Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	love_n	love_v	worldly_a	3,021	5	9.1436	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20946	Heraclitus, or, Meditations vpon the vanity & misery of humane life first written in French by that excellent scholler & admirable divine Peter Du Moulin minister of the sacred word in the Reformed Church of Paris ; and translated into English by R.S. gentleman.; Heraclite. English. 1609	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Stafford, Robert, 1588-1618.	1609 (1609)	STC 7325; ESTC S2575	27,860	136

So men desiring to dally vvith pleasures because of their lustre at the length loose themselues amongst theÌ„ yet notwithstaÌ„ding they fear God their Father vvheÌ„ he coÌ„meth to theÌ„ vnder the maske of afflictioÌ„s or death Also maÌ„ doth ingeÌ„der in himselfe either foolish or pernicious feares Some one beeing iealous that his wife doth affect others ende voreth to espy search out that vvhich hee feareth to find by this meanes angereth her so that she seeketh to be reveÌ„ged in such nature which he formerly suspected Some other fearing to liue without honor coÌ„mits such things that subiects his body to some cruell torment and staineth the memory of him with perpetuall infamy SoÌ„e other feareth the want of riches but he shal waÌ„t it die without it Some againe feareth he shal dy before marriage but God wil attend that time and by wedlocke will make him twice miserable When I consider what Childish wisdome humane wisedome is I finde it agreeable to the Industry of Moles which dig vnder ground with much dexterity but are blind when they coÌ„e into the Sunne So wee haue much skill in earthly affaires to sell to couenant and to supplant any one But take one of these men which is most subtill in these things and bring him to the brightnesse and light of the holy Gospell and there hee is altogether blind and of a selfe conceit will continue so For during the time that he doth foresee future eveÌ„ts alterations of estate hee is ignorant of his own destruction while that he discourseth on the affaires of kingdomes hee is a slaue to the Deuill And notwithstanding that blind iudgement of his dares contest against the euer living God the folly and foolishnes of the childreÌ„ of darknes against the diuine wisedome of the Father of light And the discretion of maÌ„ against the prouidence of the Almighty For the wicked do couer themselues with silence craft and dissimulatioÌ„ like vnto little childreÌ„ which thinke that they are sufficiently hidden when their eies are closed beleeuing that no body seeth them when they see no body But in the mean time God perceiues them both naked vncouered yea better theÌ„ they know themselues For God is not only al hand in holding and conducting the whole vniverse but also all eie in seeing dicersning all things in it The thickest bodies are to him transparant and darknes it selfe is to him light therfore the Prophet David doeth iustlie reprehend that foolish wisedome in the 94. Psalme where he saith Vnderstand yee vnwise among the people and yee fooles when will yee be wise He that planted the eare shal he not heare Or hee that formed the eie shall he not see Novve in this place he calleth them vnwise not which are fooles and runne vp and downe the streetes nor those priuate particular men which are vvithout office nor the heavy-spirited Commons but such as are crafty manage affaires with dexterity thinking by their sagacity to cover themselues froÌ„ the vvisedome of God or to dazell the Eies of his sacred prouidence Like vnto the most daÌ„gerous Agues which are vnder the appearance of coldnes so the most ridiculous folly is that which lyeth vnder the appearance of wisedome It behoueth also the faithfull to exercise his meditatioÌ„ and to bee Spectator of the actions and thoughts of meÌ„ and of al the vnprofitable labours of his life For it is in humane life as in a Faire where there commeth tvvo sorts of people one for to buy sell the other only to see Man that feareth God is like to one of those which come to see he is not here to be Idle search for nothing but to conteÌ„plate the works of God humane actions but he may say wheÌ„ he hath seene al the delights that rhe curious vanity of men can shewe forth O how many things are there in this world which I haue nothing to do withall What if during this contemplation some one do iossell or throng vpon him or if one cut his purse that is doe afflict or depriue him of any thing all that such a one vvill do is to goe out of that company knowing himselfe to bee a stranger in this world will trauell towardes his Country where that celestiall habitation is pressing alwaies as the Apostle saith towards the marke for the price Phil. 3 14. of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus If the vvorld coÌ„temne him he will coÌ„temne that contempt as knowing himselfe better then the world and to bee called to a better hope he vvill esteeme the promises allurements of the vvorlde vaine the occupations of men base and importunat And according to the example of Mary in the tenth of Luke Hee will chuse the good part which shal not bee taken from him Concluding all his Meditations after the same maÌ„ner as Salomon doth in the ende of Ecclesiastes The ende of all is the feare of God and the keeping of his commandements for in it is coÌ„prised the summe of mans being Now therefore after all this Meditation let vs rest our selues vpon these two Maximes and propositions which are the true foundation that zeale is grounded vpon The first is for to loue God it behoueth to conteÌ„ne the world The second is that for to contemne the worlde it is necessary for the faithfull to know his own worth noblenesse and excellency of his vocation The first Maxime is taken out of St. Iohn in his first Epistle Loue not the world neither Chap. 2. ver 15. the things that are in the world If any maÌ„ loue the world the loue of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eies and the pride of the life is not of the Father but is of the world And the worlde passeth away and the lust thereof but hee that fulfilleth the will of God abideth for euer Nothing doth so farre separate vs from the loue of God as our affectioÌ„ to the world seeing that the holy Scripture for to admonish vs doth call the world the kingdome of Ioh. 16. 11. the Divell But as the Moone hath no light vnlesse froÌ„ the Sunne So our soules haue not any light but by the regard of our God and by a consequent neither more nor lesse but euen as the Moone doth loose her light wheÌ„ she is hid within the shadow of the earth So also do our souls loose their brightnes for they are called in the holy Scripture the Infantes of light when they molest and wrap themselues within the shaddow of earthly things cares and worldly concupiscences which wee ought to tread vnder our feete according to the example of the Church vvhich as it is vvritten in the 12. of the Apocalyps hath vnder her feet the Moone that is the mutable instability of these inferiour thinges To this purpose also Jesus Christ vvould that The peny should be restored to

man vvith much knowledge so also it addeth vnto him more care and trouble of minde For Salomon saith that hee which doth augment his knowledg doth but increase Eccl. 1. 18. his sorrow Ignorance is neuer vvithout some commodity and in conclusion when vve haue gotten all the precepts of this knowledge it extends it selfe not far and is of smale vse For man cannot by all his Philosophy attaine to the perfect knowledge of a small fly or gardeÌ„ lettice much lesse of his owne composition We desire to trauerse our spirits through all things but remaine straÌ„gers to our selues We vvill knowe much and performe little To speake more properly our study is no labour but rather an idle action vvhich doth torment vs vvithout any hope of aduancement Like vnto the Squirrells that runne continually vvithin turning Cages thinking to get avvay vvhen as after al their paines taking they still remaine in the same place We learne little vvith great paine and that little doth scarcely amende our imperfections but rather oftentimes addes more to them One drop of wisdome guided by the feare of God is more vvorth then all humane learning For what doth it profit a Lawier in taking paines to gaine the processe of another if hee himselfe be at variance with God What commodity reapeth a Physitian to iudge of another mans health if he himselfe be not as yet resolu'd to feele the pulse of his owne conscience What good is it to any that haue learned the ancient histories if they be ignorant of those things that passe in this time Or to haue learned by Astronomy the motions and influences of heauen if they knowe not the meanes how to come thither There be some that vndertake Of Travailers Pilgrims long tedious voyages gaining many hostes but few friends promising to learne much in their iourney wheÌ„ as oftentimes they returne more foolish then thy went and perchance hauing circuited the earth doe sorrowfully bequeath their body to it for a conclusion to their perfected resolutioÌ„s as flies when they haue passed many times round about the candle at length enter into the flame After they haue seene so much land there only requires a handful for to couer them With this vanity are they iustly afflicted which make long voiages toward some Saint for to desire that they may get children when it may bee at their returne they finde that some officious neighbour hath discharged them of that care This is also a vanity and affliction of Spirit Perchance our ciuill vertues Of Civill vertues haue some thinges that are of more coÌ„sequence But here out of this also doth bud another vanity seeing that those vertues haue no motion but by vices For choller giues an edge to valour Cowardice doth make a man to be more circuÌ„spect and wary AmbitioÌ„ Auarice Enuy are as stings to study Industry The feare of an ill report in many womeÌ„ is the cause of Chastity many are sober out of a couetous humour others for necessity friendships are contracted either for the desire of pleasures or for the hope of profit the first being no otherwise then a paltry brokery nor the last theÌ„ a marchandise ReligioÌ„ it selfe doth often serue for a cloake to such couetous persons for many followe Christ in the desert onlie to haue breade Ioh. 6. 26. which is to subiect their vnderstanding to the belly and the chiefe of vertues to the meanest of vices but I knovv not which is worse either to fly away from Christ or to follow him for gain to serue him for mony or to serue the Diuel for nothing Whether it doth seeme most iniurious and ignominious towards God either to leaue his Sonne Iesus Christ or in following him wrong fullie to make him a vallet to our concupiscences What can these vertues then bee that march vnder the Pay of the Deuill Surely this is also a great vanity and manifest corruption Wherfore some not perceiving anie thing in the worlde which is exempted out of this vanity that vices impiety haue infected all sorts of estates and conditions in humane life doe thinke to wrest themselues out of it by coÌ„fining their bodies to some desert and condeÌ„ning their minde to a perpetual care where being secluded froÌ„ all company they liue in continuall silence never speaking but with God and themselues This solitarie humour in manie doth proceede from a brutish coÌ„ceipt in others from a weake spirite incapable of humane society in others froÌ„ an ambition to be remarkeable for some extraordinary profession and in others out of discontent envy that they are wearied in swimming against the current of this worldly streame and in having received all things stil contrary to their desire NotwithstaÌ„ding I do not doubt but that there be some which doe embrace this sort of solitary life to banish themselues from the vices of this world to serue God with more liberty But such are much deceiued who willing to forsake the world do returne farther into it by other meanes and are assaulted by worse teÌ„ptations For then passionate griefes curious cogitatioÌ„s peeuish Idlenes Hypochondriacall humours dispaire presumptioÌ„ and selfe admiration doe insensibly glide into meÌ„s spirits vnder the professioÌ„ of an extraordinary saÌ„ctity all which do render the spirit disconteÌ„ted of an insolent melancholy and presumptuous devotion which ofteÌ„times degenerateth into madnes and want of sence A solitary man in the extremitie of his griefes and sadnes hath no bodie to comfort him comparing himselfe with none other but himselfe hath this conceipt that he is some excelleÌ„t thing But then lustful desires do doubly burne within him For maÌ„ is of this nature that hee thinketh those thinges most beautiful which are farthest remote from him So Saint Hierome being in the St. Hiâ—rome in his epistle to Eustochium midst of a desert in his greatest abstinency doth confesse that his minde was then amongst the dances Ballads of young maides and that he did burne with incontinency and desire Besides the Devill following Jesus Christ in to the desert doth plainelie shew that hee did iudge that place most convenient for temptation Then if the Son of God was assailed by the Devil in the desert how scapeth an Hermite or secluded person that can neuer be exempted Therefore the surest way for a man is to seperate himselfe from the world not with his feet but with his affection to expel it altogither from him and his heart fearing otherwise that departing froÌ„ this world notwithstanding hee carrieth it with him For as it is possible to be worldly vicious liuing far from the world So is it possible to leaue the world with out flying into a desert to liue alone in the middest of company To bee within a Court or Pallace spectator of vanity and troubles without participating of them in the midst of a babling multitude to talke only with him selfe and to entertaine his thoughts with

Caesar because that it had his Jmage on it Let vs therefore then giue our selues to God seeing that wee beare his ovvne Image But the Jnconvenience is that we do often abolish the Image in rubbing it against the Earth and polluting our soules with worldly thoughts and desires That wee may therefore misprise the earth all that the word doth promise it requireth that wee come to the second point which is to know perfectly vvhat the vvorth and excellency of the faithful is For vvhen as men by an vnfriendly amity and cruell welwilling do sollicite some one to doe ill which hath the feare of God and to offende his conscience in offending God Jt behoueth the faithful to thinke in himselfe vvhat I that am a childe of God and am of a celestiall noblenes that am one of the first borne whose names are registred in heauen shall I esteeme Heb. 12. the promises of the world which when they are most certaine they are too base for me to meditate on to delude the son of a Prince with an apple To entice vvith siluer the Sonne of the King of Heauen to offende his Father And after the ensample of Esau to sell my birth-right for a messe of pottage Such persuasions shall not by any meanes possesse me God will not afflict me with so great a blindnes We are vnworthy to be followers of Christ if wee doe not esteeme our selues to be better then the world Was it not for the loue of the faithfull that the world was framed Will not God ruinate it againe for to reedify for theÌ„ a fairer house in heauen vvhere shall bee the fulnesse of glory For this heauen or climate is inferior to the vvorth dignity of the children of God You that feare God trust in his Son knowe that it is you that vnderprop the world and that nourish the wicked in it Therefore the enimies of God are bound in obligatioÌ„ to you For he doth coÌ„serue the worlde out of a respect vvhich he hath towards his chosen and elect vvhereof some are mixed amoÌ„gst the euill and others are yet vnborne It is vvritten in the 6. of the Apocalyps That God doth attend vntill our fellowe seruants be accomplished And therefore this is one of the reasons why that Christ doth call the faithfull the fault of the Mat. 5. 13 earth vvhich is as much as a little part amoÌ„gst meÌ„ which conserueth the rest and delayeth their destruction For God conserueth the sinfull because of the good to the end that they should serue as medicines to them and that the might and power of our aduersaries might serue to compell vs to the feare of God and to trust in his promises Such being the excellency of Gods elect aboue the rest it behoueth vs to respect the pleasures riches greatnesse of the vvorlde as things that are most ridiculous and as the painted kingdomes vvhich the Deuill shewed vnto Christ Like those vvhich from the highest part of the Alpes doe looke into Campania vvhere the greatest Citties seeme like vnto little Cottages how much lesse and base wil they seeme then if they were discerned from heauen FroÌ„ thence therfore it behoueth that the faithful contemplat humane things and that hee transport instantly his heart to heauen since that there is his treasure And considering from theÌ„ce the Pallaces of Princes hee will esteeme them as habitations of Ants the turbulent murmuring of men as the buzzing of an angry swarme of Bees and contemplating from thence vvhat things are most greate and apparant in the earth he vvill say The vanity of vanities that all is vanity That Holy glory wil not hinder Christian humility For wee knowing the vvorthinesse in our selues doe finde our dignity in Iesus Christ If repentance doth humble vs faith doth exalt vs If we are nothing before God vvee are somewhat in God in his fatherly affections And therefore in this the faithfull are contrary to vvorldly men For they do lift their eies to heauen by too much pride but presse downe their heart on the earth vvith avarice and incoÌ„tinency vvhereas the godly on the contrary hath his eies vpon the earth by humility as the Publican which durst not lift his eies to heauen but hath his heart in heauen by faith and hope The contempt of this vvorlde proceedes not out of a loue to himselfe but out of a true affection to God The wickednesse which now reigneth MOreouer the contempt of the vvorld borne of the loue of God shal at leÌ„gth grow to hatred of the world when that besides the vanity and misery of it he shall contemplate the mischiefe and enmity against the Almighty which there reigneth when besides that vanity which some doe lay open to the view of all he wil represent to himselfe the iniquities which are closely kept the treasons adulteries murders which are priuatly and lurkingly committed when he shall consider the vials of Gods wrath and displeasure powred generally vpon humane kinde For in the consideration of this vvorld it behooueth vs to leaue out no part of it but to obserue all manner of Nations people amongst which there are many Pagans which not only by a Consequent but also by expresse profession adore the Deuill The East Indies dedicate their TeÌ„ples to him and honour him with all respect The West Indies are afflicted and tormented ordinarily with euil Spirits In most part of the North lurking deceipts and assuming strange shapes are very commoÌ„ amongst the InhabitaÌ„ts Sorcery is there an ordinary profession the Divel raigneth without contradiction Jn that Country which did once flourish where the Apostles had planted so happily the Holy Gospell the churches are nowe changed into Mosquees and Temples of Idolatry In the West the head of the visible Church is become an earthly Monarck banks are erected in those places where in time past was the house of God Amongst those erroneous and envious people are scattereÌ„d the Iewes which blaspheme against Iesus Christ and having persecuted him in his life do iniuriously wroÌ„g him after his death The Country from whence come decrees and orders for ReligioÌ„ hath in it publique brothell houses and Sodomy is there an vsuall custome Here it is also where doubts in religioÌ„ that concerne a mans faith are decided in the midst of corruption There only remaineth in the world a handfull of people which serue Jesus Christ in truth and verity and they can scarce receiue breath in this aire which is so contrary to them being here as fishes without water as the remainder of great Massacres as pieces of boards scattered after the breaking of a great vessel And yet neuerthelesse amongst these few which are substracted out of the rest of the world Corruption doth encrease as a Cancre or vlcer Quarrels vanity superfluity in apparell Avarice ambition sumptuousnes which spendeth foolishly doeth infect the one part of this smal troupe For God is il serued in priuat families their almes are colde they pray seldome read never In briefe a coÌ„tagion of vices by conversing with our adversaries doeth infect vs vvhich is the first step to superstition For error creepes in to vs by vice and spirituall fornication by corporall Jf therfore where God is most purely knowne he be there il serued Hovv much more amoÌ„gst the rest of the world If vices do harbor within the Sanctuary hovv much more in the body of the Church and habitatioÌ„ of the wicked Therefore Christ doth rightly call Sathan the Prince of the world Peter doth iustly vvrite in the 2. of the Actes Saue your selues from that perverse generation For Sathan lyeth in ambush for vs all this age is infectious vices are like vnto glue temptatioÌ„s strong our enimies mightie our selues feeble ignoraÌ„t the vvay of Saluation narrow and full of thornes and few there be saith Christ that finde it And those which finde it do not alwaies keepe it but many hauing knowne the truth do leaue it and returne to their vomit Let vs know then a place so dangerous that we may passe by as strangers which do not only passe but also run from it flying from the world to come vnto God For we shal neuer haue repose vnlesse wee rest our selues vpoÌ„ him The heauen moueth alwaies and yet it is the place of our rest on the contrary the Earth resteth alwaies and yet it is the place of our motion The Quadrantes Horologies imitate the motion of Heauen but the faith of the beleeuers doeth imitate the rest which is aboue all Vlysses did more esteeme the smoake of his owne house then the flame of an others Howe much more theÌ„ would he esteeme the flame of his owne chimney than the smoake of anothers We are here straÌ„gers this is not our house our habitation is in heauen Let vs compare the smoake of this strange house and the darkenesse of the Earth with the beauty and splendor of our ovvne dvvelling vvhich is in the kingdoÌ„e of HeaueÌ„ Here is the raigne of Sathan there the kingdome of God Here is a valley of teares there the height of mirth Here wee sovv in sorrovve there vvee reape in Ioy Here we see the light of the Sunne through tvvo little holes vvhich are called the eies there vvee receiue light from God on every side as if vve vvere all Eyes Therefore because God is all in all To him be honor and glory in this vvorld and in the world to come Amen FINIS

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