Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	eternal_a	holy_a	son_n	7,025	5	5.5036	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16354	The life of the holie father S. Francis Writen by Saint Bonauenture, and as it is related by the Reuerend Father Aloysius Lipomanus Bishop of Veron. In his fourth tome of the life of Saintes; Legenda maior beatissimi patris francisci. English	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.; Montagu, Anthony Maria Browne, Viscount, 1574-1629.	1610 (1610)	STC 3271; ESTC S112955	142,663	258

bearing liuely resemblance of the KING his Father and in that respect very worthy to be nourished at the KINGES owne table this also by way of interpretation hee therevnto adioyned Wee haue no cause to feare that the Sonnes and heires of the Eternall KING shall perishe and die for hunger who beeing borne of a poore Mother by the power of the HOLIE GHOST to the image of CHRIST their KING are also to bee gotten vnto him in a poore religion by the spirite of povertie For if the KING of HEAVEN doe promise an eternall Kingdome to them that followe him howe much more will hee provide them of things of necessity which he giveth indifferently not only to the good but also to the wicked This parable and the meaning thereof when the Vicar of Christ had diligeÌ„tly heard observed he mary vailed greatly thereat knew for certain that it was vndoubtedly Christ himselfe who covertly spake in the man And moreover also he avowed by the instinct of Gods heavenly spirit that a certaine vision also which he had about this time receyued from heaven should be in this man accoÌ„plished For he had seene in his sleepe as himselfe reported the Church of Laterane to be in present danger now forthwith to fall to the grounde the which a certain poore maÌ„ of mean stature conteÌ„ptible to behold putting his own back vnder it did so preserue froÌ„ falling Whervpon he thus pronovnced verely this is he who by his worke doctrine shall vphold the Church of Christ Then this prudeÌ„t Pastor being wholy fraught with devotion inclined himself in every degree to the desires of the servant of Christ bare evermore vnto him a speciall loue affection Wherfore he graunted his request promised to graunt yet more vnto him he approued his Rule he gaue him in Charge to vndertake the preaching of pennance for all the lay brethreÌ„ to that were associate the servaÌ„t of Christ he caused them to haue litle crownes made that they might freely preach the word of God THE FOVRTH CHAPTER Of the increase of the Order vnder his hand and of the coÌ„firmation of the Rule formerly approued THE holy man Saint Francis now thus supported with Gods grace and Papall authority did with much confidence of minde take his way to the vale of Spoletum that he might as well by deed as by worde denounce the Gospel of Christ But as he debated wâ—ih his companions in the way by what meanes they might in all sincerity obserue the Rule by them newly vndertaken and how they might in all manner of holinesse and iustice walke before the face of God and further yet how they might not only arise to greater profit in themselues but might also be an example and guide vnto others by long protracting this manner of conference the time sodeinely ouerpassed vnawares And they being now much wearied with the long continewance of their travel and hungry also therwithall were inforced to stay in a certaine solitary place of the desert At which very time and place they haivng no kind of meanes to provide theÌ„selues of necessary food then did the providence of God manifest it self in their behalf For sodeinely a man appeared vnto them bringing bread in his hand which he gaue vnto the poore ones of Christ and forth disappeared being altogether vnknowene from whence he came or whether he went Here by the poore brethren perceyving that in the company of the man of God they where assisted with the help of Gods heavenly protection were better refreshed by the gift of this divine liberality then by the refection of their emptie bodies And morover they were so singularly replenished with the coÌ„solation of God that they firmely purposed and irrevocably decreed neuer for any violence either of hunger or tribulation to faile from the promise of holie pouertie After this returning with this holie purpose into the vale of Spoletum they beganne to dispute among themselues whether it were more expedient for theÌ„ to converse among men or to betake theÌ„selues vnto solitarie places But the seruant of Christ S. Francis not presuming vpon the industrie either of himselfe or of his bretheren determined by instancy of praier to seeke the good will and pleasure of God in this behalfe Being therefore inlightened by the oracle of divine revelation it was given him to vnderstand that he was for this very purpose sent of God that he might gaine such soules vnto Christ as the Divell endeavoured to leade astray For which cause he rather chose to liue for the generall good of all than for the private benefitte of himselfe alone being therevnto provoked by his example who being but one vousafed to die for all The man of God therefore together withall the rest of his companions betooke himself to a certaine forlorne Cottage nigh to Assisium Wherin they liued in much labour and needines according to the rule of holy poverty desiring rather to be sustayned with the foode of teares than with the nice of curiosities of delicate fare For there they were incessantly busied in fervent praiers proceeding rather from mentall affection thaÌ„ outwardly disclosed by vocall wordes intending wholy to the studie of devotion because they had not as yet any Ecclesiasticall bookes where in they might sing there Canonical howers but insteede of them they behelde continuallie the booke of the Crosse of Christ and turned it over day and night thereto instructed by the example and speach of the holie father who daily preached of Christ his Crosse vnto them But being requested of his brethren to teach them how to pray he said when you doe pray you shal say the Pater noster and this also we adore thee the O Christ at al thy Churches which are in the whole worlde and we blesse thee because by thy holie Crosse thou hast redeemed the worlde Moreover he taught them to praise our Lord in al thinges and out of al his creatures Heere thou maist see that faithâ— to be held and confessed whsch the holy Romane Church doth hold and teach They fell downe prostrate praying at all Churches Crosses to vse especial reverence also towardes Priests and principally this firmelie to beleue and simply to confesse the puritie of faith according vnto such manner forme as the holie Romane Church doth hold and teach All which precepts of the holy Father they on their parts in every point inviolably observed and at all Churches and before all Crosses which they could see a farr of they did humbly prostrate themselues according to the forme prescribed vnto them But it so fell out that the brethren long time abiding in the foresaid place the holy man went forth vpon a Saterday into the Citty of Assisium with purpose vpon a Sunday morning early to preach as his costome was in the Cathedrall Church And as the devout man of God had with drawen himselfe into a certaine shroud that stoode within the Channons garden there

Be patieÌ„t in tribulations be watchfull in prayers be vnweariable in labours be modest in your speeches be graue in your manners and ever thankefull for benefits receaved considering that in lieu of all these things the goodnes of God hath prepared for you an eternall Kingdome Psalm 54. But they humbly prostrating themselues vpon the earth before the servant of God did with great gladnes of spirite embrace the commaundement of holy obedience Moreover vnto every of them aparte he said Cast thy care vppon our Lord and he will nourish thee Which admonitioÌ„ he was ever wount to vse so offen as he went about to induce any brother vnto obedience Then he forseing himselfe to be geven as a patterne example vnto others and so consequently that he ought first to performe the thing before he drew others to imitation taking one of his companions vnto him setled himselfe towatdes one part of the world deputing the other sixe by two two together severed in the forme of a Crosse to the other three partes of the earth Psal 46. But it was not long past before the tender harted Father much longing for the presence of his deare children and having no meane by himselfe to bring them all togeather did offer vp his prayers vnto God that he would vouchsafe to effect his desire Who doth congregate the dispersed of Israel And so it came to passe that according to his desire without any call of man by the only worke of God they met all in one place together vnlooked for not without the great admiration of them all Having in this space of time gathered vnto them fower other men also of honest fame whoe adhearing vnto them made their number now to be twelve Now the servant of Christ perceyving that the noumber of his brethren was by litle litle daily encreased wrote for himselfe and them in playne wordes a rule and forme of life wherein hauing laid the obseruance of the Holy Ghospell for an indissoluble foundation he had also inserted therevnto certaine other few things such as seemed most necessary for an vniforme manner course of liuing And desiring to haue the same approued by the Chiefe Pastour of the Church be determined with that small company of simple associates to take his way to the Sea Apostolique reposing all his trust in the only direction and help of God Who from his heauenly seate beholding the finall end of his desire vouchsafed by the shewing of this manner of vision vnto him to reare vp the mindes of his companions otherwise not a litle astonished out of the consideraation of their owne simplicity For it seemed vnto him that passing by a certaine way he beheld standing nigh vnto him a goodly Tree of stately height loftines which as he approached more nigh vnto it and did stand vnder the same in admiration of the height thereof he was sodeinly by the power of God lifted vp into so great a height of the aire that he did not only reach to the very top therof but did also with great facility bow it downe froÌ„ the vpper most parte to the grounde This vision the man of God vnderstanding to be a foretokening of the fauourable inclination of the Apostolical dignity to his humble desires was exhilerated much in spiritt therewithall and comforting his brethren in our Lord betooke himselfe to his iourney with them But when he was come to the Court of Kome and brought before the face of the supreame Bishop the Vicar of Christ being theÌ„ walking in the Pallace of Laterane in the place which is called Speculum and there possessed with profounde meditations repelled the seruant of Christ as a man vnknowen not without some shew also of discontentment Who humbly departing out of the doores in the night following this manner of revelation was by Almighty God made to the Pope himselfe He saw from betweene his feete a palme branch springing out of the ground the same to become a most beautifull Tree And marueiling with himselfe what this vision should meane his minde was illuminated by the worke of God that by this palme tree that poore man was signified whom he had the day before reiected The next morning therfore he caused his servants to seeke him throughout the Citty Who hauing found him in the Hospital of S. Antony neare vnto Laterane he coÌ„manded them forthwith to bring him before himself Thus S. FRANCIS being brought in presence of the Pope disclosed vnto him the whole course ef his purpose humbly and instantly making sute vnto him to approue the same methode and rule of liuing The Vicar of Christ Pope Innocent the third being a man of singular wisedom observing in the man of God an admirable purity of a simple minde the constancy also of his purpose and the fiery zeale of his holy desire embraced this poore one of Christ with the loue of his harte being much inclined in minde to yeeld his favourable assent to the humble petition of this holy man But yet deferred to ratifie the requests of the poore servant of Christ for that his demaund seemed vnto some of the Cardinalls to be both a matter of novelty and also of difficultie beyond the measure of mans hability But it happened at that tim to be among the Cardinalls a reverend man called Dominus Ioannes de sancto Paulo Bishop of Sabina a lover of all holynesse and an especially helper of the poore servats of Christe who inflamed with the spirit of God delivered his mind in the matter before the Pope and his brethren to this effect If we shall saith he deny the request of this poore man as a matter either of novelty or of too much difficulty wheras he requireth none other thing but a form of Euangelicall life to be confirmed vnto him we haue iust cause to feare least therein we doe offend against the Gospell of Christ For whosoever shall assirme that any thing which is either newe vnreasonable or imposible to be observed is contained within the observance of EuaÌ„gelicall perfection or within the vowe which is made thereof he is manifestly convinced of blasphemy against Christ himselfe the very Authour of the Gospell Thus much being spoken in this behalf the Successour of the Apostle S. Peter turning himselfe towards the servant of Christ said vnto him Offer vp thy praiers deere sonne vnto Christe that by thee he may vouchsafe to shewe his will vnto vs to the end that it being once more certainely knowen we may the more securely condiscende to thy godly desires Wherevpon the servant of Almighty God bestowing himselfe now wholy in praier by his instant devotion obtayned to knowe both what him-selfe shoulde exteririourly disclose and what the Pope should inteourly conceyue For having related a parable according as he had receaved the same from God of a rich and mighty King that willingly married with a beautifull though a very poore woman and of a noble issue begott betwixt them

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