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
A58423	Now or never: work out your salvation with fear and trembling; or, A serious exhortation to all poor sinners to lay hold upon Christ Jesus who is the fountain of all happiness, and who is the onely rock from whence doth spring all their comforts. Herein is also laid down several motives declaring the necessity of this work, that it ought not to be put off for to morrow; bnt [sic] that every poor sinner should strive to enter in at the strait gate now, while he hath an opportunity in his hand, lest he be snatcht away by death, and then it will be too late. The third edition, with additions. By B.R.	B. R.	1663 (1663)	Wing R8; ESTC R219714	10,551	27

NOW or NEVER Work out your Salvation with fear and trembling OR A Serious Exhortation to all poor Sinners to lay hold upon Christ Jesus who is the Fountain of all Happiness and who is the Onely Rock from whence doth spring all their Comforts Herein is also laid down several Motives declaring the Necessity of this Work that it ought not to be put off for to morrow but that every poor Sinner should strive to enter in at the strait gate now while he hath an opportunity in his hand lest he be snatcht away by death and then it will be too late The Third Edition with Additions 2 Cor. 6.2 Now is the accepted time Behold now is the day of salvation Math. 25 13. Watch therefore for ye know not neither the day nor the hour wherein the Sun of Man cometh By B. R. London Printed for Charls Tyus at the Three Bibles on London-bridge 1663. NOW or NEVER Heb. 3. from the 7th to the 16th verse Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the wilderness when your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works forty yeers Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said They do alway erre in their hearts and they have not known my ways So I sware in my wrath They shal not enter into my rest Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God But exhort one another daily while it is called To day lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end Whilest it is said To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation THese words of the Holy Apostle Paul are a serious exhortation to all poor sinners to lay hold on Christ Iesus we are stirred up spéedily to believe in him to day while it is called to day lest we by neglecting of this opportunity and by our unbelief do incur a heavier and more sore judgement upon us then hard-hearted Israel did who grieved Moses forty years together and by reason of their unbelief ther did not enter into the rest that was promised them but fell by the way of the wilderness Now then poor sinners I would in this small Treatise endeavor to stir you up to lay held upon Christ Iesus who is the Fountain of all our happiness who is the Well-head from whence doth spring all our spiritual and temporal enjoyments and the more earnestly to encourage you to lay hold on this your onely Supporter I shall endeavor to lay down some Motives to stir you up to this work and that it may be done spéedily to day while it is called to day I shall desire you to read the words of Solomon the wisest of men and best of Kings as you will finde them written in the 9 of Ecclesiastes 10 verse the words are these Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whether thou goest The principal aim of Solomon in these words are to shew that men are mortal and that wisdom piety and riches and all the earthly enjoyments that a poor soul can have in this life it will not exempt him from death all our creature-comforts are but transitory we are here to day and in the grave to morrow therefore we have little reason to set our affections on things that are parting from us or otherwise we are parting from them but let us take the advice of the Apostle St. Paul to set our affections on things above and not on things that are beneath Before I come to lay down the M●tives to stir you to the work you are to do I shall lay down this general observation which is Doct. That the work of this life cannot be done after this life is ended therefore while we have time in this life we must use all diligence to make our calling and election sure To day while it is called to day harden dot your hearts This is the day NOW or NEVER There is no repentance in the grave the grave hath no work but heaven hath work and hell hath suffering Now then to incite you to this work let me tell you First Know that time cannot be recalled that which was once will be no more yesterday will never come again and this day is passing away therefore work while you have day the night will come and then you cannot work 'T is true while the Candle burneth you may make use of its light but when that is done it is too late to use it The time that is now idled and talkt away the time that is now feasted and complemented away the time that is unnecessarily sported and slept away the time that is wickedly and presumptuously sin'd away how precious will it one day seem to all O how happy would it be to soor sinners if at the ●earest rate they could redeem it but this cannot be If cries or tears or price or pains would bring back lost abused time how happy were this dead-hearted world if it would then serve their turn to say to the vigilant Believer give us of your O●l for our Lamps are gone out or to cry Lord Lord open unto us when the door is shut the foolish would be saved as well as the wise but they shall not attain sal●ation who have nor strived in some measure to make use of their time to a better purpose than they have done who have vainly and foolishly lost their precious hours after their bain delights Math. 25. This is the day of Salvation this is the accepted time while it is called to day hearken and harden not your hearts Secondly As time can never he recalled so life shall never here below be restored Job 14.14 verse If a man die shall he live here again All the dayes of our appointed time we must therefore wait in faith and diligence till our change shall come We have but one life here upon earth to dispatch the work that our everlasting life dependeth upon and if we lose that we are undone for ever While you are on this side of the Grave you have time to read to hear to pray but when this time is done it shall be no more you shall rise from death to Iudgement according as you have lead your life here you shall have your Reward hereafter Now you may enquire of your friends and Teachers what you should do to be saved and you may receive particular instructions and exhortations and God may bless the endeavors of those who are assisting to you in the work so far that your poor soul may be saved but when life is past it will be so no more Had hell but such