Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	death_n	earth_n	life_n	8,796	5	4.3718	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62463	The soules solace in times of trouble with severall particular remedies against despaire, collected out of the Psalmes of Daivd, and some short meditations and ejaculations upon the attributes of God, the Lords Prayer, and the tenne commandments / by F. Thorne ...	Thorne, Francis, 17th cent.	1643 (1643)	Wing T1057A; ESTC R4857	78,097	150

Heaven to earth from Joy to sorrow from the Crowne to the crosse from his Fathers house where were many Mansions to lie in a manger from a Hall to a stall from eternall life to dye a shamefull death from glory to ignonimie For he that thought it no robbery to bee equall with God made himselfe of no reputation and came downe from Heaven and became man pro servis Dominus pro gregepaster obit propopulo Rex mactatur pro milite ductor and all this he hath done for us yea when we were his utter enemies He was wounded for our sins and broken for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed Pharmaca sunt potius quam vulnera vulnera Christi Curat enim plagis vulnera nostra suit The serious and right consideration of these things will make us truly submissive humble and thankfull and to cry out with the Prophet David Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae tribuit mihi primo nihil eram fecit me pererar quaesivit me Psal 116.11 quaerens invenit me lapsum redemit emptum liberavit we deserve fratrem fecit me What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits c. he made me of nothing he sought me when I was lost and seeking mee he found me c. O bone Iesu quid tibi moris est nos debuimus tu solvis nos peccavimus tu luis opus sine exemplo gratia sine merito charitas sine moâ—o Bernard de pasâ— Christi O sweet Jesu what dost thou mean We owe and thou paiest we sinne thou pardonest a work without example grace without merit love without measure quid mirum erit si malus servus vitam deponet pro bonâ— Domino cum bonus Dominus vitam deposuit pro malo servo What wonder is it for an evill servant to lay downe his life for a good Master when a good Master hath first laid downe his life for an evill servant Fourthly consider why God afflicts his people as namely first Iam. 1.2 that those excellent graces of his Spirit in their hearts might appeare more famous and illustrious in the eies of the world Haector a quis noscet felix si troja fuisset How had the faith of Abraham the patience of Iob the meeknesse of Moses and fidelity of many of the Apostles been so illustrious if God had not proved them Stellae interdiu latent nocte micant virtus non apparet in prosper is micat in adversis Torches and Tapers shew dimme when the Sunne shines the Moone and Staâ—â— appeare not at noone our love zeale hope and fidelity is best seen in time of extremity Secondly that the edge of their affections might be taken off from the world the pomps and vanities thereof Thirdly for the subduing and quelling of some lust yet unmortified Zach. 13 9. Fourthly that we might prize and value his favours blessings and benefits at a higher rate â—ona magis carendo quam fruendo sentimus bona Ã terga fâ—rmosissima we never know the right worth of a thing untill we are sensible of the want of it meat is sweet to the hungry rest to the weary c. Fifthly that they might not be condemned with the wicked of the world hereafter the father suffers his childe to burne his finger in a candle to prevent the danger of a greater fire Sixtly to try the disposition of their hearts the father crosseth his child of his will to see of what humour and disposition he is to see whether he will grumble murmure or repine or no. Seventhly to discover the hypocrisie of many who in the time of peace and prosperity will make great shew of Religion and Piety when as indeed their chiefest holinesse towards God is to palliate and cover their foul injuries towards men saepe latet vitium proximitate boni it is the nature of hypocrisie to get as neare Religion as it can And it is not easily discovered the drosse can hardly bee distinguished from the silver till it come out of the furnace the Player hardly knowne untill he be unmaskt now times of trouble and persecution are Gods unmasking times times of discovery if the Player want his wonted auditory and applause he presently growes out of heart if these have not their wonted health peace and plenty they are ready to forsake their God and Religion and to say as Iorams prophane Pursevant did This evill is of the Lord 2 Kings 6.33 Esay 58.3 Mal. 3.14 1 Sam. 28.6 7. and why should we depend any longer on him Whereas the godly then cleave nearest unto the Lord. Bels keep their tune whether they ring for funeralls or festivalls they that are truly Religious will bee Religious as well in want as in wealth in adversity as well as in prosperity in solitudine as well as in theatro in private as well as in publicke Fifthly and lastly consider who corrects thee thou art under the hand of a wise God and pitifull Father who both can and will order all things for thy good prosperity adversity sicknesse health life death Rom. 8 28. omnia cooperantur and all things else shall worke together for the good of such as love the Lord for nothing happens to the godly by chance or fortune as many ignorantly suppose there 's not a sparrow falls to the ground without the providence of God there is not a haire upon our heads but it is numbred Eccles 2. usque 14. Esay 55.9 Rom. 11.33.34 Repine not then at the hand of God neither let thy heart be troubled at the continuance of trouble His waies are not as our waies he is infinitely wise knows what will make most for his glory our good our extremity is oftentimes his fittest opportunity In monte videbitur Deus In the mount will the Lord be seen and God usually affords the greatest comforts in greatest troubles first that we might bid his comforts more hartily welcome Secondly that his power providence wisdome and goodnes might be more evidently seen in the delivery Grudge not at the prosperity of the wicked wealth is not the badge but the baggage of vertue and according to the Roman word Impedimentum for it is as advantagious to him that travells towards heaven as a long cloak is to him that is to run a race therefore saith Christ it is a hard matter for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Secondly riches are but res mediae good or bad as they are used therefore true happinesse cannot consist in abundance they cannot deliver the soul from the power of death nor pains of hell the rich man died Luke 16. and was carried to hell Thirdly they are uncertain hodie Craesus cras Crodus he that is a King today may be a beggar to morrow and therefore no solid ground of felicity Stulte hÃ c nocte eripient animam tuâ—m Thou

wicked THe just and upright man shall joyfull be When he the vengeance of the Lord shall see For they shall wash their feet with triumph then Ev'n in the bloud of bloudy minded men And men shall say as cause they shall have just There is great fruit for such as in him trust Doubtlesse upon the earth a God there dwels That both in truth and righteousnesse excels Psal 58.10.11 As sheep go to the fold they to the grave And in that day the just shall Lordship have Their beauty shall consume when they shall goe From their owne dwellings to eternall woe But God will me preserve from endlesse paine Because he will receive my soule againe Psal 94.14.15 The just shall this behold and praise the Lord And laugh at him and say with one accord Behold the man that made not God his stay But trusted in his strength his mire and clay But I shall be like to an olive greene For in the Lord my trust hath ever beene Psal 52.7.8.9 Comfort for the godly in evill and dangerous times IN evill daies why should I feare though those That seek my life me cunningly inclose For they that put their trust in riches most And in the multitude thereof will boast Their brothers soule from hell can no way save Nor pay a price to free him from the grave Psal 49.5 6 7. Comfort for the godly against the conspiracy of the wicked AGainst the just the wicked may conspire And grash their teeth in madnesse and in ire But God shall laugh to scorne them and their way For why he sees the comming of his day They may draw out their swords and bend their bow The poore and needy man to overthrow But their owne swords shall pierce their wicked hearts Their bowes shall broken be in sundry parts He knowes the just mans daies and sees his way And his inheritance shall not decay Psal 37.12 13 14 15 18. The Lord will breake their counsells and disclose The plots wherein they do most trust repose Psal 33.10 Thou hast my table richly deckt although Mine enemies have sought my overthrow Psal 23.5 Comfort for captives strangers fatherlesse children and widowes THe Lord relieves the poore and fatherlesse The stranger and the widow in distresse He makes the solitary man to live In houses freedome he to slaves doth give Psal 146.9 Psal 68.5 6. Though godly men by tyrants are brought low And wanting harbor wander too and fro God raiseth them out of their troubles deep And makes them housholds like a flock of sheep Psal 107.39 When they did wander in the desart wide And found no place wherein they might abide Yea when their thirst and hunger was so great That death the faintnesse of their soules did threat Then did they crie to God in their distresse And he their grievances did soon redresse Psal 107.4 5 6. Though they were few their foes then to withstand Yea very few and strangers in the land And when they found no place for their abode But wandred too and fro the world abroad He suffered them no wrong at all to take But mighty Kings reproved for their sake Psal 105.12 13 14. Comfort for the godly in times of oppression OVer our heads thou hast made tyrants ride And us the raging fury to abide Of fire and water yet thou through thy grace Didst bring us forth unto a wealthy place Psal 66.12 13. The Lord 's with me I need not feare or doubt What man can doe though he be strong and stout Psal 118.6 Now for the great oppressures and the cries Of poore distressed men I will arise Saith God the living Lord and them restore Unto the liberties they had before Psal 12.5 I sought the Lord and he my suit did heare Yea he did free my soule from all my feare They shall both looke and run unto his name Their faces shall not be abash'd with shame But say this poore man to the Lord did call And he both heard and rid him out of thrall Psal 34.4 5 6. O praise the Lord his praise abroad display For he is good his mercy lasts for aye He thought on us yea in our base degree And from oppressors safely set us free Psal 136.1.23 I with my mouth will laud the Lord him I Amongst the multitude will magnifie For at the right hand of the poore he stands To save them from the bloudy tyrants hands Psal 109.30 31. God will avenge th' afflicted and the poore The just shall feare and praise him evermore Psal 140.12 Incline thine ears to me Lord when I pray And hearken to the words which I shall say For strangers up against me rise and they That pleasure take in blood seek to betray My soule with all the plots they can devise For God they have no time before their eyes Behold God is my helper straight at hand With them that stay my soule the Lord does stand Psal 54.2 3 4. Comfort for the godly in long affliction HIs chosen flocke he will not alwaies chide For ever they shall not his wrath abide For he knows well our molde and fashion just Our natures fraile and how we are but dust Psal 103.9.14 Though it for many yeares have been your lots To lie conceal'd amongst defiled pots Ye shall be like a dove whose wings like gold And silver shine when once she waxeth old Psal 63.13 For though the wicked ofttentimes by God To prove his Saints are used as his rod Yet shall it not their lot for ever be Lest they their hand put to iniquity Psal 125 3. The Lord himselfe hath chast'ned me full sore But never hath to death me given o're Psal 118.18 Comfort for the godly in any strait BLessed is he whom Iacobs God doth aid And he whose hope upon the Lord is staid Which did of nothing earth and heaven frame The sea and all pertaining to the same Which keeps his word and promises most sure From age to age for ever to endure Which doth proceed in justice to relieve His poore oppressed servants when they grieve Which gives bread to the hungry and sets free Such as are bound in chaines of misery Which does the blinde to sight and lame restore To limbs and loves the just man evermore Which helps the stranger in his great distresse And keeps the widow and the fatherlesse Psal 146.5 6 7 8 9. When as my parents deare did me forsake The Lord did me into his favour take Psal 27.12 When I in trouble am and heavinesse I 'le thinke on God my griefe I will expresse I will consider well the things of old And what in former times I have been told I will regard the workings of the Lord What he hath done long since I will record Yea whilst I live my tongue shall no time spare His counsells deep and wonders to declare Psal 77.3 5 11 12. The Lord hath mindfull been of our distresse And in his tender mercies will us blesse To Aarons house his blessings

the father beare Unto his tender child his sonne most deare That seeing him lie sick upon his bed As if his soule were from his body fled That he both speakes and weepes the child alas As if it were a trifle lets it passe He takes him by the hand my child quoth he Knew I thy wants I soone would sucker thee The child not able to expresse a word Unto his tender father doth afford A smiling looke and fixing of his eye Full fast upon him striveth earnestly To make his mone to shew where lies his paine But wanting strength his striving is in vaine His father does the best he can to ease Him of his paine and what he thinks may please His mind or palate he forthwith takes care How to provide the same he does not spare His purse nor person but as one that were Out of his wits he without heed or feare Goes runs and rides and makes with spur and whip His horse o're vallies and high mountaines skip But finding still his labour to no end He makes what haste he may or can to send For its deare mother and his tender wife And bids the messenger run as for life And tell her that her child is growne so weake That for a world a word it cannot speake She hearing this sad newes makes no delay Her husband runs to meet her by the way And meeting her his mind doth thus unfold Deare-heart I doubt not but thou hast been told How that my sonne lies sick and cannot speake His heart with paine is ready for to breake And mine with griefe because I understand Not what he meanes when he with head and hand And other moving parts does what he can To shew his mind to me unhappy man I pray thee goe and see if thou canst find By any signes its meaning or his mind And though it cannot speake through griefe and paine Yet if thou canst imagine guesse or gaine By any signe what it desires of me Doubt not my love it shall soone granted be More tender mercies will God manifest Unto his children when they are opprest With waves of sorrow and in such distresse That how to pray aright or to expresse Their minds they known not a he accepts their sighes Their sobs their teares their grones and mournfull cries He takes their godly meaning for the deed In peeces he 'le not break the bruised reed Nor quench the smoking flax Mat. 12. Esay 42 1. Psal â—2 12.33.1 oh then be glad And much reioyce in God you that are sad In heart because you cannot pray draw near To him with boldnesse doubt not God will heare The chatt'ring of his Saints and their request Will grant or what in wisdome he sees best For we oft times for want of judgement crave And earnestly desire such things to have As are at best but losse drosse dung and durt And such as might both soule and body hurt The earthly parent will not give a stone Unto his child when he for bread makes mone Mat. 7.7 Not yet a serpent when he craves a fish Nor for an egge a scorpion nor a dish Of deadly poison if then parents know How on their children good things to bestow Much better can our heavenly Father tell What 's for our good who does so far excell In grace and wisdome parents whilst they live For want of judgement to their children give Such things as prove their bane yea oft such things As strange diseases on the bodie brings Psal 75 3 104 8.145.14 But God that did both earth and heaven frame And every thing perteining to the same Who governs all things by his mighty hand Their ends and natures well doth understand He knowes what 's pleasing unto flesh and blood And what may further our eternall good And therefore doth in mercy oft denie a Us what we aske with zeale and fervencie Yea when we aske for stones he gives us bread The food of life eternall yea in stead Of serpents fishes and for dung and drosse A weighty crowne of glory yea for losse Of life goods or good name eternall gaine In stead of pearles and jewells he a chaine Of his celestiall graces will bequeath Whose splendor will obscure all things beneath In stead of partridge woodcocks snipes and phesants Which now a daies are meats for clowns and peasants In stead I say of such like dainty fare Which many make their god God will prepare A table for his Saints deckt with such meate As shall them so suffice that thereof eate That they shall never thirst nor hunger more After those things they thirsted for before In stead of costly buildings and great places Which upstarts oft for want of grace disgraces We with the Angels shall in heaven sing Sweet songs of praise to our eternall King In stead of great attendance and respect Which many as some more then God affect We have the blessed Angels to attend Our persons and from harme us to defend In stead of high-borne kindred and great friends On which so many fooles too much depends God makes himselfe a father and a mother A wife to one a husband to another In stead of milke and hony wine and oyle Whereof too many prodigalls make spoile We have the sincere milke of his pure word Which doth both hony wine and oyle afford For rich attire whereby so proud some grow That they themselves or friends can hardly know With robes of sanctity he cloathes us here That we for aye his princely robes may weare In stead of musick for to please the eare A pleasing voice we shâ—ll from heaven heare Saying this is the way to life and light Deâ—tro 4.12 Ezek. 33 32. Turne neither to the left hand nor the right The second thought VVHo is' t that strikes us is' t a deadly foe Or one desirous of our overthrow No ti 's our best and dearest friend nay rather Psal 94.12.66.10 Laâ— 1.12 Our ever-loving God and tender father What comfort may this yeeld unto a soule That is constrain'd its weaknesse to condole Who can expresse what ease the grieved find When they this truth consider well in mind Troubles and sorrowes may the good befall But this will make them triumph over all Simile The sick man need not doubt distrust or feare His Doctors care who hath a father deare For his Physitian nor the least doubt make Whether those med'cines he may safely take Which he prescribes not onely with great care But with his owne hand likewise does prepare Lesse cause Gods people have to be afraid In time of triall or so much dismaid When they should suffer for the Gospells sake Which lies then bleeding as it were at stake If they consider well who doth them call Yea for what end and purpose and withall How by his mightie and all-ruling hand He governs all things both on sea and land So that the divell nor his instruments Can bring to any purpose their

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