Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	24	3	8.6568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33338	Medulla theologiæ, or, The marrow of divinity contained in sundry questions and cases of conscience, both speculative and practical : the greatest part of them collected out of the works of our most judicious, experienced and orthodox English divines, the rest are supplied by the authour / by Sa. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing C4547; ESTC R1963	530,206	506

Covetousnesse encreaseth as riches encrease 4. Inordinate Passions either prevent Reason or are stirred up by a corrupt judgement and therefore neither observe time nor place but upon every occasion would be leaping into action importuning execution yea somtimes many greedy passions crowd in altogether every one being more earnest then other to be satisfied so that to content them all is impossible to content none is intolerable to prosecute one and abandon the rest is to carry so many hungry vipers continually gnawing upon our soules 5. There are none that follow the streams of their Passions but expect and believe at last to get full rest and content to their appetites which yet in the event is altogether impossible for they keep neither sense order nor measure 6. Inordinate passion it self is an extream tortute and vexation God having so ordained that they which will give way to them should feel the burden of them Thus anger envie pride c. more disquiet them that entertain them then they can hurt any other man Rashnesse Inconstancy Craftinesse are the companions of inordinate Passions The resolutions and determinations of the passionate are unripe and inconsiderate they are also inconstant changing from those purposes that they had prudently resolved upon in the calme of their Passions and yet Passions breed craft enforcing the minde to finde out new wayes and meanes for performance of what is affected Inordinate passions are hurtful to the body impaire health breed humours nourish diseases and shorten life Secondly the second sort of Reasons to shew that Affections should be rightly ordered are taken from the consideration of the profit and benefit of well-guided affections For 1. They rather serve as instruments of vertue then foment vice and as an occasion of victory then a cause of foil Christ in whom were no inordinate affections had his soul heavy even unto death Mat. 26.38 2. The Scriptures exhort us to love fear joy c. therefore it were blasphemous to say that these Passions are absolutely evil 3. If the motions of our Wills be vertuous being guided by Gods Word and Prudence if then the Passions concurre with the Will vertuous actions are performed with much more ease and delight Quest. How may we know to what Passions our soules are most enclined Answ. By our company that we most delight in Like affecteth like meetings and manners for the most part sympathize together By our thoughts and words If we desire to be praised or insinuate our own praise it s a signe we are proud c. For the Minde thinks and the tongue will speak according to the Passions of the heart Get a discreet friend to admonish us of our Passions when we erre from the paths of vertue for self-love blinds us and others may see that by us which we cannot see by our selves God somtimes suffers our enemies to discover and upbraid us with our Passions whilest they pry into our actions more narrowlie then we our selves doe Long experience conduceth much to discover our inclinations of Minde as well as the temperature of our bodies Quest. By what degrees are the affections wrought on Answ. By nine degrees In the five first a carnal man may have his affections wrought on and in the last foure of them he cannot As When they are so far wrought on that the heart is enticed and allured much by them So the eloquent Ministers at Corinth wrought on the Affections of the Hearers that they flockt after them Paul durst not so preach 1 Cor. 2.4 When the Affections are so wrought on that the heart is somewhat touched therewith Thus God turned the Affections of the Israelites to Saul 1 Sam. 10.26 As a Needle touched with a Loadstone turnes it self to the North So a wicked mans Affections may be touched by the Word When Affections are so wrought on that the heart is somewhat bowed thereby So David bowed the hearts of the men of Judah as of one man 2 Sam. 19.14 When they are so wrought on that the heart is stollen away by them Thus Absalom stole away the hearts of all Israel 2 Sam. 15.6 When they are so far wrought on that the heart is enflamed by them Thus Cities of Refuge were appointed lest the Avenger of blood pursue the Slayer whilest his heart was hot i. e. whilest he was in a Passion Deut. 19.6 So Saul had a great zeal to Gods Church 2 Sam. 21.2 Jehu was zealous for God 2 Kings 10.16 When they are so far wrought on that the heart is quite overturned from what it was before So Lam. 1.20 Behold Oh Lord for I am in distresse my bowels are troubled my heart is turned within me c. viz. with grief for their sins When they are so far wrought on that the heart is engaged for God As a woman engageth her heart to him whom she will make her husband Jer. 30.21 VVho is he that engageth his heart to approach unto me When they are so far wrought on that the heart is glued to a thing by them So was Davids Psalme 119.31 I have stuck unto thy Testimonies When they are so far wrought on that the heart is quite given up to the thing that it affects Thus Solomon gave his heart to seek wisdome Eccl. 1.13 No wicked man can have his affections thus wrought on yet his affections may be raised a good way towards Christ. For 1. By the sparks of right Reason naturally implanted by God in the heart he may so regulate his affections that he may be chaste sober kinde liberal just patient c. and to observe the things contained in the Law 2. Their knowledge by the Word may raise up their affections exceedingly Knowledge may awe the heart with feare that it go not against its own knowledge Herod feared Mark 6.20 and did many things 3. God may quicken their knowledge and conscience and tell them the horrour of their sins which may raise up their affections many steps higher to mourn and be sorry for their sins As in Ahab 1 Kings 21.27 He rent his clothes fasted and went softly 4. They may have a deep sense and horrour for their estate they may be afraid to be damned and of Gods judgements which may make them weep and sigh and groan So Mal. 2.13 They covered the Altar of God with tears with weeping and crying out and yet were hypocrites 5. Self-love may winde up their affections yet higher For when a man knows that he cannot be saved unlesse he doth thus and thus Oh how affectionate may he be to do it that he may be saved For 1. He may be loth to commit sin He may wish affectionately to leave it He may use some means to leave it As Darius did to have deliveted Daniel from the Lions Den Dan. 6.14 and Pilate to deliver Christ. 2. He may vomit up his dear sins and be sorry that other men should commit them So Micha confessed the silver that he had stolne and