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heart_n	ear_n	eye_n	fat_a	2,377	5	10.2276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13874	The povver of preaching. Or, the powerfull effects of the word truely preached, and rightly applyed as it was deliuered in one or moe sermons. By Iohn Traske, preacher of Gods word sometimes at Axmister in Deuon: afterwards at the Fleete in London: and now at Tillingham in Dengie hundred in Essex.	Traske, John, d. ca. 1638.	1623 (1623)	STC 24177; ESTC S102654	19,357	69

the daies of Iehoiada the Priest And experience doth teach vs that where the word is most zealously pressed and powerfully vrged such places are farre more free from open impieties then other places where it is not so 5 Reforming Ioh. 6.66 Furthermore the word hath a reforming power in both elect and reprobates As may appeare in those beleeuers that went backe from Christ and especially of Herod that wicked man of whom we read that he feared Iohn the Baptist Mar. 6.20 knowing that he was a iust and an holy man and obserued him and when hee heard hee did many things and heard him gladly 6 Astonishing Adde to these that the word hath an astonishing power by which it stupifies and doth amaze as well the reprobate as the elect as wee see in Simon Magus Act. 13.8 of whom wee reade that hee beleeued and when he was baptized continued with Philip and wondered And we reade also of the Preaching of Christ that the hearers were astonished at his doctrine Mark 2.21 22. for hee taught as one that had power and not as the Scribes Also the word powerfully Preached is delightfull 7 Delighting as well to the wicked as the godly that it is delightfull to the godly is without question it is the very ioy and reioycing of their hearts Ier. 15.16 Psal 19.10 Ezech. 33.32 sweeter to them then hony and the hony-combe but to the very wicked Ezechiel tels vs that such whose hearts doe still goe after their couetousnesse yet his word was as pleasant to them as a louely song of one that hath a pleasant voyce and can play well on an instrument Mar. 6.20 And of Herod wee reade that hee heard Iohn gladly Mat. 13.10.21 Also we see it in that Parable of the stony ground the application whereof is to reprobate hearers that yet receiue the word with ioy Vse By these common powers of the word we may perceiue how farre reprobates may goe in hearing and what effects it worketh euen in the damned as in the saued they may be conuicted terrified humbled in some measure restrained reformed and delighted by the power of the word so that such as can goe no further haue not set one foote in conuersion beyond a very reprobate How manifestly wretched then are all such as neuer yet felt these powers in themselues but that these may also be seene let vs come to the peculiar powers of the word in elect and reprobate And first of the powers of the word Preached in the reprobate hearer and they are either sencible Insencible or insencible The insencible powers of the word Preached in reprobates is 1 Hardning that hardening power of the word whereby their hearts are hardened and their very consciences seared 1 Tim. 4.2 as with an hot Iron that whereas they had at first hearing some sence they become by often conuiction altogether sencelesse Of this power Isa 6.9.10 God speaketh to Isaiah whose mission seemeth to be chiefly to that end as it appeareth where we reade it written that God saith vnto him goe tell this people heare yee indeed but vnderstand not and see yee indeed but perceiue not Make the heart of this people fat and make their eares heauy and shut their eyes This the holy Apostle Paul applyeth to the vnbeleeuing Iewes where he saith Well spake the holy Ghost Act. 28.25 26.27 by Esayas the Prophet vnto our Fathers saying Goe vnto this people and say hearing you shall heare and shall not vnderstand and seeing you shall see and shall not perceiue For the heart of this people is waxed grosse Eph. 4.19 And the same Paul tels vs of some that are past feeling 2 Destroying Another power of the word which is also insencible may be that destroying power whereby the wicked are not onely more and more hardened but haue all the faculties of the soule peruerted and by degrees destroyed 2 Cor. 2.16 And that the word hath such a destroying power appeareth where it is called the sauour of death vnto death Ier. 1.10 And Ieremies mission gaue him power to destroy and throw downe as well as to build and plant And the Apostle Paul tels the Corinthians 2 Cor. 10.8 13.10 or the elect at Corinth that hee vsed his power toward them to edification and not to destruction so that the word Preached hath a destroying power The sencible powers of the word Sencible in the very reprobate are either that tormenting power or else that binding power And that such a scorching or tormenting 1 Scorching or cutting power of the word is sencibly apprehended by reprobates we may perceiue in Ahab who in that respect 1 King 18.17 21.20 22.8 called Eliah the troubler of Israel and hated Micaiah another powerfull Preacher for that hee vexed or tormented him neuer Preaching good vnto him but euill And in Foelix who was so vexed by Pauls reasoning Act. 24.25 that hee sent him away And the Iewes who being conuicted Act. 7.54.57 were cut at the heart by the Preaching of Steuen and gnashed vpon him with their teeth and stopping their eares ranne vpon him as they did on his Master as hath beene shewed out of this Chapter Verse 28.29 And therefore it is compared to fire which scorcheth men with great heate and causeth them to discouer themselues by blasphemies Reu. 16.8.9 2 Binding Another sencible power of the Word is that binding power by which wicked reprobates doe see themselues bound hand and foote Mat. 22.13 and cast out of the Church and Gods protection that is doe perceiue that they are seuered from the godly and shut out of the inheritance of the Saints in light and doe also perceiue that they haue no power any more to moue a foote towards that way or an hand to that excellent worke And this is done by the power of the holy spirit in Ioh. 20.23 the word Preached Vse By this we learne not to thinke it strange though some hearers waxe worse worse become more hard-hearted and lesse sencible either of mercies or iudgements euen where the word is powerfully Preached 2 Thes 2.8 yea become not onely benummed that they euen fall asleepe ordinarily at the Preaching of the same but also to such as vnderstand become apparantly more ignorant and sottish more peruerse and peeuish yea are euen consumed as it were to nothing by the Preaching thereof that whereas they haue seemed to be pleased with a Sermon and haue done some things gladly and sorborne other things which the word forbids yea beene much humbled with a kinde of trembling and astonishment at the conuiction of their consciences now they are not stirred at all nor delighted nor yet at all doe admire it but count it as a common thing and by how much the more powerfull it is by so much lesse doe they regard it yea by so much