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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	affection_n	heart_n	spirit_n	4,282	5	4.7204	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

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

these foure circumstances I. What it is that God would haue when he cals for our Hearts II. The Persons whose harts God cals for in these words My Sonne III. The manner how he would haue these persons Hearts in this word Giue he would haue them by gift IIII. The Person to whom hee would haue them giuen in this word Mee he would haue them giuen to himself My Sonne giue mee thy heart 1. That which God cals for to be giuen vnto him it is our Hearts My Sonne giue mee thy Heart That you may the better vnderstand what he meanes when he cals for our hearts consider I pray you the seuerall acceptations of this word Heart This word Heart it is taken either properly or improperly First properly so it signifies that dissimilar part that internall pyramidall or triangular fleshly substance within the body of man which the Philosophers call the chaire of state or throne of the soule the seate of the affections the consistorie of mans thoughts and meditations conceits and imaginations the fountaine of the vitall spirits the first member of man that liues and the last that dies Secondly improperly and so it is taken either Synecdochically or Metaphorically or Metonimically First in a Synecdochicall acceptation it signifies the whole man as well his body as his soule and in this sence our Sauiour vnderstood it when in Luke 21.34 he bids vs Take heede lest at any time our hearts be ouercome with surfetting and drunkennes Here the heart which is but a part of man is by a Synecdoche taken for the whole man for drunkennesse is hurtfull both to body and soule Secondly Metaphorically so it signifies either the pith of a plant or tree by which vegetatiue life and motion is conueyed from the roote to the branches or else the courage and valour of a man so that a stout and valiant man is oftentimes called a Heart Thirdly Metonymically and so if you take the subiect for the accidents it signifies the vnderstanding and the sinceritie of the affections of the heart Now when the Lord cals for our hearts he cals not for them in a proper acceptation nor in an improper Synecdochycall or Metaphoricall sence but as I conceiue chiefely and principally in a Metonymicall meaning so that when the Lord cals for our hearts he cals for our vnderstanding for our loue for our feare for our confidence hee cals for the sinceritie of our hearts in singing of Psalmes in Prayer in hearing the Word in receiuing the Sacraments My Sonne giue me thy heart that is know me with thy heart loue me with thy heart feare me with thy heart trust in me with thy heart sing vnto me with thy heart pray vnto me with thy heart heare my word with thy heart receiue the Sacraments with thy heart whatsoeuer thou doest in my seruice doe it with thy heart and it shall be acceptable vnto me So that when the Lord requires our hearts he requires the sinceritie of them in the performance of these eight duties as I shall indeauour to proue by seuerall places of Scripture 1. First we must studie to know and vnderstand what God is we must set the meditations of our hearts aworke about it 1 1 Knowledge Hence is it that the Lord promiseth to giue his people A heart to know him to be the Lord. Ier. 24.7 Whence I obserue that vnlesse our hearts be inflamed with a speciall touch of grace to meditate vpon God and to study to know him so farre forth as he is pleased to make himselfe knowne in his word we can neuer giue him our hearts as hee requires Let vs then bend our hearts to that end for which he gaue them vnto vs. He gaue vs our hearts to studie to know him Oh let vs render to him our hearts againe by imploying our best indeuours in this businesse Which we shall doe if we be diligent readers hearers and meditatours of his word especially that part of his word by which he is pleased to make himselfe knowne vnto vs in his Essence Attributes Names and Actions If you meditate on these places of Scripture you shall be well furthered in the true knowledge of God When wee meete then with any Scripture that describes him either in the a Deut. 4.35 Deut. 6.4 Esay 43.10 44.6 45.5 1 Cor. 8.4 Gal. 3 20. Ephes 4.6 1 Tim. 2.5 Iam. 2.19 Vnitie for his Essence or in the b Esay 6.3 Mat. 13.16.17 28.9 Ioh. 14.16.17 1 Iob. 5.7 Trinitie for the manner of his existence or in his Attributes either incommunicable such as are c Ioh 4.24 Heb. 12.9 2 Cor. 3.17 Es 31 3. simplenesse without mixture d Ps 90.2 92.8.9 102.27.28 eternitie without beginning e 1 King 8.27 Ioh. 11.8 Ps 139.7.8 Ier. 23.24 immensitie without limitation f Ps 102.13.27 Mal. 3.6 Heb. 1.11.12 Iam. 1.17 Exod. 3.14 immutabilitie without change or communicable such as are g Ioh 1.4 Deut. 32.40 Dan 4.34 life h 1 Tim 6.16 immortalitie i Iob 12.13 Dan. 2.20 Rom. 11.33 1 Tim. 1.17 wisedome k Rom. 9.18.19 will l Gen. 17.1 Psal 62.12 Ier. 33.17.19 Luk. 1.37.49 Rom. 4.17 power m Psal 115.3 liberty n Mar. 9.18 Psal 118.1.2.3.4 Psa 108.5 31.20 Tit. 3.4 goodnesse o Exod. 33.3 grace p 1 Ioh. 4.8 loue q Dan. 9 9.18 Exod. 34 6. Psal 116.5 10● 8.13 146.8.9 mercie r Rom. 2.4 3.26 9.22 1 Pet. 3.20 2 Pet. 3.15 patience ſ Ezek. 18.23 33.11 clemencie t Deut. 32.4 Psal 11.7 145.7 Apoc. 16.5 iustice u 1 Sam. 2.2 Es 6.3 Hab. 1.12.13.1 Ioh. 1.5 Apoc. 4.8 holinesse and x Deut. 10.17.1 Cron. 29.11.12 Psal 83.19.1 Tim. 6.15 You may see a plaine description of Gods Essence and Attributes in The Practi●e of Pietie set forth by Docter Bayly now Bishop of Bangor from the 4. page of the eight Edition to the 59. glory or in any of his Names Titles or actions we should meditate on it and consider it deepely in our hearts wee should treasure it vp in our memory and walke as in the sight of his so awfull and diume Maiestie If thus we indeauour to know him we giue him one chiefe thing which he requires when he requires our hearts 2 2. Loue. When the Lord cals for our hearts he cals for the loue of our hearts Deut. 6.5 Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy might Now he that loues God with his heart and soule will delight to be in his house sometimes lauding and magnifying his name with the congregation of his Saints sometimes talking with him by meditation and prayer hee will esteeme Gods loue and fauour dearer then his life Psa 63.2 He will bewaile his absence in disfauour as a bitter crosse Can. 3.1 He will hate those that hate God