Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	action_n	bring_v	good_a	2,497	5	4.1633	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59215	Rex theologus the preachers guard and guide in his double duty of prayer and preaching : deduced from scripture, reason, and the best examples : in three parts ...	Seppens, Robert.	1664 (1664)	Wing S2560; ESTC R37366	44,281	75

Conversi ad Dominum Deum Patrem omnipotentem puro corde ei quantum potest parvit as nostra maximas atque uberes grati as agamus precantes toto animo singularem magnitudinem ejus ut preces nostr as in beneplacito suo exaudire dignetur inimicum quoque à nostris actibus cogitationibus sua virtute expellat nobis multiplicet fidem mentem gubernet spirituales cogitationes concedat ad beatitudinem suam perducat Turning unto the Lord God Father almighty let us render unto him all possible thanks beseeching him with all our hearts that he would out of his singular mercy and good pleasure vouchsafe to hear our prayers drive away the enemy from our actions and thoughts increase our faith govern our minds grant spiritual cogitations and at last bring us to his happiness through Jesus Christ his Son Amen This was S. Augustines prayer he concludes his Sermon withall sometimes and yet if it be observed it is no formal prayer but an invitation to prayer a Bidding prayer like that in our Canons Bidding prayers it seems were in use before ours in the Canon I wish to God that these later Ages had contained themselves within the bounds and limits of his sobriety and modesty we should have had no cause then to complain of the innumerable evils occasioned by the abuse of this Liberty As First the hiding and concealing the beauty of the Liturgy from the common people which had shined as illustriously as the Sun at noon-day had not this novel usage as the Moon interposed it self betwixt it and their sight Though all men that took up that fashion did not foresee the evil nor intend it Yet this was clearly the event and the design also of those Empiricks who pretended to a peculiar gift of prayer and praying by the Spirit for if they were guided by the Spirit in their Conceptions and the Church not guided by the Spirit in her solemn Forms what else could follow in the peoples Logick but that the Common prayers of the Church were vain and superfluous Secondly the diffemination of False Doctrine S. Jerom observes lib. 2. epist 81. that there are many Habentes affectum erroris cum praedicandi eundem non habent libertatem Love errours that have not liberty to preach it And because they have not liberty to preach it by this new arrifice they learn to pray it broach all manner of false Doctrine in their prayers If the prayers of these men be not looked into as well as their Sermons they 'l pray all into confusion the King out of his Throne Peace and Truth out of the Church and People out of their Wits A third evil comes by this Liberty is singular dishonour to God and scandal to Christian People For the most Seraphick of these men when they venture upon extemporary prayers happen to lose themselves oftentimes and that their imperfections may not be discerned they have an art to fill up the chasmes with Humms and Haws which the poor people are made to beleeve are the groanings of the Spirit or else with miserable tautologies or which is worse execrable blasphemies If all the nonsense and blasphemy were gathered together which have faln from men in their effusrons of late time they would make a volume as great as Thomas Aquin as summs I shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foul a little paper with a narration of some of them and those no stories taken up upon common fame and flying report but such as were attested by persons of integrity and ear witnesses We pray thee O God saith one not onely to destroy Heaven but all the glory that hath been in the Souls of thy people and create a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein may dwell the immediate ashes of thine own glory Though thou sittest in the highest Heavens yet thou beholdest all things that are done here below both in Heaven and Earth Let the Keys of our hearts O Lord hang at the girdle of our God O Lord tye our hands behind us that we may not cut the throats of our own souls Another being at a loss in his prayer prayed God to give him Conserve of Barberies At a Market Town in Norfolk there being a solemn meeting in order to the setting up of the Presbyterian Government when one had in his Sermon given instruction to the Lay-Elders how to demean themselves and told them for that purpose they must be as Chirurgions have Ladies hands Hawks eyes and Lions hearts A zealous Disciplinarian taking upon him to pray over the Sermon besought God to give to the Lay Elders Ladies hands Hawks eyes and Lions pawes When the twelve Bishops were sent to the Tower in the beginning of the long Parliament one in his prayer before his Sermon gave God thanks that he had set Christ Jesus twelve steps higher upon his throne than ever he was before Another being to preach a Funeral Sermon when the honest Curate had read the 8. chap. of Eccles verse 4. where Solomon delivered the Divine Maxim Where the word of a King is there is power and who can say to him what doest thou fearing the people might be poison'd with Solomons Divinity used this Antidote in his prayer before his Sermon O Lord though Solomon taught that Kings might not be controld yet we thy people know by thy spirit that Kings may be questioned and called to account c. Another when a great many Horses dyed of the disease about him desired God in his prayer before Sermon to take off the Disease from innocent Beasts and lay it upon Men. The same at another time prayed God to forgive him and the people assembled the sins of their Norfolkness Another upon a defeat given to the Parliaments army by the Kings forces used this expression in his prayer before Sermon O Lord thou hast gone forth with our armies why dost thou now hang an arse Was there euer such unclean unhallowed stuff brought into the Sanctuary did the Jewes when they were most profane pollute the great name of God with such lame and maimed sacrifice did ever the Heathen invoke their false deities in such a rude and barbarous manner who took care ne quid praeposterè dicatur Let all sober and prudent men judge whether these look like dictates of the Spirit Did the Spirit teach the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to speak wisely and sententioussy And does it now teach men to play the fool and pray like mad men Let men consider whether these deformed conceptions be comparable to the grave and solemn praiers of the Church the production of 1500 years wisdome and experience or whether it be fit to leave men to their liberty of praying in publick when they have thus abused it to their own shame to the scandal of people and the infinite dishonour of God Another Innovation it seems to me is the Preaching of very young men out of their own stocks and abilities Amongst the Jews none