Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19036	Mundanum speculum, or, The worldlings looking glasse Wherein hee may clearly see what a woefull bargaine he makes if he lose his soule for the game of the vvorld. A worke needfull and necessarie for this carelesse age, wherein many neglect the meanes of their saluation. Preached and now published by Edmund Cobbes, master of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1630 (1630)	STC 5453; ESTC S117518	113,560	456

was deceiued it was his ruine for he lost both the wedge of gold and life too And haue we not heard of many in our times which by their climbing haue got fearefull falles And the Amos 8. 12 moone of their hopes hath been eclipsed at the ful and the sunne of their preferments hath gone downe at noone Which shews how slippery great mens places are and how full of dangers on euery side Though promotion come only froÌ„ the Lord yet many times through our corrupt nature it doth more hurt then good vnlesse our hearts be seasoned with grace and the feare of the Lord. Brethren mistake me not I do not condemne honour which in it selfe is good lawfull and laudable and may moderately be desired of Christians Therefore lest wee may lose our selues in this labyrinth Honors are of two sorts we will make a distinction between that honor which is lawful commendable that which 1. Laudable 2. Worldly Wicked is worldly and wicked Lawfull honour is that which doth not onely consist in the witnesse which God and our owne conscience giueth to our pious endeauours but also in the account which the godly haue for their vertuous and godly carriage both to GOD and man This honour may also shine in priuate Christians in their meane estates and conditions of life as well as in publike persons in whose hands is authoritie and rule and other dignities and preferments 2. Worldly honour is that which is gained by the applause of the rude ignorant and wauering multitude ioyned with worldly preferment procured by cunning deuices making the shew of vertue to stand for the substance or at least-wise ambitiously to affect those things which in their own nature are good and may bee desired to serue their turne and to hide their hypocrisie with The former kinde of honour is very lawfull and may be desired by the godly but the other is to be contemned and despised The lawfulnesse of that honour and the moderate desire thereof may appeare by warrant from sacred Scripture 1. Because it is the gift of God which raiseth vp the poor out of the dust and lifteth vp 1 Sam. 2. 8. the beggers from the dunghill to set them among Princes and to make them inherit the seat of glory as Hannah speaketh in her diuine song And Dauid he saith that riches honor come froÌ„ 2 Chron. 29. 11. God Therefore they must needs bee good seeing they issue slow froÌ„ him which is the fountaine of goodnesse And as they are good in themselues so they serue for good vses For a godly man in his place as hee protects the godly so is he a terror Rom. 13. 3. to the workers of iniquitie Let those therefore which are aduanced into place of authoritie take heed they staine not their places by the deuils malice and their owne corruptions but let them approue their actions and conuersations by the sincerity of their hearts that they seeke not their owne ends but how they may honour GOD in their places and benefit his Church and to striue to bee great in grace as they are in place and to shine as lamps in the middest of the people by professing and practising the fruits of Religion in their liues and conuersations for the eyes of all men are fixed vpon them if they proue wandring starres and doe not their duty they shall greatly dishonour God offend the godly and lead the wicked into much euill Iobs Children perished in the house of their elder Brother so many inferiors perish by the loose example of their superiours Let the consideration hereof teach all Superiors Magistrates in Psal 101. their place to walke in vprightnes that by their examples they may not embolden their Inferiors to sinne or to settle themselues vpon their lees but to draw out the sword against the workers of iniquitie hereby they shall glorifie God and discharge their duties For the time shall come when they shal be called to account how they haue walked in their places and how they haue honoured God and aduanced his Gospel what a comfort will it bee to their soules if they can say with good Hezekiah that they haue walked before the Lord with vpright hearts Let vs also teach Parents so to walke before their children and seruants as that they may be patternes of all goodnes for them to imitate but of their duty we shall haue more fit occasion to speake in another place Vse Wouldest thou be honourable among men labor to inrich thy life with holinesse and a vertuous conuersation let thy words be words of grace thy lips doors of knowledge thy heart as a storehouse of vnderstanding and seeke honor from GOD who maketh low and Ps 75. 6. 7. high For the world and worldly men cannot bestow the honour of vertue vpon vs and if we would seeke it from GOD with hope of obtaining let vs returne all glory from our selues vnto him seeing he hath promised to honour them 1 Sam. 2. 30. which honour him And if we would haue honour from men Gloria vmbra vertutis est etiam inuitos comitatur Sen. Ep. 79 then let vs abound in all good workes and then honour will attend vs like a shadow though we be vnwilling of it If GOD haue ordained vs to bee great men on earth he knowes how to aduance vs and the onely way for vs to bee aduanced is to walke lowly in our owne eyes and to make no account of the worlds preferment which will deceiue vs for what will honor doe vs good if wee make GOD our enemy to gaine it Let vs therefore submit our selues to be guided by GOD and content to wait his leisure for our preferment and if we be descended from noble parents which were honourable in the world for their vertues let vs take heed we doe not dishonor them by our prophane and wicked life Were our Parents meane and contemptible in the world then let vs labour to aduance them by our holy life and vertuous conuersation for it is more honour to be the founder then the ouerthrower of a noble house Vertue builds vp but euill maners ouerturne the best house that euer was for it is much better to bee vertuous our selues then to boast of the vertues of our Ancestors but if wee seeke to climbe to honour by flattery or other base wayes wee deceiue our selues Many think that if they haue the fauour of their Prince they are in a great good way to aduance themselues and their posterity But alasse if we trust in the fauours of Princes wee sleepe vnder a shadow that will quickly bee gone Haman by Esther 7. 8 trusting too much to the fauout of the King was deceiued of his expectation Some thinke that if they can marry their sonne or daughter into a rich stocke they thinke this is the way to rise to honour and to keepe themselues from the thunder-claps of

Greg. mor. l. 9. c. 28. Crimen non est in rebus sed in vsu ageâ—â—is is not in themselues but in them that vse them Which saying doth sort well with that of the Scripture Vnto the cleane all things are cleane And S. Ambrose Disâ—ant non in facultatibus crimen haerere sed in ijs qui vti nesciunt in Luc. 9. saith The fault is not in riches but in the ignorance of them that haue them not vsing them aright Therefore let no man reiect riches because some abuse them to sinne For riches and wealth to a good man are very comfortable and good blessings by reason he hath great meanes to doe good but to a bad man they are the cause of much euil because they minister more matter to his sinfull desire A man may warme him by a fire yet not burne himselfe in it so a rich man may moderately vse his riches and yet not hedge vp his way to happinesse take away the abuse and the vse of them is very good It is not riches that Christ and Paul condemne but the inordinate loue of them They are called in Scripture not onely gifts but benefits and rewards which God Deut. 2. 8. promised to bestow vpon them that serue him Therefore it is said God gaue Iob his wealth Iob 1. 21. c. 42. 10. and the Israelites their Corne Wine and oyle and multiplied Hos 2. 8. their siluer and gold hence they are called by the wisest of men the blessings of the Lord and promised Pro. 10. 22. that they shall bee in his house that feareth the Lord. Ps 112. 1 3. And hee hath bestowed this blessing vpon many of his Children as vpon Abraham Isaac Iacob Salomon that they might bee the better enabled to performe holy duties Therefore wee may lawfully pray for them if wee propose right ends to glorifie God with them and benefit his Church yet wee must submit our wills vnto Gods Will and that wee may so liue that wee may not bee chargeable to others but prouide for our selues and Children according to our seuerall places and conditions for if there bee any that prouideth noâ— 1 Tim. 5. 8. for his owne especially for those of his owne house such an one is worse then an Infidell and hath denied the faith As wee must doe good vnto all so especially to Gal. 6. 10. them that are most neare and dear vnto vs Ioseph sent meat to Gen. 43. 34 all his Brethren both according to the flesh and according to the faith but Beniamins Messe was fiue times as much as the rest of his brethren because hee loued him best so the care that wee should shew to our owne family should bee fiue times greater then for any body else for whom should a man loue better then his wife and Children When the famine was in Samaria the women cryed 2 Kin. 6. 35. vnto the King with their Children in their armes saying Helpe O King else wee perish for want of bread Now euery man in his owne family is a King whose office is not onely to make lawes but also to prouide necessaries for his subiects that they may liue in peace and quietnesse Therfore when want commeth into the family whither shall the Wife goe but to her Husband and the children but to their father Now if husbands bee carelesse to prouide for their Wiues Fathers for their Children what a lamentable cry will it be when they are in want when the Wife shall crie Husband giue vs bread or else we die and Children cry and say Father giue vs bread or else wee starve Now in this case what wil the carelesse Husband say to his deare Wife or the improuident Father to his poore Children he cannot say perhaps as the King said to the woman of Samaria Seeing the 2 Kin. 6. 27. Lord doth not helpe how can I when as the fault is in himselfe which hath pulled this misery vpon himselfe by his owne indiscretion and idle carriage in the course of his calling The good huswife is described by her carefulnesse not onely to prouide necessaries for her husband and Children but also for the maintenance of her whole family which depended vpon Pro. 31. 15. her and this care of necessaries must not onely be for time present but also for the time to come For parents are bound to prouide and to lay vp for their 2 Cor. 12. 14. ChildreÌ„ Therfore SalomoÌ„ describing a godly man sayes He shall Pro. 13. 22. giue an inheritance to his childrens children Therefore as it is the duty of a good man to take care for his own so also that he may bee able to relieue the poore for it is a more blessed thing to Act. 20. 35. giue then to receiue And our blessed Lord teacheth vs to pray for our dayly bread now what we desire in our prayers wee may labour for in our practice and as wee must seeke the Kingdome of GOD in the first place so in the second place wee may lawfully seeke for the things of this world that we may bee able to Rom. 13. 7. giue vnto Caesar the things which are Caesars and tribute to whom tribute belongeth and be able to bring vp our Children in learding wherby they may become seruiceable to the Church and Common wealth In these respects we may desire riches if God see them good for vs that we may honor him with them and become seruiceable to his Church and if hee doe blesse vs with riches we are to esteeme them as pledges of his loue and to manifest our thankefulnesse by obedience to his Commandements by walking humbly in our liues and conuersations both towards GOD and men For riches are good and the blessings of God Therfore woe vnto them that make them the instruments of damnation vnto themselues by not vsing them to his glory which gaue them but by abusing them to serue their owne lusts as the Israelites of old Which sate down 1 Cor. 10. 7 Ex. 32. 6. to eate and drinke and rose vp againe to play But howsoeuer though they are good in themselues as they are the blessings of God yet we must take heed we doe not ouer-value them in our iudgement and gripe them hard and close in our hands they are thornes and thornes are dangerous if they bee not carefully handled therefore let vs account them good seruants but bad masters no better then drosse and dung in respect of Christ for vnlesse God blesse sanctifie them to vs they wil doe vs little good Let vs therefore thrust them out from harbouring in our hearts and make them seruants to follow and obey vs and not lords to rule ouer vs. And if we want their company not to vse any vnlawfull means for the obtaining of them but still to esteeme them base in comparison of grace and the meanes of our saluation and to be content rather to lose theÌ„

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