Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	lord_n	word_n	3,012	5	3.9367	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02532	Contemplations vpon the historicall part of the Old Testament. The eighth and last volume. In two bookes. By I.H. deane of Worcester; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 8	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1626 (1626)	STC 12659; ESTC S103673	131,130	578

auengers It was his treasure and munitioÌ„ wherin he prides himselfe to these men of Babylon The men of Babylon shall cary away his treasure and munition What now doth Hezekiah but tempt them with a glorious booty as some fond traueler that would show his gold to a Thiefe These worldly things are furthest off from the heart Perhaps Hezekiah might not bee much troubled with their losse Loe God comes closer to him yet As yet was Ezekiah childlesse how much better had it beene to continue so still then to bee plagued in his issue He shall now beget children to seruitude his loines shall yeeld Pages to the Court of Babylon Whiles he sees them borne Princes he shal foresee them made Eunuches in a forraigne Palace What comfort can he take in the wishes and hopes of sonnes when ere they bee borne hee heares them destin'd to captiuitie and bondage This rod was smart yet good Ezekiah kisses it his heart strucke him no lesse then the mouth of the Prophet meekly therefore doth he yeeld to this diuine correction Good is the Word of the Lord which thou hast spoken Thou hast spoken this word but from the Lord it is not thine but his and being his it must needs bee like himselfe good Good because it is iust for I haue deserued more and worse Good because mercifull for I suffer not according to my deserts Is it not good if there be peace and truth in my daies I haue deserued a present paymeÌ„t O God thou deferrest it I haue deserued it in person thou reseruest it for those whom I cannot yet so feele because they are not I haue deserued war tumult thou fauorest me with peace I haue deseru'd to be ouer-run with superstition and Idolatry thou blessest me with truth shouldst thou continue truth vnto me though vpon the most vnquiet termes the blessing were too good for me but now thou hast promised and wilt not reuerse it that both truth and peace shall bee in my dayes Lord I adore thy iustice I blesse thy mercy Gods children are neither waspish nor fullen wheÌ„ they are chid or beaten but patiently hold their backes to the stripes of a displeased mercy knowing how much more God is to be magnified for what he might haue done then repined at for what hee hath done resigning themselues ouer into the hand of that gracious iustice which in their smart seekes their reformation and glory MANASSEH AT last some three yeares after his recouery Hezekiah hath a sonne but such a one as if he could haue foreseene orbity had beene a blessing Still in the throne of Iudah there is a succession and interchange of good and euill Good Iotham is succeeded by wicked Ahaz wicked Ahaz is succeed by good Ezekiah Good Ezekiah is succeeded by wicked Manasseh Euill Princes succeed to good for the exercise of the Church and good succeed to euill for the comfort of the Church The young yeares of Manasseh giue aduantage to his mis-cariage Euen whiles he might haue been vnder the Ferule hee swayed the Scepter Whither may not a child be drawne especially to a garish and puppet-like superstition As infancy is capable of all impressions so most of the worst Neither did Manasseh beginne more earely theÌ„ he held out long He raigned more yeares then his good father liu'd notwithstanding the miraculous addition to his age More then euer any King of Iudah besides could reach Length of daies is no true rule of Gods fauour As plants last longer then sensitiue creatures and brute creatures out-liue the reasonable so amongst the reasonable it is no newes for the wickedly great to inherit these earthly glories longer then the best There wants not apparent reason for this difference Good Princes are fetcht away to a better Crowne They cannot bee losers that exchange a weake and fading honor for a perfection and eternity of blessednesse Wicked men liue long to their owne disaduantage they do but cary so many more brands to their hell If therefore there be a iust man that perisheth in his righteousnesse and there bee a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickednesse farre be it from vs either to pity the remouall of the iust or to enuie the continuance of the wicked This continues to his losse that departs to an happy aduancement It is very like that Ezekiah marrying so late in the vigour both of his age and holinesse made a carefull choyce of a wife sutable to his owne piety Neither had his delight beene so much in her according to her name if her delight had not beene as his in God Their issue swarues from both so fully inheriting the vices of his grandfather Ahaz as if there had beene no interuention of an Ezekiah So wee haue seene the kernell of a well fruited plant degenerate into that crab or willow which gaue the originall to his stocke yet can I not say that Ezekiah was as free from traducing euill to his sonne Manasseh as Ahaz was free from traducing good to his sonne Hezekiah Euill is incorporated into the best nature whereas euen the least good descends from aboue We may not measure grace by meanes Was it possible that Manasseh hauing beene trained vp in the religious Court of his father Hezekiah vnder the eye of so holy Prophets and Priests vnder the shadow of the Temple of God after a childhood seasoned with so gracious precepts with so frequent exercise of deuotioÌ„ should run thus wild into all heathenish abominations as if there had bin nothing but Idolatry in the seed of his conception in the milke of his nourishment in the rules of his institution in the practice of his examples How vaine are all outward helpes without the influence of Gods Spirit and that spirit breathes where he listeth good educatioÌ„ raiseth great hopes but the proofe of them is in the diuine benediction I feare to looke at the out-rages of this wicked sonne of Ezekiah What hauocke doth hee make in the Church of God as if hee had beene borne to ruine Religion as if his onely felicity had beene to vntwist or teare in one day that holy web which his father had beene weauing nine and twenty yeares and contrarily to set vp in one houre that offensiue pile which had beene aboue three hundred yeares in pulling down so long had the high places stood the zeale of Ezekiah in demolishing them honored him aboue all his predecessors and now the first act of this greene head was their reedifiyng That mischiefe may be done in a day which many ages cannot redresse Fearefull were the presages of these bold beginnings From the mis-building of these chappels of the Hills to the true God Manasseh proceeds to erecting of altars to a false euen to Baal the God of Ahab the stale Idoll of the heathen yet further not content with so few Deities he worships all the hoast of heauen and that hee might despight God yet more he sets vp altas to these

A soft hart is the best tempered for God So Physitians are wont to like those bodies best which are easiest to worke vpon O God make our clay waxe and our waxe pliable to thine hand so shall we be sure to be free either from sin or from the hurt of sin It is no holy sorrow that sends vs not to God Iosiah is not moaped with a distractiue griefe or an astonishing feare but in the height of his passion sends fiue choice messengers to Huldah the Prophetesse to enquire of the Lord for himselfe for Iudah It is an happie trouble that driues vs to this refuge I doe not heare any of these Courtiers reply to this godly motion of their young King Alas Sir what meanes this deepe perplexity What needs all this busie inquisition If your father were idolatrous what is that to you who haue abandoned his sinnes If your people were once idolatrous what is that to you yea to them who haue expiated these crimes by their repentance Haue you not carefully reformed all those abuses hath not your happy reformatioÌ„ made an abuÌ„dant amends for those wrongs Spare your teares and saue the labor of your messengers All is well all shall be well these iudgements are for the obstinate had we beene still guilty these feares had been iust were wee still in danger what had we gained by our conuersion Rather as glad to second the religious cares of their young King they feed his holy anxieties with a iust aggrauation of perill and by their good counsell whet these his zealous desires of a speedy resolution That state cannot but be happy whose Priests and Peeres are ready as to suggest so to cherish and execute the deuout proiects of their Soueraignes The graue Priest the learned scribe the honourable Courtiers doe not disdaine to knocke at the doore of a Prophetesse Neither doth any of them say It were hard if wee should not haue as much acquaintance with God as a woman but in an humble acknowledgement of her Graces they come to learne the will of God from her mouth True piety is modest and stands not vpon termes of reputation in the businesses of God but willingly honors his gifts in any subiect least of all in it selfe The sexe is not more noted in Huldah then the condition As she was a woman so a wife the wife of Shallum Holy matrimony was no hindrance to her diuine reuelations she was at once a Prophetesse in her colledge an huswife in her family It was neuer the practice of God to confine his graces to virginitie At this very time the famous Prophet Ieremy flourished some years had he already spent in this publike seruice why was not he rather consulted by Iosiah It is not vnlike that some propheticall imployments called him away at this time from Ierusalem His presence could not haue beene balked purposely doubtlesse doth God cast this message vpon the point of that absence that hee might honor the weaker vessell with his diuine oracle and exercise the humility of so great clients In the answers of God it is not to be regarded who speakes but from whom The iniury redounds to God if the weaknesses of the person cause vs to vndervalue the authority of the function As Iosiah and his messengers do not despise Huldah because shee was a woman so Huldah doth not flatter Iosiah because a King Goe tell the man that sent you Thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring euill vpon this place Loe hee that was as God to his subiects is but as a man to the Prophetesse neither is the message euer the sweeter because it is required by a Prince No circumstance may vary the forme of diuine truth Euill must befall Ierusalem and Iudah yea all the words of that booke must allight vpon the inhabitants of both In how bad a case we may bee and yet thinke our selues not safe onely but happy These Iewes had forgotten their old reuolts and now hauing framed themselues to holy courses promised themselues nothing but peace when the Prophetesse foresees and foretels their approching ruine Euen their old score must be paid after the opinion of a cleer agreement In vaine shall wee hope to quit our arrerages by prorogation This Prophetesse had immediate visions from God yet shee must speake out of the Booke There was neuer any reuelation from the Lord that crossed his writings His hand and his tongue agree eternally If that booke haue cursed Iudah she may not absolue it Yet what a gracious mixture was here of mercy with souerity seuerity to Iudah mercy to Iosiah Iudah shall be plagued and shall become a desolation and a curse Iosiah shall bee quietly housed in his graue before this storme fall vpon Iudah His eye shall not see what his people shall feele It is enough that the expectation of these euills afflicts him the sense shall not Whence is this indulgence Because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lord. How happy a thing it is to bee a reed vnto Gods iudgements rather then an oake the meeke and gentle reed stoops and therefore stands the oake stands stiffely out against the strongest gust and therefore is turned vp by the roots At least let vs lament those sins wee haue not auoyded and mourne for the sins of others whiles wee hate our owne He that found himselfe exempted from this vengeance by his repentance and deepe humiliatioÌ„ would faine find the fame way for the deliuerance of his people The same words of the Law therefore that had wrought vpon his heart are by him caused to be publikely read in the eares of Iudah and Ierusalem The assembly is vniuersall of Priests Prophets people both small and great because the sin was such the danger was such that no man may complaine to want information the Law of God souÌ„ds in euery eare If our eare be shut to the Law the sin is ours but if the Law be shut to our eares the sin is of our gouernors Woe be to them that hide Gods booke from the people as they would doe rats-bane from the eye of children Ignorant soules cannot perish without their murder There is no feare of knowing too much there is too much feare of practizing too little Now if the people doe not imitate their King in relenting they are not worthy to partake with him in his impunitie Howsoeuer they shall not want a great example as of sorrow so of amendment Good Iosiah stands by the pillar and solemnly renewes his Couenant with his God the people cannot for shame refuse to second him Euen they that lookt for a destruction yet doe not with-draw their obedience Gods Children may not be sullen vnder his corrections but whether they expect or feele smart are no other then dutifull to his awfull hand As a man that findes hee hath done something that might indanger the forfait of his fauour puts himselfe into some deseruing action whereby hee may hope

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