Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	abel_n	cain_n	death_n	601	4	5.2732	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01761	A godly sermon preached in the court at Greenwich the firste Sonday after the Epiphanie, Anno Domini. 1552. And in the sixt yere of ye raigne of king Edward the sixt, the right godly and vertuous king of famous and blessed memory. By. B.G.	Gilpin, Bernard, 1517-1583.	1581 (1581)	STC 11897; ESTC S114032	27,564	78

truely I could neuer maruell inough at learned men whiche read the scriptures where their hearts and vnderstanding shoulde be when they reade almost in euery leafe of scripture besides all ancient writers their owne sharpe sentence iudgement which a whole day were too little to bring them in O mercifull God where bee their eyes to see their eares to heare doe they thinke there is a God which will be maister of his word I will let passe howe they are called of the holy ghost by most odious names theeues robbers hypocrites idols wolfes dumbe dogs with many suche like worthy their desertes I will onely declare which me thinkes mighte suffice if there were no mo howe the scripture maketh them most cruell murtherers and guilty of bloud In the 34 of Ecclesiastictis it is written The Breade of the needfull is the life of the poore he that defraudeth them therof is a man of bloud If this sentence be true in them that defraude the needy of their corporall foode howe muche more are they which withhold the food of the soul being the worthier part of man guilty of bloude And therefore God by his prophet Ezechiel telleth them so many as perishe by their negligence their bloud shall be required at their handes as men guilty of bloud Now let them consider if y e bloud of Abell one man cried vp vnto heauen for vengeance against Cain what an horrible cry shall the bloud of a thousand soules make before the throne of God asking vengeance against that wicked Pastor which moste cruelly hath hungered them to death in withholding from them the foode of life The gold they lay vp yerely brought far of by farmers their Rings Iewels their fine apparell their beddes they lye in their meate and drinke being the spoile of the poore cry all for vengeance The stones in the wal the timber ouer their heades cry for vengeance Alas how far are they froÌ„ excusing theÌ„selues with Saint Paule saying to the people of Ephesus I take you to record this day I am pure froÌ„ the bloud of all men for I haue spared no labour but haue shewed all the councel of God vnto you But alas these meÌ„ may rather say that they haue kept councell of Gods councell And where Saint Paule preached publiquly and by houses these meÌ„ keepe sileÌ„ce least they should disquiet the diuell in his forte of whome Christe saith When a strong man armed watcheth his house the thinges that he possesseth are in peace c. They say with the euill seruaunt My maister is long a comming so beats his fellow seruants like cruel murtherers tyrantes whose iudgment shal be straighter theÌ„ any Pharao Nero or Domitian that euer reigned But alas it healpeth nothing to call or cry vppon them They haue hardened their heartes as an Adamant stone Lazarus hath liene so long buried and stinking in worldely lustes and sensuality the preacher can not call him out nor yet remoue the graue stone What shall I then do I must cal vnto you most noble Prince Christes annointed I am come this day to preach to y e king and to those which be in authority vnder him I am very sory they should be absent which should giue example encourage other to the hearing of Gods word And I am the more sorie that other preachers before me complaine much of their absence But you will saye they haue waighty affaires in hande Alas hath God any greater businesse then this If I could cry with the voice of SteÌ„tor I shoulde I shoulde make them heare in their chambers But in their absence I will speake to their seates as if they were present I will call vnto you noble prince as Christes annoynted Christes little flocke here in England whome he hath committed vnto your chardge which wander by many thousands as sheepe hauing no pastors they cry all vnto you for succour to sende them home their shepheards to the end that for things corporall they may receiue spiritual to let one pastor to haue one onely competent liuing which he may discharge They call vpon you to expel driue away the great drones which in idlenesse deuour other mens labor that after S. Paules rule He that will not labor be not suffered to eate The little ones haue asked bread Christs little ones haue hungered and called for y e foode of y e gospel a long time none there was to giue it theÌ„ Now they cry vnto you take heede you turne not your eares from theÌ„ least their bloud be required at your hands also least God turne his eares from you Samuel spake vnto Saul fearefull wordes Because thou hast cast away the wordes of the Lorde hath therefore cast awayâ— thee from beeing king You are made of God a Pastor a Pastor of Pastors When Dauid was annointed king in Israel God sayde Thou shalt feede my people Israel you must feede and that is to see that al pastors doe their duty The eye of the maister hath a greate strength Your graces eye to looke through your Realme and see that watchmen sleepe not shalbe worth a great number of preachers They call vnto you to awake not only negligent pastors but also to take away other enormities which haue followed in heapes vpon those euilles pluralities and non residentes If I mighte haue time I think I shuld be able to proue that the greate swarme of euils which reigne at his day haue flowed from those founteines or rather puddles But I will onely speake of the greate abuses which by sp oile and robbery do hide the gospel howe they haue ensued First of all the dispensations of non residents haue brought forth farming of benefices to gentlemen lay men wherein they haue founde such sweetenes and worldly wealth that preachers can not haue them they wil be perpetual farmers Which hath opened a gappe for the Heathen as Dauid saith or else for cloked christians much worse then heathen who haue entred into Christes inheritance spoiled his holy temple robbed his gospell Such seeme to make composition with our greate enimy Satan The idle and idole pastor saying Da mihi diuitias coetera tolle tibi Giue to me riches take the rest to thy share whome Satan answereth Si mihi des animas tu cape diuitias If thou wilt betray to me the soules take riches for thy part An other gap hath bene opened for thaâ— the learned haue not done their dueties no more then the vnlearned hereby Christes vineyarde hath bene vtterly spoiled Patrons see that none doe their duetie they thinke as good to put in asses as men The Byshops were neuer so liberall in making of lewde priestes but they are as liberal in making lewd vicars I dare say if suche a monster as Deruel Gatherel the idole of Wales brent in Smithfielde coulde haue bene well conueied to come set his hand to

Gods as iudge among gods Take heede all you y t be counted as Goddes Gods ministers vppen earth you haue one God iudge ouer you which as he in y e same Psalme sharply rebuketh vngodly rulers for accepting of persons of the vngodly so he telleth faithfull christiaÌ„ magistrats their true duties businesse in plaine words Defend the pore needy see that such as be in necessitie haue right deliuer the outcast pore saue theÌ„ froÌ„ the hands of the vngodly Heare haue all noble men christian magistrates most liuely set forth to them their heauenly fathers businesse wherein he woulde haue them continually occupied woulde to God the whole Psalm were grauen in their hartes Truely for lacke that this businesse is not applied but the pore despised in all places it hath giuen such boldnesse to couetous cormorantes abrode that now their robberies extortion open oppression hath no end nor limits no banks can keepe in their violence As for turning poore men out of their holdes they take for no offence but saie Their lande is their owne and forget altogether that the earth is the Lords the fulnesse thereof They turne them out of their shrouds as thicke as mice Thousandes in England through such begge nowe from dore to dore which haue kept honest houses These crie daily to God for vengeance both against the greate Nemrothes workes thereof and their mainteners There be so many mighty Nemrothes in England mightie hunters that hunt for possessions Lordships that pore men are daily hunted out of their liuings there is no couert nor denne can keep them safe These Nemrothes haue such quick smelling houndes they can lye at London and turne men out of their farms and tennements a hundred some 200 miles of O Lord when wicked Achab hunted after Nabothes vineyard he could not though he were a king obteine that pray tilâ— cursed Iesabel as womeÌ„ many times haue shrewde wittes til she tooke the matter in hand So hard a thing it was in those dayes to wring a man from his fathers inheritaunce which now a meane man will take in hande And nowe our valiant Nemrothes can compasse the matter without the helpe of Iesabel yet hath England euen now as great a number of Iesabels which to mainteine their intollerable pride their golden heads wil not sticke to put too their wicked hands O Lord what a number of such oppressors worse then Achab are in England which sell the poore for a paire of shoes of whome if God shoulde serue but 3. or 4. as he did Achab to make the dogs lap the bloud of them and their wiues their posteritie I thinke it would cause a great number to beware of extorsion to beware of oppression yet escaping temporall punishment they are certein by Gods word their bloud is reserued for helhoundes Cerberus and his companie which they nothing feare A pittifull case and great blindnesse that hearing Gods word man shoulde feare more temporall punishmente then euerlasting Yet hath Englande had of late some terrible exaÌ„ples of Gods wrath in soudeine and straunge deathes of such as ioyne feelde to feelde and house to house Greate pittie they were not cronicled to the terror of other which feare neither god nor maÌ„ so hardened in sinne that they seeke not to hide it but rather are such as glorie in their mischefe which maketh me oftentimes remember a writer in our time Musculus vpon Sainte Mathews gospel which meruelled much at the subtile and manifold working of Satan howe he after the expelling of superstition and hypocrisie trauelleth most busilie to bring in open impietie That wher as before hipocrits men feared men and not God now a great number feare neither God nor man The moste wicked are counted most manlike and innocencie is holden for beastlines yet may wee not say hipocrisie is expelled for as many of these Achabs as signifie they fauour Gods word by reading or hearing it or with praier honouring him as Christe saith with their lippes their heartes beeing farre from him they are as detestable hypocrites as euer was couered in cowle or cloister I cannot liken them better then to y t Iewes that say to Christe haile king of y e Iewes What their painted friend ship is and how of Christ it is esteemed S. Augustine setteth forth by an apt similitude Euen as saith he a man shuld come to embrace thee to kisse honour thee vpward beneath with apaier of shoes beaten full of nailes tread vpon thy bare foote the heade shall despise the honour done vnto it and for the foote that smarteth say why treadest thou vppon mee So when fained Gospellers honour Christe our heade sitting in heauen and oppresseth his members in earthe the heade shall speake for the feete that smarte and say Why treadest thou on me Paule had a zeale towards God but he did tread vpon Christes feete on earth for whoÌ„ the head cried forth of heauen Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Although Christ sitteth at the right hande of his father yet heth he in earth he hungereth in earth he suffereth al calamities here on earth he is many times euill intreated here on earth Wold to god we could beare away this briefe and shorte lesson that what we doe to his members vpon earth we do to him it would bring men from oppression to shew mercy without whiche no man can obteine mercie If they would remember how the rich gluttone was damned in hel not as we read for any violence but for not shewing mercie they might soone gather howe sharpe judgemeÌ„t remaineth for them which are not only vnmerciful but also violently adde there unto oppressioÌ„ who are so farre from mercie a great number Their hearts will serue them to destroye whole townes they woulde wish al y e people destroied to haue al the field brought to a shepe pasture O cruel mercie it is like to the mercy of a bishop of MaguÌ„ce in Germany named Hatto which as the cronicles mention 500. yeares agoe in time of a great dearth called al the poore people in al y e whole country into a great barne pretending to make a greate dole but hauing them sure inoughe he fired the barne and brent them all vp saying these be the mice whiche deuour vp the Corne. This was a pollicie to make bread better cheape but for this vnmercifull mercie God made him an example for all vnmercifull men to the worldes end For a multitude of Ratios came deuoured him in such terrible sorte that where his name was written in windows wals or hanginges they neuer ceased till it were rased out Some peraduenture shrinke to heare such crueltie the terrible vengeance that ensued But doubtlesse there is almoste daily as great cruelty practised amongst vs by such bloudsuccours as being infected with the great dropsie of Auarice alway drinking euer a

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