Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	love_n	word_n	4,023	5	4.0687	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09077	A double catechisme one more large, following the order of the common authorized catechisme, and an exposition thereof: now this second time published: the other shorter for the weaker sort: both set forth for the benefit of Christian friends and wel-willers. By Richard Bernard, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Worsop in Nottingham-shire.; Large catechisme	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1607 (1607)	STC 1936; ESTC S113787	23,289	50

insufficient to creepe in or to abide still neither the able to liue idlely by carelesnes pride or couetousnesse 3. That there be a godly order established and peaceably kept of euery one without giuing offence 4. That there be a holy and right vse continually of true discipline to admonish suspend and excommunicate obstinate offenders whosoeuer they be Q. Are not the articles of your beleefe a prayer A. No but onely a summe of the Gospell which is one part of Gods word containing the promises of saluation by Christ and is also a rule by which I must examine my faith Q. VVhat meane you by faith A. Not faith to worke miracles which is past nor historicall onely beleeuing that to be true which God saith nor temporarie to know professe and to teach Christ feare to commit sinne sorrow after to make satisfaction to destroy the wicked to make many prayers wishing heauen and to liue for a time in shew honestly yet out of Christ but iustifying faith is here meant Q. VVhat is iustifying faith A. It is a gracious and true perswasion in my heart grounded vpon Gods promises concerning Christ whereby I do apply him and all his benefits to my selfe being assured that he is my wisedom strength righteousnesse holinesse and redemption and that what he hath done it is as well done for me as for any other and so is mine as if my selfe had done it Q. Hovv came you by this faith A. By the holy Ghost working the same inwardly by the outward ministerie of the Gospell preached ordinarily is by the same word SacrameÌ„ts and Prayer confirmed continued and increased Q. VVhat prosite reape you by this beleefe A. I a wretched sinner in my selfe being pardoned of sinne and Christ giuen to me am in him the adopted sonne of God and righteous before him my heart purged my conscience quieted my imperfect workes do please him all crosses are for comfort and further to saluation holy Angels tend vpon me heauen is mine inheritance I am set at libertie from the curse of the lawe Sathan the world and fleshly lusts without feare of death damnation and hell fire Q. Hath euery one this faith and so these benefites A. No but onely such as shewe repentance the fruite of faith Q. VVhat is repentance A. It is a true turning of my mind will and heart wholly from the world the flesh and diuell vnto God with full purpose to attend carefully to the counsell of his word and spirit and through the whole course of my life readily and constantly endeauour to follow the same Q. VVhat are the true tokens of this true repentance A. 1. A continuall striuing of the flesh and spirit 2. A hatred of my former vanities auoyding occasion companie counsell or example to ill with loue vnfained to the contrarie 3. Increase of peace in conscience with comfort in affection for righteousnesse sake 4. A ioyfull expecting and wishing Christs comming to iudgement Q. May not a man that truly repenteth fall aftervvards A. Yes indeed and into the same sinne or some other Q. Hovv then may a man be persvvaded that his repentance vvas then true before A. 1. If this be of infirmitie feeling before and in the committing a dislike thereof for after true repentance sinne is neuer wholy committed 2. If that Godly sorrow follow which is not either for earthly shame temporall punishments hellish torments or losse of heauen but for displeasing God so mercifull a Father and this is called renewed repentance Q. Hovv should this appeare to be true A. 1. By an vtter loathing and condemning my selfe for the sinne newly committed with desire and perswasion of pardon 2. A godly anger burning zeale against my selfe with taking reuenge vowing and practising strictly the contrary vertue for offending 3. A watchfull care and continuall feare lest I fall afterwards at any time againe into the same Q. VVhat may comfort a troubled conscience A. These things 1. That God can pardon any sinne 2. That he will by promise made pardon euery penitent 3. That he which feeleth a true desire to leaue sinne and to please God is bound to beleeue his sinnes are both pardonable and pardoned 4. That doubting of saluation with feare to offend God is a signe of saluation 5. No condemnation to such as are in Christ and therefore their sinnes cannot damne them 6. Iustification must not be iudged after sanctification there is no perfection here and the best children of God haue grieuously fallen and haue felt this sting of conscience 7. The assurance of saluation must not be iudged as men feele assurance in affliction but by the stabilitie of Gods promises from former comforts and tokens of grace but in trouble from present desires onely The third part Q. You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keepe Gods commaundements tell me hovv many there be A. Ten and are diuided into two tables Q. VVhat doth the first table teach you A. The dutie which I owe vnto God in holinesse whome I must loue with all my heart with all my mind and with all my soule and with all my strength set downe in the foure first commandements containing the matter manner end and time of Gods worship Q. VVhat doth the second Table teach you A. The dutie which I owe vnto my neighbor which is euery one in righteousnes whom I must loue as my selfe set downe in the sixe last Commaundements containing his dignitie life bodie goods credit and more spiritually all of theÌ„ Q VVhich be the Commaundements A. The same which God spake in the 20. of Ezodus saying I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage which is no commaundement but the preface vnto them Q. VVhat is the first commandement A Thou shalt haue none other Gods but me Q. VVhat doth this Commaundement teach you A. To make choice of one and the true God to be my God and not to take that for God which is not God by nature the occasion whereof was the lusting after strange gods Q. VVhat are the things forbidden by this Commaundement A. Ignorance of God and the truth not to pray distrust of God impatiencie to feare loue or ioy in the creature more then in the Creatour to deny God or his word power presence iustice oâ— mercie openly or secretly in heart securitie without feare of God The contrarie is commaunded Q. VVhat is the second Commaundement A. Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any graven image c. Q. VVhat doth this Commaundement teach you A. I must neither worship false Gods nor this true God with false worship but in spirit and truth as his word onely teacheth The occasion of this Comman was our foolish desire of a carnall worship and a false conceipt to be able to prescribe a manner of worship to God of our selues Q VVhat things are hereby forbidden A. Idolatrie picturing of God or

state of damnation A. No indeed albeit both before the conuersion and also after they be called they falling by infirmitie and lying a time in their sinne may appeare in shew to the Church to be none of the elect yet can they not fall away wholy nor finally Q. May not men then liue as they list sithence he being a reprobate cannot be saued or an elect he cannot be damned A. Not so for that one elected cannot but vse the meanes which are ordained for him to walke in to make his election sure to himselfe which whoso doth not cannot be saued Q. VVhat beleeue you concerning God the Son A. That he is God the second Person in the Trinitie Christ Iesus the onely naturall Sonne begotten of the Father our Lord made man coÌ„ceiued and sanctified by the holy Ghost ioyning two natures into one person borne according to the promise of the Virgin Marie who perfectly fulfilled the lawe humbled and suffered vnder Pontius Pylate was crucified bearing vpon him Gods curse and hellish torments who died and was buried and being a while held captiue of death in the graue he was exalted and victoriously rose againe the third day and is ascended vp into heauen and there he sits on the right hand of God his Father hauing all power in heauen and earth to rule and gouerne his Church where his manhood doth and shall at all times though in his Godhead he be present with me euer remaine vntill he shall come from thence to iudge vs all here on earth both quicke and dead at the last day which day cannot be nowe farre off Q. VVhy should he neede to be both God and man A. That he might be the onely Mediator betwixt God and man to satisfie for sinne which neither the manhood by deseruing nor Godhead by dying alone could do Q. VVhy is he called Christ A. To declare that he was the promised Messias and to signifie his offices that he was annointed not with materiall oyle but with the gift of the spirit without measure to be our King Priest and Prophet from which name we are called Christians and are by him Kings Priests and Prophets Q. Hovv is Christ a King A. He is King not onely as God but as hee is the head gouerning the Church without any generall Vicar vnder him by his word and spirit immediatly making lawes and ordeining Ministers to the gathering together and preseruation thereof 2. By destroying Sathan his Angels vnbeleeuers idolaters heretickes Antichrist and the whole kingdome of darknesse Q. Hovv is Christ a priest A. 1. By satisfying for all the sinnes of the elect by his passion and fulfilling of the lawe 2. For that he maketh prayer continually to God for them Q. Hovv is Christ a Prophet A. By immediatly reuealing from his Father his word and meanes of saluation contained in the same Q. VVhy is he called Iesus A. To signifie that he is a Sauiour to euery true beleeuer neither is there any other meanes of ourselues or by any orher either in part or whole to obtaine saluation but onely by him alone Q. VVhy is he called Lord A. Because we owe all homage and dutie in ioue to him for our redemption Q. VVhat beleeue you concerning the holy Ghost A. That he is God the third person in the Trinitie proceeding from the Father and the Sonne who spake by the Prophets dwelling in the faithfull sanctifying them in part in this life working by the word and holy motions an vtter loathing of sinne and a heartie loue of righteousnesse leading them into all truth perswading them of Gods fauour teaching them in prayer bearing them vp in temptation quickening renewing and increasing his gifts in them that they may know beleeue loue and do that which is good which he will perfect fully in the life to come Q. VVhy did this God thus make redeeme sanctifie and hereto preserue you A. That I might prayse his name in liuing godly righteously and soberly according to all his commandements in my calling in all things whatsoeuer my estate be in this present world Q. VVhat do you beleeue concerning the Church A. That it is but one mysticall bodie whether militant or triumphant visible or invisible in heauen or in earth being a companie of the Lords elect holy by Christ catholike gathered of the dispersed abroad and hauing speciall prerogatiues aboue the rest of mankind communion with Christ and one with another by the bond of the spirit the forgiuenesse of all sinnes the ioyfull resurrection of the bodie and life euerlasting wherof I beleeue my selfe to be one and therfore that the same things belong also vnto me Q. VVhat are the markes of the true Church here on earth A. Inwardly faith and loue outwardly besides the vncertaine notes of vniuersalitie antiquitie and consent these two Christs word truly preached his Sacraments rightly administred whereto adde faithfull prayer and holy discipline Q. Js the Church of Rome a true Church of Christ A. No but of Antichrist the Pope the chiefe teacher of the doctrine of diuels Q. VVhat reason haue you to disallovv that religion A. For that it is a false religion I. The author is the diuell II. The meanes vsed to vphold it are vnlawfull 1. deceiued Councels 2. vnwritten verities and forged authors 3. falsifying the Fathers 4. corrupting Scripture by adding thereto 5. by taking from it by false interpreting 6. reteyning the people in ignorance by forbidding to studie the word and teaching it in an vnknowne tongue 7. pretending reuelations and shewing lying miracles 8. counterfeit holinesse 9. bloudie persecution III. The matter of their religion is vntruthes idolatrie heresie and nouelties inuented by man IV. The forme in the seruice ridiculous by foolish gestures carnall by fleshly pompes and delights their worship is by hypocrisie V. The end to aduance men by worshipping of Saints and extolling mans power and merits VI. The benefite gotten therby is nothing because it keepes a man in the estate of damnation and alloweth the breach of all the ten Commaundements 1. To feare God by mens doctrines 2. To worship Images 3. Magicke and coniuring 4. Idol-seruice 5. Treason against Christian Princes 6. Assoyles for murtherers 7. Stewes and restraint of mariage 8. Wages for no lawfull labour to Masse-mongers and for deceites 9. To breake an oath to a Christian made lawfully 10. That concupiscence is no sinne 7. Gods iudgements against many of the most fierie professours thereof which is neuer seene to happen to zealous and constant professours of the truth Q. VVhat must be done to maintaine the Church and to ouerthrovv heresie that destroyes the foundation errours corrupting religion scismes breaking the peace of the Church and vices stayning our profession A. 1. To cleaue onely to the written word which is both in time before and in authoritie aboue the Church to iudge all controuersies in religion 2. To call sufficient men and ordaine them Ministers to teach allowing necessarie maintenance but suffering no

end appointed to man nor beast V. I must warily see to mine owne waies 1. My thoughts and heart must 1. be far from vnlawfull affection 2. vpon lawfull things on earth moderate and no more then needes 3. vpon God and heauenly things often feruently and reuerently 4 that I striue against selfe-loue thinking of my selfe basely and waxe by more and greater gifts the more humble and lesse enuious 5. On others I must thinke highly and charitably iudging wel without suspitions what I heare or see good in theÌ„ receiuing it with ioy and hoping of better what I see or heare to be ill in them taking doubtfull words or deeds from them in the better part II. My eyes must be shut against obiects to sinne that they let them not into my heart to stine vp ill motions but quicke to obserue euery good example and occasion to goodnesse III. My eares must be exercised in hearing the truth good counsels friendly admonitions and godly exhortations but shut against flatterie lyings slaunder filthie and wicked speeches IV. My tongue must keepe silent vnlesse iust cause and conuenient time and place be to speake In speaking the matter must 1. be gracious to profit the hearers and also necessarie to be vttered 2. in wisedome regarding circumstances 3. in sinceritie to speake it from the heart 4. speaking of God and his word it must be religiously and ioyfully of ourselues modestly of others louingly 5. to prayse moderately without contempt to disprayse meekely shewing loue to be constrained by necessitie rather then of will to speake of other mens faults expressing sorow in vttering 6. to speake well of men in absence what good we know of them and to defend them and in presence without flatterie 7. to vse few wordes and effectuall to the matter without tediousnesse 8. not to talke of needlesse matters or which concerne vs nor as busi-bodies neither of any thing against religion charitie common good or chastitie V. My behauiour 1. it must be lowly to superiours 2. gentle to inferiours and 3. louely to familiars VI. My apparell it must be first for necessitie and then for honest decencie as we are able and agreeing with our calling VII My diet must be 1. sparing ordinarily a kind of fasting rather then a feasting 2. taking my foode with hunger and thirsting 3. at seasonable howers 4. that thereby 1. my strength may be maintained and encreased 2. my meditation and deuotion nothing hindred 5. that we be prepared in the beginning may feele a necessitie and pray to God and in the end sufficient refreshing may thanke God VI. J must take heed what companie I keepe with 1. that J make my familiars none but honest and religious 2. that they be my equals in estate and place not superiours to auoid suspition of pride nor too much inferiour least it bring contempt 3. that of these not many but one of all I warily deliberately and with much triall chuse my secret friend 4. that in going or keeping with any J must euer purpose either to do good or receiue some VII At night the time of rest 1. I must call to mind Gods benefites receiued either by preuenting euill or by bringing good vpon me to thanke him 2. J must recount what I haue done either in euill to repent or what good I performed to iudge either of my increasing or decaying in grace sorowing more for the duties omitted and sinnes committed then ioyfull of any good done 3. In taking rest I must commit my selfe to God by a deuout and faithfull prayer as thinking no more to rise 4. to haue my last thoughts of heauenly things by committing or recalling somwhat to mind of I haue either heard or learned out of Gods word 5. that I take sleepe to refresh nature and not to satisfie slouthfull flesh VIII And last is that all the weeke long I remember so to labour in my calling and dispose of my ordinarie businesse that I be prepared for the Lords day to keepe it holy but especially at the end of the weeke so that when it comes I may neither by them breake it or be hindred Thus liuing to God holly to my neighbour charitably and towards my selfe soberly my conscience shall be comforted my weake brethren strengthened the strong confirmed the wicked made ashamed the diuell confounded and God greatly glorified FINIS

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