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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	time_n	year_n	3,093	5	4.9048	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88149	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons: at their publique fast, holden in Margarets Westminster. Febr. 24. 1646./47. / By John Lightfoot, Staffordiens. a Member of the Assembly of Divines.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2069; Thomason E377_27; ESTC R201371	27,223	40

together grew up together have liv'd together have laine together have alwayes been together and yet have had so little acquaintance together as that we never talked together nor conversed together nay I know not my heart I have forgotten my heart Ah my bowells my bowells that I could be grieved at the very heart that my poor heart and I have been so unacquainted And is not the same case yours too I appeale to our owne hearts if they will but speake and I beseech you put them to it How inquisitive ever were we after their estate or how it goes with them amongst all the inquisition that we make after other things We are falne into an Athenian age as Act. 17. 21. spending our time in nothing more then in telling or in hearing newes or some new thing How goe things here how there how in one place how in another But who is there that is inquisitive How are things with my toore heart Wee are ever and anon lighting upon one or other of our acquaintance and take a turne with them in the Hall or turne aside with them in the street and enquire What newes how doe things goe But who turnes aside with his owne heart into a private retirednesse or falls into Discourse with that and enquires Ah poore heart how goe things with thee We stick not to tell how much money we spend in new Books and how much time we spend in reading them but it it is a shame to tell how little time we spend and how little paines we take in reading over and perusing our owne hearts As it is somtimes used in your House Honourable and Honored to put a question whether a question shall be put so I beseech you apply the Text Commune with your owne hearts whether you have communed with your own hearts you spend much time day after day worthily and piously in conferring and communing among your selves about the things of Church and State but wh●● time doe you spend either day or night in conferring or communing with your Consciences about the affaires of your soules You Ladies and Gentlewomen that bestow so much time in visiting and conferring with your glasses and your friends what time doe you bestow in visiting and conferring with your owne hearts and soules You that spend so much time in conversing and conferring with others about the matters of your Callings and Imployments what time have you taken up or doe you imploy in conversing with your selves about the matters of your nearest concernment I am the bolder to aske this question because my Text leads me to speak to your hearts and it is a question that you must once answer Weigh but in the Ballance of a serious consideration what time you have spent otherwise and what time you have spen in this and for many scores or hundreds of houres or daye that you owe to your hearts in this duty can you write fifty or goe to the heap of your whole life and where there should have been twenty measures imployed about this businesse can you finde ten Or where there should have been fifty vessells full of this duty can you find twenty It was a senselesse and a sensuall will that the Epicure made that bequeathed to his Player to his Cook to his Jester and to such as fed and forwarded his carnall Delights Talents and Pounds but Philosopho obolum a halfe penny onely to him that would have taught him wisedome Is not the distribution of our time and converse much after the same proportion Dayes and yeares bestowed upon the affaires of the world and worldlinesse moneths and weeks spent and laid out in converse with friends and strangers but scarce a minute in converse with a mans owne heart There are foure things especially that cause this strange and senselesse strangenesse and unacquaintance betwixt a man and himselfe and they are these 1 Idlenesse when men will not take the paines to put their heart to it to discourse with them Heart-communication is not an easie worke and few there be that for idlenesse will undertake it 2 Carelessenesse of their owne soules And so they are not carefull to discusse with them the things that concerne them 3. Worldlinesse which takes up all the time and thoughts that should be laid out upon the heart As Hos. 4. 11. and as it was with him 1 Kings 20. 40. And 4 Readinesse to be deceived Decipi vult populus men love leasing as Verse 2. of this Psalme and as by our fall Et bonum perdidimus voluntatem we not only lost good but also the will to it So in our first deception by Satan we had not onely a deceit put upon us but a deceiveablenesse nay a readinesse to be deceived put into us And thus as Tempora quaedam surripiuntur quaedam cripiuntur quaedam excidant so it is with the care of converse with our owne hearts What the Palmer-worme of Idlenesse leaves the Locust of Carelessenesse eateth and what the Locust leaveth the Canker-worme of Worldlinesse devoures and what that Canker-worme leaveth the Caterpillar of readinesse to be deceived hath consumed and thus hath all converse and communication with our owne hearts been eaten up It is recorded of Jobs friends that when they came to him and knew him not he was so changed that they wept and rent their garments Iob 2. 12. I would this might be the conclusion of this first Use or Application or the fruit of all that I have spoken hitherto Look upon your owne hearts doe you know them when had you and they any talke together how much of your time have you spent in communication with them Have you not been strangers have you not been unacquainted have you not forgotten them Be humbled bemoan be affected that you have been such strangers and lay your hands upon your hearts and resolve to be so no more And that is the second way that I would apply my selfe and the Text to you and that is by way of exhortation to incite you and by supplication to entreat you to apply your selves seriously unto this duty held out in the Text It is strange that we should need to be exhorted or entreated to such a thing as this to be acquainted with our owne hearts as that is strange in 2 Cor. 5. 20. that men should need beseeching to be reconcil'd to God but it is so true that we need beseeching and entreating that by what shall I beseech and entreat it so as that I may prevaile in my entreatie I beseech you by the Lord by the Bowels of mercy to your owne selves by your hearts by your soules by any thing by all things most deare unto you be no more strangers to your own hearts vindica te tibi acquaint your selves with your selves and as Abraham to Lot let not us fall out for we are brethren so bee not forraigners to your owne hearts for they are your owne By what may I move