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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A21049	The mischiefe and miserie of scandals both taken, and giuen. By Ier. Dyke, minister of Epping in Essex	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1631 (1631)	STC 7419; ESTC S100164	93,861	283

man and is peremptorie for his execution the Lord deliuers him vp to hardnesse of heart and this hardnesse of heart wil be as quaternions of Souldiers as Chaines and Keepers Lockes Barres Bolts and Fetters to reserue a man sure for damnation A man hath had the meanes of grace offered him he hath slighted them and he wil goe on and hee wil doe this and that say all the Preachers what they wil and can to the contrarie When God sees this hee thus resolues Here is a man that I would haue saued I offered him the outward meanes of grace but he hath stubbornly rebelliously stood out against the meanes I am resolued hee shal neuer be saued I but perhaps the man liues stil vnder the meanes of grace and so long there is a possibilitie of his conuersion and if he be conuerted he must needs be saued Therefore God to keepe him from saluation will take a course sure enough to keepe him from conuersion Now what course is that God wil haue such a mans heart hardened And if once the heart be hardened there is no possibilitie of Conuersion if no Conuersion no Saluation This processe of Diuine Iustice vengeance we haue Is 6. 10. Make the heart of this people fat and make their eares heauie and shut their eies lest they see with their eyes and heare with their eares and vnderstand with their heart and conuert and be healed We see in the end of the Verse that Gods full and finall resolution is that they shall not bee healed that is they shall not be saued as appeares Mark 4. 12. But how will God keepe them from being saued they hauing and hearing the Word They shall not bee conuerted But how will he keepe them from Conuersion They shall not vnderstand with their heart though they heare But how will hee keepe them from vnderstanding with their heart Goe make the heart of this people fat that is Goe harden their hearts When the heart is hardened they cannot vnderstand with the heart when they cannot vnderstand with the heart they cannot bee conuerted when they cannot be conuerted whē they cannot be saued And so the hardening of the heart is nothing else but the locking and the shutting and sealing of a man vp to keepe him sure and fast for Hell So that for a man to bee giuen vp to hardnesse of heart is a signe and a wofull signe that a man is such an one as on whose soule God is resolued to shew no mercie and that a man is in the wofull state of reprobation Therefore see how the Apostle speakes Rom. 9. 18. Therefore hee hath mercie on whom hee will haue mercie and whom he will he hardens See how hardening and shewing mercie stand in opposition Whom he will he hardens that is he reprobates and shewes no mercie to But why sayes he not to whom hee will shew no mercie hee shewes none but in steed of that whom he will hee hardens Because God makes way for the execution of his counsell of Reprobation by Hardening mens hearts By al this then it is cleere that it is a wofull thing to bee giuen vp to the hardnesse of heart woe to that man that hath his heart hardened Now then Scandals are wofull euents vnto men of the world because they be such snares and stumbling blocks as make and occasion them to fall into this wofull condition of hardening their hearts Therefore woe to the world because of scandals because by scandals their hearts shal be hardened they shall haue the wofull plague of the heart they shall come vnder a wofull curse be brought into a preparatiue condition for temporall and eternall ruine For when men see such as make profession of godlinesse to fall into scandals and hainous euils it occasions them exceedingly to harden their hearts and to blesse themselues in their euill vngodly wayes as if their wayes were better then the wayes of godlinesse and their persons in a better estate and condition then theirs that make such adoe with their profession Wee may conceiue the truth of this in the scandal of the Incestuous Corinthian 1. Cor. 5. There were multitudes of Heathen Corinthians that had not yet receiued Christ nor his Gospel The Christian Corinthians had questionlesse beene dealing with the Heathen Corinthians to bring them to repentance for the sins of their Gentilisme What those sinnes were wee may see 1. Cor. 6. 10. Neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor effeminate c. nor Thieues nor Couetous nor Drunkards c. And such were some of you Namely when they liued in their Heathen condition Now out of these sinnes would not the Heathen residue be brought Now when all meanes and endeauours for their reclaiming were in vaine God in his Iustice would euen giue them vp to that wofull condition of being hardened in those their sinnes To this end in his prouidence a scandalous euent is disposed to come to passe in the sinne of the incestuous Corinthian which could not but turne to the great hardening of the Heathens heart in their sinnes Then began they to say and thinke in their hearts They told vs our estates and our wayes were dangerous and damnable but to bee sure our wayes are as good as theirs Wee are better yet then these professours of Christ we are honester at the hardest then are they The fornication and filthinesse that is acted and committed amongst them is not once named amongst vs. Wee will therefore euen keepe vs in these wayes and goe on in these courses still For if such as these professe themselues to be if your holy and strict Christians may doe such vile things as these then I trow it is not such an hainous thing for vs that make no such profession to bee Drunkards Adulterers Swearers c. And thus by occasion of this scandal did they confirme hearten and harden themselues in their iniquities Suppose any of the Christians had after the falling out of this scandal but offered to haue reproued an Heathen Corinthian for Fornication Drunkennesse c. what answere was he like to haue had but such an one as this Oh Sir it is no maruell you should find fault with me though now and then I may bee drunke or commit fornication yet I am not such a beast as such an one your fellow Christian that made such adoe with his holinesse that hath now married his fathers Wife I would you should know it I am as honest as he and as good a liuer as hee for his heart And so shooke they off all admonition and reproofe hardened their hearts against all remedies by occasion of that scandal And so was there a woe to many an Heathen Corinthian from the scandal of that Incestuous Christian because they stumbled at it were ensnared by it so as to harden thēselues in their sinful courses so by that hardnes were sealed vp to assured wrath There is nothing hardens men in their