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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	love_v	nature_n	2,758	5	5.1983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04151	Gods call, for mans heart in 1 Knowledge, 2 Loue, 3 Feare, 4 Confidence, 5 Singing of Psalmes, 6 Prayer, 7 Hearing the word. 8 Receiuing the Sacraments. Deliuered in a sermon, by Abraham Iackson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Chelsey, neere London.	Jackson, Abraham, 1589-1646?	1618 (1618)	STC 14294; ESTC S119409	15,280	54

GODS CALL FOR Mans Heart Jn 1 Knowledge 2 Loue 3 Feare 4 Confidence 5 Singing of Psalmes 6 Prayer 7 Hearing the Word 8 Receiuing the Sacraments Deliuered in a SERMON by ABRAHAM IACKSON Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods word at Chelsey neere London MATH 22.21 Giue vnto God those things which are Gods LONDON Printed by T. S. for Roger Iackson and are to be sould at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit 1618. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Edward Lord Russell Earle of Bedford and the Lady LVCIE Countesse of Bedford such felicitie in this life as may end with the beginning of those ioyes that shall neuer end Most noble and truely religious Lord and Lady AS your vndeserued fauour to me wards challengeth my seruice as a debt so tho vnmerited mercies of God to vs all requires our hearts as a due The meditation of the latter moued me to pen this Treatise and the consideration of the former animated me to Dedicate it to your Honours not that there is any thing in it which you knew not before as hauing long since learned how to consecrate your hearts vnto the Lord but to put you in minde of your knowledge that you doe not forget to practise it All that the Lord requires of you for whatsoeuer hee hath bestowed on you is in effect but this that you studie to know him to loue him to feare him to trust in him that you sing vnto him pray vnto him heare his Word and receiue his Sacraments with your hearts and soules as you shall finde briefely proued in this Treatise which if you doe as all that obserue your religious liues and conuersations are perswaded you doe you may rest secure of Gods loue and fauour towards you in Iesus Christ euen to the full assurance of that inheritance which he hath prepared for those that giue him their hearts in his seruice And so crauing pardon for my boldnesse if in this Dedication I be delinquent I rest Your Honours ready in all humilitie to doe you seruice ABRAHAM IACKSON GODS CALL FOR MANS HEART PROV 23.26 My Sonne giue me thy Heart LEast in this time of giuing and receiuing of gifts amongst friends and acquaintances you should be vnmindefull of your best friend euen your God from whom whatsoeuer good and perfect gift wee haue is deriued Iames 1.17 I haue made choise of this Scripture for the subiect of my speech the better to stirre you vp to present vnto God by way of gratefull acknowledgement of his loue and fauour the best Iewell or to vse Dauids words the best member that you haue euen your hearts and the rather because he requests them at your hands in the words of my Text My sonne giue me thy heart If a Sonne would gratifie his Father or a friend his friend that loues him dearely and out of his loue hath done much for him he will consider with himselfe what his father or his friend best likes and accordingly endeuour to the vttermost of his power to prepare it for him Beloued our gracious God and mercifull redeemer hath so dearely loued vs and done so much for vs as that betweene his loue and created affections there holds no proportion For suppose some great Prince should set his affection vpon some poore man so farre as to disrobe himselfe of his royall apparell cast off his Crowne and cease to be a King onely to inioy more freely this poore mans company and familiaritie certainely it would be a great argument of loue Nay suppose this Prince should yet goe further in the manifestation of his loue by offering himselfe willingly to die for this his poore friend if his death might be any way auaileable vnto him as Damon it may be would haue done for Pythias or Pylades for Orestes a greater testification of loue there cannot be and that by the testimony of our Sauiour Ioh. 15.13 Where he saith That greater loue then this hath no man when any man bestoweth his life for his friends Yet notwithstanding all this loue comes far short of Christs loue towards vs for he being the Prince of peace from all eternitie clad with the royall robes of glory attended on with myriads of blessed Angels swaying the scepter of the whole world sitting on the right hand of his fathers maiestie on high measuring the waters in his fist and counting heauen with a spanne and comprehending the dust of the earth in a measure and weighing the mountaines in a weight and the hils in a ballance Es 40.12 This great Prince I say notwithstanding all these prerogatiues was so inflamed with the loue of vs poore creatures the wretched broode of sinfull Adam lumpes of vanitie masses of misery banquerupts in respect of grace and captiues to sinne and Sathan that he left the brightnesse of his fathers glorie and tooke vpon him the vilenesse of our nature he forbare thundering in the cloudes to crie in the cradle he left the spacious and starre-beautified chamber of heauen to be lodg'd in a stable crowded in a cratch and swadled in a few proore cloutes here on earth in a word The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst vs and yet this is not all he did not onely take vpon him our flesh and our nature but our nakednesse our misery our pouertie our shame nay that which is yet beyond the conceipt and apprehension of men and Angels hee tooke vpon him our mortalitie he made himselfe subiect vnto death for vs euen to that shamefull painefull racking tormenting lingering death of the crosse he was crucified for vs he had his hands and his feet peirced and torne with nailes for vs his head was crowned with thorns for vs his side and heart was wounded with a speare for vs his hands his feete his head his side his heart gusht out with streames of bloud for vs and that cum adhuc inimici essemus when as yet we were his enemies Rom. 5.7.8 Cum non solum non existentes sed etiam resistentes when we were not onely not existent but resistent euen his professed foes and mortall enemies When our hearts were as yet captiues to sinne and Sathan fighting vnder their banners against him he spent the precious bloud of his heart to redeeme vs. Oh the exceeding loue of a gracious God to an vngracious people infinite degrees beyond the affection of the dearest friend to his friend Well then what remaines to be done on our part but that by way of gratefull acknowledgement of this his vnproportionable fauour we present vnto him this day for a new-yeares gift the best member that we haue euen our hearts and the rather because he askes them at our hands as you may see in the words of my Text My Sonne giue me thy heart It may be called Gods demand of his tribute due vnto him from his children or in fewer word Gods call for Mans heart In the which for my better proceeding and your better perceiuing I haue thought good to obserue

owne If we be delayd in our suites if our expectation be put off from day to day are not our hearts in a manner alienated from them on whom our hope depends Are not our hearts possest with faintnesse Pro. 13.12 How much more should we thinke will God be auerse from vs if wee repell his suite for our hearts with delayes Oh then let vs sacrifice our hearts vnto him whilest it is called to day lest if wee stay till to morrow hee will not receiue them though we present them with tears 2 Againe God requires that we giue him our hearts not onely instantly without delay but wholy without reseruation My sonne giue me thy heart that is thy whole heart not one peece to day and another to morrow but all at once not halfe thy heart but all thy heart Deut. 6. Many of vs I feare are like a woman that hath many sutors who willing to giue them all content speakes louingly to one smiles vpon another winkes vpon a third and entertaines the fourth and the fift and so the rest with some such other glaunce or gesture of affection and yet notwithstanding shee would make her husband beleeue that he hath her heart Euen so beloued although wee haue in Baptisme solempnely betrothed our hearts and soules vnto our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and haue promised to forsake the Diuell the World the Flesh and to reserue our soules as chaste Brides for his bed yet when the world shal haunt our company and present vs with a mappe of his vanityes when the Flesh shall assaile vs when any kind of sinne shall offer vs either profit or pleasure to pollute our hearts with impure spawne wee will speake one faire wincke vpon another and entertaine the rest with some secret smile or glance of fauour thinking neuerthelesse to make our Sauiour beleeue that he onely hath our hearts Indeede if his knowledge were like mans he might be deceiued with shewes and protestations but seeing he alone is the almighty heart-searcher hee alone knowes the deceit and hypocrisie of these protestations he sees that we loue him scarce with halfe an heart and therefore diuorces himselfe from vs and turnes vs ouer to our owne lewdnesse he must haue all our hearts or none at all Suppose a man should offer his Creditor halfe the money which he owes him is it likely that it would be accepted especially when he knowes his Debtor to be of abilitie to pay all How much lesse then should we imagine that God will accept of halfe our hearts when we owe him all and especially when he giues abilitie to pay all The vnnaturall Mother would haue the childe deuided but the naturall Mother rather then shee would yeelde to that offered to resigne her interest to the other 1 Kin. 3.28 So the Diuell tels vs he would haue but halfe our hearts and that God should haue the other but God will accept of no such conditions he scornes to part stakes with the Diuell if the Diuell haue one halfe let him take the other too God can indure no Copesmate he must haue all or none at all 3. And that f●eely too without grudging without repining We must not answere God when he cals for our hearts as Nabal answered Dauids messengers when they intreated prouision of meat for their Master and themselues 1 Sam. 25. But we must giue our hearts as freely as we would giue any thing to our friend that is in our owne possession But soft it were not amisse if I propounded a question Haue all of vs that are here present hearts to giue or no or rather are not some of vs here without hearts yes certainely If there be amongst vs any Worldling or voluptuous person or Epicure or Drunkard or Cheator or busie-bodie or enuious person or the like they are here without their hearts The Couetous mans heart is where his treasure is Where your treasure is there will your hearts be also The Voluptuous mans heart is where his wenches are the Epicures heart is where his dainties are the Drunkards heart is where good liquor is the Cheaters heart is where gamesters are the busie-bodies heart is where contentions are and the enuious mans heart is where the person is whom he hates If there be any such here as it may be there are Oh call home your hearts while it is called to day and to day present them as an acceptable sacrifice to him that hath long since bought them with the precious bloud of his deare Sonne IIII. And so I come to the fourth and last circumstance of my Text which is the Person to whom we are to giue our hearts set downe in this word Mee My Sonne giue Mee thy heart Whence I obserue that God onely is the primary and chiefe obiect of our hearts and so by a consequence of our vnderstandings wills and affections Of our vnderstandings becaúse the chiefest truth of our wills and affections because the chiefest good Other things there are about which those faculties may lawfully be imployed as for example the Vnderstanding may bee exercised about the knowledge of the vniuersall and generall singular and indiuiduall natures of substances and accidents as also about the images representations and priuations of those reall beings And as the Vnderstanding so the Will and Affections may in a degree be taken vp about other Obiects as about Vertue lawfull profit and lawfull pleasure but not so as to seeke for perfect happinesse in the one or in the other For God onely as being onely infinite is the onely satisfactorie Obiect in whom alone and in nothing else true felicitie is to be found The consideration of this Doctrine should be a strong motiue vnto vs to direct our hearts together with all their powers motions and affections chiefely and primarily vnto God Other things wee may meditate on and desire so far foorth as they hould a candle vnto vs and pricke vs forward to the primary and onely true Obiect But God alone must be the white to which wee all must ayme the Ocean wherevnto the riuers of our affections must all flow and the Center wherein the lines of our best indeauours must all meete That man that loues his daughter will be carefull to bestow her in marriage vpon such a one as desires her for loue and out of his loue will assure her a good ioynture But if hee hate his daughter hee will not care what becomes of her hee will giue his consent to any that shall make loue vnto her Oh then my dearely beloued Brethren if you loue your hearts bestow them on God that askes them for loue that askes them not for any benefit to himselfe but for aduantage vnto them that askes them to inrich and beautifie them with the iewels ornaments of sauing graces here in this world and to indow them with the crown of euerlasting blessednesse in the world to come But if you hate your hearts let either the world haue them that they may become stages for Folly theaters for Vanitie beds for Securitie consistories for Deceipt and chaires for Pride or let the flesh haue them that they may be seates for Idlenesse anvills for Lewdnesse tables for Epicurisme furnaces for Lust or let all manner of sinne and impietie haue them that there may be liberty giuen to Sathan to make Schoole-houses of them wherein to read lectures of Atheisme of Idolatrie of Superstition of Blasphemy of Prophanation of Disobedience of Vncleannesse of Cousenage of Oppression of Drunkennesse of Luxury of Riot and the like till they become meere Chaoses of confusion and vassals of damnation to burne for euer as neuer-perishing Salamanders in the red vengeance of endlesse tortures from which the Lord of his infinite mercye deliuer vs all Amen FINIS