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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	affliction_n	eternal_a	weight_n	10,184	5	9.3838	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38021	The plague of the heart its [brace] nature and quality, original and causes, signs and symptoms, prevention and cure : with directions for our behaviour under the present judgement and plague of the Almighty / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1665 (1665)	Wing E209; ESTC R41111	40,611	53

iniquity to his heart and feels a thorow remorse upon his minde for his rebellion against God for his bidding defiance to Heaven and for his abuse of Gods mercies Where is the man that beginning to be sensible of the hardness of his heart strikes upon it as if he would break it and drops down penitentiall tears that he might soften it Such a man is not easily found such severity on our selves is not usuall But know this that nothing is worth a tear a sigh a groan but Sin Turn therefore your grief this way and your sorrow for affliction will not be so loud and clamorous As Physitians stop the blood by revulsion stenching i●'s bleeding in one place by opening vein in another so do you change and divert your sorrow turn it quite into another channel Humble your selves in the sight of God lye low before him being cast down by the burden of sin Be sensible of the Hand of God which is heavy upon you but chiefly eye the finger that points at thy Sin God is just in all that is brought upon you for he hath done right but you have done wickedly Gods wrath is but a due punishment for your abuse of his mercy the overflowing of his anger is but a just recompence for your repeated provocations Justifie God but judg and condemn your selves Your destruction is of your selves your Plagues are the fruit of your own ways Had you not been stubborn and obstinate and sinned against mercy you had not felt such heavy strokes but because you would not be drawn with cords of love it was but just the cords should be twisted into a whip to lash you into your duty Common sicknesses would not amend you you went on and minded not the ordinary summons of Mortality those it seems were not terrible enough No wonder then that God takes another course changeth the rod into a Scorpion and instead of the usuall diseases sends a more fatall and astonishing distemper which carrys poyson along with it You may thank your selves for all this for sin was the procuring cause of it Hast thou not procured this unto thy self in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God thy own wickedness shall correct thee and thy backslidings shall reprove thee And again Our iniquities have separated betwixt us and our God and our sins have hid his face from us that he will not hear Ierusalem hath grievously sinned therefore she is removed To which let me add that of the Apostle For this cause namely for your sins especially your unchristian divisions and your prophanation of the Lords Supper many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep Sin is the root of suffering strike therefore at the root first evidence that you are more sensible of sin then sickness or any other affliction by your asking the pardon of sin chiefly It may be somewhat remarkable that the Psalmist calls up his soul to praise God after this manner Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits who forgiveth all thy iniquities who healeth all thy diseases God first forgives and then heals and the Holy man is well pleased with this sacred order and method nay he would have been contented with the pardon of sin though the infirmities of his body had still remained The light of Gods countenance is far better then the removall of our sicknesses his favour to our souls transcends all worldly ease and refreshment to our outward man Affliction will never hurt us so long as we can pray and believe so long as God speaks peace unto our consciences And therefore in all our distresses this should be our most ardent request that God would pardon our sins subdue our wicked natures and sanctifie us with his Spirit and then though the Cross lies heavy on our bodies and makes our outward man decay yet our inward man shall feel joy and comfort and our light afflictions which are but for a moment shall work for us a far more exceeding and eternall weight of Glory And let me commend unto you these three ways whereby you are further to discover that you are truely sensible of your Sins The first is a humble confession hearty bewailing and mourning for your manifold provocations That Good King used this remedy when the Plague was broken out and the destroying Angel gone forth to smite Loe I have sinned and done wickedly You are all to mourn for the crying and raigning sins of this Land you are to mourn for the sins and enormities of those men who have not hearts to mourn for themselves Thus Mos●s was grieved sadly for the peoples ●dolatry and most passionately did he interpose in their behalf Ezra and Nehemiah most deeply resented the sins of their Nation You know what Lamentations the Weeping Prophet made you read how righteous Lot was vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked And Rivers of water saith the Psalmist run down mine eyes because men keep not thy Law This was the practice of the Man after Gods own heart and that great Apostle could not write to his Philippi●ns without weeping when he made mention of the enemies of the Cross of Christ. The ways of the wicked grieve God and his Holy Spirit and shall they not grieve every good man Mourn then in secret for that great pride and haughtiness that extortion cruelty and oppression that want of brotherly love and Christian communion that perjury couzenage and deceit that wantoness and uncleaness that disobedience and murmuring at our betters that coldness and formality in our religious addres●es that neglect of the Ordinances and Institutions of Christ that scoffing at Piety and true Devotion for these and many other abominations which this Land is highly guilty of you are to mourn and weep even desiring in a holy passion to weep your eyes out as being loath to see such wickedness committed And yet I have not named a brace of horrid vices which this Land is to answer for no less then for the former I mean those common sins of drunkeness and swearing As for the latter how prodigiously doth it increase in our days And whereas St Iames his charge is Above all things my brethren swear not and our Saviour hath given us the same in his excellent Sermon Swear not at all yet are blasphemous Oaths so common and usuall as if both those Texts had run thus do dothing but swear every sentence with too many men is set off with an oath Gods great and glorious Name is used and usurped in the most trifling and ridiculous matters nay it is brought into the obscenest nay into the most prophane and irreligious speeches Gods Name is seldom used by such wretches in prayer and supplication at the throne of Grace but in bitter curses and execrations against their brethren it is daily abused And is it not just with God to visit those mens houses with the most