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	good_a	sin_n	2,029	5	4.5198	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45432	Daily thoughts, or, A miscellany of meditations holy & humane by Jos. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1651 (1651)	Wing H57; ESTC R25711	25,049	128

since the goodnesse of these is not measured by what is done but by what minde we doe it with Cursed be hee that doth the worke of the Lord negligently there is that curse upon negligent doing which upon unwilling leaving of it undone is not there is little difference between not doing what thou shouldest and not doing it as thou shouldest to doe thy duty for shew onely or in shew onely is to doe thy duty and be still undutifull if that which thou doest be right if the minde with which thou doest it be not so all is wrong and thou forfeitest the acceptation of what was good by the ill performance TWo things do not trouble thy selfe to know other mens faults nor other mens estates the estate of thine owne soule and the amendment of thine owne faults let that be thy study not thinke any sinne lesse because it is hid remember that to him that shall judge theo it is open and that in the last day God will not measure his judgement by ours the day of judgement will condemne many a man whom wee have quitted DO not practice Religion in shew onely yet shew it in thy practice thinke no sin little nor no good which thou doest great it is from the acceptance of God that it is good at all hope for but not challenge a reward of thy well doing yet not for it selfe but for what Christ hath done measure thy self not by what others are but by what thou oughtest to be remember thy sinnes with griefe and thy goodnesse the one for that thou hast been so bad the other that thou canst be no better and though thou canst not attaine to perfection on earth yet aim at it LAbour not onely to know what thou should'st be that most men do but to be so nor at all to know what other men are thou shalt not answer for it be carefull if thou canst to make others better by thy good counsell or at least not to make them worse by thy example BE ever contented with thy present estate but if thou canst better it doe not corruptly thrust thy selfe into any place and being in do nothing that may thrust thee out make the execution of thy office a discharge of thy conscience not an improvement of thy estate and desire any place rather to do good then to grow rich give no bribes to procure an unjust thing nor take none to doe one and if thou art in the place of judicature remember thy office is to give sentence but not sell it DO not make any sinne lesse by custome for as men do at first lesse like sinne so with continuance they do lesse feele it as those that are accustomed to carry burdens are lesse sensible of the weight and if thou doest now the same things with more ease do not thinke that the sinne is more light but that thou art more hardned and thy case is so much more desperate by how want of sense is neerer to death than paine feeling is an argument of life thou art a dead member if thou hast lost thy feling but here 's the misery that thou hast lost thy feeling in regard of sin but not of punishment FIx thy desires upon such things as may not shame thee in the obtaining and compassethy desires by such meanes as may not shame thee to own though that which thou seekest for be good yet while the way by which thou seekest for it be evill thou shamest the end by the way and shamest thy selfe in the end THinke no sinne little and make it not great by iteration what is a mountaine of earth but an accumulation of many little dusts What is a floud but a concurrence of many little drops a little pricke being neglected may fester to a Gangreen by how much that in which thou sinnest is lesse by so much thy sinne is the greater that wouldest dishonour God for so little a thing THinke of death as a thing thou must meet with and of thy life as a thing thou must part with and not to love too well that life that keepes thee from a better nor at all to feare that death that leades thee to a better life this life is a journey and the World an uneasie horse that with much jolting and some falls brings you to your home and why art thou unwilling to alight love rather that passage that leades to eternall happinesse than that life which keepes thee from it and not without continuall misery STudy rather to make thy selfe fir for any imployment and place than to thinke thy selfe so and be preferred by thy desert not by purchase slip no lawfull meanes to doe thy selfe good and use no unlawfull hee which groweth great by buying doth likely continue that greatnesse by selling MEasure thy wealth by thy minde not by thy estate a contented minde is ever rich but measure thy expence by thy estate not by thy minde not what thou wouldest do but what thou art able to doe thinke not frugality a disparagement nor out-run thy self to keepe pace with others this is to procure that which thou fearest and least thou shouldest be thought meane to become so many times a slow pace performes that journey whilst galloping tires by the way LEt thy thoughts be such to thy selfe as thou art not ashamed to have God know them and thy words such to God as thou art not afraid to have men hear them and let thy whole life be such toward God and man as that thou neither dishonour God by thy ill life nor draw others to the same dishonour of him by thy ill example PLeasure not thy selfe by wronging others nor with the unjust Steward make thee friends with other mens monies lest while thou wouldest buy other friends thou sell God come to promotion if thou canst by friends not by money if thou deservest it not thou wrongest others if thou deserve it thou wrongest thy selfe THe goodness of the mind is witnessed in the outward actions the goodnesse of the outward actions is determined by the intention and minde inward goodnesse without outward showes of it is like a Tree without fruit uselesse and outward shewes of goodnesse without inward sincerity is like a Tree without heart livelesse that thou art good inwardly in thy heart is thine owne comfort that thou dost ontwardly professe this goodnesse in thy life is others benefit thou thy selfe art not the better for that good nesse which thou dost not make shew of others are not the better for that goodnesse of which thou makest no shew so inward sincerity is required in respect of God outward profession only in respect of men by the first thou art a true Christian by the other it doth appeare that thou art so NEither undertake much nor talke much and that to the purpose deliver thy minde rather in profitable language than curious by this happily thou wilt gaine more applause but by the other thou wilt doe more good and it is

report not to report every thing thou believest not grant every thing which thou canst not answer but suspect rather thine owne insufficiency that cannot defend it then cry downe the matter as not to be defended BE sparing of thy commendations especially of thy selfe commend no man undeservedly that is flattery not thy selfe though never so deserving it is vaine glory DO not admire or applaud what thou understandest not do not seem to understand where thou dost not it is better to acknowledge thy ignorance and learn than falsly to profess learning and be still ignorant DEsire rather to doe well than to heare well if thou canst preserve to thy selfe a good report but be ambitious onely of a good conscience do not measure thy selfe by other mens reports nor measure other men by thy selfe aske thine owne heart and not their tongues what thou art LAbour to resorme thy selfe first let other mens finnes rather be the subject of thy griefe than of thy discourse so speake of other mens sinnes as that thou detract not from the person and so excuse or mitigate the slip of any person as that thou seem not to countenance the sin DOe not thinke thou art good enough so long as thou art not knowne to be otherwise and never thinke thy life so good as not to need mending SAy nothing but what thou meanest and promise nothing but what thou art able not to intend what thou speakest is to give thy heart the lye with thy tongue not to performe what thou promisest is to give thy tongue the lie with thy actions DOe not greedily find frult in any nor reporoachfully publish it but rather by a hiddenand oblique way to insinuate his error to him than detractingly to blaze it seeke not the advancement of thine owne wit by another mans folly not alwaies comply with the fortune and censure him that is downe not event nor condemne that as unadvisedly taken which succeeds ill PUt not off devotion and the Duties of Religion with want of leasure nor the needy and duties of charity with want of abilitie in both though never so straightned thou mayest doe somewhat though the lesse a sigh or a grow in the one and a cup of cold water in the other thou thou canst not be without WHen thou promisest think thou mayest bee taken at thy word be nothing in a word bee nothing in a complement which thou darest not stand to in earnest as there is lesse sinne so there is lesse wrong in denying than in not performing to deny is at most but a discourtesie not to performe is an injury for if thou denyest bee may seeke to others if thou deceivest hee failes of all it is lawfull for thee not to promise it is not lawfull for thee to breake promise OBserve what is good in any man and learne it what is evill and eschew it if any thing good in thy selfe to be thankefull for it or evill if evill of punishment to beare it if evill of sinne to repent of it not deride any mans imperfections but thank God that they are not thine not to scorn any friend for an errour but be sorry that he is wrong and be so much his friend as to endeavour to set him right FOr a servant ever to speake well of his Master if ill to speake the best if ill to him to impute it to his ill deserving is a duty yet a commendations to thinke obedience a vertue not servitude and that it is not the least mastery so farre to command ones selfe as to bee contented to submit to the command of others DO courtesies for others as gifts not looking for requitall receive courtesies of others a loanes and meaning to repay what favours thou doest for others to forget them if thou receivest any ever to remember them not to requite the injuries of an enemy with the like nor the good turnes of a friend onely with the like SPeak not censoriously of thy betters nor scornefully of thy inferiours not vaine gloriously of thy selfe not to boast of thy selfe that which thou never didst nor to assume to thy selfe the praise of that learning and wit which is not thine owne not slightly and undervaluingly to speake of other mens vertues and not at all of their vices not to thinke superciliousnesse majesty or a grave reservednesse wisdome as if thou wouldest bee therefore thought wise because thou sayest little not be a riddle which is rather to puzzle curiosity than to benefit society which man was made for and therefore be such rather as men may make use of thee than be troubled to know thee BE covetous of nothing but of doing good and bee prodigall of nothing but good counsell be slow in beleeving ill of any but slower in speaking it IN place of judicature looke not whose cause comes before thee but what and judge even thy brother not as a brother but a Judge not measure the sentence by the relation not sell judgement nor doe a profitable wrong it will never repent thee that thou art the poorer for doing right BE milde to all but know when to bee severe there is an unseasonable meeknesse I know not which is worse to be angry unjustly or not to be justly angry if by the first thou maiest wrong an innocent person by the other thou makest a guilty sometime to be silent at it is to encourage a fault it may be a due chiding would reforme that offence which takes heart with sufferance AFfirme not any thing out of humor or because thou hast affirm'd it it is a greater disparagement to stand in a lye then to recant an error to erre is but a weakenesse and the case of all to acknowledge an errour is a vertue and the praise but of a few but to maintaine an errour is a sinne and it is a greater offence to justifie a sin than to fall into it LOve but not be fond of the body to love it is a duty to be fond of it is a sinne let the fare be such as may neither impare the health of it nor the devotion the apparrel neate not chargeable not mimically in nor ridiculously out of fashion such as may agree with thy estate thy yeeres thy profession not at all to invent and slowly to take up a fashion and that rather because thou would'st not be singular then because thou likest it as may shew thee willing to bee constant but not obstinate LEt thy recreations be short and diverting such as may rather fit thee for businesse than rob thee of time long and tedious sports doe rather take away the stomack to serious things than whet it he that makes recreation a businesse will think businesse a toile SUbmit to every fortune and like it not place felicity in wealth and greatnesse to bee without and yet not to want these or to want and yet not desire them to be able to mannage a great estate and to beare a meane to like Gods will even