Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	aaron_n	priest_n	transgress_v	48	3	10.8154	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03890	Politicke, moral, and martial discourses. Written in French by M. Iaques Hurault, lord of Vieul and of Marais, and one of the French kings priuie Councell. Dedicated by the author to the French-kings Maiestie: and translated into English by Arthur Golding; Trois livres des offices d'estat. English	Hurault, Jacques.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1595 (1595)	STC 14000; ESTC S106319	407,097	518

and deintie meats and giuing them in charge that if the Vandales happened to vnhallow any church of the Christians that they should doe the contrarie and make them cleane againe For he told them that if Christ was the God of the Christians as he was reported to be he would punish those that did him wrong and helpe those that did him seruice Whervpon this Cabaon sent certaine of his men to follow the Vandales in post who whensoeuer they found any church where the Vandales had stabled their horses made it cleane againe as soone as they were gone out of it If any were poore or diseased they gaue them alms and as ye would say did worship the priests whom the Vandales had misused To be short all the men of old time haue so greatly honored priest-hood that it had chiefe preheminence next vnto kings and sometimes kings haue bin priests and priests haue bin kings and gouernors of people And at Rome the priests of Iupiter had a Mace-bearer and a chaire of estate as who would say they deemed the dignitie of priesthood to be equall with the authoritie of a king And they durst not demaund an oth of them when they were to beare witnesse as who would say it were no reason to discredit these in small things which had the ordering of the greatest things and the things that concerned God Which thing is obserued towards our kings of France when they be heard vpon an inquest for they depose without making any oth Numa king of Romanes would needs be of the colledge of Bishops which he had ordained for the ceremonies And the name of King abode with their high priest whom they called the sacrifising King or the king for the Sacrifices After which maner the Athenians also chose yearly one by the name of King who was created but onelie for sacrifising and to punish irreligious dealings Octauian the emperour had the priestly dignitie iointly togither with his empire and so had all they that were emperors after him For as soone as they were chosen there was giuen vnto them the priestly attire and they tooke vpon them the title of High priests Which custome was kept vnto the time of Gratian who refused the attire when the priests offered it vnto him because he thought it vnmeet for a Christian to take such an habit vpon him as Zosimus reporteth in the fourth booke of his historie Neuerthelesse we see by the letter which Varia Mesa wrat vnto the Senat vpon the election of Heliogabalus that the emperorship and priesthood were alwaies diuided asunder For thus saith he Now shall ye see that which your predecessors neuer saw namely that the emperor shall be the high priest and the high priest be emperor so as he shall by sacrifice reconcile vs to the gods and by force of arms defend vs from our enemies But this saying is not contrarie to that of Zosimus For there is great difference between being of the colledge of the priests and the taking of the dignitie or title of priesthood in way of honour and betweene dealing with the ceremonies themselues as the priests of Iupiter and Quirinus whome they called Flamines and the rest of the peculiar priests of the other gods did for these later sort could not beare any office or be magistrats Iulius Caesar had the high priesthood for honours sake and chiefly for profits sake but yet for all that he intended not to the administration of the ceremonies but contrariwise was continually occupied in the warres and absent from the citie Howbeit that Titus Vespasian would needs expresly haue it to the intent hee might not kill any man because it was not lawfull for their high priest to shead mans blood no more than our churchmen may now which point the rest of the emperours that came after him obserued not Therefore wheras the emperors tooke the priests stole vpon them it was in way of honour and not to doe the office in administring the ceremonies Among the Iewes Aaron the high priest was of equall authoritie with Moses and after the Iudges and Kings the greatest dignitie belonged to the high priest Among vs ChristiaÌ„s also the time hath bene that men haue yeelded souereigne authoritie to the Pope as to the Primat of the church princes haue submitted themselues to him and not only haue honoured him as the cheefe minister of our religion but also haue receiued seuere correction at his hand not refusing to do open pennance at the Bishops commaundement as did the emperors Philip and Theodosius vnder Fabian and Ambrose bishops the one of Millan the other of Rome and Frederik the emperour and king of Naples howbeit that the Pope proceeded not with like zeale as the other did but vsed more choller than religion in his doings as he shewed by his treading of the emperor vnder his feet coating his vncomely dealing with this verse of Dauid Vpon the Aspworm and the Cockatrice shalt thou goe and tread the Lion and Dragon vnder foot a thing so il-beseeming the place that he held that Frederik was to be commended for his patient suffering of that disgrace in the honor of God and S. Peter But such was the Religion of those daies that euerie man ran vpon him that was in the Popes disfauor When Clement the sixt had excommunicated the Flemings for taking part with England contrarie to their promise and oth there was not so much as one priest to be found in all the whole countrie that durst say masse or say seruice Iohn king of England seeing himselfe excommunicated for the tenths that he had taken into his hand and perceiuing that the world went worse and worse with him was faine to cast himselfe downe at the feet of the Popes legat at whose hand after much intreatance he receiued the crowne as a great benefit a six daies after with charge to restore the tenths which he withheld and the church-fruits Which charge he put in execution with perill of the losse of his kingdome For the poor commons which were compelled to beare that losse fel to rebelling against him The like submissions haue bin made not only among vs but also among the Infidels For it is reported that when Hercules had killed his own childreÌ„ his host he was purged assoiled therof by the priests mysteries of the goddesse Ceres And Adrastus who had killed his own brother vnawares was purged assoiled by Cresus king of Lydia who took vpon him to deale in such recoÌ„ciliations because he was religious and addicted to the fond ceremonies of those times Also we read that a priest commaunded Lisander king of Lacedemon to tell and declare vnto him the greatest sin that euer he had committed But Lisander being more subtill than spice-conscienst desired the priest to tell him whether he required it of him by the commaundement of the gods or of his owne-authoritie When the priest had answered him that it was at the

kind of life and by that means desire new lawes and set their minds vpon all maner of innouations Sauly king of Scythia did put Anacharsis to death for offering sacrifice to Berecinthia the mother of the gods after the maner of the Greeks Also Scylus king of Scythia because he wore apparell after the Greeke fashion sacrificed secretly after the maner of Greece as soone as he was discouered was deposed for so doing and in the end being taken in battell had his head struck off and his brother Octumusades was set vp in his place so greatly hated they strange fashions and feared in any case to alter their old customs Now if Plato was afraid of alteration in so small things what shall we say to such princes as daily do abrogat laws for their friends and seruants sakes for their owne peculiar profit or pleasure make no reckoning of the vpholding and maintaining of theÌ„ Agesilaus being otherwise a good prince and a seuere obseruer of the laws of his countrie was worthily blamed for fauouring his friends in cases of iustice For he said that the obseruing of the rigor of iustice in matters where friends were to bee touched was but a cloke wherwith to couer such as lifted not to do their friends good And in very deed he acquitted Phebidas who had taken the suburbs of Thebes and Sphodrias who weÌ„t about to haue taken the hauen of Pyrey by stealth at such time as they were at peace with the Athenians By which vniust dealing of his the state of the Lacedemonians was ouerthrown So was the citie of Rome also sacked by the Gauls for that the Romans did theÌ„ not iustice nor made theÌ„ reasonable amends for the wrong that had bin done to them by Quintus Fabius Ambustus Pompey was misliked of many good men and ill spoken of on their behalfe because hee himselfe hauing by decree forbidden the open commending of such as were accused by order of law so long as their case depended in triall entered one day into the court commended Plancus that had bin accused Insomuch that Cato being one of the iudges stopt his ears with both his hands saieng it was not lawful for him to heare an accused person commended seeing it was forbidden by the laws How much more wisely dealt the king of Locres who hauing made a law that adulterers should haue their eies put out and finding his own son to haue transgressed the law would not suffer him to be dispensed with but in the end wheÌ„ he was vrged by his people to pardoÌ„ the offence which thing of himselfe he would not graunt yet somwhat to satisfie their request and withall to keepe the law also he caused one of his owne eies and another of his sonnes eies to be put out Plutarch sayth in the life of Aristides that whensoeuer the case concerned iustice friendship could beare no sway with Aristides no not euen for his friends nor enmitie prouoke him against his enemies For law ought to bee ministred vprightly and neuer to be broken vnlesse necessitie which is without law enforce thereto And yet euen then also it ought to bee done so discreetly as it may not seeme to be touched accordingly as the Lacedemonians did who when they had lost a great battell brake the law of Lycurgus in not punishing them with a kind of infamie worse than death that had fled from the field because that if they should so haue punished them they should haue had but few left to defend their countrie And yet notwithstanding to the end they might not seeme to despise their lawes what need soeuer constrained them Agesilaus not intending to doe it directly made proclamation that the law of Lycurgus should take no place vntill the next morrow and in the meane while that present day he inrolled the fugitiues againe to the defence of their countrie But in Rome where there was no scarcitie of men they made so small account of them that euen after the battell of Cannas they would not ransome 8000 men whome Hannibal had put to their ransome The foresayd Lacedemonians being requested by Cirus king of Persia and other their confederats to send them Lisander to be admirall of their fleet if they intended the well proceeding of their affairs because they should doe all things with the better courage vnder his gouernance refused to giue Lisander the title of Admirall giuing it vnto another made him cheefe ouerseer of the sea-matters taking from him but only the name and giuing him in effect the whole authoritie in all things Artaxerxes surnamed the Long-hand king of Persia being a meeld and gracious prince although he thought the law of his predecessors to be ouer-rigorous that punished such with whipping and with death as had lost a battel whether it were through their owne default or no yet neuerthelesse would not breake it directly but ordained that the offender should be stripped and that his clothes should bee scourged with rods in steed of his backe and that his hat should be striken off in steed of the striking off his head The Thebans were yet more rigorous howbeit that in the end they dispensed with the law For when Epaminondas had fortunately begun warres against the Lacedemonians and saw that he could not otherwise bring them to end because that by the law he was to giue ouer his charge by reason that the time of his commission was expired he so dealt with his fellow-commissioners that contrarie to the law he made them presume to continue in office yet foure months longer within which time the Lacedemonians were vtterly vanquished and ouerthrowne And when Epaminondas was areigned for transgressing the law for making his fellow-coÌ„missioners to transgresse it likewise he confessed himself to haue deserued death for disobaieng the law praying the Thebans that in recompence of all the seruices that he had done to them they would after his death let write vpon his tombe That Epaminondas had ben put to death for compelling the Thebanes to vanquish the Lacedemonians whom afore that day they neuer durst looke vpon in the face By which meanes he not only procured the sauing of his life but also the accepting in good woorth of all the things that he had done Marius vsed the like presuming beyond the law in in his iornie against the Cimbrians where he made a thousand strangers freedenisons of Rome for their valiant behauiour in that battell And when he was accused thereof to the senat he made answer that by reason of the great noise of the battel he could not heare what the lawes coÌ„maunded or prohibited Wherein Marius could not be deemed to haue done well For although it was a point of iustice to reward good and valeant men yet ought it not to haue bene done with the ouerthrow of law as it was then done by him not of any necessitie but rather to haue the men of war at his deuotion than for any good to the

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