Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	great_a	holy_a	12,790	5	4.8317	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28172	Fellowship with God, or, XXVIII sermons on the I Epistle of John, chap. 1 and 2 wherein the true ground and foundation of attaining, the spiritual way of intertaining fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blessed condition of such as attain to it, are most succinctly and dilucidly explained / by ... Hugh Binning.	Binning, Hugh, 1627-1653.	1671 (1671)	Wing B2930; ESTC R14103	146,932	280

such like But are there not many thingâ— in your hearts and wayes that act the most contradictory lie to these that can be For wherefore do we thus meet together Do ye know an end or propose any I scarce believe it of the most part We come out of custome and mâ—ny as by constraint and with little or no previous consideration of the great end of this work and when ye go forth what fruit appears Your ordinary carnal and civil discourses succeed and who is it either bows his knee to pray for the divine blessing or intertains that holy word either in his own meditation or speaks of it to the edification of others Are you not the most part of you that ground of which Christ speaks that lyes in the way-side and eveâ—y thing comes and takes the seed up Do ye either listen and apply your hearts to a presentnesse in hearing Or is there any more account of it then a sound in the ear or any footstep or impâ—ession left in the heart more then of the flight of a bird in the air And alas how many souls are choaked and stifled the truth suffocated in the very spâ—inging by the thorns of the cares of this world and the throng and importunity of businesses and earthly desires How many good motions come to no mâ—turity by this means How few of you use to pray in secret and to dedicat a time for retiâ—ement from the world and injoyment of God Nay you think you are not called to it and if any be induced to it and to publick woâ—ship in their families yet all the day over is but a flat contrâ—diction to that What earthly-mindednesse What unholiness of affection What impuâ—ity of conversation What one lust is subdued What one sin mortified Who increaseth more in knowledge of the truth or in love of God Is it not midnight with most part of you O the darknesse of the ignorance of your mindâ— by which you know not that Religion you professe more then Tuâ—ks who do peâ—secute it And what are the wayes ye walk into Are they not such wayes as will not come to the light and hate the light because it reproves them Joh. 3.19 20. and 11.9 10. Are they not such in whicâ— men stumble though they seem to walk easily and plainly into them Yet O that everlasting stumble that is at the end of them when you shall fall out of one darknesse of sin and delusâ—on into an utter extream eternal daâ—knesse of destruction and damnation O that â—eaâ—â—ul dungeon and pit of darkness you post into â— Thereâ—ore iâ— you love your own souls be warned ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ beseech you be warned to flee from that â—â—ter darknesse be awaked out of your deceiving dreams and deluding selâ—-flattering imagâ—â—â—â—â—onâ— and Christ shall give you light The diâ—â—â—very of that grosse daâ—knesse you walked into in which you did not see whither you wâ—nt I say the clear discerning of what it is and whither iâ— leads is the fiâ—â—t opening of that Light the â—irâ—t visit of that Morning Star that brings salvation If ye will not be convinced oâ— that â—nfinit dâ—ngeâ— you are into yet ye arâ— not the â—urther â—rom â—t He that walketh in darknesse lieâ—h c. Hiâ— strong confidence and perswasion hath â— lie â— contradiction in the bosome oâ— it and that will nâ—ver bottom any true happinesse It is a lie acted by the hand the â—oot and â—ll the memberâ— a lie â—gâ—inst â—he holy truâ—h and Word oâ— God and the very reproach oâ— the Name of Christ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ lie against your selves and your own proâ—essâ—onâ— a soul-murthering lie as well as a Christâ—denyinâ—â— lie and this lie as a holy man saith hath filled Houses Cities Families Countreys it hath evâ—â— overspred the whole Nation and filled all with darknesse horrour conâ—usion trouble and anguish once being a holy Nation by profession of a Covenant with God and our open mâ—niâ—est universal retraction of that by an unholy ungodly and wicked conversation This hâ—th bâ—ought the sword against a hypocritical Nation and this will bring that far greater incomparably more intollerable day of wrath upon the children of disobedience Therefore let me exhort all of you in the Name of the Lord as ye desire to be admitted to that eternally blessed society within the holy City and not to be excluded among these who commit abomination and make a lie that ye would henceforth impose this necessity upon your selves or know that it is laid upon you by God to labour to know the will and truth of God that you may see that light that shiâ—es in the Gospel and not only to receive it in your minds but in your hearts by love that so you may indeavour in all sincerity the doing of that truth the conscionable practising of what you know And this as it is a great point of conformity to the light so it will make you capable of more light from God â—or he delights to shew his liberality where he hath any acceptance Be not satisfied O! be not satâ—sfied with knowing these truths and discoursing upon them but make them â—urther your own by impressing them deeply in your hearts and expressing them plainly in your wayes This is pure Religion and undefiled Jâ—m 1.27 And is not this to know me saith â—he Lord Jer. 22.16 Practice is real knowledâ—e because it is living knowledge it iâ— the veâ—y life and soul oâ— Châ—istianity when there needs no more but the intimation of hiâ— will to câ—râ—y the whole man Tâ—is is that we would all aspire unto and not satisfie our selves in our poor attainments below this SERMON XIVÂ· 1 Joh. 1.7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Iesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin ARt is the imitation of Nature and true Religion is a divine Art that consists in the imitation of God himself the Author of Nature Therefore it is a more high and transcendent thing of a sublimer nature then all the Arts and Sciences among men those reach but to some resemblance of the wisdom of God expressed in his works but this aspires to an imitation of himself in holinesse which is the glory of his Nâ—me and so to a fellowship with himself Therefore there is nothing hath so high a pattern or sublime an end God himself who is infinitly above all iâ— the pattern socieâ—y with God iâ— ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ end oâ— iâ— and so it cannot choice but where Religion makes an â—olid impression on a soul it ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ exâ—eedingly raise and advance it to the most heâ—oiâ—k and noble resolutions that it is capable oâ— in reâ—pect oâ— which elevation of the â—oul afteâ— God the highest projectâ— the greatest aspirings and the most elevating deâ—igns of men aâ—e nothing but low base and wretched having nothing of true greatnesse of mind in them but running in an earthly and â—â—â—did channel infinitly below the pooâ—eâ—t soul that is

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