Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	death_n	heart_n	see_v	3,246	5	3.1254	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72540	The dampe of death: beaten backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ / In a sermon preached at Lancaster assises in Lent last, to the condemned prisoners there, and before the honourable iudges, and worshipfull of that countie. By William Leigh, bachelor in diuinitie, and pastor at Standish	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1613 (1613)	STC 15423; ESTC S125476	21,274	65

life secure you in your sinnes there be different deaths for different sinnes which must be repented for otherwise yee shall die in your sinnes penitentiam dare possum securitatem non possum vpon your repentance I dare pronounce remission but vpon your rebellions I dare giue no securitie Nusquam est securitas there is no safetie where sinne seazeth if Angels sinne in heauen out they must if Adam sinne in Paradice away he must and if Iudas shrinke at the side of Christ he must be gon Malorum eiecto bonorum glorificatio then are the good and godly glorified when the wicked and wayward are mortified There be two sinnes sensible in this dissolute age wherein we liue and they are written in so great and capitall letters that a man may reade them running the first is the fawning sinne of presumption the other is the fearefull sinne of desperation In our presumption we soare too high and the fire vpon the mount doth scorch vs In our despaire wee houer too lowe and the furies of hell doe haunt vs In our presumption weare too much exaulted and we dare to sinne notwithstanding Gods iudgements In our despaire we are too much deiected and we doe not repent notwithstanding his mercies Medio Tutissimus ibis A meane is best and that is to goe by Christ in whome mercie and Trueth meete together righteousnes and peace kisse each other Surely wee can goe to no Pulpit but Paules passion dooth pearce our hearts to prouoke our speech against the outrage of both Many walke of whom I haue tolde you often and now tell you weeping they are enemies to the crosse of Christ their bellie is their God their glorie is their shame and they doe but minde Earthly things Nay you are well worse in your vnrepentant liues then these poore sinners are in their penitent deaths For they haue their conuersation in Heauen From whence they looke for the Sauiour Euen the Lorde Iesus Christ who shall change these our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the working whereby he is able euen to subdue all things vnto himselfe Yea that I may coÌ„clude with my Text These haue their liues so hidden in Christ as they are well assured that when Christ which is their life shal appeare then shall they appeare with him in glorie And so I passe to the last Wheele turning and tending to that glorie which shall be euen vpon your dissolution in soule and vpon the restauration of your bodies in the day of your Redemption when Christ who is your life shall appeare Now in this Apparition what shall I see I shall see the second comming of my CHRIST attended vpon Not with twelue poore Fishermen but with all the Powers of heauen I shall see him come Ad Sententiandum ad Seperandum when those that haue done good shall goe into euerlasting life whither God bring you and those that haue done euill into euerlasting Condemnation from which the Lord deliuer you But what shall ye see vpon Christ his Apparition Nay rather what shall yee not see vpon your dissolution Words spoken in season as Salomon saith are like apples of siluer in pictures of gold therefore flye out my voyce and be strong my spirit euermore to expresse the glorie of those vnspeakable Ioyes yee shall both see and feele within these fewe houres when dead in body but rauished in soule yee shall see the heauens open to giue you readie passage to eternall blessednes 1 Where yee shall see God as he is face to face I say God of so great Maiestie might bountie beautie and loue as if a man were filled with all other blessings both temporall and eternall and yet without that as Plotinus saith all were but miserie and accursednes 2 Yee shall see the comfortable face and countenance of Iesus Christ fairer then the sonnes of men and whom the very Angels desire to behold 3 Yee shall see the holy Ghost proceeding from both and breathing vpon your saued soules like a softe ayre vpon a garden and more sweete then all the trees of incense 4 Yee shall see the bright court of Angels Cherubines and Zeraphines attending the Deitie and euer pressing to doe his will faithfully speedily willingly and neuer wearie of watching because they are neuer wearie of well doing 5 Yee shall see the faire assemblie of the Saints of God Patriarkes Prophets and Apostles with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in that his glorious kingdome yee shall be tyed with them in the bundle of the liuing neuer to be loosed any more yee shall returne as they haue done into your rest as into a retyring campe after the day of battell there shall yee followe the lambe whither soeuer he goeth and there shall yee walke before the Lord in the land of the liuing for euermore 6 Yee shall see new Ierusalem come downe from heaueÌ„ as a Bride prepared for her husband a Citie of solace whose portes are euer patent whose streetes are paued with gold garnished with all manner of pretious stones the Iasper the Saphir the Chalcedonie the Emarod the Sardonix the Sardius the Crisolite and the Berill the Topas the Crisoparus the Iacinth and the Amathist euer splendent shall this Citie be it shall neede no Sunne for the Lambe is the light of the place the people that are saued shall walke in the Light of it and the Kings of the Earth shall bring their glorie and honour vnto it The Gates of it shall not be shut by day August in Epistol Ioh. Tract 4. for there shall be no night there and the glorie both of Iewe and Gentill shall be brought vnto it What should I say more Quomodo potuit Lingua sonuit Caetera corde cogitentur As I could so haue I tolde let the heart conceiue the rest and yet so as Amoenissima Ciuitas Amantissima Societas Iucundissima Foelicitas A most pleasant place A most ioyfull presence And a most happie estate of blessednes shall be your portion in an endles glorie 7 I cannot speake as I would and yet my heart is full breake it will if it may not vent it Pardon mee therefore a while to beate backe these fearefull passions of your mortalitie with further impressions of your aeternitie yee shall haue Eyes without teares hearts without sorrowe soules without sinne greene youth without greeuance of olde age health without sicknes fulnes without sacietie freedome without bondage beautie without blemish glorie without shame and life without death your knowledge shall be without either doubting or discourse for ye shall see God and all goodnes all at once your loue shall leuell at the highest nor shall it faile to fall vpon the lowest of his Saints 8 Yee shall haue what yee can desire and yee shall desire nothing but what is good Aug. lib. 13. de triniti cap. 5. For as one hath truely said Beatus non est nisi qui habet omnia que

THE DAMPE OF DEATH BEATEN backe with the glorious light and life of Iesus Christ In a Sermon Preached at Lancaster Assises in Lent last to the condemned Prisoners there and before the Honourable Iudges and Worshipfull of that Countie By William Leigh Bachelor in Diuinitie and Pastor at Standish 1. Cor. 15. v. 57. Thankes be to God which hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ LONDON Printed by Tho Creede for Arthur Iohnson dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the white Horse 1613. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL THOmas Tildesley Esquire his Maiesties Atturney generall within the Countie Palantine of Lancaster and Vice Chancellor of his Highnes Court of Chancerie there Grace be multiplied in this world and blessednes in the world to come Worshipfull Syr. YOur loue hath ouerawed me much in this busines wherein it hath pleased God and you to put me and for because your place and praise is in the Gospell I durst not consult with flâ—sh and blood but haue as you may see most willingly obeyed the heauenly call The Sermon being ended at Lancaster in Lent Assises last where I was enioyned by authoritie to preach to the prisoners then condemned to die it was your desire to have a copie in priuate of that which was then deliuered in publique at what time I truely tolde you my Notes were scattered and vndisgested rather carried in my heart then in my hand yet would God assisting me in conuenient time binde them together ere they were too farre fallen out of my minde and memorie which I haue here done accordingly and sent them to your worship as a constat of my vnfained loue yet with this Caution you neuer thinke what was then deliuered by voyce can be carried so powerfully in papers as it was in speech The words contained in the two tables which God gaue to Moses from the holy Mount were first spoken by the mouth of God ere they were written by the finger of God and then carried into the valley to be heard and kept of all the people So may I likewise say of the Gospell Voyces and Prophesies went of the blood of Christ ere euer it dropt out of his veines But if gratious words had not fallen from the mouth of Christ Christians had neuer conceiued either the power or vertue of his death For as there is a blood of redemption so there is a word of reconsiliation and surely where the word teacheth not there the blood droppeth not you are religiously wise to conceiue whereat I ayme To wit that reading preaching and practizing of pietie may all goe together like Saul and Ionathan of whom it is said that they were louely in their liues and at their deaths were not diuided Learned you are in your owne lawes and therefore knowe better then I can tell that though the body of your lawes lie in your bookes yet the soule thereof is in your mootes and pleadings as also that the barre and bench doe more powerfully end and profitably determine our causes then the bookes in your chambers can doe I speake in no desperagement either of your bookes or our Bibles which in themselues are learned sacred and holy but to intimate to all the world that if you pleade not and we preach not neither states can long stand nor soules can be ordinarily saued For though holy bookes be holy Oracles and registers of Gods truth Malachi 2. v. 7. Yet must the Priests lippes preserue knowledge and the people must seeke the lawe at his mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts Good Sir take what I haue written in lieu of my loue may it pleasure you and benefit Soules either liuing in this world or dying to a better it is all I wish in my heart it is all I begge in my prayer and what is in my power or Element to doe it shall be alwaies yours my penne is yours my paines are yours my selfe am yours to be commaunded in him who commandeth all with my daily prayer to God for you and yours euer to be kept vnder his holy and helping hand of prouidence and protection And so I cease your further trouble but neuer leaue to loue and honour you as I am much bounden Standish this seuenteenth day of Aprill 1613. Your worships euer and so assured in his loue William Leigh THE DAMPE OF DEATH BEATEN BACKE WITH THE glorious light and life of Iesus Christ Colloss 3. verse 3.4 For yee are dead and your life is hidde with Christ in good When Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall yee also appeare with him in glorie WHen I last supplied this place in your honourable presence as now I doe and preached vnto those poore delinquents then readie to die by the doome of iustice I was sharpely censured of some that I preached too much mercie and too little Iudgement and that like an vnskilfull Samaritan I powred into the sores of those wounded soules and broken hearts ouer much oyle and too little vineger Which and if I did I might well say with the Prophet Ieremiah in a cause not much different Ierem. 20.7 O my God if I be deceiued thou hast deceiued me thou hast deceiued me with the extent of thy mercy which reacheth farre euen from the nethermost hell to the highest heauens Thou hast deceiued me with the height of thy mercie which is aboue all thy workes for thy mercie O Lord stretcheth it selfe vnto the heauens and thy truth vnto the cloudes thou hast deceiued me with the depth of thy mercie for one depth calleth vpon an other but that of mercie swalloweth vp all Nay thou hast deceiued me with thine holy offerings of mercie vpon thine holy Altar who hast said I will haue mercie and not sacrifice But oh my God thou art not deceiued neither can thy mercies be limited in thy bountie and why shall they be straitned in my bowels It may be Nature hath made me ouermilde and the sinnes of the world require I should be seuere yet this must I say withall that neither my ouermilde disposition nor yet the worlds transgression shall euer make me cruell against the penitent And such you are whose salt teares this day doe well expresse your sorrowfull hearts who hauing beene humbled at the barre of Gods Iustice why should you not appeale to the barre of his mercie to seeke and sue for grace to helpe in time of need For when is need if not now when the feare of death is before your face when the horrour of your sinnes cryeth vengeance against your soules wheÌ„ your best friends faile you and this whole world forsaketh you when Sathan winnoweth you like wheate because he knoweth he hath but a short time when is need if not now to pray that your faith faile you not that the Lord would be propitious and that no temptation fall vpon you greater then you are able to beare but that euen in the middest of the temptation

the Lord would giue you a gratious issue and that so vpon your dissolution which is at hand you might be translated out of this miserable world to liue with God in the mercies of a better Pardon me then againe to passe by these turbulent waters of Iorden I meane of Iudgement that runne roughly vpon the Rockes of your sinne and giue me leaue yet still to bathe in the sweete running waters of Shilo I meane mercie that goe softly by Syon and when Iordan is driuen backe with the Ocean of Gods mercies you may more speedily make your passage into Canaan the land of your inheritance Now therefore to you be it spoken poore suppliants ouer whom we pray with teares and preach with passion lift vp your hearts aboue the height of all Sublimitie Settle your affections on things that are aboue and not on things that are belowe For thoe yee be dead what of that yet your life is hid with Christ in God and when Christ which is your life shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in glorie The Text is like the fierie Chariot that carried vp Eliah into heauen 2. Kings 2. v. 11. which thoe happily it might turne his bodie into Synders yet it neuer left him till it had brought his soule into solace And it runnes as you may heare see vpon three wheeles the first is of death the second of life and the third of glorie Death goeth before Life followeth after and glorie perfecteth all and so as I may say there is blessednes in death there is blessednes in life and there is blessednes in glorie and with this three folde gable yee are halled vp to heauen Yee are dead that is your blessed mortification Your life is hid with Christ in God that is your blessed regeneration And when Christ which is your life shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in blessednes that is your glorie Or thus yee are dead that is your blessed crosse but your life is hid in Christ that is your blessed shade or couer and when Christ shall appeare then shall yee appeare with him in glorie that is your blessed crowne and diadem of all heauenly delights Gen. 27. v. 26.27 It is said of aged Isaacke that when his sonne Iacob had prepared for him such sauourie meate as his soule loued cooked and seasoned with the cunning hand of Rebeckah his mother Isaack called vnto him and said Come hither my sonne and let me kisse thee before I die for me thinkes the smell of thy garments is like vnto the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed Though most of you be young yet are yee now aged dead to this world as Isaacke was and I hope the meate prepared for you is such sauorie meate as your soule loueth Cooked with a more curious and cunning hand then that of Rebeckah for the spirit of God hath spoken it by the mouth of Paul and therefore come and kisse your Christ before yee die sith the sweete smell and odour thereof is like vnto the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed For now are yee blessed in death blessed in life and blessed in glorie First then my deare brethren beloued and longed for I say beloued in the best loue which is of Iesus Christ and longed for with a longing desire of your speedie saluation euen at the instant of your desolution let it not seeme strange vnto you that there should be a blessednes in death The truth hath spoken it you may belieue it Reuell 14. v. 13. The dead that die in the Lord are fully blessed Amodo euen now they rest from their labours and their workes follow them This voyce saith Iohn fell downe from heauen that in the sweete ayre thereof breathing life into our soules our dead and dul harts might be comforted and euen here in the midst of death neuer to despaire of life You haue heard belowe in this valley of teares many fearefull voyces when sinne and shame runne after you as it were with Hue and Crye and when yee weare taken in your transgressions against God and the King it was a fearefull voyce when putting your selues vpon God and your countrey yee were found guiltie by the verdict of twelue iust men yet more were yee daunted when yee were sentensed to die with this irreuocable doome from the mouth of Gods minister yee shall goe to the prison from whence yee came thence to the place of execution there shall you hang vntill you be dead and Christ haue mercie vpon your soules your hearts were shaken to heare that voyce and the mercifull Iudge tendering dropped downe teares to pronounce the Iudgement the standers by were compassionate and the whole Bench was moued with your miserie yet what of all this Sith all these voyces are beaten backe with a voyce of greater Maiestie Euen thus The dead that die in the Lord are fully blessed Or as it is in my Text Yee are dead but your life is hid with Christ in God c. But happily it may seeme a Paradox to your passionate hearts that a man should wither and yet flourish that a man should be breathles yet breath that a man should be senselesse and yet feele that a man should be dead and yet aliue Ye are dead yet is your life hid in Christ c. Surely Nature can neuer sounde it yet grace may apprehend it thus It is possible to die to sinne and yet liue to righteousnes It is possible to die to this world and yet liue to a better It is possible like a Dead man to walke vpon this Earth and yet to haue his coÌ„uersation in Heauen Nay it is possible that heauen earth should so blend in one as that one and the selfe same man should be dead in himselfe and yet liue to his God It was so with Saint Paule when hee said Whether in the bodie or out of the bodie I cannot tell God hee knoweth but me thinkes I see things that are invtterable It was so with Iohn Reuel 1. V. 10. V. 17. when Rauished in spirit he fell down dead vpon the sight and at the feete of that heauenly vision It was so with Daniel when groueling vpon the ground Daniell 8. V. 16.17.18 hee lay as dead yet heard a voyce betweene the Bankes of Hula which said Gabriell make this dead man to vnderstand the Vision It was so with Ezekiel at the Riuer Kebar when he was caried betweene heauen earth by the haires of his head And so both heard saw the diuine vision Ezekiel 8. V. 3. All these were aliue and yet dead they were rauished in spirit and therefore lauish of their bodies their thoughts were not mortall whether in their bodies or out of their bodies they could not tell Nor did they care either for the crosses or comfortes of this transitorie worlde so they might solace their soules in the Ioyes of a better The

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