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
A92783	A dying fathers living legacy, to his loving son or, lively rules from the rule of life, to bee lived by every mothers childe. / By F.S. Gent.	F. S.	1660 (1660)	Wing S22; Thomason E2105_2; ESTC R210143	23,056	152

worship All things that I command you in matters of practise and in matters of worship that do and no more You must worship God with your will oh but take heed of Will worship When the heart goes not along with the duty that is hypocrisie when the heart is not stirred up in the duty to lively and vigorous acts that is formality As God will have the heart in prayer so in hearing hee is a Spirit and hee will bee worshipped in Truth The Lord whose Name is Jealous is a jealous God Take heed of the false worship of the heart if thou are not guilty of Idolatry thou mayest bee guilty of Hypocrisie Take heed of the Idolatry of the heart Bee spiritual in what you do A jealous eye is a watchful eye When ever you come to worship look to your thoughts Look to your conceptions of God when you worship how you represent God in worship There is as much danger of imaginations within as there is of Images without That which makes us successeless in duty is undue thoughts of God Make spiritual growth the end of coming to the word That Spirit that sayes Hear my Law sayes My Son forget not my Law A holy life is the infusion of holy truth Truth shall never dye who ever dye or live Charge thy self with that which is the end of the word that is Live well ASk thy heart every night what hath been thy darling to day who hath been most in thy thoughts to day The actions of mens lives are the wayes of their thoughts Secret thoughts will ingender gross transgressions secret sins will bring to open shame if you do not shame your self before God for them Sins of act are like arrows that flye by day Sins of thought are the pestilence that lurks in darkness It is not what thoughts are injected into thee but what thoughts are maintained by thee Thoughts are sins of the highest part of a man for they are the sins of his heart Thoughts are the first-born of original corruption if it bee the first born it must needs bee the strongest as Jacob said to Ruben A man many times doth not what hee would but hee alwaies thinks as hee will If thy heart bee heavenly thy thoughts will bee holy God thinks on you when you forget him If God should withdraw his thoughts from us as we do ours from him what would become of us Think on that Thoughts are called the counsels of a mans heart if thy thoughts bee not counselled thoughts such as thou dost determine to think on they are not good thoughts The souls part of fin is the greatest part of sin therefore thoughts are the greatest part of sin yet sins in deed are in regard of progress the worse because thoughts are included in them This is that which undoes many a man let it not bee thy undoing to have good thoughts of God and good thoughts of themselves too THere is no soul hath more high thoughts of God than that soul that hath low thoughts of it self The foul that lives lowest hath the highest objects before it The lower the soul lyes the higher the things are it aims at The lower the ebbe the higher the tyde The lower the foundation of vertue is laid the higher shall the roof of glory bee overlaid They that are risen with Christ that seek the power of Christ risen seek things above An humble spirit may bee busied in low things but not taken up with them If Saints bee sad it is because they are too busie here below The more low wee are the more comfort wee have of God When wee are nothing in our own eyes then are wee something in Gods If thou wouldest bee all in God learn to empty thy self not by taking notice so much of thy graces as thy wants The more wee can empty our selves the more wee shall bee filled with God A Christians emptiness is his fulness and his fulness is his emptiness God is in that man that is not in himself If I will bee any thing in my self as of my self I must look to bee no creature of Gods making Whatsoever a Christian is for grace or glory it is out of himself hee hath nothing in himself as of himself all that hee hath hee hath in Christ Wee altogether shine in the beams of our husband Follow Christs example his whole life and death was an absolute denial of himself It unburdens a man of himself this self-denial If a man le ts go his fleshh ec shall advance his spirit A self-seeker is a clod of earth that sucks the sap of his soul onely to himself Deny thy self wholly if there bee not thorow self-denial ere long there will bee God-denial Whosoever is not poor in himself hee will never go our of himself for hee hath some other supply Those that have full conceits of themselves can never thirst after Christ When man makes an Idol of self hee wants now and then some to come and worship him Those that have least knowledge of themselves are apt to dote on themselves Hee that knows himself best loves himself least Those that have most light have lowest thoughts they trust not to the grace in their own hearts but to the grace in the Covenant Pride is a conceit of self-sufficiency THou canst never act freely and cheerfully in Gods wayes until the divine nature bee communicated Where divine power works not creatingly it works not relievingly hence it is that one that is not a Christian in deed holds not out alwayes to bee a Christian in shew As vital principles and spiritual habits are infused by God so they owe their permanency and stability to God It is his work to perfect holiness in his fear The judgement of sense ought to bee regulated by reason and the judgement of reason ought to bee corrected by faith Though I must not nor cannot give a reason of every thing I beleeve yet I must give a reason of my faith There is the life of faith the living of faith and the liveliness of faith the first is the habit the second is the act the third is the grace Faith doth not justifie as a grace in us or as a work not as an active condition contributing any thing to its own worth but as a passive condition or qualification whereby wee receive Jesus Christ the Lord and it is for his merits and not for our faith though by our faith wee are justified It is the application of Christs righteousness not our apprehending it By faith alone wee are justified but the faith by which wee are justified is not alone As wee cannot get it of our selves so wee cannot act it of our selves Faith is not our righteousness yet it makes the righteousness of Christ to bee ours Abraham beleeved and it was imputed to him for righteousness Christ in our nature hath fulfilled all righteousness this God hath promised shall bee ours for justification now faith closes with this

into the grave if hee had not fallen into transgression Man dyed not because his nature was subject to corruption but because sin had corrupted his nature Man was wholly a stranger to death till acquainted with sin There is no man that lives that shall not see death Death will finde every man and connive at no man The glorious end wee should aim at in life is not to study how wee might injoy the comforts of life but how wee may overcome the discouragements of death Death is alwayes drawing nearer and nearer whether you improve your time or throw away your time Men ordinarily leave the earth when they are most busie about it Those must dye that shall not bee damned It is a good minde in a man to bee content to dye and willing to live but to bee willing to dye and content live is the minde of a strong Christian To labour not to dye is labour in vain to live without fear of death is to dye liveing The comforts of life are no rational comforts till you bee freed from the terrours of death What comforts of life can bee sweet when a man is afraid of death and uncertain of life Seldome doth hee dye well that lives ill They are fools that give away their souls for nothing Prevention is better than confusion Hee lives twice that bestows the fore part of his time well That man that lives to dye shall dye to live The way to dye well is to dye often often and seriously think of dying and then sin if thou canst A dram of grace will bee more worth to you when you come to dye than a sea of gifts A man may live by a form hee cannot dye by a form Remember this the bellows of death will blow the spark of sincerity into a flame and the blaze of formality into nothing Hee neither fears nor feels death that hath his hopes in heaven Though death bee terrible yet innocency is bold Christ by death in death delivers us from death If hee dyed that you might live with him do not desire to live long from him 1 If you would live well take heed where you live even the place of pleasure is dangerous 2 In learning to live study how to dye hee loses all his time that knows not how to end his time 3 Dye you must bee active for God whilst you live You that must dye shortly had need to live strictly The way to have great confidence when you dye is to get and keep a good conscience whilst you live Mans life may bee very short it cannot bee long the time of man is a long death but it is but a short life Mens principles speak the shortness of life but their practises speak the eternity of life Time is but short but eternity is long If a wicked man would bee happy hee must make time long and eternity short As time is the measure of his sin so eternity is the measure of his punishment Prepare for an enemy that is alwayes getting ground of you not only the approaches of death are perpetual but insensible Make sure of death that you bee not miserable in death and after death When I was a young man saith Seneca my care was to live well and when age came I studied how to dye well The right way to dye well is to live well and the right way to live well is to dye betimes to sin the world and self You must dye make sure of an interest in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ Christ will do you good when you come to die so will the power of godliness AFter death comes Judgement At that day the wicked shall know Gods forbearance is no acquittance Wicked men are surely ordained to punishment as godly men are ordained to deliverance Though the Saints may bee losers for Gods word yet they shall lose nothing by God It cannot bee long before the worlds Funerals and the birth day of Judgement Though wee sleep in sin judgement slumbers not The Lord Jesus Christ hee is judge not onely of the fact but of the heart Make the Judge your friend Get him that is your Judge to bee your Advocate It is not the varnish of profession Christ will respect at that day unless hee see the workmanship of the Holy Ghost in the heart The wicked may drink a sea of wrath but they shall not sip one drop of injustice The sinner beeing self-condemned shall clear the Judge Christs first coming was to unite his second coming shall bee to separate That heart that would not break with sorrow for sin shall now bee rent thorow with despair They that would not weep for their sins shall now barn for their sins To bear this will bee intollerable to avoid this will bee impossible Sinners they must come to the Bar and they are sure to bee cast at the Bar. If you have not a part in the blood of the Lamb you shall bee sure to have a part in the wrath of the Lamb. But if thou hast no sins of allowance thou shalt have grains of allowance One dram of grace is too good to go to hell ALL that will expect to bee saved must wait upon the foolishness of preaching The creature as a creature is indispensibly bound to serve God Pray privately hear publickly God never comes so nigh to the soul as when hee enters into the ear It is preaching that brings hearing and hearing that brings faith and faith salvation As God will bee worshipped in Spirit so in truth not onely in opposition to the Ceremonial Law but in opposition to the hypocrisie of the heart That man never received the word in the power of it that never received it in the perpetuity of it Instability is alwayes a sure note of insincerity God looks more at the manner of the duty than the matter it is not what you do but how you do not how much but how well As God will have you holy because hee is holy so you must worship him in spirit because hee is a Spirit What is the reason that men sleep so securely after so many Sermons they say with Samuel It is onely mans voice The outward teachings of man is of no power without the inward teachings of Gods Spirit Christ revealed to us differenceth us from Pagans Christ revealed in us severeth us from Reprobates It is not thy hearing of mans voice but thy subjection to Gods voice that begets thee anew to God As hee sins that gives not God the hearing so hee sins that only gives God the hearing The word is never spoken in vain though it may bee often heard in vain it either purifies or consumes Gospel-ordinances you will finde either ripen your graces or ripen your corruptions The word of God is an enemy to none but them that are enemies to themselves No worship is a breach of the first Commandement false worship is a breach of the second Commandement Will-worship is alwayes false