Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	life_n	live_v	soul_n	13,623	5	5.6183	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05769	A seasonable preparation for death and eternity, or, Funeral considerations, &c. Being the substance of a discourse occasionally on the D. of G------, a noble peer, who received his mortal wound at the siege of Cork in Ireland. With a prayer suitable to the occasion.		1690 (1690)	Wing S2238A; ESTC R183658	6,909	17

that fragrant Flower springing from the Clefts of its Bud and at first it was fair as the Morning and filled with the Dew of Heaven as a Lambs Fleece but when a ruder Breath has forced open its Virgin Modesty and dismantled its too youthfull and unripe Retirements it becomes sullied and begins to put on Darkness and to decline to softness and the Symptoms of a sickly Age and then sheds its Leaves and fades away even so is the State of Life which is attended by innumerable Casualties as we see the brave and valiant that if it was possible would out-face the King of Terrors and trample upon his gloomy Dominion are nevertheless subject to his stroke he sends a Bullet in War with a Commission to summons the most undaunted Spirit to yield himself a Captive to the Grave and this fatally executes it Errand and will have no denial snatching as soon the Darling of a Kingdom as the meanest Slave or perhaps a thrust with a Sword or a Pike may effect as much Death has inumerable ways to seize our Breath on him a thousand Diseases wait like so many destroying Angels to prey upon our Lives and hurry us into the silent Dust and so to Eternity never to return more to our Houses Possessions or Relations in an Estate of enjoying temporal things for neither Youths Riches or Beauty will profit in the Grave Kings and the Sons of Kings must mingle in the Regions of Death as we see frequent Instances abroad and at home no power nor might nor riches or honour can prevent it for though they are termed Gods on Earth yet nothing can hinder but they must at one time or other when the great and wise disposer of all things thinks fit dye like Men and then it is the Voice that Saint John heard can bring them comfort I heard says he a Voice from Heaven saying unto me write from henceforth blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their Labour Rev. 14 13. This is a blessed Change to leave a troublesome World for a place of transcendent Joy and Felicity where flow the Rivers of Life and an eternal Spring of Blessedness remains where Crowns of Life and Glory are to be had incorruptible Crowns that cannot fade nor have end the thoughts of which should be enough to raise our Spirits with a longing desire after Christ and his Kingdom and with St. Paul to dye daily to Sin that we may live unto Righteousness that so without fear we may look Death steadfastly in the Face and desire to be dissolved that our Souls with holy David may pant and thirst after God as the Hart panteth after the Water-brook This is the only way to conquer Death that conquers all so that although sorrow should happen for a Night joy will assuredly come in the morning here indeed we are in a Vale of Tears but there we shall be in a Paradice of everlasting Pleasure and think Death friendly id setting us free when we shall find as the wife Man says A good name is better than precious Ointment and the day of Death than the day of ones Birth it is betters to go to the House of Mourning than to go to the House of Feasting for that is the end of all Men and the Living will lay it to his Heart Eccles 7.12 so that we see O let us consider these things and work whilst it is day for the night cometh wherein no Man worketh that is the night of the Grave and Darkness from whence we can only expect a bright Morning of the Resurrection that will make us amends for all the various Misfortunes of this Life even when the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruptible and this mortality must put on immortality so when this corroptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortality shall have put on immortality then and not till then shall be brought to pass the Saying Death is swallowed up in Victory O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory The which that we may all find and so be happy we implore for the fake of him that has overcome Death and triumphed victoriously even our Lord Jesus Christ who is become the first Fruits of those that are risen and has given us a sure Earnest of the Resurrection to Life everlasting Amen A Prayer sutable to the Occasion O Most Gloruios Lord God in whom alone is the power of Life and Death on whom our being and well-being depends teach us so to number our days that we may apply our Hearts to Wisdom we confess O Lord most mercifull Father of Spirits that by reason of our many Sins we are unworthy so much as to lift up our Eyes unto thee but thou hast commanded us to humble our selves before thee that thy Wrath and Indignation may not sit heavy upon us for when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a Tale that is told Keep us O Lord we beseech thee in the way of Uprightness and save us from sudden Death that through fear or surprize our Faith may not fail but that we may have a steadfast reliance en thy Mercy at all times in Peace and War through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and Salviour Amen FINIS

A seasonable PREPARATION FOR Death and Eternity OR FUNERAL Considerations c. Being the Substance of a DISCOURSE Occasionally on the Death of The D. of G a Noble Peer Who received his mortal Wound at the Siege of CORK in IRELAND With a PRAYER sutable to the Occasion Licensed according to Order Printed for P. Brooksby J. Deacon J. Blare J. Back A Seasonable Preparation for Death and Eternity OR FUNERAL Considerations layed down In the Uncertainty of Man's Life and the various Chances and Misfortunes that attend us in our Progress through this World to the Heavenly Jerusalem and what a necessity of an early Repentance is required and the danger of the least Delay in the Contemplation of Mortality and Vnsecurity c. Being the Substance of a DISCOURSE Occasionally on the Death of The D. of G a noble Peer who received his mortal Wound at the Siege of Cork in Ireland With a Prayer sutable to the Occasion Printed for P. Brooksby J. Deacon J. Blare J. Back A Seasonable Preparation for Death c. Psalm 39.5 Behold thou hast made my days as a span long and my Age is as nothing before thee c. IF we truly consider the short duration of Life and the many Casualties that attend it we cannot but conclude that Riches Honour and Prosperity are but frail things and all he Glories of Life are compared to the most sading and transitory things considering neither strength beauty wisedom or power can secure them from the various Chances that attend Mortality This occasioned Authors to compare them to things that are exceeding momentary things that may be said to vanish almost as soon as they appear Some have compared the Life of Man to a Bubble alluding therein That the World is but a storm and Men rise up in their several Generations like a Bladder of Waterfilled with Air and some of these sink into the Deluge of their first Parents and are hidden in a sheet of Water having no other Business in the World but to be born that they may be able to dye others perhaps float up and down for a while and suddenly disappear there being no certainty of a lasting Life however Man may flatter himself therefore we ought always so to live as if we were on the brink of the Grave for those that live longest continue but in a restless motion or alluding to our first Simile of the frailty of a mortal State those that continue longest dancing on the Suâ—face of the Water are at last crushed with a drop from a Cloud into flatness so Man coming into the World if he spring up and grow gay to the Joy of many he is notwithstanding exposed to innumerable hazards and chances and in the end turned into Dust for all earthly power and glory must set at length in the Grave and no Man adds a moment to his Life beyond the Will of that God that gave it in whose hands is all the Breath of Life and in whose power it is to do whatsoever pleaseth him for altho' for a time the young Man may flourish like the flower of the Field and shine as it is termed like a Doves neck or the Image of the Rainbow which borrows its glorious Colours from the Sun by Reflection yet one thing or other frequently interrupts his Felicity for as we find it Psalm 39. Man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather themÌ„ so that we cannot promise to our selves no certain assurance Sickness Casualty War and many other things give us a Pasport to another World but here lies the main stress so to live that we need not at any time be afraid to dye for he that lives unto Christ for him to dye is gain I am says he the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth believeth in me he shall never dye John 11 25.26 this is the hidden Manna and Water of Life that nourishes us to Eternity and puts us beyond the fear of Death unstinging or disarming even the King of Terrors and renders us capable of out-facing him in his most affrighting shapes I know says holy Job that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth and though after my skin worms destroy this Body yet in my Flesh shall J see God whom I shall see for my self and mine Eyes shall behold and not anothers Job 19 25 26 27. here is the glorious Hope of a Christian whereby he triumphs in his Death and puts him beyond all possibility of fear notwithstanding the brittle Foundation of a mortal Life which Homer calls a Leaf the smallest and weakest part of a short-liv'd and unsteady Plant and Pindar terms it the Dream of a shadow another the Dream of the shadow of Smoke but St. James who spoke by a more excellent Spirit says our Life is but a Vapour and that is a thin Matter drawn from the Earth by a Coelestial Influence made of Smoke or the lighter parts of Water tossed by every Wind and moved by the motion of a superiour Body without power in it self lifted up on high or left below a mere Phaenomena like the shadow that departeth or the Tâ—le that is told or like the Dream when one awaketh what then should move us to hope the laying up a Security upon Earth since here we are but Pilgrims and Strangers and have no tarrying City but ought to look for one not made with hands in the highest Heavens It was usual amongst the wise Men of past Ages to order their being put in mind of Mortality even in the midst of their most joyfull Entertainments as having the Skulls and Skeletons of Men presented at their Feasts and at the Coronation of the Emperours of Constantinople a Mason presented them with a Model of their Tombs to let them know in the midst of their Glory and Grandeur they were but mortal Men We brought says Job nothing into the World and it is certain we can carry nothing out The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the Name of the Lord this is our only Reliance in Life and Death God is sure and certain to those trust in him it we dye in our Beds or in the Field whether our Graves be made in our Mother Earth from whence we were originally taken or in the watry Womb of the Sea whether we are laid up in the Repositories of the Dead amongst Peasants all is one in the Morning of the Resurrection all is one if we have a sure Interest in Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life of those that in Faith rely on him For now says St. Paul is Christ risen from the dead and become the first Fruits of them that slept as we find it in the 15th of the 1 Epistle to the Corinthians For as in Adam continues he all dyed

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