Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	act_n	grace_n	spirit_n	2,584	5	5.0422	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44609	Scotland pulling down the gates of Rome, or, Christ against Antichrist, the Lambs friends against the Dragons followers containing first, Christs herauld proclaiming his second coming, in allarum to most kingdoms of Europe, from the late presaging comet which appeared, December 1680 and January 1681, and now in August 82 ... : secondly, the popish confessions and catechisms, lately dispersed, and their damnable principles examined ...	Houschone, William.	1683 (1683)	Wing H2944; ESTC R4446	18,854	31

influence into the very act which the natural power do choose but best of all with good ground we deny all active concurrence in natural abilities to the generating grace in the heart at the first infusion of grace into the Soul Durand and this Pamph. only a passive capacity for in this neither the holy Ghost works like a natural Agent nor man as a moral Agent in the production of material forms brought out of the power of the matter resulting from the inherent qualities of the Subject diversly compounded and ripened by one external Agent as those Agents working in the generation of second qualities arising out of the different mixture of the first both which the qualities the qualities of the subject concurs with the outward Agent in producing the effect But this is all the infusion of the Soul into the body into whose conception and creation it confers nothing so that the whole pack of Moral Vertues so Christionized cannot kindle a spark of this heavenly fire though they would make us believe that a saving interest were nothing but a dogmatical assent of the will for say they we place Faith in two distinct faculties to flow from two divers principles but these are not distinct faculties who have dictinct actions the Understanding essentially including the Will And if the Memory be not a distinct faculty because the mind sufficeth no more are the Will and Understanding Their object being on the truth and goodness of the same thing Christ and his Bible being as essentially good as true in order to the practical use of those former debates spirits being hot and toiled travelling throughout floods of errour Let 's solace our Souls in the contemplation yea application of those fundamental Truths called in question by Spirits who know not whither to rest posting throughout Hell and Earth and this we shall do in denying of some inferences and then consider the Controversie absolutely and resolutely before ever a Papist had a being Inference first what sad distemper attend yea possess the spirits of those men fluctuating betwixt wind and wave airt about as the weather cock goes travail hell over to purchase a Proselite and make him seven times a child of the Devil than one of themselves How does Satan sute the tentation to their necessity yea every way qualified to their inclination what ever may be his search scrutiny yea knowledge experimental and revealed Yea further revealed from God as a Judge to some yet still doth God challenge the first room in the Soul he having that only Prerogative to know the Heart by external Symptomes The Devil strangely reads the mind of Man and knows best whether when and how to sow his seed one a stranger to the work of Mortification another grapling after this ship wrack of the world looses the life in purchasing the means of life another of one unestablished spirit when natural parts and gifts possibly swell yet empty of the grace of God the Devil sits down upon the mans lips orders his pen frames his tongue and almost weapons against the God of Heaven yea otherwise sink him upon the sand-bed of presumption or chatter him upon the rock of despair Luther one day spreading his case before God in recapitulating his Trespasses Satan threw into his Chamber a paper containing dreadful aggravations to which he shortly replyed I will honour thee for the fire who came from him who would adjudge me into eternal torments by dreadful forgeries If God shall sugar our cup amongst many bitter Ingredients the enemy shall be sure to drop some poyson Inference O let principle and practice go hand in hand the pride of some the peevishness of others cannot let some recover when engaged in a sad practice I am sure their master did never show such pattern Christianily doth Augustine say Errare possim haereticus esse nolo Inference the third To tamper in the matters of God how dangerous is it but to dispute the Fundamentals of Godliness how near damnable is it either of two he must speak the Language of Ashdod or the Language of Canaan There is not a third half way to Rome shall not serve our turn though hundreds huddle themselves under the notion of Protestants yet by practice declare themselves Protestant-Atheists or Protestant-Papists putting to their hands to give Gods Ark a wrong touch Temple ruines calls for Temple vengeance Yea also acute wits intoxicating their brains into crabbed and ticklesome subjects have their spirits hell hot drive on most furiously which did sadly puzzle a profound pate in too much daubing which otherwise might have produced to the world a notable wit as Vorstius But we come closely home have not we sufficient warrant to take our Fathers Silver Trumpets and sound to Europe no peace with Rome where to the satisfaction of all rational men without the least breach of Charity I shall illustrate and confirm that Position in serious sadness a Papist qua Papist so living so dying cannot be saved and this is satisfactory from Reason and Religion if the Lord permit the basest of them if a zealous Papist entering the Chair of God by a miscreant Priest to deifie a man in robbing God of his Prerogative in pardoning or punishing Quod non regina perunca donat We are somewhat sensible that multiplicity of Arguments pungently applying exhortations cannot prevail with a deluded Soul the one perhaps may have weight with a prophane person we therefore address our selves to Gods Tribunal for the farther confirmation of all who love the truth In the name of the Son of God we arrest Souls under the wrath of an Eternal God who from self-respect self-honour or worldly profit shall bring the truth of Christ in composition with a penny of the world the basest of all his slaves to which perhaps the limbs of the least may probably entice be it known the hinge of the Controversie depends now upon Salvation and Damnation from which men scarcely shall retreat when engaged with this Romish Fouler and bloody Edom. Cruel as Esau his Apparel dyed with the blood of Saints Alas too much proof for it so long as men hope to be gainers by Christ so long they will follow joyfully as if the truths of God were not momentous they turn Religion into a drudge Christ could not be rid of sensual Belly-gods so long as he fed them with loaves Joh 6.25 profit and preferment will make a man hear diligently profess openly preach painfully till preferments choak both Preachers and Professors what doth this speak they are all but sublunary Soul villifying a celestial interest all men seek their own Vix queritque Jesus propter Jesum and as the Proverb do not diligere Christum in Augustino its only Christ for Augustines sake love to the Benefice Preachers and Professors labour but the spring of life says I love Augustine because of Christs Image which love scruples not upon difficulties in prosperity and adversity Though most

was marked with intestine and Forreign Sword though this hath a main eye to the second coming of Christ Scriptures near fulfilled mockers of the Gospel stigmatized Yea in the Primitive times the earth swallowed them up quick as the Hierapolians for mocking of God though herein none can be punctual and positive in sobriety without reflection upon our Learned Judicious and Pious Fathers Melancton Regner Preden Shelto making the world to stand six thousand years the last two thousand were to be shortned for the Elects sake Certain it is things hasten to a close Grace and Literature not so as when God raised up Valla and Erasmus c. a decay in Godliness prodigal liberal rich men deemed best men covetous good Husbands truth persecuted error in credit the world upside down the whole fabrick out of order great heats great colds great drought great rains the fruitfulness of the field decayed the world tottering upon its foundation the earth groans to be dissolved of such a heavy load a burden of sin the very beast shews its resentment of a sinful generation the sky is defiled all is polluted love to God and mutually to one another is gone Cornelius a Lapide brings in the very beast as coveting to be engrafted or united to this or that godly man O to do him service for now I fight against God turn and lament ye wicked men the gates of hell are of brass their bars of iron they will never break lazy daughters awake to zeal for as the bels which hung in Aarons garment could not want Pomegranats so God loveth not sound without fruit The wrath of God is but kindling to make our bed in sorrow how are we at league with the Devil and at war with God no peace with God and no peace with man its true it was said of Spain at peace with all the world but at war with their God how in the reason can men look to live with God and yet cannot live a day with his Saints O that God would put a Lump of Hell and a Lump of Heaven in them the shadow of sin in Heaven would afright the very Angels Reader I charge thee in the name of the Eternal God extenuate not thy sin however some escape smaller strokes yet in order to a farther Judgment looking back over our shoulder not bowing the knee in the eye of sense so consulting argues a peevish humour to a roving Soul and yet all Mankind shall forfeit their right of glory for the first and Lots wife remains a rocky Mineral of Eternal vengeance for the second and Daniel a Crown of life shall have for the third the reviving presence of God is lost either ways what do we speak a Romance yet truth to others when black-mouthed P. and Sh. can be waged by Hell O Sin thy death O sin I le be for killing the most hight Corruption thy life I le take for thou hast wounded me to raile against Gods Anointed and declaim all personal acquaintance with God as folly and fancie with such Delinquents we shall debate the matter before Gods Tribunal the Bible is not their rule the Spirit of God their Councellour Luther can tell us he can dwell in hell and Christ were there his gracious presence counterballances all afflictions Rationists can tell us the marrow of Philosophy consisted in solacing of the Mind much more the substance of Divinity The Pagan Indian replyed well to the Spanish Priest when threatning him to Popery with fire and fagot What shall I have if I do so whether shall we go after they answer to Heaven Life and Salvation I would rather said he live in Hell as dwell in Heaven with such company The bells of Hell ring the Trumpets of Heaven sound half a hour in Hell and a hour in Heaven the terrour of the one the joy of the other a Proclamation at the gates of Hell come out and repent should resolve our doubts though some go to the Devil with a light candle in their hand yea creeping under a bush of profession as they go who can abide Eternal Torments tearing and rending of the caul of the heart like to a fierce bird tearing dabbing rending of a Liver yet no end of the same so Lavater compares it Reader do the favour to thy own Souls interest unite thy thoughts compose thy affections retire one hour and to thee O Christian I appeal the reality of the presence of God the ebbing and flowing of the Spirit of God Naturalists who never knew Christ can prove this Sea-stork and pursuing ordinarily another fish whose sins are as wings to mount above the water to preserve its life doth take so much water as to make it flee more nimble and when once dried again presently falls down When once a Christian is fastned with the Spirit of God it soars aloft as the seed of the earth is brought into fruitfulness by continual showers the seed of grace in the heart is renewed by the acts of the Spirit shed upon us 1. by Molification 2. Refrigeration 3. Abolition I will sprinkle thee with water FINIS