Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	affection_n	understanding_n	will_n	4,333	5	5.6834	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30235	The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publick fast, Septem. 27, 1643 / by Mr. Anthony Burges ...	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1643 (1643)	Wing B5643; ESTC R7338	25,238	35

the soul the understanding the will and the affections it must be like Aarons Oyle running down from the head to the feet hence God would have the King himselfe to write his word with his own hand that so he may bee acquainted with it and rule accordingly Dent 17. 2 Pray for understanding Only a spirituall understanding and an heavenly eye can discerne an excellency in the Scripture it argued a prophane spirit in Politian who said there was more in one of Pindars Odes then all Davids Psalmes But David prayeth that God would open his eyes that hee might see the wonderfull things in Gods Law All truth is sweet but the Scripture truth above all men may reade the Scripture write Comments on it and yet not have spirituall and savoury understanding of it Nunquam Pauli mentem intelliges nisi prius Pauli spiritum imbiberis unlesse God give thee the heavenly spirit of Paul thou wilt never understand the heavenly meaning of Paul 3 Be humble and meek submitting to the simplicity contained therein The humble he will teach his way It is a great matter to stoop to the Scripture Austin complaineth of this that literarum typho tumidus swelling with pride of humane learning hee did refuse the simplicity of Scriptures Bradwardine speaking of himselfe before he felt the power of grace upon his heart saith that hee was much offended when hee heard Paul read in the Church because hee had not metaphysicum ingenium Thus proud men seldome ever come to know the truth God hideth these things from the prudent and wise of the world 4 Get love to Gods truth And this is the reason of all Anti-christs errours and beleeving such lies as they doe because they receive not Gods Word in the love of it They loathed this Manna and therefore God makes a famine among them and there is no more terrible prognostique of Gods delivering up a people to blindnesse and hardnesse then their rejecting of the Word Take we heed then how we reject God reforming lest he sweare in his wrath that we shall never be reformed What is the great crying sinne of England this day even an hatred of Gods truth they love not the power and purity of it but as the Gadarens had rather have their Swine then Christs presence so these their brutish lusts rather then Gods truth God removeth these meanes of grace when people are incurable as when the Patient is dead all the physick boxes and cups are taken away Now that the Word of God may be set up these three things are necessary 1 To incourage preaching which is that great work so severely charged upon the ministers Hezekiah spake comfortably to those that taught the good knowledge of God There was a very noxious and destructive opinion that reading was preaching The question is not whether reading may not in some sense be called preaching taking preaching for any declaration of Gods truth But whether it be ministeriall preaching whether whē the Apostle saith he must divide Gods Word aright he meaneth no more then to reade whether when he saith who is sufficient for these things he meaneth who is able to reade when he saith Give thy selfe to study that thy profiting may appeare to all men he meaneth that all men see thou readest better then thou didst 2 Catechizing This would doe good both to Minister and people the ministery in the first place Memorable is that which Chemnitius relates of his Master Chytraeus that when he read over divers Authors and devoured many Volumes he set himselfe to prove the Catechisticall points of Divinity by Scripture and then he sound himselfe in a new world he was not able to doe it As for the Minister so much more for the people Who will give us to weep rivers of teares for the generall ignorance in all Parishes and Congregations Bellarmine saith that faith may be defined better by ignorance then knowledge This is true that the faith of the common people such as it is may bee so defined Help the the Church of God O you Wotthies in this 3. Incouraging learning and the knowledge of the tongues for howsover translations may be good yet in regard of the emphasis of the Originall we may say as the Queen of Sheba to Solomon that which shee heard was nothing to the glory she saw Then came in errour and superstition when it was Heresie or at least suspicion of it to understand Greek and Hebrew A Divine ought to bee that which was said of Nazianzene {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an Ocean of Divinity Wee come now to the Testimony it selfe Prepare yee the way of the Lord c. which doth containe the effect of Iohns Ministery as also the duty of his hearers who were fallen into a corrupt time when the Philistims had filled up all the Wels the Pharisees Scribes had corrupted the Word of God by false interpretations The word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} he wil prepare and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} prepare yee are taken from the custome of great Ones who use to have way made for them or as others when great Commanders were to lead an Army they sent some before who were called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that did complanate and make levell the way and the Hebrew Word is emphaticall which signifieth such a removall of all offensive things that the face may no longer behold them and thence wee observe that It is the duty of a people to remove all difficulties and oppositions in the way that so Christ may come and dwell with them for so the Text carrieth it either literally to take every thing away that may stop their speedy returne from Babylon or typically what should oppose the spirituall restauration of the Church by the Messias and so proportionably whatsoever mountaine or valley may be in the way where Christ is comming As they threw garments in the way and with much acclamation cryed Hosanna blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord so are we with all earnestnesse of affection to cry Blessed be that Reformation which commeth in the name of the Lord This also the Psalmist cryeth Lift up your heads yee gates that the King of glory may come in We will first shew what are the impediments the hills and valleyes that hinder Christs comming to reigne in his Church 1 A corrupt judgement as if there were no necessity of preparation of Reformation That was Laodicea's case shee thought her selfe full and rich therefore she is counselled to buy eyesalve Rev. 3. 18. Thus the Church of Rome is in a desperate disease because she thinks she cannot be sick she cannot erre Thus all Reformation is accounted needlesse what need we any more doe As he said many had been learned if they had not conceited they were so so many Churches had beene more pure and reformed if they had not thought