Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

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
A42544	A caveat to the standing Christian, and to him that thinketh he standeth by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1666 (1666)	Wing G433; ESTC R14121	41,281	62

depart from me you have departed from my ways from my truths from my worship now depart from me ye workers of iniquity Go ye cursed none shall stay you seeing you as the Angels fell from your first estate you shall now receive the condemnation of the Angels you shall fall into Hell with them you fell from your seeming grace you shall now fall from my real mercy into the hands of my justice Apostacy is nothing else but a falling from the arms of God into the hands of the living God and how fearful a thing it is to fall into his hands let Judas let the Divels from Hell speak for it is beyond the imagination and expression of man CHAP. XI SECT I. Vse 1. LEt the first Use of this Point be for caution to you take heed to your selves lest you thus fall away spiritual caution is a special prevention of falling away necessary if ever now to be pressed upon you Now here I shall shew you what you must especially take heed of that ye may stand and not fall away 1. Take heed of unbelief Heb. 3.12 the Apostle tells us that the Jews were excluded from Gods rest because of their unbelief God sware in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest that was terrible let us take heed therefore lest there be in any of us an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God An evil heart of unbelief it is an Hebraism put for the evil unbelieving heart where the Apostle describeth unbelief by an elegant paranomasia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Unbelief is the cause and root of total and final apostacy and departing from God 2 Thess 2.10 11 12. where the Apostle sheweth the cause of that great apostacy which was to be in the Church at the discovery of Antichrist and why Antichristian lies should more prevail with men then the truths of the living God namely their unbelief they received not the truth in love and they believed not the truth What was the cause of the rich young mans departing from Christ but his unbelief he was not perswaded he should have life eternal if he should sell all that he had and give to the poor wherefore he went away sorrowful So Alexander's casting off his faith and a good conscience which is the Ark wherein God lays up this precious Manna was the cause why he proved such an enemy to Paul and became a final and an irrecoverable Apostate Unbelief is the cause also why men in times of trial fall off from God and decline the holy profession of his truth for God hath times of trial of his peoples faith and profession as 1. When a mans worldly advantages and the ways of God are put to the question whether you will forsake Christ and embrace this present world or embrace Christ and forsake the world and that there is a necessity of one unbelief will put a man upon the choice of the world and the rejection of Christ unbelief put Demas upon this choice had he believed the promise of life eternal he would not have embraced this present world no unbelieving heart will follow Christ when worldly advantages fail give them no more loaves they will make no more profession 2. Times of persecution are trying times unbelief makes many a man to fall off and to depart from God in times of Gospel-troubles when Religion is in disgrace and the Professors thereof are troubled When Paul was brought before Nero at his first answer no man stood by him but all men forsook him Those hearers in the Parable of the Sower that are represented by the stony ground they heard the Word gladly made a fair profession for a time but when persecutions and afflictions arose in time of temptation or trial they fell away because they had no root in themselves they were not by faith rooted in Christ they heard the Word gladly but did not mingle the Word with faith Reproaches and persecutions for the Name of Christ are the blustering and stormy winds that drive the Ship of a temporary faith upon the rocks and bring an irrecoverable shipwrack upon it if you do not in such times as these heartily believe and close with Gods promises you will certainly fall Gods way of rewarding his Servants for the present is more by promise then by pay if therefore you will not rest in his word you will fall from his service Unbelief in the heart like the worm in the root of Jonah's gourd will make your Religion wither in a short time Fides est nervus Religionis faith is the sinew of Religion if the sinew shrink Religion will shrink Sampson's strength lay in his locks the whole strength of Religion lieth in the lock of faith if lust or the world cut off that you will as Sampson grow as weak in Religion as other men are SECT II. 2. Take heed of professing Religion for carnal ends either to enrich or advance your selves take heed of following Christ for loaves of crying up Religion as Demetrius and his rabble did Diana for silver shrines take heed of the wicked supposition of corrupt men that gain is godliness that profess godliness for gain-sake because if godliness brings no gain in according to expectation such a Professor will fall from Religion to follow after gain Doubtless Judas proposed gain as the end of his Discipleship so when he saw Christ would not enrich him then he would betray Christ and the Pharisees should the Scripture noteth this of him who when he was angry at Mary because of the ointment which she bestowed on Christ pretending it was better that it had been given to the poor not that he regarded the poor but because he had the bag It is conceived by Interpreters that the forward man that said to Christ Master I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest Math. 8.19 20. when he hears Christs answer The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not whereon to lay his head that he forsook Christ if Christ hath no preferment for him then he will have no regard of his service Such men think not that God is an heart-searching God who if he seeth carnal ends and worldly lusts cherished in the heart and covered over with a religious mantle will in time uncase such Hypocrites pluck off their mask of godliness and discover their base ends and lusts unto the world to their shame Foolish worldlings ye mistake Christ in proposing great things to your selves in serving him because he plainly tells you of losses hatred persecution and poverty he sheweth you all the contempt of the world it is the Divels way to present to us the glory of the world He that takes up the profession of Religion with love to it will stand to it whatever become of it he will leave worldly riches to cleave to poor truth as Musculus that forsook great preferments at Lutzelstein Abbey to become a