Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	brain_n	spirit_n	vital_a	2,340	5	11.1626	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42495	A sermon preached in St. Pauls Church London ... February 28, 1659 being a day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for restoring of the excluded members of Parliament to the House of Commons ... / by John Gauden.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G370; ESTC R24048	65,030	124

such children nor have so learned Christ as to expect his Kingdom to be of this world though in it yet not after its methods of the sword but by the word of truth and spirit of patience thus came the King of Sion the other by the sword of blood is a rare project for Muncer and Knipperdolling for Hacket and Arthington when they can be merry in peoples miseries with populus vult decipi decipiatur people have a mind to be deluded and t is fit they should be so when credulous people will believe in any spirit an hundred to one but some lying spirits and deceivers false Christs and false Apostles will come among them who shall make them believe light is darkness and darkness light that good is evil and evil good that their iron chains are bracelets of gold that factious Conventicles are purest Churches that Synagogues of Satan are the truest Jews or children of Abraham that partial Conventions and Senates sifted and purged affronted and bafled by tumultuary or armed force are full and free Parliaments Which name and thing of Parliament every sober and understanding English man justly venerates and highly esteems in their due and only true constitution so Parliaments are justly honored as flos corona gentis the cream flower and crown of a Nation the anchor and center under God of Laws Liberties Lives and honors of all that is dear to us in this world yea of our Religion too A Free and full Parliament is the very Palladium pacis publicae the best preserver and restorer of our peace publick health and all honest interests the most august and honorable Assembly in the world Quo sol illustriorem non aspicit as Bishop Andrews calls it in his Tortura Torti pag. 291. the best tempered constitutions of spirits and humors of power and counsel in a Nation the oracle of publique wisdom the magazine of publique strength the source and fountain of publique order and authority the treasury of our riches the sanctuary of true Religion the ark in which the Church of England is embarqued the Conservatory of both sanctity and civility the best umpire of our civil differences the most equanimous Censor and reformer of manners the grand Trustees of Church and State when so full and free as becomes men of conscience and honor Who would not submit their honor estate liberty life and all things temporal to such a Judicature of his Country-men such Arbitrators of the publique choise But to cry peace peace to the body when the whole heart is faint when the whole head is sick when the very brains are beaten out when the vital and best spirits of a Nation are almost expired and exhausted when the military and pretorian insolence shall stand over the Senate or Parliament as Hercules with his club over Hydra's many heads This partiality is such a tyrannous imposition on reasonable men as if they were commanded to believe and declare that a part is equal to or more than the whole that glow-worms are brighter than the Stars and Meteors or Comets more benigne than the Sun and Moon that all the wisdom and piety of a Nation were contained in a Knapsack as the Holy Ghost was carried in a Cloak-bag from Rome to Trent Men need but count the pole or tell noses to tell what a free and full Parliament means which comprehends all the Representatives and Trustees chosen by the Nation besides the Peers who were the great Council to the Prince Peace as health includes the good constitution of the whole but cheifly of the most Noble principal parts peace of Church and State at home and abroad will be far from that Nation whose publique counsels are at variance and their cheif Councellors are either fighters against themselves or oppressors of one another to serve some partiall which must needs be a Sinister base and bad interest for no counsel is good in or out of Parliament which is not for the publicks good in which every legal and just interest is contained Indeed it s a meer cheat put on the poor Patient the daughter of my people when vaine and empty words of peace peace are used and yet either the sword or the exactor or the oppressor devoureth every way and every day when God and man his word and the violated Laws peoples sad experience and tired patience their exhausted estates and dayly alarms proclaime there is no true peace no honest and just no safe and secure peace which indeed is not to be expected while such Witch-crafts are imposed and such wicked purposes partially and violently promoted utterly to deceive undo and destroy a people which brings me to the fourth particular Fourthly The {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} lye or fallacy which the Spirit of God by way of Irony expresseth they have healed thus they pretend and brag but slightly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} super leve ut leviculum tanquam rem nihili {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} LXX despicientes vili-pedentes cum illusione Syr. cum ignominia verbis mendaciorum suorum Chald. Thus Translaters and interpreters render the word variously but to the same sence arguing the little respect of piety honesty equity and charity or humanity which was in these vaine glorious and ungracious healers who either wanted skill or will or power and influence or due authority or they were slighters and contemners of the publiques health onely intent to their private wealth and advantages They never searched the bottom of the Nations great crying sins disorders and sufferings nor applied seasonable just and meet remedies to either yea they festred and enflamed the lighter hurts to greivous ulcers small faults offences mistakes differences and jealousies which did arise in Church and State they either dressed these scratches with Vinegar and gall onely with sharp and picquent corrasives without any lenitive or moderation or else by a dilatory negligence and supercilious carelesnes they let publick distempers and hurts run on till they were less capable of any cure or patient of good applications Yea and by a superfluity of wanton cruelty they either widened the wounds and made their probes their punniards or else dressed them with poysoned spunges while they seem to purg them as one that is killed by a glyster or potion And at best by a most impupudent hipocrisie they have skinned over the hurts with some shew of setling what was shaken and of reforming what was amiss when indeed no men did more deform the beauty or ruine the welfare hinder the healing of the publique than these Healers by their enormious sins and outragious lusts by their unjust and violent actions by their partiality and impotency of their passions by their evil eyes their fowle breath and their rough hands which are the instruments of bad hearts and base minds Little or no publique healing is expectable from men that are