Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	able_a	lord_n	soul_n	2,372	5	4.9134	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14745	Iethro's iustice of peace A sermon preached at a generall assises held at Bury St. Edmunds, for the countie of Suffolke. By Samuel Ward Batchelour of Diuinitie.	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.; Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652.	1618 (1618)	STC 25046; ESTC S103040	25,054	79

the flead skin of his 〈…〉 nayled by Cambyses on 〈◊〉 Tribunall or as a Russian Iudge that feares the boiling caldron or open battocking or the Turkish Senate when they thinke the great Turke to stand behinde the Arras at the dangerous doore Who hath alwaies as God enioyneth Deut. 17. 18. a copy of the law of his God before him and reads it all the dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his God and to keep the Commandement without turning aside either to the right hand or left If at all he be glad of his place it is not as a chaire of honour or farme of commodity nor sword of reuenge but onely as a meane of furthering his reckoning and pleasuring his Countrey For his oath he remembers it and trembles lest if carelesly he transgresse it the winged flying booke ouertake him before he get home if he cut but the skirt or lap of Iustice his heart smites him with a priuy pinch till hee sets all right againe with God and man Hee dares not so much as by countenance offend any of Gods little ones nor affoord a good looke to a varlet nor yet so to respect their persons as to wrong their cause for he knowes all these to be abhomination to his Lord into whose hands he dreads to fall as knowing him a consuming fire and one that hath prouided Tophet for Princes When an vnlawfull suit is commenced by power or by friendship his heart answers if not his tongue with Iob How shall I doe this and answer God when hee comes to iudgement As for bribes hee dares not looke on them lest they blinde his eyes before he be aware such pitch he dares not touch nor receiue into his bosome lest it defile him in the open sunne if tendered in closet or chamber he feares the timber and stones in the wall would be witnesses against him When he comes in court he fixeth his eye neither before him on that person nor about him on the beholders nor behinde him for bribes but vpward on God generally considering that Christ is Lord Paramont of all courts of iustice and that now his father hath resigned all iudgement into his hands Hee stewards all to his content promotes his profits without wrong to the Tennant Looks so to the Church that the Common-weale receiue no detriment and so to the Common-wealth as the Church shall surely flourish so countenancing the seruants of God that hee wrong not the worst worldling maintaines piety and neglects not equity keepes his house well but his Church better in frequenting whereof he with his family are presidents to all the hundreds where hee dwells And in a word doth as much good by his example as by his authoritie This is the godly man whom the Lord chuseth and guideth whose praise and reward is of God which Dauid hauing found true in his life a little before his death recordeth to all ages The spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue The God of Israel spake to me the strength of Israel sayd thou shalt beare rule ouer men being iust and ruling in the feare of God Euen as the morning light when the sunne riseth the morning I say without clowds so shall mine house be and not as the grasse of the earth is by the bright raine For God hath made with mee an euerlasting couenant perfect in all poynts aud sure Let the Diuell and the world storm and burst with enuy one of these is worth a thousand of the common sort though men will see no difference but say Are not all honest and sufficient men Let men talke of their quiet and peaceable neighbours and good house-keepers good Common-wealths men though these bee good things yet if religion com not in as a number to make them of some value they are but all as cyphers in Gods account Now if God thinke of meanely of these who are either meere ciuill and politique men or idle pleasurable Gentle-men what reckoning doe we thinke hee makes of such prophane vncircumcised vice-gods as I may in the worst sence best terme them that sell themselues to worke wickednesse that giue themselues to all good fellowship as they call it and to all excesse of ryot as the Apostle calls it and that hate to bee reformed such I meane as hold religion a disparagement to Gentry and feare nothing more then to haue a name that they feare God who thinke when they haue gotten an office they may swear by authority oppresse by licence drinke and swill without controll What shall I say of such are these Gods and children of the most high or the characters of his most holy Image Diuels are they rather then Deputies for him Imps of his Kingdome farre better becomming an Ale-bench then a Shire-bench and the barre then a Iudgement seat But what shall I say to such mock-god-like Esau's shall I take vp the words of Moses if thou wilt not feare this glorious name The Lord thy God I will make thy plagues wonderfull and of great continuance Or those of Dauid which perhaps will sit them better and these times of imminent changes They know not and vnderstand nothing they walke in darknes albeit the foundations of the earth be mooued I haue said ye are Gods but yee shall die like men and fall like others Or will they suffer the Prophets exhortation who art thou that dreadest a mortall man whose breath is in his nostrils whom the moth shall eat like a garment and the worme like wooll And forgettest thy maker that hath spred the heauens laid the foundations of the earth that giueth the first and latter raine that hath set the bounds to the sea c. Or will they heare Salomons end of all Feare God that will bring euery secret to iudgement or a greater yet then Salomon Feare him that is able when he hath killed the body to destroy the soule also in hell fire for euermore Well the Lord cause them to heare that hath planted the eare and plant his feare in their hearts where it is not encrease it where it is that there may bee more holy Magistrates and that the holy may yet bee more holy And then we hope the other two properties following will more abound and wee shall spend the lesse time and labour about them For men fearing God truely will be also Men of truth Without which shew of religion is but lying vanity a glorious profession but plaine hypocrisie And courage if it bee not for the truth and in the truth is but either Thrasonicall audacity or wicked impudency And therefore this character added to the former ioynes those which are in the forme of Iurates and ought to bee in all Officers good men and true This stile men of truth admits two interpretations both compatible with the text and theme A man of truth is either a true Israelite a true Nathaniel voyd of guile as