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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	contrite_a	humble_a	revive_v	2,916	5	11.4354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09970	The golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie by her marriage. And the Churches dutie in her carriage. In three treatises. The former delivered in sundry sermons in Cambridge, for the weekely fasts, 1625. The two latter in Lincolnes Inne. By the late learned and reverend divine, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to His Maiesty, Mr. of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and somtime preacher at Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 20227; ESTC S112474	187,142	312

of the Lord and the Lord is called by their names so he is called the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob c. so that it s●●mes that there is as it were a certaine match betweene them a mutuall agreement and relation as there is betweene a husband and a wife a father and a sonne so if thou beest one who is married to Christ and hee hath changed thy heart and begotten thee anew by his word and art dedicated to his service as his Temple then thou art called by his Name And the only reason of this is because he hath chosen thee there is no other when hee cast his eyes upon all the earth he chose thee out to have his Name called on thee as it is said of the Temple at Ierusalem that he chose that place rather then any other to put his Name there and there is the same reason why his Name is called upon a whole Church as when he looked on Europe he chose out the reformed Churches to put his Name there and where the Lord puts his name there he dwels so as the one is put for the other either to say he chose a place to dwell in or that his name is called upon it they are all one There are two places where God dwelleth Isa. 57. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity whose Name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit c. The highest heavens and the lowest hearts are Gods chiefest dwelling places He hath indeed other places he dwelleth elsewhere but in these two he manifesteth a peculiarity of his presence and that peculiarity is of the presence of his grace and comfort for he saith in the same vers to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones hee reveales himselfe to these and his secrets which are hid from all the rest and hee fills their hearts with joy and comfort If we be such as beare the Name of God then let us learne to be obedient unto him to give up our selves unto him for so much is intimated by this that we are called by his Name and therefore we are said in Scripture to bee baptized into the Name of Iesus Christ that is we doe by our baptisme professe thus much that we give our selves to his service for to beare his Name is to beare our owne names no more that is our owne natures no more A man that is called by the Name of the Lord is no more sui juris his owne man As a man that giveth himselfe to serve another how much hee serveth himselfe so much hee wrongeth that man And the reason why a wife leaves her owne name it is to shew that shee is to give up her selfe to the obedience of her husband shee is not mistresse of her selfe not free shee depends on her husband as the Ivie on the tree shee hath no root of her owne to rest on but dependeth on him So wee having taken the Name of the LORD upon us wee must thinke that wee are no longer free wee leave our owne names wee must have no more root of our selves but of the Lord we must have no will of our owne his will must be ours therefore yee that beare the Name of the Lord let it not bee in profession onely but doe that thing which the Name requireth that is follow no more your selves but follow GOD. A Wife before had the name of her father but when shee is married as she leaves that name so she leaves father and mother also to cleave to her husband if her Parents command one thing and her husband another shee leaves her father and mother and cleaves to her husband so as leaving father and mother implies leaving to beare affection to them in comparison to her husband and thus must you doe to Christ as you have it in Luke 14. 26. If thou wouldest bee matched to the Lord thou must be divorced from all things else in the world from every thing that is very neare and deare to thee father and mother sonnes and daughters are deare but you must hate them all for Christs sake or you can not be his Disciples yea he that is married to the Lord must hate and deny his owne soule when his owne soule desires one thing and Christ another he must deny it and be divorced from himselfe and take no roote from himselfe but from the Lord because he is able to sustaine him Wives are not bound to destroy themselves for their husbands but this bond is nearer therefore Ephes. 5. 31 32. this neere conjunction betweene man and wife is made but as a shadow of that betweene Christ and his Church who is flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone verse 30. And as for this cause they leave father and mother as the Apostle sayes verse 31. so for this cause must wee leave all to cleave to Christ and bee subject to him as verse 24. that is our will must be subject to the Lords As if thou hast such a journey to go say yea but what sayes my husband to it thus Saint Iames teacheth us to speake Iam. 4. I will goe into such a City if God will so in other businesse say if the Lord will to whom I am married I will doe it else not and you have reason for it because Christ loves us as his Spouse and body by this union we are one flesh with him yea one spirit and no man hates his owne flesh saith the Apostle there though a man hath all the imperfections in his body that may be soares and biles c. yet he hates not his owne flesh but laboureth partly to cover those wounds and imperfections and to heale them if he can for it is his owne body So doth the Lord love you if you have taken him to bee your husband you have reason therefore never to forsake him And if any should object and say I am a sinfull wretch an unfit match for him Con sider that yet being his he will cover your imperfections with his righteousnesse as a man covers his sores from the view of others and he will wash you from your corruptions As if a man have a sore arme he doth not only cover it but also washeth it and heales it because it is a member of his So sayeth the Apostle there hee hath washed his Church with his owne bloud And this the Apostle S. Paul calleth a great mystery as if hee had said great things are now revealed therein to you and worth your considering why therefore should wee not give up our selves to him a Wife may object against her husband and say another ones husband is more wise more kind but thou canst say nothing against him Consider this and let it not only be as a notion in your heads but let it sink down

those hearers signified by the second and third ground did who received the seed with joy and as those of whom it is sayd Christ would not commit himself to them but stay with him men will not unlesse they be humbled For unlesse a man be brought to part with al for Christ and to sell all he will in the end repent of his bargaine if there bee a reservation of any thing the time will come he will goe backe and start aside like a broken Bowe and untill a man be throughly humbled he will not be brought to part with all for CHRIST he that is humbled he onely is the Merchant-like minded man who sells all hee hath and goes away rejoycing is glad at the heart that hee hath Christ though with the losse of the whole world he is willing to take Christ upon all conditions with losses and crosses and to deny himselfe in every thing for he knowes the bitternesse of sin and so sets such a price upon Christ as if the bargaine were to make againe he would doe as hee had done but the other what he hath done in a fit he repents him of afterwards and therefore true repentance which godly sorrow and true humiliation worketh is called repentance never to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 10. Other sorrow than Godly may worke a repentance but it is such as men afterwards repent of Men are soone weary of the yoke of CHRIST because they have not felt how grievous the yoke of sin and Sathan is but to one who hath felt the burthen of sin the yoke of CHRIST is easie and sweete The last Reason hath relation to the last thing here promised of taking away the Iudgements and healing the Land God should not have the praise of his Iudgements and of his Mercy in taking them away unlesse men were humbled for if when God did afflict men he should restore them againe without this humiliation men would thinke that God wronged them before and now did but right them but when God hath humbled them so farre that they acknowledge his Iustice in afflicting them and their owne desert to be utterly destroyed and confesse that it is his mere Mercy they were not consumed and humble themselves under his mighty hand and now if the Iudgement be taken off and his wrath blowne over then they give him the praise of his Mercy and Iudgements Thus you see why of necessity it is required Now let us see the reason of the order of it why it is required thus in the first place It is the first condition here there is something in the order and to be said by way of reason for it and the reason in generall is because nothing is acceptable to God till the heart be humbled You may pray which is another condition and you may heare c. but all you doe is but lost labour unlesse it come from a broken heart For first that is alone a fit sacrifice for God without which act no sacrifice is accepted This you may see Psalme 51. 16 17. Thou desirest not sacrifice else I would give it thee thou delightest not in burnt offerings The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and a contrite hart oh God thou wilt not despise David knew that till his heart was broken all his good deeds and all holy duties would have beene in vaine and it is as if David should have said Lord before I was thus humbled and my heart thus broken as in the beginning of the Psalme hee had expressed that it was Thou didst desire no sacrifice of me nor wouldst have delighted in no burnt offering from mee but the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit and other duties but as they come from it This is the maine sacrifice and with out it nothing acceptable unlesse it be laid upon this low Altar which sanctifies the Sacrifice As it is only a fit Sacrifice for God so this only makes us fit Priests to God and before we are fit to offer a sacrifice acceptable we must be Priests and we become not Priests to God till we have offered our selves first to God as a sacrifice 2 Cor. 8. 5. and that we are not till we our selves be slaine and broken and so made a sacrifice Nothing is accepted till the Holy Ghost dwell in the heart and untill a man bee Humbled the Spirit of God dwells not in his heart And therefore what he doth till then savours not of the Spirit but a carnall heart and so is not acceptable Til a man is humbled he keepes the doore shut upon the Lord and His Spirit There is one within his heart is full already hee dwells in his owne heart himselfe therefore it is said Esa. 57. 15. That he dwells in a contrite heart that is in it alone for there is only roome for him to do what he will in all the chambers of it Vntill a man will be obedient in all things no thing he doth is acceptable Hee that turnes his eare from the Law his prayer shall bee abominable Now one that is not humbled throughly hee may bee obedient in many things hee may pray c. but yet he will have by wayes of his owne he hath not fully renounced himselfe that is not Humbled Now unlesse a mans obedience be generall nothing is acceptable And so wee come to the second thing propounded what this humiliation is and herein our maine enquiry is after that which is mainely intended in the text What it is to humble a mans selfe But because the finding of it out depends upon the other also wee will with it shew also what it is to be humbled that so wee may the better know the true humiliation required of us and for the finding out of this wee will first set before you the examples of them who have humbled themselves and have been humbled in Scripture and from thence gather what it is For this you shall finde Manasses in the 2 Chro● 33. in his affliction humbling himselfe greatly and the Lord was intreated of him vers 12. Likewise wee have that of S. Paul humbled Acts 9. 6 where we find him trembling and astonished and saying Lord what wil● thou have me doe See another example in Acts 2. 37. of those who were prickt in their hearts crying out what shall we do to bee saved And so of the Goaler Acts 16. who came trembling and astonied and would have killed himself and likewise of the Prodigall Luk. 15. which though a parable yet sets forth this condition of a soule humbled to us of whom it is said that none gave unto him and that hee came unto himselfe c. Out of all these we gather those two maine parts of Humiliation mentioned humiliation passive and active The first whereof makes way for the second unto which no promise is made and which may be found in an unregenerate man the second which is