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	thought_n	2,232	5	7.4706	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02223	The great day, or, A sermon, setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of iudgement Preached at Saint Andrews in Holborne at London By Nathaniel Grenfield, Master of Artes, and preacher of the Word of God at Whit-field in Oxfordshire.	Grenfield, Nathaniel, b. 1588 or 9.	1615 (1615)	STC 12358; ESTC S118555	51,838	174

wicked Infidels shall be iudged the one being cleared the other condemned in their owne conscience Ambrose thinketh that the righteous only shall come into Iudgement quia festinant innoxij adiudicium the righteous they do hasten to Iudgement and long to heare that cōfortable sentence pronounced Come yee blessed of my Father c. But the places may better be reconciled thus there is a twofold Iudgement a Iudgement of absolution and a Iudgement of condemnation The wicked shall not stand in that Iudgement which the righteous shall receiue as namely to bee quitted and absolued The latter part of the verse thus expounding the former nor the sinners in the assembly of the righteous and the righteous shall not come into Iudgement that is shall not bee condemned with the wicked for they shall both be iudged apart the one at the right hand Mat. 25.34.41 Non iudicabitur .i. no● condemnabitur Irenaeus the other at the left hand of Christ and shall receiue a farre different doome as farre as a curse differs from a blessing hell from heauen so that the Texts alleaged are thus to bee reconciled The righteous shall not come into Iudgement that is into condemnation the wicked shall not stand in Iudgement that is they shall be conuinced in their owne conscience of the iust sentence and deserued condemnation that they shall not be able to gaine say or contradict Now the strictnesse of their account will appeare if wee consider how many things they shall bee call'd vnto an account for First De cogitationibus of the thoughts of our heartes though neuer so secretly contriued though neuer vttered by the tongue though neuer acted by the hand yet if there be a deliberate consent and free approbation of the will and affections and a full resolution to put the same in practice if we had place and fit opportunitie I say this sinne of thought shall not goe for nought at the day of Iudgement else why should the Lord take notice of all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart Genes 6.5 why should the Lord desire so much the heart My sonne giue mee thy heart but because it is the roote and fountaine either of good or euill If it be the storehouse of good things and Treasurie of diuine meditations it is a Temple meete for God to dwell in but if it bee a cage of vncleane birds of euill thoughts it is already possessed with so many deuils If the euil thoughts of the heart were not sinnes and so by a consequent come to Iudgement Why should the Lord stile himselfe the searcher of the heart and trier of the reines were it not so punish according to the saying of the Wise man There shall inquisition be made for the thoughts of the vngodly there shall not a wicked thought passe in Iudgement Wis 1.9 If adultery be a sinne and lusting after a woman though it breakes not out into act be adulterie Matth. 5.28 And no adulterer shall enter into the Kingdome of Heauen 1. Cor. 6.9.10 then are the thoughts of the heart sinne and so by a consequent they shall come to Iudgement and shall preuaile in Iudgement If manslaughter be a sinne as indeede it is a crying sinne 1. Ioh. 4.15 and if he that hateth his brother be a manslayer and no man-slayer shall inherit the Kingdome of Heauen Reuel 21.8 then are the thoughts of the heart sinne and they shall bee brought foorth to the condemnation of the wicked at the day of Iudgement Hence is it that our Sauiour Christ so sharpely inueigheth against the Scribes and Pharises who stood so much vpon their owne righteousnesse in fulfilling the Law thinking that if they did not violate the Law in act by killing or committing adultery or by any other actuall transgression contrary to the Law of God that they had performed the Law to a haires bredth But our Sauiour reproouing them and their righteousnesse which they did so much extol that they should not enter into the Kingdome of Heauen notwithstanding this their righteousnesse sheweth that there was a stricter course required in performing the Law for whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shall bee culpable of iudgement Matth. 5.22 The Law condemneth euery inclination to be euill and the heart doth kill as well as the hand in will in wish in desire the heart committeth adultery the heart doth steale as well or rather ill as the outward members For if we consent to those wicked motions suggested by Satan though wee neuer performe them outwardly in act yet before God wee haue done the sinne and if the thought bee truly sinne farre greater is that sinne of act Yea the sinne of thought is not onely a sinne but is the very originall the fountaine and roote from whence all other sinnes do spring and therefore saith our Sauiour Christ That which goeth into the man defileth not the man but those things which come forth from the hart as euil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witnesses blasphemies these defile the man Mat. 15.19 So that there is not a sinne of what nature soeuer great or small from the least infirmitie to the highest blasphemie but it had its first beginning from the heart thought is the seede of all sins and though but a spark at the first yet wil it encrease into a flame if it be not repressed For this is sins gradation first Hall Meditat there is presented a fit obiect from the obiect is raised an il suggestion suggestion brings on delight delight consent consent endeuour endeuour practice practice custome custome excuse excuse defence defence obstinacie obstinacy boasting of sinne and boasting of sinne a reprobate sense when the custome of sinne hath taken away the sense of sinne and miserable man is sold as a bondslaue vnto Satan to commit wickednes euen with greedines And therefore Salomons counsel in this kind is very worthy to be embraced Keepe thine heart with all diligence for thereout commeth life If thou keepest it not diligently and warily thereout will proceed death Prouerbs 4.23 As Christs aduice vnto the Church is that the little * Heresies Foxes be taken and bee kild whilest they are but Cubs not that they can doe much harme but if they liue vntill they bee Foxes they will spoile kill and make a prey of any thing whatsoeuer euen so the thoughts of the heart at the first may seeme to be but small sinnes but if they bee not slaine at the first and smothered as soone as they be conceiued they will breake forth into actuall transgressions and so lade the soule with sinne kill therfore these Cockatrices in the egge slay them whilest they be but Cubs Oh happie is he that taketh these young children and dasheth their braines against the stones and so much the rather because they are sinnes and shall come to Iudgement for the Lord shall iudge the secrets of men Rom. 2.16 Secondly Inquisition shall not