Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	work_v	5,318	5	7.5792	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20440	A conference with a lady about choice of religion	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1638 (1638)	STC 6844.4; ESTC S116634	26,633	148

notwithstanding all the miracles they had seene him worke in allmost 4. yeares tyme they continually coÌ„uersed with him which appeareth plainely by the discourse of the disciples going to Emaus when they sayed we hoped c. And expressed their sadnesse for the contrary successe to their expectation and by saint Thomas his saying that he would not belieue his resurrectioÌ„ vnlesse he saw him and pnt his fingers into his woundes c. And by the rest of the Apostles that were so long before they would belieue his resurrection as hauing giuen ouer the thought of his diuinity and after his death considered him but as a pure man like other meÌ„ Therfore it was necessary that some inward light should be giuen them so cleare and so stroÌ„g and so powerfull as the senses should not be able to preuaile against it but that it should onerflowingly possesse aÌ„d fill all their vnderstandings and their soules and make them breake out in exteriour actions correspondent to the spirit that steered them within And the reason is euident for whiles on the one side the senses discerne apparantly miracles wrought in confirmation of a doctrine and on the other side the same senses doe stifly contradict the very possibility of the doctrine which those miracles testifye the soule within hauing no assistaÌ„ce beyond the naturall powers she hath belonging originally vnto her is in great debate and anxiety which way to giue her assent and though reason doe preuaile to giue it to the party of the present miracles yet it is with great timidity But if it happen that the course of those miracles be stopped theÌ„ the particular seeming impossibilies of the proposed faith remayning alwayes alike liuely in their apprehension and the miracles wrought to confirme it residing but in the memory and the representatioÌ„s of them wearing out dayly more and more and the present senses and fantasy growing proportionably stonger and stronger and withall obiecting continually new doubts about the reality of those miracles it cannot be expected otherwise but that the assent of the soule should range it selfe on the side of the impossibilityes appearing to the present senses and renounce the doctrine formerly confirmed by miracles vnlesse some inward and supernaturall light be giuen her to disperse all the mistes that the senses rayse against the truth of the doctrine Now the infusion of this light and feruour we call the giuing of the holy Ghost which Christ himselfe foreknowing how necessary it was promised them assuring theÌ„ that he would procure his father to send them the Holy Ghost the spirit of truth that should for euer remaine among them and within them and suggest vnto their memory and instruct them in the right vnderstaÌ„ding of the faith he had preached vnto them And this was prophesied long before of the state of the law of grace by Hieremy whose authority S. Paule bringeth to proue that the law of the Gospell was to be written by the holy Ghost in mens hearts and in their mindes and accordingly he calleth the faithfull of the Corynthians the faith of Christ not written with inke but with the spirit of God nor grauen in stony tables but in the fleshy ones of their hearts And in performance of this prophesy and of Christs promise the hystorie telleth vs that on the tenth day after the ascension of Christ when all his disciples who were then all his Church and were to preach and deliuer it to all the world were assembled together the holy Ghost was giuen theÌ„ and that in so full Ã measure as they not onely were confirmed so perfectly in their faith as they neuer after admitted the least vacillation therein but they immediatly casting away all other desires and thoughts were inflamed with admirable loue of God and broke out into his prayses and into a vehement ardor of teaching and conuerting others and when by reason of that zeale of theirs any thing happened to them contrary to flesh and blood and humane nature as persecutions ignominies corporall punishmeÌ„ts and euen death it selfe they not onely not shunned it as before but greedily rann to meete and embrace it and ioyed and gloryed in it all which were effects of the holy Ghost residing in them and filling their myndes and gouuerning their soules Where vppoÌ„ by the way we may note that in what Church soeuer we find not Ã state of life for sanctitie and neere vnion with God and contempt of wordly and transitory things raysed aboue the pitch of nature and morality we may conclude the holy Ghost inhabiteth not there for euery agent produceth effects proportionable to the dignity of it and the excellency of any cause shineth eminently in the noblenesse of its effects Now that this guift of the holy Ghost is to remaine with the Church as long as the Church remaineth to illuminate it with the spirit of truth and to giue it a supernaturall and diuine vnction will appeare manifestly vpon consideratioÌ„ of the cause why the holy Ghost was to be giuen at the first which remaineth alwayes the same and therfore the same effect must alwayes follow and accordingly Christ promised his Church vpoÌ„ his asceÌ„ding into heauen that he would alwayes ramaine with them vntill the end of the world to witt by this holy spirit for he was then at the point of withdrawing his corporall presence from them 15. Our next conclusion shall be that this Church or congregation of men spread ouer the world coÌ„seruing and deliuering the faith of Christ from hand to hand is euen in its owne nature perpetuall in tyme and cannot faile as long as mankinde remayneth in the world This needeth noe further proofe then that which we haue already made which is deriued from the necessity of supernaturall faith to bring mankinde to the end it was created for and that there is no meanes to deliuer this faith to mankinde in the ages after Christ but by the traditioÌ„ of the Church and therefore as long as mankinde lasteth this meanes must be coÌ„tinued Yet in this way of reasoning that I vse we are to examine our conclusions as well by the genuine and orderly causes that beget them and by their owne particular principles as to assent vnto them for the necessity that we see in them in regarde of the end that they are referred vnto And when we haue retriued those and euidently discerned theire force it giueth an admirable content and satisfaction to the vnderstanding Thus then as Philosophers conclude that it is impossible any whole species or kinde of beastes should euer be vtterly exterminated and destroyed that is diffused vp and downe ouer the whole face of the earth because the amplitude of the vniuerse is greater then the variety of causes can be from which such a generall and entire corruption must proceed In like manner we may confidently conclude that it is impossible any depraued affections should so vniuersally preuaile and so absolutly raigne in mens mindes throughout the

discouer what will result out of our swifte passadge through this vayle of miseries and what impressions we shall carry with vs out of this pilgrimage since we cannot suspect it is aiourney assigned vs in vaine being the ordinary and naturall course prescribed by the wise author of nature to all mankinde and the ineuitable through-fare for euery man in particular Therfore to proceed on in this methode our third conclusion shall be that what soeuer iudgemeÌ„t the soule once frameth in this life that iudgement and that affection will perpetually remaine in the soule vnlesse some contrary impression be made in it to blot it out which only hath power to expell any former one For iudgements and affections are caused in a man by the impression that the obiects make in his soule and all that any agent aymeth at in any operation whatsoeuer be it neuer so forcible in action is but to produce a resemblance of it selfe in the subiect it worketh vpon and therefore it excludeth nothing that it findeth formerly there which in our case is the soule vnlesse it be some such impression as is incompatible with what it intendeth to effect there or that the subiect is not large enough both to retayne the old and receaue the new in which case the first must be blotted out to make roome for the latter But of iudgements and affections none are incoÌ„patible to one another but those that are directly opposite to one another by contradiction Therfore only such haue power to expell one another and all that are not such are immediatly vnited to the very substaÌ„ce of the soule which hauing an infinite capacity it can neuer be filled by any limited obiects whatsoeuer so that they alwayes reside in the soule although they doe not at all tymes appeare in outward act which proceedeth from hence that new and other images are by the fantasie represented to the soule and she seemeth to busy herselfe onely about what she findeth there which being but one distinct Image at a tyme for corporall organs haue limited comprehensions and are quickly filled with corporall species she therupon seemeth to exercise but one iudgement or but one affectioÌ„ at a tyme. But as soone as the soule shall be released out of the body which is like a darke prison to wall it in then she will at one and the same instant actually knowe and loue all those things she knewe and loued in the body with only this difference that her knowledges will then be much more distinct and perfect and her affections much more vehement then they were in this life by reason that her coniunction heere with resistent matter was a burden and a clogge vnto her and hindered the actiuitie and force of her operations The difference of these states may in some measure be illustrated by a grosse aÌ„d materiall exaÌ„ple Represent vnto your selfe a man walled vp in a darke tower that is so close as noe ayre nor light can come into it excepting only at one little hole and that hole too affordeth no cleare and free passage to the sight but hath a thick and muddy glasse before it Now if this man would looke vpon any of the obiects that are about this tower he must gett them to be placed ouer against that hole vnto which he must lay his eye and then he can discerne but one at a time and that but dimmely nether and if he will see seuerall bodies it must be by so many seuerall iterated actes as they are in number But suppose some Earthquake or exteriour violence to breake a sunder and throwe downe to the ground the wals of this tower leauing the man vntouched and vnhurt then at one instant and with one cast of his eyes he beholdeth distinctly clearly aÌ„d at ease all those seuerall obiects that with so much labour and tyme he tooke but a mistakinge suruey of before 4. The fourth consideration shall be that after the first instant wherein the soule is separated from the body she is then in her nature no longer subiect or liable to any new impression mutatioÌ„ or chaÌ„ge whatsoeuer For that which should cause any such effect must be ether a materiall or a spirituall agent But a materiall one cannot worke vpon it for that requireth quantitie in the patient whereby it may be applyed unto it to exercise its operation vpon it Nor caÌ„ any spirituall ageÌ„t cause any succession of new alteration But all that spirits worke one vpoÌ„ another is done at once and at one instant which we shall discerne the clearer by examining the reason why there is succession and tyme taken vp in the alteratioÌ„s that are wrought amongst materiall things for in them by reason of their quantity that causeth an extention and distance of the parts the agent allthough it haue neuer so much disposition and efficacy to worke must haue his seuerall parts applyed to the seuerall parts of the patient by locall motion which requireth tyme for the performance thereof And besides euen in the agent it selfe the grossenesse aÌ„d heauinesse of the matter giueth an allay and is a clogge to the actiuity of the forme and as it were pulleth it backe whiles it is in action But this is not so in spirituall substances and therfore we may conclude that among them in the same instant that the agent is disposed to worke the action is performed for on his part there is nothing to retarde it nor is there required any locall motion which should take vp tyme and likewise by the same reason in the very instant that the patient is disposed to receiue any impression it is wrought in it And thus allthough there were neuer so many agents and euery one of them to performe neuer so many actions they would be all done and ended in one and the same instant 5. The next consideration shall be that those persons who in this world had strong and predominant affections to sensible and materiall obiects and dyed in that state shall be eternally miserable in the next for by what we haue sayed it appeareth that those affections will eternally remaine in the soule and that after the separatioÌ„ of it from the body they can neuer be blotted out of it or changed And the affections of a separated soule are much more ardent and vehement then whiles it is in the body But it is impossible they should euer attayne in that state to the fruitioÌ„ of what they so violently couet and loue and yet for its sake they neglect all other goods whatsoeuer that they might haue whose beauty and excelleÌ„cy notwithstanding they plainly discerne they cannot choose therfore but execrate themselues for their fondly misplaced yet theÌ„ eternally necessary affecctions and pine awaye if so I may say with perpetuall anguish and despaire of what they so impatiently and enragedly desire and ueuer can obtayne 6. The sixt consideration shall be that to be happy in the next life one must not settle their predominant

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