Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	goodness_n	lord_n	psal_n	4,045	5	7.5057	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21040	The iudge wherein is shewed, how Christ our Lord is to iudge the world at the last day to the extreme terrour of the wicked, and to the excessiue comfort of the good. With a preface, which it willbe necessary to read before the booke. Translated into English.; Libro de la imitacion de Christo Nuestro Señor. English. Book 7	Arias, Francisco.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1621 (1621)	STC 741; ESTC S120328	84,537	253

his handes and the diuine words of his mouth As for the memory we shal be questioned if we haue vsed it in calling our Lord God to mind togeather with his presence his goodnes his power and all his benefits and mercies We shal be arraigned vpon the point of our Will if perhaps it haue beene busyed in the loue and estimation and desire of God and the accomplishment of his Law and of his will and in the search of all those thinges which concerne the glory of our Lord God We shall b We shall not only giue account of our sinnes the faculties of our mind but also of the senses of our body and of the vse of all Gods creatures giue account of how we put the senses of our body on worke if we imployed our eyes vpon behoulding this fabrike of the world and these Heauens and Elements and the other works of God that so behoulding in these creaturs the trace and sent which they carry in them of all his diuine perfections we may raise our selues vp by them So to consider with our soules the power and the wisedome and the goodnes and the beauty of God and by this meanes to loue and praise him with our whole harts So also if we imployed our ears to hear the words of the true God and those instructions and doctrines admonitions and examples which were profitable to the soule and in hearing the sweet musicke of mans voice and of the instruments which he can vse of the birds also of the ayre so to stir our selues vp towardes deuotion to contemplate the much sweetnes of that Celestiall musicke and so to loue and esteeme the blessinges of heauen And concerning the Smell if we imployed it onely vpon those things which are necessary for mans life through the sent of creaturs if we aspir'd towardes the sweet sauour of vertues and of good example of the glory of the next life So also for the Tongue if it was mouing in the prayse of our Lord God in offering him deuout prayers in learning and teaching those thinges which are necessary both for our selues and our Neighbours and in discouering and confessing our sinnes for the obtayning of pardon and redresse thereof and in taking but that food which was necessary for the sustenance of our life and in drawing out of the gust sauour of corporal meate a consideration and feeling of the vnspeakeable sweetnes and sauour of those spirituall foods of grace and glory So also if we haue imployed the sense of Feeling with our handes and all the rest of our body vpon the onely taking of those thinges which were necessary for the same body and profitable for our soule and for our Neighbours and for the vse of our life and for the exercise of the workes of Charity and Mercy This good vse of all the powers of our souls senses of our body doth our Lord God demaund of vs when he saith Deut. 4. Keepe thy selfe and keepe thy soule with great care and of this are we to make a very exact accompt in his diuine Iudgement Wee shall also giue accompt in the same Iudgment of all our sinnes of speach such as are vaine Oathes Reproaches murmurations cursings scoffing of our neighbours and words of anger and impatience of lying of sowing discord Of these and others which are either lasciuious or curious or vaine of euery idle word saith Christ our Redeemer Matt. 12. shall men giue accompt in the day of Iudgment and that word goeth for idle which is neither necessary nor profitable Accompt must also be giuen of all sinnes of deed such as are disobedience to parents and other Superiours reuenge ill in treaty of our neighbours dishonesty iniustice vsurping detayning the goods of others against right vnlawfull bargaines pride in gouernement excesse in the furniture of houses of clothes of expences otherwise and in the intertainemeÌ„t of seruants excesse also in dyet in play and in other superfluous and vaine things Of all these and of all other euill deeds accompt must be giuen as Ecclesiastes saith Eccles 12. All things which are done by man both good bad shall be presented in that diuine IudgemeÌ„t to be there examined for euery work which shal be found erroneous and ill he shal be punished We shall giue accompt of al our thoughts such as are rash IudgmeÌ„t consents which are giuen to reuenge or els vncleanes or voluntary delights in any thing which is ill or to inward hatred or in fine to thoughts which are vnprofitable For as the Wise man saith Sap. 1 God will examine iudge the thoughts of the wicked Besides this we shall giue c A point of great moment and little thought on accompt of our sinnes of Omission which are the most in number and ly most hidden from our sight For hauing forborne to pray to read good bookes to fast to performe other penances and mortifications and to confesse and communicate For hauing omitted to do the workes of Iustice and mercy in certaine cases and at certaine tymes when either some particuler precept or the great necessity of doing those workes did oblige vs to them For hauing fayled to comply with many dutyes of our calling and offices to which we were bound by the obligations either of God or man We shall giue accompt how we haue profitted by those spirituall and supernaturall graces which God hath giuen vs such as are his Sacraments the guifte of Fayth the Doctrine of the Ghospell good Sermons holy exampls vertuous conuersations the admonitions and reprehensions of our Superiours and Ghostly Fathers and the interiour inspirations which God hath giuen vs. We shall giue account how we haue vsed our naturall and temporall benefits as namely our Health if we haue imployed it vpon the seruice of that Lord who gaue it Our Tyme if we haue spent it profitably our Reputation if we vsed it to the glory of God and the good of our Neighbour Our Estate temporal goods if we haue imployed them onely to the succour of the true necessities of our selues our family and our neighbours and of those things which are profitable to the life of a Christian man and to the honest Condition of euery one The accompt which is to be giuen for these sinnes of Omission and the punishment which is allotted to them Christ our Lord declared in that Parable of the Talents when he told that vnprofitable seruant that the Talent which God gaue him which are his naturall and spirituall guifts as also his temporall goods was not well imployed by him nor vsed in those workes which were agreable to God and he said thus to him Matt. 25. Thou negligent and wicked seruant since thou sayst that I am rigorous and that I expect more then I laid out why didst thou not put out that Talent to profit which I gaue thee That is why didst thou not make

feare of his diuine Maiesty And S. Thomas giuing a reason why the Apostle saith not that we should doe it with the loue but with the feare deliuereth these words D. Thom. in 2. Cor. c. 7. The Apostle saith not with charity but with feare of God To teach vs that the affection of loue which we are to carry towards God is to be accompanyed by a solicitude and reuerentiall feare For this loue causeth security wherby many tymes a man groweth carelesse and negligent in the seruice of God but he who accompaineth that affect of loue with feare is watchfull in the seruice of God and runs diligently towards it and flyes speedily froÌ„ any offence of him This is deliuered by S. Thomas And for this reason it wil be fit many tymes to vse the coÌ„siderations of the diuine Iudgement from whence this holy chast feare may be fetcht And so we may comply with that which the holy Apostle aduiseth vs saying Worke your saluation with feare and trembling Which is as much as to say With an interiour feare to offend God which may be so great as that it may appeare by your exteriour vigilancy and care to performe your workes whereby you may obtayne that true and euerlasting saluation S. Bernard f A sweet secure guide for vs to follow left this truth confirmed both by his doctrine and example in these words Bernar. in Cant. ser 7 Happy is that soule wherin Christ our Lord hath set the print of his two feet and wherin he hath left the markes and footestps of them both which are the feare of his diuine Iudgment and the hope of his diuine Mercy For the consideration of the diuine Iudgment alone breeds disconfidence and despayre and the memory and consideration of his mercy alone doth occasion a sly deceipt of a mans selfe ingendreth a very dangerous kind of security And so haue I experimented in my selfe For the benignity of God sometymes hath graunted to me miserable creature that I might sit downe at the feet of Iesus Christ my Sauiour and that I might with entier deuotion imbrace the one foot of feare at other tymes the other foot of confidence and of loue And if at any tyme it hapned to me that being forgetfull for his mercy I detayned my self long in the consideration and apprehension of the diuine Iudgment I grew all dismayd distempered with an incredible kind of feare and a miserable confusion and all trembling I would be crying out with the Psalmist Psal 8â— O Lord who shall be able to conceaue or comprehend the power of thy wrath And who through the feare he hath shal be able to measure out the greatnes and mightines of that indignation which thou wilt execute against sinners in the other life And g See imitate the great humility of this excellent Saint and learne heereby to know thy selfe if on the other side giuing ouer the consideration and exercise of this feare I detayned my selfe long in the consideration and meditation of the mercy of God I should be grown to fall into such a deale of carelesse negligence that euen then already my prayer would become more remisse my selfe more sloathfull towards aâ—â€¦ good workes and I should be more disposed towards laughter and such idle intertaynements more free and liberall in my speach and more vnsetled both in my inward outward man Being therefore taught by experience which hath bin a faythfull Maister to me I wiâ—â€¦ sing to thee O Lord not only Iudgement nor only Mercy but Mercy Iudgment both togeather and both these meanes of iustification will I exercise and vse as long as the tyme of Pilgrimage in this banishment of myne shall last and till I arriue to be possessed of that most happy state wherein all misery and all cause of compunction and feare shall cease and all my glory shall be to prayse thee for all eternity This saying is of S. Bernard wherin by the testimony of what he experienced in himselfe he confirmeth that which the holy Scripture and the doctrine of the Saints doe teach concerning the necessity wherein all the seruants of God are towards the keping of themselues still his seruants to ioyne holy feare with loue and the considerations of the diuine Iudgement the punishments inflicted by his Iustice with the considerations of the mercy of God and of the fauours benefits which he coÌ„municateth with a most liberall hand to such as keepe his Law CHAP. XIII Of how great value and merit this holy Feare is THIS is the first way of answring that which was demaunded The a The second answere of the former obiection second is that when we speake of seruile feare of accompaning the same with the loue of God it is true that the exercise of loue is much more excelleÌ„t theÌ„ that of feare For as we haue said seruile feare which hath the eye vpon punishment is imperfect and but of beginners it is found euen in them who are not yet in state of grace nor can it be meritorious nor wholly acceptable to our Lord God But speaking of filiall feare wherby a man feareth and flyeth from sinne because it is the offense of God and of that reuerenciall feare wherby the soule reueareth his diuine Maiesty and doth humble her selfe to him by doing his diuine wil and comparing this kind of feare with the loue of our Lord God and considering that which indeed doth passe in iust persons it is not an exercise lesse excellent nor lesse pleasing to God nor lesse meritorious then is that of loue For b Filiall fear riseth out of loue this holy feare springeth out of the true loue of God and imbraceth the same loue as the fountaine roote from whence it springs For from louing of God doth grow the feare of offeÌ„ding him and from the loue of vertue groweth the feare of loosing it froÌ„ the high estimation which the soule makes of God and the fulfilling of his will doth growe a profound reuerence of God and the keeping of his law and the feare of doeing any thing which is contrary to the same And so the good Christian whilst he is exercising the chast feare of a soÌ„ne of God he doth also exercise the loue of God So saith S. Augustine Aug. in psal 118. serm 25. The feare through which a man loues not vertue but flyes from the punishment of vice is a seruile feare and this feare is that which shutteth Charity out of doores and the same Charity which also shutteth out this kind of fear doth produce and breed that other chast feare through which the soule feares to sinne though it were neuer to be punished And this is that holy feare which iust meÌ„ do exercise in the consideration of the diuine Iudgement because as we haue declared through the great desire which they haue to please God and to do according to his wil in

and who powre out the drink of spiritual comfort and ease to such as are afflicted and deiected that so they may beare their miseryes with patience who cloath their soules with vertues and celestiall guifts who are naked depriued of al spiritual graces and who cure and recouer out of their miserable infirmityes and who draw and deliuer out of that horrible captiuity them who are sicke of sinne and are taken prisoners and made slaues by Sathan Most certain it is that although all they who expresse mercy towards their neighbours shall be esteemed honored in that Tribunal shal be sublimed with glory and royall dignity yet these others who haue imparted it towards the soules of meÌ„ shal be much more esteemed and honoured by Christ our Lord and his Angels shal be raised to greater glory more aduauÌ„ced in the kingdom of heauen It is also to be considered that although these works of mercy whether they be corporall or spirituall and which respect the spirituall or corporall good of our neighbour are excellent and of great value and merit as we haue already sayd yet the interiour and exteriour workes of Fayth Hope Charity and Religion which haue e How highly gratefull those acts of vertue are which do immediatly respect Almighty God imediate relation to Almighty God and to the worship seruice which is due to him as our God and our Creatour are more excellent and of greater value merit then the workes of mercy which ayme but at the coÌ„fort of our neighbours And so much more as any vertue doth draw neere approach to God so much more is the vertue more excellent Now the vertues which are called Theological which are Fayth Hope Charity do looke vp and serue immediatly honour Almighty God belieuing his truth and louing his goodnes and hoping in his mercy And the vertue of Religion doth respect and exercise the worship and veneration which is due to God as being soueraigne Authour and Lord of all thinges And these vertues being more excellent then that of Mercy towardes our Neighbour it is cleare that those faythfull Christians who with firme and liuely fayth haue beleeued in Christ our Lord and who confessed his fayth in the face of Tyrants who placed all their confidence in Christ searching with care after his glory and resigning themselues entirely to his most holy will and honoring him reuering him with true worship with pure prayers and with an exact performance of their promises and the vowes which they make to his diuine Maiesty certaine I say it is that in the day of his diuine Iudgment they shall be more esteemed and honoured by Christ for hauing done and suffered these thinges then either they or any others shall be for any other inferiour works which they may haue wroght towardes their Neighbours And therefore the reward of glory being so illustrious and so high which for the workes of spirituall and corporall mercy they shall receaue considering that yet the reward which these others shall obtayne is to be much more eminent and great and since notwithstaÌ„ding that the kingdome which is to be giuen in reward of these workes of mercy is celestiall eternall yet for these acts of faith and Charity and Religion a greater and a better portion shall be allotted and set out in the same kingdome let vs be most diligent in the leading of a good life in coÌ„seruing our soules pure and cleane in exercysing our selues in the acquisitioÌ„ of vertue And let vs be full of feruour towards the works of mercy whether they be spirituall or corporall euery one according to his Tallent O happy f Conclusion and for euer most happy they who shall thus imploy themselues Happy because they were elected from all eternity by almighty God Happy because they were called in Tyme to his faith and Religion and were instructed therin Happy because they did correspond to that vocation of God and did begin to lead a good life Happy because they did contynue therin Happy because if they fell they quickly rose againe by penance and were constant therin And Happy beyond all happies because when our Lord came to call them to accompt at the houre of their death he found them imployed in a good life and watchfull in the exercise of good workes expecting the tyme of his comming to receaue the reward of their labours at his mercifull and most liberall handes For it is sayd by no lesse then Truth it selfe Luc. 12. Happy is that seruant whome his Lord when he commeth shall find watching and imployed in the discharge of his duety with fidelity and prudence and complying with his obligations whether they be common to all Christians or particulerly belonging to his state I tell you as an vndoubted truth that to such a seruant as this his Lord shall deliuer vp the possession of all his goods That is Christ our most mercifull Lord and our God will rayse him vp from the blessinges of grace in this life to the blessinges of glory in the next and from the basenes of this earth to raigne eternally together with himselfe in heauen Amen THE CONCLVSION TO THE READER MAKE accompt good Reader that this discourse is a Letter this which now thou art reading is the Postscript of it Thou hast seene the torments of Hell and the ioyes which are imparted to the elect in heauen Thou hast seene that if thou dye in mortall sinne thou wilt for euer be chayned in those torments for euer be depriued of those ioyes Take heed therefore of all sinne and especially take heed of the sinne either of Schisme or Heresy which are of the greatest that can be coÌ„mitted The nature of Heresy consisteth in this That a man will make election of some one doctrine or more which is contrary to the beleefe of that true Church which is celebrated in the Creed of the first Councell of Nice to be One to be Holy to be Catholike to be Apostolike Be sure thou be of that one true Church which soeuer that be for thogh myself be resolued yet I will not heere handle that question by way of Controuersy but there is but one wherin a Christian can be saued one in the faith which it professeth howsoeuer it may be accounted many in respect of the infinite persons which it conteyneth and consequently of the particular Churches which it imbraceth The nature Wher in the nature of heresy doth indeed consist therfore of heresy doth not consist in the multitude or quality of the Articles of Religion which are held in difference from the dotrine and direction of the holy Catholike Church but it consisteth properly in the pride and presumption of that hart which dares preferre a priuate opinion of any one or seuerall Countries or any interpretation of holy Scripture which interpretation is also no more then a For he will make the scriptur affirm

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