Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	2,281	5	11.0765	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63127	Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2121; ESTC R219723	79,230	213

designe to be glad when it is said tous Let us go up to the house of the Lord but it is better to lead in such company to be Captains of the Lords Host but then we shew what spirit we are of when like Elijah we are very jealous for the Lord in such general defections that we seem only left that we can tread the wine-presse alone though of the people there be none with us can say as Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord though all Israel beside desert his interest 182 Lewis then Duke of Orleance rebelling against Charls the eighth King of France and joyning in confederacy with the Duke of Britain was taken prisoner in battel by the Earl of Trimovil being afterward King of France and moved by some about him to be revenged of the Earl said That the Earl had done nothing but his duty and wisht That he might never find a worse Subject in time of need then the Earl in that action had approved himself Such preaching as doth search the heart awaken conscience and hedg about the soul with thorns that it cannot find its paths and takes it captive in the Lords bonds is under the censure of men as unreasonably austere and rigorous but when their eyes are opened to discern the true interests of their souls they then find that that 's the preaching fit for the recovery of souls and that they had never been cured if they had not been cauterized 183 Richard the first being in his Palace at Westminster had news brought him That the French King besieged one of his Towns beyond the Seas whereupon he vowed That he would not turn his back till he had raised the siege and immediately caused the walls to be digged down before him and without farther delay hasted over and relieved the place How many good purposes are lost for want of present execution while we pretend to consult for the fittest opportunity we loose the present opportunity and while we are determining what time to repent in we leave our selves no time wherein to repent 184 A certain Priest in France being converted to the truth and imprisoned for it being brought to examination recanted upon which recantation being delivered out of prison was in the very passage out slain by two Gentlemen that bare an old grudge to him Lord they that will not lose their lives upon that excellent accoutn of thy glory how just is it that it should be lost to them upon the unprofitable account of humane frailty or others malice what rare husbandry is ti then to lose the life for thy sake when that Rose is offered up a sweet savour to thee and shall be richly rewarded by thee which otherwise would have faded of it self or have been clipt off with the rest of the Bush 185 One claiming Justice of Aristides for injuries that another had done him told him That the same person had spoken very unhandsome and vile words of Aristides himself to whom he said Friend if he have wronged thee ought prethee make it appear for upon the account of righting thee am I at this time here not to vindicate my own wrongs When will it be that judgement shall not be perverted that the equity of the cause and not the affection of the party accused shall be considered for how often hath it been sufficient to put and keep those sheep in the Pound not because they have trespassed but have not our mark upon them and have dispatcht those Doves not because they have not been innocent but not of our colour 186 A Bishop being charged with an hainous offence and condemned to dye for it had grace given in to him before his execution so that with floods of tears he lamented his sins with an heart abundantly poured out he besought the Lord for pardon saying That he had said prayers before but never prayed till now What odds is there between the tongue when it is the tuned instrument of others invention and when it is the tunable instrument of the hearts affection when the breath that moves it is not out of the bellows of a formal devotion but the breathings of the soul to God and pantings after him how differently is the Lord affected the languid oscitancy and distracted perfunctoriness of prayer not dictated from the heart like an arrow shot from a broken bow falling short of the Throne of Grace but it is the inditings of that spirit of prayer and supplication that layes bands upon the Divine Majesty and will not let him go untill it hath a blessing 187 Philip King of Spain being minded by one of his Courtiers That that was the day of his father the Emperours resignation answered and of his repentance too intimating that that resignation was no sooner done then wisht undone With what unresolvednesse do we resolve to desert the world our hearts having secret practice with it even then when our understandings are convinced of the vanity of it and we professe most against it our repentance though as to the matter of it not to be repented of yet to be repented of as to the manner 188 Pliny reports of a Maid in his time On her marriage day changed into a man and others tell of the same metamorphosis so reall that some afterward have had wife and children Those that are espoused to Christ in the bond of the New Covenant are truly changed from the effeminacies of lust and of a vain conversation and become masculine enobled to generous and heroick designs prest to quit themselves like men 189 Archimedes being intent upon a Mathematicall demonstration at the time when Syracusa was taken a Souldier breakes into his study upon him with his sword directed at him to whom he turn'd about and said Prethee friend let me alone till I have finisht my Demonstration with which the rude fellow incensed run him through without more ado With what content have those refined souls bestowed themselves in the search of humane Science when with high satisfaction to themselves they have hunted forth out of the rude masse some more sublimed notion with what exultation have they clapt their hands at and applauded their own 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when as yet their wisdome was but of the earth earthy with what rare delight then may we be imployed in the search of those divine mysteries which the very Angels themselves desire to pry into 190 The very suspition of Protestanisme is almost Capital where the Inquisition is established but the Jews are by publick allowance suffered in Rome it self under the Popes Nose though the Protestant agree very much with the Papist in his belief as a Christian the Jew not at all In Turkey the Christians have free exercise of their Religion but the Persian Sect is so hated that a Zelez slew an Embassadour of theirs only upon the account of that difference though the Christian wholly disavow their Mahomet the Persian only dissents about his