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
A76372	Jesus Christ the mysticall or Gospell sun, sometimes seemingly eclipsed, yet never going down from his people: or, Eclipses spiritualized. Opened in a sermon at Paul's before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, &c. March 28. 1652. The day before the late solar eclipse. By Fulk Bellers, Master of Arts, and preacher of the Gospel in the city of London.	Bellers, Fulk, b. 1605 or 6.	1652 (1652)	Wing B1827; Thomason E665_15; ESTC R206852	31,076	41

comes into this world viz. that is spiritually illuminated by him Thus we see he is as the Sun in respect of umbrages and as the Sun to dispel all that intrinsecall darknesse to be found within us 2 By way of allusion Allusions may be many but those that are naturall and obvious to all because I do desire to profit all I shall make use of He is as the Sun 1 By way of beauty or excellency The Sun is deservedly looked upon as the Lord of all elementary vertues the fountain of all aëriall light By some as the heart of heaven For as the heart is in the body naturall so is the Sun in the firmamentary body Some look upon it as the sparkling eye of heaven that carrieth beauty in it yea some of the Philosophers fancied that in the sun was the soul of the world which filling that fiery globe which we ordinarily see thence diffuseth his rayes as so many spirits whereby he distributeth life sense and motion to all sublunary creatures It must needs be granted by all that it is the most glorious beautifull and the fairest among all the stars Which how far it may be accommodated to Jesus Christ I shall briefly make out unto you a Psal 45.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est verbum geminatum augendae significationis gratiâ Rivet Jesus Christ is said to be fairer then the children of men Personall beauty is a great ornament when seconded with morall vertues how much more when with divine graces as in b Gen. 39.6 Joseph and c 1 Sam. 16.13 David But when attended with the e Colos 1.19 fulnesse of grace which was to be found in Christ alone what abundance of lustre must it needs adde unto him What that outward form or feature of Jesus Christ was is utterly unknown though that Jesuite durst take upon him to describe it God I conceive hath dealt by that as by the body of Moses hiding of it lest any finding it f Vavasor de formâ Christi should idolize or adore it in a distinct way from his Deity But though we neither know the outward form or feature of Jesus Christ yet the Scripture holds him forth as very faire and beautifull as altogether lovely to the eye of faith Cant. 5.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not onely beautifull in one part but in all parts and two things that the word makes out to us do abundantly demonstrate it 1 That Jesus Christ was without a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 9.14 spot b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 1.19 blemish or deformity Christ he was without any blemish in respect of sin Deformities in body alwaies speak the presence of some sin in the soul Jesus Christ was in all things like to us yet without sin For such an high Priest became us that was holy harmlesse and undefiled separate from sinners Jesus Christ he was 1 Holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He had holinesse to the Lord engraven upon his heart a Exod. 28.36 as the high Priest had it upon his holy crown of pure gold like to the engravings of a signet 2 Harmlesse or innocent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Devoid of all naturall pravity or sinfulnesse unto which both Priest and People were obnoxious in the Levitical Law 3 Vndefiled unpolluted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not contaminated with any sin a 2 Cor. 5 21. He knew no sin by his own commission though he felt much for it by imputation 4 Separated from sinners He was obnoxious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to no sin so to no guilt of sin in and of himself Separated he was from sinners as the high Priest when he entred into the holy of holies was from the common people which causes him to challenge the Jews b John 8.46 Which of you convinceth me of sin 2. He was the brightnesse of his Fathers glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 1.3 or that resplendent lustre or effulgency arising from the light of his Father He was not onely the reflection of the Father as of the Sun in the Rainbow in a watery cloud or as the Sun in the water or glasse at the rebound onely But as the Son is many times the reflection of the Father being his own lively Picture and Image as having all these glorious excellencies of wisdome knowledge purity that are to be found in his Father Hence it is that we are said feelingly to a 2 Cor. 4.6 know the glory of God in the face of Christ Because in Christ we may see all those glorious excellencies that are to be found in the Father when as the veile that is upon our minds by nature is done away Now if Jesus Christ were sinlesse and the glittering refulgency of his Fathers glory he must needs surpasse the Sun in beauty when it shineth in its fullest strength 2 In regard of the seat and influences of it a Psal 19.5 God hath placed a Tabernacle for the Sun in the heavens There it keepeth it's residence And hence Astronomers clapping him into circles allot unto him various Orbs As the Eccentrique wherein the body of it remains and a couple of orbs the b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one to carry the part that is remoter from the earth and c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 another to carry the lowest part of it And a late d Copernicus Astronomer hath found out one more Eccentrum Eccentri but all in heaven Jesus Christ we know not only as God but as man is now in heaven and g Acts 3.21 the Heavens must containe his bodily presence till times of the restitution of all things h Rev 3.21 And that he is set down in his Fathers Throne on the highest Seat of all glory and excellency Sol agit in inferiora motu lumine influentiis By however the Sun's residence be in heaven yet his light and influences are here below on earth And he may be said to dwell among us in regard of his rayes and beams Jesus Christ we know dwelleth in the highest Heavens but by his rayes and beams of grace a Isai 57.15 he dwels with them that are of a contrite heart to revive the spirit of the humble Rev. 2.1 and the heart of the contrite ones By them he walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks and as the Sun doth daily visit the earth with his influences so doth Jesus Christ the day spring from on high visit his Saints with the imbreathings and revivings of his graces and comforts 3 In regard of his magnitude and greatnesse The Sun of all the Planets is deservedly looked upon as the greatest both * Quantitate molis virtutis in bulk and vertue The greatnesse of it Astronomers did heretofore gather especially by * Alsted in Cyclopaed lib. 11. cap. 4. de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Solis Reg. 2. eclipses