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
A92204	The fiery change: or, Almighty God, his melting and refining of his people, purging out their drosse and drossy metals, making them like unto himself and to his Son who is the pure Word. Wherein is discovered, by the comparison of metals, how the visible church is corrupted, consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to refine them: which have past in the world a long time for good metal: but now is discovering by fire. / By Robert Read.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R440; Thomason E899_3; ESTC R206741	92,260	122

to know himself where he is or what he is All these severall evils as to the naturall sense conduceth much to the undoing of the body and estate of man But drunkennesse in the spirituall ●en●e in the in●isible and internall part of man to be drunk and not with wine to stagger and not with strong drink to be drunk with the wine ot the fornication of the great Whore Esa 29 9. to sleep in sin to forget God to be full of wrath against God his will his people and his Word to do e●ill and speak evil to be infatuated and to have the powers of darkenesse rule over us and in us and not to knovv our selves nor vvhere vve are but reel and stumble and fall This is misery Be sober in your invisible actings Jer. 25.27 in your thoughts imaginations understandings affections wills passions that nothing break into outvvard act against Almighty God or his deare relations either in revilings reproachings or persecutions But be patient bearing all things and abiding in the vvil of our God although never so crosse to our vvills Furthermore Watch Watch as a Centinel doth both to destroy and to discover and by prayer call for help and assistance against the potent Enemies of our soules who doth continually assault us by inward objects injected into our mindes and thoughts and some visibly presented before our eyes which we cannot be freed from so long as we are in the flesh but are kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation which is prepared to be shewed in the last time 1 Pet. 115. Again Have fervent love c. Above all things especially and chiefly primarily and in the first place have fervent love hot love not cold and frozen but fervent earnest the want of this love makes all things to be out of order that we love not our superiours inferiours nor our equals but differ with them all and speak evill of all We should love all for Gods sake and be tender hearted forgiving one another as God for Christs sake forgave us 1 John 4.11 Beloved if God so loved us then ought we to love one another For this want of love all men are to be blamed For those that are called Ministers the teachers of the people at this day they do speak bitterly and would act cruelly against divers poor people of God that are otherwise inlightened then themselves and are led by the true light of God living above the ordinances of man which they call the ordinances of God And they that are so highly inlightened by the inward teachings of the Almighty are full of censuring and condemning of those that have not attained to the same measure nor yet come to that pitch and height that they are come to not considering that that which they now live in being darknesse was once their own light and so seem to despise the small things of the Lord which once they rejoyced in Zach. 4.10 Ephes 4.4 There is but one body that shall be saved yet there are many members of that one body the Presbyter and the Baptized Churches are of that body if they cleave to the Lord with all their hearts though they vary in the outward Let not one member therefore despise another for love covereth all All Christian beleevers are but one body of which there are many members The head is the greatest and chiefest part of the body the Spirit of God acteth all one and the same thing in every beleever in different forms As the life of mans body is three wayes so is the life of the mysticall body three wayes In the body of man the life thereof is Animal in the brain Vitall in the heart Naturall in the liver sinews and arteries As it is thus in the body naturall so in the body mysticall yet but one life though three distinct for in the body mysticall there is God in you Christ in you and the Spirit of Christ in you where the Spirit of Christ is there is God be it in what opinion soever For our life is hid with God in Christ Col. 3.3 2 Cor. 3.17 where there is both secrecie and safety Resist not the Spirit For the Spirit is the Lord and there is liberty The Spirit is light the Lord is that light let the members of the body sympathize if one part suffer and is not in its perfection let the other parts and members suffer with it and lament for it In the primitive time there was scarce a brother did differ with a brother but now Churches against Churches differ and are at great variance O let brotherly love be among us yea that fervent love that covereth the multitude of sins Gods infinite and eternall love manifested to us in the fulnesse of it even in the Lord Christ covereth all our sins And our love one to another covereth the sins and offences committed one against another Let not our hearts burn within us one against another because of opinions but rather wait to be delivered out of this apostate state the Church of Christ is now in Matth. 24 2● for God is beginning to gather his together from the four winds and to scatter and consume all fleshly worships and service done to him set up by the will of man and to set up his King on the holy hill of Sion let the heathen rage never so much it will be all in vain for he will come and reign and rule over us and in us he will be our guide our counsellour and our teacher and will dwell with us after we have past thorow the fire of his indignation and are purged cleansed purified and refined Therefore what our God shall do unto us or bring upon us either by wounding squaring sifting purging purifying cleansing or refining let us be patient with meeknesse of spirit in it and under it and rejoycing with gladnesse of heart that out of his great mercy he will take us into his own hands being unclean filthy impure earthy and drossie and make us partakers of such and so great g ory by being made like unto himself Hear then the word of the Lord you people of the Land Rom. 11.25 who are succenturiated from Israel that that did concern them doth concern you being in the same posture the same di●ea●e must have the same cure the Lord will not ●et his people perish he wil have judge mercy on them and heal them for the Lord wil● judge with fire and his sword Esa 66.16 all flesh And the slain of the Lord shall be many Son of man the hou e of I●rael is unto me as drosse All they are brasse and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace they are e en the drosse of silver Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because you are all as drosse behold therefore I will gather you in the midst of Jerusalem as they gather silver and brasse and iron and