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	sin_n	soul_n	2,417	5	4.9548	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26309	Dying infants sav'd by grace proved and the blessd man with his blessedness described in a sermon preached near Namptwich in Cheshire at the burial of a deceased infant, July 25, 1695 / by S.A.	Acton, Samuel, d. 1740?	1699 (1699)	Wing A452; ESTC R28175	24,873	32

sweet that is only made so by the help of some strong Perfume in the Mouth as we may learn from our Blessed Saviour's reprehending the Hypocrisy of the Jews saying as Mat. 15.8 This People draws nigh unto me with their Mouth and do honour me with their Lips but their Hearts are far from me Every Law of God calls for an inward as well as an outward conformity it would be unworthy to put off God with the Shell and Husk of our Services who requires Truth in the inward Parts Psal 51.6 And not only so but 2. God calls for Constancy in Obedience 'T is not enough that we are obedient by fits and starts for a spurt and away but that we abide and continue in the Work of the Lord. And what more reasonable than that we who are always under the influence of his Goodness and benefits of his Grace should express constancy in our Obedience Want of this was the procuring cause of the many miseries and calamities that afflicted Israel and as it could not go well with them because of their inconstancy so it cannot go well with us till we be stedfast immoveable always abounding in the Work of the Lord as is evident from the Lord 's wishing that it were so with Israel that it might go well with them and their Children for ever Deut. 5.29 And 3. The Lord calls also for Universal Obedience Partiality in God's Service will never characterize us to be such whom he fatours any more than it did King Saul in sparing Agag King of the Amalekites with the best of their Sheep and Oxen which God gave him commandment to destroy as you may see at large in 1 Sam. 15. To do some things in Religion which may bid fair to crown us with fame and reputation inrolling our Names among those who by Men are accounted devout while we leave undone those things which 't is like if done may prove to our cost and procure the contemptible eye and frowns of Men upon us would be as arch Hypocrisy in us as it was in the Scribes and Pharisees to tithe their Anise Mint and Cummin while they omitted the more weighty matters of the Law as Judgment Mercy and Faith Mat. 23.23 Now as we would be universal 't is necessary that we be regular in our Obedience for disorder and confusion in the Lord's Service will never evince us the Men to whom the Lord imputes not Sin It would be Sin in us to neglect a due regard of the rules God hath given us for the right methodizing of our Obedience as we might shew from that instance of Nadab and Abihu's crooked and preposterous proceeding in the Lord's work Levit. 10.1 2. Therefore as Solomon ascended his Throne by steps so we in God's Service must proceed from one Duty to another and all in order as we shall briefly demonstrate 1. As all Men have sinned I mean the Adult so it is in reason the duty of all Men to repent and to lie prostrate at the foot of God's Mercy as a posture best becoming such Traitors and Rebels as we have been Nay 't is incumbent upon all to repent as inforced by the Authority of God's Law commanding Tho God winked at the times of Ignorance yet now he requires all Men every where to repent Acts 17.30 Again Repent and be converted that your Sins may be blotted out Acts 3.19 2. Upon a sense of Sin and our misery by Sin 't is our Duty by a vigorous and lively Faith to lay hold upon Jesus Christ and his Righteousness for our Justification who is the alone Redeemer and restorer of lost Creatures If it be the demand of any poor Sinner What they must do to be saved the Answer is Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 16.31 So also John 6.28 29. 3. Having repented of Sin and profest Faith in Christ and by the Grace of God in a good measure reformed our Lives 't is no less our Duty by God's Command to be Baptized or Dipped in Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost as Matth. 28.19 20. And upon our Obedience to God herein we have the pardon of Sin assured to us Acts 2.38 and 8.37 38. and 22.16 We confess with Grief that this Ordinance through the corruption of Men is become a despicable low and contemptible thing in the eyes of the World who are held in hand by too many of the Learned with an Opinion that they were Baptized in their Infancy altho in truth they were not nor was it needful they should yet the generality of Men are contented to be thus put off with one thing for another to wit Rantism for Baptism But let all have a care they do not entertain light Thoughts of this Duty to a neglecting of it since God hath been pleased to intail the pardon of Sin upon a conscientious performance of it and not only so but it states us in an undeniable Right to all the privileges of the Church of Christ into which being thus entred by Baptism we are not there to rest as if all our work was done but 4. It remains that we there abide attentively to hear and diligently to learn what the Lord shall teach us from time to time to be his Will and our Duty that by doing his Will and suffering his Pleasure we may appear to be good proficients growing up to such a degree of Holiness as may render us Ornaments to our holy Profession be sutable to the holy Vocation wherewith we were called and to the Place and Privileges wherein God hath stated us and so may never want an Evidence to our Comfort that we are those to whom the Lord imputes no Sin The Third Property common to such is a compassionate merciful and charitable temper of Mind The Mercy of God hath raised them to a good degree and pitch of Generosity and Kindness they are like their Heavenly Father in a great measure apt to forgive not of a quarrelsome injurious and revengeful Temper not as it is with many but a word and a blow not for the taking their fellow Servants by the Throat with rigour exacting the utmost farthing and satisfaction from them No but under the influence of the divine Bounty are sweetly disposed to forgive Wrongs to pass by Injuries and Offences in imitation of a Meek and Holy Jesus and of his faithful Servant Stephen who in Compassion to his very Persecutors before his Death seeing Heaven opened to him prefer'd his Petition to God that he would not lay their Sin to their charge as Acts 7.60 But the Fourth and last Property I shall name common to every Man to whom the Lord imputes not Sin is that of Thankfulness The design of his whole Life is to express the gratitude of his Soul to God the Language of his Heart is that of Praise and his Mouth is full of Hallelujahs and thankful Acknowledgments of the divine Goodness David says Bless the Lord O my Soul