Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	body_n	heart_n	soul_n	4,786	5	4.6656	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30638	The fathers legacy: or Burtons collections Containing many excellent instructions for age, and youth, shewing them how to live godly in this life, and to attaine everlasting happinesse in the life to come. First written for the instruction of his onely son, and now set forth for the benefit of others. By Edw: Burton.	Burton, Edward, of Stanton, Derbyshire.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6159; ESTC R215093	76,775	223

in being righteous as he is righteous that is by casting off the old man which is corrupt thorow deceivable lusts and to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse This casting off and putting on doth teach us that there is in us something that befits us not to retaine if we will be the true Sonnes of God not by reputation amongst men but by imputation in Christ What is to he cast off and what is to be put on is plainely expressed in the Apostles words namely to cast off all deceivable lusts which includeth all things forbidden and to put on righteousnesse which implyeth a spirituall indowment of all heavenly graces among which none is of that singular force vertue and effect as is zealous and hearty prayer in faith unfained which none can effectually make but such as have put on this new man For the old man knoweth not how to pray being clothed with corruption and blinded with the mist of ignorance The new man onely shaped in holinesse knoweth to whom when in whom for what and how to pray all which circumstances are duely to be considered in Prayer and yet none of these doth the naturall man that is the olde man truely apprehend and consequently the lip-labour that he pretendeth to bestow in prayer is not onely not profitable but sinfull To pray unto God with the lips for any corporall benefit and yet to have tâ—e eye of the heart fixed in confidence upon naturall meanes is a kind of spirituall Adultery For what man is he that having a wife outwardly affable using words of love unto him and yet her heart set upon another man will not think her a faithlesse and unchaste wife And is God lesse jealous thinke wee who craveth our hearts when we shall worship him in words and outward shew of works when our Consciences cannot but tell us that we aske that of God which we inwardly believe more probably and possible to be obtained by meanes without him Is not this a fasilfying of our faith and dissembling of our prayers Is not this a manifest breach of the Law that sayes we shall have no other Gods but JEHOVAH As also not to take his Name in vaine as they doe which call upon him with their lips their hearts farre from him God requireth not our prayers because he hath neede of them as a service beneficiall or profitable unto him but because we have need of his graces and blessings and that he loveth us in his beloved Sonne he willeth us to pray unto him for every spirituall and corporall blessing And although it be true that he knowes whereof we have need yet in common reason he that wanteth and disdaines to ask he is not worthy to receive that whereof he hath need And heavily it will befall them who having received so many blessings at Gods hands are no whit the more moved to love him And so many threats for their unbeliefe and ingratitude and yet not moved to feare him Will they not be drawne then from their deceiveable vanities Will they rather then for lesse then an Aple or a messe of Pottage disclaime their Birth-rights and lose that Kingdom and Crowne so dearely purchased for the faithfull Nay were losse of it all it were not so horrible If a man missing the good promised could avoid the danger threatned it would something mittigate the dispairing Conscience and ease the troubled minde If after death there were neither life nor death If a man might have no being nor feele nor endure torment though he had no comfort it were a kinde of ease to the carnall minde that knoweth no other heaven then the profits and pleasures of this life Nor feareth other Hell then the misery penury and afflictions of the same But the case is otherwise They that misse the Kingdome of heaven by not beleeving the promises of God by not praying unto God for direction in the course of their lives may assure themselves though they seeme not yet to beleeve it that there remaines for them and attends them the god of darknesse and the Angel of Horrour and of Torment But possesse thou me my sweet Soveraigne and raigne in my body by obedience to thy Lawes and in my soule by confidence in thy promises Frame my tongue to praise thee my knees to reverence thee my strength to serve thee my desires to covet thee and my heart to love and imbrace thee And as thou hast formed me according to thine Image so frame me according to thy will And as thou hast made me a vessell by the stampe of thy creation to serve thee here on Earth so make me a vessell of Honour by the priviledge of thy grace to serve thee in thy everlasting Kingdom sweet Father I beseech thee Comfortable Sentences for such that are afflicted COme and let us returne unto the Lord for he hath torne and he wâ—ll heale us he hath smitten and he will bind us up Hos 6.1 I know O Lord that thy judgements are right and that thou in faithfulnesse hast afflicted me Psal 119.75 We have had the fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence spall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our Spirits and live for they verily for a few dayes did chastice us after their owne pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakâ—rs of hâ—â— holinesse Heb. 29.10 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation make way to escape that yee may be able to beare it 1 Cor. 2.3 For his anger endureth but a moment in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night but joy commeth in the morning Psal 30.5 He will not alwaies chide neither will hâ— keep his anger for ever Psal 103.9 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous least the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity Psal 125.3 For yet a very little while and mine anger shall cease in their destruction Esa 10.25 Come my people enter into thy Chambers and shut the doores about thee hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be over-past Esay 26.20 For a small moment have I forsaken thee but in great mercies will I gather thee in a little wrath I hid my selfe from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy redeemer Esay 54.7 8. For I will not contend for ever neither will I be alwaies wroth for the Spirit should faile before me and the Soules which I have made Esay 57.16 For I am mercifull saith the Lord thy redeemer and I will not keepe anger for ever Jer. 3.12 So will I make my fury towards theâ— to rest and my jealousie shall depart froâ— thee and I

come if thou beleeve Christ himselfe wherein thou shalt have small cause to envie their felicity To conclude then this prize is set up for them that will strive for it For t is not every one that saith to Christ Lord Lord that shall enter into the kingdome of heaven but they onely which doe the will of Christ his Father in heaven Though this Kingdome of Christ be set out to all yet every man shall not come to raigne with Christ but such onely as shall be content to suffer with Christ Thou art therefore to sit down and consider according to thy Saviours councell what thou wilt doe whether thou have so much spirituall money as is sufficient to build this Towre or no That is whether thou have so much good will as to bestow the paines of suffering with Christ if it be rather to be called pain then pleasure that so thou maist raigne with him in his Kingdome This is the question that is the very whole issue of the matter that hath been spoken before either of thy particular end or of the Majestie bounty and justice of God and of the account he wil demand of thee Also of the punishment or reward laid up for thee All this is spoken to this end that thou wouldest finally resolve what thou shouldest doe and not to pass over thy t me in careless negligence as many doe never spying their owne errour untill it be too late to amend it For the love of God then deare brother and for the love that thou bearest to thine owne soule shake off this dangerous security which flesh and blood is wont to lull men in and make some earnest resolution for looking for thy soule in the life to come remember often that worthy sentence This life is but a moment of time whereof all eternity of life or death to come dependeth If it be a moment and a moment of so great importance how is it past over by worldly men with so little care as it is And if all this thatc hath been said gentle Reader will not prevaile with thee little hope is there that any other will doe thee good Wherefore here I end beseeching our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ which was content to pay his own blood for the purchasing this noble inheritance unto us give us his holy grace to esteeme of it as the great waight of the matter requireth and not by negligence to lose our portions therein Of the choise of Religion VAriety in any thing disturbeth the mind and leaves it waving in a dubious trouble and then how easie is it to sway the mind to either side But among all the diversities that wee meet with none troubles us more then those that are of Religion T is rare to finde two Kingdoms one as if every Nation had if not a God yet at least a way to God by it selfe This stumbles the unsetled soule that not knowing which way to take without danger of erring sticks to none so dyes ere he doe that for which he was made to live the service of the true Almighty We are borne as men set down in the middest of a Wood circled round with severall voyces calling us At first we see not which will lead us the right way out So divided in our selves we sit still and follow none remaining blind in a flat Atheisme which strickes deep at the Foundation both of our own the whole worlds happiness T is true if we let our dimmed understanding search in these varieties which yet is the onely meanes that we have in our selves to do it with we shall certainly lose our selves in our windings there being in every of them some thing to beleeve above that reason which leads us to the search Reason gives us the Annatomy of things and illustrates with a great deale of plaineness all the waies that shee goes but her line is too short to reach the depths of Religion Religion carries a confutation along with it and with a high hand of soveragnity awes the inquisitive tongue of nature and when shee would sometimes murmur privately she will not let her speake Reason like a milde Prince is content to shew his subjects the causes of his commands and rule Religion with a higher straine of Majestie bids doe it without inquiring further then the bare command which without doubt is a meanes of procuring mighty reverence What we know not we reverently admire what we doe know is in some sort subject to the triumphs of the soul that hath discovered it and this not knowing makes us not able to judge Every one tells us his own is the truest and there is none I thinke but hath been sealed with the blood of some nor can I see how we may more then proprobably prove any they being all set in such heights as they are not subject to the demonstrations of reason And as wee may easier say what a soule is not then what it is so we may more easily disproove a Religion for false then proove it for one that is true There being in the world farre more error then truth Yet is there besides another misery neere as great as this and that is that we cannot be our owne chousers but must take it upon trust from others Are we not oft befor we can discerne the true brought up and grounded in the false suckng Heresie with our milke in childhood Nay when we come to yeares of abler judgement wherein the mind is grown up compleate man we examine not the soundness but retaine it meerely because our Fathers taught it us what a lamentable weakness is this in man that he should build his eternall wellfare on the approbation of perhaps a weake and ignorant Parent Oh why is our neglect the most in that wherein our care should be greatest How few are there which fulfill that precept of trying all things and taking the best Assuredly though Faith be above Reason yet is there a reason to be given of our faith he is a foole that beleeves he knows not what nor why Among all the diversities of Religion that the world holds I think it may stand with most safety to take that which makes most for Gods glory and mans quiet I confess in all the Treatises of Religion that I ever saw I find none that I should so soone follow as that of the Church of England I never found so sound foundation so sure a direction for Religion as the Song of the Angels at the birth of Christ Glory be to God on high There is the honour the reverent obedience and the admiration and the adoration which we ought to give him On earth peace This is the effect of the former working in the hearts of men whereby the world appeares in his noblest beuty being an intire chaine of inter-mutuall amity And good will towards men This is Gods mercy to reconcile man to himselfe after his fearfull dissertion of his maker Search all

given both in Heaven and Earth Arise then thou Lord to whom the Kingdomes doe belong and shew thy selfe and let not the man of the Earth any longer exalt himselfe least he be too proud and least he ascribe to himselfe or to his graven Images or vaine Idols the conquest that thou shalt see and suffer over thy people Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the praise For the honour of thy Name arise before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses before Great Britaine Ireland and other Countries that call upon thy Name arise and shew thy selfe for us for on thee only doe we call We call on thee to save us and our Forces and thy people now in more danger how and in what manner and at what time fully to declare thy Salvation we referre to thy heavenly wisedome only in the meane time that it may please thee to sanctifie and save to preserâ—e and provide for them and us and all thine both in Field and City Protect and defend deliver us and ours at home and abroad And thou great Sheheard of Israel be pleased to take downe more and more that Man of Sinne that hath and would exalt himselfe against thee Asswage then the malice of those that are enemies to us or to any of thy people and evermore confound all their devices that we being armed with thy defence may ever more and more give praise to thee which art the only Author of our peace and Giver of all victory And all this good Lord for us for them and all thine not for our merits but for thy great Mercy sake and for the Truth sake of thy gracious Promises in Jesus Christ our Lord and only Advocate and Redeemer To whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and glory now and for ever-more Amen A Prayer before Sermon O Most gracious God assist me I humbly beseech thee in this my good purpose and zeale and give me grace at this present time godly to enter into thy service Deare Father assist me with thy holy Spirit and drive away all vain and idle cogitations out of my minde that I may heare thy Word to my Soules comfort grant that it may take deepe roote in my heart and bring forth plentifully to the honour of thy blessed Name to the comfort of my Soule and the good example of my Brethren who seeing my good workes may glorifie thee my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen A Prayer before the receiving of the Sacrament O Most sweet lover of all Mankinde Lord and Saviour I beseech thee for thy bitter Passion sake to remove from me all pride envie and detraction wrath malice and impatience and all other sicknesses and diseases of the Soule and plant good Lord in my heart and minde true meeknesse charity temperance and modesty with all such other vertues and preservatives unto the Soule And mortifie in me good Lord all uncleane motions carnall desires and inordinate affections and revive in me the love of vertues and the perpetuall exercise thereof so that at this time and at all times I may worthily receive this holy and blessed Sacrament unto thine honour and glory and my soules endlesse joy and comfort Amen A Prayer after receiving of the Sacrament JN most humble and most hearty manner with most due reverence I thank thee good Lord most holy Father and everlasting God thaâ— by the bounty of thy mercifull grace wouldest vouchsafe thus to refresh and feed my Soule through faith with the benefit of the Death and Passion of thy Sonne our Lord God and Saviour Iesus Christ And I beseech thine infinite goodnesse that this the Sacrament of this thy Death and Passion which I most unworthy wretch have now received may never come hereafter in Iudgement and Condemnation unto me for mine evill merits and deservings but rather good Lord it may come to the profit and comfort of my body and to the salvation of my Soule unto the life everlasting Amen A Prayer at the houre of death O Heavenly Lord God wee poore wretches being overcome with griefe come all here attending thy good pleasure with this sick Servant of thine O Lord incline to heare our Prayers and his complaints unto thee be now O Lord present and send thy good Angels and Spirit to attend us be with us O Lord and comfort this sick person and now if the time be come of his departure grant O Lord he may depart with godly comfort and joy everlasting into thy Kingdome Ease O Lord his griefs mittigate his paines asswage his sorrowes anâ— give him a lively touch of thy heavenly comfort put by all worldly thoughts and beat downe all bad suggestions let nothing but good come in his minde and grant that he may to the last gaspe of breath breath out still some comfort of thy helpe and grant when he hath done his last to finish this mortall life then he may with Lazarus be carried into Abrahams bosome O Lord forgive him O Lord receive him O Lord protect him O Lord succour and save him and now and for ever grant he may rest with thee in eternall glory Heare us good Father for this our Brother and doe for him and us according to thy Fatherly mercy in Jesus Christ to whom we commend him with these our prayers for him and all his and our occasions in thaâ— prayer which thy blessed Sonne hath taught us Our Father which art c. FINIS Novemb. 29. 1648. Imprimatur John Downham

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