Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	faith_n	heart_n	love_v	9,402	5	6.3927	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09054	Dorcas: or, A perfect patterne of a true disciple A sermon preached by Bartholomew Parsons B. of Divinity and rector of Ludgershall in the country of Wilts.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1631 (1631)	STC 19346; ESTC S105866	13,782	45

many praiers vnto him shew much loue with our mouthes but when it commeth to this hand-hand-loue then our hearts goe after covetousnesse Ezek. 33.31 we loue that the bread of life should dwell plenteously amongst vs but very sparingly deale our bread to the hungry we can continue in breaking of bread at Gods table but care not for breaking our bread to his people we can sing lustily with a good courage but not giue cheerefully which God loveth we can perhaps fast and afflict our soules but that is not in much vse with vs but wee cannot refresh the bowels of Gods poore people wee rather make them fast and afflict their soules in a word wee are forwarder to shew our religion and loue to Gods name any way then this way The old people of the Iewes were very strict in all other fruits of their religion they sought God dayly and delighted to know his wayes as a nation that did righteously and forsooke not the ordinances of their God they asked of God the ordinances of justice they tooke delight in approaching to God they fasted they afflicted their soules and thought these such high points of piety that they quarrelled with God for not regarding of them VVherefore haue we fasted say they and thou seest not wherefore haue we afflicted our soule and thou takest no knowledge but all this religion and devotion was in vaine without the workes of Charity Is not this the fast that I haue chosen to loose the bands of wickednesse to vndoe the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye breake every yoake Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poore that are cast out to thine house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh Isa 58.2.3.5.6.7 That of St Basile in an Homily against the vnmercifull rich men of his time is very appliable to ours I haue knowne them that haue fasted that haue prayed that haue sighed and groaned and in a word haue exercised and practised all the workes of piety that would cost them nothing but would not bestow one halfe-penny on the poore what profit had they of all their other vertue It was excellently sayd of Leo in his sermon de apparit the vertue of mercy is so great that without it the rest though they be present cannot profit for although a man be faithfull and chast and sober and adorned with other excellent gifts yet if he be not mercifull he shall not obtaine mercy But on every side we may finde Iudasses that care not for the poore nay care not so much as for a shew of caring for the poore which was in him this ointment might haue beene sold for three hundred pence and giuen to the poore Iohn 12.5.6 Churlish Nabals that being moved to a worke of mercy can roare out shall I take my bread and my water and my flesh that I haue killed for my shearers and giue it to men whom I know not whence they bee 1. Sam. 25.11 Their hearts even in this respect are stony insensible of others miseries the bowels of compassion are shut vp in theÌ„ as strately as the gates of Iericho were Ios 7.1 their eyes are evill and cannot indure to see another eate of their morsels their hands are withered like the mans in the Gospell Luke 6. so that they cannot open and stretch them out to their poore brother Let Lazarus lie and cry and dye at their gates they will pitty him lesse then their dogges with Cain they will be no keepers of their brethren Gen. 4. Let Gods ministers serue at the Altar and cry with the children of the Prophets mors est in olla death is in the potte 2. Kings 4.40 for their poore maintenance they will not receiue them nor giue them a cuppe of cold water in the name of a Prophet The Lord hath neede of them Matt. 21.3 is no plea with them to make them part with an Asse or the foale of an Asse or the hoofe of an Asse for Gods service Let them haue enough in store for themselues lie vpon their beds of Ivory stretch themselues vpon their coaches eate the lambes out of the flocke and the calues out of the midst of the stall drinke wine in boules and annoint themselues with chiefe oyntment and they will not grieue for the affliction of Ioseph Am. 6.4.5.6 they will haue no compassion on the multitude that haue nothing to eate Mar. 8.2 Lord lay not this sin of vnmercifulnesse to the charge of this age of ours and stirre vs vp in our places and according to our powers to shew mercy here that wee may finde it in the great day of the Lord IESVS Amen FINIS

Lord 1. Cor. 15.58 what the yong man boasted of vaine-gloriously wee must striue after sincerely all these haue I kept from my youth vpwardes Mar. 10.20 For God loueth a fulnesse of all things an abounding in every good gift 2. Cor. 8. a fulnesse of knowledge Col. 1.9 a fulnesse of obedience Phil. 1.11 a fulnesse of faith and for that purpose giueth to his a fulnesse of the holy Ghost Stephen full of faith and of the holy Ghost Act. 6.5 Away then with those depthes of Satan when men thinke that they may borrow a point of God and with that yong man Marke 10. faile in one thing or other and with Herod Mar. 6. keepe their minion Herodias some darling sinne or other so long as they doe many good things Let not then the vsurer flatter himselfe with an opinion that God will be mercifull vnto him in his vsury as Naaman prayed that God would be mercifull vnto him in the point of bowing in the idoles temple 2. Kings 5. nor the adulterer in his adultery nor the blaspemer in his swearing nor the drunkard in his swilling nor the slanderer in his evill speaking nor the louer of pleasures in his immoderate and vnlawfull pastimes nor any man in his taking liberty to committe continue in any knowne sinne Our obedience to God must be vniversall like to that which the Reubenites Gadites and halfe tribe of Manasseh professe and promise to Ioshuah all that thou commandest vs will wee doe whithersoever thou sendest vs will we goe in all things as we obeyed Moses so will wee obey thee los 1.16.17 We must then with the Apostle pray that the God of peace would make vs perfect in every good worke to doe his will Heb. 13.20.21 And Almes-deedes which shee did But the holy Ghost here transit Ã thesi ad hypothesin passeth from the generall to the speciall from her fulnesse in good workes in generall to her fulnesse in one good worke specially and that is in almes-deeds It may be sayd what neede this wast of words if shee were full of all good workes then consequently of almes-deedes if shee abounded in every grace then in this also for Genus est inseparabile Ã suis speciebus the generall and the speciall cannot be separated one from another It is true the one cannot be without the other but very frequently in scripture where wee finde religion good works meÌ„tioned we shall see giving of almes attend vpon theÌ„ as an elder daughter vpon the mother Cornelius being coÌ„mended for a devout man one that feared God this point is preseÌ„tly added he gaue muchalmes to the people Act. 10.2 the Apostle requiring in a widow to be choseÌ„ for the service of the Church that she shold be well reported of for good workes presently hitteth vpon this speciall if she haue lodged strangers if she haue washed the Saints feet if shee haue relieued the afflicted 1. Tim. 5.10 and calling vpon the Hebrewes that they should not forget to doe good in the next place he addeth and to communicate Heb. 13.16 either joyning the speciall to the generall communicating to doing of good or by both words signifying one thing because distributing to the necessities of our brethren is magna pars bonorum operum a great and principall part of good works it is as Demosthenes sayd pronunciation was in Rhetoricke primum secundum tertium in benefaciendo the first second and third point in doing of good Yea consider how great a good worke almes doing is seeing it shall be mentioned when all our other workes shall be omitted Come ye blessed of my Father c. for I was hungry and yee fedde me I was thirsty and ye gaue me drinke Matt. 25.34.35 tacet Deus c. God concealeth all the other good deedes of the righteous and onely vouchsafeth to remember their almes he concealeth also all the evill deedes of vngodly men and onely thinketh meete to rebuke their barrennesse in almes Augustine in his 28. Homily and Peter Chrysologus in his 14. Sermon In the kingdome of heaven before all in the asseÌ„bly of theÌ„ that rise God mentioneth not that Abel suffred that Noah preserved the world that Abraham kept the faith that Moses gaue the law that Peter asceÌ„ded vp to the crosse of Iesus with his heeles vpwards but only speaketh of that which the pore eateth and seeing our riches so lost as the world thinketh shall be found when all the treasures that we lay vp closely shal be lost for as Gregory sayth by keeping earthly things we loose them but by giving of them we preserue them and as Peter Chrysologus whatsoever thou giuest to the poore thou shalt haue it whatsoever thou giuest not to the poore another shall haue it The point to be pressed to vs hence is as plaine as Abacuckes vision Hab. 2.2 hee may runne that readeth and observeth it It is that every Disciple of the houshold of faith must pro suo modulo according to his measure abound in this grace of distributing the rich must be rich in good workes ready to distribute willing to communicate 1. Tim. 6.17 They must cast great gifts into Christs treasury the meaner sort must not be wanting in their mites Mar. 12. and every one according to his ability must relieue his brethren for so they proportion it at Antioch Act. 11.29 yea and in case of necessity sometimes beyond his ability 2. Cor. 8.3 But who is such a stranger in our Israell that hee knoweth not these things I may say of this point as Luther sayd of that verse of the 15. Ps he that hath not giuen his money vpon vsury Iste versus non indiget expositione sed impletione this verse needes no expounding but fulfilling Instruction in this righteousnesse wee neede not but rather correction for our being behinde in this worke of the Lord. Amongst vs that are called Christians there are many professours fewe practisers and those fewe that seeme ready to other good workes are backward inough to this I will not say with the Apostle 1. Cor. 15. I speake it to our shame that little of this fruit groweth vpon many of those trees that seeme not onely to haue beene long planted but also much to flourish in the Courts of Gods house that this sure marke of sound religion is almost worne out amongst many who yet primos se volunt esse in religione would be ringleaders in religion but I will take vp those words of Naaman 2. Kings 5. God be mercifull vnto vs in this point and double them with him God be mercifull vnto vs in this point for want of shewing our pure and vndefiled religion before God by the workes of mercy towards our brethren for failing in this fruit of our faith and proofe of our being true worshippers of God caeteris rebus pietatem colimus in other matters we shew our selues very godly we can goe vp to Gods temple stand before him in his house make

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