I know the grudging and murmoringe complayntes of the fleshe / I know the anger wrathe indignacion / which it conceiueth agaynst God / calling all hys promises into doubte / beinge redy euery houre / vtterly to fall from hym Agaynst whiche all resteth in faith / prouoking vs to call instantly and to praye for assistaunce of Gods sprete Whereunto / yf we continew our moste desperat calamites / shall he turne to gladnes ioye and prosperous fyne Â¶ To the o Lorde alone be prayse / for with experience I write this speake it is not too be permitted / where / for whome / and at what tyme we ought to praye PRiuate prayer / Priuate prayer Matt. 6. such as men secretly offer vnto God by them selfe / require no speciall place / althoughe that Iesus Christe commauÌ„deth / when we praye to enter in our chaumber / and to close the dore after vs / so to pray secretly vnto oure father / To enter in to thi chamber to pray whereby he wolde we shoulde chuse to our prayers suche place as might offer least occasion too call vs backe from prayer / and also that we shoulde expell forthe of our myndes in tyme of oure prayer all vayne cogitacions / for otherwyse Iesus Christ hym selfe doth obserue no special place of prayers / for we finde hym sometyme pray in mounte Oliuete / sometyme in the deserte / sometime in the temple ActuÌ„ 10. Peter coueteth to praye vppon the toppe of the house / Paule prayeth in pryson / was harde of God / who also commaundeth men to pray in all places / Priuate places to praie in lifting vp vnto God pure and cleane handes / as we fynde that the Prophetes muste holy men did / wheresouer daunger or necessitie requyred Â¶ Apoynted places too praye in / maye not be neglectd BVt publike coÌ„mon prayers shuld be vsid in place apoynted / for assemblye of the coÌ„gregacion / from whence / whosoeuer negligentlye extracte theym selfe is in nowyse excusable / I meane not that to absent frome that place is sinne / because it is more holy than another For the hole earthe created by God / is equal holy / but the promise made / that whersoeuer two or thre be gathered together in my name / there shall I be in the middes of them / condemneth all suche as contemneth the coÌ„gregation / gathered in hys name / but marke wel gathered / I saye not to heare pyping / singing or playing / not to patter vpon beades or bokes / wherof they haue no vnderstanding / not to coÌ„mit Idolatrie / honoring that for God / which is no God indede / for with such wil I neither ioyne my selfe in coÌ„mon prayer / nor receyuing of the externall sacramentes / for in so doyng I should affirme their supersticion and abhominable Idolatrie / which I neuer wil do nor couÌ„sail other to do to the ende Â¶ What is to be gathered in the name of Christ THis coÌ„gregacion / which I meane / should be gathered in the name of Iesus Christ / that is to laude magnefye God the father for the infinite benefites they had receiued by his onely sonne our Lord / in thys congregacion should be distributed the misticall and last supper of Iesus Christ / without supersticioÌ„ / or any more ceremonies then he hym selfe vsed / hys apostels after hym indistribution thereof / in thys congregacion should inquisicioÌ„ be takeÌ„ of the poore among them / sufficient support whyle the tyme of their next conuencioÌ„ / shuld be prouided and distributed In this congregacion shoulde be made common prayers / suche as all men hearing might vnderstande that the hartes of all subscribing to the voyce of one / mighte with vnfayned ferfent mynde say AmeÌ„ Whosoeuer do withdrawe them selfe from suche a congregacion / but allace where shall it be founde / do declare them selfes too be no members of Christes bodye Â¶ For whome and at what tyme we shoulde praye FOr all men / 1. Tim. 2. Vvhen and for vvhome vve should praie at all times doth Paule commaund that we shall praye / principally for suche of the housholde of fayth / as suffer persecucion / and when coÌ„mon wealths tyranniously we oppressed / then incessantly shoulde we call that God of hys infynite mercy and power woll withstande the violence of suche tyrauntes Â¶ Gods sentence maye be chaunged ANd when we se the plagues of God / huÌ„ger / pestilence / or warre / commynge or apearing to raygne / then should we with lamentable voyces repeÌ„ting hartes call vnto God / that it wolde please hys mercy to withdrawe his haÌ„des / for with suche as do aleage / that God may not chauÌ„ge hys senteÌ„ce oure prayers / therefore to be in vayne / can I in no wyse agree / beynge otherwyse taughte in the scripture by hys infallable eternall veritie He sayeth I shall destroye this nacion frome the face of the earth / and when Moyses adressed to pray for theÌ„ the Lorde procedeth saying Suffer me that I may vtterly destroy them / and then Moyses falleth on hys face flatling / and fourtye dayes contineweth in prayer / for the saluation of the people / to whome at the laste obtayned forgeuenes Dauid in the vehement plague / lamentable calleth vnto God / the kynge of Niniue sayeth 2. King last who knoweth / yf God shal be conuerted and led backe by repentaunce Iona. 3. And be tourned from the furor of hys wrath / that we perish not / which examples

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