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
A65389	A further discovery of that generation of men called Qvakers by way of reply to an answer of James Nayler to The perfect Pharisee : wherein is more fully layd open their blasphemies, notorious equivocations, lyings, wrestings of the Scripture, raylings and other detestable principles and practices ... / published for the building up of the perseverance of the saints till they come to the end of their faith, even the salvation of their soules.	Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1268; ESTC R27879	78,750	103

Iesus Christ these things of the Kingdome of God are not knowne to the man or Princes of this VVorld but what is this to prove this therefore it is lawfull for George Fox to say he is the Iudge of the World Did ever Paul or any of the Apostles conclude from their spirit of discerning that they were the ●udges of the World Will a discerning of the mysteries of the Gospel rayse up men to sit in Christs Throne and to judge and condemne and pronounce irrevocable sentence against others as the practice of some of the Quakers is That spirit of discerning is there onely attributed to the spirituall man as to the mysteries of the Gospel Will a discerning of Gospel mysteries prove a power to discerne the fi●al state and condition of soules what i● shall be to all eternity Is there not a large ignorance of their owne hearts even in such as have a large measure in Knowledge of Gospel Doctrines And is not this the Prerogative of God to search the hearts Ier. 17.10 Ioh. 1.25 And is discerning judging all one 1 Tim. 5.24 Some mens sins are open before hand yea God doth now fully discerne and know the states of soules yet the judging of the world speaks more then a bare act of Knowledge and discerning For there is a time when that God that knoweth the thoughts of mens hearts yet doth not execute this sentence of judgement upon their soules Eccles 8.11 Rev. 6.10 How long O Lord c. dost thou not judge c. but God hath the day of his wrath and of the revelation of his righteous judgement Rom. 2.5 So that he that shall consider how farre short discerning doth fall of this sort of judging how farre short discerning of Doctrines doth fall of either judging or discerning the future and finall state of soules how evidently this Scripture is wrested to lift up sinfull creatures into a blasphemous arrogancy of the very Attributes and Office of Christ will easily see how sinfully Nayler hath done to serve the Antichristian pride of Fox who as God 2 Thes 2.4 will needs fit in the Temple of God and shew himselfe that he is God Excep 4 To our Proofe further That George Fox was called by one of those Quakers the Sonne of God Nayler sayes You that are offended that one shall witnesse the Sonne of God shew that you are ignorant of the new birth c. 1 Iohn 3.1.2 Behold c. that we should be called the Sons of God Now blush for sh●me that you should be Ministers of the Letter and are ignorant ●f it Thus farre he Reply How Christ the Sonne of God how the Saints are Sonnes That Iesus Christ is onely the Sonne of God essentially and according to Scripture expression emphatically and distinguishingly called the Sonne of God is very cleare Mat. 16.16 Simon Peter answered and said thou art Chr●st the Sonne of the living God This is that ●amous confession of Peter which Christ said Fl●sh and blood had not revealed to him which is in that express●on raysed up to such a pitch that it is impossible it should be meant in the o●dinary notion of the Sons of God as when applyed to regenera●e persons as is plaine by these two eminent expr●ssions of flesh and Blood hath not revealed this unto thee and upon this confession not upon Peters person ver 18. Vpon this Rocke I will build my Church and the gates of Hel● shall not prevaile against it Consonant to this is that upon the miracle wrought by Christ Mat. 14.33 they in the Ship worshipped and said of a truth thou art the Sonne of God Can George Fox testifie his be●ng the Sonne of God by such a miracle Nay Heb. 1.5 you have a challenge for the distinguish●ng Sonne-ship of Ch●ist Vnto which of the Angels said he at any time thou art my Sonne this day have I begotten thee ver 8 But unto the Sonne he saith Thy throne O God is for ever and ever Here you have his Sonne ship vindicated from being communic●b●e even to the very Angels though in other places called the Sonnes of God Iob 1.6 Iob. 38.7 when the Sonnes of God shouted for joy Thus we have proved the essentiall Sonne-ship of Chr●st and how that expression the Sonne of God is emphatically and distinguishingly given to him so as not to be communicable to the best of creatures For the creatures of God when any of them are called the Sonnes of God it is upon one of these two accounts 1. Either of Creation Luke 3.38 Adam i● called the Sonne of God 2. Or of Adoption Gal. 4.5 to redeeme them that were under the Law that they might receive the adoption of Sonnes We know what the adoption of Sonne-ship of Beleevers is and doe blesse God that this manner of love is given us that we should be called the Sonnes of God 1 John 3.1 But first Either hence to appropriate Christ his incommunicable title of being by eternall generation the Sonne of God Or secondly from that adoption to assert an equality with God we can account no lesse then blasphemy Now let the Reader know that the reason why we produced that expression of George Fox being called the Sonne of God by one of that way was to prove their conceipts of an equality with God Had Nayler confessed that his looking upon Fox c. as son by adoption doth not carry him up to l●o●e upon them as equall with God we should n●t ha●e troubled the Reader further as to this particular but in stead of confessing he goes about to prove what the other had asserted so that we hav● reason still to see ●hat name of Sonne but made a cl●ake to usher in Foxes his in ruding into being distingui●hingly and emphatically called the Son●e of God and being ●cc●●ding to his owne wo ds equall with the Father But if they will sti l play with the Phrase of the Sonne of God yet the understanding Reader will ob●erve that that expr●ssion was but one of the six Proofes we gave that th●y had asserted an equality with God three of which are already evident b●yond ex●eption There are two more deep and pertinent pro●fes against them as to this One is That their usuall expression is th t hey can see mens hearts questionlesse this is Gods in ommunicable Attribute Jer. 17.10 I the Lord se●rch ●he hearts The other is an expression us●d by Nayler himselfe to o●e of us to this purpose How God should reve le any thing to him ●●●l e viz. Nayler not know it As if God knew nothing but Nayler knew it Oh the h rriblenesse of such exp●essio●● the Reader may wonder with what patience we can wr●te such thin●s Yet these two so fully speaking to prove that they assert an equality with God Nayler wholly passeth over though himse●fe w●s the a●●ertor of one of them So that it still stands fully evident against them that they doe assert an eq●ality with God