Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	affection_n	good_a	spirit_n	2,849	5	4.8243	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13103	A motiue to good workes Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1593 (1593)	STC 23397; ESTC S111359	64,680	234

wilfully blinde the greate loue and holy reuerence the great obedience dutifull alleageaunce which these holy Angels do beare towardes their God howe ready they are to execute his will howe prest to performe whatsoeuer hee doth inioyne them and how loyally and howe faithfully they behaue themselues in all things And neuer was there one found disobedient or rebellious agaynst his blessed will since that great defection apostasie of the first Angels who now being transnatured and degenerate into deuills for theyr sinne of pride disobedience are condemned to euerlasting destruction as holy Iude beareth record And vpon the otherside who seeth not our disobedience our infidelitie nay our plaine perfidie our vnfaithfulnesse our vndutifulnesse our disloialtie and trechery In a worde who seeth not our contumacie insolencie pride and rebellion against our God in all things So that there is no more comparison betwixt the holy Angels vs in our obedieÌ„ce seruice of God than is betwixt light and darknes fire and water lyfe and death sinne and vertue Let vs therefore throw downe our selues in all humilitie before his footstoole confessing our sinnes and craue mercie at his handes for Christ his sake Let vs cast away this filthie Philautia this selfe loue this ouerweening of our selues and account of our selues as we are in deede sackes of ashes bagges of wind bubbles of water wormes meate and no men Let vs say with the Apostle I knowe that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing let vs hold that for truth which the holy Ghost vttered long since by the mouth of holy Dauid there is not one good vpoÌ„ the earth no not one they are all gone out of the way they drink vp iniquitie as it were water and swallow down wickednes as it wer bread True therfore is that senteÌ„ce pronounced by the mouth of God himselfe in the 6. of Gen. The will of maÌ„ is wicked set vpoÌ„ wickednes euen froÌ„ his verie cradle or rather from the verie wombe as the Psalmist Dauid witnesseth where he sayth Behould I was begotten in wickednes and in sinne hath my mother conceyued me So that our willes except they be regenerate and sanctifyed by the spirit of God are nothing else but puddles of sinne sinckes of iniquitie and quagmires of all abhominacion belching forth filthines and breathing out vngodlynes euen to the polluting if it were possible of the very heauens with our sinne And therefore must we needes confesse with the Apostle It is God which worketh in vs both the wil and the deed euen of his owne grace mercie and loue which he beareth towards vs in Christ. And yet notwithstanding there are some that wil not stick to affirm that thought is free and that it is lawful for vs to thinke what we will good or euill But I would fayne learne of these cunning sophisters whether they thinke it lawfull and no sin before God to thinke an euil thought although secretly in the hart I think they will say no. For our Sauiour Christ condeÌ„neth an euil thought as a most hainous sin saying he that but lusteth after a woman in his hart hath committed adulterie already before God and is as guiltie thereof in the iustice of God as though he had coÌ„mitted the fact where you see he maketh an euill thought or conceipt of the hart equiualeÌ„t with the deed before God Agayne our sauior Christ reckning vp a great catalogue of sinnes which defile a man amongst the rest bringeth in euill thoughts not onely for one but as chiefe and principall So that I conclude that euery euill thought secret motion priuate affection or conceit of the heart whatsoeuer is not free as some Lybertines woulde haue it but rather damnable for is it lawfull for a man to think to conceiue to meditate and reuolue mischiefe and wickednesse in his heart and can the same bee free and without sinne before God Is not hee the searcher of the heart and raines knoweth not he our thoughts long before they bee conceiued in our mindes Respecteth not hee the heart alone and shall wee saie that an euill thought is free God forbid In deede euery good thought is free and proceedeth from the spirit of grace suggesting the same vnto vs but euerie euill thought is damnable and proceedeth from the spirit of the deuill and the stinking pumpe of mans corrupt and canckred nature Let vs therefore praie vnto GOD to sanctifie our thoughts and to rectifie our secrete cogitations that we may meditate and thinke of those thinges which may please him and by his holy grace may manfully put the same in practise to the glorie of his holy name and our eternall saluation But let vs come to other of his creatures You would think it strange if I could proue that euen the verie deuils themselues do feare the maiestie of GOD more than man at lest more than some men yea and bee more obedient duetifull and prest to doo his will and yet it is most true they are so For we reade in the sacred history that the deuils doe tremble and quake at the verie name of God and that they are and euer haue ben ready at hand to execute the wil and good pleasure of God Yet I must needes graunt in deede that this theyr feare is a seruile and slauish feare and this their obedience is a forced and coacted obedience and not voluntary nor proceeding of loue nor good will but rather of feare and constraint but how euer it be it is yet farre better than the feare and obedience of some miscreants towards God who will neuer bee drawen neither by loue feare nor scarce constraint if they could otherwise choose to the obedience of God and executing of his will Naie there are some so indurate and so frozen in the dregs of their sinne that neither feare of hell nor loue of heauen can once moue them to leaue their sinne beeing of this resolution in deede that there is neither God nor deuill heauen nor hel no immortalitie of the soul nor any life after this If these were not their persuasions they wold neuer liue as they do worser than the deuils theÌ„selues who feare tremble at the maiestie of God But they are so far off from treÌ„bling at him that they beleeue there is no God to reward vertue nor Deuill to punish sin after this life And therfore may I conclude that such Atheists are worser than the deuils for they belieue both But let vs leaue them to theÌ„selues proceed in our inteÌ„ded discourse The Sunne the Moone the Starres the Signes Planets with all the rest of the celestiall bodies whatsoeuer we see what a notable concord what a pleasant consent sweet harmonie they keep obserue in their seueral progressions places reuolutioÌ„s euen froÌ„ the beginning of the world to this present day not one of them rebelling or disobeying the law of their maker nor so

Stone and Nantwich in Chesshire for horse and man to passe Hee caused the like causie to bee made betwixt Dunchurch and Brausen in Warwikshier well nere three miles in length Hee gaue twentie pounds in monie towards the making of Royton bridge he made also foure bridges two of stone and two of timber he built also a notable free schoole at DraitoÌ„ in Shrop-shier with lands sufficient for maister and vsher for euer Moreouer hee gaue in his life time fiue hundred poundes in monie to the hospitall of Christes Church in London and an hundred pounds at his death Sir William Peter knight besides that he gaue one hundred pounds a yeere in lands to Exeter colledge in Oxford builded also ten almes houses in Ingerstone for twentie poore people euerie one of them hauing two pence a daie a winter gowne and two loads of wood amongest them all keeping for sixe kine Winter and Summer for euer William Lambe Gentleman of the Chappell to king Henrie the eight made the great conduit nere Holborne bridge in London carrying the water by pipes of lead aboue two thousand yards and this he did of his owne proper cost and charges amounting by estimation to the summe of fifteene hundred poundes The same master Lambe gaue to the parish of Saint Faiths vnder Paules in London sixe poundes thirteene shillings and foure pence yeerely to be distributed equally amongst twelue pore people euerie fridaie twelue pence in monie and twelue pence in bread for euer He gaue also to Christs hospitall yerely for euer sixe pound and an hundred pound in monie to purchase lands to the same To Saint Thomas hospitall in Southwarke hee gaue 4. pound a yeere for euer To the hospitall called the Sauor hee gaue sometimes ten pounds at once towardes the buying of bedding for the poore He gaue to the Companie of the cloth workers in London foure poundes a yeere for euer He gaue to the same companie his dwelling house and other lands to the value of thirtie pounds a yeere to hire a Minister to saie seruice euerie wednesdaie fridaie and saterdaie to preach foure sermons euerie yeere after his decease in the Church called Saint Iamesses in the wall by Cripple gate in London and also to giue to xii poore men to euerie one a freeze gowne ready made a shirt of locoram and a new paire of shooes and to twelue pore women twelue gownes of freese twelue smockes and twelue payre of shooes for euer Hee also erected a free schoole and six almes houses at Sutton Valens in Kent with sufficient allowance mayntenance for them both Hee also gaue to the townes of Ludlow and Bridgenorth to either an hundred pounds a peece to set poore men on worke withall He gaue also towardes the setting of poore men on worke in Suffolke an hundred poundes I might heere recite many moe such lyke examples of our good forefathers if I feared not to bee tedious but I will wade no further heerein at this time hoping that those fewe except we haue shakeÌ„ hands with all godlynesse made a league with death a couenant with hell as the Prophet speaketh wil yet some what serue to the stirring vp of our drousie mindes to the exercise and practise of good workes and to leaue behinde vs to the posterityes to come some fruites of our faith some seales of our profession and some pledges of our christian loue and charitie as our good ancestors haue done before vs. For is it not a shame vnto vs that our forefathers liuing in the times of superstition when poperie and Idolatrie had ouerflowed almost the whole world and hauing but as it were a glimmering of the glorious lyght of the Gospell of Christe shoulde notwithstanding so farre passe vs in good workes as that we may not once be compared to them in anie small measure Oh what a condemnation will this be vnto vs It had bin better for vs a great deale we had neuer knowen the truth than knowing it not to follow it as Christ witneseth in a certayne place if I had not come vnto them and done those works which none else could do they should haue had no sinne yea I pray God that publicanes and sinners do not goe before many of vs Protestants into the kingdome of heauen for wee talke much but walke nothing after it And therfore now at the last euen in the name of God let vs contend and striue one with another in an holy zeale if not to excel yet to match or if not to match yet to come some-what neere our forefathers in doing of good works Let vs follow the councell of Christ who sayth Let your lightes so shine before men that they seeing your good works may glorify your father which is in heauen And doubtles God is glorified by vs in nothing more than in good works being done in faith according to the word of God and in leauing of monuments and remembraÌ„ces of our christian loue and godly zeale towards the brethren behind vs. And no maruaile for in the very actioÌ„ of good works we effect three most excellent vertues christian dutiess as first we glorify God in our selues and by our selues secondly we relieue sustaine and comfort our poore brethren and thirdly we moue theyr harts their soules spirits to thank God for vs to pray for vs and to praise the Lord for his blessings bestowed vpon them in the mouing of our harts to the succoring of theÌ„ For if the goods that wee bestowe be the Lordes and not ours as without all peraduenture they are the Psalmist bearing witnes where he sayth Domini est terra plenitudo eius The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof and the Prophet affirming the same speaking in the person of God golde is mine siluer is mine and all the riches vpon the face of the earth is mine and haue not my handes made them all and if it be God that geueth both the will and the deede as the Apostle sayth it is then great cause haue the poore soules to prayse the goodnes of God for hys fatherly care and mercifull prouidence towardes them in succouring and relieuing theyr necessities by the hande or ministery of such and such hys seruants And vppon the other side happie and blessed art thou whome God thy creator doth vse as an instrumeÌ„t to do good and to relieue his Saints vppon the earth that haue neede It is a testimonie to thy conscience that thou art a childe of grace a vessell of saluation and feaâ—â—ed vp to the day of redemption But heere peraduenture it may be obiected that these men that did these workes were for the most part Papists and therfore their deedes were naught and no better than the workes of the Turkes Infidels or Pagans I graunt that the most part of them were indeede Papists but yet it followeth not therefore that they were absolutely euill because they were done by Papists The Deuill may doe and sometimes

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