Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	evil_a	fruit_n	treasure_n	2,403	5	10.5309	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71198	For England's information, reformation, great joy, peace, and consolation; and for her great honour, and exaltation, and for the great shame, contempt and terror of the Turk, the Pope, and the Devil, and all the workers of evil	Varney, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing V114B; ESTC R203878	63,496	118

all for all or against all when and by whom he please for as his Wisdom is unsearchable so his Power it is unresistable though the Instrument he may use among wise strong rich and learned men may be mean and contemptible But ever since that I have been precious in the Eyes of the most great and glorious God I have been honourable therefore I have not coveted after Silver or Gold Houses or Lands Offices or great Places but I have laboured and coveted to get and to keep to prove and to improve Rich Graces that so my Fruit may be better than Gold and may do more good for the Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms than an Army of Men or thousands or ten thousands of Gold or Silver has done I have no grace but what I have received so I have none to be proud of I have not received any but what I have laboured to improve so I have not any to be prodigal with the least grace which I have received from the God of all grace I do esteem it above all the Honours and Riches in the World because that true Grace it is abiding satisfying lasting and everlasting but for the Honours the Riches and Pleasures of this World they be short they be not abiding satisfying nor long-lasting therefore they that would have Grace which is Heavenly Treasure to thrive in their Soul they must value and esteem it above Silver and Gold To be made Partaker of the Divine Nature it is high Honour and great Favour The Righteous shall be glad in the Lord because they trust in him and all the upright in heart will glory Salvation comes not from the Mountains nor from the Hills not from wise strong rich and learned men but from the Lord who made the Earth and the Heavens and that when and by whom he will that all the Glory may redound to him for his right Hand and holy Arm hath the preheminence over all persons in all Nations Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my Righteous Cause yea let them say continually Let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the Prosperity of his Servants and my Tongue shall speak of his Righteousness and of his Praise all the day long for he hath done marvellous things All the Ends of the Earth that have not seen will see the Salvation of God He maketh Wars to cease unto the End of the Earth He breaketh the Bow and cutteth the Spear asunder and burneth the Chariots in the fire when he pleaseth and by whom he please in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain They that trust to their Chariots and Horses will fail but they that trust in the Lord Jehovah in the use of Means and above Means will prevail There is a River the Streams thereof will make glad the City of God which is the Church of God throughout the whole World For one fair Flood doth send abroad such pleasant Streams apace to refresh the City of our God and to wash his Holy Place Is not the Mighty God in Sion Go walk about and go round about her tell the Towers thereof mark ye well her Bulwarks consider her Palaces that ye may tell it to the Generation following for God who is most wise and most strong is with her and is known in her Palaces for a Refuge She is Beautiful for Situation the Joy of the whole Earth is Mount Sion and the City of the great King The Kings of the Earth in these days of the Gospel and in the Raign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain they will admire her Wisdom Power and Strength her Honours Riches and great Glory Shall Deliverance be at hand and the Church of England at a stand Shall there be a Well of Water near Hagar and she weep and be in distress Who hath heard such a thing who hath seen such things Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in one day Or shall a Nation be born at once For as soon as Sion travelled she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a Man-child Shall the Lord who is most Wise and most Strong bring to the Birth and not cause to bring forth or cause to bring forth and shut the Womb saith thy God No it will not be for in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain the God of Heaven has many Sons and Daughters that are grown up and many to be brought up and more to be brought forth in the use of the Means of Grace which he has appointed and the Church of England has ordained but all the Children of the Most High that are brought up and grown up and to be brought forth all is to be in opposition to the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil which will tend very much for the Glory of the Great and Mighty God for the Credit of his holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms O that the Sons and the Daughters of Men were wise for to make an Improvement of the Wisdom and Power of the God of Heaven which is better than Strength or Weapons of War or Silver or Gold As for the Wisdom that is in the World among unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries it is foolishness and doth many times end in madness for where Envy Strife and Contention is it brings forth too often Sedition and Rebellion But the Wisdom that is from above it is pure and peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie but where Pride Envy Strife and Contention is there is Confusion and every evil Work Now a good man and a bad man will be known by their Fruits for of Thorns men do not gather Figs nor of a Bramble-bush gather they Grapes but every Tree will be known by his own Fruit. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good that which is suitable and seasonable prositable comfortable and advantageous to many Persons and Families in a City and in a Kingdom But an evil man who is a wicked man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil to the great hurt and undoing of too many Persons and Families in a City and in a Kingdom It is commendable for the Sons of Men the wisest the strongest the richest and the most learnedst among them for to have always their heart to be Inditing

Encouragement from Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men though it tends for the great Honour Peace and Prosperity of them But having an eye to the Recompence of Reward which is the Crown of Life that Crown which will never Rust when all the Honour and Glory of this World will be laid in the Dust I have Ventured my Life Endangered my Liberty and have Exposed my self to many Losses Crosses and Reproaches to be Blam'd Sham'd and Condemn'd by many Men for Engaging with the God of Heaven for to make known his mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind But that God that has Encouraged me and Assisted me in well doing will Protect me and Reward me in due time for well doing They that can deny themselves and overcome themselves for to lay out themselves for his sake and the Gospel will in this World receive a Hundred-fold of Joy Peace and Comfort and in the World to come Eternal Life which they will want that be afraid or asham'd to own him and to appear for him in the worst of times and before the best of Men They that deny him before Men he will them before his Father and Holy Angels in Heaven But they that Confess him here he will them there The time is come that the God of Heaven will not be Slighted and Mocked by the Sons of Men as he has been too long and too much by many of them as by Unbelieving Jews Bruitish Atheists Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious D●ss●n●ers and S●staries But as in these Gospel Days they w●●l not Know Fear Love Serve and Honour him he will be Honoured upon them in bringing of them to great Shame and Consusion as many have sound and more will find if that they will not Cease to do Evil and Learn to do well but they that will Honour the God of Heaven he has promised to Honour them in this World sometimes it may be with Honours Riches and a long Lise but in Heaven it will be with all that have been Faithful and Fruitful for the great Honour of God the King and Nation in their Generation in this Life he will Reward them in Heaven with Glory Immortallity and the Crown of Life The Eyes of the Lord are upon the Righteous both to behold them and to uphold them for his Eyes run too and fro throughout the whole Earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose Heart is perfect towards him to Assist them to Counsel Comfort and Strengthen them and to Defend them and to Punish and Wound them that do Offend them that do Slight and Undervalue them that be as dear unto him as the Apple of his Eye They be his Peculiar Treasure his Crown and Glory his Portion and his great Reward though the Men of this World sees no Excellencies or Beauty in them yet by them that be most Wise they be Counted Excellent Persons for they be the Salt of the Earth the Light of the World the City on a Hill they be Men of great Ability and Nobility for Nobility they have the Creator of Heaven and of Earth to become their Reconciled Father his only and beloved Sons who is the Lord of Life and the King of Glory their Elder Brother the Holy Ghost their Counsellor and Comsorter Angels their Life-Guard the best of Kings and Queens their Royal Nurses Ministers their Servants and the Devil and all Wicked Men their Slaves Do I say Ministers their Servants are not all the Angels in Heaven Ministring Spirits sent forth to Minister for them who are and shall be Heirs of Salvation So that great is the Honour of the Sons of the Most High though they be Slighted and Undervalued in this World by the Workers of Iniquity Who can tell what great things the God of Heaven has laid up for them whom he has provided so many to Honour and to Wait upon some to Ennoble them some to Counsel and Comfort them some to Guard and Regard them some to Provide and Nourish them many to serve and to wait upon them He that has given them his Son who is the High and Mighty one the Chiefest of Ten Thousands will he not with him freely give them all things that shall be most suitable and seasonable Profitable and Comfortable and Advantageous for their Comfort in this Life and their Happiness in a better In this World the Wisdom the Power the Honour and the Glory of the Heirs of Heaven the Members of Christ doth not well appear because that their life is hid with Christ but when he shall appear who will appear with his Mighty Angels and in his great Glory then what will become of them that know him not and have not Obeyed his Gospel they will be Punished with Everlasting Destruction from the Presence of this great Lord and from the Glory of his Power But then he will be glorified in his Saints and admired of all them that believe for he will Change their Vile Bodies that have been upon Earth and make them like unto his most Glorious Body which is more Glorious than the Sun in the Firmament to be for ever with him in whose Presence is fulness of Joy and at whose Right Hand are Pleasures for ever more in this World A true Believer is a Man of Wonder because he has the Devil and the World under his Feet and Christ in his Heart who is the Hope of Glory and the Crown of Glory to them that Believe in him and make an Improvement of him And as a true Believer is a Man of Wonder many times to himself so sometimes the God of Heaven will make him a Son of Thunder against the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil against all that do Slight and Undervalue the Word of God and Question his mighty Power It is not Men nor Angels but the God of Heaven that has made me a Wonder to my self a Terror to his Enemies and a Crown and a Glory to all them that be Faithful to him to our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England The God of Heaven is no Respecter of Persons he that loveth Truth and worketh Righteousness will be Accepted and Rewarded but all the Workers of Iniquity will be Ashamed Confounded and Destroyed He is not a Righteous Man that is not a Humble and a Holy Man a Wise and a Faithful Man a Valourous and a Couragious Man in his Generation for the great Honour of God the King and Nation For Men to want these Graces they will be found Unacceptable to the God of all Grace Unprofitable to them that want Grace and Uncomfortable to themselves in every State and Condition but to have these Graces in Truth and to produce their Fruit will Procure and Secure Men in the Favour of the God of Heaven and of the Wise and Mighty Angels in Heaven and of all them that be

have cast off the good Prayers of the Church of England which are profitable and comfortable the God of Heaven has made their Friends as Enemies to pursue them For if a mans ways please the Lord he will make their Enemies to be at peace with them or with him but if they do not God will make their Friends their Enemies nay the great and good God who is the best Friend will become unto them that do provoke him the worst Enemy They that walk contrary unto him he will walk contrary unto them and will punish them seven times more he will heap mischief among them and spend his Arrows upon them And who will have pity upon thee or bemoan thee Art thou not gone backward O Dissentor since thou hast broken thy Covenant with the Lord in not endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace And have not you broken your Covenant with Men O Rebellious Sectaries in taking away the Life of our late Royal and Gracious Soveraign therefore the Lord hath framed Evil against you and devised a Device against you Unless that you do return every one of you from your Evil Ways and make your Ways and your Doings good the Lord will bring an everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which will not be forgotten Nay the Lord will make you Sick in smiting you in making you desolate because of your sins if you will not turn unto him in conforming to the Government of the Church of England But I shall pray for the Dissentors and Sectaries as the Apostle St. Peter prayed for Simon That they would repent of their Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of their hearts may be forgiven them For I am affraid that too many of them may be in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity for not keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace but the Lord give them true Repentance which will take off the greatest stain and bring the Soul into the Favour of God Again Have not the Dissentors and the Sectaries by their falling from the Church of England Have they not weakened her and grieved her Have they not reproached and persecuted her both with their Tongues and their Hands Have they not encouraged and strengthened the Papists against her who are unreasonable bloody and deceitful men But the Church of England according to our Saviours Counsel prays for her Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers that the Lord would turn their hearts and have mercy upon all Men that the Lord would be pleased to give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord that the Lord would give us all Hearts to love and dread him and to live after his Commandments And if this had been done the Dissentors and the Sectaries would not have fallen from God to displease him and grieve one another as they have done but they can condemn all but themselves but the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to reprove rebuke and to condemn them that they may condemn themselves for slighting the Prayers of the Church of England and trusting to Prayers of their own making and framing which are too many of them neither agreeable to the Word of God nor made by the Spirit of God as the Prayers of the Church of England are they be suitable for all Persons for all Times and all Conditions they be such Prayers that the God of Heaven hath heard and answered and doth hear and will answer them that put them up to him in a right manner and to a right end For the hearing and reading the holy Word of God will not profit any unless they do mixt it with Faith no more will the Prayers of the Church of England This is the excellency of these Prayers that they are not so plain as profitable and comfortable for all both high and low rich and poor and young and old Were they but well put in practice they would soon inform and reform the World that lies and lives in ignorance and disobedience From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from everlasting wrath and damnation it becomes all wise men to pray that the good Lord would deliver them Never more crafts and assaults of the Devil never evil more and mischief done and committed than by too many of them that have slighted undervalued and scorned these Prayers From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablness it becomes all the Sons and the Daughters of Men that would be good and do good to pray that the good Lord would deliver them from these sins But do not these sins too much abound among too many of them that have made Seperation from the Church of England Who are more ignorant and prouder than many of them Where is there greater Hypocrisie Envy Hatred and Malice than among too many of them But if they will not conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England in due time the Lord will not onely leave them but he will laugh at them when Distress and Anguish cometh upon them as Desolation and Destruction as a Whirl-wind then they may call upon the Lord but he will not answer them they may seek him early and yet not find him because they have slighted and hated knowledge which would have men to depart from evil and to chuse the fear of the Lord as without knowledge the mind cannot be good so without obedience the knowledge is not good for they that do flight and undervalue the Word of God and the Prayers of the Church of England they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their Devices for the turning away of the simple will slay and the prosperity of fools destroy them but who so hearkeneth unto the Lord and keeps in the good old way will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of evil From Fornication and all other deadly Sins and from all the Deceits of the World the Flesh and the Devil It becomes all that would be saved to pray that the Lord would give them power against them and victory over them for the hearts of all men are deceitful and the best of men are subject to fall into the worst of sins But there is a generation of Men that will not say the Prayers of the Church of England but will take liberty to sin that Grace may abound but from such Men the good Lord deliver me From Lightning and Tempest from devouring Fire from Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murder and from sudden Death the good Lord deliver all that do desire and endeavour to fear love serve and honour him It becomes all wise and faithful Christians to do what they can to prevent Judgments and to remove them and not by Contentions and Divisions to hasten them and to bring them upon us when that