Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	flesh_n	new_a	stony_a	5,704	5	12.0562	5	true

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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

more neglect it contemne it Nor yet may wee wonder that they are filled with wrath and rage at the Preachers of it seeing they doe plainely see themselues sencibly bound as it were hand and foote and cast out amongst dogges and swine and also continually scorched and vexed by the heate and feruency of such powerfull preaching No wonder then if they cry downe such Preaching and get to themselues heapes of teachers 2 Tim. 4.3.4 that if one pricke another may please You haue seene clearely such are the powers of the word truely taught that it tormenteth bindeth hardneth yea destroyeth and consumeth the very reprobates and there is no other effect to be looked for in any such but these to be trembled at in the naming of them Come wee now to the powers of the word Preached in the very Elect those that are peculiar to them in a speciall manner and let vs take them either as they are manifested in their conuersion or confirmation And first in their conuerting Conuerting power and they are either that opening pricking brusing or that turning power of the word and first of that opening power First 1 Opening the word hath an opening power whereby it doth not onely open the eyes of the Elect as it may of the reprobate Numb 24.16 as Balaams eyes were opened but in a more cleare manner Reuel 3.18 are they made to see the mysteries of godlinesse then any reprobate and to this end their hearts are opened with Lidia Act. 16.14 that they not onely vnderstand but affect what they vnderstand and in this sence it may be called the key of Dauid Reu. 3.7 that openeth and no man shutteth that is that so openeth that it can neuer be shut or closed any more Mat. 13.11 and this is proper to the Elect. 2 Pricking Secondly the word Preached hath a pricking power by which it doth not onely somewhat trouble but throughly wound the very heart of Gods people Act. 1.37 as were those Conuerts to whom Peter Preached they were pricked in their hearts therefore is it in this respect compared euen to sharpe arrowes Psal 45.5 as hath beene shewed it pierceth into the very soules of poore sinners and makes them sencible of their transgression Heb. 4.12 and this is also proper to the Elect. Thirdly 3 Bruising the Word powerfully preached hath the power of bruising yea of breaking to pieces the very Elect as Ieremiah tels vs Ier. 23.29 where hee compares it to an hammer that breaketh rockes So it breaketh their hard and stony hearts and maketh them not onely seeme nothing in their owne eyes but also maketh them the more capable of the new worke of regeneration Ezech. 11.19 as Ezechiel speakes where God saith by him I will take out your stony hearts and giue you hearts of flesh This is that renting of the heart which God requireth Ioel 2.13 and that broken heart that he will not despise Psal 51.17 Lastly the Word preached 1 Turning hath also a turning power by which it changeth mens mindes and also altereth their affections So it was said of Iohn the Baptist that hee should goe before Christ Luke 1.17 in the Spirit and power of Elias to turne the hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the disobedient to the wisdome of the iust Psal 19.7.1 So we reade that it is one property of the Doctrine of God to conuert the soule And this power the holy Apostle Paul speakes of to the Thessalonians where he saith 1 Thes 1.5.9 Our Gospell came not vnto you in word onely but also in power in that it turned them from Idols to serue the liuing and true God And this was the end of his sending Acts 26.18 not onely to open mens eyes but to turne them from darkenesse to light from the power of Sathan to God And so you haue the opening pricking bruising and turning power of the Word which appertaine to the conuerting of the Elect and so may be said to be proper to them onely Vse 1 If this be so that such powers of the Word are in the Elect onely then hereby such as are desirous to know their election to be of God may try themselues by these Hath the Word preached opened thine eyes yea thine heart and hast thou felt a pricking power in thy soule for sinne hath thine heart been not onely pricked but bruised yea broken so that thou art come to a selfe-deniall yea to find thy selfe nothing and art thou turned and altogether changed by the power of Preaching Canst thou truly say thou seest and vnderstandest the misery of thy sinfull nature and art grieued at the heart for sinne and doest finde that by sinne thou art euen become of no account and that deseruedly with God and dost thou finde thy heart quite turned by a detestation of thy former euill way and a vehement care of drawing neere to God and being reconciled to his Maiesty by these thou mayest bee able to conclude with comfort that thou art in the true way to eternall life and without doubt ordained to euerlasting happinesse And that thou mayest be yet further assured we will proceede to the power of the Word in confirming such as are thus turned to God Confirming power The same Word that thus conuerteth doth also confirme the conuerted and that by these powerfull effects which follow 1 Healing First the Word as it woundeth so it healeth it hath an healing power Psal 107.20 as the Psalmist witnesseth where we reade of such as are spiritually sicke with the conscience of sinne God sent his Word and healed them And Christ proclaimeth it in this Chapter that his Word hath an healing power where applying the Prophesie of Esayas to himselfe he saith Ver. 18.23 Isa 61.6 He is sent to heale the broken in heart which the Prophet calles binde vp So that the Word powerfully preached is that good Samaritan Luke 10. ● 30. which bindes vp the wounds of that sin-wounded Traueller and the onely Balme of Gilead that healing medicine wherby health is restored to the sicke soule Vse 1 Let Gods people learne hence where to haue recourse for health The Word is onely able to wound and heale here are the leaues of that Tree to be gathered which serue for the healing of the Nations Reu. 12.2 If any be then wounded by the Word let not that driue them from it but rather draw them to it if euer they will haue health here and no where else may they expect it and it may be an argument of the truth of election if the Word haue healed as well as wounded thee or if at least thou seeke health at the Word preached 2 Loosing Secondly the Word hath also the power of losing or setting free such as are turned to God that whereas before they haue liued in thraldome and bondage now are