Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	put_v	spirit_n	stony_a	3,973	5	11.7036	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12799	The Christian sword and buckler, or, A letter by D. Sprint to a man seuen yeares grieuously afflicted in conscience and fearefully possessed by the Diuel very comfortable and commodious to withstand the assaults of Sathan.	Sprint, John, d. 1623.	1623 (1623)	STC 23108.2; ESTC S4917	8,136	22

not againe to their folly For being iustified Rom 5. 1. by faith we haue peace towards God through our Lord Iesus Christ I know that Diuel may proceed and say thou art not chosen But you must say vnto him that God chose vs in Eph. 1. 4. Christ that we should be holy and I am sure that God hath chosen to himselfe Psal 4. 3. the man that is godly vertue ioyned to our faith makes our calling and election sure for such as God hath predestinated them hath he called wherefore so long as Gods grace Luke 10. 20. remaineth in me so long I will reioyce that my name is witten in the booke of life But Sathan may obiect suppose thou be now in the fauour of thy God yet thou maist fall away from Rom. 11. 29. grace he may withdraw his spirit To this you may answere this againe the guifts and callings of God are Ier 13. 3. without repentance i● he loue vs hee loued vs from euerlasting and loueth Io. 13. 1. vs to the end No creature shal be able Rom. 8. 38. 39. Psal 23. 6. to seperate vs from the loue of God in Christ kindnes and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life and this God is our God for euer and euer Psal 48. 14. he shal be our guide vnto the death But he may say that Gods minde may alter and he may hate them for sinne whom he loued of mercy God answereth Mat. 3. 6. for himselfe I am the Lord I chaunge not and ye Sounes of Iacob 1. Sam. 15. 29 are not consumed for God is not as man that hee should repent Iesus Heb. 13. 8. Christ that was yesterday is the same to day the same also is for euer Gods couenaunt of life and peace is euerlasting Ier. 33. 20. ●1 If Sathan thou canst breake Gods couenaunt of the day and night that there shall not be day and night in their season then may Gods couenant be broken with his children for God hath said vnto his chosen The mountaines shall remoue and the hills Esa 54. 10. fall downe but my mercy shall not depart from thee neither shall this couenant of my peace fall away faith the Lord which hath compassion on thee For that mercy and free grace which Rom ● 10. moued God to accept vs when wee were sinners strangers enemies and children of wrath and to reconcile vs by the death of his Sonne must much more moue him being reconciled to accept vs and to saue vs by the life of Christ Thus the foundation of God remaineth sure Yet Sathan may reply suppose there be no alteration or chaunge in God yet in thee there is He is strong but thou art weake But Peter answereth 2. Pet. 1. 5. that we are not kept by our owne strength but by the power of God vnto Saluation and I shall ouercome by Reu. 12. 11. the bloud of the lamb for in his owne 1. Sam. 2. 9. might shall no man be strong suppose then I may fall and that most grieuously as Dauid Salomon and Peter did yet though I fall I shall no be cast Psal 37. 24. 23. off for the Lord putteth his hād vnder me The pathes of man are directed by the Lord he will keepe the feete of his Saints Wherefore reioyce not against Sam. ● 9. me O mine enemies though I fall I shall rise when I sit in darknes Mica 7. 8. 7 the Lord shal be a light vnto me If Sathan vrge you further thus how darest thou presume of Gods assistance thou hast not Gods grace at thy commaund shew him the couenant of God confirmed and sealed by the bloud of Iesus Christ who saith Ier. 31. 33. I will write my law in their hearts I will make an euerlasting couenant Ier. 32. 40. with them that I will neuer turne away from them to doe them good I will put my feare into their hearts that they shall not depart from me I will giue them a new heart and a new Eze 36. 26. 27. 11. 19 20. spirit I will take the stony heart out of their bodies and I will giue them a heart of flesh I will put my spirit within them and cause ●●em to walke in my statutes It is most true we are not sufficient of our selues to thinke 2. Cor. 3. 5. any thing of our selues but our sufficiencie is of God As no man cometh vnto Christ except the father drawe Io. 6. 44. 65. Io. 15. 5. him so without Christ we can doe nothing Yet through the helpe of Christ which strengtheneth me I shal be able Phil. 4. 13. Phil. 1. 6. to doe all things And hee that hath begun this good worke within mee will performe it vntill the day of Iesus Christ And his good spirit shall leade Psa 143. 10 Eph. 4. 30. me into the land of righteousnes and seale me to the day of my redemption As for the helpe that Sathan offereth thee Aske him how hee can helpe another that cannot helpe himselfe and how should one trust the faith of a deceauour Hee offered the world vnto our Sauiour Christ and tolde him that the world was his but he tolde a Luke 4. 6. lye for albeit he be called the god of this world because he ruleth in the 1. Cor. 4. 4. children of disobedience yet the earth is the Lords and all that therein is the Eph. 2. 2. Psa 24. 1. world and all that dwell therein Wherefore although the wicked of the world fall downe and worship him to gaine farre smaller matters then the world by lying swearing and forswearing deceiuing and oppressing and such euil courses yet you must vtterly refuse this offer with auoide Sathan and come behinde me Sathan for it is written thou shalt worship the Mat. 4. 10. Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue If Satans helpe might stand a man in steede hee must haue no fellowship with his vnfruitfull workes of darkenes Our Sauiour Christ his Apostles would none of his assistance to helpe Eph. 5. 11. to publish the Gospell to the world It was the bane of Saul and Ahaziah Kings of Iudah to seeke for helpe of Sathan It is better to trust in the Mat. 1. 25. 1. Cor. 10. 13 Lord then to put any confidence in man or euil spirit for diuels cannot free vs from the hands of God 2. Kin. 1. 4. but God can keepe vs from the power of diuels For if God be with vs who Psa 118. 8. Rom. 8. 31. can be against vs Hee is not farre from euery one of vs he is as our shadow Act. 17. 27. at our right hand He is a shield to them that trust in him He keepeth Psal 121. 5. his people as the apple of his eye vnder Pro. 30. 5. the shadow of his wings and as the mountaines about Ierusalem so is Psal 17. 8. the Lord about his people henceforth Psal 125. 2. and for euer Say therefore vnto Sathan I defie thy power and renounce thy helpe as I am none of thine because I am bought with a price so will 1. Cor. 6. 19. 20. Psal 181. I none of thee nor of thy helpe The Lord is my helper my rocke my fortresse my deliuerer m● strength my shield the horne of my saluation and Psal 17. 1. my refuge my light saluation and strength of my life my defence is in God who preserueth the vpright in Psal 78. 1● heart The God whom I serue is able to deliuer me and though he slay Dan. 3. 17. me I will trust in him Hee onely maketh me to dwel in safety the Lord is with me therefore I will not not feare what man or Sathan can doe vnto me For when my flesh faileth and Iob. 13. 15. my heart also then God is the strength Psal 4. 8. Psal 73 26. of my heart and my portion for euer So the father of mercyes and the God of all comfort prosper sanctifie that I haue written vnto you Amen FINIS