Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	body_n	part_n	vital_a	2,464	5	10.5045	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12191	The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1638 (1638)	STC 22501; ESTC S100975	53,245	274

the Creature put case a man should want his tast as these men here their soule abhorred all manner of meate alas what a miserable case is it to want a relish and tast of the comfort that God hath put into the creatures put case we should want the meanest benefite wee enjoy how uncomfortable would our lives be This sparke of reason that God hath given us that wee have understanding to conceive things which is the engine whereby we doe all things as men and are capable of the grace of God what a miserable thing were it if God should take away our wits or suspend the use of them But especially in matters of grace if God had not sent Christ to redeeme the world what a cursed condition had we lyen in next to Divels Againe if wee would praise God let us every day keepe a Diary of his favours and blessings what good hee doth us privately what positive blessings he bestowes upon vs and what dangers hee frees us from and continues and renewes his mercies every day and publikly what benefit wee have by the state we live in Oh what a happie state is it that we live in peace that wee enjoy such lawes that every man may fit under his owne vine and under his owne figtree and enjoy the comforts of this life when all the world about us are and have beene in combustion We should keepe a Register of Gods blessings Oh that wee could learne to have such exact lives it would breed a world of comfort and wee should have a lesse account to make when wee die Every day labour to be humbled for our sinnes specially such as break the peace of our consciences and never give our bodies rest till our hearts have rest in the favour of God and together with matter of humiliation dayly observe how God bestowes new favours or else continues the old that notwith withstanding our provocation and forgetfulnesse of him hee strives with us by his goodnesse this is a blessed duty that we should labour to performe And then when we have done this let us rouse up all that wee are and all that wee have within us to praise God Psalme 103. My soule praise the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy Name What have wee within us to praise God Let us praise God with our understanding to conceive and have a right judgement of Gods favours of the worthinesse of them and our owne un worthinesse and then a sanctified Memory forget not all his benefites forgetfulnesse is the grave of Gods blessings it buries all And then there is in us the affection of joy and love to God to tast him largely and then all within us will be large in the praising of God And our tongue likewise though that be not within us it is called our glory let us make it our glory in this to Trumpet our Gods praise upon all occasions all that is within us and all that we are or have or can do let it be all to the glory and praise of God To draw to a conclusion with some generall application of all that hath beene spoken and then in particular to the present occasion You know how God hath dealt of late with this Citie and with our selves indeed for we are all of one body politike and however God visited them yet it was our sinnes also that provoked him we brought stickes to the common fire A Physitian lets the arme blood but the whole body is distempered God let the Citie blood but the whole kingdome was in a distemper so that it was for our sins as well as theirs wee all brought I say some thing to the common flame and God afflicted us even in them God hath now stayd the sicknesse almost as Miraculously as hee sent it It was a wonder that so many should be swept away in so short a time it is almost as great a wonder that God should stay it so soone And what may we impute it unto Surely as it is in the text They cried unto the Lord God put it into the hearts of the Governours of the state to appoint humiliation and crying to God and therefore since God hath beene so mercifull upon our humiliation it is religiously and worthily done of the state that there should be a time to blesse God Againe God did it with a word with a command it was both in the inflicting and delivery as it were without meanes for what could the Physitians doe in staying the Plague Alas all the skill in the world is at a losse in these kinds of sicknesses it comes with Gods command it is Gods arrow more especially then other sicknesses God sent it by his Command first to humble us for our sin and now hee hath stayd it with a word of command that from above 5000. a weeke it is come to three persons God hath sent his word and healed us It was a pittifull state wee were in before for indeed it was not onely a sicknesse upon the Citie but a civill sicknesse the whole state w●s distempered for as there is sicknesse in the body when there is obstruction when there is not a passage for the spirits and the blood from the liver from the heart and from the head these obstructions cause weakenesse and faintings and consumption So was there not an obstruction in the state of late were not the veynes of the kingdome stopped Was not civill commerce stayed the affliction of this great Citie it was as the affliction of the head or of the heart or of the liver if the maine vitall part be sick the whole is sicke so the whole kingdome not only by way of sympathy but it was civilly sicke in regard that all trading and intercourse was stopped it was a heavy visitation And wee have much cause to blesse God that now the wayes of this Sion of ours mourne not that-there is free commerce and intercourse as before that we can meete thus peaceably and quietly at Gods ordinances and about our ordinarie callings those that have an apprehension of the thing cannot chuse but breake out in thanksgiving to God in divers respects First of all have not we matter to praise God that he would correct us at all hee might have suffred us to have gone on and beene damned with the wicked world as it is 1 Cor. 11.33 We are therfore chastened of the Lord that wee should not be damned with the world it is his mercy that hee would take us into his hands as children that he would visite us at all Another ground of thankesgiving is this that since he would correct us he would use this kind of correction that he would take us into his owne hands might he not have suffred a furious bloody darke spirited divellish spirited enemy to have invaded us to have fallen into the hard hands of men acted with divel●ish