Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	970	5	9.6533	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07683	A demonstration of God in his workes Against all such as eyther in word or life deny there is a God. By George More Esquire.	More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632.; More, George, Esquire, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 18071.5; ESTC S112856	95,106	174

miraculous sort The water that is cold and moyst and least meete of all the rest to haue the company of fire farre from that and next vnto the earth wherwith it well sorteth being cold and somwhat heauie is bestowed but so as in wonderfull wise it coÌ„passeth surmounteth and ouerfloweth the same beeing penned in with banks not made or deuised by any creature whatsoeuer Then is the ayre which is warme moyst placed betweene fire and water as betweene two aduersaries a stickler being friend to eyther side through qualities agreeable to eyther part It reacheth vp to the one and downe to the other and although it be ioyned to them both which are mighty and mercilesse yet being weake and of small force it doth both preserue it selfe in safety and hold those in continuall peace which continually are disposed to warre So are they martialled in places best agreeing to their natures that according to their most power they may execute their best seruice at the will of their Commaunder And to the end they should all agree in mixture which are diuers or contrarie of nature for that all naturall bodies haue beeing and constitution of them they are each to other so ioyned and coupled in fellowship that they are all in all and hold together a perpetuall friendship The transmutation of elements For fire extinguished passeth into ayre ayre thickned groweth into water water mudded incorporateth into earth and againe earth into water is dissolued vvater into ayre exhaled and ayre into fire extenuated whereby it commeth to passe that none is alone without the others company and all are setled in a common societie which holding they giue constitution to other things and bring no destruction to themselues For as in themselues so in other things considered they are mingled in such sort as one is Maister and the rest giue place which causeth them to rest in peace O the depth of that wisedome and riches of that power which hath placed disposed and ioyned them in so wonderfull wise and to so necessary vse Heereof it is FroÌ„ whence the varietie and diuersitie of creatures that within the bowels of the earth vaines of sundry mettalls quarries of diuers stones are found in colour and nature one differing from another that out of the earth varietie of hearbs and flowers doe spring whereof none in sent leafe and vertue doe agree that trees are vnlike in barke and in fruite that all brute beasts are knowne so vvell a sunder and that as well the fishes of the Sea as the fowles of the ayre are seene infinitely to differ For as the earth is a receptacle of all influences descending from heauen like a mother bringeth forth and feedeth those things which are begotten with in her herselfe receiuing nourishment from water breath from ayre and naturall heate from fire of which according to the seuerall quantities vvhich she receiueth she yeeldeth forth her broode more or lesse perticipating of euery of them but taking most from herselfe because in herselfe shee ouermatcheth all the rest so after the like manner all liuing things bred or fed vpoÌ„ the face of the same and within the depth of the Sea haue theyr beeing being earthly watery or ayriall according to the place of which they are temperature which they receiue and all by the inwarde power they haue to moue or to rest to increase or to decay shew forth that first power whereby strength was giuen to those elements at the first to strengthen all things which of them should consist Hoc opus immensi constructum corpore mundi Manili Astro 1. Membraquae naturae diuersa condida forma Aeris atque ignis terrae pelagique iacentis Vis animae diuina regit sacroque meatu Conspirat Deus et tacita ratione gubernat Et multain cunctas dispensat faedera partes Altera vt alterius vires faciatque feratque This worke of world so huge framed into a body And parts of nature formed formes diuers to bewray Of ayre and fire of earth and sea which low doth lie Soules power diuine doth rule and by a sacred way God doth with all conspire and gouerne secretly And so doth many leagues betweene al parties make That each each others vertue may both giue take Hee which so sayed was deceaued in that hee thought the heauen and the elementes to haue soule and life whereby they are mooued and ordered but he perceaued truly that by the secret working of God they all are gouerned and by him sondry wayes vnited to make and to suffer each others vertue and power But daylie experience may seeme to controle what hath beene sayed touching the places and the peace which the elements are sayed to hold For it is seene that water is drawn vp neere the fire which ought to remaine below the ayre and ayre passeth downe into the earth whose place is prefixed aboue the water whereby their peace is broken and they are at warre amongst them selues the ayre thundering aboue and the earth trembling below True that so it is and fit it should be so the more to shew his aucthority that doth commaund and their dutie which doo obey for thereby appeareth his power in heauen and on earth when he thundereth from heauen and shaketh the earth and that the elements are his instruments to vse at his pleasure when he maketh them to followe and to forsake their nature VVhich is done the water ascending and the ayre passing downe and after the same water falling downe when the cloud is broken and that ayre going vp when the earth is opened and both returning to their appoynted quarter and executing as before their prescribed order to the quiet preseruation of the world The care and the eye perceaue there is a God So as sounding the thunder the eare doth heare and the earth shaking the eye doth see and when both are calmed of both we are assured that one supreame there is whose onely will as dutifull seruants to their onely Soueraigne they all obay VVhereas were they of them selues and subiect to no higher power which could commaund their seruice and correct their disorder in the world nothing should be but a generall Chaos and confusion of all together They could neyther be deuided for each others safetie nor mingled but to each others hurt For would fire continue vnder heauen and aboue ayre without consuming the one or wasting the other The nature of it being continually to befed or immediatly to be extinguished or should not the earth by the ayre be rent a sunder or by the water be ouerwhelmed the ayre pearcing into euery corner and not iâ—â—luring to be smothered and the water ouerflowing whatsoeuer it lyeth ouer No more possible were it they should be mingled and not destroyed following their nature which beeing contrary would neuer suffer them to agree So should they haue no beeing nor cause any other thing to be VVherefore the heauen and the

carcasse pampered but wormes by which it shall be deuoured Lastly thinke how vaine the excesse of apparrell is whereof the great varietie sheweth the extreame vanity of the people all cost being lost which is bestowed in the needlesse brauerie thereof It serueth to effeminate the minds of men to prouoke the lusts of the flesh and to kindle pride in the hart and causeth many to want in theyr olde age which had too much in theyr youth whose folly seemeth no lesse then theirs which lade them selues with many clothes in the Sommer and for want goe naked in the VVinter Of all these the vse is needefull but hurtfull is the abuse which being discouered is to be restrained in a well ordered common wealth O that thy people would consider this and make profit thereof in sparing from their bellies to feede the hungry in sauing from their backes to cloath the naked So should they abstaine from euill and doo good they should auoide the offence and procure the fauour of Almightie God and much more able should they be to serue thee for defence of them selues Now here I seeme to heare thee say that calling to minde what before hath beene sayed of the continuall change and neuer resting course of the world and finding thy selfe guiltie of those blemishes wherewith the beauty of Rome was defaced before she fell thou canst not but feare an alteration of thy fortune think thou shalt resemble Rome heereafter in the dayes of her sorrow as heeretofore thou hast done in her flourishing yeares I deme not but that all things of necessitie must alter which are brought forth by nature and I know that as in naturall bodies so in the condition of men of Townes of Citties and of all estates there is a time of growth and a time of decay an houre to flourish and an other to fade seasons of pleasure which haue their termes and turnes of griefe to succeede when they are gone so that the same oft-times are not yesterday and to day the same Nulla sors longa est dolor ac voluptas Sene. Thiestos Inuicem cedunt breuior voluptas Ima permutat breuis hora summis No lot at all doth last paine and pleasure Each other succeede shorter the pleasure Low and high soone find of change like measure I doubt not therefore but thou mayest be as Rome was or as Fraunce is embrewed in thine owne blood wounded with thine owne hand and torne in peeces by thine owne strength or otherwise inuaded and subdued by forraine power as heertofore thy selfe hath been especially the sinnes of thy people prouoking the wrath of thy God against thee Yet giue me fauour to speake and haue patience to heare what truly I shall say Farre other thou art then Rome was when it fell to decay that being set on fire by the burning ambition of great Potentates Marius and Silla Pompei and Caesar equall in power and in place in degree and in dignity hauing vnder them many to kindle and not any ouer them to quench the flame of their desire which being insatiable became intollerable and not being bridedled in time could not be indured long of the common wealth Neyther art thou like thy sister Fraunce whose territories are large farre remoued from the eye of their King whose Towns and Castels are many and strong apt and easie to be held beeing surprised by seditious men hauing neighbours at hand in loue with her beautie enuying her greatnes desiring her spoyle and both ready and able to assist her disobedient Subiects and vnnaturall children and thy selfe thy selfe doest resemble in no sort thy present face being compared with the picture of thy former age VVhen the winde of glory vnder pretence to reuenge an iniurie draue Caesar crosse thy Seas thy name not being then by which now thou art knowne no wonder if vnacquainted with armes and naked without armour thou gauest place at length to a mighty people Romanes practised in warres and led by the chiefe Commaunder of the world VVhen distressed by thy Northerne neere bordering neighbours thou wert enforced to pray ayde for thy defence and seeking friends Saxons diddest foes entertaine to cut thine owne throat how could it be thou shouldest escape thine enemies being strong in the field and thou committing thy selfe to a faithlesse gard who first by deceitfull beauty entrapped thy King and after by open hostilitie possessed thy Crowne VVhen thy bodie vvas parted into seauen partes which was but one and had not one but manie heads what strength what direction couldest thou haue to withstand an vnited force of powerfull enemies Danes attempting with preparation and pursuing with resolution thine ouerthrowe vvhile two of one name Harold but of Nation diuers contended for thy Scepter Edgar a third being by force put from it which of right should haue borne it Norma oportunitie was giuen to set a conquering foote in thy troubled Land not vnlikely to be subdued being discontented for the wrong at home and dismayed with the sodaine sight of an vnlooked for inuasion So wast thou at a battaile well fought and well followed brought vnder the new yoake of a forraine Ruler William Conque the ende of thy former toyle being the beginning of thy future woe Since when often times thou hast been a wofull spectacle to thine owne eyes beholding the fearefull face of ciuill warres wasting thy fields burning thy Townes destroying thy people and shedding the blood of the highest in aucthoritie ouer thee which hath happened through the vniust gouernment of thy Rulers the ambitious humor of thy Potentates or the rebellious harts of thy Commons But this now is not nor hath been many yeares thy case Thou art ruled by law agreeable to iustice and executed with mercy thy Soueraigne submitteth her selfe therevnto that the greatest may not disdaine and the meanest be willing to obey her according to the same Besides thou art instructed in the knowledge of God that of conscience thou shouldest perfome thy duty both to him and her If the weake be oppressed in her grace they finde reliefe if the strong presume too farre her Maiestie doth hold them vnder whereby it commeth to passe that eyther for conscience sake or by force of gouernment thou hast peace and knowest no warre at home And that thou mayest be strong against foraine inuasion thou art furnished with armes and trayned to vse them many braue men hast thou practising the warres abroade ready to returne when thou shalt neede them for thy succour and so fast knit are the parts of thy body the lower with the higher all with the head that thy strength is redoubled within thee Thy body then being one and thy weapons in thine hand hauing strength in thine armes courage in thy hart and wisedome in thy head whom canst thou feare what needest thou mistrust Although thou doest not shine with vertue without all staine of vice though thou breedest and feedest weedes with thy

Corne some wicked amongst many good Children yet if thy vice deface not thy vertue if the weedes ouer-grow not the Corne and the wicked doo not ouercome the good thou hast no cause to suspect thine ouerthrow So long as a disease take not the head possesse not the hart nor runne through the whole body there is great hope of cure no daunger of death The scarre of vice is not high in thy face it standeth low and serueth as a foile set vnder to set forth the vertue of thy Queene which is thy eye wherein thy beautie doth consist Thy greatest wound is in thy inferiour parts where if it will not be cured what is the worst Ense rescidendum est Ouid. Meta. ne pars sincera trahatur If by the salue of mercie it cannot be healed which often is as often it should be applyed by the sword of iustice it must be launced that the sound parts may be preserued which course being held as it is held so that the poyson of the wound feaster not too farre thou mayest be assured that the Lord God which often spareth the wicked for the sake of the good and neuer punisheth the iust for the faults of the vngodly will in mercy hold thee vp that thou shalt not fall VVhile thou art subiect to thy head which is so carefull of thy health that contempt of the maiestie of God she doth cut off and will not suffer sinne and iniquity to grow vp within thee thou art safe vnder her gouernment by his protection from all thy enemies As the mighty Oake fastened by the strength of his rootes so doest thou stand fast blow the wind where it shall it shall but blow downe thy withered leaues But that cannot euer be what hath beene vnited must be dissolued and nothing is more sure then that the Sunne shall set which once doth rise no man knowing how soone the brightnes thereof may be darkned with a cloud That being true yet is it no lesse true that as all Creatures were in their first creation so are they all both in their preseruation and destruction still subiect to the will of their Creatour hee hath set them a race which they cannot choose but runne what he doth order is not in their power to alter neuerthelesse his own hand is not shortened he is able to cut short and to prolong he can stop and turne the course how long and which way his pleasure is Iosu 3 4. The waters of Iordan comming downe from aboue he stayed so as they rose vpon a heape vntill the Priests bearing the arke of the couenant and all the Israelites went through Iorden Iosua 19. and passed ouer dry And when the Lord fought for Israell against the Amorites he stayed the Sunne in Gibeon the Moone in the valley of Aialon vntill the people auenged them selues of their enemies So as the Sunne abode in the middes of the heauen and hasted not to goe downe for a whole day and there was no day like that before it nor after it In like sort it is greatly to be hoped which aboue all things with feruent prayer is to be desired that the same God will stop the streame of whatsoeuer may hurt thy Soueraigns health and stay the course of her life so long that no health no life of any mortall Creature shall be like vnto hers that shyning amongst the Princes of the earth as the Sunne amiddest the starres of heauen she may giue light and life vnto his church for a long while be very late if not the last in going downe No doubt as it was the pleasure of the omnipotent God to deliuer her out of the hands of her aduersaries in miraculous sort and to rayse her to her princely seate ouer thee and as of especiall and exceeding fauour he hath in wonderfull wise euer sithence preserued her from the mischeeuous practises and dangerous attempts of many enemies abroade and at home first that she might be since for that she hath been a careful nurse of his church and tender mother of his children and so hath blessed her with honour and riches that her breasts flow with milke and her bones runne full of marrow to the continuall feeding and strengthning of his Gospell So mayest thou be well assured I speake what I hartily wish and am verily perswaded that that good God by whom she now liueth and raigneth in Maiestie will shew his power to the worlds wonder in the length of her dayes and glory of her kingdome if for the rebellion of thy people against him he take not her to him selfe as more worthy to raigne with Angels in heauen then to dwell with sinners wicked and vnruly sinners in denying God and disobeying her vpon earth Beware therefore thou prouoke not the Lord thy God by presumptuous sinnes to change his countenance and to turne his face away from thee Remember that for the transgression of the Land there are many Princes thereof Let thy people feare God so shall they not feare the losse of her vnder whom by his goodnes infinit blessings they enioy and thou art famous aboue all Nations Ierusalem is fallen and Iudah is fallen downe sayeth the Prophet and why because their tongue and works are against the Lord to prouoke the eyes of his glory That which was sayed concerning Ierusalem and Iudah thinke to concerne thee and know that if thou committest the like fault thou art like to feele the like smart for he that spake it is one and the same yesterday to day and for euer Num. 23. He is not as man that he should lye neyther as the Sonne of man that he should repent If thou cast behind thee his goodnes Psal 73. if thou settest thy mouth against heauen and not desiring the knowledge of his wayes thou sayest out of the pride of thy hart who is the Almighty that I should serue him Iob. 22. and what profit shold I haue if I should pray vnto him and because thou hast no changes Psal 55. therefore thou doest not feare him Thou shalt not onely dry vp the fountaine of his goodnes and dew of his mercy towards thee but shalt kindle the fire of his wrath to consume thee Iere. 44. So shall he take from thee thy stay and thy strength and visite thy people as he visited Ierusalem by the sword by the famine by the pestilence thy Citties shall be burnt with fire Strangers shall deuoure thee in thy presence and thou shalt be desolate Thus farre hath loue which stirred me vp carried me on and heere doth not suffer me to stay but forceth me further to put forth the best strength I haue whereby to remoue out of the minds of thy people that heauy block of grosse ignorance which may hinder them froÌ„ the knowledge of God and hasten destruction to fall vpon them For he not being by them honoured they cannot be by him preserued wherein before they can

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