Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	law_n	sin_n	transgression_n	2,243	5	10.5323	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92710	Meanes to prevent perishing. Or, The usefulnesse of the saving knowledge of God. Discovered in these particulars; I. The blessed tendency the knowledg of God hath to bring men to salvation. II. The one-ness of the Father, Son, and Spirit. III. The excellency of Christs person. IV. The excellent nature of eternal life. By W.S. a servant of the Lord Jesus.	W. S.	1658 (1658)	Wing S198; Thomason E955_3; ESTC R207616	60,676	76

from heaven but must have been as truly of the earth as he is man as all other men be but it is very plain that the man-hood of Christ is from heaven as you may see also 1 Cor. 15.47 The second man is the Lord from heaven the owrds be so plain that I need not urge them look also John 6.38 For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me Note it I pray you as he is God he doth his own will but he came down from heaven and yet not to do his own will therefore he speaks here as man it is clear and so in the 62 verses What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before How evident is this that the son of man was in heaven before and was sent from thence into the world and Iohn 16.28 Christ saith I came forth from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father and in this same Iohn 17.5 how earnestly doth our Lord pray the Father to let him enjoy that same glory that he had with him before the world was Now it is very clear this he did not now enjoy at this time that glory that he had enjoyed before the world was and this is now earnestly expected and prayed for as you see a case incedent to the man-hood of Christ but it is that which can never befall the God-head for there is nothing more obsurd and senseless than for a man to think that the God-head can ever be deprived of the full enjoyment of it self now that he took upon him our nature is plain Heb. 2.16 and many other places might be aledged to prove this if need were But I shall now come to the third particular to shew you the ends of our Lords coming into the world and the first end of his coming is to teach us the will of his Father and to manifest his great love to the sons of men according to that promise Deut. 18.15 18 19. and Acts 3.22 and 7.37 Iohn 3.16 17. and 12 16. to the end Secondly he came to be the true High-Priest of which all the other were types and to offer up himself for sinners and to bear all there infirmities according as that whole epistle to the Hebrews witnesseth and many other places also might be aledged to prove it if it were needful Thirdly Christ came to reign over all men yea to reign in the consciences of men and hath power of judging and condemning all those that be found disobedient unto him Psalm 2.8 to the end Luke 19 14 27. Romans 14.9 and 15.12 Iohn 5.22 23 27 29 30. But I shall take a little time more particularly to open some of these things unto you and to shew you what a sweet advantage we have by the coming of the Lord Jesus First he came to redeem us from the curse of the Law and hath born the curse for us and by this means will deliver all the sons of Adam from the misery that the first sin brought upon them yea and from the curses of the Law in general even from the paws of death it self and from all the miseries that procure it so that the ungodliest of men shall rise again from the dead and thus farr he is the Saviour of all men what ever he doth more for them and if they perish eternally it is for sinning against the Gospel either for neglecting their own salvation or for turning the grace of God into wantonness or for some such-like evills as these be Now I beseech you consider by what means Christ is thus a Saviour to you Beloved it is by bearing the Curse for you and undergoing those miseries that are due to you for your offences by his poverty you are rich by his stripes we are healed by his sorrows we have joy and by his death we have life He was made sin for us though in himself he knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him although in our selves we are unrighteous also Jesus Christ hath by his Blood and sufferings for the sons of men purchased a just authority and dominion over them all so that if they refuse to come unto him and when light comes chuse darkness rather and when he calls them to Repent and beleeve the Gospel and sayes look to me and be ye saved all ye the ends of the earth if then I say they shall refuse to come unto him for life yet shall they never be able to refuse to come before his Judgement-seat to receive the just reward of that disobedience but on the other hand the Lord Jesus came to be a Saviour to all those that come unto him yea that when he calls refuse not to hear but are willing to suffer the reproofs of wisdom to enter into their souls yea he will save all these with an everlasting salvation Beloved he came to bring salvation to such in all the parts of it First he justifieth such from all that from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses yea he hath power to forgive sins and he will justifie them freely through the work of Redemption But further I pray you observe the Lord Jesus will give Repentance to and graciously melt and soften the hearts of poor sinners if they do but hearken to his voice it is the very end of his coming to give Repentance as well as Remission of sins and he will work your hearts to Repentance if you do not oppose the work of his grace and continue to do it yea although you have hearts never so hard he will soften them himself by his own Spirit if you do not harden your own beares but wait at wisdoms gate then shall you see how graciously he will manifest himself at last indeed if so be that a soul were to work Repentance in his own heart or must see that it is wrought there before he might either go for mercy or had a ground to expect it that were enough to break the heart indeed and to discourage a man for ever hoping after mercy but the case is far otherwise for Christ came to work Repentance and to seek and save that which was lost and therefore although a person be never so hard-hearted and unbelieving and although he be never so dead if he have never a spark of life in him if he will but hearken to the voice of Christ Christ will give him life again another work that Christ came to do is to subdue sin and although it be never so strong he will subdue it it can never be too strong for him when a poor soul looks about him and sees a multitude of strong corruptions within him and then looks again and sees another multitude of strong temptations and snares without him round about and withall discerns the weakness of his own heart and sees how

years and been bruised by Satan yet be sure the year of Jubile will come when the trumpet shall sound for the diliverance of such bruised captives as thou art See one text more Isaiah 57.17 18. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth saith God And I shewed it to for I smote him saith he Yea but it is like it was but a very geritle stroke for if he had smitten hard it is like the man would have repented and turned yes saith the Lord but I did strike hard for I hid me and was wrath that is a great blow indeed beloved when the Lord hides himself that takes away all comfort and all hope sure the sinner will turn now or never there will be some fruit now of this stroke or else he will be given up as one incureable no saith the text he went on frowardly for all that and how does God deal with this wicked wretch now will he not throw him to hell immediately or if he spare him any longer sure it is but for distruction that will be the end of him No saith God I have seen his wayes and will heal him I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him Who would look to hear such gracious words as these from God Oh the riches of his free grace and mercy to old froward wetched sinners therefore fear not to cast your selves upon him although you be never so bad but if you be not able to cast yourselves upon him yet do not run away from him but lie at the Pool I mean the Ordinances and wait on Christ and he will find a time to visit you and to heal you and although you be so lost that you cannot return to him yet be sure you hide not your selves from him and then be sure Christ will not fail to do that good work for which his father sent him namely to seek and to save such lost ones as thou art And in the next place labour to beleeve the promises sir down and consider how many precious promises there be made in the Scriptures to sinners to undodly ones to all the ends of the earth to all comers come whose will and whosoever will let him come and take the water of life freely Revel 22.17 without money or price as Isaiah saith Isaiah 55. that is without any condition of worth on your part in the least degree I have laid many precious promises before you this day already read them over again and say to your selves these promises are held out to me and to such as I am and it is my duty to beleeve them and to apply them to my self do this the very first work you do think not to repent and to humble hy self first but before ever thou goest about that labour to beleeve and be not so foolish as to think to amend either thy heart or thy wayes before thou beleevest It is true I would not go about to perswade you other-wayes but that it is your duty to be humbled and to repent and to cast away all your trangressions and to study to be holy both in body and in spirit and also in conversation but if you think to do any of all these great works before you beleeve you go about a foolish work that will never prosper nor come to any thing for you must receive all that grace and power from Christ by faith through which you are inabled to all that is good and therefore if you would repent or obey or get your hearts changed or your lusts subdued go to Christ and rest upon him for grace to do all these duties And in the third place go to the Lord and ask repentance of him and begg a new heart and what ever else thy soul stands in need of and tell him how great thy wants be and what gracious promises he hath made to sinners and pray him to make them good to thy poor soul But me thinks I hear some poor soul say indeed if I were able to pray it were to be hoped that I might speed but alass I am not able to pray in the spirit and therefore I had as good say nothing I answer no more can young Ravens pray in the spirit and yet God heareth their cry and so he doth hear also the cryes of wicked men else how came Manaseh out of Bahylon 2 Chron. 33.13 also such as are wicked are incouraged to seek the Lord Isaiah 55.6 7. Oh but sayes the poor soul the prayer of the wicked is a bominable therefore how can I pray I answer if indeed thou meanest to go on in the wickedness without any purpose or desire to be better he will not hear in such a case but if thou go to him to be delivered from sin as well as from wrath he will surely hear thy cry and wil help thee Oh but the scripture saith that if I regard iniquity in my heart God will not hear me To this I answer if indeed thou do regard iniquity thou must not look to be heard but the question is what it is to regard iniquity now I will tell you that man that goes to God with a forme of words and with them thinks to please him but hath no desire at all to ask nor yet to receive any help against sin but resolves to live and continue in that still this man regards iniquity but on the other hand that man that hath lusts that he cannot master but yet he would be well content if the Lord would be pleased to subdue them for him and there is no request that he hath more desire to be heard in then in this that he might be delivered from his beloved sin Now this man doth nor regard iniquity although it may be strong in him But if he cry to the Lord for help he will surely hear his cry and will save him But if thou judgest that thou canst not pray yet ask for mercy for all that there is a sweet text in the Prophesie of Hoseah 14.2 the Lord tels wicked men there what they shall say to him for you most know that this Prophesie was sent to Israel in there backslidden and Idolatrous estate and yet the Lords goodness is such that he perswades them to return and seek for mercy but he takes it for granted that they cannot pray for it and therefore he tels them what they shall say take with you words and say untu hom saith the Prophet take away all iniquity and receive us graciously Mark it I pray you if they had had a spirit of prayer the Lord need not have bidden them take words to them and say receive us for where a spirit of prayer is there it helpeth our infirmities and reacheth us to make request according to the will of God as it is Rom. 8.26 27. if we have the spirit it will sufficiently open our minds unto our father but if we have it not then let us take words to us and