Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	earth_n	prayer_n	2,072	5	5.8252	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16325	Helpes to humiliation	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.	1630 (1630)	STC 3234.5; ESTC S210	18,834	160

the Lord Therefore is wrath vpon thee from before the Lord. Or as Psal. 50. 18. When thou sawest a theese thou consentedst with him and hast beene partakers with adulteres Therefore as Moyses said to the people Separate your selues from the Tents of Corah least ye perish with them And Come out of Babylon my people haue no communion with that Whore least yee perish in her sinnes and be destroyed with her plagues Reu. 18. Dauid saith I haue not dwelt with vaine persons nor will I haue fellowship with the vngodly Odi Ecclesiam malignantiuÌ„ And who would vouchsafe to let their loue runne on such in this life that must bee separated in the world to come But for workes of thy particular calling as buying selling salutations c. wee must haue these or we must out of this world as 1 Cor. 5. 10. 11. By participation Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeues so Magistrates which execute not their office are guilty of all the sins which the people commit within the compasse of the time of their gouernment and they are all set on their score without repentance By silence when thou hearest a good man traduced and sayest nothing especially dumbe dogges euery Sabbath is a bloody day to them for their silence is cause of all the iniquity done that day all these things which they do amisse whether by swearing Ale-house haunting c. all are set on his score so all those that are faint and cowardly for Gods glory and truth By defending Woe to them that call darknesse light and light darknesse Therefore if any by quicknesse of wit will labour to maintaine vsury bribery c. they are guilty of those sins By counselling as Iesabell counselled her husband to kill Naboth Or as those say Come let vs crowne our selues with rose buds before they be withered let vs all bee partakers of our wantonnesse c. By commanding as Dauid commanded Vriah to be set in the fore front of the battell and therefore guilty of his death By commending as those that commended Herod for his oration saying It is the voyce of a God they were guilty of his sinne in taking honour from God By conniuency as Ely winked at his sons for which you may see what a fearefull iudgement fell vpon that house for forbearing them If we had no other sins in a day of humiliation it were able to breake the hardest heart but especially for maisters of Families who winke at their parents and seruants swearing sabbath breaking c. If these bee not guilty of the former sinnes yet they are guilty in not praying with them and bringing them to extraordinary exercises By consenting as Paul bewayled that he carried the cloathes of them that slew Stephen when he was stoned By not sorrowing for them Dauid shewes what Christians ought to doe By not praying against them for the suppressing of them Consider the sinnes of the times Dauids eyes gusht out with teares to see men transgresse the Law So Lots heart was vexed daily with the sinnes of the people amongst whom hee liued 2. Pet. 2 8. And blessed are they that mourne so Math. 5. 4. obserue these seuerall branches wel and thou shalt finde sinnes enow to mourne for Now for the 2. Act. viz. A right apprehension of Gods wrath and fiery indignation and the pure eye of God against sin Now the Christian oftentimes complaines that hee cannot apprehend Gods wrath sufficiently Let him take these helps The seuerity of Gods Iudgement against sin for which He threw downe the Angels from Heauen to be Diuels for euer which might haue done him abundance of glory and that as some thinke but for a thought For but eating an apple which some count a small fault hee cast Adam out of Paradice and sent a world of misery vpon him his posterity Hee drown'd the world which shewes the infinite purity in God not to abide sinne Hee burnt Sodom for those very sinnes now reigning amongst vs. Hee reiected the Iewes which were his most deare people for they so prouoked God that they are now no nation and his wrath hath so fiercely seized on them that they are most cursed vagaboÌ„ds and so haue beene a thousand sixe hundred yeares Consider hee hath created horror of conscience which is a hell vpon earth for the punishment of sinne but aboue all the torments of hell that woefull place and state prepared for the wicked where the greater part of the world shall bee howling for euer Consider how hard a thing it is to get pardon for sinne in that the Iustice of God was hard to bee satisfied Imagine all the world were turned into a masse or lump of gold the stones of the streets into precious pearles and the Sea and Riuers all flowed with liquid streames of most pure gold they would not satisfie the wrath of God for the least sinne if all the Angels and creatures in heauen and earth had ioyney together made one feruent prayer for mans sinne nay if that they had offered them selues to bee annihilated it could neuer haue beene effected nay if the Sonne of God himselfe should haue supplicated his Father with most earnest intreaties could he haue beene heard vnlesse he had taken our flesh vpon him and suffered what diuels and men could imagine to inflict vpon him Which well considered there is infinite cause to bring vs to a sense of Gods wrath that hee should lay and suffer such infinite torments to bee on him that hee cryes out vnto God My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Though he loued him infinitely as himselfe yet he would haue his Iustice satisfied The vnresistable comming of God against sinners though he is wonderfull ready and easie to be intreated whilst hee vouchsafeth a day of visitation But if men will withstand the day then hee comes in deuouring rage and his wrath being once kindled shall burne to the bottome of hell then his Arrowes shall drinke blood and eate flesh Hosea 13. 8. then will he meete them as a Beare robbed of her whelpes and teare in pieces when there is none to helpe Psal. 7. 2. And Esay 66. 15. is set downe the manner of his comming with fire and Chariots like a whirlewinde Gods holinesse which opposeth sinne and is contrary to it that hee lookes not on the least sinne with the least allowance Get a sense of the vnspeakable misery thou art liable vnto by reason of sinne for which purpose consider all thy sinnes with their circumstances as of times past present and to come Looke backe vpon all thy sinnes past that euer thou committedst all thou hast beene guilty of euer since thou wast borne originall or actuall known or vnknown of thought word and deede They are written with a penne of iron and with the point of a diamond not to bee raced out they are all vpon

than any feind in hell because it made that so as fire is hotter then water that is heat It s extreamly ill nothing comes neare it I consider of sin here in the abstract so it s a greater ill than the damnation of a mans soule for when two ills fight together that which conquers must needs bee the greater now when a man hath lyen in hell ten thousand yeares he is as far from comming out as euer for the eternall duration in hell cannot expiate sinne It s most infectious It s compared to a Leprosie for The first sinne that peeped into the world stayned the beuty of it no sooner sinne was committed by Adam but the Stars seemed impure in Gods sight the beasts were at variance the earth full of brambles and all things cursed Secondly it sowred all naturall religions and ciuill actions Thirdly if a man in authority bee sinfull all vnder him will bee infected Sinne is most filthy compared to the most vile things that can be named to menstruous raggs the vomite of doggs c. Nay not any dirt or filthy thing can staine a Sun-beame But sinne staines a more glorieus creature which is the soule of man Sinne is of that hellish nature that it takes in to it selfe the wrath of God Sinne is full of cursed consequences Priuatiue Positiue Priuatiue losse of Gods fauour the blood of Christ the guard of Angels peace of conscience c. Positiue it brings all misery spirituall hardnesse of heart blindnesse of minde horror of conscience despaire c. with all temporall losses and crosses here and hereafter eternall torments of soule and body God is prouoked with it Each sinne is the onely obiect of Gods infinite hatred His loue is diuersified to himselfe his Sonne the Angels the creatures but his hatred is confined onely to sinne What infinite of infinites of hatred hast thou on thy soule with all thy sinnes when each sinne hath the infinite hatred of God vpon it Each sinne is against the Maiesty of that dreadfull Lord of Heauen and earth who can turne all things into hell nay heauen and hell into nothing by his word Now against this God thou sinnest and what art thou but dust and ashes a bagg of filth and flegme and all that 's naught And what is thy life but a span a bubble a dreame a shadow of a dreame And shall such a thing offend such a God Euery sinne strikes at the glory of Gods pure eye Sinne is that which killed his Sonne the least sinne could not bee pardoned but by Christs carrying his hearts blood to his Father and offering it for sinne Each sinne is an offence to all his mercies This aggrauated the sinne vpon Eli 1 Sam 2. 29 Dauid 2 Sam 12. 8. 9 c. Mercy is the most eminent attribute of God and therefore the sinne against it is the greater What therefore are our sinnes in the time of the Gospell Consider how thou art hurt by it for Each sinne kills thy soule which is better then the world Each sinne bring it neuer so much pleasure in the committing leaues a threefold sting Naturall Temporall Immortall Natural after worldly pleasure comes melancholy properly either because it lasted no longer or they had no more delight in it c. That as all waters end in the salt sea so all worldly ioyes are swallowed vp in sorrowes bottomlesse gulfe Temporall Ther 's labour in getting care in keeping sorrow in parting with wolrdly goods Immortall God will call thee to Iudgment for it Each sinne robbs thee of aboundance of comfort What a vast difference do we see in conquering sinne and being conquered by sinne as for instance in Ioseph and Dauid the one raised after his conquest to much honnour the other scarce enioyed one good day after hee was conquered but as Ezekias walked heauily in the bitternesse of his soule all his days As some Diuines haue said of Guliacius Spira the one is honor'd in Caluins Epistles for euer the other after his backsliding liued a while in exquisite horror and after dyed in despaire Thy owne conscience wil accuse thee one day for euery sinne though now it seemes hid to thee and thy conscience is more then a thowsand witnesses therefore thou wilt certainely be ouerthrowne For the sinnes which peraduenture thou liuest now in accountest but petty and veniall many poore soules are at this instant burning in hell for What misery and hurt then attends on thee for the same Get a strong reasoning in thy minde against sinne as first these three grand reasons The horror of hell Therefore Christians wrong themselues that will not vse this as a motiue the vnquenchable wrath of God shall feed vpon thy soule if thou committest this sinne The ioyes of heauen I shall dwell with God for euer if beleeuing I make conscience of euery sinne as an euidence and fruit of sauing faith And aboue all the glory of God if Gods glory and the damnation of our soules were in a ballance his glory should preponderate and preuaile while we preferre Gods glory aboue our owne saluation although we cannot seeke it but in and by our saluation as the meanes is subordinate to the end From euery line in Gods booke His attributes as 1 His Iustice 2 His mercy His Iustice to terrifie sinners Hâ—s Mercy to allure vs to him His Iudgements His Promises Thirdly from logical places See Rogers on meditations As 1 The definition 2 The division 2 The causes 3 The effects 5 The subiect 6 The adiunct 7 The comparison 8 The contrary Fourthly from places of Scripture From examples in Scripture How shall I do this and so sinne against God saith Ioseph From your former estate Ye were darkenesse but now yee are light c. From the end of all things Seeing all things must bee dissolued what manner of men ought wee to bee Fiftly from thy selfe Thy soule is immortall all the diuels in hel cannot kill it Thy body is fraile all helps cannot long vphold it Sixtly from Christ. Looke vpon him weeping nay bleeding on the crosse and saying this Sinne brought me from the bosome of my Father to dye for it Seuenthly from the incomprehensible excellency of God against whom thou sinnest Get a sinceere opposition in thy life of sin Helpes thereto When any bait of Sathan or old companions would allure thee to sinne take this dilemma Either I must repent and then it will bring more sorrow than the pleasure did good or not repent and then it 's the damnation of my soule Consider thy madnesse which layest most desperately in one scale of the ballance heauen the fauor of God the blood of Christ and thine owne soule in the other a little dung pelfe base lust c. And lettest this ouersway which bringeth rottennesse to thy bones perhaps losse of thy good name c. And that thou maist yet be further armed to with stand the assaults

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