Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10850	The vineyarde of vertue collected, composed, and digested into a tripartite order, conteining XXXII. most excellent plants of fruitful vertue: in most beautiful and blessed maner enuironing the true elect churche of God vpon earth. Euery plant conteining this tripartite order: namely definition testimonie examples of vertue by R.R.	Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.; Uvedale, E.	1579 (1579)	STC 21121; ESTC S105759	48,653	138

curiositie or vsing captiousnesse Rom. 12. Examples Our Lord sauiour Iesus Christ the sole singular patern of godly simplicitie came simply into this world borne in a simple barne or stable simply in nature was obedient to his parents simply taught and simply liued according to his teaching in whose mouth there was no guide in whose heart no deceyte neither in any externall doings any harme Mat. Mar. Luke Iohn His beloued Apostles Peter Andrew and others of simple fishermen poore vnlerned base and abiect in worldly wisedome did he traine teach and instruct with the fulnesse of the holy Ghost as well by his life and doctrine making them perfect followers of him as also worthie examples for his chosen seruants in this world whose testimonies are left vs for our worthy examples of imitation Mat. Mar. Luke Iohn Iob is commended vnto vs to haue liued alwayes iust and simple in the sight of the Lorde iust by warinesse of wisedome and simple by innocencie of meekenesse simple bicause he neuer desired to hurt any but rather to profite al men iust bicause he would not suffer himselfe to bee deceyued by any Iob. 1. Beda de templo Solemonis lib. 1. All the Patriarkes and Prophets were men of simple life and conuersation in the sight of God. S. Hierome writing de Sapientia Serpentina simplicitate Columbina hath these wordes Vse simplicitie of a Doue that thou do not deceiue or iniurie any man and haue wisdome of a serpent that thou bee not supplanted in other mens snares for otherwise in respect of offence it differeth smally but thou shalt either deceiue or be deceiued Hier. ad Rust Mona The .xxviii. Plant Sinceritie Definition SInceritie is to be vnderstoode for truth the verie bright beames of that shining Sunne which reuealeth the puritie of God and his worde and discouereth the falshood of the Diuell and his workes By which touchstone golde is tried from drosse By which fanne wheate is sifted from the chaffe and by which searce of sinceritie the sweete sauorie Cinamon of saluation is separate from the bruised barke of bitter bale by the operation of the holy Ghost which is therfore called the spirite of truth and sinceritie bycause hee is true and sincere that is agreeable vnto the will of God and the authour which first expressed the true doctrine of God enclining the hearts of men to assent and consent vnto the same true doctrine to worship the true god thereby to honour and obey the superiour powers therby to professe with the heart and confesse with the tongue all one in al worldly dealings towards all men That the name of the true and euerliuing God may in truth bee glorified That the true and sincere Church in truth may be amplified and increased That the true consolations of Christ may in our consciences truly be multiplied eternally to our saluation triumphing with Christ ouer Satan sinne and hell to rest with him in the sincere seate of celestiall glorie Testimonies In spirite and truth do the true worshippers worship the father Iohn 4. Thy worde is the truth sanctifie them in the truth Iohn 17. God will that all men shoulde bee saued and come to the knowledge of the trueth that is of the true doctrine of the true God and of the mediatour his sonne Iesus Christ 1. Tim. 2. The spirite of truth shall bring you into all truth Iohn 16. The truth is great and stronger than al things 1. Esd 4 We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2. Cor. 13. If you remaine in the truth of my word you are my disciples rightly and my truth shall deliuer you Iohn 8. Laying aside all leasings let euery one of you speake the trueth vnto his neighbour Ephe. 4. The Lorde abhorreth lying lippes but who so speaketh trueth shall bee safe for euer Pro. 10. Lorde who shall ascende into thy hill or who shall rest in thy holy place euen hee whose handes are innocent from harme whose heart is cleane which hath not takeÌ„ his soule in vaine nor hath not sworne to deceiue his neighbour c. Psal. 23. This is our glorie onely and in this wee are glad as to witnes we take our coÌ„science that we are exercised in the simplicitie and sinceritie of God in this world and not in carnall wisedome but in the grace of God c. 2. Cor. 1. Examples Iesus Christ our Sauiour is that shining sonne of sinceritie which rightly calleth himselfe the sonne of righteousnesse Sapien. the light of the world Iohn 1. the way the truth and the life Iohn 14. all whose wayes as Dauid sayth are mercie and truth Psal. 25. His Apostles Prophets Patriarks Martyrs and Confessors haue preached this truth practised the same in life and conuersation suffered persecution for the testimonie thereof Iacob had this sinceritie with him when he said let vs make an altar vnto the lord bicause he hath heard me in the day of my trouble and hath bene a companion of my iourney Gen. 35 Daniel had this sinceritie of truth with him when all the wise men of Babylon were by Nabuchodonoser commanded to bee slaine then he being inspired with the spirit of truth exhorted his sociates to seeke for mercie of the Lord who reuealing a vision vnto Daniel in the night by this aduertisement of Daniel the king spared to execute his determined iudgement vpon the sayd wise men Dan. 2. When all the Disciples of Christ were altogether of one minde in praying the holy Ghost wonderfully discended vpoÌ„ them taught them comforted them directed them in the truth Act. 1. 2. This spirit of sinceritie had the same Daniel in disprouing those false Gods Bel and the Dragon and in worshipping the true and euerliuing God mauger the malice of the malignant enemies of the truth Dan. 14. The .xxix. Plant Iustice Definition IVstice is one of the soure moste excellent vertues called cardinall vertues whereout flowe as from out of foure pure fountaines al the other springs of vertues albeit these foure called Cardinall vertues namely Iustice Prudence Temperance and Fortitude are so tearmed of the Latin Erymologie Cardo which is in English the hindge of a doore for as the hindge doth catie the force of the doore opening to and fro and beares the stresse of the same against all other strength so do these foure vertues euery one in his propertie cary support and beare certaine other vertues as it were imposed vpon them or rather depending vpon their force and effect As namely Cicero terming this Iustice the first Cardinal vertue sayth lib. 1. Offici That she is a great brightnesse and excellencie whereof good men are so called whose first office is to hurt no man except he bee first prouoked by iniurie Againe to vse things common for common and thirdly priuate thinges as his owne But more truely and amply in his 2. Rhetor. he sayth Iustice is an excellent qualitie of the minde to the profite of all men applyable

The Vineyarde of VertÃ¼e collected composed and digested into a tripartite order conteining XXXII most excellent plants of fruitful vertue In most beautiful and blessed maner enuironing the true elect Churche of God vpon earth Euery Plant conteining this tripartite order Namely Definition Testimonie Examples of vertue By R. R. Iohn .. 15. I am the true Vyne and my father is the Husbandman Euery branch that bringeth not foorth good frute doeth my father plucke away and euery branch that beareth frute dooth my father purge that it may bring foorth frute more abundantly Imprinted by Thomas Dawson To the Godly Vertuous and woorshipful Gentleman M. Edmund Vvedale aliÃ¢s Vdale of Shirburne in Dorsetshier long and happy increase of corporall and spirituall good graces in this lyfe with the participation of eternall beatitude in Christe Iesus for euer and euer WEE are taught in that sacred booke of diuine WisdoÌ„ this most sacred lesson worshipful Sir Sapient 15. Too knowe God is perfect rightuousnes and to knowe his rightuousnes vertue is the roote of immortality A senteÌ„ce surely not so shorte and sweete as effectually and at large comprehending firme comforte from the Creator God vntoo the creature man From which God as we may define godlynes to proceed touching his Godhead and vertue also as touching his manhood so this godlines and vertue including his perfect righteousnes is according to the measure of his grace nowe and then infused vppon mankinde Lactantius Firmianus seemeth to affirme this by his testimony in libro de opificio Dei cap. 12. Where he saith Vir dicitur eÃ² quÃ²d maior vis est in eoquaÌ„ in foemina hinc virtus nomen accepit And although here man seemeth to haue the prerogatiue of vertue as of most fortitude valiancy or manhood in him yet we must not any thing exclude the feminin sexe from the benefit of vnited godlines vertue in the lord For asmuch as God by the mouth of his Prophet Dauid auoucheth by example too compare as wel the godly vertuous womaÌ„ as the godly and vertuous maÌ„ Like vnto the tree planted by the riuer side which bringes foorthe his frute in due tyme tyde Psa 1. ve 3. But as this true tree of godlynes and vertue according to the prouerb may be planted by Paule that is to say by the holy Ghoste watered by Apollo that is by mans continual exercise and by God and from God receaueth her increase so it is oftentimes seene where God hath his Church there wil the Deuil haue a Chappel Yea where hath any goodnes godlynes or vertue takeÌ„ root or florished at any tyme or in any age but euen there also enuy malice mischief would haue a fling Plutarch in his morals could say that as the shadowe followeth the body so enuy euermore accompanieth vertue and as where is no body there is no shadow so where is no felicity there is none enuy For the holynes of Dauid innocency of Iob wisedome of Solomon fortitude of Sampson and vertue of the moste vertuous amongst mankinde could not auoide enmity sufficiently when the almighty Iehouah and most holiest Messias had his moste cruell and spiteful enemies the Iewes Scribes Pharisees euer emong inuaying against him circumueÌ„ting of him subuerting his doctrine Of the true knowledge of God of his rightuousnes and vertue rooted vnto immortality in the hearts of those that beleeued in him But in their greatest iolity of iustifying their owne wickednes seeming to theÌ„selues to haue perfect holines when they had not bearing the worlde in hande that they brought forth sounde frutes of vertue wheÌ„ they were filthily corrupted with alkind of vice Our sauiour Christe euen then and therefore scourging them out of the Temple of HierusaleÌ„ to their shame and reproch put foorth the parable of the Vineyeard and of the labourers Luc. 19. as thereby not onely confounding their falshood and reuealing their painted hypocrisie but also vtterly discouered theÌ„ to be voide of al true godlines vertue yea also the most extreme enemies thereof Touching the defect of this tree of true godlines and vertue amoÌ„gst the worldly wyse Philosophers it hath beene from tyme too tyme apparantly prooued that neither the Academici resident in place where they taught morall vertue the Peripatetici preiudicating euentes the Cynici of baser coÌ„uersatioÌ„ the Eudomenees for al their woorking good effectes the Philotethes for al their arrogant glory in themselues disdaining others as though they only had perfect zeale of trueth the Phisici for al their skilfull knowledge in thinges natural neither the Ethici which taught their rules of good life and manners neither yet the Dialectici of singular dexterity in disputing and reasoning causes naturall coulde euer sauoure the taste of the true knowledge of GOD and of his righteousnesse and vertue rooted vntoo immortality although in deede they tooke vppon them a kind of prophane godly and vertuous lyfe which they thought in themselues to bee righte which also they taught vntoo the worlde in their tyme. But they were farre wyde from the marke they waÌ„dered in darknes for want of light they swallowed the sowre grape in waÌ„t of the sweet and they crackte the shel but founde no kernell they were alwaies learning but neuer learned in the lawe of the Gospell of Christe the Lampe of light vnto saluation for as Lactantius Firmianus saieth libro 3. diuinarum institutionum they saw but a shadow of true godlynes vertue and not the light therof it selfe and they laboured al their life for it but they coulde neuer finde it Bicause saith he they eyther retained an vngodly religion or else altogither maintained the same But the Romishe Antichrist and his cursed crew the suckblood successors of the Scrybes Pharisees the broode of Belial Nemrods neare kinsmen and adherents of wicked Achab haue from tyme to tyme hearde seene knowen and perceaued The affspring of the roote of Iesse which as Esay saith shoulde ryse too beare rule ouer the Gentiles and in whome the nations shoulde beleeue Also they haue bene toulde by the Doctrine of our sauiour Christ in his sacred Gospel and by the testimonies of his Apostles Patriarcks and Prophets who was and is and euer shal bee the true vyne The true husbandman and the true labourers yet of wilful blindnes haue they refused too bee ingrafted in the vyne of the true knowledge of God of his righteousnes and vertue rooted vntoo immortality Yet of obstinate malice haue they not onely refused the calling of the heauenly husbande man Christ Iesus to come as labourers intoo his vinyearde But also with the wilde bore rooted vp euery vyne of good doctrine in the Churche of God with the wicked husbaÌ„dmen slaine not only their Maisters seruauntes that is too say a nuÌ„ber of godly preachers and vertuous persons sent vntoo them but also crucified the sonne of God anew by their horrible disordered institutions in their Churches and Synagogues

from wicked and peruerse desires but also from the concupiscence of the eyes immoderate vse of the tongue vicious enormities of the bodie and euery other the members therof keeping the happy and golden meane in all things abhorring excesse riot and intemperance of meate drinke cloth and such like whose partes are bashfulnesse Honestie Chastitie Shamefastnesse Continencie Humilitie Courtesie or Clemencie Modestie good order Frugality and moderation As Thomas of Aquina that excellent learned doctor doth define them properly apperteyning vnto temperance whose properties at large I haue placed in the next page in steade of testimonies bycause the knowledge of them is singular and the effect of them no lesse worthie to be imitated as well of high as low estate rich as poore and of the meanest person as of the better personage The testimomies of the partes of Temperance Testimonies Bashfulnesse is that part of Temperance which blushing at the indecent speech of the tongue or fearing that which is indecent refraineth her affections therefrom Honestie is that part wherby any person embracing moderation and discipline doeth exercise the same in obseruing person place and time Chastitie deliteth her selfe in that integritie and vnspotted part of Temperance that as she herselfe keepeth her boundes so will she by her examples mooue others to obserue the lawe of God and of nature Continencie refrayneth the motion of the will stirred vp by the assault of the passion that although a man suffer immoderate lustes yet his will is not subdued or vanquished by euill Humilitie refraineth the motion of vaine hope and wilfull boldnesse Curtesie or Clemencie refrayneth desire of reuenge in anger or iniurie offered or done Modestie brideleth the motions of the minde within and also the deedes of the outwarde man. Good order consisteth in knowing what to do and what not to doo and herein to continue firmely Frugalitie in keeping a meane touching expences giftes or beneficencie that shee may do that which sufficeth and not to ouerdo beyond measure Moderation in so vsing the same benefits which God and nature hath giuen vs that they may profite vs in vse of them and others in bestowing them Examples Our sauiour Christ Iesus so tempered affections of the bodie in himselfe that he refrayned from foode in the desert of Iudaea 40. dayes and fortie nightes as a meete example of temperance for those which either fast with a defiled minde or altogither despise temperance in diet Mat. 4. Luke 4. S. Iohn Baptist refrayned from delicate fare and onely contented himselfe with locustes and wilde home in the desert Math. 3. Our Sauiour Christ bearing furthermore witnesse of himselfe sayd Iohn Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and you say he hath a diuell Luke 7. Helias beeing by the Angel refreshed with barley bread water walked with the strength of that bread and water fortie dayes and fortie nightes vnto the mount Oreb 3. Reg. 19. c. The beginning of mans life was onely contented with breade water and apparell and a conuenient shade to couer his nakednesse Eccle. 29. When Dauid had desired water out of the well of Bethleem to be brought him tempering his affections with rare moderation hee woulde not drinke thereof afterwardes bicause he had before too much greedily desired the same 2. Reg. 23. Read of the temperance and moderation of punishment which GOD had towardes the wicked King Achab bycause hee repented in sackecloth tempering his ire for killing of Naboth afterwardes sorowing for the same 3. Reg. 21. The .xxxii. Plant Fortitude Definition FOrtitude the fourth and last cardinall vertue as it were quadrangle wise planted euerie one in his seuerall place enuironing this Vineyarde hath his definition as deriued of the Latine woorde Fortis which is strong and the proper Etymologie of this word Fortitude is as much to say as streÌ„gth force and mightie courage of the minde in withstanding euill in defending good and in baliantly adueÌ„turing against the troublesome threatnings of aduerse fortune with firme trust and confidence in God which in respect of godly life and true vertue in this life vtterly abhorreth and striueth to vanquishe all wicked pleasures vice honours riches enuie and ignominie death and destruction to sauegard and fortifie her self with such heauenly vertues that she may liue for euer And vnto this fortitude doth Cicero ascribe these vertues properly apperteyning namely faith or Confidence Pacience mightie Courage Magnificencie Constancie perseuerance But this is onely allowable with God and man especially in cryall of a right and iust cause in defending the truth and depelling or depressing the vnrighteous vniust and vntrue quarels of the wicked peruerse and malignant members of Satan Testimonies My sonne when thou commest vnto the seruice of God stand fast in righteousnesse and feare prepare thy soule vnto temptations Ecclesiasticus 2. The name of the Lord is a strong defence vnto this fleeth the righteous and shall be saued Prou. 18. Bicause thou oh Lorde art become strength vnto the poore a defence for the needie in tribulation a hope in their miserie and a shade from the heate Esay 25. The Lord is my fortitude and my hope Exod. 15. The eyes of the Lord do beholde all the whole earth and do giue strength and courage vnto those which beleeue in him with a perfect heart Paral. 16. In the feare of the Lord is confidence of Fortitude Prou. 14. The way of the Lorde is the fortitude of the simple Prou. 10. The fortitude of yong men is their reioysing in the lord Prou. 20. The vngodly fleeth when no man pursueth him but the iust person as a Lyon trusting in the Lorde shall bee safe from feare Prou. 28. Be not afrayed sayth the Lorde bicause I haue redeemed thee and called thee after my name thou art mine When thou shalt passe by the waters I will be with thee wheÌ„ thou walkst in the fire thou shalt not burn and the flame shall not be seene in thee bicause I am thy Lorde God thy holy one of Israel thy Sauiour c. Esay 43. If God bee with vs who shall be agaynst vs Rom. 8. Examples Our Sauiour Christ Iesus that fort inuincible of perfect fortitude both withstood the conflicts of Satan against him Matth. and of the Iewes Scribes and Pharisees which by all meanes came to ensnare him Mat. 16. 19. 21. Mar. 12. Luke 20. and also with heauenly courage of the spirite of truth in him vtterly vanquished and ouercame them for our woorthie example Saint Stephen the protomartyr otherwise called the first witnesse constantly dying in confession of Christ and the truth by grace and fortitude in him wrought manie maruelles resisting the Iewes in their wicked doctrine suffered grieuous death of beeing stoned for the truth Actes 6. Moyses boldely and constantly stood before Pharao rebuking him bicause he would not let go the people of Israel Exod. 4. He also said to Iosue which should suceede him Be of good comfort and take good courage

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