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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	lord_n	morning_n	wait_v	5,863	5	10.3480	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01109	A court of guard for the heart.	Taylor, Joseph.	1626 (1626)	STC 5876.5; ESTC S124214	16,679	82

Austine himselfe in his yonger dayes prayed to God for Chastitie he confesseth he could not keep his rebellious heart from adding giue mee chastitie but not yet O God let me haue some pleasure more No wonder then if the heart bee not obeyed that would not be obeyed if sin depart not when the heart will not let it goe To close vp this if we banish sinne it must bee withall the heart if we entertaine God it must be into all the heart If we keep our hearts it must be withall diligence So shall we bee able to beare a part in the Prophets song My heart is ready O God my heart is ready for I haue kept my heart with all diligence Thus haue wee seene the Iewell that is guarded the watch set the watchword giuen we are now to walk the round to see the Discipline For St. Bernard will haue Solomon heere meane a Military watch that is keep thy heart through al the watches of the night So that we all lye perdue vnder Martiall law he that sleepes dyes for it The Originall word Samarah as it is obserued by Scalager will well beare it for it not onely signifieth the place the station of the watch as it is said in Baruch the Stars shined in their watches But the actiō of the Watch it selfe as Dauid vseth it Psal 130.6 My soule wayteth for the Lord more then they that watch vnto the morning I say thē they that watch vnto the morning The Antients diuided the night into foure Watches two from the Euening to the first crowing of the Cocke two from the crowing of the Cocke to the rising of the morning These night watches Origen seconded by St. Austin compared to the foure ages of man his Infancy his Youth his Manhood his Olde Age So that you may now perceiue what it is to keepe your hearts all the Watches of the night it is no lesse then frō thy Cradle to thy death-bed from the first moment that God kindled a light of knowledge in thy heart till the last when hee shall put it out a light indeed so dimne that the Fathers doubted not to compare it to the night yet by that light by that weake light that glimmering we are all to watch Nor did our Sauiour blush to be likened to a Thiefe that should come in such a night for he that tooke on him our Nature shames not at the name of our vices so that he by that name may keepe vs waking But whether he come as a Thief or as the Master of the house in the second or third watches Luke 12.38 blessed are the seruants whom he finds thus watching But why in the second or third onely St. Gregory makes question of why names hee neither the first watch nor the last Hee answers the first is implied in the second but the last is left out as desperate Hee that dreames out the first watch may awake in the second he that shuts his eyes in the second may open them in the third But hee that drinkes downe sinne like Opium to sleepe with it till the conuulsions of old age or the last crampe of death awake him 1 Sam. 25. shall be like wretched Nabal who when hee had slept found that his hart was dead within him But let me beseech you brethren to awake before that howre awakes you to remember how fearfull a thing it is to fal into the hands of an angry God whō yee haue so often mocked with delayes as you meant to cosen your selues to hell in spight of heauen Yet make a stand looke backe on the time which you haue rather throwne away then spent 〈◊〉 flatter not your selues that the last Watch is farre from you for none is truely young that is olde enough to dye To shut vp all vse but that wit that study that diligence to saue your soules which you haue done to damne them For God requires no more of you then his enemy you haue spared neither time nor cost nor trouble in the Deuils seruice You haue lost your harts with al diligence In Gods seruice doe but so much Keepe your hearts with all diligence Neither Loue a Kingdome or the Deitie endures a sharer neither a deuided diligence or a deuided heart can serue Gods turne Though the Translators therefore differ whether it be Custodia Cura or Munitio whether ex or prae be affixed yet in the intirenes in the word of latitude they all agree For whether we looke vpon the watch we set about our hearts it must be no slumbring no supine nor intermitted watch or on the care with which wee watch it must bee no loose scattered distracted or aguish care that comes by fits or on the places frō whence we watch the Forts or Block houses the inward or outward senses all must bee man'd Since therefore sinne assayles euery where wee must be armed euery where If we do but obserue nature we shall finde by her placing of the Heart how we should keepe it First it is seated with all aduantage of intelligence almost in the center of man with a curious net of veines spred from it ouer all the body like the Spider in the midst of her web which feeling the least touch that shakes her worke retires instantly from the danger So should the Soule shrinke at the least noyse whispering or murmure of sin it should auoyd the very complement the first addresse of it and to be sensible of danger at the very sight the glimpse of a Temptation But this is not all that Nature hath blest the Heart with for besides this scituation of aduantage it hath a double natural fence the one more inward a tender though firme skinne to enwrap the heart with the other an outward strong wall of ribbs St. Cyril in his booke of Adoration bids vs note it as remarkable That the first ruine of this wall was in Paradise when God tooke a ribb out of Adam to make a woman of so that the forming of our first Mother hath caused many of her Sonns the loosing of their hearts For as St. Cyril followes the Allegory Euer since that time sinne assayles the heart at that place where it wants that rib for to defend it St. Gregory Moralizeth the Ribbs into so mamy rational Vertues encompassing the heart like the strong men about the bed of Solomon The tender skinne of the heart he makes to bee the tender Conscience For hee that wraps not vp his heart in a soft a cleane and vnseared Conscience is either about to make a forfeit of it or hath alreadie lost it That therefore wee may immitate Nature Let the Heart nouer bee vnguarded let religious meditations bee as veines to conuay pure thoughts from it constant vnshaken resolutions bee the nerues let a wall of Virtues immure it instead of Ribbs a cleare Conscience in lieu of a defiled so shall wee finde the motiue of al made good For out it come issues of