Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	bring_v	evil_a	treasure_n	9,368	5	10.7622	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23601	The swearer's doom; or, A discourse setting forth the great sinfulness and danger of rash and vain swearing. By John Rost M.A. rector of Offwell and Gittisham in Devon	Rost, John, d. 1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing R1987A; ESTC R203434	36,689	74

the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing my Brethren these things ought not to be so As if he had said Is it not a most absurd and unreasonable thing that things so opposite and contrary should proceed out of the same mouth Do you ever pray to God do you praise him and give thanks to him and do you not thereby account that you honour his Name and dare you with the same mouth to dishonour and blaspheme it with wanton Oaths and spiteful Curses Again do you accustom your selves to say the Lord's Prayer which is not only a form and pattern to compose all others by but it is in its self the best and most excellent of all prayers Do you use it reverently seriously and devoutly and did you never observe and consider this one thing that the very first Petition of all is this Hallowed be thy Name And do you pray there that the Name of God may be honoured sanctified and reverenced by your selves and others that you may have an awful and reverent esteem of it and regard to it and dare you not only to take this glorious and fearful Name in vain but profane it by unhallowed Oaths and that with the very same mouth by which you pray it may be sanctified and reverenced This is a great wickedness indeed and ought to be looked upon by you that are Christians as strange and monstrous as it would be for a Fountain at the same place to send forth sweet Water and bitter v. 11. This most gross and absurd abuse of the Tongue doth therefore discover the filthiness and impiety of the heart Whoever truly loves or fears God whoever doth accustom himself sincerely to pray to him or to praise him will seldom I had almost said never abuse his Name by rash Swearing He that is accustomed to use it reverently will never abuse it presumptuously or irreverently He that hath the fear of God in his heart will ever take heed to his ways that he offend not by his Tongue Psal 39.1 For 't is certain no man doth less remember or seldomer think upon God than he that useth his Name most by Oaths and Curses Our Saviour tells us Mat. 12.34 That out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things If the heart of a man be piously and religiously disposed it will cause him to set God always before him and to have awful and reverent thoughts of him it will make him very cautious and tender in every thing in which his honour is concern'd he will be so far from being a common Swearer that he will dread the very thoughts of it Whereas if a man's heart is impiously inclined if it want the fear and love of God God will not be in all his thoughts tho' his name be frequently in his mouth as his mind is atheistical and profane so will his words and discourse be he will make nothing to curse or swear by the holy and dreadful Name of God yea he will hardly know or perceive when he is guilty of it Yea I k●ow no one sin in the World that is so great and so certain a sign of an impious and irreligious heart as customary Swearing 't is so utterly inconsistent with Piety that those that are guilty of it seem never to have any the least impressions of it They are all of them as St. Paul said of Simon Magus Acts 8.23 in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity it is a most infallible sign of hardness of heart and searedness of conscience And where this wicked and ungodly custom prevails it will draw Men into many other sins by hardning of their hearts and doth very often make them become guilty of that sin which all Mankind who pretend to honesty honour or conscience confess to be most vile heinous and abominable I mean the sin of Perjury There are many men that pride themselves in Swearing as a Gentile Accomplishment who will be ready to stab any man that shall give them the Lye and those that think Swearing a Grace and Ornament of speech acknowledge it a shameful thing to be or to be counted a Lyar. And yet there is no doubt but that the most common Swearers are generally the greatest Lyars 't is no wonder for those cannot pretend to forbear the latter out of conscience who make no conscience to be guilty of the former And if Oaths do flow from a man's mouth suddenly and insensibly as they always do where Swearing is become habitual and customary why may they not Lye after the same manner and then they become guilty of Perjury before they are aware of it for what is Perjury but a Lye confirm'd and bound with an Oath And if we should appeal to the Conscience of a common Swearer whether he hath not often done thus i.e. sworn to what is false as well as to what is true in common discourse I believe he cannot deny it if he seriously consider it For 't is certain that such men do often in their passion oblige themselves by Oaths swearing they will do such things as they do not in the least intend or if they did intend them when they came to themselves they were quite of another mind and forbore to do them And tho' some men have very exactly kept and punctually perform'd the things that they have hastily and unadvisedly sworn to yet they have seen great cause to be troubled yea have been much perplexed that they have thus foolishly and hastily insnared and intangled themselves by such Oaths Thus when the Princes and Heads of the Israelites made a League with the Gibeonites without asking Counsel of God tho' they doubtless sinned in so doing and tho' they did it upon a false Information and tho' all the Congregation murmured at it Josh 9.18 yet having confirm'd that League with the Oath of God they durst not break it though doubtless they were very much troubled and displeased with themselves for making it So when Jepthah went out to war against the Ammonites he vowed a Vow That if God would give him Victory he would offer to the Lord whatever should come forth of his house for a Burnt-Offering Judg 11.31 It is much disputed among Learned men what the matter of Jepthah's vow was and whether he did really offer up his Daughter in Sacrifice or only Consecrated her to God and confined her to perpetual virginity And whether if he Sacrificed her he did not greatly sin in so doing and whether it had not been better and much more acceptable to God if he had broken his vow then thus to fulfil it But this all are agreed in that tho' he was a good man and his vow proceeded from Zeal and Piety yet it was rash and Inconsiderate and tho' God accepted the Pious and good