Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	animal_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,664	5	11.2180	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05311	The sanctuarie of saluation, helmet of health, and mirrour of modestie and good maners wherein is contained an exhortation vnto the institution of Christian, vertuous, honest, and laudable life, very behoouefull, holsome and fruitfull both to highest and lowest degrees of men ... / written in Latin verie learnedly and elegantlie by Leuinus Lemnius of Zirizaa, physitian, and Englished by H.K. for the common commoditie and comfort of them which understand not the Latine tongue ...	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.; Kinder, Hugh.	1592 (1592)	STC 15454.5; ESTC S3877	132,793	266

that is to say as an admonisher who doth stir vp quicken and as it were plucke by the care them that be rechlesse and negligent And againe Esai 26. My soule hath longed for thee in the night season yea and in my spirite and with my whole heart will I wake vnto thee betimes in the morning A place of Esai expounded By which wordes the Prophet sheweth that his whole minde and all the strength and powers of his soule his spirites both vitall and animall whatsoeuer force efficacie of nature hee hath is so fixed and fastened on God continually that no part or parcell of time passeth without remembrance of him but all his words and deedes yea and whatsoeuer thought entreth into his minde is directed and transferred vnto God In the ende of the day the minde must giue accompt of such deedes as were done that daye CHAP. 50. Of all our doings we must aske accompt of our mind consciēce REquire a reckoning of thy minde euery day at eeuen of all thy dayly affayres businesses and actions whatsoeuer hath been said or done that daye And so when the day is ended before thou committe thy selfe to rest take an accompts of thy selfe how the day hath beene passed and bestowed and aske thine owne minde What fault hast thou amended or redressed this day What vice hast thou resisted Wherein or in what parte and respect art thou become better How much is thy godlinesse increased How much hast thou proceeded and gone forward in vertue Virgil. in viro bono Wherein haue I transgress'd what hath been done in time what not Why was this deede so decent or what reason was in that What haue I left vndone why held I this opinion Which better was for me to chaunge why did compassion On needy man make some remorse discouraged mind to feele Euery day must we cōceiue purpose of amendment of life It can scarcely be tolde or expressed how caulme and peaceable the minde will be how quiet and restfull the sleepe shall bee when as by conceiuing sure purpose of amendment thou doest with such maner of thought intent and meditation driue away the heauinesse of the heart Bestow the day in honest businesses Forasmuch then as dayly actions things which we see on the day time do somtime trouble hinder the sleep men must diligently endeuour to passe and bestow the day in honest businesses so that nothing come to minde to the griefe thereof which may disquiet or trouble the night rest Let no man flatter his owne faults or diminish his euill deedes CHAP. 51. Vices must not be extenuated IF any thing be done vnwisely if any offence wilfully contrary to right reason be committed which is repugnant to honestie and comly behauiour let neuer thy mind be moued or induced to glose thine own error or extenuate thine offence with excuse For excuse bringeth boldnes to sin ministreth occasion to do the like fault again When Dauid cōsidered how great wickednesse springeth of this lewd naughtie erronious opinion of pleasing a mans selfe in his owne vices he prayeth thus O decline not my heart vnto the wordes of wickednesse to consent vnto the excusing of sinnes and vngodly works A place of Dauid expounded In which words he praieth that an euill mind a naughtie will and delight of the heart may be farre from him wherwith wicked and vngracious persons being depraued doe heape mischiefes vpon mischiefes and doe cleerely cleanse purge extenuate and diminish their mischieuous deedes and suffer not any fault to bee imputed or blame to bee layed on themselues By which blindnesse and darke dimnesse of the minde it commeth to passe that when as the minde is once enured and hardened in sinne and being accustomed thereunto hath gotten an habite therein and hath lincked it selfe with lewd lust it doth slip forward euery day more and more into that which is worse and so falleth and commeth vtterly to naught without any hope of recouery or amendment Whereunto belongeth that saying of Salomon Prouer. 18. The vngodly when he is tumbled downe into the bottome of sinne contemneth and despiseth that is to say thinketh surely and fully perswadeth himselfe that hee hath committed none offence neither is he greatly mooued or grieued with the enormitie of that mischieuous deede or wicked fact which hee hath perpetrated But as the same wise man saith Shame and reproch followeth him that is such an one Wherby he signifieth playnly that he sustayneth so great losse of his good name and getteth such a spot of infamie that it i● hard for him euer after to winne and purchase the name and commendation of an hones● man The minde of the vngodly is obdurated hardened in wickednes In the like mischiefe are those men wrapped which when they haue offended and are fallen into some sinne doe not acknowledge their iniquitie neither can they abide to confesse it although the torment of their conscience dooth force and compell them to make confession thereof but they hide the same in silence and in holding their peace think to couer bury al things in obliuiō A similitude of the nature of children For these men doe euen like vnto children which doe not abstaine from thinges forbidden them specially when they hope that it shall be kept secret and that their father or mother shall not know of it Whereof wee haue examples in Adam and Cain and in their posteritie vpon whome the spot of transgression is spread and transfused euen as if it were come by inheritance Therefore whosoeuer desireth to haue the happy fruition of tranquilitie of minde and to suffer no tormenting vexation thereof let him not wilfully nor obstinately deny or hide in silence those faults which he hath committed but openly shew them before GOD. The acknowledging of sinne putteth away the sin For the acknowledging of sinne and confession of the offence obtayneth forgiuenesse and by fayth in the blood of Iesus Christ washeth out wipeth away and abolisheth all the filthinesse spots and vncleannesse of the minde Concealing of a fault in silence aggrauateth it But keeping of silence and shrinking backe from such confession doth exasperate the euill and aggrauate the crime and maketh the cause of the guilty person to bee worse Whereof Dauid hauing proofe and experience in himselfe sayth Psal 32. Because I held my peace my bones are waxen olde when I cryed all the day Payne and grief which he could not indure cōpelled him to crie and wayle but it cōstrayned him not to make confession of his sinne Gods facilitic and readines in forgiuing yet notwithstanding by and by after he purposeth and intendeth to disclose and open vnto God his offence that he hath committed whome he vndoubtedly knoweth to be inclined prone and ready to forgiue sinne when any man repenteth from the bottome of his heart and detesteth his euill life Therefore taking