Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	dead_a	faith_n	lively_a	5,187	5	10.6802	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02536	Epistles. The third and last volume containing two decades / by Ioseph Hall ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1611 (1611)	STC 12663.4; ESTC S4691	58,643	256

lessons of grace there he learnes what belongs to a Sauiour what one hee is what he hath done and for whom how he became ours we his now finding himselfe in a true state of danger of humilitie of neede of desire of fitnes for Christ he brings home to himself al that he learns and what he knowes he applies His former Tutor he feared this hee loueth that shewed him his wounds yea made them this binds and heales them that killed him this shewes him life and leades him to it Now at once he hates himselfe defies Satan trusts to Christ makes account both of pardon and glory This is his most precious Faith whereby he appropriates yea in grosses Christ Iesus to himselfe whence hee is iustified from his sinnes purified from his corruptions established in his resolutioÌ„s comforted in his doubts defended against temptations ouercomes all his enemies Which vertue as it is most imploied and most opposed so carries the most care from the Christian hart that it be sound liuely growing Sound not rotten not hollow not presumptuous sound in the Act not a superficiall conceit but a true deepe and sensible apprehension an apprehension not of the braine but of the heart and of the heart not approuing or assenting but trusting and reposing Sound in the obiect none but Christ he knows that no friendship in heauen can do him good without this The Angells cannot God will not Ye beleeue in the Father beleeue also in me Liuely for it cannot giue life vnlesse it haue life the faith that is not fruitfull is dead the fruits of faith are good workes whether inward within the roofe of the heart as loue awe sorrow piety zeale ioy and the rest or outward towards God or our bretheren obedience and seruice to the one to the other reliefe and beneficence These he beares in his time sometimes all but alwayes some Growing true faith cannot stand still but as it is fruitfull in workes so it increaseth in degrees from a little seede it proues a large plant reaching from earth to heauen and from one heauen to another euery showre and euery Sun addes something to it Neither is this grace euer solitary but alwaies attended royallie For hee that beleeues what a Sauiour hee hath cannot but loue him he that loues him cannot but hate whatsoeuer may displease him cannot but reioice in him hope to inioy him and desire to enioy his hope and contemne all those vanities which he once desired and enioyed His minde now scorneth to grouell vpon earth but soareth vp to the things aboue where Christ sits at the right hand of God and after it hath seene what is done in heauen looks strangely vpon al worldly things He dare trust his faith aboue his reason and sense and hath learned to weane his appetite from crauing much Hee stands in awe of his owne conscience and dare no more offend it then not displease himselfe Hee feares not his enemies yet neglects them not equally auoiding security and timorousnesse Hee sees him that is inuisible and walks with him awfully familiarly He knowes what he is borne to and therefore digests the miseries of his wardship with patience hee findes more comfort in his afflictions then any worldling in pleasures And as hee hath these graces to comfort him within so hath hee the Angels to attend him without spirits better then his owne more powerfull more glorious These beare him in their armes wake by his bed keepe his soule while hee hath it and receiue it when it leaues him These are some present differences the greatest are future which could not bee so great if themselues were not witnesses no lesse then betwixt heauen and hell torment and glory an incorruptible crowne and fire vnqueÌ„chable Whether Infidels be leeue these things or no we know them so shall they but too late What remaynes but that wee applaud our selues in this happines walke on clearly in this heauenly professioÌ„ acknowledging that God could not do more for vs that we caÌ„not do enough for him Let others boast as your Ladiship might with others of ancient and noble houses large Patrimonies or dowries honourable commaunds others of famous names high and enuied honors or the fauors of the greatest others of valor or beauty or some perhaps of eminent learning and wit it shall bee our pride that we are Christians To my Lady Honoria Hay Ep. IIII. Discoursing of the necessity of Baptisme and the estate of those which necessarily want it MADAME MEthinks children are like teeth troublesome both in the breeding and loosing oftentimes painful while they stand yet such as we neither would nor can well be without I goe not about to comfort you thus late for your losse I rather congratulate your wise moderation Christian care of these first spirituall priuiledges desiring only to satisfie you in what you hard as a witnesse not in what you needed as a mother Children are the blessings of Parents and baptisme is the blessing of children and parents Wherein there is not only vse but necessity Necessity not in respect so much of the end as of the precept God hath enioyned it to the comfort of parents and behoofe of children which therefore as it may not be superstitiously hastened so not negligently differred That the contempt of baptisme damneth is past all doubt but that the constrained absence thereof should send infants to hel is a cruell rashnesse It is not their sinne to die early death is a punishment not an offence an effect of sinne not a cause of torment they want nothing but time which they could not coÌ„mand Because they could not liue a while longer that therfore they should die euerlastingly is the hard sentence of a bloody religion I am onely sorry that so harsh an opinion should bee graced with the name of a father so reuerend so diuine whose sentence yet let no man pleade by halues He who helde it vnpossible for a child to be saued vnlesse the baptismall water were powred on his face held it also as vnpossible for the same infant vnlesse the sacrameÌ„tal bread were receiued into his mouth There is the same ground for both the same error in both a weaknes fit for forgetfulnes seeyet how ignoraÌ„t or il meaning posterity could single out one half of the opinion for truth and condemne the other of falshood In spight of whom one part shall easily conuince the other yea without al force since both cannot stand both will fall together for company The same mouth which said vnlesse ye be borne againe of water and the holy Ghost said also Except yee eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood An equall necessity of both And lest any one should plead different interpretations the same Saint Austin auerres this later opinion also concerning the necessary communicating of children to haue beene once the common iudgement of the Church of Rome A sentence so displeasing that you

Loyola shall haue this miserable honour without our enuie that if they had not beene Rome had not beene By what meanes it rests now to enquire It is not so much their zeale for falshood which yet wee acknowledge and admire not If Satan were not more busie then they we had lost nothing Their desperate attempts bold intrusions importunate solicitations haue not returned empty yet their policy hath done more then their force That Popish world was then foule and debauched as in doctrine so in life and now beganne to be ashamed of it selfe when these holy Fathers as some Saints drop't out of heauen suddenly professed an vnusuall strictnesse sad piety resolued mortification and so drew the eyes and hearts of men after them that poore foules beganne to thinke it could not be other then diuine which they taught other then holy which they touched The very times not seldome giue as great aduantage as our owne best strength and the vices of others giue glory to those which eyther are or appeare vertuous They saw how ready the world was to bite at the baite and now followed their successe with new helps Plenty of pretended miracles must blesse on all sides the in deauours of this new Sect and calls for both approbation and wonder Those things by the report of their owne pennes other witnesses I see none haue beene done by the ten Patriarcks of the Iesuitish Religion both aliue and dead which can hardly bee matched of him whose name they haue vsurped And now the vulgar can say If these men were not of God they could doe nothing How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles not distrusting either the fame or the worke but applauding the Authors for what was said to bee done But now lest the enuie of the fact should surpasse the wonder they haue learned to cast this glory vpon their woodden Ladies to communicate the gaine vnto the whole Religion Two blocks at Hale and Scherpen-heuuell haue saide and done more for Popery then all Fryers euer since Francis wore his breeches on his head But because that praise is sweete which arises from the disgrace of a riuall therefore this holy society hath besides euer wont to honor it selfe by the brokage of shameles vntruthes against the aduerse part not caring how probable any report is but how odious A iust volume would not containe those willing lies wherewith they haue purposely loded religion and vs that the multitude might first hate vs and then enquire and these courses are helde not tollerable but meritorious So the ende may be attayned all meanes are iust all wayes straight VVhom we may we satisfie but wounds once giuen are hardly healed with out some scarres and commonly accusations are vocall Apologies dumbe How easie is it to make any cause good if we may take liberty of tongue and conscience Yet lest some glimpse of our truth and innocence should perhaps lighten the eyes of some more inquisitiue Reader they haue by strict prohibitions whether of bookes or conference restrained all possibility of true informations Yea their owne writings wherein our opinions are reported with confutation are not alowed to the common view lest if it should appeare what we hold our meere opinion should preuaile more then their subtilest answere But aboue all the restraint of Gods booke hath gained them most If that might be in the hands of men their religion could not be in their hearts now the concealement of Scriptures breeds ignorance and ignorance superstition But because forbiddance doth but whet desire and worke a conceite of some secret excellence in things denyed therfore haue they deuised to affright this dangerous curiosity with that cruell butcherly hellish Inquisition Wherein yet there is not lesse craft then violence For since they haue perceiued the blood of Martyrs to bee but the seed of the Church and that these perfumes are more dispersed with beating they haue now learned to murder without noyse and to bring forth if at least they list sometimes to make the people priuie to some examples of terror not men but carcasses Behold the constant confessions of the dying Saints haue made them weary of publique executions None but bare walls shalll now testifie the courage and faith of our happy Martyrs A disguised corps is onely brought forth to the multitude either for laughter or feare Yet because the very dead speake for truth in a loude silence these spectacles are rare and the graues of heretickes are become as close as their death Yet lest since neither liuing mouthes nor faithfull pens may be suffered to insinuate any truth those speeches should perhaps be receiued from the Ancients which in vs were hereticall the monuments of vnpartial antiquity must be depraued all witnesses that might speake against them must be corrupted with a fraudulent violence and some of them purged to the death So whiles ours are debarred and the Ancients altered posteritie shal acknowledge no aduersarie What should I speake of those plausible deuices which they haue inuented to make superstitious and foolish Proselytes Their proud vaunts of antiquity vniuersality succession and the name of their fore-fathers doe not only perswade but amaze and besot an ignorant heart The glorious shews of their processions the gaudy ornaments of their Altars the pompe and magnificence of the places and maner of their Seruices the triumphes of their great Festiuals are enough to bewitch any childish simple or vaine beholders VVho knowes not that nature is most led by sense Sure children and fooles such are all meere naturall men cannot be of any other religion Besides all these their personall vndertakings what for cunning what for boldnes could promise nothing but successe They can transforme themselues into all shapes and in these false formes thrust themselues into al Courts and companies not oftner changing their habit then their name They can take the best opportunities to worke vpon those which are either most vnable to resist or most like to bestead them That I may not speake of the wrongs of vnseasonable trauell wherein many vnsettled heads haue met dangers and solicited errors who like fond and idle Dinahs going abroad to gaze haue beene rauished ere they returne Neuer any bird was so laide for by the neâ—s and cals of the fowler as the great heire of some noble family or some fiery wit is by these impostors They know that greatnesse is both lawlesse and commaunding if not by precept yet by example their very silence is persuasory and imperious But alas for that other sexe Still the diuel begins with Eue still his assault is strongest where is weakest resistance Simon Magus had his Helena Nicholas the Deacon had his choros foemineos as Hierome cals them Marcion had his Factoresse at Rome Appelles his Philumena Montanus his Prisca and Maximilla Arrius his Constantines-sister Donatus his Lucilla Elpidius his Agape Priscillianus his Galla and our Iesuites haue their painted Ladies not dead but liuing

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