Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	faith_n	holy_a	2,000	5	4.6932	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69048	The speach of the Kirk of Scotland to her beloved children	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1620 (1620)	STC 4365; ESTC S107176	43,447	131

teares day and night take hold of the king of glory wrastle with him as becomes Israel pray againe and againe with Abraham let him not depart out of your hearts nor from his owne tabernacles in this land your God lookes to be intreated loves to be importuned he is loth to leave you altogether No sudden eclipse comes upon you but like that of old when the glory of the Lord departed by degrees first from the Cherub to the doore of the house Ezek. 10. 4. then to the entry of the gate of the Lords house v. 19. then from the midst of the citie to the mountain towards the East side of the citie chap. 11. 23. Better keepe his presence now then seeke him through the streetes when hee is gone Choose rather to mourn in Sion for preuenting comfortles Babel then sitting desolate by the rivers of Babel to burst out in bitter teares in remembrance of sweet Sion The triall begins upon Pastors but ye know not upon whom it shall stay The large time of so faire occasion in the schoole of Christ requires two things now at your hands One is that yee bee able to try the spirit and to know with certainty what to follow The way to establish your selves is not with the Romans to rest upon a blinde faith receiving for truth whatsoever carries my name or authority nor with the rich man in the Gospell to wish that one may rise from the dead for your satisfaction Neither as it was in the time of Eliah to seek for a miracle from heaven nor yet to run to any on earth for decision of all questions for within and amongst your selves all are divided and without Papists are your enemies Protestants are strangers to your secrets and unacquainted with your covenants and oathes your comfort may be that your father died not intestate Let his testament bee read with attentiue reverence Search his latter will which he hath left for a plain and perfect direction to his comming againe Consider what is most agreeable to his wisedome what makes most for his honour for the edification of your owne soules for the restraint of the liberty of the flesh and for the comfort of a distressed conscience without respect to the appearances of wisedome and humility among men or to that which seems most to serve to your worldly credit that wooes your flesh or courts your carnall senses for this will bee a meager consolation when the horrors of God are upon your soules ready to be presented before his Iustice Continue in the things yee have learned and are perswaded of knowing of whom yee have learned them Have yee attained by a conscientious use of prayer hearing meditation conference unto a perswasion of that which is now in debate have ye an inward witnes testifying to your soules that your teachers by their fidelity the effectual blessing of God upon their labours have caried with theÌ„ the seale of their ministery Then coÌ„tinue bee not caried about with every wind of doctrine to the hellish disturbance of the heavenly peace of your soules In the time of tentation ponder with your hearts what better warrants yee have for some practises of religion more substantiall in mens estimation and whether the motives of the one alteration may not as wel inforce the other As ye should be able to try your selves whether ye are in the faith or not which Paul requireth of the whole Kirk of Corinth so should ye have skill to try the spirits whether they be of God or not For such are perverted as are ever learning never come to the knowledge of the truth And as in respect of the time yee ought to be teachers and to be able to edifie every one another in the most holy faith so are yee charged by the Apostle Peter to be ready to give an account even to your enemies of that hope which is in you He that hath faith can try himselfe can try the spirits and teach others and give a reason both of his hope and practise before the adversary The other is that once having gained a godly resolution of the truth you suffer nothing earthly to divert you from the profession maintenance of the same It is now high time for you who have been hearing of Christ so many yeares to be put to your trial how yee have learned Christ to give proof of your passive obedience when the Lord calles you no lesse then of your active Offences schismes troubles persecutions have been in all times in every period of the Kirk hath opened a back doore for a worldling to slip forth at Others before us have had their own trials these in the dispensation of God are now made ours Hee hath never been a Christian in action that hath not been a martyr in affection And let the world still sit in the chaire of the scorners that professor that will not bee a ceremoniall confessor would refuse to bee a substantiall martyr The smallest threed of the seamlesse coat of thy Saviour the lowest hem of his garment the least pin or latchet of that heavenly tabernacle may be a matter of a glorious and comfortable suffering to thee And the lesse the cause be it being Christs cause the more rare acceptable is thy testimony The heart may be sound and voyd of Idolatrie and yet the outward action of adoration may prove Idolatrous Knowledge is greater and Christ now more glorious by confessions martyrdomes prescription of time and profession of all nations then in the primitive times He that now counteth it no religion to renounce a Christian rite and receive an Antichristian in place therof would not have spared of old to set Antichrist himself in the throne of Christs kingdome We are unthristie bankerupts wasting that thesaurie unworthily every penny whereof was painfully and narrowly gathered together The worthy martyrs of preceding times and glorious instruments of reformation if they were alive in these decaying dayes how would they bee ashamed of so degenerated children How ready would they be in your places to suffer for the name of Christ Or if yee had lived in their troublesome times spoyled of your goods hated of the world pinched in prison sequestrate from wife house and children looking every houre for death consider what would have been your thoughts of infidelity your words of blasphemy your deeds of defection If it please my glorious head to call you to suffer for his name let your care bee as Peter hath taught you 1. to sanctifie him in your hearts and not to feare the feare of men 2. to bee ready with your mouthes to make apologie to every one that craveth a reason of your hope and 3. to have a good conversation in Christ that they who speak evill of you may be ashamed And let your comfort be 1. a good coÌ„science arising upoÌ„ two grounds One that ye suffer for wel doing the other that the

will of God bee so For howsoever all Christians be called to suffer yet every one is not called to every suffering 2. your conformitie with Christ. And 3. the assurance of an happy out-gate by his power who was put to death in the flesh but was quickned in the spirit and now stands on the right hand of the father to maintaine his owne and to revenge himself upon his enemies Deceive not your selves with worldly policie under the name of that heavenly vertue of Christian prudence which doth nothing intendeth nothing admitteth nothing in deed in word or in shew neither by dissimulation nor simulation against the honour of God in prejudice of the least truth against the love of your brethren or the duties of your own vocation Prudence never doth the least evill for procuring the greatest good for avoyding the greatest evill Shee is carefull of her own duty and commits the care of the event to God to whom it pertaines She is never so perplexed betwixt two evils but her eye seeth an out-gate without falling into a third evill of sin She teacheth her followers either with Cyprian in a matter so holy as is the casting of a little incense into the fire of an idoll not to enter in deliberation or else after deliberation with that worthy Prince of Conde to make the right choyce never to choose sin to remit punishment to the pleasure of superiours and the successe to the providence of the most high Beside that common necessitie layd upon you all in generall there is a speciall dutie at this time required of my Pastors and leaders The schooles of divinity which of late were a pleasant Lebanon fortimbeâ— to my buildings are become dennes of ignorance and impiety sinkes of schisme and sedition for my subversion The sonnes of the Prophets are made enemies to prophesie in stead of convictions of heresie hearing nothing almost but the censures of sincerity in place of the harmony of Christs Evangel deaued with dyted contentions about Antichristian geniculation Among their schoole Doctors sonnes of Ismael descended of Hagar Mismah Duma and Massa our toung-tied teachers all men of profound and hid learning the greatest Rabbi but that hee hath no hebrew at all whom God hath marked many wayes in his speeches preachings and practises bitterly condemneth them for heretickes who stand constant against that which of late he himselfe condemned of superstition idolatry both by word and by writ yet extant among his scollers in his patched and plagiarie collections written by many of their hands Thus alas my glory is become my shame my fouÌ„taine a puddle my Naâ—oth my beauty is become my loathing my deformity Hence forsooth shall bee furnished that plentie of excellent labourers cracked of to fill the places of my faithfull watchmen for their fidelity silenced and deprived Had my worthy Pastors but the favour of papists now or popish monkes of old casten forth of their places but not out of their livings our young divines fore-runners if ever any of religions ruine would neither like the lyons whelps make so great haste by their pricking pawes to get out of the matrix and in into their roomes nor yet make their mother so pregnant and parturient I may hope for some of Luthers spirit forth of these Cloysters and I beseech my God to give them the spirit of discerning But for the most part they were never taught to speak against papists for the truth to deale with the soules of people nor to live as Christians and yet must lay their hands upon the Lords Arke temerating my sacred mysteries entring unrevereÌ„ly with shooes and all into my Temple and making that holy ministery a meane of temporall life unto themselves more then a power of spirituall life to others The discharge of their calling is conforme to their education and entry and answerable to the wishes of the wicked people and wiles of the worldly patrones In conversation they and others before them so lewd that now it is esteemed puritanisme in a Pastor not to be prophane Every man and minister carefull to walk before God studious of Scripture and given to any abstinence in his diet as of old hee was set down by Ithacius in his Kalendar of suspected Priscillians so now by men of Ithacius spirit in the roll of Puritanes who cannot better to their iudgement approve the soundnesse of faith then by a more licentious and loose behaviour The authority of many preachers is so farre from procuring credit to their doctrine that to my great griefe and discredit of the Gospell that is thought by many in earnest which by a learned man was uttered in jesting of a profane preacher that hee would not willingly heare him say the Creed lest hee should take it for a lye comming foorth of his mouth This is it which carieth with it a secret cause of the conformity of the most part For how shal he that makes no conscience of morall duties in his conversation count it religious to stand against ceremonies in his vocation Or how can he be a director of thee in rites who is a neglecter of himselfe in substance The sonnes of Eli made the people to abhorre the offering of the Lord and they were slaine When Nadab and Abihu were consumed with fire from the Lord for failing in the outward duty of the ministry in a matter as might seeme of smal moment Moses told Aaron his brother that the Lord would bee sanctified of them that came neere unto him Few of the best sort can plead innocent of the matter in hand If people had been more painfully instructed in times past they had been better prepared for the present difficulties Had ye cleared your selves by your Apologetickes to your friends in forraine parts I had not been despised in the world neither had your reprochful defection been proclaimed among your adversaries Had you made your meane to your gracious soveraigne and layd before his mercifull eyes the pittifull cause of his own deere people lamentably scandalized and ready to make shipwrack of their souls upon these dangerous sands and uncouth rockes of novelties â—et in their way his maiesties clemency had not suffered matters to come to this desperate passe If yee who are the remembrancers of the Lord had not kept silence had ye blowen the silver trumpet in the middest of the congregation in the dayes of the holy assemblies had ye instantly denounced curses against the re-edifiers of Iericho had ye informed judicious professors in private and publicke of their owne interest and my danger had ye withdrawn your presence your countenance concurrence from the ring-leaders of that course had every watchman been watchfull in his own watch-tower defection had not gone on so farre at least your uncessant proclaimes and continuall protests would both have witnessed to the world and to the posterity after you that defection was not universall and also would have given your selves some

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