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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	holy_a	son_n	7,690	5	5.1080	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73426	A ievvell for the eare. By Ro. Wilkinson; Sermon of hearing, or, jewell for the eare	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1602 (1602)	STC 25652.7; ESTC S125576	15,447	42

and apply it to the conscience as when we hear of gods mercy to be rauisht with ioye and when wee heare of his iudgements to be stricken with fear when we heare of his promises to rise vp in hope when we heare of our sins to repent and loath our selues This is the laying of the word to our hart and thus did Marie when she heard what straung things the shepheards reported from the Angels Saint Luke saith She kept all those sayings and pondred them in her hart A special Luk. 2 10 help to this is an often reuoluing and meditating in our minds of that we haue hearde for Dauid did not onely talke of Gods testimonies amongst his friends but being alone likewise did meditate of his law for so he saith that in Gods law was his continuall meditation and that both euening and morning and seauen times in a day and it hath bin the practise of Gods saints from time to time to enter into continual meditation of his mercy and of his iudgments It is commended in Isaac that euery euening hee went Ge. 24 63 Esay 5 12 14. out to meditate in the law those beastes were onely cleane which chewed the cud by which was figured a spirituall meditating ruminating of heauenly things and it is the cause of much vncleanesse in mens liues and of much iudgement vpon the world because they meditate not of Gods waies Indeed saith the prophet The harpe and violl the Timbrell pipe and wine are in their bankets but the works of God they consider not therefore hell hath enlarged it selfe and opened her mouth and they that reioyced shall goe downe into it and so saithe the Prophet Ieremie That the whole land is fallen into desolation because there is none that considereth in his hart Ier. 12 11 Therfore in the name of God beloued let vs prepare our eares and harts that we may first heare then remember and last of all lay vp the word in our harts for this is the right hearing and he that heareth hath not onely eares but eares to heare I would ye did consider that euery man by his obedience in this regard is iudged of what flock he is for so saith Christ My sheepe heare my Ioh. 10 27 voice so that if a man be desirous to hear then straight he is iudged to be of christs flocke but if the word be vnsauory and bréed no delight in his hart it is a shreud presumption that that man is a Goate And great reason we haue to delight in Gods voice for there is no word procéeding out of his mouth but it sauoureth of mercy and saluation to the soule for so Cant. 5 13 the Church testified of Christe that his lips are like to Lillies dropping downe pure mirrhe and how then should God indure our contempt who prefer the diuell before him nay God will endite vs not onely of contempt but of mockery too for if we shall beséech God to supply the meanes of hearing and send down a prophet amongst vs and when that Prdphet commeth shall shut our ears against him what is that but a mocke Besides what an vnresonable thing is it that we desire God to heare vs who could neuer vouchsafe to heare him if we stand in any néede of God how clamorous are wee and importunate vpon him Heare my prayer O Lord bow down thine ear vnto my supplicatton and why hidest thou thy face and forgettest all our afflictions and if God séeme a little to delay vs how hasty are we vpon him come Lord Iesus come quickly and make noe long tarrying my God and O god make hast to help vs but when God speaks to vs there is none that turneth his eare as if we had him in a string that he were bound to vs and not we to him therfore it shall come to passe that we shall pray and he shall not heare vs for so he threatneth Because I haue called and ye refused Prou. 7 24 26 27 c. I will also laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare commeth when your feare commeth like a sodain desolation and your destruction like a whirlewinde when affliction and anguish shall come vpon you then shall they call vpon me but I will not answere they shall seeke me earelie but they shall not finde me because they hated knowledge God shall take from you either the preaching of the worde as he threatneth by Amos. I will Amo. 8 11 send a famine into the lande not a famine of bread nor thirst for water but of hearing the word of the Lord. Or God shall take from you the Preacher of the word when ye shall runne from coast to coaste and shall finde none to preach peace vnto your consciences or at the least god shall take away the guifts of the Preacher because of the hardnes of your harts It is a notable obseruation of Saint Gregorie that God doeth sometime multiply his gifts and his spirit vppon the Preacher because the hearer is desirous to learne and sometime againe he doth take away his giftes and his spirite from the Preacher euen for a plague and iudgement vpon the people because they neither desire to heare or care to learne Therefore doe ye prepare your heartes and eares to heare and I doubt not but god will multiply his spirit and send a blessing vppon these my labours And of this let me aduise you before hand that no one of you at any time presume to set his foote within these wals who first setteth not down with himselfe to practise in his life what here hee heareth with his eare Some come not to haue their liues resormed but to haue their eares tickled as at a play some come for nouelty some for fashion some to sléepe some to sée and some to be seen but few to practise but let these things be farre from you for our sauiour Christ sayth He that is of God beareth gods words nay he goeth further in the Iohn 8 47 same place speaking to the vnbeleeuing Iewes ye therefore heare them not beecause ye are not of God and Saint Iames Iam. 1 22 saith that he deceiueth himselfe who is onely a hearer of the word and not a dooer for Gods word is a leuen whose nature is to turne the whole lumpe into his owne nature to season and make it like it selfe as when you haue heard a Sermon of humility to shew forth the fruite of that Sermon in your liues and conuersasions when you haue heard a Sermon of repentance to be stricken in hart with a feeling of your sinnes when you haue heard of Gods iudgementes against blasphemy couetousnesse lying stealing against vsury or prophaning of the Sabboths euery man to set downs with himselfe I will surely with Gods help purge my selfe of this and that corruption and amend in my selfe what I now see is amisse then may we say of you ye are our Sermon as Paule saide to the Corrinthians ye are our Ep●stle 2 cor 3 2 When whatsoeuer doctrine hath flowed out of our mouths doth spring vp as freshly in your liues let vs therefore say with Dauid O Lord prepare the harts of this people vnto thee send downe thy holy spirit into our hartes and into our eares gouern vs when we come to hear for paule may plant and Apollo water but thou must giue increase and in vaine shal the voice of the preacher beate vpon the doore of our eares vnlesse thou fill our hartes with thy spirit which we beséech thée of thy infinite mercy and goodnesse to performe that we may proceed from grace to grace vntil we come to the state of glory vnto which the Lord of his mercy bringe us To the sonne and to the holy ghoast thrée persons but one God bee ascribed all praise dominion and glory nowe and for euermore Amen Finis

a work of the mind and not of the outward eare a dilligent obseruing in the mind of that which is said therefore the Gramarians do fitly signifie attention vnder the word Animaduertere vt animum aduerteremus non aurem that wee shoulde not onely turne our ears but set our mind to it but that can a beast neuer do because he hath no mind and he that bringeth his eares to Church and leaueth his mind at home he commeth like a beast Our attention haue fiue great enemies The enemies of attention the first is a straying thought when all the powers of our soule should wait vpon the voice of the preacher then are our minds in our coffers or in our pastures or where they should not be wherefore pray for a steddy and stayed harte The second is a wandring eie gazing after euery picture vpon euery mote or flie and rolling vp and down in euery corner for as Soloman saith the eies of a foole are in Pro. 17 24 Eccl. 2 14. euery corner But a wise mans eies are in his head The thirde is a néedelesse shifting and stirring of the bodie a fumbling with handes a shuffling with the féete a risinge and remouinge from place when there is noe cause to prouoke vs and let it not séeme strange that these small trifles shoulde hinder our attention for euen the little birds of the aire did picke vppe the séede of the word least it shoulde take roote and goe down to the hart The fourth is an vnreverent talking and vnciuill laughing in the Churche as if the Temple of God were a place of mart or exchange where euery man might single out his companion and fréely discourse de omni ēte non ente of euery matter occasion offred ministred these are they that make the temple of God a den of theeues The fift is a seruice sēceles sléeping for some ther be who are no sooner in their seats but their harts are a sleepe as if they came to see visions looketh with Iacob to sée the Angels going vp whē as they might as wel see Eutichus fallinge downe Therefore quicken your sences rouze vp your dulnes and remember him which said to his disciples Could yea not watch with mee Mat. 26 40 one houre To these fiue ye may adde if ye plese a sixt which of al the rest is most scandolous and offensiue and that is a shamful departing out of the church and violent breaking from the congregation wherin a man doeth as it were openly protest that he is exceeding weary hath but too much for his mōey so that Ioseph was neuer more willing to depart out of prison then he out of the Church nor Simeon better cōtent to die when he said Lord now lettest thou thy seruant departe in peace But such men can hardly depart in peace for seldom it is when they leaue not behinde them both the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding After attention is required remembrance to lay it vpp in the store-house of our memory for what auaileth it to be attentiue for the time and so soon as we be gone to forget all to suffer the birdes to pick vp the séede which Christ had sowen before Saint Iames compareth such a manne to one beholdinge his face in a glasse who goeth his waye and forgetteth imediately what manner of man he was and fitlie are such eares resembled to a sieue which while ye dip it in the Iam. 1 23 24. water receiueth it in at a thousād holes but take it vp and the water runneth out faster then euer it came in so is it with forgetfull hearers they marke attentiuely conceiue presently and ●or a time are touched inwardly but the next toy driueth all out againe but Blessed are Luk. 11 28 they that heare the worde of God and keepe it it should séeme that Peter carried such a sieue in his head else how could the diuell sifte him as wheat for noe soner had Christ forewarned him that he would forsweare him but the dieull sifted the worde out of his eares and he forgat it and so not remembring the wordes was the cause of Peters apostasie for so soone as he remembered the wordes the texte saith he went out and wept bitterly therfore let vs not onely heare but remember too for that spirit which saith O my people Psal 78 1 Prou. 3 1 heare my law saith likewise my Sonne forget not my law Therefore God prescribed helps of memorie to the Isralites commanding them to binde his wordes vppon their handes for a signe that they should be as frontlets between their eies that they shoulde write them vppon the posts of their houses and on their gates and in a worde that they shoulde vse all helps against forgetfulnes for that was Gods meaning and no more and if we seeke for a helpe indeede then conference is the helpe when a man is delighted to talk of that at home which hath béen spoken at the Church for it may be that wil pearce into the head at a second repeting which at the first report would not euen as a naile may be driuen in at a second or third stroke which could not at the first and indéede it is Gods commanndement to the Isralites that they should talke of his law among their children when they were in their houses when they taulked or else walked by the waye as also at their vprising and downe laying therefore let vs thinke that this charg concerneth vs likewise and saye with Dauid Our tongue shall talke of thy righteousnes Psa 72 24 all the day long that at what time soeuer Christ shal come he may finde vs talking of his testimonies as when he ouertooke his desciples walking to Emaus he found them communing of his death and passion After attention and memory the last and chiefe point is to lay it to the harte for God especially respecteth the hart and if that bee wanting hee misseth it at the Esa 29 13 first and saith This people honoureth me with their lips or with their eares but their hart is far from me It is a smal thing to remember onely what was saide it is but a signe of a good memory at the best and if that be sufficient then let the diuel come into the temple too for he hath memorye more then inough to quote any Scripture against Christ or whosoeuer shall encounter him and many hipocrits which hang vpon the Church haue a certaine swimming in their braine a speculatiue diuinity by which they can holde talke at a table to discourse of any pointe Mat. 4. in Religion or course out a controuersie to the proofe but God is not serued with wit and memory therefore he saith further Thou shalt lay vp these words in thy hart and in thy soule To lay Gods word to the hart is to take hold of it by the hart