Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16120	An exposition touching al the bokes of holie Scripture, and their excellencie		1553 (1553)	STC 3033.5; ESTC S120619	39,647	110

v.c.lxx yeres Genesis The first booke declareth the beginnyng and causes of all thinges speciallie the creation of man how it was froÌ„ the beginnyng how he fell and was restored again how all men came of one and being dispersed through the world by enormeous faultes angred God and caused the fludde to come vpon them Againe how thei that were saued in the same gaue the beginnyng to all kingdomes last of Abraham Isaac and Iacob holie Prophetes whiche liued before the lawe written in tables the liues condicions maners religion notable dedes and saiynges be discribed and how thei descended out of the lande of Chanaan into Egipt For these and other good men this first boke of Moses was called of some The booke of iuste men Yet with vs and our elders hath their naming preuailed whiche called it Genesis doubtlesse of the generation and beginnyng of al thinges at which Moses beginneth his booke The seconde boke declareth how the Israelites oppressed in Egipt by Pharao Exodus deliuered by their capitain Moses were ledde into desert through the redde sea how thei fought against the Amalechites were fedde with breade that rained downe from heauen how at the commaundemeÌ„t of God thei did create a Magistrate and at the last receiued lawes also describyng settyng out and commaundyng true religion holie maners rites ceremonies and finallie al due and good ordre in the coÌ„mune wealthe Here also is touched a little their shamefull offence that thei did in worshippyng the golden calfe And of their commyng out of Egipte whereof it principallie treateth this booke is called Exodus Leuiticus Vnto this ioigneth Leuiticus so called of the Leuitical ministeries which it teacheth It sheweth sundry kindes of sacrifices vowes pollucions infections general cleÌ„syng of sinnes lawful vnlawful mariages like other It speaketh a little of ciuill Gouernaunce but speciallie of holie rites or customes and as we might saie the bishoppes or canon lawes Here maie we see how vertuous and learned priestes ought to be All the misteries of the gospel the priesthode sacrifice of Christ his vertue power yea and our whole redeÌ„ptioÌ„ couertlie wrapped in figures is here throughlie conteined Â¶ The fourth booke is called Numeri peradueÌ„ture of this Numeri that in it the people of Israel are nuÌ„bred It declareth the actes from the second yere of their going out of Egipt eueÌ„ vnto the death of Moses In it be many notable exaÌ„ples of sondrie coÌ„mocions rufflinges emoÌ„g rebellious people There is shewed what euill ende sedicious persones come vnto what maruellous chaunces happen to the rulers them selues Moses of all menne moste constant and pacient suffred vntollerable thinges dooen to him bothe by his owne people and other foreins to and yet he him selfe is not fautlesse neither Many thinges are in this boke which perteine to religion and ciuil gouernauÌ„ce speciallie this That bishoppes ought not to flie from intermedlyng wyth matiers of the coÌ„mon weale nor a ciuil officer to passe little vpon religion Almost at the ende be described great battailes and certaine lawes are declared at large in the great plaine of Moab The fift and last booke is called Deuteronomium Deuterono or seconde lawe and as you woulde saie The lawe expouned now the second time This is added of Moses vnto the other afore as a briefe of all heauenlie Philosophie In it is conteined all that euer serueth to liue wel and vertuouslie The briefenesse thereof is moche commended and set by and is a plaine commentarie of the ten commaundementes This Booke the Lorde woulde haue still in the handes of his people wherin he hath so ordred all matiers as to all degrees and ages thei maie be moste mete and conuenient Iosue The booke of Iosue declareth principallie the trueth of Goddes promise How after the death of Moses the people of Israel by the leadyng of Iosue of whom the booke hath his name as of the chiefe persone were brought into the lande of promise the princes and people of the Cananites vainquished destroied in punishment for their great sinnes It hath a goodlie description of the holie Lande and sheweth vnto vs an example of a verie good Prince and obedient people It conteineth the historie of .xxvi. yeres or therabout Iudges The Booke of Iudges taketh his name of the Iudges of Israel whose actes and gouernaunce it declareth And countyng Iosue him selfe there were emong the people thirtene Iudges not as Kinges and Monarches but pastours presidentes and consuls of free people Here is set out a fre state with many chaunges victories slaughters Oppressions Deliueries iudgementes and commocions Also the mutabilitie of the commons alwaies ready to the worst diuerse heauie chauÌ„ces the fight betwixt religion and supersticion is here declared It is a mirrour of that weale publique where is no head officer but euerie man foloweth what liketh him best it sheweth what euil end that to moche libertie cometh vnto TheÌ„ ensueth ciuill battail and destruction within theim selues The historie is of .cccxxxvi. yeares accountyng hereunto the time of Iosue and .xxiiij. yeres out of the ministration of Helie Ruthe The little booke of Ruth toke the name of the chiefe person It treateth of no high matier but sheweth how after harde happes and greuous teÌ„ptations cometh a merie ende and that vertue is rewarded if we coÌ„tinue stil in goodnesse and refuse not honest labour It hath a rehearsall of Dauids or rather of Messias kinred very profitable for that that foloweth and the vnderstandyng of the promise of God This historie perteineth to the times of the Iudges After this folowe .ij. bokes of Samuel Samuel and Kinges and .ii. bookes of kinges a woorke of many and sondrie matiers very profitable and full of learnyng By moste notable examples in them be declared and confirmed the lawes and promises of GOD. Out of theim also are made the Psalmes and homelies of the Prophetes To be shorte emong the best goodliest cunningest and moste necessarie bookes of the Scripture these be not the laste The booke of Iudges sheweth a state of gouernaunce where the people or rather the chiefe emong them dooe beare rule The Historie of Samuel of the Kinges setteth out in his colours a Monarchie or one highe gouernour describing not onely what a King is but the facions also of al his Courte and Kingdome bee it good or eiuell Here maie you finde how lawes be chaunged religion kept or neglected notable examples also of Vertue and vice of trueth falshod prudence iustice of princes and priestes bothe good and badde But who is hable in fewe woordes to compreheÌ„de the great varietie profite of matiers in these bokes The first chieflie describeth the gouernaunce of Samuel and Saul The seconde of Dauid the third painteth out the glorie of SolomoÌ„ how mightie kingdomes decaie except thei be mainteined by feruent loue of Godlinesse religioÌ„ vertue and concorde So in the

times all those woulde the most holie God shewe to the worlde at ones in this boke The psalmes conteine the praises of god and godlinesse many exaumples also of calling vpon him of praiyng complaining thankes geuing and earneste repenting Other bokes there be written of dedes and saiynges bothe good and badde and of sondry duties that men should dooe But in this you maie learne all facions of all kindes of life and how the seruauntes of God ought to behaue them selues whatsoeuer chauÌ„ceth vnto theÌ„ This woord Psalme signifieth a song and this title The booke of Psalmes is to saie The bokes of songes Touchyng Solomon Solomon thou readest in the thirde booke of kinges fourth chapter Solomon spake .iii. M. Prouerbes and his songes were M.v. But all those we haue not He hadde in his court to his familiars holie and learned menne whiche through the prouidence of God gathered of al thinges the beste and asmoche as was mete for vs haue written the same in .iij. bookes The first is called Prouerbes Prouerbes or seÌ„tences short in dede but wittie swete seruyng generallie to many thinges and many men In these he sheweth good and euil trueth fashode what is to be desired and what to be eschued addyng here and there diuerse godlie exhortatioÌ„s Some emong the Grecians haue defined a Prouerbe to be a briefe darke saiyng profitable to mans life or worthie to be marked for some propre noueltie therin as saieth Erasmus Ecclesiastes The seconde boke is called Ecclesiastes Ecclesia is a Greke woorde and signifieth people called out to heare matiers of the common wealth Ecclesiastes is he that speaketh or reasoneth openly before them So in this booke is imagined a great multitude of people to stande together contendyng emong theÌ„ selues of the Highest good thing and Solomon the preacher to come forthe and condemne all their sentences saiyng Vanitie of vanities and all thinges vanitie For in the firste part of the Booke he entreateth that famous questioÌ„ Summum bonum Vvhat is that highest good thing whiche in dede is to be ioigned with God and to haue the fruition of him for euer Wherfore he replieth against them whiche saie it is in knowledge of many thinges in pleasure in glorie in excellencie or richesse Where also he sheweth how these thinges may be well vsed In the later chapiters he teacheth how we may iudge of good euil of thinges to be desired and eschued that by soche sentences as he had before in the Prouerbes The thirde is the booke of Canticles Canticles whiche is altogether allegorical For in figuratiue speache it teacheth what how good a thing it is to becoupled with God the highest good thing god is imagined to be the husband and the faiethfull soulle the spouse Moche rehearsal is of loue embracing kissyng wel fauorednesse and beaultie Wherby is drawen out the nature pleasure and strength of loue and ioignyng together with God For it pleased his goodnesse thus pretely to talke and attemper him selfe to our affection seing to man nothing is more swete nor of greater streÌ„gth then Loue. Let no man therfore conceiue with him selfe any foule wanton or filthie thing All that is here is holie chaste and honest It is called The song of songes and as you woulde saie the moste excellente Songe for that is the signification and strengthe of the Hebrues doublyng So thei saie The holie of Holiest that is the holiest of all Prophetes Now folowe the bokes oracions sermons Homelies or declarations of the Prophetes These were diuine Poets and oratours holie preachers priestes chosen men masters of liuyng and vertuous maners eueÌ„ soche as in holinesse of life in feruentnesse of spirite in constaunce of minde finally in most Godlie and effectuous eloqueÌ„ce were aboue all other moste excellent and marueilous And in that time or middle age many to haue florished it is plaine emong whom were Samuel Helias Nathan Heliseus Micheas the sonne of Iemla whose sermons we haue not wholie but so farre foorth as their saiynges and doinges are described in the holie historie yet as moche as is necessarie and enoughe for vs we haue receiued as it were by hande from one to another that is .xvi. orations of those that were moste excellent All thei direct all their saiynges and dooynges to the coÌ„mon marke of the Bible Partlie thei write histories partlie oratioÌ„s EnteÌ„te of the Prophetes In histories thei shewe examples of liuing faith and vertue of the might of God his trueth and goodnesse In their orations thei teache what is the nature disposition of God what his will is what thinges he is pleased withal how we shoulde serue him in faieth veritie iustice holinesse and charitie Thei exhort dehorte and coumfort Thei greuously rebuke sinne especiallie breaking of leagues idolatrie falshode murther periurie guile deceipt vsurie oppression iniurie fornication riot adulterie and soche other enormities Thei call vs by all meanes to repentaunce Thei set before vs the promises and benefites of God thei threaten his anger greuous punishmeÌ„t Again of Christ the sede of Abraham verie God and man of his blessynges redemptioÌ„ iustification kingdome and all the misterie therof of the callyng also of the Gentiles puttyng awaie of the Iewes holinesse and glorie of the Churche thei talke and commune so plainlie that a man woulde thinke thei wrote an Euangelical historie of thinges that were past and not of thinges to come And this is the common entent of all these holie prophetes of whose bookes seuerallie I will now speake a little Esaie Esaie one brought vp in the liberall sciences did prophecie at the least .lxx. yeres For he florished vnder Osea Iothan Achas Ezechia and Manasses Howbeit though we take nothyng of the kingdome of Osea and Manasses the Empire of the other kinges lasted lxi yeres In the .v. first chapters he blameth the corrupt state of his time calling them to repentaunce Then telleth he a Vision that was shewed vnto him in the time of IothaÌ„ After that he setteth the Orations whiche he made in the time of Achas He sheweth also to other forein nacions what should happen to them Moreouer he diligentlie describeth the notable battail of the Assyrians a very great battail wonderfull in dede and what sermons he made before the king and the people or euer this battaile beganne And from the .xl. Chapter he prophecieth deliueraunce by king Cyrus from the captiuitie of Babilon comfortyng the people of God in their affliction defending alwaies true religion and improuyng false At the last from the .xlix. chapter vnto the ende of the booke he prophecieth of Christ and the church so plainelie that Hierome thought him rather to be called an Euangelist then a Prophet For saieth he so euidentlie dothe he set out all the misteries of Christe and the churche that a maÌ„ woulde thinke him to prophecie not of thinges to come but to write an historie of thinges

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