Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	body_n	lord_n	soul_n	2,562	5	4.9092	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19491	A defiance to death Wherein, besides sundry heauenly instructions for a godly life, we haue strong and notable comforts to vphold vs in death. By Mr. William Covvper, minister of Gods Word.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1610 (1610)	STC 5917; ESTC S120025	84,536	398

such heauy crosses as are vpon their bodies or else because they cannot endure the terrours of a iust accusing conscience for these causes oftentimes they haue beeene forced to seeke reliefe by making their refuge to the bosome of death as did Saul Achitophell and Iudas but all in vaine for by new sins the worme of conscience is further wakened but not extinguished the breath of naturall life thereby maybe suffocate but the giltinesse of an euill conscience is encreased so that in this their refuge of vanity they finde no more ease to their weary spirits then if a man to eschew death by water should leap into the fire which is no other thing in effect but to exchange a smaller paine with a greater it being most certaine that all the paines which wicked men sustaine in this life if they bee compared with the paines of Hell are but like vnto reeke or smoake which goes before the fire If in the body they may not abide the smoake of Gods wrath how shall they abide to bee burnt with the fire thereof in hell Yet in this confused and perturbed estate goe they out of the world finding and feeling they are not well where they are and forwarned by their conscience that a worse abides them Two things then are requisite to make vs willing with comfort to remooue out of the body The first is that the sense of our miserie makes vs wearie of this life seeing here wee are absent from the Lord the next is that the hope of a better makes vs willing to remooue knowing that we shall dwell with the Lord The one is as a hand behind vs to put vs out of the world The other is as a hand stretched out before to receiue vs into a better if the sense of misery put vs not out we shal be lik Israel delighting rather ot bide vnder banishmeÌ„t in Babell then to follow Gods calling to Canaan and againe if the sense of mercy make vs not certaine of a better we shall bee like them who finding a hand behind them to put them out but none before them to take a gripe of them and pull them ouer cannot but in most miserable manner fall downe into that pit and gulfe which is betweene the two prepared for the damned And dwell with the Lord. Here we see that the soules of the godly after their remoouing out of the body haue their dwelling with the Lord it is not then as some suppose that the soules haue any other resting place but heauen wherin they are till Christ his second comming with which wrong opinion some of the learned haue bin stained whose names with theiâ— nakednesse we delight not to discouer but as the Israelites did to the Egyptians wee will borrow their Gold and Siluer and vse it as our owne leauing their Claye and Bricke vnto themselues and will rest vpon this most sure word of the Lord that our Soules remoouing out of the body shall dwell with the Lord. What our Sauiour said to that Conuert on the Crosse belongs also after Death to all the rest of his children This night thou shalt be with me in Paradise Non enim propter solam latroniâ— animam Christus Deus noster paradis um aperuit Sed ob reliquas etiam Sanctorum animas Againe wee learne here that seeing Saints departed are but flitted to dwell wiâ—h the Lord we should so moderate our mourning for them that we lament not their estate seeing they haue changed for a better but our owne who sustaine by their departure a twofold losse First that such notable instrumeÌ„ts of comfort as haue bin pledges to vs of Gods fauour should bee taken from vs suâ—h was the mourning of the Faithfull for S. Stephen and of the Elders of Ephesus for Saint Paul when hee tolde them that they should see his face no more Secondly because the taken away of godly men is a forerunner of euill dayes to follow the godly are as Pillars in a Citie like as Lot was in Sodome to hold backe the iudgement of God from it thus wee see how in the death of others beloued of vs the causes of mourning should respect our selues and not them and as for that which may concerne them if any cause of mourning be it should bee before their death and not after it as Dauid did who when his child was stroken with the hand of God he fasted and mourned for him seauen daies together but when hee saw that the Lord would not bee intreated to spare him his seruants hauing tolde him that the childe was dead then he arose and refreshed himselfe with meate teaching vs that the best time of mourning for those whom we loue is to mourne for them while they are aliue that so we may entreat the Lord to spare them or then to receive them into his fauour and not to take them away in the continuance of his anger but the contrary commonly is done by vs for then doe wee begin our mourning wheÌ„ the time of mourning for them is past that is when the iudgement is giuen out both vpon their soules and bodies which by no intreaty of ours can be reuoked Last of all comfortable is it that our estate after this life is called a dwelling with the Lord it is not a soiourning in a tabernacle as heere we are but a dwelling in an euerlasting habitation the Lord Iesus shall stablish vs there as well grounded pillars in the temple of our God and we shal neuer any more goe out and againe seeing that is the place of the dwelling of God with his Saints and of them with him it offereth to our consideration that great variety of good without any want which there abydes vs for if vpon earth Men of power haue their dwelling places aboundantly furnished with all necessary good what shall wee looke for in the dwelling house of our God Blessed is hee whom thou chusest and causest to come to thee hee shall dwell in thy courts and we shall bee satisfied with the pleasures of thine house The best creatures which serue vs now shall not get that honour as to serue vs there There is no neede of the Sunne nor of the Moone to shine in that Citie for the glory of God doth light it and the Lambe is the light thereof The Lord himselfe shall bee all things in all vnto vs In a word then Anima Animae erit Deus God shall bee the soule of our soule he onely shall mooue it he only shall possesse it with him onely shall it be delighted filled and fully satisfied We conclude then with Dauid How excellent is thy mercy O God therefore the children of men trust vnder the shadow of thy winges They shall be satisfied with the fatnesse of thine house and thou shalt giue them drinke out of the riuers of thy pleasures for with thee is

the Lord from the seruant the indweller from the lodger â—or in the iudgment of Gods spirit the body is no more but the house the man is hee that dwelles in the bodie and looke what difference there is betweene a house and him that dwelles in it such are wee to put betweene the soule and the body in exteriall dangers thogh the house bee burnt and blowne downe with windes if the indweller be safe we account that the losse is the lesse and much more if the soule escape when the house of the body is throwne downe by death are we to esteeme that the losse is but small It is reasonable indeed that the soule should loue the body but so that it neglect not the owne selfe let Aâ—am loue his Euah but so that hee hearken not vnto her voice more then to the Lords if we seeke the welfare of our bodies with neglect of our soules we shall lose theÌ„ both but if we subdue the body by discipline that the soule may be safe then shall the body also bee partaker of her glory Earthly The second general obserued here is that the Apostle cals our body an house of earth and this he doth for two causes first in regard of the matter for it was made of the earth next in regard of the means by which our bodies are continued and vpholden for they are earthly As to the first that man is made of earth which is manifest out of the second of Genesis it doeth highly commend the great power of the Creator to doe great thinges by great meanes is no great matter but when by smallest meanes greatest things are done it doth argue without all doubt the great excellency of the worker as that God made all things of nothing and that of the basest matter he had made before man hee made man a more excellent creature then any other that hee had brought out before him hee made him of clay but in many respects more honourable then that whereof he made him in this that he hath giuen to man Vt sit aliquid sua origine gloriosius Hee hath set out the glorie of his power and wisedome As likewise in that hee hath placed such a Grace and Maiestie in that same face which hee framed of Clay that the feare and terrour of him was vppon all liuing creatures which they acknowledged by their first comperance before him at his calling to receiue names from him as it pleased him to improue them and yet euen after the fall by the benefite of restitution wee haue in CHRIST they so reuerence man that albeit in nature there can bee none stronger then the Elephant stowter then the Lyon fiercer then the Tygre yet all these dooth seruice to man Et naturam suam humana institutione deponunt Secondly we learne heere GODS Soueraignty ouer man he is but a vessell of earth framed by the hand of God therfore VVoe must be vnto him if he striue with his Maker a vessell of clay is not so easily broken by the Potter as man is confounded by his Maker if once his wrath kindle in his breast against him It were therefore good for man before hee enter into enmitie with God to bethinke himselfe of an answere to that question of the Apostles Do ye prouoke God vnto anger are yee stronger then he The Sidonians would not make warre with Herod because they were nourished by the kings land and it might more iustly be a reason to keep vain man from waging battel with the Lord that he holds his life of the Lord that if he do but take his breth out of our nostrils wee fal incontinent as dead vnto the ground Surely of all follies in the world this is the greatest for a man to cast himselfe in danger of Gods wrath which he is neyther able by flying to eschâ—e nor yet by suffering to endure Thirdly the consideration of our originall learnes vs humility siâ—ce wee are of the earth why shal we wax proude specially for any quality of our body which was taken from the earth and must returne to earth againe Therefore God gaue vnto the first man the name of Adam signifying redde earth that as oft as hee heard his name he might remeÌ„ber his originall and and his posterity also considering the Rocke froÌ„ whence they came might let fall the comb of their naturall pride Which if we cannot learne by looking to our originall let vs at least remeÌ„ber our end it shall learne vs that we are but dust yea much more vile then common dust for as beautifull Snow when it is resolued into water whereof it was congealed becomes fouler water then any other else so man being turned again into earth it becomes viler earth then any other earth whatsoeuer so that the flesh which in life is most beloued death causes to be most abhorred Abraham loued Sarah well but froÌ„ the time that her soule departed from her bodie hee was glad to entreate the Hittites for a Sepulchre that hee might burie his dead out of his sight And truely if as Gregory councels vs Vnusquisque hoc quod viuum diligit quid sit mortuum pensaret euery man would pondâ—r what that creatur is being dead which so greatly man loueth while it liueth it would serue to represse in vs the immoderate desires of our affections O man why wilt thou bee bewitched with that which in the bodie seemes worthy to bee loued Is it for the strength or the beautie or stature therof that thou art delighted with it I pray thee consider what these are Is not the strength of the body weakenes Ere it be long the grashopper shall be a burden to the strongest And as to beauty is it not deceitfull All flesh is grasse and the glorie thereof as the flowre of the field As a wall of clay plastered ouer and painted after that a little winde and raine hath beaten vponit the Lime fals away and the clay appeareth so is it with the most pleasant bodie which now being trimmed with the colours of God seemes very beautifull but after that the storms and showers of diseases hath beaten vppon it then shall it appear that which it is to wit but Clay indeede and though for stature thou were like to the sonnes of Anack yet neither art thou for that the more pretious for the highest trees are not most fruitfull the mightie Oakes of Basan beares fruit for Swine where the little Vine-tree renders comfortable fruite for man neither can thy height protect thee against death for euen gold thristy Babel which grewe vp like a great tree so high that the fowles of heauen made their nests vnder it was at leÌ„gth broght to the graue like an abhominable branch so shall it bee with the pompe of all flesh the wormes shall be spread vnder thee and the Wormes shall couer

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