Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	jesus_n	15,155	5	6.0417	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19839	[Daniel Ben Alexander. The converted Jew of Prague in Bohemia, baptized in the Reformed Church of Rouen, the 12. of Aprill. 1621. First written in the Syriacke and High Dutch. Translated out of High Dutch into French by Samuel Lecherpiere. And out of French into English by Tho. Drewe.]	Alexander, Daniel Ben.; Drewe, Thomas, fl. 1621.; Drue, Thomas, fl. 1616-1653, attributed name.	1621 (1621)	STC 6266; ESTC S119309	13,900	28

Brethren search diligently the Scriptures take in hand the key of the Kingdome of heauen the Lord in his mercy will shew you the doore Receiue this in good part and briefely because of the shortnesse of time that I haue to soiourne here but if it please God to graunt me the grace to returne into this Country amongst my brother Christians after hauing trauailed into mine owne Country to see those of mine owne Nation I shall God assist me take paines to doe something more amply for your benefit and the aduancement of your soules health You my Father and Mother whom I loue equally with mine owne soule I humbly beseech you in the bowels of Gods mercy thinke with your selues that you must once come to iudgement and render an account of all your proceedings before the King of Kings holy and blessed stop not your eares and be not voide of vnderstanding God which is the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ be pleased to open the eyes of your vnderstanding and to manifest vnto you the knowledge of the Messiaâ— which hath suffered for our sinnes and is risen againe for our iustification and hauing giuen you this grace as vnto me hee hath strengthened vs together in the same by his holy Spirit to the end wee may perseuer constantly in the confession of his holy name in this life and dying in his loue we may be receiued into his peace and made pertakers of euerlasting life which hath beene deerely bought for vs by the precious blood of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and to the holy Spirit one onely God eternally blessed be all glory and praise throughout all worlds Amen Your Sonne Daniel Ben Alexander heretofore a Iew by Religion but now a Disciple of Iesus Christ. In the Name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost one onely GOD Eternally Blessed AMEN I Daniell Sonne of Alexander borne a IEW and made Partaker of the Circumcision in the Flesh according to the same Doe render thankes to GOD which is the Father of our Lord IESVS CHRIST that of his Mercy and Grace hee hath brought me to the knowledge that heretofore I was in the way of Perdition and euerlasting Death in not hauing knowne the Sauiour of the world IESVS CHRIST the Eternall Sonne of GOD and now hauing reuealed vnto me by the vertue of his holy Spirit in the reading of his holy Word that I could not attaine to euerlasting life vnlesse I were made a Member of his Body I beleeued that I ought in his Name and for the health of mine owne soule to receiue according to his Institution in his holy Church the holy Sacrament of Baptsime of which and of the Graces that doe accompany it hath in diuers places of the Olde Testament beene Prophesied by significant Figures spoken of in the New Testament in cleare and manifest termes for Example God speaking by Ezechiel in the 36. Chap. 25. Vers. saith Thenwill I poure cleane water vpon you and you shall bee cleane yea from all your filthines and from all your Idols will I cleanse you This figure of Baptisme likewise is manifested in the 7 th of Genesis alleadged by St. Peter chap. 2. vers 20.21 Which were in time passed Disobedient when the long suffering of God wayted in the dayes of Not while the Arke was preparing wherein fewe that is Eight-soules were saued in the water Vers. 21. Whereof the Baptisme that now is answering that Figure which is not a putting away of the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience toward God saueth vs now also by the Resurrection of Iesus Christ. This very Figure in many other places is presented vnto vs as Exod. 13.21 and the 14.22 of which the Apostle St. Paul makes mention in the 1. Cor. 10.2 And were all Baptized vnto Moses in that Cloude and in that Sea Zacharie in the Name of th' Eternall hath Prophesied of the graces of Baptisme in the 13. Vers. 1. In that Day there shall bee a Fountaine opened to the house of Dauid and to the Inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinne and for vncleannesse And this Fountaine was figured in the 1. of King 7.3 By the Sea or great Caldron which Salomon placed in the Temple of God in Ierusalem which was borne vpon twelue Oxen figuring the twelue Apostles which should Preach the Baptisme of Repentance of which they receiued the Commandement by our Lord IESVS CHRIST which speakes to them in the 28 th of St. Mathew Goe therefore and teach all Nations Baptizing them in the Name of the Father and the Sonne and the Holy Ghost The vertue of which Baptisme I verily beleeue to be powerfull to Saluation since our Sauiour CHRIST himselfe saith 16. of St. Marke Hee that shall beleeue and bee Baptized shall be saued but hee that shall not beleeue shall be damned And in St. Iohn Chap. 3. Iesus answered Verily verily I say vnto thee except that a man bee borne of Water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God By these wordes it appeareth cleare that the Figures in the Olde Testament are fully accomplished in the New by the searching of Iesus Christ which is the true Lambe of God without any spot that taketh away the Sinnes of the world Being also the true promised Messias and Sonne of Dauid of whom nothing hath beene spoken in the New Testament which hath not formerly beene Prophesied by Moses and the Prophets Neither ought wee to looke for any other then he that is ascended into Heauen euen Iesus Christ which shall come to Iudge the quicke and the Dead And further examining the particulers of the Messias touching his Person Office Natiuity Doctrine Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascenton I haue found them all to belong and appertaine to Iesus Christ onely who is the vndoubted Messias and Sonne of the Eternall God as appeareth Psal. 22. Vers. 7. Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee And it is of him also that is spoken in the 3. of Mathew This is my beloued Son in whome I am well pleased Touching the time of his Birth and entrance into the world it is Prophesied in the 49. Chap. of Genesis The Scepter shall not depart from Iuda nor a Law-giuer betweene his feete vntill Shilo come and the People shall bee gathered vnto him And in the 24. of Nom. There shall come a Starre out of Iacob and a Scepter shall rise out of Israell Christ is the Sonne of Dauid according to the Flesh he is the seed of the Woman as is Prophesied in the 3. of Gen. The seede of the Woman shall bruise the head of the Sespent The Messias ought to bee borne of a Virgin Isaiah 7. Behold a Virgin shall conceiue and beare a Sonne and shee shall call his name Emanuell Christ was borne of this Virgin to whome the Angell speaking that shee should bee Mother to the Sauiour of the world said his Name shall

those things which were conceal'd to them and my selfe also I departed from Prague and tooke my way into Poland hoping from those Rabbies there to haue had more instructions but their answeres were all one And moreouer I was by them inioyned to silence Then continuing my reading and conferring the New and Old Testament together neglecting the Talmud wherein before I spent my time in vaine I became resolued vtterly to forsake the Iewish Religion and to become Christian for which cause I retired my selfe to Damsik where Iewes are prohibited to liue and from thence I embarked for Amsterdam and so was resolued to goe for Rome which Citty I had heard to be the Mother Church of Christendome and that there the Pope caused Sermons to be made weekely for the conuersion of Iewes Thus to bring my soule to rest I trauailed my body and passing on intending to take my course through France and so to Rome My iourney was by accident stayed God in his pitty not suffering me to fall from one euill into a worse for by the way hauing a desire to conuerse with some religious man that could speake the high Dutch or low and hoping by that meanes to get some letters of commendations wherewith I might haue presumed of a welcome in Rome and meeting with one by chance after Communication and that I had directly made knowne what I was as also what I desired to be he forthwith gaue me counsell to be Baptized which I with some time of pausing refused but he desiring to know my reason I gaue him this that I would know my foundation ere I began to build and likewise haue more sound knowledge in Christianity ere I altogether forsooke that faith that I was bred in He willing to doe me curtesie conferred with mee touching many and mayne points of his Religion which I could by no meanes beleeue whereupon demaunding of him if the Church of Rome taught the same Doctrine he answered me yes it doth I finding it disagreeing both to the New and Old Testament could not imagine that to be the true Church which taught such false Doctrine I then more troubled in minde intended to finde out some Minister of the Reformed Church whom hauing sought I found Gods name be blessed for it the heauenly foode the spirituall Manna of which hee that feedeth shall neuer more hunger And heere beloued giue mee leaue according to promise to giue you my reasons for forsaking the Church of Rome First for that contrary to the expresse will of God in the second Commandement Exod. 20. They make to themselues grauen Images they prostrate themselues before them and worship them giuing them the glory belonging to God onely who saith I am the eternall that is my name I will not giue my glory to another nor my praise to grauen Images 2. Because they doe adore and worship others then God contrary to the saying of our Lord Iesus Christ Math. 4.10 Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue 3. For that they beleeue that they may be saued by the name of other creatures contrary to that Acts 4. so spoken by Saint Peter touching our Sauiour Christ. Neither is there saluation in any other for among men there is giuen none other name vnder heauen whereby wee must be saued 4. Because they take from the Merites of our Sauiour in his Death and Passion and teach that men are iustified by their owne workes Gal. 2 21. For if righteousnes bee by the Law then Christ dyed without cause And in the 16. Knowe that a man is not Iustified by the workes of the Law but by the Faith of Iesus Christ. And Ephas 2.9 Not of workes least any man should boast himselfe 5. Because in the Church of Rome the men of the Church as they say haue power to forgiue Sinnes But God speakes Isa. 43. I euen I am hee that putteth away thine iniquitias for mine owne sake and will not remember thy Sinnes 6. Because the Church of Rome confesseth with the Christian reformed Church That our Sauiour tooke Flesh onely of the Virgin and yet make they to themselues out of Bread a Iesus Christ of Flesh as they say to bee their dayly Sacrifice 7. Because the Church of Rome offendeth in saying that they Sacrifice the Sonne of God for the sinnes of the Liuing and the Dead against that which St. Paul saith to the Heb. 9.14 which through the Eternall spirit offered himselfe without spot to God ' And 10.14 For with one offring hath hee consecrated for euer them that are Sanctified 8. Because in the Romish Church they haue taken from the Sacrament of Baptisme which is for the remission of Sinnes in Iesus Christ and teach in the same Church a remission of Sinnes by Fastings Pilgrimages and the like which I neither beleeue nor finde warranted by any place of Scripture 9. Because in the Church of Rome they holde some Meates created good by God for some certaine times poluted and vncleane against the saying of St. Paul 1. Tim. 4.4 For euery Creature of God is good and nothing ought to bee refused if it bee receiued with Thankesgiuing 10. Because the Church of Rome prohibiteth people to Marry which God hath not forbidden and St. Paul cals that a Doctrine of Deuils 1â— Tim. 4.3 Forbidding to Marry and commanding to abstaine from Meaâ—es which God hath Created c. 11. Because in the Church of Rome they teach other Purgings then by the Blood of Iesus Christ against that which is spoken in â— Heb. 12. By his owne Blood entred hee once into the Holy placâ— and obtained Eternall remission for vs. And Iohn 1.7 The blood of Iesus Christ cleaseth vs from all Sinnes 12. Because I beleeue a man ought not to worship what hee Eateth nor to eate that hee worshippeth nor that any thing wee eate can bee God This appeareth vnto mee not onely impious but horrible in the Church of Rome which teacheth that a mortall Man eateth his Creator These reasons with many more hindred my Iourney to Rome or to take my Baptisme from that Church or Ministers thereof who teach thinges so repugnant to the worde of God Neither would I ioyne my selfe to the Anabaptists my reason was Because they deny the true humane Body of our Sauiour Iesus Christ saying hee tooke no part of the Flesh of the Virgin Mary But onely past through her Body as water through a conduit without participating of any of the substance And so consequently sinning against the Article of our Beliefe which saith that hee was borue of the Virgin Mary so that taking away his Humanity they make him not alike vnto vs in all thinges Sinne excepted as the Apostle hath auerred him I therefore vtterly renouncing all Impieties and all Doctrines contrary to the word of God imbrace the holy Christian Faith to liue and dye according to Gods holy word not the traditions of men For which cause I know I shall bee abandoned

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