Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	know_v	worship_v	2,551	5	9.5681	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12165	A verie godlie and necessary sermon preached before the yong countesse of Cumberland in the North, the 14 of Nouember, 1577. By Christopher Shutt.	Shutte, Christopher, d. 1626.	1578 (1578)	STC 22470; ESTC S103003	33,188	104

those that lie in darkenes and shadow of death vntill they haue accesse into the Church of the faythfull For so loÌ„g as we be without the church and number of the faythfull we are aliants strangers pilgrims and men without God in this worlde yea wee bee enemies to God vntil we be reconciled to the father by Christ We are without mercy and polluted in our bloud vntil by him we obtaine grace be washed from our sinnes We are dead in trespasses and sinnes till we be raised vp with the righteousnes of Christ We be drunkeÌ„ with the poisoned dregges of superstition vntil we haue the soueraigne triacle of Gods promises in the worde of the truth for our preseruation How theÌ„ ought we think you to make haste into this arke your owne coÌ„sciences herein shal be my iudges Surely we can not be partakers of the heauenly graces except we be within the church of Christ for onely vpon the same they are bestowed Where can our soules be fed with the worde of God but among the faythfull who are the sheepe of Christ heare his voice Where shall we shew our thankfulnesse and confirme our faith with the sacraments but in that Church where thei be sincerely ministred Where can we haue forgiuenesse of our sinnes the grace of God the holy ghost the righteousnesse of Christ and other his benefits vnlesse we be within the Church for whom he wrought the same If therefore we hope for happines looke assuredly for saluation theÌ„ must we keepe within the arke then we shall be safe and sounde And that we be not deceyued with the title of the Church which the aduersaries always haue in their mouthes the Lord hath left vs his true and sincere worde the right administratioÌ„ of his sacraments and ecclesiasticall discipline to be the perfect marks of this his spirituall arke whereto whilest we do cleaue stick we cannot be deceyued or perish with the wicked What then sayth the papist shall we thinke of all those which liued in the time of ignoraÌ„ce and were without the Church which now we haue which was so lately found shall we iudge them to be damned which thing we must needes do except wee make the Church of Rome the arke and Church of Christ Concerning the Church of Rome this is to be obserued that this Church of Rome which nowe is is not the same but only in place with that which was in the primitiue time For then they followed the doctrine of the Apostles nowe they haue reuolted from the same and Antichrist sitteth in the Temple of God. And though the auncient fathers speake much in the commendation of the Church of Rome yet speake they only of the church before that superstition crept into the same And now before I answere to this question I must propounde the like to them Before the time of Boniface the third then Pope of Rome when superstition and corruptioÌ„ crept into the Church and the light of the trueth began to be darkned were all damned which neuer before or after yeelded to the sea religion of Rome Were all vndone which neuer beleeued transubstantiation concluded by InnoceÌ„tius the third or those which neuer worshipped their breaden god which thing Honorius did decree What need I speake of other vanities Were all the Prophetes and holy men of God was Christ and his Apostles and the auncient fathers of the primitiue Church beside the way and out of the arke which had the spirite of God to lead theÌ„ into all truth who taught the sacred verities and all things necessarie to saluation and yet did neuer retaine such vanities as these men holde And if they did foretell any thing thereof it was but to bid the Church beware of such vngodlinesse And as for the arke or Church wherein we bee it was before theirs was euer deuised not newly and of late yeeres as many iudge begunne but renued and reformed of late according to the worde of God and is in substaÌ„ce and doctrine all one with the Church of God from the beginning directed by his spirit and by the scepter of his worde And albeit it was long hid through the tyrannie of the deuill who draue the woman into the wildernes yet ceased there not infinite numbers to withstande and gainsay the pollutions of Idolatrie whom God preserued by his grace though they could not bee seene by the eyes of men For like as faith is chiefly knoweÌ„ to God and cannot be discerned by outwarde senses otherwise then by the declarations thereof so the Lorde knewe onely who were his whose fayth was knowne by their resistance to the beast When Iohn foretold the corruptions of the later times and of the man of sinne he shewed that there was of all tribes many sealed with the spirit of God and marked with the blood of the Lambe receyued by fayth who perished not in the lake of Antichristes pollutions He tolde that the two witnesses of Christ whereby he meant the smal number of the true Church should be murthered by the beast who should make warre with the saints of God and torment them to death who should be drunken with the blood of saints and holy martyrs which could neuer haue beene if there had bene none to haue gainsaid his wicked ways I neede not speake of the churches of Grecia who still withstood the popish vanities yea there neuer ceased some to withstande hir erronious religion Neither must we thinke that all was lost that liued theÌ„ For why the Lord hath wayes meanes vnknowen to man to saue his people as hee saued the thiefe euen in the last houre vpon the crosse And as he hath chosen in his secret purpose vnknowne to man who shall bee saued so will he not lose one of them but call them in due time As for this argument which they vse herein it hath bene a stuÌ„bling blocke to the wicked of all ages The Iewes were mooued with nothing so much to gainsay the doctrine of the Prophets calling them from their Idolatrie but that their fathers had liued as they did at that present and yet they ought not to haue folowed their fathers further then their fathers folowed the worde of trueth The woman of Samaria reasoned thus against our Sauiour Christ Our fathers saith shee worshipped in this mountaine but hee made hir an answere that they worshipped they knewe not what for saluation came of the Iewes But it is not the part of a good coÌ„science wheÌ„ the trueth is opened to leape from the same into the seat of iudgement and define who were saued who were not but rather referring al to the mercy and good pleasure of God both concerning our forefathers all others to labour our wittes to do his will. For now this thing is condemnation that light is come into the world

men loue darknes more then light And to saye the trueth if some of our elders in the times of ignoraÌ„ce had had the trueth as wee haue no we reueyled they would long since haue repented in sackecloth ashes But it is greatly to bee feared which our sauiour Christ doth threaten to come to passe against the Iewes to be layde against vs For as the men of Niniue repeÌ„ted at the preaching of Ionas and not the Iewes at the preaching of Christ who was greater theÌ„ Ionas euen so the good and faithfull dealing which they had in times past in ciuill causes doth reprooue our iniquities and tell what they would haue bin if they had had the light And therefore a good father saieth full well Men had better coÌ„sciences then and lesse knowledge now haue they more knowledge worse consciences But if these men will bragge of auncientie theÌ„ must they looke vnto the olde wayes of the Prophets and Apostles to Christ the trueth it selfe in whom are all the treasures of wisedome and vnderstanding for Antiquitie without veritie is nothing worth If they would boast of vnitie the same must be reposed in true doctrine and the holy ghost not in ydle ceremonies If they will glory of succession the same will helpe theÌ„ nothing except they follow the ancient fathers in sinceritie of doctrine and godly coÌ„uersation for they be not the true successours of holy men which alwayes sit in their chayres but they which folow their faith and godly workes And if they make theyr vaunt of multitude the most parte are not alwayes best inclined For why narowe is the way that leadeth vnto lyfe and fewe there be that fynde it but wyde is the way that leadeth to perdition And though many be called yet fewe be chosen Only Noe his familie which were but eight in all were saued aliue when all the worlde besides was drowned And though they bragge much of the title of the church the church yet haue they made thereof a denne of theeues brokeÌ„ downe the vineyard of the Lorde erred froÌ„ the way of trueth Let vs therfore repaire not vnto them but vnto the Arke of Christ so wee shall be sure and safe from drowning destruction Furthermore it is to be noted that notwithstaÌ„ding Noe and his familie were safe within the Arke and sure from drowning yet were they tossed to fro with the feareful waues sourging seas also dismaid with the cloudy mistie ayre not much vnlike vnto the disciples of our Sauiour Christ afraid vpoÌ„ the seas at the daÌ„gerous tempestes tossing the ship wherein they were But as then our sauiour Christ most comfortably did awake and commaunde both winds and seas to be still so was the merciful God careful for Noe in these afflictions within the Arke and after many wearisome dayes did bring him safe to land Thus is the Church of God alwayes in the raging tempestes and byllowes of this worlde afflicted with many tribulations before she can arriue to the hauen of heauenly happines Albeit Abraham had the Lorde to bee his buckler and exceeding great rewarde vnder whose defence hee was safely garded yet was hee tryed by famine and other daungers many for the better exercise of his faith The Prophet Dauid was well assured of the Lordes fauour and mightie protection that hee needed not to feare yet was his fayth and patience proued by many afflictions both of wicked Saul and others mo and him selfe ordayned to go through fire and water before he came to the place of sweet refreshing Before our Sauiour and captaine Christ the head of the Church did with our fleshe ascende into heauen hee passed through the grieuous torments of the crosse Before the saintes and holy men of God attained euerlasting happinesse their fayth patience was tryed by the manifolde persecutions of Antichrist and his members And euen in these dayes the beast and man of sinne and sonne of perdition together with many kings and nobles of the earth doth breathe grieuous threates and wicked counsell against the Church and spouse of Christ and stirre vp strife all the day long wherein we must learne dearely beloued to arme our selues with fayth and patience against such persecutions For although wee be within the Arke yet will the waters of afflictions streame and striue against vs. Though our fayth bee buylded vpon the rocke and sure fundation Christ Iesus yet will the boysterous blastes and windes of wickednes assault shake vs if it were possible to make vs fall Wee must needs be like fashioned to our master and captaine Christ to suffer with him that wee may raigne with him to dye with him that we may rise againe with him to be partakers of his sorowes that we may be fellowes at his ioyes Wee must needes be tryed as fine golde from base mettall as the godly from the vngodly and as children from bastardes in the fierie fornace of afflictions Wee must needes haue the reliques of sinne punished in vs and therfore wee are tossed within the Arke chastised of the Lorde least with the wicked worlde we should be condemned Hereby the Lord wil also haue vs to bee stirred vp to seeke for succour from his throne of grace in calling vpon him in the day of trouble Our fayth our patience and other vertues moe must needs be explored known we must be inflamed with the desire of the life immortall wherewith we shal be crowned after we haue endured tentation Neither must we in the middest of these afflictions be discomfited or faynt-hearted for why wee abide nothing but it is according to the will of God neyther happeneth any thing vnto vs but the same hath happened to the godly of all ages And although for a time we cate the breade of teares and drinke the waters of aduersitie yet afterwarde shall we be filled with the heauenly Manna waters of euerlasting life Heauines may well endure for a night but ioye commeth in the morning The Lorde hath promised to bee present with vs by his grace and to comfort vs in distresse and to deliuer vs out of tribulatioÌ„ And though wee bee tossed in the Arke for a yere perhappes for more yet shall wee rest at length vpon Armenia and the floodes bee dryed vp and then the Lorde shall take vengeance of them who here afflict and molest vs. And in the meane time he shall turne their hearts that they do vs no wrong as hee turned the heart of Esau towardes Iacob Hee shall call them backe from persecuting vs as hee called Saul from folowing and pursuing after Dauid yea hee shall put such a snaffle in their mouthes then they shall doe no more then in his secrete prouidence he hath appoynted Wherefore when we be impugned by

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