Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	appear_v	day_n	great_a	2,710	5	3.1342	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86356	The good old vvay, Gods vvay, to sovle-refreshing rest: discovered in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the Lord Maior and court of aldermen of the citie of London, at their anniversary meeting on Wednesday in Easter weeke at Christ-Church, Apr. 24. 1644 being the day of the monethly publike fast. By Thomas Hill B.D. Pastor of Tychmersh in Northampton shire. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1644 (1644)	Wing H2023; Thomason E48_4; ESTC R11496	52,548	61

this will contribute much to draw poore soules into the good way Fiftly there is another thing that must be remembred Improve your power you whâ— are Magistrats and governours in families others Improve yâ—ur power to keepe up the honour of the Lords day our Christian Sabbath blessed bee God that put it into the hearts of the great Counsellers in the high Court of Parliament lately to set forth an Ordinance for the strict and solemne observation of the Lords day I hope you will act it and indeed if ever you would maintaine Religion in a place mainâ—â—ine the Lords day and the solemne and holy observation of it God hath given a spetiall item to that precept Remember Exod. 28. 8. he would have all other Commandements remembred no question but he knoweth we are ready to forget that and it is of much consequence to be remembred It is a day of blessing and of sanctification If you would have your peoples hearts sanctified Oh traine them to sanctifie Gods day and to attend on Gods Ordinances It may be that hee may drop the grace of sanctification into them Let the feare of God I beseech you and conscionable observance of this pious Ordinance set all the wheeles of Authority on going and moving regularly in their severall spheares that the Lords day may be more carefully observed suffer not as many governors doe buying and selling not sporting and playing on that day whereby so many are hardned in prophane and ungodly waies you will finde the comfort of it Religion have a sensible progresse God delights to shew himselfe to his people on that day And therefore doe what you can to ingage all others to attend on publique ordinances that day doubtlesse many many soules may bee reduced to the good way if this method be wisely observed Lastly remember your solemne Covenant whereby you are ingaged to such personall and publike reformation as would bring many into that way which leadâ— to rest wee are happily brought under the bond of it the three kingdomes were united among our selves and to our God hereby Oh be as carefull to keepe it as you were cheerefull in the taking of it Rest is the pretious fruit of the Covenant 2 Chron. 15. 15. they tooke the Covenant cheerefully and God gave them Rest let us not onely take it but keepe it and ingage others what we can thereto let us all bee Covenanters indeed according to our obligation and walke in the good way of obedience to God that so this Covenant may bee a Covenant of peace and a Covenant of rest to us a Covenant of rest to all our soules a Covenant of rest to the Church a Covenant of rest to the kingdome yea to all the three kingdomes which are united together in it I should now come to the third observation drawne from the 18. and 19. Verses from the last generall part of the Text the wofull fruit of their wretched selfe-will We will not say they we will not hearken but what saith God he calleth the nations hee calleth the earth to take notice of it what he will doe against them hee will bring evill upon this even the fruite of their thoughts because they have not hearkned unto my words nor to my Law but rejected it The wilfull rejecting of Gods gracious admonition is a most provoking evill which betrayes a people into the hands of heavy judgements The more of God there is in any admonition in any of his dispensations the more glorious they are The more of our selfâ—-will there is in any of our carriages the more odious abominable they are in the sight of God When our proud spirits boyle up to such an height of deâ—iance against him as here they did the Lord seeing himselfe so much affronted is ingaged to vindicate his honour by bringing some great evill upon them God hath three Prerogatives which he will not part with judgement is his hee will not allow us to judge one another vengeance is his he will not allow us to revenge our selves his glory is so deare to him that he will not give it to another when any one through pride shall incroach upon that royall prerogative he will make it appeare that he resists the proud by bringing some breaking evill upon them as Exod. 18. 11. One word to end all is this and it is a proper worke for the day This justifieth God in all the judgements and calamities that now lie on sinfull England a day of humiliation should be a day of selfe-abasing and a day of justifying our God and when we consider how Gods gratious admonitions have been sleighted what unanswerable entertainment they have had in England how ill we have requited all the gratious offers and tenders he hath made unto us we may all goe mourning home and even bemoaning the sad fruit of our own wretched carriage that now lieth on us and still all must speake this language The Lord is most righteous it is Gods mercy that England hath not beene in Irelands condition before this day so many gratious so many loving admonitions have beene sleighted and that with so high affronts when God hath sent to us by his Prophets when God hath called upon us when God hath sent mercies Ambassadours when God hath preached from heaven by his judgements yet we have still given him a negative a proud and stubborne negative we have againe and againe answered him Wee will not mee thinkes wee may looke upon our selves if God would deale with us according to our deservings even in Jerusalems case and we might even weepe over poore England as our Saviour wept over Jerusalem that because they were not sensible of the day of their visitation they did not consider and know those things that belonged to their peace now they are bid from their eyes now thy house shall be left unto thee desolate It is a miracle of patience and goodnesse that God should beare with us all this while when hee hath had such high affronts when his own Name when his deare Son when his blessed Spirit when his Covenant when the Minister of the Covenant when the seales of the Covenant when all these dispensations of God have bin so affronted so contemned in England and when wee have so much sleighted the day of our Visitation it is a wonder that Countries that Cities that al is not left desolate before this time Yea when we consider that in Ezek. 24. 13 14. In thy filthines is lewdnes because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee It might sad our hearts to think Oh! if this should be unworthy sinful Englands portion in thy filthinesse is lewdnesse and because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged God hath put us into the fire to see if we will let goe our drosse but

hotly debated and when it comes to tryall men will deny themselves in any thing rather then their will yea they will deny God himselfe rather then suffer themselves to bee crossed therein Wee are all ready to returne that unmannerly answer with them Jer. 44. 16. thus they here Verse 16. Wee will not walke the language not onely of dull sloath but even of impudence it selfe And when God had set watchmen over them speculatores Priests and Prophets both ordinary and extraordinary saith Junius O the admirable riches of Gods patience towards such unthankfull rebells Yet Verse 17. they adde obstinacy to their impudence doubling it with a sturdy emphasis Wee will not hearken Who would have expected such an answer as this to have been the ecâ—ho to such soule-refreshing counsell Yet thus they put off the great God as enemies to him and their owne soules peremptorily rejecting him and his Law No wonder if according to the third generall part their wretched carriage towards God bee of such dangerous consequence In Vers 18 the Righteous God calleth the Congregation the Nations to take notice of what is among them sâ—il what sinnes what Judgements This is an high straine of Rhetorick which God sometimes useth that hee may give a visible account of the justice of his proceedings hee will make as it were a publikâ— appeale to others how just hee is against them They were not ashamed Verse 15. now hee will expose them to open shame Then Verse 1â— hee calleth upon the Earth tâ— behold what evill hee is bringing upon them Patience and indulgence being abused is turned into fury They shall know that it is an evill and bitter thing to forsake God Jer. 2. 19. Hee will be sanctified either in an active way by them or in a passive way upon them If they will not doe what hee requires for his honour and their good hee must dâ—e what hee intends for his owne glory though in their confusion Some might possibly mis-interpret Gods severity against them wondring that they who had beene his darling people in a Nationall Covenant with him should now bee broken with judgements by him hee will let them know the holinesse of his Justice now calls for it somtimes the sinnes of a people grow so great they make themselves as it were uncapable of mercy Jer. 5. 7. How shall I pardon for this God is now resolv'd to give them the wofull fruits of their owne thoughts Verse 19. Hee brings upon them fructum cogitationum ipsorum The fruit of their owne thoughts As they did sow so shall they reape Prov. 1. 31. they shall eate the fruit of their owne way and bee filled with their owne devices They may seeke to palliate their sinnes with some pompous specious formalities of Religion and fetch Incense and other most noble fruits from farre yet find no better entertainment then Verse 20. To what purpose commeth there to mee Incense from Sheba and the sweet Cane from a farre Countrey Notwithstanding all these complements God knowes the corrupt fruits of the thoughts of their hearts and will accordingly reward them As Jer. 17. 10. I the Lord search the heart I try the reinâ—s even to give every man according to his wayes and according to the fruit of his doings After this generall account of the words let us more particularly enquire what genuine and seasonable observations they tender to our consideration Whereas the Lord here calleth on them to stand in the way see and aske for the old paths the good way this is obvious In the concernments of your soules the Lord would not have you over-credulâ—â—s but very carefully inquisitive after the good old way Before I produce reasons for confirmation hereof I will for the clearing of the passage premise and resolve a question In what wayes should you stand and see First it 's good beginning with your selves â—ixe your thoughts at least for some time on your owne wayes wherein you have walked Religion as well as reason appeares in self-reflecting in considering our selves in Hag. 1. 5. 7. Thus saith the Lord consider your wayes Hebr. set your heart on your wayes Read them over compare your actions with the rule that you may find out your owne obliquities and accordingly bee broken hearted for them and broken off from them Too many ordinarily mind their comforts more then their duties and consider much more other peoples wayes to câ—nâ—ure them then their owne to judge themselves for them But you will never learne to bee happy travellers in Heaven way unlesse you sometimes looke back even with weeping eyes upon your owne former wayes The Prophet David found benefit in this course Psal. 119. 59. I thought on my wayes aâ—d turned my feet unto thy Testimonies A serious consideration is the Scripture method to a sound conversion This Jeremy commends unto the people of God Laâ— 3 4â— let us search and try our wayes and turn againe to the Lord let us reâ—urne into our selves that wee may returne unto the Lord Secondly It 's very sit likewise to stand in the wayes of your Forefatherâ— the good old Servants of God that you may write after their Copie As Deut. 32. 7. Remember the dayes of old consider the yeeres of many generations ask thy Father and he wil shâ—w thee thy Elders and they will tell thee As what God has done for thee in his paths of truth and goodnes so proportionably what thou shouldst do for him in thy waies of obedience thankefulnes It was a prudent direction the heathen Doctors gave to their Disciples consider what Socrates Catâ— other reâ—ined Mâ—ralists did and how they behaved themselves wee have better Oracles to consult with patterns more worthy of our Imitation Enquire what Abraham did who was a friend of God what Jacobs wayes were who was so potent with God himselfe what paths Galebs were who was a man of another spirit more excellent then ordinary following God fully Aske what wayes David walked in who was a man after Gods own heart fulfilling all his will Thirdly and most especially stand in the severall paths which God makes known unto you as tending to the good way and seriously conâ—ider them Hierome hee distinguisheth plures semitas viam unam divers paths but one good way To the same purpose Theodoret There are many Prophets which point to this way As there is the Kings high-way which leads to great Cities but divers lesser paths comming from Villages which will bring you into that way Hilarie makes these wayes to bee the many commandements of God and many Prophets which lead to Christ the way truth and life Iohn 14. 6. According to Cyrill these wayes are the wholsome writings of the Prophets if any one will set his mind on them he shall find the good way Christ Jesus Doubtlesse there is one Soveraigne Soule-saving way which leads to God the center

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