Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	bring_v	call_v	king_n	1,914	5	3.4981	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60325	The practices of persecutors delivered in a sermon on the fourteenth verse of the foure score six Psalme / b Mr. Archibald Skeldie.	Skeldie, Archibald.	1645 (1645)	Wing S3932; ESTC R20904	44,206	68

they consider how diversly the Lord is affected towards his humble Saints The saints of God wheÌ„ they are threatned by their proud enemies may boldly pray to God for two reasons and towards their proud oppressors for he taketh the humble for his dearest friends the proud for his rebellious enemies * Isaiah 66.2 He is near to the humble as a maÌ„ is to the house where he dwelleth * Psal 25.9 and a Master to the Scholer that he teacheth But though he be near to the proud in the inflicting of of his anger he is far from them in the manifestation of his favour The Psalmist saith * Psal 128.6 That though the Lord be high he looks to the lowly but he knoweth the proud afar off And therfore Augustine saith (x) Humiliats Deus appropinquat ab exaltato longe recedit nisi quem ipse prius humiliatuÌ„ exaltaverit Aug. in Ps 50. That the Lord draweth near to him that is humbled but he goeth farre away from him that is exalted except he be one whom the Lord hath first humbled and afterwards exalted The Lord multiplieth upon the humble his grace and his favour * 1 Pet. 5.6 For when they humble themselves he promiseth to exalt them and he exhorteth them to humble them selves that he may exalt them to him they may pray confidently * Psal 86.1 under the sense of their needines poverty And therefore as Bernard saith (y) Magna virtus hum ili tatis cui ipsa dei matestas se tam facile inclinat Bern. sermo 85. in canticum That great is the vertue of humility to which the Lord so easily inclineth his Majestie But as the Lord compasseth the humble with his favour so he pursueth the proud with his rath and displeasure The Psalmist saith * Psal 86.1 That he plentifully rewardeth the proud doer for usually when he punisheth their pride he abateth their power and plagueth their persons One of the heathen could say (z) Superbos sequitur ultor a tergo Deus Sen. in Her furente That God the revenger followeth proud men at the back But the Scripture telleth us That the righteous Lord stricketh them upon the face * Isaiah 5.15 When he powreth shame and contempt upon all that are haughty * Psal 18.27 and casteth downe the countenance of them that looke proudly And the Prophet Isay fore-telling the destruction of Moab He saith * Isaiah 16.6 We have heard of the pride of Moab And the saying of Solomon is worthy of observation That pride goeth before a fall and a high minde before destruction Secondly The Saints of God at such a time may confidently pray when they consider the nature and event of the insultation of the proud persecutors how hatefull it is to God how hurtfull to themselves whom for a time it pleaseth how comfortable in end it is to the Saints of God to whom at first it seemeth to be fearfull and terrible for when the proud oppressors of the Church of God have a purpose to trouble their peace by some grievous persecution if they see any likelyhood or probability that they can bring their purpose to passe then such is their untimous foly that as the proverbe saith They begin to sing the triumph before the victory and to sell the Bear skin before the Bear be slaine they threaten to execute what ever their malice can devise against the Saints of God as if their power were so stronge that they could not be resisted and their wisedome so deepe that it could not be disappointed and their purposes so sure that they could not be overturned Now when they thus begin to insult by blaspheming railing and threatning then the Saints of God betake themselves to prayer and cry * Acts 4.29 Lord behold their threatnings this prayer so prevaileth with God that he maketh a sudden change and alteration for when the Saints of God are brought lowest and the pride of their enemies advanced highest then it is time for the Lord to worke such a change as both declareth the glory of his mercie justice and power When like the nailes of the wheele of Sesostris his chariot that which was highest in a moment becomes lowest and that that was lowest is advanced highest Therefore we have reason to thinke that in the beginning of this combustion wherewith now these kingdomes are set on fire many of the Saints of God found matter of great comfort and a wonderfull ground of hope that the enemies of the cause of Christ should not prosper and the Covenanters should be comforted and graciously delivered when they did heare of the untimous and foolish in sulting of their proud enemies that did promise victory to themselves before they did fight and were dividing Lands distributing offices skaring Cities and killing all that should make opposition before that either they were vanquished or invaded for as it was a presage of the Syrians overthrow * 2. Kings 20 11. when putting on their Armour they boasted as though they had put it off and as it was a presage of the ruine of Senacherib and his army when he boasted so much of his power and victory And as our History telleth us that the hudge armie of Edward the second of England was vanquished by a handful of our Nation who so presumed of the certainty of his victory that before hee entred the Countrey he devided the lands and appointed the King and his Nobles to severall torments and brought a Poet in his company to describe his victory who afterwards being taken amongst other captives described in verse the victory of his enemies In later times we know how the army of the Spaniards was overthrown that was called The invincible Armado And truly the enemies of our Church and Kingdome may learne to know by their sorrowfull experience that such untimous and proud insulting hath beene an evident presage of their just confusion and a manifest fore-token to the people of God of their unspeakable comfort and gracious exaltation for when the pride of the wicked and the prayer of the godly come together before the Lord the one cryeth for speedy justice to punish the wicked and the other for timous mercy * Psal 32.10 to compasse such as put their confidence in God as wee may see in the pride of Senacherib and the prayer of Ezekias the 37. of the prophesie of Isaiah The Prophet mentioneth the assembling of his enemies for two reasons Now come we to the second thing considerable in the enemies of David when he sayeth that they assemble themselves together The Prophet maketh mention of their assembling for two reasons first for the glory of Gods power secondly that he may declare his trust and confidence which he had in God First I say for the glory of Gods power for the weaker that the defendant party be and the stronger that the assailing partie be the power of

David be proud and by reason of their pride and ambition have their mutuall dissentions and emulations yet they can combine themselves to be Davids persecutors There is a two fold use to be remarked of the assembling of Davids enemies This may seem the more strange and admirable if we consider the nature of proud men in so far as they are proud for they presume of their owne worth and think all others to be base and contemptible they presume of their own wit so that nothing in their estimation can be wel spokeÌ„ or done but their own words their own works or else what one way or other pleaseth their humours they so look to their own honour and wealth that they care not for the wrack and disgrace of others It is a wonder then that in any respect they can assemble with others that in these respects do separate themselves from all others yet we see that though Pilate and Herod be mutuall enemies they can be friends when Christ is crucified And though there be mutuall hatred betwixt the Pharisees and Sadduces they can conspire when Christ is persecuted There was no greater confusion at the building of the tower of Babel nor is in the Romane Church amongst their religious orders yet all of them can conspire against the profession and professours of the Truth The reason then of the combining of the proud persecutors of the Saints of God may be expressed in a plaine comparison A great king that is the commander of diverse Countries and Provinces though those Countries differ in their Languages and in their maners though some of them invie others priviledges and contemne others basenes yet being imployed in a warre against the kings enemies they can all make up the bodie of one Armie as if they were Citizens of one Citie we know that persecution is the worke of Sathan the king of pride though it be performed by men that are the children of pride the persecution of the Saints is hatched in hell by Sathan before it be either threatned or executed by men upon earth * Revel 12.15 This is the water that cometh out of the mouth of the Dragon to drown the woman and her sonne that is a fruit of the enimitie * Genes 3.15 betwixt the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman The proud persecutors of the Saints of God are set a work by Sathan the king of the children of pride about one worke for one end to destroy the kingdome of Christ albeit it be true that wicked men that have hand in the businesse have their owne wordly devlish and divers other respects in the satisfying of their wicked humours ambition cruelty and covetousnesse But to bring the application nearer home it may be questioned How can it be thought that all the Malignant partie which persecute the Covenanters in these Kingdomes doe service to Sathan for one end seeing many of them make profession that all they doe is for the propagation of true Religion To this I answere that seeing there is a great assembly of divers sorts of persons against the professors and defenders of the truth in their kingdoms that is to say Professed Papists and Malignant Protestants Concerning the Papists we may justly say They carie themselves more wisely in keeping of silence than if they should speak for it is well known to God and their own consciences to all that know them that the maine end of all their doings is to get liberty to professe their own Religion and to finde opportunitie to extirpate the Protestant Religion But the Malignant Protestants doe carie themselves more Antichristian like in the busines than the Papists themselves for we know that the name of Antichrist importeth one that saith He is for Christ and yet doth against Christ so those men make profession that all their care is for the advancing of the true Religion when in the mean time all their courses projects tend to the ruine of true Religion and erecting of idolatrie and superstition And as History relateth of Didius Iulianus who succeeded Pertinax in the Romane Empyre which he attained not by the consent of the Romane Senate but bought it with money that he promised to the Pretorian Souldiers when this man after the custome of the Romane Emperours would be styled the father of his Countrie there was a writting set upon the gate of his palace by night (e) Didius Iulianus non pater patriae sed emptor venditor proditor patriae mellificium histor Didius Iulianus is not the father of his Countrie but the buyer and seller and betrayer of his Country So those Malignant Protestants who professe themselves to be furtherers of Religion and defenders of their Country are by their lewd and wicked practices declared to be enemies to the Truth and traitors to their Countrie The CovenaÌ„ters should lay three things to heart when they heare of the assembling of their enemies The second use which hereof ariseth when the Covenanters of Britain Ireland hear of the assembling of the Malignant enemies from divers quarters there are three things which earnestly they should lay to heart first they should study by all means to keep peace amoÌ„gst themselves Secondly they should hinder by all means the enemies which are in divers places to come together into one place Thirdly they should intreat the Lord by prayer to be present in the assemblies of his Saints that so they may be protected against the assemblies of their enemies First I say they should carefully studie to keepe peace amongst themselves that is to say they should labour to be of one minde in the mater of Religion and in the exercise of the service and worship of God they should mutually defend one another according to thair Covenant they should remove all excuses from them which may hinder them to advance the Cause of Christ none that hath power should pretend weaknesse nor that hath wealth should preteÌ„d poverty but every zealous Christian should count it his honour happines that God hath furnished him with habilitie and by his providence offered him opportunity to honour Christ and to advance his Kingdom * Colos 3.15 Christians that are called to peace in one body should let the peace of God rule in their hearts at all times but especially when their peace is troubled by cruell persecutors Abraham thought it not time * Genes 13.8 To discord with Lot in the land of the Amorites Historie telleth us that though the Athenians and Thebanes had their mutuall jealousies yet they packed up all their dissentions when they were invaded by Philip king of Macedone the common enemie of the libertie of Greece It is a lamentable matter * Luke 16.8 that the children of this world in their own generation should be wiser than the children of light At this time all the covenanted people of the Lord should be carefull to keep peace amongst

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