Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

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
A29709	A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favorable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people in their greatest troubles, deepest distresses, and most deadly dangers : with the resolution of several questions, concerning the divine presence, as also the reasons and improvements of this great and glorious truth ... / by Thomas Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4970; ESTC R11759	200,185	248

stand before the powerful presence of God with his People and a spirit of prayer upon his People Hezekiah prays and finds such a powerful presence of God with him as bears up his heart and as strengthens his faith and as cuts off his enemies Isa 37. 14. to 21. with Verse 36. O beg hard of the Lord that he will stay with you do as they did when Christ made as though he would have gone from Luke 24. 28. Equivocators abuse this place greatly but they must know that Christ did not pretend one thing and intend another but as he made an offer to depart so without question he would have gone further if the importunity of the Disciples had not staid him them Luke 24. 29. But they constrained him saying abide with us for it is towards evening and the day is far spent and he went in to tarry with them By prayer and importunity lay hold on Christ say Lord night is near the night of trouble the night of distress the night of danger the night of death is near stay with us depart not from us They over-intreated him by their importunity they compelled him by intreaty Night is near and the day is far spent Some conjecture that Cleophas observing Christ to be very expert in the Prophets and to discourse so admirable well-of Christs person sufferings and glory his heart burning in him with musing who this should be he is marvellous importunate with him to stay at his house and at last prevailes O lay a hand of holy violence upon God as Jacob did and say as he Gen. 32. 25 26. Hos 4. 12. I will not let thee go Jacob though lamed and hard laid at yet will not let Christ go Jacob holds fast with both hands when his joynts were out of joynt being fully resolved that what ever he did let go he would not let go his Lord till he had blest him O be often a crying out with Jeremiah Leave us not Lord though in our great Jer. 14. 9. troubles and deep distresses friends should leave us and Relations leave us and all the world leave us yet don't thou leave us O don't thou leave us Lord though all Creatures should desert us yet if thou wilt but stand by us we shall do well enough But wo wo unto us if God depart from us O leave us not But Seventhly keep humble and walk humbly with your Mic. 6. 8. Psal 25. 9. God The highest Heavens and the lowest hearts are the habitation of Gods glorious presence Isa 57. 15. For saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy Place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones He that would in good earnest enjoy the gracious presence of God with him in his great troubles deep distresses and most deadly dangers he must keep humble and walk humbly with his God God will keep house with none but humble souls there are none that feel so great a need of the Divine presence as humble souls there are none that so prize the divine presence as humble souls there are none that so love the divine presence that are so enamoured with the Divine presence as humble souls there are none that so thirst long for much of the Divine presence as humble souls there are none that so lament and bewail the loss of the Divine presence as humble souls there are none that make such a singular and through improvement of the Divine presence as humble souls and therefore no wonder that of all the men in the worl God singles out the humble Christian to make his heart the habitation where his honour delights to dwell Abraham is but dust and ashes in his own Gen. 18. 27. eyes and what man on earth had ever more of the Divine presence of God with him than he Gen. 15. 12. Gen. 32 10. to 19. Gen. 17. 1. to 10. Gen. 18. 17 18 19 c. Jacob was less than the least of all mercies in his own eyes he had a mighty presence of God with him Gen. 32. 24. to 31. c. David in his own eyes was but a worm no man Psal 22. 6. The word in the Original Tolagnath signifieth a very little worm which bre●deth in scarlet it is so little that no man can hardly see it or preceive it and yet what a mighty presence of God had David with him in the many Battels he fought and in the many dangers he was in and in the many miraculous deliverances he had See them all summed up in that 18 Psalm it is his triumphant song after many victories won deliverances vouchsafed and mercies obtained and therefore worthy of frequent perusal Paul was the least of all Saints in his 1 Cor. 15. 8. 1 Cor. 4. 9. 1 Tim. 1. 15. own eyes yea he was less then the least of all Saints 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is a double diminutive and signifies lesser then the least if lesser might be here you have the greatest Apostle descending down to the lowest step of humility Great Paul is least of Saints least of the Apostles and greatest of sinners in his own eyes and never had any mortal more of the gracious presence of God with him in all his services and in all his sufferings in all his afflictions and in all his temptations in all his trials and in all his troubles which were many and great See Acts 16. 23 24 25. Acts 23. 10 11. Acts 27. 23 24 25. 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10 11. 2 Cor. 7. 4 5 6 7. 2 Cor. 11. 21 ult 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. Is your condition low then let your hearts be low he that is little in his own account is great in Gods esteem and shall be sure to enjoy most of his presence God can dwell God will dwell with none but those that are lowly in heart and therefore as ever you would enjoy the signal presence of God with you in your greatest troubles and deepest distresses be sure you walk humbly with your God Many may talk much of God and many may profess much of God and many may boast much of God but he only enjoys much of God who makes conscience of walking humbly with God But Eightly and lastly If you would enjoy the signal presence of God with you in your greatest troubles deepest Ponder upon these Scriptures Isa 58. 8. 9 10 11 2 Cor. 6. 16 17 18. Cap. 7. 1. Deut. 23. 13 14. distresses and most deadly dangers then labour every day more and more after greater measures of holiness the more holiness you reach to the more you shall have of the presence of a holy God with you in all your straits and trials If the Scriptures be narrowly searched you will find that

that may pass upon him How many Martyrs have ventured into the Heb. 11. 34. very flames to meet with Christ and that have many other wayes made a sacrifice of their dearest lives and all to meet with Christ O the cruel mockings the scourgings Rev. 12. 11. Heb. 11. 36 37 38 the bonds the imprisonments the stoning the sawing asunder that many of the Lords worthies have ventured upon and all to meet with the presence of the Lord and why then should any of you be afraid to enter into an afflicted condition where you shall be sure to meet the singular presence of the Lord that will certainly turn your afflicted condition into a comfortable condition to you The great design of the Lord in afflicting of his People is to meet with them and to draw them into a nearer communion with himself it is that they may see more of him than ever and taste more of him than ever and enjoy more of him than ever in order to which he subdues their corruptions by afflictions Isa 1. 25. c. 27. 8 9 Heb. 12● 10 11. Hos 2. 14. and strengthens their graces and heightens their holiness by all their troubles and trials When ever he leads his Spouse into a wilderness it is that he may speak friendly and comfortably to her or that he may speak to her heart as the Hebrew runs The great design of the Lord in bringing her into a wilderness was that he might make such discoveries of himself of his love and of his soveraign grace as might chear up her heart yea as might even make her heart leap and dance within her Or as some sence it I will take her alone for the purpose even into a solitary wilderness where I may more fr●ely impart my mind to her that she having her whole desire she may come up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved and so be brought into the bride-house with all Cant. 8. 5. solemnity By all which it is most evident that there is no such evil in a wilderness estate in an afflicted condition as many imagin But Eightly will the Lord be signally present with his 8 Inference People in their greatest troubles deepest distresses and most deadly dangers then what a high encouragement should this be to poor sinners to study Christ to acquaint themselves with Christ to embrace Christ to chuse Christ to close with Christ to submit to Christ Joh. 1. 12. Ps 112. 2 3. Ps 2. 12. 2 Cor. 8. 5. and to make a resignation of themselves to Christ and to secure their interest in Christ that so they may enjoy his signal presence in their greatest troubles deepest distresses and most deadly dangers O how many mercies are wrapt up in this mercy of enjoying the singular presence of the Lord in all the troubles and tryals of this life It is a mercy to have the presence of a Friend it is Psalm 23. 4. a greater to have the presence of a near and dear relation with us in a day of distress in a day of darkness But what a mercy is it then to have the presence of the Lord with one in a dark day That 's excellent counsel that the wisest Prince that ever swayed a scepter gives in that Eccles 11. 8. Remember the days of darkness for they shall be many When light shall be turned into darkness pleasure into pain delights into wearisomness calms into storms Summer dayes into Winter nights and the lightsome dayes of life into the dark dayes of old age and death O now the singular presence of the Lord with a man in these dayes of darkness will be a mercy more worth than ten thousand worlds To have a wise a loving Psalm 71. 20 21. a powerful a faithful Friend to own us in the dark to stand by us in the dark to uphold us in the dark to refresh us in the dark to encourage us in the dark c. is a very choice and singular mercy O then what is it to have the presence of the Lord with us in all those dark dayes that are to pass over our heads What David said of the sword of Goliath in another case There is none 1 Sam. 21. 8 9. like that that I may say of the Divine presence with a man in the dark There is none like that The Psalmist Psal 73. 26. The Greek saith The God of my heart c. hit the mark the whit when he said My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever When his flesh that is his outward man and when his heart his courage that is his inward man failed him then God was the strength of his heart or the rock of his heart as the Hebrew runs at the very last gasp God came in with his soveraign Cordial and revived him and recovered him and brought new life and strength into him When a Saint is at worst when he is at lowest when he is even overwhelmed with troubles and sorrows and when the dayes of darkness so multiply upon him that he seems past all hope of recovery then the Divine presence does most gloriously manifest it self and display it self in supporting strengthning comforting and encouraging of him In the Rev. 4. 6. you read that the world is like a sea of glass I saw before the Throne a sea of glass The world is transitory very frail and brittle as glass and it is instable tumultuous and troublesome as the sea Here the world is shadowed out to us by a sea of glass and how can we stand on this sea how can we live on this sea how can we walk on this sea if Christ don't take us by the hand and lead us and support us and secure us O Sirs we can't uphold our selves on this sea of glass nor others can 't uphold us on this sea of glass it is none but dear Jesus it is no presence but his singular presence that can make us to stand or go on this sea of glass And if this world be a sea of glass oh what infinit cause have we to secure our interest in Christ who alone can pilot us safe over this troublesome dangerous and tempestuous sea Oh that I could prevail with poor sinners to take Christ into the ship of their souls that so he may pilot them safe into the heavenly Harbour the heavenly Canaan No Pilot in Heaven or Earth can land you on the shore of a happy eternity from off this sea of glass but Jesus When on this sea of glass the winds blow high storms arise and the bold waves beat into the ship O then the sinner cryes a Kingdom for a Christ a world for a Pilot to save us from eternal drowning Oh that before eternal storms and tempests do beat upon poor sinners they Ps 11. 6. Ps 9. 17. Hos 2. 19 20. 2 Cor. 11. 2. would be prevailed with to close