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	mouth_n	speak_v	5,245	5	4.7625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09984	Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity of his being accursed that loves not the Lord Iesus Christ. Together with the motives meanes markes of our love towards him. By that late faithfull and worthy divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1638 (1638)	STC 20238; ESTC S115085	27,130	53

they all which was an argument that he loved much because he was in labour much and so when our Saviour asked Peter whether he loved him he puts him to worke and sets him his taske saying feede my sheepe and last of all Eighthly whether thou wouldest not onely doe but suffer much for his sake as David when his wife Michal laughed at him for dancing before the Arke he was contented to beare it because he did it to the Lord and so the Apostles rejoyced because they wer● counted worthy to suffer for his name And Saint Paul likewise when the people intreated him with teares not to goe up to Ierusalem because he should be bound as Agabus had signified by the spirit unto him answered them Why doe yee rent my heart I am ready not onely to be bound but also to dye for c. But thou wilt say I have no such occasions now adayes if I had I know not what I should doe But I answer is it so hast thou no such occasions yes thou hast occasions enough as when he takes away thy wife thy child thy friends thy goods thy good name c. if then I say thou canst beare it patiently with Iob and say it is the Lord giveth and the Lord c. or with Ely it is the Lord let him doe what seemeth him good then thou lovest him and yet thou must doe more then that thou must not onely beare it patiently but ioyfully too as you heard before the Apostles did lay thy selfe to these rules then and try impartially whether thou love the Lord Iesus Christ or not and forthy further helpe and more infallible notice thereof to know whether thy love to him be pure and unfained or whether it be false and counterfeit take these more particular proofes of it for assure thy selfe if thou love him aright as we touched before that then First thou wilt be content with nothing but love againe so that as Absolon though in hypocrisie said when as David had fetch'd him out of banishment and confined him to his owne house that he might not see the Kings face what doe I here seeing I may not see the Kings face so wouldest thou say out of love to the love of God what doe I here since I cannot behold the faire beauty of the Lord Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon mee or else what good will my life doe me but if thou doe so then thou shalt make my heart more joyfull and more glad then they that have had their Corne and Wine and Oyle increased Secondly thou wilt love the brethren for they are like him though he exceede them in the degrees and measures of goodnesse as the Ocean doth a drop of a bucket this is a pregnant proofe hereof and therefore deale squarely with thy selfe herein And the reason why thou canst not love the Lord if thou love not the Brethren is because its an easier matter to love man whom thou hast seene then it is to love God whom thou hast not seene for use we know makes them comlier and hansomer wherefore Saint Iohn saith If any man say he loves God and yet hates his Brother he is a lyer he deceives himselfe and there is no truth in him But thou wilt say thou lovest them well enough Dost thou so then thou wilt love their company for what we love and delight in we are never well without it nor cannot endure it out of our sight and therefore when the Psalmist had said That all his delight was in the Saints and upon such as excell in vertue if you would know how to know it was so he afterwards tells us That he was a companion of them that feare him c. Psal. 119. But thou wilt say againe though thou dost not love them yet God forbid thou shouldst be so bad but that thou shouldst love the Lord Iesus Christ. But I answer thee againe to that too If thou dost so then thou wilt love his appearing for if thou wish in thy heart there were no generall iudgement thou lovest him not say what thou wilt to the contrary as a loving and loyall wife cannot love her husband but shee will reioyce at his comming home when he is abroad and the neerer the time approacheth by so much the more ioyfull and glad will shee be Thirdly if thou love him thou wilt speake well of him upon all occasions and in every place where thou commest for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh so that if thou speake well of God but for fashion sake not out of any true affection but of feare thou lovest him not for he that loves him will be much in his praise as we have an instance in David so that if the heart be inflamed the mouth will be open thou wilt not be tongue-tied nor ashamed of him no not before Princes But thou wilt say I am no scholler I cannot speake eloquently if I could then indeede I should not be so afraid nor ashamed to doe it as now I am because I can doe it no better nor Rhetorically then now I can But let me tell thee for thy comfort let that never trouble thee speake as well as thou canst and thou needst care for no more for that will beget more and more love in thee and love that will make thee eloquent we have a notable presedent for this in the Spouse who because shee loved Christ see how shee sets him forth my beloved is all beautifull c* and it is most sure it will be so with thee if thou love the Lord thou wilt shew it by thy speeches for thou canst not well speake well of him whom thou lovest not but if thou hast no good thought of him thy words will bewray thee yea thou wilt not onely speake well of him and of his wayes but thou wilt also walke in the same nor wilt thou stand pausing upon it to consider whether thou wert best doe it or no but if it be about a good duty as suppose keeping of the Lords day hearing of the word c. thou wilt doe it without any more adoe yea though there were no promise nor profit to be got by it for else thou dost no more but as a servant not as sonne in hope of wages and not out of love looking for nothing for thy paines so did Saint Paul he would preach the Gospell though he had nothing but chaines and imprisonment for his labour and why will he so why because God commands it and its a good duty so that if thou make a question of it whether thou wert best to doe this or that good duty or wilt doe no more then thou must needs thou lovest not the Lord for he that loves him will doe whatsoever he can for him and yet thinke all too little when he hath done too Fourthly as thou wilt speake well