Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	pray_v	prayer_n	word_n	14,465	5	4.9655	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15864	The art or skil, well and fruitfullie to heare the holy sermons of the church written first in Latin, by a godly minister named Gulielmus Zepperus ; and now truly translated into English by T.W. ...	Zepper, Wilhelm, 1550-1607.; T. W.	1599 (1599)	STC 26124.5; ESTC S5001	76,549	165

and afflicton whether daÌ„mage come vnto thee or death or the losse of thy houshold things Yea sit not down here only A notable sentence but turn again again yea trie all things and containe them in thy mind This certainely is the cause of all euill that men are ignorant of the scriptures we enter into the battell without armour weapons how can we then be kept safe Those that are armed are commonly preserued and become conquerors the vnarmed or naked are not so And Saint Ierome in his epistle to Celantia which intreateth of the institution or instruction of the mother of a familie concerning this verie kind of exercise writeth thus Hierom ad Celant So thinke vpon the keeping of thy selfe at home within doores that yet thou maiest giue some refreshing and libertie to thy soule Chuse to thy selfe a fit place and such a one as may be somewhat remoued from the noyse of the familie into which thou shalt doe well to withdrawe thy selfe as into a hauen from the manifold tempestes of worldly cares and maist by the quietnesse and closenesse of the secrete place still and pacifie such waues of thy thoughts as from without are raised vp Haue thou there such great studie and care to read Gods word so many turnes and courses of praiers and so firme straight thought concerning things to come that thou maâ—st by this vacation and relaxation easily recompence all the businesses of the rest of the time And touching this notable incomparable profit which men may get by priuate reading of the holy scriptures very excelleÌ„tly doth Augustine dispute in a certain Sermon of his where among other things he writeth thus August serde stud sapien medit legis Dei He that will be alwaies with God must pray often and reade often for when we pray we our selues talke with God but when we reade God talketh or speaketh with vs. The reading of holy scripture yeeldeth vs a double grace both because it instructeth the vnderstanding of the mind and also because man by that meanes being drawne from the vanities of the world it leadeth him to the loue of God The labour of reading is honest and profiteth much to the purging or cleansing of the heart For euen as by fleshly food the flesh is nourished so by Gods word the inward man is nourished and fedde to all good in this life which causeth the Psalmist to saie Psal 119.103 Howe sweet are thy worde vnto my mouth yea more sweet than the hony or hony combe There remaineth yet one point more amongest such things as belong to preparation The hearer must powre forth praiers and is very fit to cause men profitably to heare sermons which though it be kept to the last place must yet notwithstanding principally here be stood vpon and that is touching powring forth or making of praiers to almighty God 1. Cor. 2.16 The natural man indeed perceiueth not the things which belong to the spirit of God for they are foolish vnto him neither can be know them Mat. 16.17 Again flesh and blood reuealeth not this vnto vs that Christ is the sonne of the liuing God Pro. 2.6 but our heauenly father He giueth wisedome and out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding Wherefore heere men had neede to make praiers both for the preacher himselfe and also euery one of the hearers for themselues The Church is bound to pray vnto God Praier for the ministers of the word as on the behalfe of their preacher that he by his grace and spirit would in such sorte gouerne his vnderstanding memory heart mind and mouth that he may be able to feede and refresh their hungry sick soules with the sound sincere and vncorrupted food of the word 1. Pet. 2.2 and that he may deliuer the same with such readinesse cheerefulnesse fitnesse grauitie and grace that all this his whole embassage may be indeed the ministerie of reconciliation and life by which God may gaine them 2. Cor. 5.18 and many other to himselfe euen to eternall life So doth the Apostle Paul desire the praiers of the Ephesians for him That vtterance might be giuen him Ephes 6.19 to the opening of his month with liberty that so he might make knowne the secret of the Gospell whereof he was an embassadour in bonds that thereof he might speake boldly as he ought to speake And the same thing doth he request of the Church of the Colossians namely that they would pray for him Coloss 4.3 that God would open vnto him the doore of vtterance that he might speake the mysterie of Christ And for himselfe euery one should pray that God would more and more vouchsafe to inlighten his vnderstanding Praier for the hearer and to soften his will and heart that so he may grow in the knowledge of his heauenly doctrine may lay hold of it by a true faith and may turne the same into the daily and wholsome exercises of praier and repentance So doth Dauid pray Psal 25.4.5 Make me to know thy waies O Lord teach me thy paths Cause me to walke by thy truth and teach thou me for thou art the God of my saluation And againe in another Psalme Psal 119.10 I haue sought thee with my whole heart let me not straie from thy commaundements Open thou mine eyes and so I shall behold the wonderfull things of thy lawe Make me to vnderstand the way of thy precepts and I will meditate in thy wondrous workes Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I will keepe it vnto the end Luke 17.5 So the Apostles praied O Lord increase our faith And Chrysostome putteth downe such a forme of praier concerning this matter when thou preparest thy selfe to sit saith hee or to reade Chrysost hom de patien consum huius saeculi or to heare another man speake first pray vnto God and say Lord Iesus Christ open mine eyes and the eares of my heart that they may heare thy word and vnderstand the same and performe thy will O Lord because I am a straunger vpon this earth Psal 119.18.19 hide not thy commaundementes from me but open thou mine eies and I shall consider the wonderfull things of thy law for in thee haue I trusted O my God that thou wouldest inlighten my heart CHAP. 3. Concerning the hearers dutie in the Sermon while and in the holy assemblies of the Church THe things that in the former chapter haue beene spoken The summ and scope of the former chapter touching the hearers dutie before the Sermon do all and euery one of them respect this point that mens mindes may be sanctified prepared to the right and wholsome hearing of Gods holy word as likewise that both snares scruples which hinder men in that behalfe might be taken away and also that mens harts being furnished with necessary meditations exercises before hand

receiued from God It lieth in you that haue been blessed from him with the first fruites of the spirite and the beginnings of regeneration not onely to suffer with patience the words of exhortation but to profit by them And God it is that of his free fauour onely towards vs in Christ must grant the requests and desires of his seruants Wherein surely he will not faile vs Hebr. 13.20 21. if we be not wanting to him to our selues Now I beseech euen him that is the God of peace and that brought again from the dead our Lord Iesus the great sheepheard of the sheepe through the blood of the euerlasting couenant to make you perfect in all good workes to doe his will be working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be praise for euer and euer London the xij of December 1599. The Booke or Treatie it selfe and the summe thereof Touching hearing of Sermons CHAP. 1. And the summe of it THat it is a point of great skill not onely to make Sermons but also rightly and religiously to heare them Pag. 1 How great art or skill is required to make Sermons ibid. Againe to heare them well and with profit is a point of no small skill and labour 2 The hearers dutie Before the Sermon In the Sermon while And after the SermoÌ„ 3 CHAP. 2. And the summe of it TOuching the hearers duty before the Sermon 4 That mens minds must with great religion and deuotion be disposed and prepared to the hearing of Gods word ibid. That this preparation to that exercise is in the Prophets called sanctification or sanctifying 7 That this sanctification or sanctifying doth require that all impediments of it or to it should aboue all things euen as they were corrupting causes be remoued and taken away 8 Of this sort and kind are 1 Surfeting and gulling in of wine and strong drinke the day before the Sermon ibid. A remedie set against that impediment 11 2 Too much care for preseÌ„t or worldly things 12 The remedie thereof 13 3 An imagination of some singular knowledge in Gods werd and that men may at home read the Bible or some certaine Postals 14 The remedie against it ibid. 4 Schismaticall and partiall choise of Preachers or ministers of the word 18 The remedie against it where also there is mention made 20 Of the inequalitie of gifts in the Church and in the ministerie 23 5 Hatred against the ministers and ministerie 27 The remedie where also is declared with how great hazard of eternall saluation this hatred is ioyned 28 6 The largenes of parish Churches 34 The remedie 35 7 The securitie of the old carnall man 40 1 The remedy or remedies rather aginst it 42 2 The master or father of the family must not go alone to the holy assemblies of the Church but must be attended vpon or accompanied with his familiy those of his household 42 The dutie of those that must call vpon others to go to Sermons Neighbours 43 Elders 44 Magistates ibid. 3 That euery hearer whiles the bells ring and by the way as they go to Church must be occupied with religious holy meditations 45 Causes compelling as it were men to the diligeÌ„t hearing studie of Gods holy word 46. 47 4 Men must at home read before hand and diligently thinke vpon the text that is to be expounded in the Church 50 A Christian mans duty in reading the Bible 51 5 The bearer must poure out praiers for the Preacher 55 himselfe 56 CHAP. 3. And the summe therof TOuching the hearers dutie in the Sermon time that in the holy assemblies also 57 This duty standeth principally in these points 1 That such as are learned can read haue the holy Bible alwaies in a readines 58 What coÌ„modities this custome wil bring with it 2 That all of them be present not at halfe the Sermon onely but at the whole 65 3 That sleepe talking together and curiositie be farre remoued and driuen away 63 Remedies against sleep in the holy sermoÌ„ time 65 Also against talking together 66 Also against curiositie 68 Also against reading other things in the Sermon time 70 4 That the whole drift and bodie of the whole Sermon be diligently obserued marked 71 5 That mens minds be free from preiudice and preconceiued opinions 74 What great hurt pertinacy in preiudicate opinions may bring to the truth 76 6 That men be present with a mind to learne and not to dispute and reason against things deliuered 77 After what sort how farre forth the Church may iudge touching sermoÌ„s made or heard 79 7 That hard things propounded in Sermons should not breede lothsomenes or tediousnes but a desire rather more and more to search out the points themselues 81 Why God in some places of his word here and there doth intermingle hard points 82 The searching out of holy things doth freely and indifferently belong to all men 85 8 That hearers must know obserue the method of the sermoÌ„s 86 sorts or kinds of theÌ„ 87 How the ministers may and should be holpers forward of their hearers as in this behalf 89 9 That the things heard must be conuerted to the exercises of faith praier repentaÌ„ce c. 90 That this may be done both the ministers must be truly touched whilest they are preaching and the hearers must be transformed into the affections of the ministers 91 10 That if happily the Sermon be somewhat long yet they thinke it not tedious or troublesome to them 93 11 That parents scholemasters and elders doe euery one of theÌ„ in the sermon while diligeÌ„tly obserue theÌ„ that are vnder their charge 96 12 That schollars be accustomed by writing to take Sermons ibid. What great profit sundry commodities this writing of Sermons carieth with it ibid. CHAP. 4. And the summe of it Touching the hearers duty after the sermoÌ„ 100 1 Men must not go out of the Church before all the parts of gods worship seruice be ended 101 Wherfore the whole Church indeed should be present at the Publike praiers 102 Administration of Baptis 105 CelebratioÌ„ of the holy sup 107 Catechising of children 110 Blessing of the congregatioÌ„ 113 2 Things heard in Sermons must at home be deeply thought of 114 3 Household gouernours and schoolemasters must demaund of them that belong vnto them repetition of the Sermons 116 4 Euery one must godlily conferre by the way as they go homeward in their talkes and at their tables touching the SermoÌ„s heard 121 The profits that come by such conferences 122 Chrysostome will haue the Sermons heard to be coÌ„municated to them that were not present at holy assemblies and exercises 123 5 No worldly businesses are vpon the Lords day to be taken in hand after we haue heard sermons but they must be wholly spent in heaueÌ„ly things and in priuate exercises also 125 What worldly businesses and at what time also worldly businesses

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