Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	abundance_n	good_a	speak_v	3,617	5	5.5017	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45205	Dorcas revived the second time: or a sermon preached at the funerals of Mrs. Anne Mickle-thwait the one and twentieth of March 1658.	Hunter, Josiah, minister in York.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3765B; ESTC R224179	44,466	48

three miles on foot in an afternoon to sermon not out of novelty but necessity for being forced from York in the beginning of these times she lived in Holdernes where the Minister preached but once a day she was his auditour so often as he preach'd yet could not satisfie her self with hearing but once as he did in preaching once and therefore though it was winter she would have gone so far often even on foot I suppose for the encouragement of her servants to sermon I have heard her frequently admire Gods great goodnesse to this sinfull Nation in vouchsafing unto it such abundant provision both for life and Godlinesse 1 Pet. 1.3 for said she brown bread with the Gospel is good fare and I am verily perswaded she could have lived on the coursest bread so she might but have had the water of life with it but however she could have been content to have lived with the Gospel yet she ever desired that they who labour in the word and doctrine might fare well To this purpose she would have opened her hand wide though a minister had a competency of temporal estate yet she would say that was nothing to them that lived under his ministry as he laboured among them so the Labourer was worthy of his hire 1● Tim. 5.18 not only what might be necessary for subsistence but something for encouragement 19 Levit. 17. She was a woman that would not suffer sin to lye upon those that were her charge for want of seasonable reproof yet she alwayes tempered her reproofs with the spirit of meeknesse 6 Gal. ● was wise to observe the fittest time and place together with the disposition of the person and having done this committed the successe to God by prayer If she saw that she did not reclaim one by her admonitions as she desired she would conclude her reproof and advice with that pathetical expression well 13 Jer. 17. if you will not hear my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and her sincerity appeared in this that she was as willing others should admonish her and would desire them to do it she would say to her daughters and others under her it may be you are afraid to anger me but I pray if you see any thing amisse in me tell me of it She was one of a very peaceable and courteous conversation dissention she hated and was grieved very much when any fell out in her family if that her self had taken an offence at any person in her house though most justly yet she could not have been satisfied till reconciled to them yea she would have condescended to have sought peace of her inferiour although she had been the party that had received the injurie She was sometimes troubled at the strangeness of friends but then she remembred a saying of Mr. Aiscough and would say oh that I could do as he prescribed the saying was this it may be thou art troubled for Gods people 's not loving of thee but do thou labour to love them and thou shalt never answer for their not loving of thee She was very frequent in meditation when she had been conferring with others then she used to go aside to commune with her own heart and discourse with her self 4 Psal 4. And though she was alone yet she was not alone for the Father was with her She often would mention a Speech of Mr. Birchalls with tears 16 Ioh. 32. Ah Soul if thou hadst meditated on God more thou hadst loved him more She was a woman whose Speech was seasoned with salt 4 Colos 6. 5 Eph. 29. 10 Prov. 20.21 ever ministring some good to the hearers Her Tongue was as choice silver and her Lips did feed many I have observed how ready she would be upon all occasions to administer matter of gracious discourse I have condemned my self and others of mine own calling for our sluggishnesse I considered that out of the abundance of the Heart the Mourh speaketh 12 Mat. 34. and concluded that she had a greater Treasure of good things in her than we had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At Meat-times she would especially move such conference the better to season the meat She thought according to the Greek saying A plentiful Table to feed the Body without good discourse to feed the Mind is little better than a Manger She was a woman of a sound mind 2 Tim. 1.7.13 4 Eph. 14. 13 Heb. 9. 2 Tim. 3.14 holding fast the form of sound words and not tossed about with every wind of Doctrine indeed she was so established with grace the best preservative against Errours and with Timothy so assured of the things that she had learn'd knowing of whom she had learned them that she was not easily removed This may serve as a tast to shew how full she was of good works I proceed Dorcas was full of Alms-deeds which she did 6 Mat. 3. so was our Dorcas How full I know not for I believe she did not let her left hand know what her right hand did 7 Mark 36. But I read in the Gospel how Christ when he had cured an infirm Man charged him that he should not publish it but the more he was charged to conceal it the more did he divulge it So I suppose though she charged those to whom she gave Almes that they should not divulge it yet they could not be kept secret I have heard that her House was a little Hospital not so much because the poor came thither for relief but because relief went from thence for the poor So that what Hierom said of Pammachius that he was munerarius pauperum et egentium candidatus The like may be said of her she was the candidate of the Poor as ambitious of their Prayers as others are of their praises accounting when she had given an Almes to have received rather than done a good turn Whilst her Husband was alive the poor had both Food and Physick And whatever he gave himself as his disposition was well enough known I do believe and not upon slender grounds that she kept a Stock of her own with her Husbands approbation for the poor and pious uses I have given you a brief account of the life of our Dorcas I come now to her Sicknesse and Death which because they were but short therefore I will not be long about them She was Sick and Dyed I told you there is a providence of God to be observed in the Sicknesse and Death of his Saints and so there was a remarkeable providence in the Sicknesse and Death of this Saint so well known and observed that I forbear to mention it And it came to passe in those days So it is come to passe in these days these calamitous and distracted days wherein the Church stood in great need of her Prayers that she was Sick and is Dead The times are bad already we have cause to fear because of her