Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	call_v	heaven_n	name_n	5,870	5	5.1655	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02538	Heauen vpon earth, or Of true peace, and tranquillitie of minde. By Ios. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1606 (1606)	STC 12666; ESTC S119001	38,487	228

Others may talk of mirth as a thing they haue hard of or vainly fancied Only the Christian feeles it and in comparison therof scorneth the idle ribaldish and scurrilous mirth of the prophane Sect. 24. AND this resolution which wee call for must not onely exclude manifestly euill actions but also doubting and suspension of minde in actions suspected and questionable wherein the iudgement must euer giue confident determination one way For this Tranquillity coÌ„sisteth in a steddines of the mind and how can that vessell which is beaten vpon by contrarie waues and windes and tottereth to either part be said to keepe a steddy course Resolution is the onely mother of securitie For instance I see that Vsurie which was wont to be condemned for no better then a Legall theft hath now obtained with many the the reputatioÌ„ of an honest trade is both vsed by many by some defended It is pittie that a bad practise should finde any learned or religious Patron The summe of my patrimony lieth dead by me sealed vp in the bag of my father my thriftier friends aduise me to this easy sure improuemeÌ„t Their counsel my gain preuaile my yearly sums come in with no cost but of time waxe parchmeÌ„t My estate likes it well better then my conscience which tels me still he doubts my trade is too easy to be honest Yet I coÌ„tinue my illiberall course not without some scruple and contradiction so as my feare of offeÌ„ce hinders the ioy of my profit the plesure of my game hartens mee against the feare of iniustice I wold be rich with case and yet I would not be vncharitable I would not be vniust All the while I liue in vnquiet doubts and distraction Others are not so much entangled in my bonds as I in my owne At last that I may bee both iust and quiet I coÌ„clude to referre this case wholly to the sentence of my inward iudge the Conscience the Aduocates Gaine and Iustice plead on either part at this barre with doubtfull successe Gaine informes the Iudge of a new and nice distinction of toothlesse and biting interest brings presidents of particular cases of vsury so farre from any breach of charity or iustice that both parts therein confes themselues aduantaged Iustice pleades euen the most toothlesse vsury to haue sharpe gummes finds in the most harmelesse and profitable practise of it and insensible wrong to the common body besides the infinite wracks of priuate estates The weake iudge suspends in such probable allegatioÌ„s demurreth as being ouercome of both and of neither part leaues me yet no whit more quiet no whit lesse vncertaine I suspend my practise accordingly being sure it is good not to doe what I am not sure is good to be done and now Gaine solicites mee as much as iustice did before Betwixt both I liue troublesomely Nor euer shal doe other till in a resolute detestation I haue whipped this euil merchant out of the Temple of my heart This rigour is my peace Before I coulde not bee well either full or fasting Vncertainetie is much payne euen in a more tollerable action Neither is it I thinke easy to determine whether it be worse to doe a lawfull acte with doubting or an euill with resolution since that within it selfe is good is made euil to me by my doubt and what is in nature euill is in this one point not euill to mee that I do it vpon a verdict of a Conscience so now my iudgement offends in not following the truth I offend not in that I follow my iudgement Wherin if the most wise God had left vs to roue onely according to the aime of our owne coniectures it should haue beene lesse faulty to be Sceptickes in our actions and either not to iudge at all or to iudge amisse but how that he hath giuen his a perfite rule of eternall equity and truth wherby to direct the sentences of our iudgement that vncertainty which alloweth no peace to vs will aforde vs no excuse before the tribunall of heaueÌ„ wherfore then onely is the hart quiet when our actions are grounded vpon iudgement our iudgement vpon Truth Sect. 25. FOR his estate the quiet minde must first rolle itself vpoÌ„ the prouidence of the hyest For whosoeuer so casts himselfe vpoÌ„ these outwarde thinges that in their prosperous estate here ioyceth coÌ„trarily is cast downe in their miscarriage I know not whether hee shall finde more vncertaintye of rest or more certaintye of vnquietnesse since hee must needes bee like a light vnballanced vessell that rises and falles with euery waue and depends only on the mercy of wind water But who relyes on the ineuitable decree all-seeing prouidence of God which can neither bee crossed with second thoughts nor with eueÌ„ts vnlooked for layes a sure grounde of Tranquillity Let the world tosse how it list and vary it selfe as it euer doth in storms calms his rest is pitched aloâ—t aboue the sphere of changeable mortality To begin is harder then to prosecute What couÌ„sell had God in the first molding of thee in the womb of thy mother what ayde shall hee haue in repairing thee from the womb of the earth if he could make shall restore thee without thee why shall hee not much more not without thy in deuor dispose of thee Is God wise enough to guide the heauens to produce all creatures in their kindes and seasons and shall he not bee able to order thee alon Thou sayst I haue friendes and which is my best friend I haue wealth to make both them and mee and wit to put both to best vse O the broken reedes of humaine confidence Who euer trusted on friendes that could trust to himselfe Who euer was so wise as not sometimes to be a foole in his owne conceit ofte times in the conceit of others Who was euer more discoÌ„tent then the wealthy Friends may bee false wealth cannot but be deceitfull wit hath made many fooles Trust thou to that which if thou wouldst cannot fail thee Not that thou desirest shall come to passe but that which God hath decreed Neither thy feares nor thy hopes nor vows shall either for slow or alter it The vnexperienced passenger when hee sees the vessell go amisse or too farre laies fast hold on the contrary part or on the mast for remedy the Pilot laughs at his folly knowing that what euer â—e labors the barke will goe which way the winde and his sterne directeth it Thy goods are embarked Now thou wishest a direct Northwinde to driue thee to the Straytes and then a West to runne in and now when thou hast emptyed and laded againe thou callst as earnestlie for the South and Southeast to returne and lowrest if all these answer thee not As if heauen and earth had nothing else to doe but to wayte vpon thy pleasure and serued onely to bee commaunded seruice by thee Another that hath

contrary occasions asks for windes quite opposite to thine He that sits in heauen neither fits thy fancy nor his but bids his winds spit sometimes in thy face sometimes to fauor thee with a sideblast sometimes to be boisterous otherwhiles to be sileÌ„t at his own plesure VVhether the marriner sing or curse it shal go whither it is sent Striue or lye still thy destiny shal run on what must bee shal bee Not that we should heÌ„ce exclude benefit of means which are alwaies necessarily included in this wise preordination of all things but perplexity of cares and wrestling with prouidence Oh the idle ill spent cares of curious men that consult with starres and spirits for their destinies vnder colour of preuentioÌ„ if it bee not thy destiny why wouldst thou know it what needes thou resist it If it be thy destiny why wouldst thou know that thou canst not preuent That which God hath decreede is already done in heaueÌ„ and must be done on earth This kind of expectation doth but hasten slow euills prolong them in their continuaÌ„ce hasten them not in their euent but in our conceit Shortly then if thou swimmest against the streame of this prouidence thou canst not escape drowning euerye waue turns thee ouer like a Porckpose before a tempest but if thou swim'st with the streame do but cast thine armes abroade thou passest with safetye and with ease it both beares thee vppe and carries thee on to the haueÌ„ whither God hath determined thine arriuall in peace Sect. 26. NExt to this the minde of the Quiet maÌ„ must bee to wrought by these former resolutions that it bee throughlye perswaded the estate wherein hee is is best of all if not in it selfe yet to him Not out of pride but out of contentment Which who euer wanteth cannot but be continually vexed with enuy racked with ambition Yea if it were possible to bee in heauen without this hee coulde not be happy For it is as impossible to the mind at once to long after and enioy as for a maÌ„ to feed and sleepe at once And this is the more to be striuen for because we are al naturally prone to afflict our selues with our owne frowardnes ingratefully contemning al wee haue for what we would haue Euen the best of the Patriarks could say O Lord what wilt thou giue me since I go childlesse The bond man desires now and controll nature Ovaine fooles whither doth our restlesse ambition climbe What shal be at length the period of our wishes I coulde not blame these desires if contentment consisted in hauing much but now that he only hath much that hath contentment and that is as easily obtayned in a lowe estate I can account of these thoughtes no better then proudely foolish Thou art poore VVhat differeÌ„ce is there betwixt a greater man and thee saue that he doth his businesses by others thou doest them thy selfe He hath Caters Cookes Bayliues stewardes Secretaries and all other offices for his seuerall seruices thou prouidest dressest gatherest receiuest expendest writest for thy selfe His patrimonie is large thine earnings small If Briareus feed fiftie bellies with his hundreth hands what is he the better then hee that with two hands feedeth one He is serued in siluer thou in vessell of the same colour of lesser price as good for vse tho nothing but liberty that alone would make him happy Once free forgetting his former thought he wishes some wealth to make vse of his freedome sayes it were as good be straited in place as in ability Once rich he longeth after nobility thinking it no prayse to be a welthy peasaÌ„t Once noble he begins to deem it a base matter to be subiect nothing can now content him but a croshn Then it is a small matter to rule so long as he hath but little dominions and greater neighbours he woulde therefore bee an vniuersall Monarch Whither then surely it vexes him as much that the earth is so small a globe so little a mole-hill and that there are no moe worldes to conquer and now that hee hath attayned the hyest dignitye among men hee would needes bee a God conceites his immortalitye erects temples to his owne name commaundes his deade statues to bee adored And not thus contented is angry that hee cannot commande heauen in to solace himselfe The weight whereof varies according to our estimation of them One hath much wealth but no child to inherite it he enuyes at the poore mans fruitfulnesse which hath many heires and no lands and coulde bee content with all his aboundance to purchase a successour of his owne loynes Another hath many children little maintenance he commeÌ„deth the careles quietnes of the barren thinks fewer mouthes and more meate woulde do better The labouring man hath the blessing of a stroÌ„g body fit to digest any fare to indure any labor yet he wisheth himselfe weaker on condicion he might bee wealthier The man of nice education hath a feeble stomach and rasping since his last meale doubts whether he shoulde eate of his best dish or nothing this man repines at nothing more theÌ„ to se his huÌ„gry plowman feed on a crust and wisheth to change estates on condicion hee might change bodies with him Say that God should giue thee thy wish what not for value His dishes are more dainty thine as well relished to thee and no lesse wholesome Hee eates oliues thou garlick he mislikes not more the smell of thy sauce then thou dost the taste of his Thou wantest somwhat that he hath hee wisheth something which thou hast and regardest not Thou couldst be coÌ„tent to haue the rich mans purse but his gout thou woldst not haue He would haue thy health but not thy fare If we might picke out of all mens estates that which is laudable omitting the inconueniences wee woulde make our selues complete but if wee must take altogether vvee shoulde perhaps little aduantage our selues with the change For the most wise God hath so proportion'd out euery mans condition that hee hath some iust cause of sorrow inseperably mixed with other coÌ„tentmeÌ„ts and hath allotted to no man liuing an absolute happines without some grieuances nor to any man such an exquisite misery as that he findeth not somwhat wherin wouldst thou desire Let me thou saiest bee wise helthfull rich honorable strong learned beautiful immortall I knowe thou louest thy selfe so well that thou canst wish all these and more But say that God hath so shared out all these gifts by a most wise and iust distribution that thou canst haue but some of these perhaps but one Which wouldst thou single out for thy selfe Any thing beside what thou hast If learned thou wouldst be strong if strong honorable if honorable long-liued Some of these thou art already Thou foole Cannot God choose better for thee then thou for thy selfe In other matches thou trustest the choyce of a skillfuller chapman when thou seest a goodly horse in the

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