Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	judgement_n	pharaoh_n	2,936	5	10.9003	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02528	Contemplations vpon the principall passages of the holy story. The fourth volume. By Ios. Hall; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 4	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1618 (1618)	STC 12656; ESTC S103669	103,611	500

for them to offer what they listed their next suite is to be directed in the matter of their oblation Pagans can teach vs how vnsaf●● it is to walke in the waies of religion without a guide yet here their best teachers can but guesse at their dutie and must deuise for the people that which the people durst not impose vpon themselues The golden Emerods and Mise were but coniecturall prescripts With what securitie may wee consult with them which haue their directions frō the mouth and hand of the Allmighty GOD stroke the Philistims at once in their god in their bodies in their land In their god by his ruine and dismembring nI their bodies by the Emerods In their land by the Mise That base vermine did God send among them on purpose to shame their Dagon and them that they might see how vnable their god was which they thought the Victor of the Arke to subdue the least Mouse which the true God did create and command to plague them This plague vpon their fields began together with that vpon their bodies it was not mentioned not complained of till they thinke of dismissing the Arke Greater crosses doe commonly swallow vp the lesse At least lesser euills are either silent or vnheard while the eare is filled with the clamour of greater Their very Princes were punished with the mise as well as the emerods God knowes no persons in the execution of iudgements the least and meanest of all Gods creatures is sufficient to be the reuenger of his Creator GOD sent them mise and emerods of flesh and blood they returne him both these of gold to imply both that these iudgements came out from God and that they did gladly giue him the glory of that whereof hee gaue them paine and sorrow and that they would willingly buy off their paine with the best of their substance The proportion betwixt the complaint and satisfaction is more precious to him then the metall There was a publike confession in this resemblance which is so pleasing vnto God that he rewards it euen in wicked men with a relaxation of outward punishment The number was no lesse significant then the forme Fiue golden emerods and mise for the fiue Princes and diuisions of Philistims As God made no difference in punishing so they make none in their oblation The people are comprised in them in whom they are vnited their seuerall Princes They were one with their Prince their offering is one with his as they were ring-leaders in the sinne so must they be in the satisfaction In a multitude it is euer seene as in a beast that the body followes the head Of all others great men had neede to looke to their waies it is in them as in figures one stands for a thousand One offering serues not all there must be fiue according to the fiue heads of the offence Generalities will not content God euery man must make his seuerall peace if not in himselfe yet in his head Nature taught them a shadow of that the substance and perfection wherof is taught vs by the grace of the Gospell Euery soule must satisfie God if not in it selfe yet in him in whom we are both one and absolute we are the body whereof Christ is the head our sinne is in our selues our satisfaction must be in him SAMVEL himselfe could not haue spoken more diuinely then these Preists of Dagon they doe not onely talke of giuing glory to the God of Israel but fall into an holy and graue expostulation wherefore then should yee harden your hearts as the Aegyptians and Pharaoh hardned their hearts when hee wrought wonderfully among them c. They confesse a supereminent reuenging hand of God ouer their gods they parallell their plagues with the Aegyptian they make vse of Pharaohs sinne and iudgment What could be better said All religions haue afforded them that could speake well These good words left them still both Philistims and superstitious How should men be hypocrites if they had not good tongues yet as wickednesse can hardly hide it selfe these holy speeches are not without a tincture of that Idolatry wherewith the heart was infected For they professe care not only of the persons and lands of the Philistims but of their gods that he may take his hand from you and from your gods Who would thinke that wisdome and folly could lodge so neere together that the same men should haue care both of the glory of the true God and the preseruation of the false that they should bee so vaine as to take thought for those gods which they granted to be obnoxious vnto an hyer Deity Oft-times euen one word bewrayeth a whole packe of falshood and though superstition be a cleanly counterfet yet some one slip of the tongue discouers it as we say of Deuils which though they put on faire formes yet are they knowne by their clouen feete WHAT other warrant these superstitious Preists had for the maine substance of their aduise I know not sure I am the probabilitie of the euent was faire that two kine neuer vsed to any yoke should runne from their calues which were newly shut vp from them to draw the Arke home in a contrary way must needs argue an hand aboue nature What else should ouer-rule brute creatures to prefer a forced cariage vnto a naturall burden What should carry them from their owne home towards the home of the Arke What else should guide an vntamed and vntaught teame in as right a path toward Israel as their teachers could haue gone What else could make very beasts more wise then their masters There is a speciall prouidence of God in the very motions of brute creatures Neither Philistims nor Israelites saw ought that droue them yet they saw them so runne as those that were led by a diuine conduct The reason-lesse creatures also do the the will of their Maker euery act that is done either by them or to them makes vp the decree of the Almighty and if in extraordinary actions and euents his hand is more visible yet it is no lesse certainly present in the common LITLE did the Israelites of Bethshemesh looke for such a sight whiles they were reaping their wheat in the valley as to see the Arke of God come running to them without a conuoy neither can it be said whether they were more affected with ioy or with astonishment with ioy at the presence of the Arke with astonishment at the miracle of the transportation Downe went their sickles and now euery man runnes to reape the comfort of this better haruest to meete that bread of Angels to salute those Cherubims to welcome that God whose absence had bin their death But as it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie and to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult then to forbeare it These glad Israelites cannot see but they must gaze they cannot gaze on the glorious outside but they must be whether out of rude iollity