Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	gold_n	silver_n	try_v	2,483	5	7.8014	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15621	An A.B.C. for layemen, othervvise called, the lay-mans letters An alphabet for lay-men, deliuering vnto them such lessons as the holy Ghost teaches them in the worde, by thinges sensible, very necessary to be diligently considered.	Wither, George, 1540-1605.	1585 (1585)	STC 25888; ESTC S101869	82,014	180

children of God and that we doe not enuy prosperity to such children of God as he aduaunceth neither yet disdaine nor contemne the basest of those to whom God vouchsafeth to be a Father and aduaunceth to the dignity of his children The ioye that a father conceiueth and expresseth when his sonne that hath been wild and an vnthrift returneth to frugalitie and thriuing expresseth to vs how pleasant and acceptable a thing to God the conuersion of a sinner is He by whose ministerye it pleaseth God to regenerate vs and beget vs a new ought to be esteemed of vs as our father Fathers THe ordinary course of the world teacheth vs that fathers get and laye vp in store for their Children and for that purpose make no spare of labour trauaile and toyle in viewing whereof the ministers of the Worde are to learne the paines and care that they shoulde haue for their flocke of whome God hath made them fathers to make no spare of them selues but to bestow them selues and all their giftes fully and wholly vpon their flocke And as a Father comforteth exhorteth and beseecheth his children euen so ought a Minister his flocke A father ought carefully to teach the lawe of the Lord vnto his children and moderately to correct them Fatherlesse WE are to take heede how we contemne or neglect the fatherlesse for God is the Father of the fatherlesse and his fatherly care is howrely seene in prouiding for them Feast WHen Friendes meet at Feastes and banquettes they giue them selues to bee merrye and exile all cares and thoughts that might hinder mirth out of their minds then they should remember that those ioyes that their banquet bringeth them to at that time a good conscience would aforde them continually and therfore should study and care to keepe a good conscience Further in the middle of feasting men must take heed that God be not for-gotten nor his liberality vnthought on but that there be of it amongest them a thankfull remembraunce Fieldes WHen in the Corne fieldes we see Tares grow amongest the wheate till Haruest which can not well be rooted out afore we are admonished that wicked hypocrites and other euill men of whom there is hope that they may be conuerted shall be alwayes in the outwarde account of the Church till the ende of the worlde But it is euill husbandry to let tyne and such other weedes grow as both may easelye bee discerned and also are noysome and hurtfull vnto the corne Also if we hurt our neighbours fielde we are to make recompence with the best y t groweth in our owne field Further we ought not to encroch by remouing y e bonds or taking away the landmarkes of our neighbours field Fier GOD taketh vengeaunce of his enemies by Fier For as Fier quickly consumeth stuble and straw so the wrath of the Lorde kindleth as Fier and consumeth the wicked for contemning his word and for the wickednesse of their inuentions Experience hereof we haue in the destruction of Sodome and Gomorrha by Fier The burning of Nadah and Abihue Aarons sonnes The plaging of the people that murmured by fier The burning of two hundred and fifty that offered incence vnto the Lord by Fier that proceeded from the Lorde The consuming with fire from heauen of the twoo Captaines and their bandes which were sent for Eliah It appeareth manifestly therfore that our God is a consuming fier and that all his enemies are but as thornes briers which are easely and quicky consumed by fier but fier shall not hurt the godly because God is with them and protecteth them Hereof we haue manifest experience in the three children cast into the fierie furnace by the King of Babell The worde of the Lorde hath also the same property that God hath for it shall be to the vngodly as fier to consume them and the vngodly to it as wood to be consumed by it The Church of God also shall by the iust iudgement of God be a fier to consume the vngodly withall euen all the enemies of his people The Princes and Captaines of Gods people shall be vnto their enemies round about them as Coales of fier to wood and as fierbrandes in a sheafe of straw to consume all that lift vp their handes against them The gospell also is a fier which Christ by his preaching kindled vpon the earth As by fier mettalles so by the word euery mans workes shall ve examined and tryed what they be As a very little fier kindleth neuer so great a heape of matter apt to kindle so the tongue setteth the whole course of nature on fier and is kindled it selfe of hell Fier purgeth and fineth metalles so God purgeth the drosse of his children by afflictions And as it is a common matter to trye Golde and Siluer by fier so it should not seeme straunge to the children of god to be tryed by tribulations Fisher. AS Fishers with nets and hookes catch fishe in great number so shall they that GOD stirreth vp to execute his iudgements against any people catch and destroye great plentie of them On the other side when it pleaseth God to bestowe his graces in abundaunce then his Preachers shall be like y e Fishers that fish in the maine Sea and shall catch men with the preaching of the Worde in as great aboundaunce and varietie as Fishers doe fishe Therefore Christ called his Apostles from fishing and made them Fishers of men And when they had laboured all night and caught nothing yet in the day they cast out againe at the commaundement of Christ and inclosed a great nomber to teach vs neuer to dispayre though we doe not see that we winne any by the word For God will for vs espy oportunitie for that purpose Firmament THe brightnesse of the firmament setteth out the glorious estate of those in the resurrection of the iust who shal be found wise with godly wisedome Flaxe THe care of Christe in bearing with the weaknesse and infirmities of his children is set out in the similitude of not quenching of smoking flaxe Fleshe THey that trust in the helpe of men and not of God of fleshe and not of spirite because of the multitude of their warlike furniture shal fal and perishe togeather with their helpes For cursed is the man that trusteth in man and maketh fleshe his arme and with-draweth his heart from the Lord. Cease therfore from man whose breath is in his nostrelles For wherein is he to be esteemed Trust vnto the Lord with al thine hart and leane not vnto thine owne wisedome for the wisdome of the fleshe is enimytie against God and therein dwelleth no goodnes The carnall man is sold vnder sinne and fleshe longeth continually against the spirit and the fruites thereof are all kindes of impietie

first fruits all the Fruites of the earth were sanctified so by Christ the first Fruites of them that slepe the promise of the rising againe of our bodies to life euerlasting is to vs confirmed and assured Nothing is iudged fruitefull but that which bringeth foorth Fruite plentifully so it is not one or two good thinges whereby wee must bee iudged good Christians but we must be filled with the Fruite of righteousnesse Freendes HE that will haue freendes must shewe him selfe freendly that his freendes may thinke that hee esteemeth and setteth store by them For a sure freend is more to bee esteemed and set by then the neerest Kinseman that is for the loue of suche a freende is at all times shewed and his heartye Counsayle doth reioyse the heart Therefore him that hath beene thy Fathers freende and thy freende forsake thou not Frogges FRogges was one of the great plagues wherewith God plagued Ggipt there was neither feelde nor house free For what place coulde they be kept out of when the kinges priuy chamber was annoyed with them Foxes THe foxes excell in subtilty and shifts wherein false Prophetes and corrupt teachers doe rightly resemble them The foxes haue hoales and boroughes in the grounde where to repose them selues and their yong ones but the Sonne of man hath not of his owne where to rest his heade They therefore that pretende to followe Christe and yet seeke them selues and their own benefite profite and commodity looke to bee in better estate then their master and often times being deceiued chaunge their course Gayne GReedinesse of gaine troubleth the house of the couetous person and often bringeth him selfe in daunger For they which will be rich fal into temptation and snares and into many foolish and noysome lustes which drowne men in perdition and distruction For the desire of mony is the roote of all euill It maketh men erre from Faith and pearce themselues through with sundry sorrowes Therefore filthy lucre is to bee fled from and shunned of all men but especially of the ministers of the worde Gawle THe bitternesse of affliction of the soule of the godly when the Church and people of God is cruelly persecuted of the vngodly is like vnto the bitternesse of Gaul So also is the impiety and wickednesse of the heart of the vngodly Gardens WHen we recreate our selues in our Gardens the liberality of God present is thankfully to be considered by occasion whereof we are to call to minde howe pleasaunt that Garden was which God him selfe planted and placed our first father in and with how great vnkindnesse and ingratitude God was recompenced a gaine whereby both Adam and wee euer since haue beene depriued of so greate felicity and happinesse Girdle AS a man girdeth himselfe with his Girdle so God tieth his people to himselfe And as a souldier girdeth his armour to his body with his arming Girdle that his armour doe not hang loose or fall of from him so must wee our spirituall armour with the Girdle of trueth Giant AS a Giant is too strong for mean men of middle size as his voyce and looke is fearfull to such enemies so will God be to all such as rise vp against him This is a speciall comfort to all those that for Gods cause are assayled of wicked men and therefore are assured that God will stick to them to defend his owne cause and ouertâ—â—â—w their persecutors Glasse SUch difference as there is betwixt vewing of a man in a darke or dimme Glasse and the sight of him face to face in a bright day so much difference is there betwixt our present knowledge of God in this life and that which shall be in the life to come As he that looketh his bodily face in a Glasse and by and by departeth away about other businesse and forgetteth his fashion and forme such are the forgetfull hearers of the word which neuer practise that which is taught them But as a man may the better both spie his spots that he may wash them and also set his attier in the better order about him if for that purpose he diligently veiwe him selfe in a glasse so he that is carefull to auoyd that which he shoulde not doe and to execute that which he ought to do hath very great helpe by hearing the Word and printing of it in his mind Golde THe godly are tryed of God by tribulation and come foorth like tryed Golde out of the Fier Wisdome cannot be bought with gold or any earthly treasure of what price soeuer it be The worde of the Lorde giueth Wisedome to the simple and therefore is more to bee disired then golde yea then much fine golde It is better to vs then thousands of Golde and siluer The Church of God when it is afflicted by persecution is like dimme golde which though it bee fine hath lost his glorious brightnesse and shining colour Though wicked Cities haue neuer so great heapes of golde and treasure yet God in his good time shall spoile them That golde will abide the fire and passe through the more pure teacheth vs that wee shoulde builde vppon Christ that which will abide the triall of the word Gold though neuer so well tried and pure yet in continuance wasteth and corrupteth But faith approoued by good triall endureth to the appearing of our Lorde Iesus Wee are not redeemed by gold or any corruptible thing of what price soeuer but by the bloud of the vndefiled and vnspotted lamb Iesus Christ. Gold that lieth in the coffers till it be rusty and canker fretted shal be a witnes against wicked and couetous hoorders at the last day and a cause to encrease their torments Goates AS often as we see Goates we should remember the miserable estate of them that Christ shal place at his left hand in the day of iudgemeÌ„t and the terrible sentence of condemnation which shall bee pronounced against them which should make vs feareful of encurring the like and carefull to liue heere so as that there wee may be acquited and discharged of that sentence Graffing WHen wee graffe or see others graffing we shoulde consider that as the graffe is translated from his natiue tree to growe in another so we as many as be true Christians are translated from Adam to Christe and from beeing Gentiles to be of one body with the posterity of Abraham that as the graffes nowe liueth not by his naturall iuice but by the iuice or moisture receiued from the roote of the stock whereinto he is graffed So we now liue by the power of Christes spirit working in vs or rather Christ liueth in vs. And as to that end we graffe y t the verdure of the stock may correct and amend the taste of the fruit that it may be the more pleasant to the eater so we shoulde haue our

if they be compared with Christe seeing as they are not worthy so much as to vnbuckle his shoes Sicknesse WHen we are grieuouslie sicke we are to call to minde the greatnesse of our sinnes For if there be nothing sound in our fleshe it is because of Gods anger And when there is no rest in our bones it is because of our sinnes Yet we are with this to comfort our selues that it is Gods louing chastisement to the ende that we should not be damned with the worlde Therefore though sinne be the cause of our affliction and sicknesse and though we be brought euen vnto deathes doore yet let vs with true and vnfained repentaunce crye vnto the Lorde he will heale vs and deliuer vs from our griefes And let vs looke about that our vnreuerent abusing of the holy misteries of Christes body and bloud be not a cause that many be sicke and many dye amongest vs. Siluer AS pure as Siluer is beeing seuen tymes tryed and fined so pure is the worde of GOD. With such labour and diligence as we would seeke for Siluer and search for treasure with the like we shoulde studye for the knowledge of God in his Worde For the wisedome therein learned is more worth then Siluer more gainefull then Gold more precious then pearles and without all comparison to be preferred before any thing which we can desire He that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer and he that loueth ritches shall be without the fruit thereof Though wicked couetous men do heape siluer togeather as dust and gold as the mier of the streats yet the Lord shall spoyle theÌ„ Further the sight of siluer and golde and such like as passing throgh the fier consume not shold admonish vs to endeuour that our workes maye be such as maye abyde the touch-stone of the Word and the fier of Gods examination Moreouer it was neither siluer nor golde neither anye other earthly thing how precious soeuer it was that could redeeme vs but onely the bloud of the immaculate and vnspotted lambe Iesus Christ. Schoole-maister AS a Schoolemaister serueth not for his scholler continuallye but till such time as the scholler may grow to some good abilitie to goe forward at his booke by his owne study So the Lorde feareth his people with his lawe not alwayes but till such time as they haue sufficiently learned to know them selues and therefore to flie from them selues to Christ Iesu who freeth them from the cursse and condemnation of the law Sleepe AS often as we rise from sleepe hauing our weary limmes refreshed and as it were reuiued so that we feele our selues in better case and abilitie to do anye maner thing then before so often we should remember that death vnto the godly is but a resting of their weary bodyes and bones till they rise againe exceedingly bettered by immortalitie and glory and therefore termed by the name of sleepe But loue not sleepe least thou come to pouerty Open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread Sleepe is sweete to him that trauayleth and taketh paines whether he eat little or much Silence SIlence in open places is to be obserued of women as a token of their dutifull subiection where vnder God hath put them Men also ought to be swift to heare and slow to speake for in much speaking sinne cannot be wanting Smoake AS Smoake vanisheth and commeth to nothing so the wicked and vngodly perish at the presence of God As smoake vanisheth and passeth away so heauen and earth and all that in them is shal vanish and passe away Sparrow IN time of persecution when we cannot be suffered to frequent the assemblies of those which truly serue the Lord. The state of the poore sparrow or swallow which are there suffered to build their nestes and haue their young seeme to vs more happy then our owne so great a desire haue we if we be godly to be with them among whoÌ„ or at whose meeting Christ hath bound himselfe by his promise to be present The sale of sparrowes and such other small birdes in markets or other places shoulde bring to minde that seeing these fell not nor were caught without the prouidence of God it can not be but that he whose prouidence extendeth and stretcheth to such smal thinges should also haue a speciall care regarde and eye to those that are his Speaking AS it were a madnes or at the least a great folly for one man in communication with an other to speake in a tongue which the other vnderstandeth not so is it much more for a man to speake to a multitude or a whole congregation in that sort or order And where God graunteth not to people to haue his word so spoken and preached vnto them that they may vnderstand it is a manifest token of his anger and wrath against them for their vnbeliefe Spottes AS spottes deface the things they light on which ought to be cleane so false prophets and false brethren defile and staine the societye and felowship of Christians Snaile AS a Snaile melteth and consumeth to slime and earth so shal God consume the wicked and bring them to naught Snares WHen we see diuers and sundry snares and engines set for beastes vermine and foules and we see those that haue escaped diuers in the ende to be trapped in one or other then are we to remember that though some wicked doe at times seeme to escape the heauie iudgements of God yet in the end they shall be snarled Sodome WHen we here read or by any means remember the heauy fearefull and terrible iudgements of God vpon Sodome and Gomorrha and the places adioyning which God destroyed with fier and brimstone from heauen Then are we to looke about and to consider what and how much more intollerable estate and condition remayneth for vs if we continue contemptuous refusing and misusing the messengers of God now sent to vs. Sunne WHen we see the sunne shine in his full brightnesse and beauty then we are to remember that that light is but for a season But that God which is for euer and euer is the euerlasting light of his Church But in the meane season the constant course of the Sunne accordinge to the appointmente of God in the beginning teacheth vs our obedience to our creator That the Sunne staide his course in the dayes of Ioshua that it returned backwarde in the dayes of Ezechias and that it withdrewe his lighte at noone daies in the death and passion of our Lord and sauiour sheweth the glory and omnipotency of God who canne whensoeuer it pleaseth him chaunge the whole course of nature and make it serue whatsoeuer turn pleaseth him Souldier A Souldier taketh wages of them for whome he fighteth and goeth on warfare Therefore a minister of the gospell may lawfullye

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