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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
A67742	Carnal reason, or The wisdom of the flesh how foolish, deceitful, dangerous, reprobate and divilish; together with rectified reason, or the wisdom of the spirit, how divine, transcendent, safe, profitable and delightful: as also, how many was at first created; how he is now corrupted, and how he may be again restored: being three fundamental principles of Christian religion; which few do indeed know; and yet he who knows them not, cannot be saved. By Junius Florilegus. Licensed and entred according to order.	Younge, Richard.	1669 (1669)	Wing Y142; ESTC R218076	22,612	22

Whence God in judgement gives them the Spirit of slumber Eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear Rom. 11.2 yea shuts up their eyes Isaiah 6.9 10. And blinds their mindes John 1● 40 and delivers them up to walk in their own counsels Jer. 9.14 And to strong delusions that they should believe lies and to a reprobate minde Rom. 1.28 Isaiah 6.9 10. Mat. 13.15 And lastly God in justice delivers them up to Satan the Prince of darkness so to be further blinded that the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ shall not shine unto them Psalm 69.23 Ephes. 2.2.2 Cor. 4.3 4. 2 Thess. 9 10. By all which you may see what a pitiful Chimera the Natural man is especially touching his knowledge in spiritual things and for the good of his soul. But hear also what the same Word speaks of the Regenerate I will give you their Character also in the very words of the Holy Ghost I pray minde them It is said that God circumciseth the hearts of his children that believe in him and of stony hearts makes them fleshy and soft Ezek. 11.19 Rom. 2.29 yea he takes away the stony hearts out of their bodies and giveth them new hearts Ezek. 36 26 even putting a new spirit into them Ezekiel 11.19 Besides he so farther softens them that they become like melting wax Psalm 22.14 Then opens them to hear and receive his Word Acts 16.14 1 Sam. 10.26 yea he washeth them from wickedness Ier. 4.14 Cleansath them Psalm 73.13 Purifies them by faith Acts 15.9 and sheds his love ●●r●ad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost Rom. 5.5 And having thus prepared them he writes his Law in their hearts Ier. 31.33 Heb. 8.10 10.16 and puts in them such a filial fear of his name that they shall never i●part from him Ier. 32.40 Whence they are said by the Holy Ghost to be pricked in their hearts Acts 2.37 to set and apply their hearts to understand his Precepts Prov. 2.2 Dan. 10.11 12. and to seek him with their whole hearts Psalm 1.2 To have per●eiving hearts Deut. 29 4. To lay up his word in their hearts Psalm 119.11 yea to have it written in them Psalm 37.31 and to keep his Commandments 〈◊〉 their hearts Proverbs 3.1 4.21 to have contrite hearts Psalm 14.18 Repenting hearts Rom. 2.5 Faithful and believing hearts Rom. ●0 9 Willing hearts Exodus 35.5 Meek lowly and humble hearts Mat. ●3 to 6. ●1 25 to have stedfast Isaiah 38.3 stable Heb. 13.9 rise Prov. 18.15 and understanding hearts 1 Kings 3.12 to have sin●hearts Ephes. 6.5 sincere hearts Gen. 20.5 true hearts Heb. 10.22 ●●est and good hearts Luke 8.15 pure hearts 1 Pet. 1.22 Matth. 5.8 clean hearts Psalm 51.10 and perfect hearts 1 Kings 8.61 Psalm 101.2 Isaiah 38.3 And what can be further said in praise of men But ●ake another instance Secondly As the Regenerate and Unregenerate differ in their ●●arts so no less in their sight and knowledge of spiritual things whence God is said to open the eyes of Believers Isaiah 42.7 Acts 26.18 To see the wonders of his Law Psalm 119.18 yea he gives them the spirit of Wisdom and Revelation to teach them all needful truths Ephes. 1.17 1 Cor. 2.10 whence they are said to have their eyes in their heads and open Eccles. 2.14 to have seeing and enlightned eyes Ephes. 1.18 and called children of the light and of the day 1 Thess. 5.5 counted a sober wise knowing and understanding people Deut. 4.6 and that increase in knowledge daily Prov. 4.18 and many the like expressions mentioned in the Word which I purposely omit Which being so were the same but truly believed rightly applied and seriously considered as O that men would but believe the Word of God to be Gods Word who would not long for and strive after such a condition What rare and incomparable Priviledges are these that the Regenerate man enjoys over what the Natural man does Can there be a greater difference between beasts and men or between the living and the dead than there is between the one and the other No. Onely the Sensualist perceive● it not therefore he desires not to become so wise so happy And if ever they do it must be the gift of God alone In the mean time if it be so that so long as we remain in our Natural condition we have eyes and see not ears and hear not hearts and understand not spiritual things as Christ himself plainly affirms Mat. 13.15 and his Apostle Acts 28.27 and before them both the Prophet Isaiah Chap. 6.9 10. and that we are onely bent to follow the ways of our own hearts Isaiah 57.17 which are deceitful above all things Ier. 17.9 And that these men have so lost the Prerogative of their Creation that they are become Beasts in condition if by nature they are blind deaf drunk mad yea stark dead in sin and in soul. How is it possible they should know bolieve and live a● Christ in his Gospel requires which is so Divine Spiritual and Supernatural so holy just and good Rom 7.12 Again If men by Nature are become Beasts and Serpents as th● Word Gods Dictionary who can give most congruous names to Natures every where stiles them how can any wise man wonder tha● these men should refuse a pardon when offered them That they should prefer Satans service before Christs choose Hell and refuse Heaven c. Yea● how should it be otherwise when their judgements are becom● so reprobate that touching spiritual things they altogether o● mostly judge by the rule of contraries esteeming good evil and evi● good put darkness for light and light for darkness bitter for sweet an● sweet for bitter They justifie the wicked and condemn the just as the Prophet affirms Isaiah Chap. 5.20 23. And so much of the secon● Reason But to these we may adde 3. Every man is born stark dead in sins and trespasses You hath he quickne● says the Apostle to his converted Ephesians that were dead in sins and tre●passes Ephes. 2.1 By one man sin entred into the World and death by si● and so death passed upon all men in whom all have sinned Rom. 5.12 to 2● O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 17.14 to 2● As in Adam all dye 1 Cor. 15.21 22. Briefly we are not onely dead in sin but so burified in the grave of long custom that we cannot so much as stir the least joynt no not so much as feel 〈◊〉 own deadness nor desire life but resist all means tending thereunto except God be pleased to raise and restore our souls from the death of sin and grave of long custom to the life of Grace Now you know that a dead cond●tion is an insensible condition The dead are not frighted with fire and brimstone the dead hear not though God be on Mount Eball thnudring curses upon curses the dead feel not though that

holiness truth righteousness and th● like ornaments wherewith we had been cloathed there hath succeeded these and the like 1. This sin hath so corrupted our whol● nature that we are utterly indisposed and made opposite to 〈◊〉 that is spiritually good and wholly inclined unto all evil an● that continually 2. It hath made us very Vassals to sin and Satan 3. It hath disabled us from understanding the will and observing the Commandments of the Lord. 4. It hath made our person● and actions unacceptable to God 5. It hath cast us out of God● favour and made us liable and subject to all the plagues and miseries of this life and to endless easless and remediless torment● in the life to come For proof whereof read Gen. 6.5 6. Rom. 3.9 to 20. Mat. 15.19 Gal. 5.19 20 21. Iames 4.1 Tit. 1 1● Rom. 7 .14 to 25. This was the fruit of their unsufferable pride and ambition in that they could not content themselves with being Lords of the whole Vniverse but they must be equal with God and every way like their Maker Of their horrible unbelief when they gave more credit to Satan than to God of their unparalel'd and unexpressible ingratitude in that they thought Paradice and all that was therein too little except they had also that one thing which God reserved and from which they were prohibited namely the forbidden fruit of their wilful murther of themselves and all their posterity whom they knew should stand or fall with them of their ●●●ful Apostacy from God to the Devil and sundry the like Bad work ●●d wages And as man lost his light when he sinned against his light so his blindness remains Insomuch that unto this day when Moses is read there is a vail or curtain drawn over every natural mans heart which is never removed or taken away until he turns to the Lord by repentance Nevertheless when he shall turn to the Lord the vail shal be taken away in Christ 2 Cor. 3.14 15 16. And so much of the first Reason for ● study all possible brevity lest the pages should grow like fish into a multitude Secondly Another reason is These men are Unregenerate and so want the eye of Faith which onely can see and discern spiritual objects and also the Spirit who is the giver of all true wisdom Faith most clearly sees and beholds those things which are hid from the eye of Reason John 12.46 Vnregenerate men who want the eye of Faith are like blind Sampson without his Guide We must have mindes lifted above nature to see and love things above nature heavenly wisdom to see and discern heavenly truths or else that truth which is saving will be to us a mysterie Mark 4.11 if it seem not foolishness 1 Cor. 2.7 8 14. To them that are 〈◊〉 the Gospel is hid 2 Cor. 4 3 4. Whereas the Believer discerns all things even the deep things of God 1 Cor. 2.10 12 15 16. Reason discerns natural objects Faith spiritual and supernatural We may see far with our bodily eye Sense ●arther with the mindes eye Reason but farther with the souls eye Faith than with both And the Believer ●ath the addition and advantage of Gods Spirit and faith above all other ●●n John 8.12 So that as meer sense is uncapable of the rules of Reason so Reason is no less uncapable of the things that are Divine and Supernatural Ier. 10.14 1 Cor. 2.14 15 16. Ephes. 5.8 And as to speak is onely proper to men so to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven is onely proper to Believers Now of Natural and speculative knowledge the wicked have as large a share as the godly but of Spiritual experimental and living knowledge which is supernatural and descendeth from above James 3.17 and keepeth a man from every evil way Prov. 2.12 The wicked have no part with the godly Whence all men in their natural condition are said to be blind and in darkness Mat. 4.16 15.19 Ephes. 4.18 19. 5.8 Whereas Believers are called Children of the light and of the day 1 Thess. 5.5 1 Pet. 2.9 But that you may see what a mighty and vast difference there is between Natural men and the Regenerate in their knowledge hear what the Word speaks of each severally for I will lay down their several Characters in the very expressions of the Holy Ghost First Natural men in Scripture are said to have uncircumcised hearts Jer. 9.26 Rom. 2.29 Gross hearts Mat. 13.15 Brawny hearts Isa. 6.10 Fat hearts Acts 28.27 Hearts without feeling Ephes. 4.18.19 Foolish hearts Rom. 1.21 Blind and dark hearts Rom. 1.21 Beasts hearts Dan. 4.16 Jer. 51.17 Dead hearts 1 Sam. 25.17 No hearts Hosea 7.11 Evil and wicked hearts Gen. 6.5 Vnclean hearts Ezek. 14.3 Impure hearts James 4.8 Hearts Slow to believe Luke 24.25 That cannot repent Rom 2.5 Feigned hearts Jer. 3.10 False hearts Jer. 5.23 Deceitful hearts Jer. 17.9 divided hearts Hosea 10.2 Double hearts 1 Chron. 12.33 Psal. 12.2 A heart and a heart Jer. 32. Proud hearts Deut. 17. Froward hearts Prov. 11.20 Stubborn hearts Hosea 13.6 Obstinate hearts Jer. 52. Hard hearts Exod. 9.12 Stony hearts Exek 11.19 Reprobate hearts Rom. 1.28 2 Tim. 3.8 and Satani alhearts Acts 5.3 26.18 whereof not a few by the custom of sin harden their own hearts Heb. 3.8 yea make them as hard as an Adamant Zach. 7.12 Lest they should hear the Law and be converted by the Gospel Isa. 6.10 Whereupon God in iudgement hardens them Exod. 7.3 22. 10.20 14.8 So making them more hard and brawny Isa. 6 10. Iohn 12.40 And so much of their hearts Then Secondly The same word does further acquaint us that Natural and unregenerate men are stark blind to spiritual things especially to what might make for the good of their souls Whence they are said by the Holy Ghost to be blind and in darkness Psal. 69.23 Iohn 12.40 Mat. 4.16 15.14 Ephes. 4.18.19 5.8 1 Pet. 2.9 Whereby is meant the darkness of their understandings To be Foolish Isa. 56.10 Rom. 1.21 22. Iohn 3.19 Ignorant Ier. 4 2● Revel 3.17 Drunken and asleep not knowing what they do Luke 23.34 Mad Luke 15.17 2 Pet. 2.16 No better than Beasts in their knowledge of spiritual things Ier. 51.57 Psal. 49.11 As the Horse and Mule which perceive nothing Psal. 32.9 Acts 28.26 Yea they are every where in the Word likened to the very worst of Beasts and Serpents as namely Lyons 2 Tim. 4.17 Dragons Revel 12 7. 16.23 Wolves Mat. 7.15 Tygers Bears Wilde Bores Vnicorns Leopards Dogs Phil. 3.2 Swine Foxes Serpents Vipers Adders Aspes Cockatri●es Phil. 3. Mat. 23.33 Dan. 7.4 5. 6.8 Psal. ●0 13 Zeph 3.3 Cant. 2.15 And many the like And as if all this were too little many of them blind their own eyes with their wickedness Psal. 2.1 to 6. and their prejudice 1 Cor. 2.8 yea mink with their eyes that they may not see the truth Mat. 13.15 Acts 28.27