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
A64968	A present for such as have been sick and are recovered, or, A discourse concerning the good which comes out of the evil of affliction being several sermons preached after his being raised from a bed of languishing / by Nathanael Vincent.	Vincent, Nathanael, 1639?-1697.	1693 (1693)	Wing V417; ESTC R27040	62,262	136

the tree which bringeth not forth good fruit Mat. 3. 10. And now also the Ax is laid to the Root of the Trees therefore every Tree which bringeth not forth good Fruit is hewen down and cast into the Fire And if this bringing forth no good Fruit brings the Tree to Everlasting burning what fierce Flames will burn those Trees which bring forth a great deal of bad Fruit Such as you read of Deut. 32. 32 33. For their Vine is of the Vine of Sodom and of the Fields of Gomorrah their Grapes are Grapes of Gall their Clusters are bitter their Wine is the Poyson of Dragons and the cruel Venom of Asps To go on in Sin after recovery from Sickness may shorten your days and make Sentence against you to be speedily executed 5. Though Death is a little delayed yet it will certainly and quickly come let it not find you unprepared Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed unto men once to dye and after this the Judgment And this appointment is concerning you as well as others Therefore speak every one of you as Job did Job 30. 23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to Death and to the House appointed for all the living 'T is not more certain you are alive than 't is certain that you shall shortly die And wo to you if you lie still and at last die in your Wickedness If Sin be the sting of Death then so many Sins as you have been guilty of so many stings will your Death have A King of Terrors indeed it will be found when with so many stings 't is armed Pray hard that a saving change may be wrought in Heart and Life before the great change come and that you may pass from Death to Life in a Spiritual Sense before in a Natural Sense you pass from Life to Death USE III. Of Direction more generally unto all and here I shall direct you How to carry it under Affliction And likewise how after Affliction that you may receive much good by Affliction In the first place I am to direct you how to carry it under Affliction 1. Under Affliction be perswaded and take great notice that God himself is come to visit you Though he be not the Author of sin yet Penal Evils are all from him chastning is called the Chastning of the Lord Heb. 12. 5. Chastisements are stiled his rebukes His Providence is so extensive that not a Sparrow falls to the ground without Him Nothing then befalls any of the Children of men but by Divine Appointment Fix your Eyes therefore upon God He has taken you in hand and out of his hand none can rescue you and the wound that is made will remain uncured till the same hand heal which gave it Job 9 13. If God will not withdraw his anger the Proud helpers do stoop under him The Chaldeans were the Ax but Gods hand hewed Israel with it they were the Saw but Gods hand did shake it And when you see 't is really God himself that visits you in Severity behave your selves as Creatures ought to do towards their Creator who is infinitely above them has been greatly offended by them can easily crush them and yet is able and ready upon Humiliation to cure them If the Invisible God who corrects were more eyed in all the strokes he give you this would have a mighty Efficacy to abase you before him and to make Affliction attain its end upon you that an end might be put to your Affliction 2. Under Affliction Justifie God and accept the Punishment of your Iniquity in Affliction Conscience may speak very plain and home and so as that you have nothing to reply and the Spirit of God may set in with Conscience and make its charge more unanswerable Heedfully listen to Conscience and Mind the Convictions of the Spirit Oh search and try your ways the ways that your Hearts and Affections have gone as well as the Paths you have broken with your Feet Be better acquainted with the evil nature of your own ways and their pernicious and destructive Tendency Lay blame where it ought to be laid upon an evil Heart especially for that 's the fruitful womb in which Sin is conceived that brings forth all the Evils wherewith the man is defiled 'T is the Evil Heart which through unbelief departs from the Living God and is inclined to dead works and lying Vanities Fail not to clear the Justice of God as it is written That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings and mightest overcome when thou art judged Rom. 3. 4. Judge likewise and condemn your selves and your Sin as the meritorious cause of all your Sorrows and Sufferings Never look upon Sin but behold the long train of Evils that follow after it and if you were not deliver'd from Sin it self this train of Evils would run Parallel with Eternity God requires the Heart should be humbled and accept the Punishment of its Iniquity The Heart must firmly believe that Sin is that whereat God is displeased that Sin is the procuring Cause of all other Evils that are felt and that the true Reason of Gods Controversie is because even because his Word and Commandments have been cast behind the back despised and broken Levit. 26. 41 43. 3. Under Affliction be sensible of the Plagues of your own Hearts and Consent with Earnest Desire to have them presently and throughly healed The Sickness and Perishing of the outward man is for the restoring the inward man to Health The Humours and Appetites and Inclinations of the Body are an occasion of much Sin in the Soul which should make you the more contented that the Flesh should be diseased and pained and ready to perish that the Spirit may be healed and saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Corporal Diseases attain not their end unless they make you sensible of Spiritual Maladies Is thy Head thy Breast thy Back or any part of thy Body out of Order presently look with a diligent search into thy own Heart to know what that ailes that there may be the more serious and speedy Application to the great Physician of Souls Ephraim when chastized was sensible of the stubbornness of corrupted Nature and its backwardness to come under the Yoak of God I was says he as a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoak and he prays not so much for the removal of the Rod as for Grace that might Convert him unto God who did correct him Afflictions are Spiritual Medicines much made use of by the Lord who heals his People Sick-beds are the places where he Works great cures when the Face is Pale when the Pulse beats disorderly when the Blood is boiling hot and the whole Body in a Flame and the frame of Nature seems just ready to be dissolved all this has a mighty Influence unto the Souls Healthiness and Prosperity How are dreggs then purged out and how Pure Humble and Heavenly minded is the Heart then 4. Under Affliction desire