Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	see_v	son_n	6,263	5	5.2761	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05404	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse by R. Lewes, Baccheler of Divinitie, concerning Isaac his testament, disposed by the Lord to Iacobs comfort, though it were intednded to Esau by his father; shewing, that the counsel of God shal stand, albeit the whole worlde withstande it.	Lewes, Richard.	1594 (1594)	STC 15556; ESTC S119665	22,088	50

partridge semblably the vnrighteous person gleaneth in other mens fields and reapeth the harvest of poore men but in shorte time they will flie away for riches haue wings or they wil staÌ„d him in little steede yea they shall rather make against him then for him Now that I may come to the frailty of Isaac having first concluded by the testaments of men which are ordained to end strife among the sonnes of men that the testament of God is appointed to end all contention in the family of God albeit our adversaries the enemies of light and dependers of darkenes bewraying the diffidence of the cause the hard opinion they conceiue of the scriptures doe affirme and avouch the contrary Wee say with Optatus an auncient learned and godly father that we know that Christ hath dealt with vs as an earthly father is woont with his children who fearing lest they should fal out after his decease sets down his wil in writing vnder witnesses if there arise any debate amonge the brethren they goe to the testament he whose worde must ende our controversie is Christ let his will be sought in his testament we are brethren why doe we strive Our father died not vntestate hee made a testament and so died Men do strive about the goods of the dead till the testament be brought they yeeld to have it opened read the iudge doth harken the counsellers are silent the crier biddeth peace the people are attentive that the wordes of the dead may be read and heard He lieth voide of sence and feeling in his grave and his wordes prevaile Christ sitteth in heaven and is his word gainsaide Open it let vs read it we are brethren why doe we strive Let our mindes be pacified our father hath not left vs without a testament he that made the testament is living for ever Hee doth heare our wordes he knoweth his owne words let vs read why doe we strive Yea wee say with that chosen vessell Saint Paul that the testament of God is not only profitable but sufficient and perfect insomuch as if Paul himselfe beeing an excellent Apostle yea if an Angell from heaven should preach any point of faith or rule of life I say not against but beside the scripture let him be accursed The divines of Lovain do cuÌ„ningly expouÌ„d besides the Scriptures to be ment against the scriptures if these men were Doctors of the Arches we should have profounde lawe for so a coosening fellowe might claime 1000. po of a dead mans goods who had bequethed him a legacy of 20. sh the iudges might adiudge at him with safe consciences as not against the testament albeit besides the testament nay they might doe this vniustice to man with far better reason then the Papists doe that dishonour to God by howe much the testament of God is far more absolute then mans and more sufficient to finish al controversies more perfect to direct in faith and obedience Our duty in Christ Iesus is faith working by love faith embraceth souÌ„d doctrine love requireth a godly life soundnes of doctrine is held if truth be taught and falshod refuted godlines of life is kept if a man fly from evil and follow good The holy scripture teacheth the truth improveth errour correcteth iniquitie instructeth to righteousnesse and so containeth the whole duety of man yea even of the man of God in whom greater perfection is required But this wil not they see who being blinded with affection and banded into faction doe labour to dishonour Gods word and to bewitch mens soules seducing the ambitious with promises of honour the simple ignoraÌ„t with osteÌ„tatioÌ„ of learning who coÌ„ceive their hypocrisie to be piety their superstitioÌ„ to be religion their falshood to be faithfulnes their traditioÌ„s to be Gods coÌ„mandemeÌ„ts their indulgences to be Christs pardoÌ„s their holy father to be Christs Vicar vpoÌ„ the earth But to returne to Isaac his infirmity The spirit of God sheweth that wheÌ„ he was old his eies began to be dimme he could not see he was fully resolved and determined to blesse Esau his sonne whom he should have had in detestation because he enstranged himselfe from God and as much as lay in him made the promise of salvation of no effect For what might have become of the Church of God if the stocke of Abraham had ioined with the Canaanites Isaac therefore ought more to have beene touched seeing his sonne to bee so prophane he not only offendeth in not vsing fatherly severity and correction but he so doteth on Esau that by his will this prophane monster should enioy the blessing of God He was no doubt the minister of God and a singular Prophet and led an Angels life among men and yet nowe beeing ledde by his blinde affection having the charge to blesse the chosen of God he dealeth as if himselfe were appointer and author of the blessing God had done him that honour to make him his minister in blessing as to say I wil blesse whom I thinke good but the testimony shal come out of thy mouth thou shalt be my messenger I commit this to thy credit charge as to the warden and keeper of my promise that which thou pronouncest shal be autentike and I will ratifie it in heaven God had done him this honour and yet hee suffereth himselfe to bee so snared in ignorance and seduced by affection that hee swarveth quite contrary from that which his office required and here the Lord wil teach vs that his counsell against mans purpose shal have his effect The Priestes in the lawe did not only offer pray and teach but they blessed the people as figures of Christ The Lord communicateth his benefites and blessings vnto vs by the handes of his ministers Blasphemous are the Papists who affirme that a mortal man may dispose of Gods blessings and graces at his pleasure And cursed are the Anabaptists who refuse the ministery of men and will be taught immediatly of God most fondly refusing inferiour meanes and with wings mounting above the cloudes is not God sufficient say the Anabaptists to instruct vs Is the holy ghost in the handes of men to bestow What neede all this preaching To what ende serveth so much reading Canne not God inspiring vs touch our harts without having our eares so battered with the tongues of preachers but doe not these fantasticall spirites know that God will vse the service of men and yet not be tyed to them Doe they not know that God hath ordained that faith shall come by hearing Knowe they not that Christ hath given some to be Apostles some Prophetes some Evangelists Ephes 4. some Pastores and teachers for the gathering togither of the Saintes for the worke of the ministery and for the edification of the body of Christ how long to endure till we al meete togither in the vnity of faith knowledge of the sonne of God into a perfect man And vnto the measure of

in that we know that no man canne be allowed or blessed of God but in an other mans name person even in the person of Christ We must all put on Christ if wee will have any blessing at Gods hands If all this were done by Rebecca Iacob at Gods appointment it was no sinne but a vertue To kill a mans sonne without Gods expresse commandement to rob a mans neighbour to put an offender to death beeing no Magistrate are grievous sins yet Abraham is highly praysed of God for his readines to doe the first the Israelites for the second Phinees for the last That this was done by Gods ordinaunce some learned men doe bring somewhat probable and likely but not certaine and demoÌ„strative reasons as first the oracle of God shewing Rebecca that Iacob shoulde bee blest may seeme to prove this to be of God SecoÌ„dly that Rebecca was present wheÌ„ Isaac spake to Esau argueth Gods providence Thirdly Isaac his blindnes doeth concur to further Iacob Fourthly he perceiveth the voice to be Iacobs yet is deceived and blesseth him Fâ—ftly he discerneth not betweene kids flesh and venison being vsed to venison so that it seemeth the Lord tooke away the iudgement of another sence for Iacobs sake Sixtly seeing himselfe to be deceived he doth not coÌ„plaine of Iacob much lesse revoke the blessing nay he confirmeth it to Iacob Finally there is a space given to Iacob to departe with the blessing and immediatly Esau commeth in Because of these reasons I say if Iacob and Rebecca did this without Gods appointment it was bonum but not benÃ¨ the matter was good the manner nought but if it were doone by GODS commaundement which I dare not denie but it might bee but I will not affirme that it was because Gods worde doeth not affirme but if the manner was of God it was blamelesse altogither but howsoever it was I say and you see with Gamaliel that the counsell of GOD cannot bee hindered Have not the blessings of Englande diverse and sundrye wayes by the bloudie Guizes and Italian Gog and Spanish Magog beene mischievouslie assailed from time to time But praysed and praysed for ever bee that GOD that helpeth vs and powreth dailie his benefites vppon vs hee hath overthrowen the Spanish attempt and the Guisian practise hee hath prepared him deadly weapons hee hath whette his swoorde hee hath bent his bowe hee hath ordained his arrowes against the face of these persecutours so that they are falne into the pitte that they made for vs. The mischiefe is returned on their owne heade and their crueltie is falne on their owne pate Put them still thus in feare O LORDE that they may knowe themselves to bee but men And in asmuch as the counsels of GOD cannot bee hindered by any pollicie or power of man I wish with all my hearte that our learned and grave Fathers woulde somewhat refraine themselves from them that sue for reformation and let them alone for if this counsell or this worke be of men it will come to nought but if it bee of God they cannot destroy it lest they be founde even fighters against God And withall the veines of my soule I wish that they that seeke reformation would take heede that they make not the cause the worse by their vndiscreete zeale vnbrotherlie reproches vnchristian slaunders vnsaverie and vnlearned libels and almost Pharisaicall contempte of their fathers and brethren For my owne parte GOD is my witnesse whome I serve in my spirite in the gospell of his sonne that without ceasing I praye for the peace of the Church and for a learned ministerie You knowe that discorde in the Church is fire in a house and a continuall fever in the bodie The LORDE quench this fire and cure this fever Wee prayed for outwarde peace when our enemies were at hande and nowe GOD hath sente it doe wee nourish contentions inwardely and at home among our selves Inwarde dissention or contention is a gappe not onelye for the bloud-thirstie Papist to enter who hath no other desire then our destruction do other scope then our spoile but no other meanes but our contentions but it is a gappe to let in Satan he entreth at our vnchristian breaches But to speake somewhat more of Iacob and so to ende we see he stealeth his blessing but wee have many that steale the blessings which at none of theirs I cite them all to stande at the tribunal seat of the eternall iudge I leave the poore known theeves to the coÌ„mon barres and here I first summon those sacrilegious persons that feare not to steale holy thinges that make a mocke of that iniquity Sacriledge will be sinne one day The conveying of publike things to privat vses wil prove theft one day Te comming in by Simony wil appeare to be theft Yea the stealing of the heartes of the people from the pastors will be prooved theft And you famous Merchantes other occupiers in this citty take heed that theft like birdlime cleave not fast to some of your fingers And you that are tutors of widdowes and Orphans goods beware that ye be not appeached of theft You that are servants take heede that ye come not in the number The causes of theft at first the perversnes of maÌ„s heart secondly incredulity thirdly vnfaithfulnes fourthly covetousnes fiftly ease and idlenes sixtly surfetting seventhly occasion I scarce make poverty one cause for such theeves are almost as worthy of pitty as of punishment A man may bee guilty of theft by dealing in it by concealing of it by counselling to it by commaunding or commending it Iacob was timorous in stealing his owne these are impudent in taking other mens Iacob was even forced to these meanes they runne to al wicked meanes Iacob did it but once it is their daily practise Iacob would soone have beene disswaded but even Gods word caÌ„not disswade these men from spoiling and robbing the Church the fatherles and stranger I had left out the Abbey-lubbers in our Church who are mighty theeves Though the Abbeies be gone yet they remaine I meane such as will not worke whether it be civill or spirituall worke it is plaine theeverie to take the daies wages and not to do a daies worke for it The Lord our God enlighten our mindes and sanctifie our heartes with such a portion of his spirit and with that measure of his grace that we may be fully perswaded that this worldes repose is full of anguish the security of the worlde without foundation the feare of the worlde without comforte the travels of the worlde without fruit the sorrow of the worlde without profitte the desires of the worlde without successe the hope of the worlde without rewarde and the mirth of the worlde without continuance and the miseries of the worlde without remedies and that all the worlde is but vanity of vanities Againe that our heartes may bee inwardlie informed and thoroughlie certified that the lawe of the Lorde is an vndefiled lawe converting the soule c. The God of peace c. FINIS

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