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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	life_n	ventricle_n	122	3	16.0307	5	false

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A93889	Catholique divinity: or, The most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive doctors of the Church. With other ecclesiastical, and civil authors: dilated upon, and fitted to the explication of the most doctrinal texts of Scripture, in a choice way both for the matter, and the language; and very useful for the pulpit, and these times. / By Dr. Stuart, dean of St. Pauls, afterwards dean of Westminster, and clerk of the closet to the late K. Charles.	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; H. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing S5518; Thomason E1637_1; ESTC R203568	97,102	288

heart and let the creature bee where hee will in heaven or on earth hee abides in this is led up and down by this and not by truth and so is called according to that which is in him and informs him a sinful deceitful hearted man There is truth in the heart ●or in the midst of the heart the expression is I think with allusion to the natural form of the heart The heart hath a tunicle and a ventricle one to cover it the other to hold life bloud and spirits and these small ventricles are in the midst of the heart and these the life of the heart Truth within the tunicle of the heart is not enough it must bee in the ventricle in the midst The expression imports th●s much that if truth bee not in the soul as the soul of the soul as the life bloud in the heart giving life and motion to all the soul is not healed by it of its unsoundness and so consequently no upright heart The Psalmist speaking of a righteous man saith That his mouth speaketh wisdome and his tongue talketh of judgement But is this enough to give the formality of a righteous man Many can talk very soundly and judiciously and yet very unsound at heart Observe therefore what follows where hee centers the formality of integrity the Law of God is in his heart none of his steps shall slide Psal 37. 31. the small lines of truth the string of the heart the Law of God a Law in and unto the heart binding and loosing that which lives as it were a life by it self continually moving when all other parts are still that this organ which makes so many steps to others and yet not making one step but in and under the Law of Truth and Christ this is an upright heart Meditatio pascit scientiam scientia compunctionem compunctio devotionom Augustinus MEditation gives a man a sight and knowledge of himself of his sins of the riches of Gods mercy in Christ and such knowledge is it which works compunction of spirit wee are to bee taken up in the duties of Thanksgiving and to bee more than ordinarily inlarged therein There is no such way to inlarge the heart in that duty as by meditation to heat and warm our hearts So Psal 104. 33. 34. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live my meditation of him shall bee sweet I will bee glad in the Lord. There is nothing so feeds spiritual joy and so maintains and holds up that holy flame that should bee in a mans heart as doth meditation that is the oyl and fuel that keeps such fire burning the sweeter our meditation is the more is the heart prepared and inlarged to prayses and thanksgivings and joy in the Lord. Therefore as in other Religious exercises so more particularly in the Sacrament one special duty to bee done is to take up our hearts with serious meditation And for the better raising and feeding this meditation it is good when wee are come to the Lords Table to do as Solomon wishes to do in that case Prov. 23. 1. When thou fittest to eat with a Ruler consider diligently what is before thee Hee adviseth it for a mans better caution if hee bee a man given to his appetite that hee may not bee desirous of such dainties as are set before him But in this case it is good to consider what is set before us to provoke our appetite and to stir up in us a longing after those dainties Consider therefore what is set before thee what is done before thee Consider the Sacramental promises the Sacramental elements the Sacramental actions Behold then and meditate what a feast God hath prepared for us and set before us such a feast as that Isa 25. 6. A feast of fat things a feast of wine on the lees c. Alas how lean are our souls what hunger-starved spirits have wee but here bee fat things full of marrow to feed and fat our lean souls How dead and dull are our hearts but here is wine upon the lees wine that goes down sweetly That will cause the lips of those that are asleep to speake that will refresh and quicken our spirits Here wee see the bread broken the wine powred out Here wee see Christ crucified before our eyes now wee see him hanging and bleeding upon the Crosse we now see him pressed and crushed under the heavy burthen of his Fathers wrath Now wee see him in the Garden in his bloody sweat Now wee may behold him under the bitter conflict with his Fathers wrath upon the Crosse Behold the man saith Pilate This is our duty by meditation to present unto our selves the bitterness of Christs passion Exod. 24. 8. And Moses took the bloud and sprinkled it on the people and said Behold the bloud of the Covenant So here Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world And behold the bloud of that innocent and spotless Lamb yea behold him now shedding his precious blood to take away the sins of the world and look upon him as the Scape-goat bearing and carrying our sins upon him Represent we unto our selves in our meditations as lively as wee are able all the sorrows of Christs passion This Christ commands and makes it one main end of the institution of the Sacrament Do this in remembrance of mee Therefore appointed hee the Sacrament that therein wee might in special manner meditate upon his passion and his love to us therein David had a Psalm of remembrance Psal 38. in the title But for the death of Christ his love in it and the benefits by it wee have not onely some Psalms of remembrance as Psal 16. 22. and 69. and others But besides the Lord Christ hath to the worlds end appointed a Sacrament of remembrance that this great work of Christs death and his infinite love and mercy therein might above all other works bee meditated upon and had in remembrance FINIS A Catalogue of such Sentences of the Fathers and other Ecclesiastical and Civil Authors as are explained and applied to the use of the Pulpit and the practice of Christians in this Book QVàm malè est extra legem viventibus quicquid meruerunt semper expectant Page 1. Vestium curio sit as deformitatis mentium morum judicium est 3 Quicquid propter Deum fit equaliter fit 5 Sordet in conspectu Judicis quod fulget in conspectu operantis 6 Bone res neminem scandalizant nisi malam mentem 7 Non omne quod licet etiam honestum est 9 Quae per rationem innotescunt non sunt articuli fidei sed praeambula ad articulos 10 Mors optima est perire dum lachrimant sui p. 12 Nemo me lac hri● is decoret nee funera fletu faxit cur volito vivus per ora virum 14 Ne excedat medicin● modum 15 Si molliora frustrà cesserint medicus ferit venam 17 Suâ sponte cadentem

makes men do as God did when hee repented him Gen 6. 6. 7. And it repented the Lord that hee had made man on earth and it gri●ved him at his heart But that was not all And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast c. for it repents moe that I made them Nay repentance in man goes further one Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and hee was spared from the common destruction but hear not one lust or sin findes grace in the eyes of a man that truly repents but all must bee drowned in the flood of the tears of Repentance It is with a man that hath the griefe of true Repentance as it was with Nehemiah Neh. 13. 7 8. I came to Jerusalem and understood of the evill that Eliashib had done for Tobiah in repairing him a Chamber in the Courts of the house of the Lord and it grieved mee sore But hee rests not there but goes further therefore I cast forth all the houshold stuffe of Tobiah out of the Chamber What should Tobiah do with a Chamber there Therefore he not onely outs Tobiah but out goes all his stuffes too So doth repentance when it considers all the evill that Satan and corruption hath done and how they have taken up Chambers in the heart that should bee the house of God it is grieved sore and thereupon it outs Satan and all his stuffe neither Satan nor his stuffe shall bee chambered there any longer So doth repentance dispossess Satan of the soul as Christ dispossessed his body of him Mark 9. 2● Thou dumb and deaf spirit I charge thee to come out of him and enter no more into him So repentance cast Satan and filthy abominations out of a man that they enter no more they are cast out for ever Tears of repentance are not onely wetting but washing tears Isa 1. 16. Wash you make you clean David● tears wash his couch Psal 6. and so much more wash himself Baptisme is called the Baptisme of repentance Luke 3. 3. In Baptisme there is a washing away of sin And how is Baptisme the Baptisme of repentance If in repentance there were not the doing away of sin If a man could shed a sea of tears yet if hee do not drownd his sin in that sea what were hee the better If a man should weep his eyes out yet if hee weep not his sins out to what purpose were it Wheresoever repentance is there must necessarily follow this forsaking and casting off our sins Try therefore thy repentance by this consider what have thy sins thy beloved sins been is thy drunkenness with loathing and indignation forsaken are thine oaths uncleannes covetousn●s curses c. with loathing and indignation abandoned It is a good sign but how idlely talk they of repentance who because they have blubbered out a few tears think all is well when yet they still live and lye in their sins and hold them as fast as ever the Mariners when they found out Jonas yet fain they would have saved him wondrous loath to cast him over-board Many see their sins and know them to bee dangerous sins but yet exceeding loath to shake hands with them loath to throw them into the sea but will rather adventure their own casting away than cast them over-board Never deceive thy self therefore though thou hast sighed cryed prayed begged mercy yet if still thou live and go on in thy sinful courses there is no truth of repentance in thee Dives in Evangelio damnabatur non quia abstulerat aliena sed quod non donaret sua Anselmus EVery Christian ought to imitate the high pattern of his Creator whose best riches is his bounty Hee that hath all gives all reserves nothing In our creation he gave us our selves in our redemption hee gave us himself and in giving himself for us gave us our selves again that were lost Onely good use then commends earthly possessions and hee alone knows the true use of the unrighteous Mammon that receives it meerly to disburse it For what commendation is it to bee the keeper of the best earth that which is the common coffer of all the rich Mines the earth wee do but tread upon and account vile because it hides those treasures whereas the skilful Metallist that refines these precious veyns for publick use is rewarded and honoured If therefore your wealth and your will bee not both good if your hands bee full and your hearts empty you deserve rather pity than commendation and may bee said to have riches indeed but neither goods nor blessings your burthens being greater than your estates and your selves richer in sorrows than in mettals And this was the rich Gluttons case in the Gospel who was damned not for taking away any thing from poor Lazarus but because hee relieved not his wants It is reported of Warram Archbishop of Canterbury being on his death-bed sent his steward to see what store of corn was in his Treasury and when answer was brought that there was either very little or none at all the good man cried Nimirum sic oportuit that it was very fitting it should bee so For when said hee could I dye better than when I am thus even with the world Vera virtus radices agit Seneca THings have their specification from their form Christ in the soul or truth in the heart is the form of a Christian Hence is that expression Hee is a Jew that is one inwardly so hee is a Christian which hath Christ in him and hee upright whose heart is so therefore is uprightness annexed in the 94 Psal and the 15. verse to that which is its proper subject and without which it subsists not nor can to wit the heart Vpright in heart all the upright in heart shall follow righteousness A good man is called a good man as hee can derive goodness from within A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good Truth treasured up in the heart is the onely true treasure and then out of this treasure motion made to this and to that expence from hence upon God upon man this is a good man and bringeth forth that which is good an upright heart A man is noted for an evill man as evill seiseth the heart Son of man these men have set up Idols in their hearts should I ●ee inqu●red of at all by them Ezek. 14. So to set up truth in the heart as that and onely that which I love to bow down to and bee governed by this is an upright heart It is said of the Devill that hee abode not in the truth because no truth is in him Joh. 8. 44. whilst hee was in heaven heaven was not in him but pride and that is hell where ever it is Truth in the heart and wee abide in truth that is wee walk in it and ate ruled by it Lust in the