Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	angel_n	heaven_n	lord_n	2,330	5	3.5941	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72538	The drumme of deuotion striking out an allarum to prayer, by signes in heauen, and prodigies on earth. Together with the perfume of prayer. In tvvo sermons, preached by William Leigh, Bachilor in Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish in Lancashire.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423.7; ESTC S103218	38,386	111

in his death the Lord would tempt vs with a prodigious birth for so vnualuable a losse nor is it strange a sinfull people should be so threatned because it is vsuall with God to punish our pleasures by contrarie passions as he did the daughters of Sion when in steed of sweet sauour hee threatned a stinke and in steed â—f a girdle a rent in steed of brothered haire baldnes in steed of a stomacher a girding of sacke and sunburning for beautie why not England in steed of a Royal religious issue whereof we are vnworthie with a monsterous birth and mishapen broode of that whore of Babel whose Romish faith and faction the Lord he knoweth doth daily breed euen in the bowels of the kingdom wherin there are but to many doublefaced double harted and double handed fawning stil vpon vs and yet threatning our destruction both with eie heart and hand could they but gaine the opportunitie I speake not this to dismay any but to charge vs of vnthankefulnes for yet we are blessed with the hopefull issue of moe Princes and with many drops of much royall blood and by the grace of God this strong gable of so many cords wil neuer be broken if our sinnes burst it not yet with this caution that we repaire the ruines of this our late losse with speedie repentance and pray withall that God would establish the remaine of our religious hope for his sonnes sake and Syons safetie O but he hath left a desolate court I answere as Ambrose did of Theodotius Non sunt destituti quos pietatis sua reliquit haeredes they are not forsaken or left desolate whom he hath left heires and successors of his princely vertues Religion puissance pietie and clemencie the brightnes whereof will shine to Gods glory and Englands honour so long as Chronicles can speake and bookes be opened I might here obserue as many moe haue done what presages fell out vpon the fall of this faire flower and peerelesse Prince how the two glorious creatures of God both Sunne and Monne were troubled the Sunne scarce seene of twentie daies before his death the Moone opposed with a mightie Rainbowe in the dead and and darkenes of the night bended ouer that house of mourning where he died I might tell how the ayre earth and clouds seemed to be sensible of his fall and to condole his death whiles strange windes storms and tempests with continually shewers raignes and floods Many darke daies Clouds and foggie mists were vpon vs to warne vs of our woe as formerly hath beene obserued of Theodotius and Queene Elizabeth before their deaths Nor can I passe without passion what fell out in the sommer before Prince Henry died at Chattam Where and when a swarme of Bees knit vpon the maine mast of that Royall ship he had made for Englands defence tellng vs that ere long Angels foode from heauen more sweet then Hony or the hony Combe should fill the soule of this Saint to glory and Immortalie yea and swarmes of Gods holy Angels should come downe to fetch him from the maine mast of this earthly kingdome aboue the heauen of heauens there to raigne with God and his Christ for euer A blessed Bee dedeliuered from the sting of sinne and death to the endlesse glorie of life and immortalitie neuer to sin or die any more Nay more then all I haue yet said to make good that there is not an euill in the Citie which the Lord will not reuale to some of his Prophets that Prophet who preached in the morning of his sicknes pointed from aboue at the period of his life when he vttered that text and truth Man that is borne of a woman hath but a short time to liue and is full of miserie It was powerfull in the preacher and passionate in the Prince to bring him to the thoughts of his mortalitie And so my deare brethren to conclude and make vse of all these fearefull signes and prodigies let all these together strike out an allarum to praier and repentance yea and to godly sorrow neuer to be repented of by the sweet perfume and priuiledge whereof soules are saued and bodies deliuered from threatned dangers And not bodies onely that is to say particular persons but states and kingdomes are preserued from all malice of the creatures be they neuer so implacable Are there monstrous and vntimely birthes pray to be regenerate and borne a new not of mortall seede but immortall by the word of God that liueth and endureth for euer Are there fearefull thunderclaps making thy wild heart to shake like the wildernes of Cades stand in awe and sinne not common with thine owne heart in thy chamber and be still say withall it is thou Lord onely that makest me dwell in safetie Are the Sonne and Moone eclipsed deficient in their light darke and bloodie The foole chaungeth like the Moone So saith Siracides and thou art changeable Ã´ Christian when by the motion of Gods spirit thou begins to be religious and by and by falles to be sacriligious Sacriligium creatori committitur dum imbecillitas ascribitur creaturae And therefore it s not the Moone that laboureth for her light but it s thou that labourest in thy sinnes it s thou that chaungest like the Moone O if I might say we fooles chaunge like the Moone for shee shortly returnes to her fulnes we fooles linger our conuersation Illa velociter colligit quod amiserat lumen tu nec tarde fidem recipis quam negasti The Moone doth speedily gaine againe her light that she hath lost we fooles doe hardly in any time recouer the faith we haue denied What should I say more Luna defectum luminis patitur tu salutis The Moone suffereth but the losse of her light thou of thy saluation Grauior ergo tua quam lunae mutatio More dangerous therefore by much is the eclipse of thy soule than is the eclipse either of Sunne or Moone But it may be some man will say doth neither Sunne nor Moone labour in the eclipse doubtles they doe and that continually For we cannot denie but they labour with other creatures as the Apostle saith and grone with vs also trauelling in paine together vnto this present desiring the day of their deliuerance out of the vanitie of corruption wherein they are Leaue off therefore to looke vpon the defects of those glorious lights vnles thou looke vpon the staines and blemishes of thy wicked life For how is it possible for the drunkard in his wine the wanton in his lust or the couetous man in his wealth to looke vpon the Moone and see the things that are in heauen when he knoweth not rightly how to vse or discerne of things that are on earth Are there new Stars vncoth and vnknowne Doe they blaze in the heauens and moue thee to wonder what may be the effect Say with the Sages and then art thou wise vidimus stellam eius in oriente

heard so must I pray in humilitie if I will haue answere for he hath regarded the lowe degree of his handmaid it was her virginall voyce and in the humblenes of her heart she was exalted with her God O it s an excellent vertue when honor is humbled and humilitie is honored with the title of blessednes as it was with Mary Iudeths humilitie pulled downe the Assirian pride when powring out her prayer to God for the deliuerance of her people she said Thy power standeth not in the multitude nor thy might in strong men but thou O Lord art the helpe of the humble and little ones Aron and Hur must hold vp Moses hands lest he might seeme to be exalted in his owne streÌ„gth And when Hester the Queen was to deale with her God by prayer she put off her princely robes but when she went to the Kings Pallace she put them on to teach vs that we may not deale with God as with men for hee will be better pleased with our pouertie then with our pride with our sackecloth and ashes then with our silke and sables I and the child will goe alone so said Abraham of his beloued Isaacke I and my miserie will goe alone so saith the humbled soule vnto his mercifull Sauiour No plea with God like the pore mans plea and to goe informa pauperis is the best plea in heauen though it be the worst on earth Thirdly as the Lord must be called vpon in faith and humilitie so must he be applied with good zeale and affection no perfume of prayer but from a passionate heart a broken and contrite heart God will neuer despise his eye and his answere is towards all such according to that of the prophet To him will I looke euen to him that is poore and of a lowly troubled spirit and trembleth at my words Moses said nothing and yet he cryed vnto the Lord it was a passionate prayer not from Laodecean lippes but from a fyrie spirit as with Anna when she powred out her soule before the Lord in the day of her barrennes Dauids affection in his prayer was much kindled with the oole of zeale when he cryed vnto the Lord it was more inflamed when he watered his couch with his teares for the sinnes of his soule but most of all battered when he rored within for aflictions without Iacob wept prayed fouâ—d God at Bethel So did good Ezekias when he turned him to the wall and wept saying Attenuati sunt occuli mei suspicientes in coelum mine eyes are wearie with watching vpon my God and I had fainted in my miserie had he not turned to me in mercy said I haue heard thy prayers and seene thy teares What should I say more Mardoche in the midst of the citie cryed to God with a great crie and a bitter and he was heard in that he desired so was Christ vpon the tree when greeued in soule he washed away our staines in blood teares It was Augustines sorrow when thinking vpon his vaine passions he said flebam Didonem morientem ob amorem Aeneae I wept for Dido dying for the loue of Aeneas but alas and woe is me therfore I seldome wept for my Sauiour dying for my sinne nor yet for my selfe liuing in my sinne Surely teares and prayers are church weapons and I may conclude as Ambrose did with Monacha Augustines Mother when she wept after his conuersion vade a me ita viuas fieri non potest vt filius istarum lachrimarum pereat Goe from me thou mournfull mother and doe as thou doest it can neuer be that a son of all these teares should euer perish So dare I say of the Saints of God sorrowing weeping either for their owne sinnes or others it can not be that children of al these teares should euer perish I passe to the fourth which is from our feruencie in prayer to our frequent and often praying thereby to importune y e Lord to be propitious euer wrastling as Iacob did and neuer leauing him without a blessing Nor as it is in the Prophet giuing him no rest till he repaire our ruines for the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence and the violent catch it yea and the Lord is ours by much intreatie as we are his by many allurements O that our prayer were with more assiduitie much and continual as euer needing therefore alwaies begging Eliah when he prayed for raine sent his seruant seauen times to see if y e Lord would answere his sighs with a shewer from the top of Carmell he crowched vnto the earth and put his face betweene his knees I say seueÌ„ times he prayed with passion and the Lord was propitius he fainted not but continued crying til the clouds dropped downe fatnes he prayed with passion while the king was at his repast Ahab in his chamber eating but Eliah vpon Carmel praying Iob must fast pray all the while his children did feast and play his prayers his teares and his sacrifice still went out as the daies of their banqueting went about for so saith the text thus did Iob euery day Darius sealed y e decree and Daniel dread it not but continued his prayer and was instant with God three times a day vpoÌ„ his knees with his face towards Ierusalem and his windowe open that way both to stir vp himselfe with the remembrance of Gods promise to al such as should pray towards that house As also that all might see he dread no danger of the Lions denne but had rather die ten thonsand deathes then yeeld to their Idolatrie And surely Dauid was much in prayer when hee said Euening and morning and at noone day will I pray make a noise and he will heaere me So Paul when hee said in prayer often it was his dayly exercise and what hee practised himselfe he preached to others when hee said pray continually Fifthly as our prayers must bee often in respect of times so must they not bee limitted in regard of places whether in the great congregation and in publike or abroad in the field lesse publike or in private at home when thou art shut in thy closet and art still there is a christian liberty and freedome in all so thy deuction bee done without schisme and separation for thou art not onely tyed vnto the Temple but thy chamber field and garden the mouÌ„taines dales and wildernesse dennes caues and hollowes of the earth are sacred for thy devotions When Iacob prayed against Esau his brother in that his dangerous peregrination to Bethel hee diuided himselfe from his family that hee might the nearer bee ioyned to God in his praier hee sent his two wiues and his eleuen children ouer the â—iuer Iabbocke with all hee had and when himselfe was left alone there wrastled with him a man to the dawning of the day he alone a Saint and in secret wept and prayed and found God at

liued when Christ was dead yet should they see with their eyes that the truth should rise out of that type and when the Heyfer was slaine yet the Lambe should liue yea and that very Temple stones and all should turne to Greet Ne populus redirit ad Iudaizmum Lest the people might goe backe to Iudaizme 4. Fourthly nay yet more the great Brason doore as the Author saith being at the East end of the Temple which twentie men could hardly either open or shut at the sixt hower of the night flew open of it owne accord shewing a new way and passage of Christ to a better place and being euen vnto a Tabernacle not made with hands but pitched in the high heauens opening of it selfe without helpe of any 5. Together with these as Iosephus writeth in the 21. of May a gastly spirit of an vnspeakable height and bignes was seene in the citie a pregnaÌ„t prodigie of their imineÌ„t desolation when Zim Ohim Skritchowles Fairies Satyres did haunt their houses and fairest habitations 6. Chariotes in the ayre armed meÌ„ fighting by troups amoÌ„g the clouds appeared throughout al the Land of Iudea marched towards the Citie with fearce Encounters all presages of their future fall by the furie of warre which was at their doores and yet they repented not 7. Nay more in a solemn feast when the Priests were assembled by night as their manner was to sacrifice they heard this voice Migremus hinc migremus hinc let vs get hence let vs get hence the wonder they heard sell from heaven enioyning them silence and a cessation from all legall ceremonies and sacrifices now ended both Priest place and offering vpon the sole sacrifice of Christ whom they had cruelly murthered and therfore had need to be gone before the fire of his fierce wrath was kindled against that place people and kingdome Lastly and of all other prodigies to provoke their repentance vpon the Lords presence neere approch now ready to strike it was not the least which fell out in one Iesus the sonne of Ananias of the vulgar sort who foureteene yeeres before the siedge when al was in quiet peace and plentie this sonne of Ananias comming to the feast of Tabernacles when the manner was that the Princes of the people should doe their devotions to God in the Temple sodenly he cried out to the wonder of them all A voyce from the East a voyce from the West a voyce from the foure windes a voyce vpon Ierusalem a voyce vpon the Temple a voyce vpon the Bride and vpon the Bridegroome a voyce vpon all the people Thus night day he ran through euery street crying without thought of food or regard of any insomuch as when he was beaten by the mighty impatient of the prodigie I say beaten to the bare bones he neither shedde a teare or shewed himselfe suppliant but at euery stroke stil cried out Wo woe to the inhabitants of Ierusalem and thus continuing during all the time of the siege and especially at their solemne feasts At last when the siege was at the hotest running round about the walles of the City without feare hee vttered the same voyce and said Woe to Ierusalem was to the people and woe to my selfe At which last woe Sagitta ictus occumbebat wounded with an arrow hee fell downe dead The vse is good and for vs in the height of this our security all these wonders and signes euery man interpreted as the story saith Pro sua libidine euen as best pleased himselfe some they neglected some they corrected some they contemned donec patriae exidin suaque pernieie eorum iniquitas confutata est till their error with their wickednesse was corrected with the destruction both of their country and of themselues they killed their Prophets they beleeved not Christ whom when they had slaine and silenced then was it time for prodigies to speake and say O bloudy City I dare giue remission vpon thy repentance but I dare giue no rest vpon thy rebellions Before the destruction of Troy as Virgil reporteth Fatis aperit Cassandra futuris era Dei Iussunec vnquam credita Tencris Cassandra foretold it ruine but could neuer be beleeved she spake from the holy Oracle but was not heard It s a fearefull thing when the Prophets are despised it s more fearefull when their Prophesies are set at nought but its fearefull aboue all feares when fire is a falling downe froÌ„ heauen that is when we with our Prophets and prophesying prodigies speake and wonders worke and yet wee repent not so it was with Israel I pray God it bee not so with England To speake of the signes wonders and prodigies that shall be seene vpon the worlds ending I dare not I cannot that feare and fire oppresseth my spirits in the thoughts thereof Et horret animus meminisse my very mind and soule melteth at the heat thereof And therefore hauing in some weake measure mentioned that dreadfull day heretofore in two other Sermons I leaue it vnder a vayle as Apelles did the imperfect portraiture of Agamemnon father of Iphigenia and come a little neerer home euen downe to our dayes Haue we no signes in heauen or prodigies in earth to moue our repentance Haue not the heavens of late yeeres strucke an alarum to provoke our prayers by vncoth signes never seene before It is some 40. yeeres agoe since that starre in the North appeared in Cassiâ—peia whereat the Astronomers stood agast Surely it was some star of Bethlehem conducting vs to that Babe of Bethlehem Non in cunis sed in Cathedra not lying swathled in the cratch but advanced into his chaire of high estate by a second birth of holy doctrine theÌ„ divulged through out all the world when the Gospell should beget faith in more abundance from the East to the West by North and by South I durst not thus presage of the effect of this star were I not well warranted by the judgements of two worthy Divines lights of this age Du Plessis and Beza who by that wonder in heauen are bold to say that the Lord hath prognosticated a second birth of Christ vpon the earth by the preaching of the Gospell vnto all nations vnder heaven neuer to bee backed by that wicked man whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shal abolsh with the brightnesse of his comming whereof these wonders in heauen are warnings on earth for all Gods children to bee prepared with our oyle and our Lampes light to meet him in the cloudes and so to bee caught vp to raign with him for â—ver And so to the next Not many yeeres after and right â—pposite to that in the North there appeared an other wonder in heauen a blazing starre both great and fearefull threatning some dangerous event to the Southerne parts of the world which the Affiricans in some measure felt when the Kings of Barbary and Portugall were slaine The cinders of that

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