Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	flesh_n	grace_n	sin_n	7,550	5	4.8045	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21197	The churches glory shewed forth in a sermon preached at the Haghe before Their Majesties the King & Queene [brace] of Bohemia / by J.E. ...	Elborough, Jeremiah.	1625 (1625)	STC 7550.5; ESTC S120080	16,073	56

sanctification are evident signes fruits of our adoption If a man gloryes he hath the Philosophers stone yet goes in raggs wee will not easily beleeve him neyther him that sayes he is the child of God lives in sinne for hee that Å¿ 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. is borne of God sinneth not not willingly going on in a sinfull course without repentance in this the children of God are manifest the children of the divel who soever doth not righteousnesse is not of God Use 2 And from hence also we may Fax mentis honestae gloria S. Ital. Phil. 3. bee exhorted to seeke for this the truest glory Some glory in their sinnes whose glory is in their shame some glory in their riches worldly honours but this world passeth away the glory of it some glory in their fine cloathes but all this is vayne glory too often keepes man from attayning true glory how can ye beleeve sayth Christ t Ioh. 5. 44. that receive honour one of another seeke not the honour that cometh from God only whose hearts time is taken up wholy in an ambitious affecting honour from men can spare no time to seeke after the true honour from God they that too much love the prayse of men too little care for the prayse of God Bad people NullaruÌ„ fere pretiosior cultus est quam quaruÌ„ pudor vilis est Cyp. de hab virg may weare good cloathes base minded men step up to worldly honour glory but the Kings daughter only is truly glorious in being gratious Let that argument moove us which comonly preveyles every where that is the fashion Let your u 1. Pet. 3. 4. adorning then be in the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of an humble meeke quiet spirit which is in the sight of God great of price put on by the hand of fayth the fine w Rev. 19. 8. linnen which is the righteousnesse of the saints cover your heads with the feare of God hang at your eares wind about your wrests I meane your hearts the precious jewell of Gods word more x Psa 19. 10. worth then thousands of gold silver choisest pearles girt about your loynes the y Eph. 6. 14. girdle of truth shoo your z v. 15. feet with the preparation of the Gospell of peace wash hands face I meane your soules in the blood of Christ for be they never so high coloured were your sinnes as a Isai 1. 18. red as scarlet they shal be as white as snow For this is the Kings daughters cloathing of wrought gold this her rayment of needle worke this is the Queenes fashion she will never change it but live dye in it I pray God give us all grace to follow it then shall the King have pleasure in our beauty And when the glory of al earthly Kings kingdomes shall cease be brought to nothing then shall the Kings daughter appeare in her glory for we are b 1. Ioh. 1. 18. now the sonnes of God but it doeth not yet appeare what we shal be but we know that when the King our husband Jesus Christ our saviour shall appeare with all the glory of heaven earth that we shal be like him c Col. 3. 4. Rev. 21. 2. appeare with him in glory thus prepared as a bride adorned for her husband cloathed with the glory of God in a kingdom of glory crowned with an incorruptible crowne of glory to which let us d Rom. 8. 18. account all the momentary light afflictions of this world not worthy to be compared but go on from grace to grace from glory to glory e 5. 2. rejoycing in the hope of the glory of God Allglorious THe third thinge to be considered is the amplification of this glory First by the universalitie of it all glorious First by the grace of justification for Christs blood cleanseth her from f 1. Ioh. 1. 7. all her sinnes so God seeth no iniquitye because he does not g Psa 32. impute it to her her iniquities are forgiven her sinnes covered the absolute perfect righteousnesse of Jesus Christ is h Rom. 4. to her in this respect Christ sayes of her thou art i Cant. 4. 7. all faire my Love there is no spot in thee Secondly by the graces of sanctification wherewith her whole person in all the faculties of her soule members of her body is adorned her understanding enlightned with saving knowledge so that with open k 2. Cor. 3. 18 face she beholds the glory of God is changed into the same image from glory to glory her will being conformed to Gods will her affections rightly ordered her love feare joy hope set on other objects contayned within the limits of due moderation her outward senses members of her body l Rom. 6. 13 instruments of righteousnesse unto God in this respect also all glorious For as by sinne the whole person is corrupted so by grace the whole person even in m 1. Th. 5. 23. soule spirit body is sanctified the old man is cast of with his workes beggerly rags the new man is put on which after God is created in righteousnesse true holynesse he hath respect to n Ps 119. 6. 3. all Gods commandements does no iniquitye though in this life the Kings daughter be not so glorious as to bee perfectly sanctified in full measure through the reliques of sinne in her though forgiven yet is she in some measure sanctified in perfectio graduum partium all the faculties of soule members of her body so perfectly sanctified in this sense I dare affirme universalitie of grace for where the flesh is there is the spirit also this spirit of sanctification striveth against corruption thus though she bee black yet is she o Cant. 1. 5. comely but heere after when the body of sinne shal be destroyed all teares wiped from her eyes she shal be all p Eph. 5. 27. glorious without any spot or wrinckle holy without blemish Vse 1 By the consideration whereof we may discerne true grace from counterfeit Herod will heare John gladly doe many glorious good things but he will not part with Herodias this blemishes ye rest discovers him to be of base IdumaeaÌ„ birth no true Israelite many glory of their good intentions that they meane as wel as the best yet their mouths are full of rotten coÌ„munication so we may know the tree by the fruit to be of no good kind others glory of their good deeds but their thoughts are free their hearts full of uncleanesse malice covet ousnesse It is ordinary with many in much vehemency to inveigh against to handle roughly the sinne they are not subject to but their beloved

sinne must not be touched they are as tender of it as a King of his prerogative whoso touches it hurts it the chiefe Priests Pharises will not q Ioh. 18. 28. enter the common hall lest they be defiled behold their conscience but scruple not to defile their Soules in shedding innocent blood behold their basenesse they tythe also r Matt. 23. 23 eummin mint but neglect judgment mercy faith the greater things of the Law but the Kings daughter is more generous she is all glorious in hating all sinne willing to all good how beautiful are thy feet O princes daughter if therefore thou art not all glorious thou art not truly glorious if there be not grace in every part no true grace in any part no true friend of Christs that does not in his willing ready endeavours what soever he commandeth neither doth he truly hate Ioh. 15. 14. any one sinne that hates not every sinne nor his obedience sound in any good he does that is not willing to every good for this universality of obedience is true graces evidence It is an honourable qu'il aimeroit mieux mourir que faire une meschant acte S. du Haillan p. 987. report that History gives of the French King that he often sayd he had rather dye then doe any wicked thing Vse 2 Let us then as many as would seeme to bee or rather have the comfortable assurance to be the children of God cleanse our selves from all filthinesse both of flesh Å¿ 2. Cor. 7. 1. spirit perfect our holinesse in the feare of God A little leaven leavens the whole lumpe a sparke of fire may burne a whole Towne one flye corrupt a whole boxe of precious oyntment one spot blemish a faire picture one sinne given way too blemish the Soules glory Men are carefull to have their apparrel sutable for it is ridiculous to see one cloathed in velvet breeches a canvas doublet let it be our care to sute our Soules with the variety of heavenly graces not to plough with an Oxe an Asse to serve God Baal to hold with the hare run with the hounds for if it be glorious to be good in some thinges it is more glorious to be good in all thinges he that is t Rev. 22. 11. filthy let him be filthy still the dog will to his vomit the swine to the mire but he that is righteous let him be righteous still he that is holy let him be holy still behold the King the bridegroome comes quickly his reward is with him to give every man according to his workes hold fast what thou hast that none take thy u Rev. 3. 11. crown from thee goe on with undaunted courage setled resolution in the all glorious pathes of grace the Lord bee with thee his grace wil be sufficient for thee till thou come to thy race end be with the Lord he that hath blessed the with w Eph. 1. 3. all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ heere will blesse thee with all eternall blessings in heavenly places with Christ heereafter thus shal be done to the man whom the King wil honour VVithin SEcondly this glory is amplified by the sinceritie of it VVithin Not outward say some as the glory of earthly Kings Queenes in riches worldly honours other outward pompe temporal magnificence for this is the whores dressing in purple scarlet x Rev. 17. 4. decked with gold pretious stones but the Churches glory is inward in the purity of doctrine right administration of the Sacraments Ecclesiastical discipline the spiritual ornament of heavenly graces which glory is befitting the Church as daughter spouse to such Kings as have no carnal eyes to looke on love her for any outward respects though never so glorious True the Churches best glory is inward that is her only beauty for which the King Loves her delights in her she is more glorious in her golden Priests then golden cups in being rich in fayth good works then rich in the world but the outward glory is not to be neglected when it pleases God to give it only we are to be cautionate that the outward doe not allure our eyes take up our hearts more then the in ward She that hath the outward only without the inward is the whore She that hath the inward without the outward is the Kings daughter a true Church but where is both inward outward it is an addition to that Churches glory The poverty from thence the contempt from thence the confusion miserable disorder of some Churches where like Jeroboams priests the meanest of the people even hospitall children for the most part are made Pastours which is not a nations glory but shame in so contemptible though it should not be a ministery may cause us to blesse God for his mercyes to our English Church both in her inward outward glory The voyce might have bin as truely uttered that poyson was poured into the Church when the livings were taken away as when great revenues given she had once too much now in many places too little I have often Wondered at the most grosse almost heathenish coÌ„mon ignorance from thence prophanesse of some poople which I conceived to proceede through want of able Preachers which proceeds through want of sufficient maintenance which makes so many weavers Taylours to become y That cannot speake Latin Dutch Clearkes as they say in their Churches I am sure this is a deformity not a glory in reformed Churches But I thinke by the Churches glory VVithin to be meant the sincerity of her glory She is glorious because gracious as I have already shewed which is her spiritual glory but this glory is not in outward shewes ostentation only before men which were hypocrisy but in private also which argues the uprightnesse sincenity of her heart before God Solomons Queene not only put on her glorious cloathing of wrought gold her costly rayment when she came publiquely before the King or abroad in the view of the people but within also in private in her closet or bedchamber when she was alone she wore such glorious cloathing as her ordinary dayly apparrell so the Kings daughter viz. the Church is all glorious viz. gracious not only in the publique assemblies before men but also when she is alone in private she adornes her Soule with heavenly meditations ferveÌ„t prayer fayth in gods promises c. yea the more private the more glad careful is she in the exercise of spiritual duties as having more fit oportunity liberty to decke up her soule What she seemes to bee in her life she is the same in her heart the same at home in private that Is 63. 8. she is abroad in publique she will not lye glorious yea all glorious

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