Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bind_v	earth_n	lose_v	7,562	5	7.5060	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08772	The prentises practise in Godlinesse, and his true freedome Diuided into ten chapters. Written by B.P.	B. P., fl. 1608.; T. R., fl. 1608.	1608 (1608)	STC 19057; ESTC S120852	65,287	210

by an vtter destruction chastening in the meane time the countries round about vs as hauing some hope of their turning and amendment Let vs therefore with all speed humble our selues vnder Gods mighty hand and make a godly vse of his iudgments that euery litle chastismeÌ„t of his may driue vs to a lothing forsaking of our former euil waies that we may stand in awe and not sinne for our God is a iealous God and a consuming fire so shall he smel a sauour of rest and receiue an attonement for the land so shall the light of his countenance be lifted vp vpon vs and so shal it go well with vs and with our children after vs in their generations The word preached Gods Ministers Another very direct meanes to this end is the preaching of Gods word the voice of his Prophets ministers rising vp early premonishing vs of our daÌ„ger shewing vs the way wherin we should walk Therfore the Lord when he sent the Prophet Ieremie to the people of Israel and Iuda he bade him proclaime a fast and tell them what he had threatned against them Ier. 36. Because saith the Lord it may be when they heare the euill that I purpose to bring vpon them they will returne from their wickednesse and so by that meanes I may forgiue them their sinnes and receiue them to fauour This is the manna that came downe from heauen this is the immortall seed by which so many are borne to God How great cause haue wee to blesse the Lord that it hath pleased him so to dispose of vs that wee should be borne and bred in such a time and among such a people as professe the faith of Iesus Christ and are daily taught and instructed both to beleeue and liue accordingly Our Fathers longed to see these dayes and could not see them we feare no burning nor imprisonment for professing the doctrine of Christ wee neede not crosse the seas to seeke instruction wee may in a blessed freedome of minde and body approch to Gods altars and sit at the feete of the Lords Prophets and heare those heauenly comforts and directions from their mouthes Neuer was London so well supplied with godly reuerend Ministers since the first stone of her walles was layd then in this very day The Lord Iesus continue and encrease the number But what account make we of these meanes we can content our selues to sit an houre in the Church to heare Gods word taught not for conscience but for fashion as our deedes make plaine For where almost is he or she that hath left any one deere sin this seauen yeares though twice seauen yeares they haue heard it condemned nay which is strange vpon the monday we commit those very sinnes which vpoÌ„ the Sabbath day before were to our faces most particularly reprooued which were enough to discourage vtterly those men of God in the worke of their ministerie they taking such paines watching for vs wheÌ„ we sleep studying and spending their spirits to bring vs to repentance and we like wretches making small account of it and profiting little in godlinesse by it but that the Lord hath sayd his word shal neuer goe forth in vaine but either it shall lift vs vp higher to his courts in heauen or sinke vs downe deeper into the pit of hell And the labours of his Ministers shall be as highly rewarded for leauing the gracelesse ones without excuse as for conuerting a weake soule from going astray A Seruaunt when hee is commaunded to do any thing by his Master will feare to looke his Master in the face or to come in his way if hee neglect it and doe it not How dare wee then hauing sate in the Church and there heard out of the Pulpit the seate of Gods Oracles sin forbidden repentance enioyned our negligence taxed not once but continually from time to time with precept vpon precept line vpon line I say how dare we presse so boldly without any awe or reuerence into the presence of God the great Master of all Masters in the world Sabbath after Sabbath and yet guilty to our selues in the meane time of so great disobedience vnlesse wee come thither in an insolent fashion to stout and out-face the Lord or to laugh in our sleeues at his weaknesse that will be borne in hand with a cunning semblance and as well pleased as if the deede were performed O my brethren tremble to dally in this sort with the Almighty if hee speake let his seruants heare if hee command deferre not to doe it receiue it not as the word of man but as it is indeede the word of God Pray aforehand that you may feele the vertue and power of it in your heart renuing and changing your willes and affections let the feete of them be beautifull that bring this tidings of peace and good things vnto you They are the Embassadours of the euerliuing God and disposers of his secrets they are our Fathers in Christ by whom wee are new begotten to eternall life The Lord hath giuen them power out of his word to pronounce his sentence so that what they binde on earth is bound in heauen and what they loose on earth is loosed in heauen Let vs haue them in singular loue reuerence for their works sake The contempt of their persons is a notable policie of the diuell to make their teaching be contemned also Let vs shew our thankfulnesse to God for them in obeying those things which they command vs in his name They haue called vpon vs long enough for amendment let them now haue cause to commend vs that wee haue amended Let our hearing be at length a ioy to them lest their sorrow be hereafter a witnesse against vs One Ionah conuerted Niniueh what a shame is it to vs that so many Ionahs should doe no good in London Another meanes to set vs forward in the way of repentance Good bookes conference is the reading of good bookes mutuall conference and exhortation one of another These doe both after one sort bob vs continually on the elbowe and euen importune vs to well doing and would worke some good effect if we were not negligent carelesse in the vsing of them But so it is how much time doe we spend idlely in doing nothing or vnthriftily in doing naught neuer taking a good booke in our hands all the weeke long though we haue choice of manie and our trades will beare it or if wee begin it growes irksom straight before wee haue turned one leafe ouer or if we haue the patience to goe thorow to the end slightly enough wee cast it in a corner to be moulded and moath-eaten and are as much the better as he that hath lookt in a glasse is after his backe is turned because we doe not stirre vp and whet our remembrance by a second more aduised reading esteeming our olde bookes as olde friends which must euer now and then be visited

hereof not that I would seeme to take scholarship vpoÌ„ me which I do freely confesse I haue not but for that I haue in other matters found the profit of order both to the writer and to him that readeth First therefore I beseech you as you loue and tender your owne soules which I doe now loue also euer since I began to loue mine owne consider with me not slightly but euen with a deepe earnest thought the tremblable estate of a man vnconuerted and the dangerous inconueniences we runne into by our impenitencie and obstinate persisting in our wicked waies And I trust by the cooperation of Gods grace though euery inconuenience seuerallie cannot moue vs yet all of them iointly together shall affect our harts and stirre vs vp to some more care conscience of being that which wee would be called CHAP. 2. ALmightie GOD in the creation assigned to euery thing in the world some particular end and impressed in their nature an appetite and desire to that end continually as to the very point and scope of their being As we see birds make their nests and breed vp their yong beasts skuffle for their fodder pastorage Fishes flote vp and downe the riuers Trees beare fruit Flowers send forth sweet odours herbes their secret vertues Fire aspires vpward with all his might Earth hath no rest till it come into his proper region Waters post vpon the necke one of another to the bosome of the maine Aire pusheth it selfe into euery open voidnes vnder heauen This is cleare in our owne obseruation and experience and shall wee thinke that man the most noble creature for whose comming all this pompe and shew was set in order as for their Lord and King was made in vaine and had not his peculiar end appointed him also proportionally to the noblenes of his quality and condition Yes doubtles that God that caÌ„ neuer erre nor ouersee in his workes allotted vnto man the worship and seruice of his maker in this world and the enioying of the same his makers glory for euer in the world to come as his maine obiect and aiming point whereto he ought to tend and referre himselfe all his daies Now for man to swarue from this end and to serue the Diuell the world and his sensuall lusts and being made for heauen to follow the direct line that leads to hel is to shew himselfe more base and degenerate then the most base and brutish creatures in the world and to be condemded cried out vpoÌ„ by them coÌ„tinually for they keep to this day without digression their proper ends and assignements enioined them by their maker in the creation onely man is irregular man alone powres out himselfe into all kinde of riot and disorder Oh my brethren turne againe and consider sadly of this point Shal the little Bee and the Emmet so carefully do Gods worke and fulfill the taske which hee hath set them shal the senselesse stone being forced to mount vpward against his inclination sinke and descend againe as fast till it come to the center which is his home and end and shall man the Image of God runne bias from his end and do euery other thing more then the worke prescribed vnto him shal they silly reasoÌ„lesse things keep a direct course without any voluntary swaruing and yet haue no tutor or remembrancer And shall we euen wilfully stray and vary hauing our owne hearts filled full of vnderstanding iudgement being so many waies called vpon and pulled by the sleeue as it were beside Gen 6. Shall God take ioy of all other creatures onely repent that he made man what a shame of shames is this to vs we read in the prone and groueling faces of beastes that they were made but for the earth vpon which they pore And do we not likewise in our owne erect and loftie countenances that our end is heauen and heauenly things as our vpright shape and high-raised looks tend thitherward continually But what shal I say * Iames 4. to him that knoweth to do well and doth it not to him it is sinne yea finne with a witnes Againe where as man hauing by his wilfull fall and disobedience lost those excellent powers and priuiledges wherewith at the first he was endued and enthralled himselfe for euer to sinne death and hell as it was forethreatned he should if hee did tast of the forbidden tree it pleased the Lord out of his vnutterable loue to his choisest peece of workmanship to send his owne euerlasting Son out of his bosome to pay downe the inestimable ransome of his innocent bloud for him in stead of the earthly paradise which he had lost to giue him heauen the seat of his owne Maiestie and the habitation of this Angels and purest spirits for his inheritance conditionally that for his freedome and bounty he should serue the same his Lord in holines righteousnesse before him all the daies of his life And surely if any Alien being by endenization made a member of the same body with the naturall children and inheritable to the common liberties and commodities doe willingly acknowledge himselfe bound and answerable to the publike lawes of that country wherein he is denized much more ought we that are forrainers and slaues by birth being infranchised and made free denizens of heauen and fellow citizens with the Saints of God much more I say ought we in lue of this so beneficiall legitimation to conforme our selues to the obedience of the heauenly lawes and ready to execute the most iust charges which our God and king hath imposed vpon vs. Ignorance of these lawes none of vs can pretend both because they are so short and compendious for God deliuered them at first but in ten words and our Sauiour hath since abridged those ten into two comprising notwithstanding in that Epitome the very end of all law and equity and also because wee of all places of the land are by Gods ministers the pastors of our soules so plainely and carefully taught them from time to time as afterward shall be shewed Now then for vs the premisses waighed to cary ourselues towards this most gracious Lord in such a disloiall fashion to shake off the yoke of his precepts and kicke al his commandements aside one after onother when they lie in the way of our profit or our pleasure and to go on with a bold face and a high hand multiplying sinne vpon sinne without any mind of turning to better waies til we be wrapt with age or pined with sicknes or worne out with sinne that euen sin her selfe castes vs off as vnseruiceable what rebellion or ingratitude can there be coÌ„parable to this O my brethren is this to serue God in holinesse and righteousnesse not one but all the daies of our life from the first to the last Is this the state of life we hope to go to heauen in haue the vnsanctified any title of the inheritance of

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