Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	father_n	ghost_n	6,384	5	7.7916	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06511	The last wil and last confession of martyn luthers faith co[n]cerming [sic] the [principal articles of religion which are in controuersy, which he wil defend & mai[n]teine vntil his death, agaynst the pope and the gates of hell drawe[n] furth by him at the request of the princes of germany which haue reformed theier [sic] churches after the gospel, to be offred vp at the next general councel in all their names & now published before that all the world may haue an euydent testimony of his faith if it shal fortune him to dye before there be any such cou[n]cel, tra[n]slated out of latyn beware of the pope & of his false prophetes and bissopes for thei wil come in shepys clothing and in angels facys but yet inwardly thei are ravening wolnys [sic].	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1543 (1543)	STC 16984; ESTC S104350	31,138	66

procured theÌ„ selues ê‘petual shame and dishonor / which thiÌ„g god doth yet daily also I must nedes shewe vtter a certiÌ„ story that cometh now to my mid There was at wittenberg a certeÌ„ doâ—tor sent hether froÌ„ fraÌ„ce which said opeÌ„ly before our faces thâ— the king his master did surely bileue that there was no maner of church or coÌ„gregacion withâ— us / no maner of rulars nor officers And that there shuld be no maner of matrimony but that euery maÌ„ shuld ruÌ„ne at large now to one womaÌ„ now to a nother eueÌ„ aftir the maner of brute beastes / and agaime that it shuld be lauful for euery priuate maÌ„ to vse or misuse / do or vndo all maner of thiÌ„ghs after his own wil iust c. Now tel me I pray yow with what face shal these men dare loke vp on us at the latter day before the iudgement seate of christ which haue tolder persuaded bi their letters writiÌ„gs / this Fig other peple noble meÌ„ such moÌ„stros abhominable lyes / for tru tales Christ all our lorde / the most rightful iudge is our witnesse that thei lye shamefully vp on us and haue euer done whose senteÌ„ce and iudgemeÌ„t coÌ„demniÌ„g them to euerlastiÌ„g daÌ„nacion thei shal not chose but heare abide This am I sure of Now god turn coÌ„uert theÌ„ to repeÌ„taÌ„ce which caÌ„ by any possible meanes be coÌ„uerted / as for other euerlastiÌ„g and most cruel ponischment daÌ„nacioÌ„ doth remaine for theÌ„ But now to come to my putpose agaiÌ„ / I wold wissh surely ones to see a true couÌ„cel wherby many coÌ„trouersys might be takeÌ„ a way aÌ„d many meÌ„ might receiue profi not that we our selues haue nede o any such couÌ„cel or plameÌ„t for our churches are so lighned coÌ„firmed iÌ„ the pure word / of god iÌ„ rhe true vse of sacrameÌ„tes / aÌ„d in the knoulege of all good order all good workes that for our cause we desire no maner of perlament or councel / for we cannot think that any councel can teach vs a more perfight order than we haue But we see with depe sorow lamentacion of our hartes mani parisshes miserably destitute / forsakeÌ„ vnregarded both of bisshops and of prebendarys we see in theer diocyses parisshes after what sort the sely miserable peple do lyue and dye for whose saluacion Christ him self suffred death vp on the crosse and yet thei caÌ„ not be suffred to heare nether him their tru shepard pastor / nor yet none of his speaking and preaching vnto them for the which cause tremble feare vehemently lesse god wil shortly call bring all the world to a councel by some angel / which shal vtterley destroy us all / as he did ones Sodom Gomor / for as moch as we contemne mocke him so lightly thorow our councels And beside those thiÌ„gs which are necessary to be reformed in the spiritualty / as thei cal it there be an infinite nomber of abuses in the temporal regiment to be redressed for there is vncharitable grudgd and dissensyon betwene princes and other nobles and vsury couetosnes haue so farre preuayled hath so drowned the temporalty euen lyke a flode or a see that now in the place of the lawe are crept in / ryot / vnmesurable excesse / wantones / pryde in apparel / glotony bankerting / dise / cardes and pompe / withal kindes of vices mischefe / disobedience of subiectes and housoldes toward theer heades / pestilent enhansing of all maner of marchandise in biyng seiling / these I say / with an infinyte sort such life / haue so preuailed that thei can not be reformed in X. councels nor in XX. assembles These principal matters both of the temporalty of the spiritualty / if thei shuld be entreated of in a general couÌ„cel / thei shuld make us to haue so moch labor and besines / that we shuld sone forget litle regard the folissh triflyng about long gownes brode shauyn crownes / fryres girdels / bisshops forked cappes / carnal hattes / aÌ„d croser staues with such other trifyls for it were time inough to entreate of the choise of meates / the differeÌ„ce of garmeetes short or loÌ„g of the shauiÌ„g of crounes of cloisters / after that the priÌ„cipal articles of the faith with a godly politike ordre for the comonwelth were determined coÌ„cluded by the word of god But if we wil swalow op Vhole camels / and strayne gnaties / if we wil receiue suffer gret beames in our eys pluck out the smal motys / if we wil stomble at a strane leape at a block / we nede not be so gretly cariful for any councels wherfor I haue made but a very fewe chapters principal articles for els we haue so many coÌ„mandmeÌ„ts geueÌ„ vs of god to be obserued in his church / in the comynalty / and in euery particular house parissh / that we are neuer able to perform them wherfor what nede is it to make many actes decreys and tradicions beside specially if the principal articles and coÌ„mandments enioined us bi god himselfe be neglect and nothing regarded / as though god must geue place to our folissh trifles because we treade his special coÌ„mandmenas / vnder our fete like swyne But our sinnes do so sore vexe oppresse lade us that thei wil not suffer god to haue mercy vpon ue / because we do not repeÌ„t nor amend / but rather study and labor to stablissh mainteyne all maner of wickednes O merciful lord Iesu christ / were saue then thy self to celebrate a councel to redeme thi elect thorow thy own glorios presens for of the pope and of his adherents ther is no hope at all thei wil in no wise receiue the. wherfor help thou us pore miserable creatures / crieng calling vnto the / seking the ernestly / for the abowndant mercys safe that thou hast geuen thorow thi holy spirite which liueth reigneth with the with the father to be praised glorified for euer and euer Amen The first part conteineth the special articles of the diuine maiesty of god I. We confesse first that the father / son / the holy gost in one diuyne substance nature beâ—â€¦ distinct persons yet one god which created heauen and erth II. That the father was without begimming ano the son had his begimming of the father / and that the holy gost did procede of them both III. That the father nor the holy gost did neuer take op on them mannys nature / but theson only IIII. That the son was so incarnate that he was conceiued by ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ the holy gost without any maÌ„s helpe / born of the pure holy virgyng Mary and after ward that te suffred his passion / dyed was buryed / destended to â—e hellys Rose fro death / asceded heauen sitteth at the right hand of the father / and that he shal come

in euery maÌ„s liberty to noÌ„ber tell oÌ„ly such as he wil him self without any maner of coÌ„pulsyon For as long as we remaine in this flessh / we shal not lye at all if euery one of us say thus I am a wretched and a miserable creature ful of sinnes as S. Paul saith / Roma vij I feele a nother lawe in my flessh meÌ„bres rebelling against the lawe of my mynd c. And for as moch as priuate absolucyoÌ„ cometh froÌ„ the powr of the keys / it ought not to be conteÌ„ned but to be moch regarded as all other offices perteining to the christen church ought to be And in such things as ê‘teine to the outward word / it must be coÌ„stantly holdeÌ„ bileued that god geueth his spirite or grace to no man except the outward word either come betwene or els goo before This must be bileued / lesse we â—all in to the errors of thorite of god by a certen inward inspiracion without the worde also before thei euer thei hard of the word and fret after ward vp on this persuasion thei wil take vp on theÌ„ to iudge / iÌ„terpÌ„te / wrest writhe the scripture at their own pleasure / as one Monetarius did / I feare there be many at this time that doo likewise / which wold be quick ernest iudges betwene the spirite the letter / yet thei know not what to say nor what to teach the papistry is eueÌ„ nothiÌ„g els thaÌ„ drowned in this heresy possessed with this spirite for the pope bosteth hymselfe to haue all maner of lawes iÌ„ his own bosom euen vnder his girdel / that what so euer he with his church doth iudge / determine coÌ„maÌ„d that must nedes be of the holy gost / iust or lauful / although it be clene coÌ„trary to the scripture or to the outward word this is eueÌ„ the old SataÌ„ serpeÌ„t which entysed brought AdaÌ„ Eue in to the self same heresy / he drewe hiÌ„ cleane a way froÌ„ the outward word vnto a certen spuÌ„alnes vnto his own fansys or imaginacyoÌ„s yet the deuel wrought this matter by other outward wodes / like as our heretikes also do coÌ„deÌ„ne the outward word yet thei theÌ„ selues hold not their tuÌ„ges but fill the whole world with their babliÌ„g clattriÌ„g / writiÌ„g as though the spirite could not come thorow the outward word of god but oÌ„ly thorow their writiÌ„gs their wordes whi do thei not leaue their preachiÌ„g also tyl that spiâ—ite of theirs vnto meÌ„ with out their writiÌ„g before their writiÌ„g / as thei bost that it came vnto theÌ„ with out any preaching of the scripture But it is no tyme now to speake more largely of them I haue entreated sufficieÌ„tly of them in other places And euen thei which byleue before thei be baptised or which receiue faith at their baptyme / thei haue it thorow the outward word going before / as thei which be of perfight age haue any vnderstanding must nedes haue hard before this worde / Who so euer bileueth is baptized shal be saued al though at the first thei were infidels receiued both the holy gost baptime also eueÌ„ x. yeare after Cornelius in the x. of the actes had hard long before amoÌ„g the Iewes that christe messias shuld come thorow whom he was iust before god / his prayers almes were acceptable thorow his faith / as luke callleth hiÌ„ iust faitful vertuos And surely he could neuer haue bileued truly nor yet haue bene iustified without the word or without the hearing of it And therfor it was necessacy for S. Peter to reuele opeÌ„ vnto him that the Messias in whom not yet reueled he had byleued vntil that time was now come that he shuld not bileue stil with the vnfathful blind Iewes that christ was yet to come / but rather that he shuld knowe that he must obteine eueâ—lastiÌ„g saluacyoÌ„ thorow the messyas that was come already present that he shuld not denye / persecute this messias / as the Iewes did But to coÌ„clude the effect of the matter brefely this heresy sowne in AdaÌ„ his childern or posterite froÌ„ the begiÌ„ming vntil the eÌ„d of the world thorow the old serpeÌ„t dragoÌ„ / is the original begiÌ„miÌ„g fouÌ„tayn / streÌ„ght / pour of all heresy / of all papistry of all Mahometes doctrine also Wherfor / I say we must determine this priÌ„cipaly / that god worketh with meÌ„ no notherwise thaÌ„ thorow his outward word sacrameÌ„t what so euer meÌ„ blowe blase of the spirite with out this outward word this facrameÌ„t / it is nothiÌ„g els thaÌ„ the very deuel god wold not first appeare shewe hiÌ„ selfe vnto moises / but thorow the fyery / red / vocal word And Iohan baptist was neither coÌ„ceiued withoue the word of gabriel goiÌ„g before / neither did he leape iÌ„ his mothers wombâ— without the voice of mary goiÌ„g before S. Peter saith that the prophetes did not ê“pheci thorow the wil of maÌ„ / but thorow the holy gost / for thei were holy meÌ„ c. but yet thei were not holy with out the outward word / moch lesse wold the holy gost haue moued theÌ„ to haue ê“phecyed if thei had bene as yet prophane wholy For thei were holy / saith he / whan the holy gost did speake thorow theÌ„ Of ExcoÌ„municacyon As for the gret excoÌ„municacioÌ„ as the pape calleh it / we take it oÌ„ly for a ciuil pomisshmeÌ„t / therfor it ê‘teineth nothiÌ„g vnto us which be ecclesiastical ministers But the true right christeÌ„ excoÌ„municacion wherby manifest open and obstinateer comon ordinaÌ„ces of the church oth vntil thei repeÌ„t ameÌ„d forsake their sinnes / ê‘teineth vnto us / preachers ought not to ioyne the ciuil pomishmeÌ„t to this spiritual pomishmeÌ„t Of geuiÌ„g of ordres of the calliÌ„g of ministers If bisshops wold be right bisshops take cure of the church of the gospel / thaÌ„ for charites for vnites sake / we wold permit theÌ„ but not as it were a necessary article of the faith to ordeine / admit coÌ„firme all ministers preachers / so that all folisshnes / charmiÌ„g / coÌ„iuring all maner of wicked ceremonys were remoued and set apart But now for as moch as thei be not nor wil not be right true bisshops but rather teÌ„poral ciuil lordes rulers / wil neither teach / preach baptize minister the sacrameÌ„tes nor do any other worck or office that ê‘teineth to the church but only persecute condeÌ„ne such as serue minister truly in the church acordiÌ„g to their vocacioÌ„ / the church ought not to â—e destitute of true ministers therfor as the old exaÌ„ples of the church in fore time of the old fathers also do teach us / we wil be bownd our selues to ordeine apt mete parsons

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