Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	affect_v	moses_n	16	3	7.4061	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56300	A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas ...	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1657 (1657)	Wing P4224; ESTC R6282	278,822	394

to be chilled by earthly objects for our hearts are ponderous Multum tra●it de terra de carne multum it weighs downward as the weights of a clocke move downward continually and if they be once at the ground the clock is silent they must pull it up againe every twelve houres or in such a certaine compasse they must wind them up And so in this case there must be courses of winding up holy affections if the fire be gone the fire be out revive it kindle it againe from heaven reinforce chase and warme your selves by the fire of prayer and other holy duties When the fire on the Altar was extinguished it was unlawfull to have it kindled but only by the meanes of heaven It must be the fire of heaven not any other fire that must revive us We must oft be renewing of our holy affections to keepe them vigorous and lively We must frequently excite and stirre up our selves when we begin to faynt we must rub and chase our affections and especially spread our chilled spirits before the Sunne of righteousnesse that he may with the heate and healing of his wings revive and quicken us XXVI The little worme or potentiall Bee after a short life of a few weekes stirres no more feeds no more but lies dead and entombed in the cell wherein it was bred but waite with patience a score of dayes and you shall see it revive and appeare a farre more noble creature then it was before What is this but an embleme of the resurrection Aarons rod which was a drie and withered stick in a night buds and blossomes and brings forth ripe Almonds For to every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven A time to die and a time to rise againe XXVII Bees can with ease and facility dart in their stings but they have no power to extract or draw them out againe hurt they can helpe or ease they cannot We are all naturally wise to doe evill but to doe good we have no understanding We are all as spring-locks shut we can of our selves but not open for our naturall powers as the Schooles speake are become naturales impotentiae And howsoever the sword of the Lord and the sword of Gideon may goe together yet the hand of Gideon or the sword in his hand or the edge on his sword is not able to pierce unlesse God give power non enim tam agimus quam a deo agimur saith Zanchie for man is not so properly said to doe good as to be compelled to doe it by the good Spirit of God XXVIII Robbing Bees will desperately adventure to spoyle and plunder their neighbours But if they find centinels before the ports to question them and a strong guard at the gates to oppose them and when they have with danger and difficultie passed through these numerous forses within stoutly charging the first assailants with their ruine and destruction The survivors will be weary and wary doubtfull and fearfull further to prosecute their treacherous designes For even naturally all brute creatures avoyd that place where they are sensible by a token that their fellowes have miscarried But how great the neglect of Gods judgements among men is appeares perhaps at first they are deeply affected with them but yet as a pang it is quickly overpast and as newes it soone growes out of date Pharaoh was no sooner quitted from one plague but presently his heart was hardened to draw on another The Israelites that were so affected flighted and frighted at the horrible end of Corah and his complices even the morrow after fall on Moses and Aaron and upbraid them for the losse of the people of God Many looke on others judgements as furnished with a supersedeas from all arrests and argue from their punishment how they have deserved without the least reflex upon their owne mutable condition XXIX As Bees are industrious to gather so what they diligently get they doe not carelesly and at randome disperse about the hive but discreetly and orderly beginning at the top and so downwards dispose it in their waxen cabinets and as soone as they be full of honey close them fast with a waxen lock both to prevent robbers and also to necessitate themselves to further labour as long as the season of gathering continues Many heare but the word heard profits them not because they are carelesse to treasure up the truths delivered they quickly forget such are like unto a man who beholds his naturall face in a glasse and goeth his way and forgetteth what manner of man he was But would we thrive under the meanes we must when we have heard and marked and understood the truth of duties delivered lay them up locke them closely and safely in our hearts as in a safe repositary we must commit good instructions to memory had we rich treasures we would not lay them up negligently but keepe them under locks and keyes barres and bolts why then should we let holy instructions slip out of our memories whereby all former labours as of the speaker so of the hearer is utterly frustrate XXX If the Bee lights upon a flower where there is no honey being wasted or gathered before she quickly gets off and flies away to another that will furnish her Let us not loose our selves and forget our errand our father Adam lost our happinesse and we are sent to seeke it seeke it where it is and goe handsomely to worke say I am not made for riches they are made for me I am not made for creatures they are made for me and I am their Master Therefore these cannot make me happie I am made for eternitie for everlasting life and happinesse Therefore let me study that mind that see that end beyond inferiour ends Why doe men seeke wealth but to be happie why pleasures why honours but because they would be happie If these cannot blesse and enhappie me why should I burne day-light why should I not off them as the Bee gets off the plants that yeild her no honey and once at last see where my businesse lies in pursuing happinesse and where my happinesse lies in Gods wayes the first step whereof is povertie of spirit XXXI When the wax is mollified and wrought warme then set the seale on it for it will receive the impression And when God hath any wayes mollified our hearts and made them in a mourning case close with him when we finde our selves any whit softened take the hint improve that opportunitie XXXII Bees are naturally harmlesse and patient creatures each in and for her owne particular will ordinarily receive any prejudice hurt or molestation and when they suffer are wondrous calme but neare the hive where the cause seemes to be publique and their common wealth to be endangered then they are marvelous hot and furious and notwithstanding the feircest opposition will resolutely charge all that stand in their way in the