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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	appear_v	heart_n	zion_n	20	3	8.6845	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19639	Three sermons viz. The walking sleeper, the ministeriall husbandrie, the discouerie of the heart. Preached and published by Sam. Crooke.	Crook, Samuel, 1575-1649.	1615 (1615)	STC 6069; ESTC S117125	72,467	211

the same promise Heb. 11.9.10 c. who all looked for a Citie hauing a foundation whose maker and builder is God Who professing themselues strangers and pilgrimes vpon earth declared plainly that they sought a Country not that from whence they came for then they had leisure to haue returned nor that Land of promise whereto they were called or if that for the promise not for the land for they desired a better then both euen an heauenly Wherefore God is not ashamed of them c. I propound Moses that man of God that chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God Heb. 11.25.26 then to enioy the pleasurs of sinne for a season Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Aegypt for hee had respect vnto the recompence of the reward I propound vnto you Dauid that man after Gods owne heart Psal 4.7 whose heart was more ioyed with the fauourable countenance of God then the worldling with whatsoeuer abundance of Corne and Wine I propound vnto you those twelue Peeres of Christendom the Lambs twelue Apostles taking Matthias into the room of Iudas that hypocritical thief who by their fore-man Peter professe Behold wee haue forsaken all and followed thee Mat. 19.27 Finally I propound vnto you that chosen vessell that great Doctor and Apostle of the Gentiles Paul who in the matter of this Earthly treasure Phil. 4.12 could want or abound bee emptie or full could liue or die as might most aduantage his cause and Gospell who was to him in life and death aduantage Phil. 1.20.21 but as touching the heauenly forgetfull of whatsoeuer was behinde Phil. 3.13.14 hee endeauoured himselfe vnto that which was before and stroue hard toward the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus To these wee may well set vp not Altars or Images as the Papists for adoration but yet monuments for cōmemoration and admiration or rather seeing God hath set forth these vnto vs as a cloud of witnesses going before vs into the heauenly Canaan the place of our treasure Heb. 12.1 let vs also cast away euery thing that presseth downe and what presseth somuch as this earthly Mammon together with the sinne that hangeth so fast on following these our forefathers in the Faith though as hee saith non passibus aequis approue our selues in our proportion to be of the same brood of seekers Psal 24.6 euen of that generation of Iacob that compriseth all that seeke the face of God But our proportion I take it will better appeare in the latter sort wherfore now I come to comfort the mourners in Sion who would faine finde both heart and treasure in heauen but of the one complaine that they cannot of the other doubt that they shall not there finde it Vnto both which I hold forth this truth now in hand where the treasure is there is the heart they goe together Therefore graunt mee the heart and I will easily proue the treasure or the treasure and I will as easily proue the heart to be in heauen but if neither will be graunted as many times infirmitie makes the one doubtfull and infidelitie the other yet I will endeauour from that which is and must bee granted to conclude that which is desired Thou doubtest thy treasure is not in heauen thou hast no part in God no right vnto the inheritāce of the Saints in light Art thou willing to liue in this suspence Dost thou labour to put far away the thought of the euill day Dost thou resolue to take thy part in the pleasures of sinne for a season Mat. 8.29 only desiring with the Deuills thou maist not be tormented before thy time A wofull disposition so to bee resolued so to bee vnresolued But as I rather wish and hope thou art afflicted with this doubt thine heart trembleth to thinke of the euent thy soule longeth and thirsteth after that peace which ariseth from the assurance of saluation there is somthing in thee that striueth against this doubt and though vnable for the present to cleare and remoue it yet allowes it no quiet entertainment Be of good cheere there is a seede of faith an immortall seede a certaine and infallible conception of the new Creature in thee That it is mixed or rather assaulted and exercised with feare and trembling mistake not thy condition it is the more hopeful comfortable For what is it that hath disturbed thy securitie that hath prouoked and drawne as it were into the lists thy naturall infidelitie what but the sparke of faith that when it comes and it shall certainly come vnto a flame will consume whatsoeuer opposeth it self Faith is not known in the Nonage but by this cōflict Let men presume what they will the faith that is not thus militant in the beginning shall neuer bee triumphāt in the end Thus euen doubting ioyned with diligence for resolution argues faith so to call our right in question proues that wee haue a right vnto Gods Kingdom more firm and solid then yet we vnderstand And if thou bee the person I take thee for thou wouldest not change this doubtfull title claime or pretence of thine for al that Satan once offered to our Sauiour Mat. ● 9 and is now accepted by the Antichrist of Rome Thou complaynest thy heart is not in heauen how then can thy treasure be there doe but answere mee who taught thee so to complaine many thousands are in the same state which thou imputest vnto thy selfe yet complaine not of it but goe with pleasure and content in the broad way Doth nature in thee alone aboue all others find fault with it selfe for lack of grace nay assure thy selfe it is grace that desires more growth more strēgth more companie that it may ouer-match and subdue nature There is no rock more sure then this truth of God that the heart that complaineth of the want of grace desireth aboue al things the supply of that want vseth all holy meanes for the procurement of that supply cannot bee destitute of sauing grace Why say I not destitute I should say vnto such an one O man O woman great is the measure of the grace of God in thee Great doubtlesse if thy desire bee great For as the grace desired 1. Pet. 2.23 is in part enioyed because the tast of grace begetteth the desire and the desire stirred vp must needes bee cherished because God will not famish the soules of his Seruants Pro. 10.3 so finally according to the desire the grace shall be proportioned else in vaine were that promised beatitude Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousnes Matth. 5.6 for they shall bee satisfied Mistake not then in the desire all is well and safe If thy soule long after God in the night Esa 26.9 and thy spirit within thee seeke him in the morning there is a blessing pronounced vpon thee Psal