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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	lord_n	word_n	16,070	5	4.2011	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43200	A seasonable vvord, or, A plain and tender-hearted epistle to all sincere hearts in Parliament, Army and countrey, who have any willing, though weak desires to glorifie their Heavenly Father in their holy conversations : wherein is briefly urged, that Gods doing calls for the saints duties, experience of divine love requiring Christians seriously to eye it, and in their hearts and lives to act in a suitableness to it by Thomas Hearne, a friend to the truth.	Hearne, Thomas.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1309A; ESTC R10367	8,963	14

will not go to sinful courses to effect their ends he that makes hast without God makes too much hast to speed well tempering with policy hath almost lost your glory good means are proportioned to upright-hearted ends I have been long but t is that you and I might no longer tamper with sin I have but a word of desire to you pray take it as intended it comes from my heart the Lord put it on yours 1. Make sincerity as t is your strength surely this will make you invincible t is a garment best pleases God of any remember that precious place in the Proverbs He that walks uprightly walks surely 2. Be serious for God come to talk of serious things with solid hearts levity of spirit very ill becomes Christians none are so soon insnared as those that are flashy Pauls advice might be useful to us Be sober and watchful shewing none are more watchful then sober serious Souls 3. Take heed your lives do not give your tounges the ly to cry up God with the mouth and cry down holiness in the practice is lamentable he that knoweth Gods will and doth it not shall be beaten to purpose Ah live not by the dictates of this prince in the world who is the God of the world are you members of Christ remember then your head is holy gratious loving love one another let union be your strength let holiness appear in your conferences ends walkings 4. Be constant in your professions he that holds out is crowned perseverance is that grace that wears the crown you have gone through many hardships to get peace you must go through more before you come into the Arms of the God of peace take not holiness only for a season but let it be your daily dress prefer God above all self-advantages 5. Appear against sin in your nearest relations connive at sin in none disclaim it appear against it in all love to God will loose a friends love rather then see God dishonored if God be indeed in you nothing will more gall your souls then his dishonor more revive you then his glory 6. Prefer principles before persons love none so much as the lovers of God close with none so intimately as with those that conform to God let those that be like God be loved not verbally but really as such 7. Be sure that you have a reverend esteem of and put a weight upon the least of Scripture-truths every word there came from God and hath glory and majesty in it Now friends I have done take heed lest by us Gallio's carnal plea be taken up He cared for none of these things I shall say but a word or two and so conclude I may speak to your ear t is Gods work to speak to your heart words may be in print but God must imprint truths on your heart or t will never be powerful my discourse is weak yet no more nor less then truth love to you hath made me deal plainly with you those that sooth you in your sins are but poor friends to your souls some may despise me and scorn my indeavors but I will indeavor with my God to pray them into a better liking of God and truth Many pamphlets may come to your hands O that truth might come to your hearts fancies and fables are for babyes wise men love truth Now my dear friends if there be any heart in you for God any love to zeal for God and truth any longings to stop these bleeding wounds that are on the land lay out lay out all your powers experiences activities improve every advantage let nothing be wanting Surely Gods presence with us Gods spirit in us Gods word guiding us is that or nothing that must solace and secure us if we cast off this and follow the devices of our hearts Wo and alas the Lord have mercy on us we are undone then for ever My dear friends consider Iohn 14. 6. Christ is the way to the Father so as we cannot come to God but by him Ah the Lord keep us so in this way that we way assuredly attain at last to the salvation of our souls To which sincere request let all the lovers of the Lord Jesus say Amen Holiness O Lord becometh thy house for ever Psal. 93. 5. FINIS

this he hath us fast enough let our souls bottom here and then the devil hath his design effected Ah dear friends tremble at the serious consideration of this that ever there should be any found professing the name of Christ As to say holy exhortations are Legall Ah what deceitful hearts have we because as in other cases some make their duties their God therefore we must not perform duties to God Friends is holiness done away with the blood of Buls and Goats think you was Christ crucified for you and shall not must not sin be crucified in you are exhortations useful as you are men why not as you are Christians but you need not these If so t is my joy that God hath the power of your hearts if he have the glory of your conversations you will put a high price upon exhortaions is he my enemy that tels me my state labors my security good God what an age is this is sin grace seeing cautions for sinners are legall No wonder dear hearts there is so much folly amongst us seeing the serious things of the Scripture have not so much of our thoughts and meditations as the scurrilous Epilogues of the most scandalous pamphlet if the divel be our prince no wonder that his laws are obeyed I once thought that an age of so much grace and goodness from heaven discovered an age of so much light as this is would never have witnessed to such apish and fantastick devices that men especially professors should have no more stayedness of spirit but to handle and talk of Scripture as if it were but a carnal story rather to please fancy then settle judgments I have but a word to you more Friends take heed God is a holy God though we heed him not be sure he is so jealous of his glory that he will make all prophane mockers one day smoak with the witness though he be slow to wrath yet when he comes he is a consuming fire be sober be solid be cautious observe what I say and the Lord give you to take good Councel And now my fellow-souldiers a Word also to you You have had God amongst you in your marchings you have been active for God your conversations have as really conquered as your Swords Is there still the same activity in you for God as heretofore your Quarters were blest in their injoyment of you you were so eminent in grace so active in holiness are you so now why is there complaining then are you weary of well-doing that now you must let sin in and give life to it which if kept out had been quite starved do do you not know the Serpent hath its sting in Winter as well as Summer sin will be as deadly to your souls as your Swords God owning you have made you dreadful to your enemies Friends bear with me a little your souls I love t is your sins I hate God hath quell'd your enemies without hath God killed your corruptions within you are not free indeed till the Son make you free T is a true Paradox a Conquerer in chains you cannot be men for God and Truth unless the God of Truth be in you better though grievous to be subjects to the wills of men then overcome by the wiles of our hearts My dear friends be serious now with me and answer to these Queries 1. Whether your victory over men without or over sin within doth most rejoyce you I am short be you serious deal in the uprightness of your hearts Christians who are so rejoyce more in the overcoming a lust then in gaining an Empire Let this be put home on your souls 2. VVhether you earnestly desire more for the settlement of the Nation then the setting up of the Kingdom of Christ in the Nation Do you more desire Peace without Truth or Truth though without Peace which had you rather have Englands distractions continued or sins destruction hastened before you put this paper into your pockets let this truth sink into your hearts weigh this 3. VVhether you seriously conclude from former deliverances and mercy which God hath given you the experience of though now far beneath your former holy activity that God will still prosper you That God hath made you victorious t is true that God will make you successful is uncertain God will not delight in such as delight in sin VVhen Ephraim spake tremblingly he exalted himself in Israel but when he sinned in Baal he died I tell you carnality lukewarmness and a late lethargy that is faln on you will like a rust eat through your hearts Armes Victories Councels Courages and do that in a trice which many hundred thousand enemies could never effect if sin be imbraced by you you are not either in your Arms or power long-lived 4. Whether you think that all your duties are done as Christians when you have by your selves met together seeking God though this be a great testimony that your hearts are after God yet all this while when amongst others you do not declare your experiences that you have been with Jesus You that are commanders Is there no command from Jesus Christ think you that you come short of Have you not souldiers do you look that they obey you as they are men how can they obey in sincerity unless they are Christians and how shall they know how to obey unless it be known who must be obeyed Why cannot you pray upon your Guards exhort upon your watches as formerly what 's the reason I hope you do not count it a shame to name God You that are souldiers was there not a time once when in your marches the praise of God was in your mouths and the fear of God in your hearts was there not a time when prayers were more heard amongst you then curses Surely dear friends you did scorn to be the devils underlings I pray let God have your praise to whom you owe your lives and in the name and fear of God be instructed God hath been your Rock O now let his word be your Rule and let it appear that God hath roused you up now to prize him praise him and pray unto him 5. Whether you love them most that you see love sin least do you not make defection either in judgment or experience a ground of disaffection to their persons whom your souls in private tell you are indeed the Sons of God tell me do you strengthen the weak confirm the strong Christ doth not break bruised reeds take heed do not you tread on them I beseech you let it not be said of you that you embrace the devils brats whiles the kings children the sons of God are disregarded he loves not God that loves not those that are born of God 6. In your serious affairs do you seriously make God your Councellor his word your rule I hope you have lived so long some of you by faith as not to make flesh your strength Saints as they live above sin they