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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	depart_v	evil_a	unbelief_n	2,143	5	10.6595	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07496	The sinne vnto death. Or an ample discouery of that fearefull sinne, the sinne against the holy Ghost together with the signes, degrees and preservatiues thereof. In a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse. August 26. 1621. By Tho: Bedford ...	Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653.	1621 (1621)	STC 1788; ESTC S101417	81,812	112

it must needes bee both for thee that exhortest and for him that is exhorted For him whilst thou stirrest him vp to walke in the path of godlinesse for thee whilest thou art carefull to mend thine owne wayes for him since thou pullest the more out of his eye for thee since thou must also pull out the beame out of thine owne eye And since this exhortation must bee mutuall therefore also men must suffer the word of exhortation patiently not kicking against the prick nor spurning with the heele against him that seeketh to reforme them Seuenthly Forsake not the assembling of our selues together or as the Geneuah readeth the fellowship that wee haue among our selues A third preseruatiue set downe by Paul in the same place concerning this our sin exhorting to obserue the holy assemblies and neyther of our owne accord forsake them nor suffer our selues prophanely to be led away from them The which he exemplifieth as the manner of some is to deterre and scare the godly lest they should suffer that to happen to themselues which is a dammage and detriment to others Many in the Church doe and indeed iustlie condemne those who for their offences are to be separated from the Congregation whereas in the meane space they themselues doe more loosely and at their lust and pleasure neglect forsake yea and contemne the Church assemblies They which are frequent in the Communion of Saints haue a good meanes to keep them from Apostasie but if they forsake the same then are they subiect to errors Schisines and damnable Heresies It is obserued that Euah was seduced by the Serpent when she was out of the company of her husband and certainely it is manifest that hence arose the whole generation of Vipers the brood of Haereticks which haue beene in all ages viz. when men puffed vp with pride of their owne gifts haue scorned and contemned the fellowshippe of the Church and so haue runne into singularitie and thence to Haeresie and damnable Apostasies One preseruatiue more and so I conclude Eightly Take heed least there be in any of you an euill heart and vnfaithfull or an euill heart of infidelitie wherin to the end that men might take heede of Apostatizing from God he exhorteth them to see to their heart Many doe make a faire and glorious profession of the Truth whereas in the meane space in heart they affect it not nay dislike it Therefore sayth he Take heede and be very circumspect least any of you carry an heart incredulous and rebellious against the doctrine of the Gospell for it must needs be that such a one shall in the end returne to his former vices and taking port with Sathan fall from the liuing God A good Caueat for hypocrites who desire not sinceritie but onely make a faire outward shew to please the world They loue the prayse of men more then the prayse of God Certainly these men are all of them subiect to this sinne and may as well come to it as Iudas Iulian or any of the rest who indeed to satisfie their own turne to get applause of the world to shunne perils and dangers are content with yea forward in the profession of Christianitie when God knowes their hearts are not vpright with God and therefore what maruaile if they goe out from vs and become Apostata's since they neuer were of vs id est of the number of those who hauing sacrificed their hearts to the Lord dedicate both body and soule to the profession of godlinesse Moses to the people giueth this same charge Take heed to thy selfe and keepe thy soule diligently marke that keepe it and keepe it diligently The which Salomon secondeth a keepe thine heart with all diligence Tremellius readeth supra omnem observantiam aboue all manner of keeping i. e. more diligently then thou wouldest keepe any treasure And why Salomons reason is good For out of it are the issues of life All the actions good or euill proceed from the heart It was prouided by the Law of the twelue c Tables that all springs and fountaines should be kept free from filthinesse and pollution least these being corrupted should fill the land with insection so is it here Pauls reason is more effectuall viz. in departing from the liuing God id est least you depart from the liuing God intimating that as by faith wee doe come neere to God and cleaue vnto him so by our infidelitie we fall from him So then to conclude The heart is all in all therefore heare we so often My sonne giue me thy heart Wherefore if any be desirous as all ought to shunne this sinne of Apostasie let him here beginne it is not the least good helpe Keepe a good heart Take heed there be not in any of you an euill heart of infidelitie and vnbeliefe for if there bee it cannot bee but you will in the end depart from the liuing God I haue now done And I suppose that that censure which Horace passeth vpon the tedious Poet will also passe vpon mee Tenet occiditque legendo But if the Lacedaemontans thought themselues well excused when they sayd The Thebans haue beene so tedious in their iniuries that wee cannot vse our wonted breuitie of speech I hope the multiplicitie of matter whereof I haue had to speake will also in part hold me excused The comfort therefore that Diogenes Synopensis hauing almost tyred his Auditors in reading a long Oration spying at last the blancke paper gaue them doe I present to you The hauen is in kenning the land within sight For I am now come to that which I haue still poynted after viz. the end Now therefore giue me leaue like the newly arriued Marchant to sit downe and count with my selfe what is the summe of all which in this ship I haue ventred Now I find that the summa totalis commeth to this First You heard the explanation of the Text by obseruing the terme vsed and the number insinuated Then did I propound the two maine parts of my Discourse wherein first I sought out the sinne what it was secondly Searched it to see why incurable In the disquisition hauing found it to bee the sinne against the holy Ghost wee passed by those sixe kindes reckned by the Schoolemen and prooved by Argument both in generall against them all and in particular against each that no one of them is that sinne which we sought for The which at the length was defined to be a generall Apostasie of a man fallen from the knowne Truth euen to a malicious persecution and blaspheming of the same the which words I reduced to three heads first The whence viz. from the knowne truth The truth of the Gospell not of the Law Secondly The whether to a malicious persecuting and blaspheming Thirdly The motion a voluntary and vniuersall Apostasie In searching the deadlinesse of the wound I found it to be therefore called a sinne vnto death because