Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	law_n	sin_n	7,752	5	4.9628	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68828	The holie exercise of a true fast, described out of Gods word Seene and allowed.; Very godly and learned treatise, of the exercise of fastyng.	Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name.	1580 (1580)	STC 24251.5; ESTC S120024	22,313	96

and more that we may hate detest and vtterly abhorre all sinne and wickednesse in all men but especially in our selues that we may strongly through thy holy spirite set our selues in open warre and defiance against all sin and wickednes that we please not our selues in our sinns but straightly examining sinne by the iust rule of thy holy lawes we may vtterly from the bottome of our heartes condemne euen the least sinne in our selues hauing our whole ioy comfort consolation vpon those things which be agreeable to thy blessed will alwayes being afraide to doe any thing contrarie to the same that we may euen from the bottome of our hearts examine and trie our thoughtes before thy presence that they be vpright and vnfained not hypochriticall in outward shewe only and appearance but that euen all corners of our hearts being opened and disclosed before thee we may euen as though it were openly before the face of the whole world bring them in shewe knowing that a double heart is detestable in thy sight and that we may walke alwayes as before thine eyes not only before the eyes of man being more carefull to walke circumspectly in this respect that we haue thee to be a viewer of our doings a thousande folde more then the eyes of man that thus we may walke as becommeth thy children not onely in outward shewe but also in sinceritie of heart abhorring euen the least sinne in our selues striuing resisting and fighting against sinne not delighting our selues in sinne nor nourishing the same in our brest but earnestly embracing and studiously seeking after those things which be pleasant in thine eyes that neither the feare of man nor losse of goods life landes possessions or friendes drawe vs away froÌ„ thee to do any the lest thing contrarie to thy wil and pleasure neither the fauour or friendship of man nor yet the flattering enticements of this world nor the vaine promotions of the same doe moue vs any whit from the true and endlesse ioy delight and pleasure which we ought to haue in those things which be agreeable to thy will and the constant performance of the same but that alwayes to the end of our life we may continue in thy pathes growing and increasing from faith to faith from strength to strength till at the length we shall come to thy euerlasting rest Amen A Prayer for the Queene O Gratious Lorde and most mercifull Father we acknowledge thee the Lorde of Lordes and the King of Kinges creating at the beginning and ruling all thinges euermore in heauen and earth according to thy wonderfull wisedome and power and our selues to be thy poore seruantes the worke of thy hands and the sheep of thy pasture subiected to thy Maiestic depending vpon thy fatherly prouidence for all things Neuerthelesse seeing thou in thy wisedome annoyntest Kings and Queenes appointing them to rule ouer thy people to sit as Lieuetenants in thy seat to minister iustice and most of all as Fathers and Nurses to maintaine cherish thy Church commaunding vs not only to obey and honour them but moreouer to pray for them as watching ouer vs for our good We therefore beseech thee for thy great mercies sake and for Iesus Christes sake to shewe thy mercy to all Kinges and Princes that maintaine thy glorious Gospell but especially we pray thee to blesse our gratious Queene in all spirituall blessings in Christ Iesus and in all temporall blessings according to thy good pleasure that in the great measures of thy effectuall loue she may more and more finde greate increase of vertue and wisedome strength in Christ Iesus to the faithfull and happie discharge of her duetie that her holinesse and ioy and zeale of thy house may be multiplied and euerlasting And seeing it hath pleased thee of thy singular mercy to giue her this speciall honour first to suffer for thy glorious trueth and afterward miraculously deliuering her out of the handes of her enimies to set a crowne vpon her head and to make her the instrument to aduaunce thy glory Gospell for which she suffered and to bring it out of darknesse into light out of persecution into this great and long peace As we giue thee most heartie thankes for this singular benefite so we be seech thee to make her and vs euermore thankefull for it and in thy good pleasure still to preserue her for the continuance of these blessings towards vs with all increase from time to time to thy glory the benefite of the Church and her infinite peace in Christ Iesus the prince of peace And further more we pray thee for her and the estate that such as be enimies of the Gospell and her enimies also for the defence thereof may not despise the peace offered theÌ„ to repentance but that they may account thy long suffring her peaceable vnbloudy gouernment an occasion of saluation to their soules and vnfeined loue to the truth and their mercifull souereigne Otherwise of they still remaine disobedient to the trueth disobedient to her highnesse and daungerous to the state then O God of our Saluation as thou hast discouered them so discouer them still as thou hast preuented them so preuent them still and let their eyes waxe wearie with looking and their hearts faint with wayting for the coÌ„ming of that which yet commeth not neither let it come O Lorde we beseech thee but a blessed and a long reigne to her and peace to Sion for euermore Also deare father so blesse so loue so in thy spirite sanctifie and keep her that she may in the spirit of counsel and fortitude so rule that other sister also namely this her coÌ„mon wealth that they may flourish together and growe vp together as palme trees in beautie and in strength giuing ayde and helpe one to an other that in the Church the glory of God may appeare as the Sunne in his brightnesse and that the lande may flowe with Milke and Honie and true peace abound therein as in the triumphant reigne of Debora These graces O Lord are great and we miserable sinners vnworthie of the least of them therefore looke not to vs but to thy selfe not to our iniquities but to thy great mercies accepting the death and passion of thy Sonne as a full ransome for all our offences throwing them into the bottome of the Sea and making his crosse and resurrection effectuall in vs to all obedience and godlinesse as becommeth thy Saintes that to all other thy good blessings towards our gratious Souereigne this may be added that she gouerneth blessedly ouer a blessed people a people blessed of the Lorde and beloued of the Lorde and â—hat thy graces may abound as the waters of the Sea in the Prince and in the people in the Church and in the Common wealth from day to daye till the day of our translation into thy kingdome where iustice inhabiteth where also we shall inhabite and reigne with thee according to thy promise for euer Graunt these thinges O mercifull Father â—or thy deare Sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ his sake in whose name we craue them at thy mercifull hand praying furthermore for them as he hath taught vs to pray Our Father which are in heauen c. 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time extending this exercise at the least to som part of the night Where notwithstanding it is to be noted that as well in the former abstinence from meate as in this withdrawing of some part of sleepe that neither is so streightly required of the Lord but that those whose either disease or other infirmitie will not beare this abstinence without hazard of their health may vse so much libertie as shall serue for the preseruation of their health so they take heed they vse not this gentle dealing of the Lord as a cloake to hide the lustes of their flesh withall A third kinde of abstinence is in the apparell that albeit they put not on sackcloth and ashes as the holy fathers did in times past yet that they content them selues with a common kinde of attire auoyding all such costlinesse and curiositie wherby in tricking and trimming vp them selues the flesh may take occasion of being proud Thus the lord when he would haue the children of Israel to humble Exod. 33. â— them selues before him spake to Moses saying speake vnto the children of Israel that for the present time they lay aside their iewels and ornaments that I may knowe what I shall do with them And thus farre hath it bene spoken of the outward exercises which are generall and to be don of al which make this solemne profession of repentance There is one yet which is more speciall belonging vnto married persons alone which is that they for the time should with consent abstaine from the mutuall felowship 1. Cor. 7. 5. one of an other which is so straitly required that euen the bridgrome Ioel. 2. 16. and the bride which of all other ought to haue the greatest priuiledge in that point are bidden at such times to come out of their chaÌ„bers But for as much as the kingdome Rom. 14. 17 of heauen standeth not in these thinges and the Lorde being a spirit will be worshipped in spirite and trueth either these exercises must lead vs to some farther thing or else the same accusation will lye against vs wherewith the Prophet charged the Israelites who contenting themselues with the outwarde ceremony of Esay 58. 30 abstinence were sent home as emptie as they came And in deede vnlesse we bring more with vs theÌ„ this our abstinency our fastes may bee matched with the beastes fast of Niniuie for they also both eate nothing Ionas 3. 7. and were couered with sackcloth yea the beastes fast may be so much better then ours as there be some kinds of beastes that can longer endure without meate and sleepe then wee Where the Papistes fast which was shewed before to be childishe may here be proued to be beastly and brutish For if they did onely abstaine from meate they iudged themselues to haue bolden a good fast vnto the Lorde There followe the inwarde vertues helped forward by the bodily exercise which in the number * two â—sdra 6. 21. The one is the humbling and casting downe of our selues before the high maiestie of God with sorrow for our sinnes the other is the assurance that we haue that with forgiuenesse of them we shall obtaine the thinge that we stande in need of and make sute for Here therefore first commeth to be considered our humbling and casting downe which is a vile esteeming of our selues aunswering to the outward exercise For therefore doe we abstaine for a time that we might therby haue a quicker feeling of our owne vnworthinesse Therefore we bring downe the bodie that the minde may be likewise brought downe Therefore we crucifie the flesh that the deserued death of the spirite may be the better knowen Therfore we abstaine from our pleasures Mark 2. 20. Luk. 5. 35. Math. 9. 15. and commodities that through conscience of sinne and feeling of the wrath of God either present or to come for the same we might drawe our selues to a greater sorrowe In which respect the exercise which the other Euangelistes call fasting Saint Mathew calleth mourning Here-vppon Ioel. 2. 17. 1. Sam. 7. 6. it cometh that weeping which is a witnesse of our sorrowe is annexed vnto the fast which the children of God haue don so plentifully in this exercise that they haue bene sayde 1. Sam. 7. 6. to haue drawne whole bucketes of water which the depth of the sorowe for their sinnes the anger of God against them hath ministred And as these outwarde exercises are commaunded to drawe vs to a feeling of our vnworthinesse so in the feeling thereof by them we make a solempne confession of the same For the Children of God in time past by their abstinence from meate and drinke confessed themselues vnworthy so much as of a crumme of bread or droppe of water by putting on sackcloth vnworthie of the worst ragge to couer their shame with So that if common honestie and health would haue suffered they woulde haue stripped them selues starke naked The same is to be vnderstanded of the benefite of sleepe and company of mariage as also of all other the commodities of this life whereof they did not onely confesse themselues vnworthie but in that they put dust ashes vpon their heads they gaue to vnderstand that they were vnworthy of the life it self and that they deserued to be as farre vnderneath the ground as they were aboue it yea if there had beene any thing apter to haue set foorth their euerlasting condemnation in hell of that also woulde they haue borne the marke thereby to declare their guilt and desert of the same So that hereby they doe iustifie the Lorde in that vengeaunce against them whereof by this humbling of themselues they seeke redresse If then we keepe a holy fast vnto the Lord we must thereby be humbled in our selues before the Lorde but if vppon confidence of our fasting wee waxe bolder to sinne in a persuation that through Luk. 5. 33. Luk. 18. 11. obedience giuen vnto him in this one point wee may be bolder to be disobedient in others or if the vse hereof doe make vs swell against our brethren and after the example of the Pharisees despise them which do not fast as we doe then is the fast appointed of the Lord for our medicine become our bane and poyson And therefore here nowe wee giue a newe charge vppon the Popish fast a great deale more hot then the former For seeing that they with the proude Pharisee boast of the merite of their fastes setting these fastes as other workes in the place of the bloode of Christ It is manifest that their fastes are so farre froÌ„ humbling them that through the opinion of them they rise vp againste the Lorde and doe their best to set themselues euen in the throne of God so that vnto the childishnesse brutishnes of their fast aboue mentioned here they haue added an horrible blasphemous sacriledge To the coÌ„passing of this true humbling of our sinnes is annexed necessarily an information

to call for the performance of them And first we humbly desire thee to forgiue vs all our sinnes Thou hast saide that if we confesse our sinnes thou art faithfull to forgiue vs them We acknowledge the debte cancell therefore the obligation let not the multitude of them preuaile against vs but where our sinne hath abouÌ„ded let thy grace more abounde and as we haue multiplyed our sinnes so we pray thee to multiply thy mercies and although wee haue by continuaunce in them so soked our selues that thereby we are not onely lightly stained but also haue gotteÌ„ as it were the scarlet purple die of them yet let them all we pray thee being washed in the blod of thy deare sonne be made as whyte as the snowe in Salmon and as the wolle of the sheep which come from washing And â—o conclude as our sinnes haue magnified themselues in an infinit length â—readth depth and height so let thy â—ercies which passe all vnderstanâ—ing of all sides and all assayes out â—eache them Therefore also we most â—umbly desire thee O Lord that the â—inne being pardoned thy wrath whiche is alreadie declared may be appeased towardes all the Churches of our profession and especially towards vs that the manifolde breaches of the Churches and common wealthes may be made vp that those being receyued into the bosome of the Church which belong to thy election the rest of the Papistes and heretikes may be vtterly rooted out that the enemies in religion being slaine we may to the vttermost think all one thing in the honeste and peaceable gouernment of the common wealth Vpon which vniting of vs in all trueth and honestie the curses of the plague and barrennesse being remoued a way may be made to thy blessinges which as the hills do the valleis may make our land holesomely fruitfull And that not onely the wrath which is alreadie kindled may be quenched but that which hath beene lately threatned may be caused to retyre For the graunt whereof vnto vs we beseech thee to remember that howe vnworthy soeuer yet are wee thy people and the Sheepe of thy pasture whome thou hast redemed with thy most pretious â—lood watched ouer with a carefull â—ye defended with a mightie hand â—espise not therfore O Lord the worâ—es of thy hands And seing thou hast â—â—ued vs when we hated thee visited vs when we desired thee not then acknowledged vs when we knewe not thee now that there be a nuÌ„ber of vs which loue thee desire thine aboade acknowledge thee hold on thy loue still depart not from vs deny vs not O thou God of trueth which art the God that chaungest not And if thou wouldest or couldest forget vs calling vpon thee yet what should become of thy great name which is called vpon by vs And therefore for thy glories sake and for thy blessed names sake which in our destruction shoulde bâ— rent and runne through spare vâ—spare vs good Lord according to the vsuall dealing which thou hast euer kept with those which in prayer haue had recourse vnto thee and according to the olde and vnchangeable nature of a merciful kind sparing long suffering God Which mercie we do not O Lord desire to the end that we shoulde tumble and wallowe our selues in our accustomed neglect and contempt of thy holy worde but together with mercie for our sinnes and the rewarde of them we moste humbly craue vppon the knees of our heartes that for the time to come howe long or howe short soeuer we with deniall and detestation of our selues and of our wicked lustes may â—â—er vp vnto thee in Iesus Christe â—â—r selues our bodies and soules to â—â—e seruauntes at thy holy commaunâ—ement in that reasonable seruice â—hich the high reason of thy holy â—orde doth prescribe and to be weaâ—ons or instruments of righteousnes â—nd holinesse as they haue bene hereâ—ofore of the contrarie All which â—hinges as whatsoeuer thou knowest â—o be further needefull for vs or for any of the Churches we pray thee as our sauiour hath taught c. A CONFESSION OF sinnes with fayth and repentaunce O Mercifull and heauenly Father we thy seruaÌ„ts doe humbly prostrate our selues before thy Maâ—estie acknowledging here in thy â—ight our hainous offences committed against thy Maiestie seeing and beholding thy heauie wrath against them we feele our selues laden O Lord our God with a huge company of horrible sinnes whereof euen the very least beeing but conceiued in thought is sufficient in iudgemeÌ„t to throwe vs downe to the euerlastinge burning Lake Our owne consciences O Lorde doe beare witnesse against vs of our manifolde transgressions of thy blessed lawe of our securitie and sencelesse blindenesse running headlong to destruction coÌ„mitting sinne after sinne although not notorious to the worlde yet horrible before thine eye The thoughts of our heartes rise vp in iudgement against vs the vanitie of our talk before thy maiestie condemneth vs the wickednesse of our deedes from thy sight reiecteth vs all our wicked thoughts wordes and deeds with the inwarde corruption of our nature do altogether as it were a whole lumpe and loade of sinne lie heauie vppon vs with their intollerable weight doe euen presse vs downe to Hell Wee doe dayly grone vnder the burthen of them inwardly lamenting our owne follie so greedily running into them In heauen earth or hel we see none able to sustaine the weight of them but euen thy dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ who in mercy infinite and compassion endlesse hath sustained and ouercome that endlesse punishment due vnto them in him therefore in him most mercifull Father and through him we come to thee being fully assured according to thy promise that thou wilt accept take that full recompence which he thy deare sonne hath made for vs as a iust ransome for all the sinnes of all those who with a true faith take hold on him In him therfore we see thine anger towards vs appesed thy wrath satisfied and our debts paide Increase in vs good Lord we beseech thee this liuely and feeling faith for we feele it oftentimes in vs very weake and troubled with many doubtes increase it in vs O Lorde that we may through thy holy spirite be assured that the punishment of our sinnes is fully in thy sonne discharged Make vs O Lord our God to feele this same in our soules and consciences that Iesus Christe is ours and al that he hath done that we are grafted into his body and made one with him and therefore fellow heires with him of euerlasting life Let vs not onely haue these wordes in our mouthes good Lord but through thy holy spirite let vs feele the comfort of them in our heartes fully sealed and setled in vs that we feeling our selues inwardly before thy iudgement seate discharged and our consciences towardes thee appeased may be swallowed vp with an vnfaigned loue toward thy heauenly Maiestie and towardes our brethren for thy sake Make sinne to dye in vs daily more

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