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
A45554	A loud call to great mourning in a sermon preached on the 30th of January 1661, being the anniversary fast for the execrable murther of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory, before the Honourable Knights, citizens, & burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, in the parish-church of Saint Margarets Westminster / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing H730; ESTC R9601	30,912	58

vaunting brought us all these things are passed away as a shadow c. I the pleasure of sinne passeth away but the sting remaineth to torture the sinner to eternity Believe me brethren sin is big with sorrow and shame which it must bring forth at the appointed time In that day there shall be a great mourning 2. But though this be an usefull meditation I conceive the other to be the most genuine Interpretation which construeth the mourning here spoken of to be penitentiall Indeed some Expositors glance at the mourning of the women which was in die passionis in the day of our Saviours passion when beholding his sorrowes their bowels yearned and their eyes melted with tears at which time also others of the spectators smote their breasts and were astonied But this mourning in Jerusalem was to be as appeareth by the former Verse not by the spectators but the actors in that cruell Tragedy those who pierced him and since it is set down as an effect of the Spirit of grace and supplication or as some read it lamentation which was to be poured out upon them it cannot rationally be expounded any otherwise than to intend that godly sorrow which shall in that day that is die conversionis eorum in the day of their conversion be expressed by them for so hainous a crime As it is here foretold it was afterwards accomplished On the day of Pentecost the Spirit of God did in a visible and glorious manner decend upon the Apostles to furnish them with gifts and fill them with courage for preaching the Gospel At that time one of the Apostles S t Peter preached to the Jews and set before them them the hainousnesse of the fact which they had committed and when they heard this saith the Pen-man of the Acts they were pricked in their hearts and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and brethren what shall we do Whilest they heard S t Peters Sermon the Spirit of grace was poured upon them and so at once their ears their eyes and hearts were opened to hear reproof and see and bewail their wickednesse Nor was it a slight and superficiall sorrow but a great and deep mourning so deep that it went to their heart and so great that according to the Emphasis of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there used it was as if the sharpest points of many poisoned Daggers and Scorpions stings had been all at once fastned in their hearts And of the word here used by the Septuagint it was such a sorrow as did cut and vexe and wound their spirits nor yet was their sorrow confined to their hearts but it breaketh out at their lips and no doubt testified it self in their gesture for the Hebrew word in the Text properly refers ad externum gestum to the outward behaviour They that had shed the bloud of Christ by the instigation of the Devil shed tears by the effusion of the holy Ghost and as they had cruelly wounded him to the death they are penitently mercifully by his Word and Spirit themselves wounded with repentance unto life From this part of my Text thus unfolded give me leave to present you with these five Meditations 1. The day of a sinners Turning is a day of mourning true conversion is ever attended with contrition Man is described by the Philosopher to be animal rationale risible a reasonable living creature endued with the power of laughing but the new man is described by the Divine to be animal spirituale flebile a spiritually living creature endued with the grace of weeping When God doth inspirare breath in his Spirit the sinner cannot but suspirare breath forth sighs when he doth infundere pour in his grace the sinner begins effundere to pour out tears Turn you unto me saith the Lord with all your heart with weeping and mourning rent your hearts and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God where you may observe that turning to God must be accompanied with weeping mourning and renting the heart with sorrow for our sins whereby we have turned from him and which seemeth a riddle but is an undoubted truth we must at once turn to God with all our hearts and with a broken heart yea that we may turn to God with our whose heart we must rent our hearts Indeed on the one hand conversion could it be without contrition will not serve Non sufficit mores in melius commutare saith St. Angustine nisi etiam de his quae facta satisfiat deo per penitentiae dolorem humilitatis gemitum contritionis sacrificium It is not enough to amend our manners for the time to come unlesse we make satisfaction for what is past by the sorrow of repentance groans of humility and sacrifice of contrition But on the other hand it is impossible true conversion should be without contrition Wash you make you clean saith God by the Prophet Isaiah to the Jews to intimate that we cannot be made clean unlesse we first wash our selves with the tears of penitential grief Godly sorrow saith St. Paul worketh repentance as the sharp needle maketh way for the thred Conversion is a Regeneration a new Birth which cannot be without pangs though not in all alike yet in all some the building which is raised high must be laid low so must that reformation which is to salvation be founded in a sincere humiliation 2. Mourning for sinne must not onely be internal but external True the Prophet Joel saith Rent your hearts and not your garments but that must be taken as a comparative not an absolute negation In that day saith the Prophet Isaiah did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and mourning to baldnesse and to girding with sackeloth where every word refers to external expression weeping to the eye baldnesse to the head sackcloth to the body and the Hebrew word for mourning the same with this in the Text to the behaviour of the outward man We see in natural mourning when the heart is grieved it will find a vent We observe in civil mourning what correspondency there is in the habit and think we that religious mourning ought not to shew it self as well as either such I mean as the Text intends not closet sorrow for secret but publick for open sinnes This I am sure was the practice of the people of God of old who at the times of their solemn humiliation were wont to rend their garments sprinkle ashes upon their heads put on sackcloath and the like And if we reflect upon the practice of the primitive Christians we shall find penetents prostrate at the Church doore with neglected haire hollow eyes withered faces bare feet begging the prayers of Saints washing the feet of Lazars never thinking they could abase themselves sufficiently But alas how is the face of Christendome especially in our parts altered Repentance is grown stately and even upon such dayes