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	word_n	2,977	5	4.2034	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55504	The sovles life exercising it selfe in the sweet fields of divine meditations and prayers. Collected for the comfort of all those who willingly adventure their lives for the defence of the Gospel, in these blood-thirsty times of war.	Portman, Richard.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3001B; ESTC R220485	26,310	146

honour they are but transitory things for when the breath of man is gone all these things vanish away but it is the immortall soule that I esteeme and preferre before all things of this world Lord though my body want bread feede thou my soule with the bread of life if my body want cloathing cloath thou my soule with thy righteousnesse if all the riches profits and pleasures of this world fayle me let mee enjoy thee and I shall want nothing let me have thee and I have all things if I want thee I want all things Thou O God art my life my health my riches my pleasure my food my rayment my delight the joy of my heart and the fountayn of all happines Thou O God takest care of sparrowes and feedest yong ravens that call upon thee how much more for us Christians who are made in the image of thee O God Lord I beseech thee give me neither poverty nor riches feed mee with food convenient for me lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord or lest I be poore and steale and take the Name of my God in vaine Prov. 30. Give me what thou wilt doe with me as thou wilt and in all things dispose of me according to thy good pleasure Lord I submit my selfe to thee humbly desiring thee to take me into thy gracious protection not only for this day but for ever MEDITAT X. Meditations of the misery of Man from his Infancy to his old Age. O God I cannot but consider how miserable Man is from his infancy to his grave What a poor silly creature it is being newly sprung from the wombe of the mother what danger was there in his very entrance into the world when oftentimes it costs the life of the mother the child or both be it so that hee live it is not able to help it selfe either to food or cloathing wanting both witte and strength being in a farre worse condition then the beasts of the field for they bring their clothing with them into the world and naturally can and doe apply themselves to the Tett that yeeldes them nourishment How is this poor infant nursed and brought up with much ●endernes care trouble and charge to the Parents and let them doe all they can now when they have done their uttermost no sooner is it able to goe but it is attended with many hard accidents Sometimes it falls into the fire some times into the water as if poore thing it were possest with the spirit of mischāce Sometimes it falls downe the staires to the ground and then againe into a pit below the ground and many such like accidents it is obnoxious to Now mee thinks it is a wonder that it lives and comes to speake and when it hath gotten the tongue how perversly doth it prattle how hardly is it brought to schoole to learn to know it selfe leave it but to its owne bent and it will neither bee serviceable to God nor man Now when it is got up to what wee call man how wild and like an untamed beast is he though all are not such wee must confes that many are what dangers and troubles doe they fall into and t is almost a miracle they come to old age for some are drowned in the sea or land waters some are kill'd in duels some in the warres some are put to death for heino us crimes some by their lewd courses come to meere beggery and are in a manner lost And if it happen a man comes to old age his miseries are intolerable having little or no joy of himselfe How are the eyes dim'd which deprives him of the comfort of all holy Books How doe his senses fayle him rendring him uncapable of knowing or doing any thing as formerly how feeble are his limbes being not able to goe without the helpe of a staffe or man what a multitude of diseases attend him as the stone gowt palsey and many other so that being bereft of his senses he hath small comfort but what he enjoys in his soule Now O miserable man what encouragement hast thou to live in this world or to set thy heart upon it thou seest thy whole age is nothing but labour and sorrow thy comforts are few thy sorrowes many and grievous therefore looke to it thou yong man and remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth whil'st thou hast strength and use of thy senses for in age it may be too late serve thy God alwaies and pray to him for grace and then thou needest not feare old age nor any thing that doeth accompany it thou needst not feare death nor Hell but shalt be happy heere on earth and shalt receive thy reward heereafter in the kingdome of Heaven MEDITAT XI Meditations on the ill life and actions of man NOw good God! how circumspect ought we to bee of our actions in this life knowing that we must one day give an account for all the sinnes that ever wee committed And if men would lay these things to heart surely there would not bee so much wickednesse in the world But O the blindnesse of this world how many live and spend their time as if there were neyther a heaven to enjoy nor a hell to suffer what bloodsheds are committed for a trifle nay even for a rash word men are ready to murder one another How oft doe men robbe on the high way and break houses for a small gaine oftentimes ventring both soule and body in these unhumane actions yea many times doing these wicked actions for their meere recreation and thus sport away their souls How many are there that commit whoredome adultery and many such like crimes even with greedinesse How doth this Land flow with excesse of drunkennesse and glutony vaine swearing covetousnesse despising the holy Scripture and prophaning the Lords day What perjuries lying cousening backbiting and slandering one another What revenge what envy hatred malice and all manner of uncharitablenesse is there amongst us committing all sinnes that can be imagined How doe men set their hearts upon the world and worldly things which profit nothing and neglect the weighty matters that concerne salvation How willingly are they led away to serve the world the flesh and the Divell making vain pleasures and profits of this world their sole delight O God how foolish and besotted is vaine man to neglect thee thy service and his soules good Consider O man if thy soule were in hel what wouldest thou not give or doe to be redeemed out of those scorching flames where the worme dieth not neither is the fire quenched and where thy torment shall be everlasting Wouldest thou not give a world nay a thousand worlds to be eased of those paines wouldest thou not cast off all those sinnes before mentioned and strive to serve thy God with all thy heart yes surely thou wouldest but then it will be too late for what can buy thee from thence when thou hast lost