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
A86017	A sermon preached (before God, and from him) to the Honourable House of Commons. At a publike fast, Novemb. 27. in the yeare GoD Is oVr refVge, oVr strength; a heLpe In troVbLes VerIe aboVnDant VVe finDe. By George Gipps rector of Elston in Leicester-shire, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.	Gipps, George, d. 1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing G779; Thomason E23_3; ESTC R18994	29,030	37

arrive at shelter to repose our selves in All which three readings joyned make up the full sence thus A heart rightly anchored by hope in God may safely fly unto him and so doing securely shelter himselfe in him Suffice this for the fourth word Ainsworth God will be to us a hopefull shelter and a strength a helpe in distresses we shall find very great to wit a very great helpe in distresses we shall find him or he is found or a helpe in distresses which we shall find very great The 5. followeth And strength Not only strong in the concrete but strength it selfe in the abstract that is absolute infinite and alfufficient strength And so it may looke either backward to shelter or forward to helpe Both are most full thus God is so all sufficient in strength that who fly to him for shelter shall certainely have help from him This for the fifth word The 6. followeth A help or helper So is it diversely read The former signifieth the quality the latter the person so qualified both in one make up our fulnes or comfort God who undertaketh is fully gifted and qualified for what he undertaketh not as many men beare the name of what they have no skill to performe both in Church and State Let this satisfie for the sixth word The 7. followeth In trouble or troubles So are the severall readings Hieror out of the Hebrew reades it thus all comes up to one full sence The former the singular number so take it distributively in each and any single trouble whatsoever the latter the plurall number Deus nostra spes fortitudo auxilium in tribulationibus inventus es validum And out of the Septuagints thus so take it collectively in all troubles doubled and multiplyed how many soever The next word will perfect these which we passe unto The 8. and last word or rather words and phrase very present so we reade it but the originall with divers translations expresse the verbe Find and that either thus we shall find very present great aboundant yea too too present great and aboundant And all these severall readings are the least part of the variety of their expositions Deus noster resugium virius adiutor in tribulationibus quae im●enerunt nos nimis Whom Augustine and generally the ancients follow Ambrosius thus glosseth on it Be. for as much as some to fill up the sence doe joyne them to helpe thus we shall find God a very present yea too too present great and aboundant help others to troubles thus God a helpe in very present yea too too present great and aboundant troubles which we shall find A third sort joyne both in one and take all together as the most full sence thus Gods Saints in this life are sure to find very present great and aboundant troubles yea too great for them to beare but that their comfort is that they are as sure to find God a very present great and aboundant helpe in all those their troubles yea too great to be overcome by them Some more varieties of readings there are of lesse moment which I shall passe over when I shall have acquainted you with Augustins descant namely ●…atimes ad ●…atorem ut ●…culationes abundant ad●…at Moll●…us Deus nobis pro●… obur aux●… in tribulaationibus abualè ●… in●…entus est valdè in as much as the verbe finde may also be read Be found passively we find in the world outward troubles but me are found of our sinnes which doe dogge us home to our consciences troubling them and these are those too too great troubles but herein also is our comfort that we are found of God as a helpe in this most desperate case also For so Acts 2. upon Peters preaching their crucifying of the Sonne of God their sinne found them out that they were pricked at the heart and cryed out what shall we doe yet heard this word of comfort Repent and be baptised for the remission of your sinnes and ye shall receive the gift of the holy Ghost What may not be forgiven when this is forgiven for a patient to kill his Phisitian comming to cure him yea and so forgiven as the bloud of that Phisitian which they let out is given him to drinke for his perfect cure Thus Augustine Non invenerum peccata ●…ua sea inventisunt in eis sed ●…nerunt ad●…torium Quid ●…us agro quam 〈…〉 dimitditur quid non ●…ttitur ag●…ite bap●…zemint ●…s Austin Give me leave to adde one thing more to compleat the sence and so put an end to the first generall part propounded the explication of the words There being no other verbe in the Originall Hebrew expressed but this ●inde not that other is or shall be nor any other in liew thereof what necessity is there that we supply any but string all the words of our text upon this verbe Find which we find in the Hebrew and let it runne through them all making one entile rich chaine thus we shall find God our refuge strength and very present helpe in trouble thus in our English not to repeat the descants any more Thus of the explication The second generall followeth Observation of the doctrinall truths where give me leave first to recount all those hitherto found out and thence to cull out some choice ones List Owne we that one only God that made all c. as Acts 17. Second Rest we not untill we have made this God our God by most sure and firme covenant Third So doing wee may securely anchor our hope in him Fourth So hoping we may in all straights fly unto him Fifth So flying he will give us shelter and harbour Sixth And yet no tottering shelter but of strength alsufficient Seventh Yet not securing us from finding troubles very present great and aboundant exceeding our strength to beare Eighth Yet with this comfort that in all of them we are sure to find God a more present great and aboundant helper most able and willing to helpe us through Ninth Hasten we to find out our sinnes by repentance least that we be found out by them in an accusing conscience Tenth Yet even therein is our comfort that we shall upon our repentance for the most hainous sinnes be found out of God in pardon and forgivenesse yea if we are of the election of grace we shall be sought and found out of God to bring us to repentance and salvation Lastly from all this joyntly in one let us so gather experiments of what is past as to settle our resolution for that which is to come and from both exult we with elevation both of heart and voice We shall find God our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble A Text full of comfort were we as full of faith to improve it with best advantage to our soules But however all these are excellent divine truths and might plentifully be made good out of Gods word yet in