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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	lord_n	pharaoh_n	7,022	5	11.1206	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45329	The beauty of holiness, or, A description of the excellency, amiablenes, comfort, and content which is to be found in wayes of purity and holinesse where you have that glorious attribute of Gods holinesse exactly setforth : together with the absolute necessity of our resembling him therein ... / by Tho. Hall.	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing H426A; ESTC R28056	111,380	240

it is vomited up the better it 's for him While sin is fresh and green there is some tendernes and sense in us but our heard hearts are like iron let them cool and they are hardly wrought upon A disease that is chronicall and old is harder to cure then a new one Jer. 13. 23. Can a Blackmore change his skin c. 4. Sincerely and cordially Our outward confessions and expressions must come from inward impressions of grace upon the soul. Most mens confessions Iu Iabris non in fibris nat●… are meer words God is nigh to their mouths but farre from their reins Jer. 12. 2. Isa. 29. 13. and though in words they speak much against their sins yet their hearts love them dearly and they will in no wise part with them Such mens confessions will be their condemnations out of their own mouths will God condemn them and give them their portion with the hypocrites Hypocriticall confessions be they never so eloquent or excellent for words are meer abominations our confessions must be the voice of our hearts rather then of our tongues for as in all duties so especially when we come before the Lord to acknowledge and confesse our sins there must be all plainnesse and sincerity without doubting or hypocrisie cold carelesse customary confessions do more provoke God oft times then the sin it self If a child should come and tell his father what he had done against him without any remorse or sorrow he would take it rather for a profession then any true confession of his fault God oft punisheth such formall confessors by giving them up more greedily to sin as Pharaoh after he had made a verball co●…fession of his sin was worse after Exod. 9. 27. yet v. 34. he sinned yet more and hardened his heart against the Lord. 5. Affectionately with sorrow hatred shame c. 1. Our hearts must be full of sorrow and deep humiliation under the sight and sense of sin every sin must be as a sword in our bosoms we must be sensible of the burden and bitternesse of it This made Peter weep bitterly When David resolved to confesse his iniquity he presently adds and I will be sorry for my sin Psal. 38. 18. Where this sorrow is though a man be not able to expresse himself in words yet God accepts of the affection 2. In our confessions there must be an hatred and loathing of sin it must work an indignation in us Hos. 14. 8. 2 Cor. 7. 11. Job 40. 4. 42. 6. his sin made him to abhorre himself We must fall out with our sins before God will fall in love with us 3. We must confesse our sins with shame When we consider the number and nature of our sins what a tender bountifull and gracious God we have sinned against ' how long we have rebelled against him and yet he hath spared us now must we take shame to our selves and be even confouded under the sense of our sins as Ezra 9. 6. Ier. 31. 18 19. Dan. 9. 7. Ezek. 16. 61. Now he cares not for his own reputation so God may be glorified he is content to be a based so God may be magnified he is content to be nullified This holy shame is a sign of ingenuity and of a good temper of Pudor est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 colorvtirutis Diog. spirit We are ashamed to be found doing any base thing sin is the basest of evils and therefore we should be ashamed and confounded before God at the remembrance of all those base lusts which have reigned in us and over us God loves to see us thus loathing our selves Ier. 31. 18. 20. And if the Sun and Moon be ashamed of our sins Isa. 24. 23. Ier. 50. 12. and the apostasie of Christians puts Christ to shame Heb. 6. 6. should not we then be ashamed of sinne which makes the very creature blush and puts Christ to shame Oh let our hearts be full of grief and our faces filled with shame for all our abominations yet let it not be the shame of a thief when he is taken Ier. 2. 26. because of disgrace and losse of credit but let it be a filiall shame from a sight and sense o●… the loathsomnesse of sin it being offensivum Dei aversivum à Deo odious to God and hurtfull to our selves such shame is our glory Wo then to all imprudent frontlesse men whose life is a trade of sin and they meer workers of iniquity yet have brows of brasse and whores foreheads that cannot blush God will not bear long with such Isa. 3. 9 10. 48. 4. Ier. 3. 3. 6. 15. 8. 12. Impudency proclaims impudency when men are so farre from shame that they think it a shame disgrace not to sin and swear and go like Ruffians these are come to the height of sin and are sinners that know no shame Zeph. 3. 5. 6. Beleevingly hoping and waiting for mercy and Pardon We must be humbled but not despair David had sinned greatly yet he beleeves i●… Gods mercy and begs for pardon Psal. 51. Iudas indeed confessed but without hope of pardon and therefore hangs himself but the sorrow of the godly is mixt with faith and his confession with beleeving that his sins are pardonable and God will yet shew him mercy Ezra 10. 2. Yet there is hope for this thing 7. Reformingly True confession is joyned with Reformation he doth not only confession his Ignorance Atheism Worldlinesse Hypocrisie c. but he likewise forsakes them and resolves against them Prev 28. 13. Confession of sin and the confusion of sin go together in his soul he desires as freely to forego his sin as he desires it should be forgiven The Ephesian Converts confesse their sin and then burn their books Act. 19. 18 19. The wicked sometimes confesse but they never forsake their sin but after confession they return whith the dog to his vomit Saul confesseth with tears that David was more righteous then he yet after that persecutes him again Pharaoh confesseth the Lord is righteous I have sinned yet after persecutes Israel again But the godly ever joyn Reformation with Consession In a word then we see there must be See twenty ex●…e consider to keep us from sin Bolton comfaffl consc ch 49 〈◊〉 10 c. Peccatum est deformitas pravaricatio legis divinae directè contrarium sanctitati quae est con●…o mitas voluntat●… nostrae cum lege divinâ à Lap. an abhorring of all sin by such as would attain to sanctification for sanctitie and sin approved of cannot subsist together though sanctitie and sin ●…ated and lamented may Sin and sanctitie are directly opposite for sanctitie is our conformitie to Gods will sin is a deformitie and transgressing of it Yet some sin nes are more directly opposite to it and therefore we must more especially watch against them As 1. Drunkennesse is a beastly swinish Vt omnium amnium confluxus in oceanum sic