Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	conscience_n	faith_n	sprinkle_v	3,075	5	11.1257	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76313	A door of salvation opened unto all men: or a short treatise, discovering that all man-kinde as they are considered under the fall of Adam, have an equal and a like respect with almighty God, and that by Jesus Christ he hath prepared eternal salvation for all, and afforded unto all, means sufficient to bring them thereunto. In which also, sundry objections, grounds of reason, and texts of scripture, for the contrary opinion are alleadged and answered. / By R.B.	R. B.	1648 (1648)	Wing B166; Thomason E1166_1; ESTC R208726	64,273	125

to write his laws in the hearts of the Israelites in the later daies rather then in the former was because that in the later daies by the Ministery of his Sonne he would more abundantly demonstrate his love and goodnesse unto them then formerly he had done by the Ministery of any of his servants The which although it did most powerfully tend to imprint his Love and Fear in them and to perswade them to deny all ungodlines and worldly lusts and to serve him in righteousnes and true holines all their daies Lu. 1.74 75. yet forasmuch as that means did not inevitably effect the same in them for if it had then they should all of them been converted thereby therefore it cannot from hence be rightly inferred from this text That God hath promised effectually to beget the love and fear of himself in any one man more then another 2. It is also to be considered That when God in the Scriptures saith that he will doe this or that it doth not alwaies imply an absolute and peremptory resolution in him necessarily to enforce and bring the same to passe but to administer such means whereby he knoweth that men either by a direct or indirect use thereof will or may be induced to the doing of that which he saith he will doe In the later respect it is that he speaketh when he saith I will harden Pharaohs heart because that considering him to be a proud covetous tyrant he knew that he would take occasion of obstinacy against him by reason of his mercy towards the oppressed Israelites notwithstanding all his signes and wonders shewed unto him powerfully tending to humble him to the very earth before him and refuse to let them depart out of his Land as he was commanded And in the former respect are the words of the Apostle 1 Tim 2.4 to be understood when he saith That God would have all men to be saved And so likewise are the words of Christ in Iohn 12.32 to be taken where he saith And I if I were lifted up from the earth I WILL DRAW all men after me because that by his Death and Resurrection he should further manifest himself to all men to be the Saviour of the world For as when he affordeth unto men the means of repentance he is said thereby to purge them from their filthinesse though that they be not actually purged thereby as was shewed before in Ezek. 24.13 So according to these Scriptures when he dispenseth meanes extraordinary tending to lead men to Conversion and Salvation Then more especially it is said That he will put his Laws into their hearts will draw them to Christ and will have them to be saved Thirdly It is to be considered That like as God faith That he will write his Laws in mens hearts circumcise their hearts make them new hearts and new spirits Ier. 31.33 Deut. 30.16 Ier. 36.26 Even so he also requireth men to write his Laws in their hearts Prov. 7.3 Circumcise their hearts Ier. 4.4 and make to themselves new hearts and new spirits Ezek. 19.31 Now as the Evangelical precepts are not to be expounded against the promises so neither are the promises thereof to be expounded against the precepts and if considered together they are to be understood as if God should say I will afford means unto you for these ends do you improve them thereunto If it be said that these precepts serve only to expresse unto men that which God promiseth to work in them It is answered first That this is a very forraign exposition and will neither be warranted by Scripture or sound reason God being never known to require of men that which he himself promiseth to doe for them and most irrationall to conceive that he should not rather expresse his goodnesse towards men in requiring them to wait upon him for the things that he purposeth to bestow upon them then to give them precepts for the doing thereof thereby to divert their hopes and expectation as from the promises and to set them on work to beat the air or to make brick without straw But secondly seeing it is manifest that these precepts are unto all men and as manifest that all men have not the things enjoyned therein effected in them it cannot in any wise be supposed that the intent of God in them should be to expresse what he himself would work in men but to enforme us that his promises to put his Laws in mens mindes to write them in their hearts to make them new hearts c. consisteth only in affording unto them means serving for those ends which they themselves are enjoyned to improve for the effecting thereof 4. Lastly It is to be observed That those very persons the Israelites to whom this promise hath the most principal relation unto whom the Apostle most directly applieth the same in the 10 Chapter to the Hebrews are notwithstanding by him evidently declared to be under a possibility of sinning wilfully against the knowledge of the truth of trampling the Sonne of God under their feet and counting his bloud the bloud of this Covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing and of doing despite unto the spirit of Grace and thereby of incurring to themselves the sorest punishment judgement and fiery indignation which possibly could not be if that God in this Covenant had absolutely promised or undertaken to put his laws in their hearts and write them in their mindes c. as it is supposed or any otherwise then by administring unto them means for those ends which possibly might be neglected and contemned by them But because that this Scripture serveth so clearly to discover the intent and nature of this Covenant it shall be rehearsed verbatim Heb. 10.16 This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those daies saith the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their mindes will I write them And their sinnes and iniquities will I remember no more Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin Having therefore brethren boldnesse or liberty to enter into the holiest by the bloud of Jesus By a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the vail that is to say his flesh And having an high Priest over the house of God Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good workes Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as ye see the day approaching For if we sinne wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sinnes But a certain fearfull looking for of judgement and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries He that despised Moses Law died without mercy