Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

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
A62961	Mans extremity, Gods opportunity, or, A display of Gods sovereign grace in saving a people whose recovery as to men and means is next to desperate as it was delivered in a sermon preached before the Honourable Lieutenant governour ... of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England on May 29, 1695 which was the day for election of counsellors for that province / by the reverend Mr. Samuel Torrey.	Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.	1695 (1695)	Wing T1917; ESTC R30168	29,972	66

Deut. 32.6 Do ye thus Requite the Lord your God O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father hath not he made thee and establisht thee Remember the dayes of Old ask thy father and he will shew thee thy Elders and they will tell thee Now then let us further consider What God could have done more for us to recover and restore us and bring us back again to himself and this either by his Word or by his Works Let us Consider 1. How much how long how powerfully God hath laboured with us by his Word and by his Spirit therein It hath been his great Work by the Ministry of his Word to awaken convince and humble us for our Sins by charging judging condemning threatning denouncing very dreadfully against us for them by such of his Servants whom he commanded to cry aloud and not to spare to lift up their voices like Trumpets in testifying and crying against those Sins and ways of sinning especially those Heaven affrighting astonishing Sins whereby we have so far exchanged our Glory for that which profiteth not that is Our God for the World as Jer. 2 11 12 13. Also God hath by his Word plainly proposed and pressed all the general Duties of the Times wherein the work of Reformation doth consist and wherein he hath called us with utmost importunity to turn unto him moving of us by all his most graicous Promises of all kinds of Salvations and all this with infinite Patience and Long Suffering from One Generation to another as Neh. 9.30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit in the Prophets yet would they not give ear and Zech. 7.17 But they refused to hearken and pulled away the Shoulder and stopped their Ears that they should not hear yea they made their hearts like an Adamant Stone lest they should hear and from thenceforth God gave them up to Sin and Judgment Psal 81.11 But my people would not hearken to my voice Israel would have none of me By rejecting of his Word they rejected God himself therefore it follows So I gave them up to their own hearts Lusts to walk after their own counsels O that my People had hearkened unto me I should soon have subdued their Enemies c. From thenceforth the Word of God became Judicial to them Isa 6.10 Go make the heart of this people fat make their ears heavy shut their eyes Lest they should Convert and be healed God set them under an Hardening Soul-killing Dispensation of his Word Hos 6.5 Therefore I have hewed them by the Prophets I have slain them by the words of my mouth Truly we may with fear and trembling consider how generally ineffectual the Ministry of the Word hath been with us as to any general work of Conversion and Reformation and is yet like to be seeing that we cannot say what God could have done more for us thereby in an ordinary way of working to recover us and reduce us to himself So that our Lord may complain of us as sometime he did of them in the person of the Prophet Isa 49.4 I have Laboured in vain I have spent my strength for naught and in vain But 2. Can we say what God should further do further for us by his Works to reform and save us and that either by his Mercies or by his Judgments and all hitherunto in vain 1. Consider how much and how long God hath Laboured with us in a way of mercy he hath multiplied all kinds both of Temporal and Spiritual Mercies upon us the richest rarest choicest peculiar mercies the most alluring obliging mercies even loving kindnesses and tender mercies and if we had rightly improved them they would have been Saving Mercies he hath wonderfully magnified all his Mercies to us in that they have been granted upon our Cries to him in the times and cases of our greatest extremity and continued unto us notwithstanding our great unworthiness and manifold abuses of them they have been in all respects very signal Mercies whereby God hath been drawing of us with the Cords of a man the Bands of Love Hos 11.4 But Oh how have we abused all these Mercies to Pride Carnal Confidence Hardness of Heart Presumption Security Sensuallity so that we may fear they have been hardening and so Judicial Mercies granted not in Saving Mercy but in Judgment 2. Consider we further how much and how long God hath been Labouring with us in a way of Judgment to reform and save us he began his Process with us by lighter afflictions in a way of Chastisement and Correction he began with the Rod but that not availing he Entered into Judgment drew the Sword and proceeded therein gradually according as our sins have arisen to higher and higher degrees of Transgression and Provocation so God hath hightned the Severity of his Executions and that unto a great consumption of our small people both by the Sword and by the Sickness and otherwise wasting weakening and consuming of us carrying on his whole Proces in such a way as that we have been convinced and forced to confess that his whole gracious design thereby hath been to reform as it is alwayes with his People Lev. 26.23 If ye will not be reformed by these things c. and the main issue of the whole Process is to humble and reform them verse 41. If then thine uncircumcised heart be humbled and thou accept of the punishment of thine Iniquity then will I remember my Covenant But may not God yet complain of us as he did of them Jei. 44.10 They are not humbled unto this day May we ●o fear that we are rather hardened than humbled as they Zeph. 3.7 I said surely they will fear me they will receive Instruction but they rose up early and corrupted all their doings We are under many fearful Symptoms of being hardened and not humbled by all past Judgments that we are rather the worse than the better for them as they Isa 1.5 6. Why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick the whole heart faint c. and truly if so we may dread that fearful Sentence Jer. 6.29 30. the Bellows are burnt the Lead is consumed of the Fire the Founder melteth in vain for the wicked are not taken away reprobate Silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them Again 3. Consider How much and how long God hath been proving and trying of us both by his Word and by his Works both by his Mercies and his Judgments and indeed by all kind of merciful Probations to see whether we would repent and reform as he did his people of old Deut. 8.2 to humble thee and to prove thee and to know what was in thy heart whether thou wouldst keep his Commandments or no verse 16. That he might humble thee and prove thee to do thee good in the latter end truly so it is God hath been many wayes every