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	thought_n	word_n	3,480	5	3.9407	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29204	The right way to safety after ship-wrack in a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons, in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin : at their solemn receiving of the blessed sacrament / by John, Lord Bishop of Armagh.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4231; ESTC R35340	13,261	27

a shew of Snow-white Innocence and Candor that they are able like Zeuxis his Counterfeit Grapes to deceive a piercing Eye But when time shall bring Truth to light their horrid ugliness will appear to the Eye of the World we may this day observe the footsteps of God's justice how he brings the same Troubles home to their Doors who have been underhand the Contrivers and Fomenters of them among their Neighbours And now Bellona begins to shake her bloody Whip among them as if God should say Thou didst it secretly but I will do this thing before all Europe and before the Sun Just art thou O Lord and right are thy judgements So he shall not prosper in his concealment Fourthly He shall not prosper in obtaining pardon for his sin and then all his other Advantages are too much to his cost What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own Soul A damned spirit in Hell may as soon hope for forgiveness at the Hands of God as that person who hides and cherisheth his sins privately in his Heart this is to make God Confederate with us in our wickedness and dissimulation 'T is in vain to skin over a sore whilst dead flesh remains within the Weapon must first be pull'd out before the Wound can be cured The Medicines of salvation profit not a wounded Soul until the firy darts of Satan be drawn out by Repentance So he shall not prosper in his Recovery Lastly These Words He Shall not prosper are a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and signifie as much as he shall suffer he shall smart for it 1. He shall suffer in his Conscience those Coeca vulnera those blinde blows which no man knows but he which feels worse than all the Plagues of Egypt and Botches of Job This made Cain a Runnagate upon the face of the Earth 2. The Judgements of God shall pursue him both in this Life and the Life to come Herod did not only not prosper in his aim to entail the Crown to his Posterity but the day came that paid for all such a conglomeration of unmeasurable Torments as they are described by Josephus did hardly ever meet together in one man and which is worse these were but the fore-runners of greater Judas did not onely miss his contentment in the thirty pieces of Silver but he got thirty Curses you may finde them Psal. 109. The Money perished but the Curses stuck by him until they brought him to an halter Envie not a Murtherer that braves it upon the stage for the first or second Act of a Tragedy nor an Oxe that is fatting for the slaughter nor a Thief that is riding in state to his Execution Have patience and expect the Catastrophe Eccles. 8. Though a sinner doth evil an hundred times and the Lord still prolongeth his days yet I know it will be well with them that fear the Lord but it shall not be well with the wicked Thus every way he shall not prosper And so I leave him lurking under a Net treasuring up to himself wrath against the day of wrath to come to the true Convert in the next Words But he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercie Confession with its Requisites Contrition and Amendment of Life which is here called forsaking do make up a compleat Repentance Which some Fathers style a second Table after shipwrack others a Baptism of pains and tears yea some of them doubted not to say That Confession did loose the bands of sin and extinguish the Fire of Hell that is not by way of Merit but by way of Impetration not by paying but by pacifying the wrath of God and so averting his Judgements No those blessed Saints did never dream that the Covenant of Grace whereunto we are admitted by Baptism was evacuated by a Lapse into sin or that any new different Covenant was established by Repentance grounded partly upon the Merits of Christ and partly upon our selves Let Confession and Repentance have their due but let them not thrust Christ out of the Chair from whose Grace they flow from whose Acceptation they have their Efficacy Thrice happy are they which use this Plank aright to bring them through the raging Billows of this sinful world to the Haven of eternal Bliss Confession is as ancient as our first Parents whom God himself did call to the performance of this duty It was practised among the Israelites by Divine Precept Num. 5. 7. By those Jews that repaired to the Baptism of John Matth. 3. By those Ephesian Converts Acts 19. prescribed by St. James Jam. 5. Confess one to another and pray one for another Endowed with such ample privileges as in the first Epistle of St. John If we confess our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness And here in my Text He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy There is no better physick for a full stomach than a vomit nor for a soul replete with sin than Confession Bodily sores do oftentimes compell a man to put off natural shamefac'dness and to expose his less honourable parts to the view of the Chirurgion Ought not every one to be as solicitous for his soul We offend God three ways by the imaginations of our hearts by the words of our mouths by the actions of our lives If we intend to please God we must take a clean contrary course for evil thoughts of the heart bring contrition of the heart for corrupt speaches of the mouth bring Confession of the mouth for wicked actions of our life bring fruits worthy amendment of life Buy this means we bring glory to God and shame to our selves and prevent that great confusion of face which otherwise must fall upon us at the day of Judgement before God and Angels and Men. A contrite sinner stands not upon terms of reputation with God or with his Church Why should we be more affraid to confess than we were to offend to make those the Witnesses of o●● Tears who have been the Witnesses of our Faults to take away the Scandal that we our selves have g●ven Let the World take notice of our Sin so may likewise take notice of our Repentance 〈◊〉 great Sickness often ushers in Health and a bet●●● Habitude of the Body a broken Bone when it is w●●● knit grows the stronger So the first shall be l●●● and the last shall be first Indeed Innocence if t●● Herb of Grace were to be found is better than C●●fession but there is more joy in heaven over one sin●●● that repenteth than ninety nine just Persons that need●● repentance among the Holy Angels Da Pater 〈◊〉 per eis gaudere de nobis c. Grant O Father t●●● they may always rejoyce over us that Thou ma●● always be glorified by them for us that we and th●● together may praise thy Holy Name O Thou t●●● art