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	people_n	pharaoh_n	3,851	5	10.7995	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42949	The Negro's & Indians advocate, suing for their admission to the church, or, A persuasive to the instructing and baptizing of the Negro's and Indians in our plantations shewing that as the compliance therewith can prejudice no mans just interest, so the wilful neglecting and opposing of it, is no less than a manifest apostacy from the Christian faith : to which is added, a brief account of religion in Virginia / by Morgan Godwyn ...	Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing G971; ESTC R21645	117,175	190

can thus usurp whose practices do prove them not so much as tollerable Heathens is in truth my great wonder and astonishment and whilst they retain Istam in figurâ hominis feritatem immanitatem belluae Such a brutish ferity under humane appearance Since the Orator as before P. 87 88. informs us That it is more against Nature for one Man to wrong another for his private Gain than Death Poverty Pain or any other Calamity That they who do hold the contrary do separate Man from himself That he is mistaken that thinks any discommodity either of Body or Estate to be sorer than the Vices of the Mind That no Man's Life can be more profitable than such a disposition of mind not to violate any even the most despicable Wretch for his Profits sake Which being true where will your pretended Christianity be found who against all Conscience and Reason are so unjust and cruel to your Slaves Wherefore till you can afford to comport your selves more agreeable thereto be but so just to your selves and us as to decline the Name That so your Inhumanity Avarice and Irreligion may no longer be a Stain and Reproach to that Profession unto which otherwise the Generality will be apt to ascribe them Nor let any one think strange of this Proposal which is but Just and Reasonable It being a most undoubted Truth and for which I think I should not be afraid to become a Martyr That they who do industriously oppose the propagation of Christianity especially in their own Families can be themselves at most but Heathens 9. Nor let any here go about to take Sanctuary under that Turkish Tenet That God accepts not the Services of Slaves This like the rest being but a poor shift and will hardly stand them in stead when the rust of their ill-gotten Treasure for which they have sinned against their own Souls shall be a witness against them it being certain that whatever is perfect in its kind is equally grateful to an impartial Goodness And should any Act of theirs prove less perfect yet where out of their power to remedy it cannot be less accepted by Him who requires no more than he gives and judges by the intent and respects not how great but how good our Offerings are and hath moreover by his Apostle 2 Cor. 8. declared That if there be first a willing Mind it is accepted according to what a Man hath not according to what he hath not No act of the Soul being to be reputed faulty for the infirmities of the Body any more than a Prisoner can be accountable for his Keepers cruelty or a Slave for his Masters 10. Let not then the Negro too much despond or sink under these Discouragements but rather assure himself That since God cannot but have a desire to the work of his Hands nothing but his own neglect can prevent his Happiness And that since He sent his Son to Redeem all there is Mercy in store for him also For to apply the words of the Evangelical Prophet to this case the Son of the Stranger that hath joyned himself to the Lord is not to speak saying The Lord hath utterly separated me from his People neither let the Eunuch say I am a dead Tree For thus saith the Lord even unto them that chuse the things that please me and that take hold of my Covenant will I give in mine House and within my Walls a Place and a Name better than of Sons and Daughters and I will give them an everlasting Name that shall not be cut off Also the Sons of the Stranger that joyn themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the Name of the Lord and to be his Servants even them will I bring to my holy Mountain and make them joyful in my House of Prayer Their Burnt-offerings and their Sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar for mine House shall be called an House of Prayer for all People Isa 56. Now these Evangelical Promises of Admittance and Acceptance being so general and without any respect of Persons it cannot be doubted but these are comprehended in them Wherefore to determine all in the words of the Apostle Gal. 3. 26 28 29. 4. 7. If thou O black Aethiopian art become Christ's Disciple and Servant and dost by Faith truly embrace and lay hold of him then art thou as to thy Soul and all the ends and purposes of the Gospel no longer a Slave but a Son and even Abraham's Seed And if a Son then an Heir of God through Christ according to the Promise For we are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus Unto which neither Condition Country Complexion nor Descent can be any Impediment There being in him neither Jew nor Greek Bond nor Free Male nor Female For we are all one in Christ Jesus 11. I shall close up my Discourse with that advice of Jeremiah Chap. 13. 16. Give Glory to the Lord your God before he cause Darkness and before your Feet stumble upon the dark Mountains and while ye look for Light he turn it into the shadow of Death and make it gross Darkness Adding only that Religious Expostulation of the Philistine Priests and Sages 1 Sam. 6. to their Princes and Optimates touching the dimission of the Captivated Ark Wherefore do ye harden your Hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their Hearts When he had wrought wonderfully among them did they not let the People go and they departed That is they found it requisite and necessary to do them that Right and Justice And it will be our Wisdom to do so too 12. And thus have I finished this Discourse wherein as I have not forborn to take notice of the least Objections so neither I think have I inserted any thing that may especially to those who understand the temper of this place seem in the least superfluous So that nothing being hereby left unanswered nor any colour or shadow of Argument remaining The Question must I presume be placed beyond dispute nor can there be any pretence or cloak left for the Impieties here condemned And unless the Opposers will defie the clearest Truth they cannot but confess the Obligation upon their Souls for complying with this Duty herein urged and asserted Of which yet what may be the Issue I shall not enquire but rest satisfied that I have done what I could and delivered my Soul which I must declare that otherwise I could not And no less shall comfort my self that whatever shall be the success either through any neglect at Home or opposition here and that tho it should happen which I trust it cannot Truth being most powerful and must prevail that I should labour in vain and spend my strength for nought and in vain yet surely my judgment is with the Lord and my work with my God Amen Nunquam successu crescat honestum Luc. l. 9. The State of Religion in Virginia as it was some time before the late