Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	life_n	reap_v	sow_v	9,564	5	10.7381	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72410	Two treatises, one of the latter day of iudgement: the other of the ioyes of Heauen	I. S.	1600 (1600)	STC 14058.3; ESTC S125046	52,691	137

liues that godly religious care of the life to come That which we are so greatly in loue withall the Apostle giues vs counsel to the quite contrary Loue not the world neither the things that are in the world 1. Ioh. 2 he addeth the reason because the world passeth away But he that fulfilleth the will of God abideth for euer Heauen is not in this life and we must looke to bee weaned from this world if euer we wil looke to be in heauen The ioyes of heauen and the desires of the world are quite contrary for they are too heauy a burthen and doo hinder vs from mounting vp so high And herein for the most part wee may be resembled vnto the Grashopper which is borne and bred liueth and dyeth in the same ground The Grashopper hath wings and hoppeth vp a litle but presently falleth downe againe So many of vs haue often good motions vnto godlinesse and the life to come and againe all is gone in a moment and we returne to our olde affections in this world as though all our portion were onely in this life Those foules that feede grosly neuer flye high and they which feed their hearts with things belowe cannot haue their affections in heauen The ioyes of heauen being so rare and excellent and so surpassing woonderfull that they might remoue these heauy lumpish and grouelling desires of this world The carelesse earthly and worldly minde hath no sight nor sence nor feeling of these ioyes But as the oxe is fatted in the pasture and the byrd singeth sweetly and feedeth without feare and suddenly the one is driuen to the slaughter and the other is taken in the snare So they that are giuen to the world are lulled a sleep in securitie vntil the time that death striketh with his dart and endlesse destruction ouerwhelmeth theÌ„ But where is that man or woman which can say with the Apostle I desire to bee dissolued and to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 1. For they that say such things declare plainely that they seeke a countrey Heb. 11.14 Desiring a better counttey then is to be found in this world that is a heauenly and for them hath God prepared a Citie Heb. 13.14 For here we haue no continuing Citie no continuing habitation let vs therefore seeke a better habitation to come which is of longer continuance and free from all miseries The next fruite is that the remembrance of these ioyes These ioyes teach vs patience teacheth vs patience in affictions in troubles and didistresses For how troublesome soeuer this life is here yet there shal al troubles miseries and wrongs be aboundantly recompenced And the Apostle speaketh truly Rom. 8.18 The afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory which shall bee shewed vnto vs. In the 126. Psal They that sowe in teares saith the Prophet shall reape in ioy And hee that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth foorth good seed shall doubtlesse come againe with ioy and bring his sheaues with him Woe bee to you saith Christ that now laugh for you shall waile and weepe Luke 6.25 And therefore happy shall they bee in an other worlde who haue in good causes suffered wrongs committing themselues vnto God This time of heauenly ioyes Heauenly ioyes compared to a haruest is compared vnto haruest and what care dooth euery one take to prouide good and choise seede that theyr haruest may fall out accordingly Thy seede is thy thoughts thy words thy deedes and conuersation Therefore let mee exhort you as the Apostle dooth Galla. 6.7 Bee not deceiued GOD is not mocked for whatsoeuer a man soweth that shall hee also reape For hee that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reape corruption but hee that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting Looke how wee sowe so shall wee reape such as our seede is such also shall bee our haruest The date of this our life is but short but the remembrance of a life well ledde shall bee comfortable for euer and this shall for euer and euer bee our endlesse haruest still gathering still encreasing and neuer payring The last thing in the aforesaid 21. Holinesse Chapter of the Reuelation is that there shall enter into this heauenly Ierusalem no vncleane thing And as it is in the Prophecie of Zechariah Chap. 14.21 In that day there shall bee no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hostes The Canaanites were a lewde people and for the same were driuen out of the land and if they were not worthy to dwell on earth much lesse shall they be worthy to be receiued in heauen Dearely beloued saith the Apostle S. Peter 1. Epist. 2.11 Abstaine from fleshly lusts bridle them keepe them vnder for they fight against the soule Collo 3.1 If ye be risen with Christ seeke those things which are aboue where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God Set your affections on things which are aboue and not on things which are on earth and mortifie your immoderate affection and euill concupiscence Remember this peremptory word No vncleane thing shall enter there Mat. 5.8 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Heb. 12.14 Follow holynesse without the which no man can see God And God graunt vs this wedding garment of holynesse that we may goe in with the bridegroome for we know what befell to him that wanted it Mat. 22.11 Let vs worke our owne saluation with feare and trembling being desirous to receiue a kingdome which cannot bee shaken let vs pray for grace whereby we may so serue God that we may please him with reuerence feare And seeing we haue precious promises 2. Cor. 7.1.2 Pet. 1.4 and that more surer then the heauen and the earth Heb. 6.13.18 let vs cleanse our selues from all filthinesse of the flesh spirit and grow vp into ful holinesse in the fear of God For as they that thus do his will shal enter in through the gates into the Cittie and their right shal be in the tree of life So without shal be dogs and all vnclean persons Reu. 22.14 Let not my last exhortation be forgotten among you Enter in at the strait gate for it is the wide gate and broad way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat Because the gate is straight and the way narrow that leadeth vnto life fewe there be that finde it To adde vnto these Gods mercie one of the greatest ioyes one of the greatest ioyes among all is Gods mercie whereof wee haue a sweete taste in this life For were it not for that none of vs all should enter into that place where thosse ioyes are to be found For as our first parents by Gods iust anger according to their due desert were cast out of Paradice and an Angel set with a sword drawne to keepe the way that no flesh should return thither so the onely gate to let vs in again is Gods mercy Wherof as the godly and most righteous that are stand in great need so let none of vs all either abuse Gods mercy or presume of his mercy least we misse of the same This mercy is called the rich mercy of God for no treasure is comparable vnto it and as it passeth all vnderstanding so cannot the deepest reach of man conceiue any part of the depth or height therof the compasse the largenesse the widenesse and breadth of it is such that it cannot bee measured and therefore may it well be called as it is indeed both infinit and incomprehensible And because no tongue of man can speake it let Angels bring the message As we reade Luk. 2.14 Glory be to God in the high heauens and peace in earth and towards men good will The Lord of his goodnesse direct our steppes to this throne of mercy and cloath vs with the garment of mercy And the Lord this day set his print and seale vpon you Thus I perswade my self I haue now wonne some and whom I haue wonne the Lord in mercy keepe and so I discharge my selfe For we are all by our owne disposition like vnto tottering walles still readie to slide still readie to fall And therefore I would I might say as it was saide to him that suffered with Christ This day shall ye be in Paradice And if this day your hatts be throughly conuerted surely this day you are in Paradice It was no comfort to Adam and Eue to remember they wer in Paradice seeing themselues now cast out And if we be once placed in Paradice then let vs looke to our standing that we fal not For as we are mortal so are we mutable and nothing so familiar with vs as to chaunge Deu. 5.29 Vnconstant God knowes we are the Lord make vs stedfast And the remembrance of these heauenly ioyes which wee haue now heard let that make vs stedfast euen to the end Deo soli omnis laus fit gloria Et gratia in seculum FINIS

and a fleshly paradice to inhabit and sensual men haue imagined the ioyes the heauen according to their sensual delights yet to them that haue any sence and reason it canot chuse but seeme to end all in a fable These ioyes are seene in Princes courts these ioyes are seene in the Turkissh kingdome but the ioyes of heauen are such that no eye hath euer seene them But to leaue these deceiued Turkes to their false and fained ioyes let vs consider what other haue imagined not much vnlike to this Which is expressed by way of coÌ„parison of a poore mans miserable estate suddenly changed into most vnlooked for happinesse whereby the ioyes of an other life may appeare by the miseries of this life As if a poore man that were out of his way wandring alone vpon the mountaines in the midst of a darke and tempestuous night farre from company destitute of money beaten with raine terrified with thunder stiffe with colde wearied out with labour almost famished with hunger and thirst and neare brought vnto dispaire with multitude of miseries shuld vpon the suddain and in the twinckling of an eye This chaÌ„ge is sudden and vnlooked for be placed in a goodly large and rich pallace furnished with all kind of cleare lights warme fire sweet smels daintie meates soft beds pleasant musicke fine apparell and honorable company all prepared for him and atteÌ„ding his coÌ„ming to serue him to honor him and to annoynt crown him a king for euer Behold that miseries of this life the Ioyes of an other yet is this but an imagination and the wit and wisedome of man can deuice a great deale more and yet all are farre inferiour in degree to those true ioyes that hereafter shall be found See how the inueÌ„tioÌ„s of meÌ„ blinded with their naturall conceits run all vpon outward comforts and sensuall ioyes all for the body and as for the soule that is not once remembred Now from the deuiceâ— inuentions and imaginations of men all which come nothing neare to the effect of this matter let vs now come to the Reuelation of the Scripture and if any where this blessed estate be to be found we shall read it in the Booke of the Reuelation Wherein although many things bee hard and intricate and passing mans vnderstanding yet is this matter liuely described after a measure and in a sort vnder the name of the citie of God and the heauenly IerusaleÌ„ And straÌ„ge it is that those matters that neither eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor euer entred into the heart of man should so much bee opened and reuealed as there we may read Reue. 21. First theÌ„ let vs speak coÌ„cerning the place The description of the place where these ioyes are to be found vnder the name of Ierusalem then concerning the commodities therto appertaining The place is heauenly Ierusalem the citie of God the land of the elect which the Apostle describeth after this sort And I Iohn saith he sawe the holy citie new Ierusalem come downe from God out of heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Whereof the Prophet Isay speaketh in the person of God Chap. 65.17 For loe I will create new heauens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde But bee you glad and reioyce for euer in the things that I shall create For I behold I will create Ierusalem as a reioycing and her people as a ioy And I will reioyce in Ierusalem and ioy in my people and the voyce of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voyce of crying Likewise in the Epistle to the Heb. 12.22 we may behold the blessed estate of those that shall enioy the life to come Ye are come to the mount Sion and to the Citie of the liuing God the celestiall Ierusalem and to the company of innumerable Angels and to the congregation of the first borne which are written in heauen and to God the Iudge of all and to the spirits of iust and perfect men and to Iesus the mediator of the new testament And how this heauenly Citie and new Ierusalem is described we may read it notably set downe in the Reue. 21. Where by diuers earthly similitudes the glory thereof is shadowed setting foorth the same by those things which make earthly Cities famous and admirable as the compasse and height of the walles and stately building the gorgious furniture thereof Iewels and precious stones pleasant riuers and the tree of life in the midst thereof no night in the Citie But let vs behold the order and frame of this citie as we may read in the aforesaid 21. chap. of the Reuelation whither still I referre you The matter declared is as followeth beginning at the 12. verse of the Chapter This Citie Ierusalem had a great wall and a high and had twelue gates The Church disperced through the wordld Therefore the gates East West North South and at the gates twelue Angels and the names written which are the twelue Tribes of the children of Israel On the East part there were three gates and on the North side three gates and on the South side three gates and on the West side three gates And the wall of the Citie had twelue foundations and in them the names of the lambes 12. Apostles And the citie lay foure square and the length is as large as the bredth of it and the length and the breadth and the height of it are equall And the building of the wall of it was of Iasper and the foundations of the wall of the Citie were garnished with all maner of precious stones And the twelue gates were 12. pearles and euery gate is of one pearle and the streete of the citie is pure gold as shining glasse The names of the precious stones are further there recited You see in these words how glorious this citie of God is the walles of Iasper the foundations of precious stones the gates of Pearles the pauement of pure gold And if the walles streetes and gates bee such how much more ioyfull comfortable and incredible are those things within the citie for wee must perswade our selues that there are many hidden treasures and matters of farre more account Many things spoken of the outward place but those things which are within are vnsearchable According to that we read Reue. 2.17 To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hid and will giue him a white stone and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it So secret and hidden are the things within the citie This IerusaleÌ„ is also called a kingdome Luk. 22.29 Therefore saith Christ I appoynt to you a kingdome as my father hath appointed vnto me that ye may eate and drinke at my table in my kingdome and sit on seates and iudge the 12. Tribes of Israel And to coÌ„fort the godly in all wants distresses and

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