Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	soul_n	spirit_n	5,254	5	5.2345	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11115	Heavens glory, seeke it. Earts [sic] vanitie, flye it. Hells horror, fere it	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?; Sparke, Michael, d. 1653, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 21383; ESTC S112117	58,519	284

hee himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father c. A Prayer at the houre of death O Lord Iesus Christ which art the onely health of all men liuing and the euerlasting life of them which dye in thy faith I wretched sinner giue and submit my selfe wholly to thy most blessed will being sure that the thing cannot perish which is committed vnto thy mercy I most humbly beseech thee O Lord to giue me grace that I may now willingly leaue this fraile and wicked flesh in hope of the resurrection which in better manner shall restore it to me againe grant me O Lord God that thou wilt by thy grace make strong my soule against all temptations and that thou wilt couer and defend me with the buckler of thy mercy against the assaults of Satan I acknowledge that there is in my selfe no hope of saluation but all my hope and trust is in thy most mercifull goodnesse I haue no no merits nor good workes which I may alleadge before thee of sinnes and euill works alas I see a great heape but through thy mercy I trust to be of the number of theÌ„ to whom thou wilt not impute their sins but take and impute mee for righteous and iust and to be the inheritor of euerlasting glory Thou O most mercifull Lord wert borne for my sake thou didst suffer both hunger and thirst thou didst preach teach pray and fast for my sake thou didst all good workes and sufferedst most grieuous pangs and torments for my sake and finally thou gauest thy most precious body to dye and thy blessed bloud to be shed on the crosse for my sake wherefore most mercifull Sauiour let all these things profit me which thou hast freely giuen mee which hast giuen thy selfe for me let thy bloud cleanse and wash away the spots and foulenesse of my sinnes let thy righteousnesse hide and couer my vnrighteousnesse let the merits of thy bitter sufferings be a sufficient and propitiatory sacrifice and satisfaction for my sinnes giue me O Lord thy grace that my faith and beleefe of thy true and grieuous death wauer not in me but euer be firme and constant that the hope of thy mercy life euerlasting neuer decay in me that charitie waxe not cold in me and finally that the weaknesse of my flesh be not ouercome with the feare of death grant me also O most mercifull Sauiour that when death hath shut vp the eyes of my body yet the eyes of my soule may still behold and looke vpon thee and that when death hath taken away the vse of my tongue and speech yet my heart may cry and say vnto thee O Lord into thy hands I giue and commiâ— my soule Lord Iesus receiue my spirit and take mee to thy mercies Amen A Prayer for a Woman in time of her trauaile RIghteous holy Lord God I doe now finde by experience the fruit of my sinne that I must trauaile in sorrow and bring forth in paine and I vnfainedly adore the truth of thy sacred Word as certifying vnto me that sorrow must be in the Euening so comforting me also against the Morning that a Childe shall be borne Willingly I doe desire to submit my selfe in hope into this thy chastisement and to learne the desert of my sinne horrible in themselues that these temporall paines are forerunners of eternall and yet by thy mercy may be so sanctified vnto me as not onely to preuent eternal vengeance but also prepare for eternall comforts euen to be Saued by bearing of Children Grant me therefore gracious Father true repentance and pardon for my sinnes past that they may not stand at this time in this my neede betweene mee and thy mercy Giue mee a comfortable feeling of thy loue in Christ which may sweeten all other pangs though neuer so violent or extreame make me still to lift vp my soule vnto thee in my greatest agonies knowing that thou alone must giue a blessing to the ordinary meanes for my safe deliuerance Lay no more vpon me then I am able to endure strengthen my weake body to the bearing of what sorrow soeuer by which it shall seeme good vnto thee to make triall of me Grant me to consider that how soeuer it be with me yet I am alwaies as thine hand whose mercies faile not who will be found in the Mount and greatest extremitie and to whom belong the issues of death so prepare me therefore to death that I may be fit for life euen to yeeld fruit aliue vnto the world and to be renewed and enabled to nourish the same And when thou hast safely giuen mee the expected fruit of my wombe make me with a thankfull heart to consecrate both it and my selfe wholly to thy seruice all the dayes of my life through Iesus Christ mine onely Sauiour and Redeemer Amen A Thanksgiuing after safe deliuerance O Blessed for euer be thy great and glorious Name most deere and louing Father for thy great mercy to me most weake and sinfull woman Wonderfull art thou in all thy workes O Lord the riches of thy mercies are past finding out thou hast plunged me with great afflictions and yet thou hast returned and refreshed me againe thou hast brought me to the feare of the graue and yet thou hast raised me vp again to life O how hast thou shewed thy power in my weaknesse How hath thy louing kindnesse preuailed against my vnworthinesse Thou mightest for my sinnes haue left me to perish in mine extremities but thou hast compassed me about with ioyfull deliuerance thou mightest haue made my wombe a graue to burie the dead or in affoording life to another thou mightest haue procured my death but yet thou hast not onely made my wombe a wel-spring of life but restored life vnto me also for the cherishing thereof Marucilous O Lord are thy workes infinite are thy mercies my soule by present experience knoweth it well O my soule praise thou the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy name My soule praise thou the Lord and forget not all his benefits Thou hast heard my prayers and looked vpon my sorrow thou hast redeemed my life from death and healed mine infirmities and crowned me with thine euerlasting compassions O giue me I humbly pray thee a thankfull heart not onely now while the memory sense of thy fauour is fresh before me but continually euen so long as I haue any being Grant that I may learne by this liuely euidence of thy power and mercy for euer hereafter to depend onely on thee Quicken me also to all holy duties that my thankfulnesse may appeare in my pure and Christian carriage Make me a kind and carefull mother willing to vndergoe the paine and trouble of education Let no nicenesse or curiositie hinder mee from those seruices to whom both nature and religion hath appointed me let me also be carefull when time requireth to season the fruit thou hast giuen me with the sauing knowledge of thee thy

his garner but the chaffe he will burne in a fire that should neuer be quenched This was the preaching and embassage which the holy fore-runner of our Sauiour Iesus Christ brought into the world And so great was the thunder of these words and the terrour which entered into mens hearts so dreadfull that there ran vnto him of all estates and conditions of men euen of the very Pharisees and Publicans yea and Souldiours also which of all others are wont to be most dissolute and to haue the least care of their consciences and each of them demanded for himselfe particularly of that holy man what he should doe to attaine vnto saluation and to escape those terrible threatnings which he had denounced vnto them so great was the feare they had conceiued of them And this is that deare Christian brother which I doe at this present in the behalfe of Almighty God deliuer vnto thee although not with such feruency of spirit and like holinesse of life yet that which importeth more in this case with the same truth and certainty for so much as the faith and Gospell which Saint Iohn Baptist then preached is euen the same now taught Now if thou be desirous to vnderstand in few words how great the punishment is that almighty God hath threatned in his holy Scriptures to the wicked that which may most briefly and most to the purpose be spoken in this matter is this That like as the reward of the good is anvniuersall good thing euen so the punishment of the wicked is an vniuersall euill which comprehendeth in it al the euils that are For the better vnderstanding whereof it is to be noted That all the euils of this life are particular euils and therefore doe not torment all our sences generally but onely one or some of them As taking an example of the diseases of our body we see that one hath a disease in his eyes another in his eares one is sicke in the heart another in the stomacke some other in his heâ—d And so diuers men are diseased in diuers parts of the body howbeit in such wise that none of all these diseases be generally throughout all the members of the boby but particular to some one of them And yet for all this we see what griefe onely one of these diseases may put vs vnto and how painefull a night the ficke man hath in any one of these infirmities yea although it be nothing else but a little ach in one tooth Now let vs put the case that there were some one man sicke of such an vniuersall disease that he had no part of his body neither any one joynt or sence free from his proper paine but that at one time and instant hee suffered most exceeding sharpe torment in his head in his eyes and eares in his teeth and stomack in his liuer and heart and to be short in all the rest of his members and joints of his body and that he lay after this sort stretching himselfe in his bed being pained with these greefes and torments euery member of his body hauing his particular torment and griefe Hee I say â—hat should lye thus pained and afflicted how great torment anâ— gâ—iefe of minde and body thinke ye should he sustaine Oh what thing could any man imagine more miserable and more worthy of compassion Surely if thou shouldest see but a dâ—gge to be so tormented and â—riâ—ued in the street his very paines would moue thy heart to take pitty vpon him Now this is that my deare Christian brother if any comparison may be made betweene them which is suffered in that most cursed and horrible place of hell and not onely during for the space of one night but euerlastingly for euer and euer For like as the wicked men haue offended Almighty God with all their members and sences and haue made armour of them all to serue sinne euen so will he ordaine that they shall be there tormented euery one of them with his proper torment There shall the wanton vnchaste eyes be tormented with the terrible sight of Diuels the eareswith the confusion of such horrible cries and lamentations which shall there be heard the nose with the intollerable stinke of that vgly filthy and loathsome place the taste with a most rauenous hunger and thirst the touching and all the members of the body with extreame burning fire The imagination shall be tormented by the conceiuing of griefes present the memoâ—y by calling to minde the pleasures past the vnderstanding by considering what benefits are lost and what endlesse miseries are to come This multitude of punishments the holy Scripture signifieth vnto vs when it saith Mat. 15. Psal. 10. That in hell there shall be hunger thirst weeping wailing gnashing of teeth swords double edged spirits created for reuengement serpents wormes scorpions hammers wormewood water of gall the spirit of tempest and other things of like sort Whereby are signifiâ—d vnto vs as in a figure the multitude and dreadfull terrour of the most horrible torments and paines that be in that cursed place There shall be likewise darknesse inward and outward both of body and soule farre more obscure than the darkenesse of Aegypt which was to be felt euen with hands Exod. 20. Thâ—re shall be fire also not as this fire here that tormenteth a little and shortly endeth but such a fire as that place requireth which tormenteth exceedingly and shall neuer make an end of that tormenting This being true what greater wonder can there be than that they which beleeue and confesse this for truth should liue with such most strange negligence and carelesnesse as they doe What trauell and paines would not a man willingly take to escape euen one onely day yea one houre the very least of these torments and wherefore doe they not then to escape the euerlastingnesse of so great paines and horrible torments endure so little a trauell as to follow the exercise of vertue Surely the consideration of this matter were able to make any sinfull soule to feare and tremble in case it were deepely regarded And if amongst so great number of paines there were any manner hope of end or release it would be some kinde of comfort but alas it is not so for there the gates are fast shut vp from all expectation of any manner of ease or hope In all kinde of paines and calamities that be in this world there is alwayes some gap lying open whereby the patient may receiue some kind of comfort sometimes reason sometimes the weather sometimes his friends sometimes the hearing that others are troubled with the very same disease and sometimes at the least the hope of an end may cheare him onely in these most horrible paines and miseries that be in hell all the wayes are shut vp in such sort and all the hauens of comfort so embarred that the miserable sinner cannot hope for remedy on any side neither of heauen nor of earth neither of the time past or

neuer well till they be most ill neuer as they conceit in fashion till indeede they be out of all fashion If this be not a vanity of vanities who can tell what is vanity Euery man is an eye-witnesse of this vanity the more is the pittie that it should be so common your Lady the Merchants wife the trades mans wife nay all of all sorts are a degree aboue their estate Your Gallant is no man vnlesse his haire be of the womans fashion dangling and wauing ouer his shoulders your woman no body except contrary to the modesty of her sexe shee be halfe at least of the mans fashion shee jets she cuts she rides shee sweares she games shee smoakes shee drinkes and what not that is euill She is in the vniuersall portraiture of her behauiour as well as in her accoutrements more then halfe a man the man on the other side no lesse womanish Wee may well admire and exclaime with the Poet O tempora O mores O the times O the manners of these times O quantum est in rebus mane O how great a nothing is there in all things What a vanity of vanity hath ouerspread the age we liue in Were our forefathers now aliue to be spectators of this vanity it would strike them into amazement In their dayes the Pike the Speare the Sword the Bowe the Arrow Musket and Calieuer with the warlike Horse were the obiect of exercise and recreation Now the Pot the Pipe Dice and Cards and such like vanities indeede worse then the quintescence of the extreamest vanity We are now all for ease wee must lye soft fare deliciously goe sumptuously drinke Wine in bowles carowse healths till health be quite drunke away nay wee must kneele to our drinke when we will not kneele to him that gaue vs our drinke we doe homage to that which takes away the vse of our legges nay of our braines our hearts wits sence â—eason when we refuse homage to him that gaue vs all these O vaine man that dost thus forget thy God and abuse thy selfe why dost thou thus suffer thy selfe to be swallowed vp in the gulfe of vanity which hath no bottome but misery Why sufferest thou the Diuell thus to take thee on the hip that he may cast thee downe into the Abisse of hell Art thou so bewitched with that which will haue an end a sudden end a wretched end Thy hony will proue Gall in the end and thy Wine Vinegar In these faire roses of vanity the Diuell hides his pins that shall pricke thee when thou lookest to be refreshed with their sweet smels These vanities wee purchase at no easie rate it is with the procurement of punishment anrd losse of happinesse As the biâ—d that accepts of the Fowlers meat buyes it full dearely with the losse of her owne life so when we accept these vanities from the Diuell it is with the losse of better things in price aboue the whole world In these contracts with Satan we make Esau's peâ—niworth sell heauen for a messe of pottage Claucus exchange Gold for Copper Now thou art pompering thy corruptible flesh but let pale death step in and clap thee on the shoulder wher 's thy mirth wher 's thy felicity thy voluptuous vanity doth presently expire There is a banquet set before thee in which are all varieties of delicacies but alas euery one poysoned darest thou touch or taste any one of them by sin thou poysonest all those outward blessings of God which in themselues are wholesome and good and wilt thou ingurgitate that which is poyson to thy soule Tell me when all is done two or three hundred yeares hence what thou wilt be the better for all thy dainties more then the poore man that neuer tasted them Nay how much better in the day of triall and at the houre of death Then all thy pride pompe and pleasure shall be turned into squaled deformity irrecouerable calamity then vanity shâ—wes it selfe in the proper colours then death and knell and hell doe all conspire to aggrauate thy sorrow yea then hell begins to come to thee before thou come to it thy eyes sleepe not thy senses rest not thy perplexed heart burnes within thee thy wounded conscience bleeds within thee thou seest nothing but terror thou feelest nothing but horror thou thinkest thy self to be haunted with sprights ghosts and hellish furies stinging thee with Adders pursuing thee with Torches and firebrand That saying of the Heathen man is then if noâ— before verified Suae quemque exagitant suriae euery man is tormented with his owne fury which is his conscience Besides thy wife children or other friends â—o the exasperating of thy griefe doe stand about thee weeping as loath to part from thee whereas thy sinnes follow thee and will follow thee doe what thou canst hell gapes before thee with a wide mouth as ready to deuoure thee destruction on both sides attends thee backe thou canst not goe for a dead corps followes thee so neere that thou canst not part from it it is tied vnto thee with an indissolueable knot besides conscience followes thee and cries out against thee and will not leaue thee continually it presents thee with the dreadfull spectacle of thy doleful and wofull sinnes If this were now seriously considered how would it make thy heart to ake with grieuing thy eyes to swell with weeping thy hands to be alwayes lifted vp thy knees euer bended How wouldest thou striue to subdue thy flesh to the spirit sensuality to reason reason to faith and faith to the seruice of God But thou dost not now consider this that thy sinne is so fast linkt to thy conscience that at the last albeit not before it will pull and hale thee and rack and prick thy conscience which will accuse conuict condemn thee all thy vanities all thy iniquities will then pursue thee like so many furious ghosts Then ex ore tuo out of thy own mouth shalt thou be iudged thou euill seruant thy owne mouth shall confesse that thou hast followed nothing but vanity What a vanity was it for me to make earth my heauen and so to admire euen adore this earth that it is a hell to forsake it What a wofull bargain haue I made to sell my soule for vanity I was borne in vanity I haue liued in vanity and it is my feare that I shall dye in vanity Oh how griefe followeth griefe my heart is terrified my thoughts hurried my conscience tortured I fry in anguish I freeze in paine I stand agast and know not which way to turne me my friends must forsake me my â—oes will deride me my earthly ioyes and comforts I should call them vanities haue betraid me Indeede my friends may goe with me to the graue but there they must leaue me my riches pleasures and such like vanities vanish before but my sinnes and conscience will neuer leaue me the diuell will still pursue me hee that tempts me now to

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