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
A19411	A treatise against traitors Meete for all faithfull subiects in these dangerous dayes. Taken out of the 40. chapter of Ieremye, the 13, 14, 15, 16. verses, and 41. 1, 2, 3, 4. Made and published for the benefite of the Church and common wealth of England: by Samuell Cottesford Minister and publique preacher of the woord of God.	Cottesford, Samuel.	1591 (1591)	STC 5840; ESTC S116422	48,076	146

to whom especiall trust is cōmitted in regarde of their honourable places in the name of God are to be remēbred in all humble and submisse duetye that they for the preseruation of the prince are to watche ouer the knowne enemies to the state Church and countrye such as vsually haue opposed themselues to Kings princes through all Christendom being specially sworn Papists for the Popes own side such as haue made it a special poīt of their faith the groūd of which their heresie rests vpon that cursed counsell of Trent which is that they may lawfully depose and any way ouerthrowe by secret and open practises the state of any Christian prince professing the Gospell of whom to speak much only by the waye to their honnors is not needefull being alreadye a matter for the most parte knowne and lawes against the same prouided to the abating of their presumption and pretensed practises against the state present But also diligent watch by their honors and all inferiour Magistrates vnder them must be kept ouer that hereticall sect of Anabaptists who thorough Sathans malice vnder a cloake of the Gospel and a prepostrous zeale doe wonderfully grow in the land especially in those Cities and Townes populous where the word of God is most diligently preached and if the question bee asked why there rather then else where the answere is this Because there they doe most of all arise and spring vp that the diligence of the minister in preaching of the word is no more cause therof then the truth is cause of error But rather the subtiltie of Sathan who there more rageth then in any place else because his kingdome is more neere to the ouerthrow then where ignorance reignes and the kingdome of Christ is not preached at all Who although that they haue not put foorth nor published that mayne poynt or Maxime of the professed Anabaptistes which is vtterly to denie the lawefull essence or being of a Magistrate yet haue they daungerously sought and still doe seeke to infringe the authoritie of the supreme Magistrate making more reckning of their owne meetings in priuate and their subtill decrees made as we say vnder a hedg in euery assembly of their own then of any publique edict law or ordinance made by publique lawfull Princes Magistrates Iudges Ministers in a publique and nationall assembly lawfully in the name of God met and assembled for the redressing of things amisse either in Church or cōmon welth By whō also it is to be feared that that other point of the Anabaptisticall cōmunitie a most diuelish and damnable eliberty wil be reteined if God by the power of his word of the one side the Magistrates sword on the other do not speedily reclaym thē whō when they haue giuen thēselues liberty to rayle vppon not onely the Church gouernors but also vpon the ciuill Magistrates in vnlawfull tearms and most reprochfull speeches what is to be feared they wil do if they shold grow to a head if God in his rich mercy do not vouchsafe them the sight of their grosse pestiferous errors and concerning those knowne sworne purposed aduersaries of the present cōdition state Prouiso alwaies being had that a true difference be made betweene the good subiect the bad the one not to be takē for th'other but the gilty person to be culpable of his owne fact That I may come againe to the worde in Exodus chap. 21. to the admonishing of them that are carefull and forwarde to bee more forwarde Moses in that place to great purpose sayth If an Oxe gore a man or woman that he die the Oxe shalbe stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten but the owner of the Oxe shall goe quitte 29. If the Oxe were woont to push in times past and it hath beene tolde his master and he hath not kept him and after he killeth a man or woman the Oxe shall be stoned and his owner shall die also So deare vnto the Lord hath the life of man in generall beene Howe much more straight will he be in taking account of the care that euery man hath had especially them to whome more then an ordinary care is committed of the safety of their Prince and sole gouernour But that this Treatise may be according to my purpose generall and teaching all persons how to beare thēselues in this case towardes their Prince Salomon againe in his booke of the Preacher called Ecclesiastes speaketh most excellently in the 10. Chapter 20. verse Curse not thy King no not in thy thought neyther curse the rich in thy bed chamber for the foules of heauen shall carrie the voyce that which hath winges shal declare the matter What say some to this why according to the cōmon prouerbe thought is free though a man dare not vse his weapon vnto violence nor his tongue to ill speeches yet who shall stay a mans thought I answere thee that the law of God is made also for a bridle to thy very thoughtes lustes and against the very motions of sinne which before that euer they come into the outward act are then censured by the Lorde as giltie of his wrath When they do but make a proffer through Sathan of assaulting mans heart vnto a consenting with them so that in as much as mans hart is the lodging place resting seate and harborough for sinne it standeth with the Lordes iustice to giue a lawe to the heart for to bridle and restrayne it with Poperie brookes not this doctrine it holdes the heart and affections of man to be ouermuch captiuated vnto Gods lawe sayth it yea Poperie which is wholy conuersant in exalting the corrupt nature of man aboue measure doth thinke this doctrine to be an ouer great abacement of so glorious a creature as man is and to sette downe a principle of theirs in a worde and their reason flatte opposite to the 10. precept which they neuer thoroughly vnderstood this is their principle Concupiscentia in Baptizat is non est peccatum That is concupiscence in thē that are baptized is no sinne their reason is Quia stimulus est ad exercendam virtutem because say they it is a spur to the exercysing of vertue Paule is vtterly against them For they that are Christes sayth hee haue crucified the fleshe with the affections and Iustes thereof to omitte what hee sayth concerning the same at large proouing it from himselfe in the 7. chap. to the Romans The thing then that Salomon the pen man of the holy Ghost teacheth is that so far must any person be from doing or speaking ill of the state of a Prince as that the verye thought should bee brought vnder the obedience of God and heerein helde captiues vnto his commaundementes To this doctrine so many as hauing not the feare of God in their tongues only but fearing him in their heartes will willinglye yeelde To stande too much vpon the thoughtes of men to be brought vnder no