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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	lord_n	walk_v	4,576	5	7.3473	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04151	Gods call, for mans heart in 1 Knowledge, 2 Loue, 3 Feare, 4 Confidence, 5 Singing of Psalmes, 6 Prayer, 7 Hearing the word. 8 Receiuing the Sacraments. Deliuered in a sermon, by Abraham Iackson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Chelsey, neere London.	Jackson, Abraham, 1589-1646?	1618 (1618)	STC 14294; ESTC S119409	15,280	54

loue those that loue God he will hate wickednesse because God hates it and hate wicked men because they hate God he will loue righteousnesse because God loues it and he will loue righteous men because they loue God hee will be more sensible of Gods dishonour then of his owne disgrace he will loue the image of God in wisedome in knowledge in vprightnesse of life though he finde it in a poore and deiected man in respect of this world more deare then any friend can loue the picture of his friend These and the like are the properties of that man that loues God with all his heart and with all his soule But if we take no delight to be in the house of God if it be tedious vnto vs to discourse with him by Prayer and Meditation if we preferre either our ease or our profit or our pleasure or our liues before his fauvour if wee can thinke our selues happy to be out of his sight if we can finde a delightfull recreation in the mad meriments of wicked men if we can hate that which he loues and loue that which he hates if we can be more carefull to preserue our owne credits then Gods honour nay if we can loue the image of the diuell in men drawne to the life with the pensill of iniquitie then are not we the men that loue the Lord wee may professe with our tongues that we loue him but our hearts will giue our tongues the lye because wee loue him not with our hearts 3 3. Feare When God would haue our hearts he would haue our feare My Sonne giue me thy heart that is giue me the feare of thy heart or feare me with thy heart Hence is that Samuel exhorts the people to offer vp vnto God the feare of their hearts 1 Sam. 12.24 Feare you the Lord and serue him in the truth with all your hearts c. And in Deut. 10.12 Moses tels the Israelites that the Lord requireth nothing else at their hands but to feare him and walke in his waies to loue him and serue him with all their hearts and with all their soules Questionlesse there is none of you that heare me this day but will say he feares God with all his heart but it is not inough to say so vnlesse it appeare so by tryall Well then if thou feare the Lord with thy heart certainely thy feare will be filiall it will be such as the feare of a sonne in respect of his father thou wilt be more fearefull to offend him then to beare the punishment of offence thou wilt be fearefull to commit any sinne in priuate or in the darke because thou art certaine the eye of God is vpon thee thou wilt be more troubled at the threats of Gods Word then at the checks of a mortall Man though he be thy Prince Ps 119.161 Thou wilt with the Midwiues Exod. 1.17 with the three Children Dan. 3.16 with holy Daniel Dan. 6.10 with the zealous Apostles Act. 4.19 5.29 and with faithfull Abraham Gen. 22.12 feare and worship and obey God though it be prejudiciall to thy ease to thy profit to thy preferment to thy libertie to thy life though it crosse thy reason thy affection thy hope thy expectation in future times But if thy feare be slauish if thou feare more the punishment then the offence if thou care not what wickednesse thou commit so that the eye of man be not vpon thee if thou be ready to doe that which a wicked Ieroboam shall command thee though it be neuer so contrary to the word of God fearing a temporall punishment more then an eternall condemnation if thou refuse to obey such of Gods commandements as doe any way crosse thy ease thy profit thy pleasure thy reason thy estimation with men or the like certainely thou doest not as yet feare God with thy heart and therefore thou hast not as yet any heart for God 4 4. Confidence When God cals for our hearts he cals for our trust and confidence My Sonne giue me thy heart that is relie vpon mee with thy heart lay thy trust and confidence on mee with thy heart Thus did Dauid giue God his heart Ps 130.5 I haue waited on the Lord saith he My soule hath waited and I haue trusted in his word And againe in Ps 28.7 he saith thus The Lord is my strength and my shield mine heart trusted in him and I was helped therefore mine heart shall reioyce and with my song will I praise him And as Dauid trusted in the Lord so must we We must trust in the Lord with all our hearts and not leane vnto our owne wisedome Pro. 3.5 We must haue recourse vnto him as to our onely shield and buckler to defend vs against the oppositions of our spirituall and temporall aduersaries as to our onely helpe to saue and deliuer vs in all our distresses and as to our onely preseruer to giue vs all good and necessarie blessings both for body and soule We must relie vpon him wait vpon him and repose our trust in him without respect either to reason to meanes or likelyhoods This if we doe we trust in the Lord with our hearts But if when we see no outward meanes of helpe we faile in our hopes as the Israelites did Ps 78.20 If when we are sick we send for the Physician before wee seeke to God as Asa did 2 Cro. 16.12 If when some bone of sinnes body doth as it were sticke in the throat of our guiltie consciences we hope to wash it downe with a cuppe of Sacke as many lewd surfetters on pleasure doe If when we be in any strait we make flesh our arme Ier. 17.5 If we repose our trust in our owne or others with and policie in our owne or others strength If we say to the wedge of gold thou art my confidence Iob 31.24 or to the sword thou art my safegard or to Physicke thou art my health or Flectere sinequeo superos Acheronta mouebo if God forsake me if nature forsake me I le goe to Egypt for helpe Is 31.1 nay to hell for helpe I le see what Crossing can doe what Holy water can doe what Popes pardons can doe and if all this will not doe I le haue recourse to Charmes and Exorcismes to Spels and Incantations c. If with the Prince of Israel wee will not beleeue Elisha I meane Gods Ministers when out of the word they promise vs preseruation and support against the miseries and crosses of this world against famine and want and say as he did 2 Ki. 7.2 Though the Lord would make windowes in heauen can this thing come to passe If we will trust God no further then we see him either actually reaching vnto vs his benefits or laying before vs the meanes probable in our conceit to attaine them then doe we not trust in him with our hearts because wee relye not on him without respect to reason meanes or likelyhoods 5

owne If we be delayd in our suites if our expectation be put off from day to day are not our hearts in a manner alienated from them on whom our hope depends Are not our hearts possest with faintnesse Pro. 13.12 How much more should we thinke will God be auerse from vs if wee repell his suite for our hearts with delayes Oh then let vs sacrifice our hearts vnto him whilest it is called to day lest if wee stay till to morrow hee will not receiue them though we present them with tears 2 Againe God requires that we giue him our hearts not onely instantly without delay but wholy without reseruation My sonne giue me thy heart that is thy whole heart not one peece to day and another to morrow but all at once not halfe thy heart but all thy heart Deut. 6. Many of vs I feare are like a woman that hath many sutors who willing to giue them all content speakes louingly to one smiles vpon another winkes vpon a third and entertaines the fourth and the fift and so the rest with some such other glaunce or gesture of affection and yet notwithstanding shee would make her husband beleeue that he hath her heart Euen so beloued although wee haue in Baptisme solempnely betrothed our hearts and soules vnto our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and haue promised to forsake the Diuell the World the Flesh and to reserue our soules as chaste Brides for his bed yet when the world shal haunt our company and present vs with a mappe of his vanityes when the Flesh shall assaile vs when any kind of sinne shall offer vs either profit or pleasure to pollute our hearts with impure spawne wee will speake one faire wincke vpon another and entertaine the rest with some secret smile or glance of fauour thinking neuerthelesse to make our Sauiour beleeue that he onely hath our hearts Indeede if his knowledge were like mans he might be deceiued with shewes and protestations but seeing he alone is the almighty heart-searcher hee alone knowes the deceit and hypocrisie of these protestations he sees that we loue him scarce with halfe an heart and therefore diuorces himselfe from vs and turnes vs ouer to our owne lewdnesse he must haue all our hearts or none at all Suppose a man should offer his Creditor halfe the money which he owes him is it likely that it would be accepted especially when he knowes his Debtor to be of abilitie to pay all How much lesse then should we imagine that God will accept of halfe our hearts when we owe him all and especially when he giues abilitie to pay all The vnnaturall Mother would haue the childe deuided but the naturall Mother rather then shee would yeelde to that offered to resigne her interest to the other 1 Kin. 3.28 So the Diuell tels vs he would haue but halfe our hearts and that God should haue the other but God will accept of no such conditions he scornes to part stakes with the Diuell if the Diuell haue one halfe let him take the other too God can indure no Copesmate he must haue all or none at all 3. And that f●eely too without grudging without repining We must not answere God when he cals for our hearts as Nabal answered Dauids messengers when they intreated prouision of meat for their Master and themselues 1 Sam. 25. But we must giue our hearts as freely as we would giue any thing to our friend that is in our owne possession But soft it were not amisse if I propounded a question Haue all of vs that are here present hearts to giue or no or rather are not some of vs here without hearts yes certainely If there be amongst vs any Worldling or voluptuous person or Epicure or Drunkard or Cheator or busie-bodie or enuious person or the like they are here without their hearts The Couetous mans heart is where his treasure is Where your treasure is there will your hearts be also The Voluptuous mans heart is where his wenches are the Epicures heart is where his dainties are the Drunkards heart is where good liquor is the Cheaters heart is where gamesters are the busie-bodies heart is where contentions are and the enuious mans heart is where the person is whom he hates If there be any such here as it may be there are Oh call home your hearts while it is called to day and to day present them as an acceptable sacrifice to him that hath long since bought them with the precious bloud of his deare Sonne IIII. And so I come to the fourth and last circumstance of my Text which is the Person to whom we are to giue our hearts set downe in this word Mee My Sonne giue Mee thy heart Whence I obserue that God onely is the primary and chiefe obiect of our hearts and so by a consequence of our vnderstandings wills and affections Of our vnderstandings becaúse the chiefest truth of our wills and affections because the chiefest good Other things there are about which those faculties may lawfully be imployed as for example the Vnderstanding may bee exercised about the knowledge of the vniuersall and generall singular and indiuiduall natures of substances and accidents as also about the images representations and priuations of those reall beings And as the Vnderstanding so the Will and Affections may in a degree be taken vp about other Obiects as about Vertue lawfull profit and lawfull pleasure but not so as to seeke for perfect happinesse in the one or in the other For God onely as being onely infinite is the onely satisfactorie Obiect in whom alone and in nothing else true felicitie is to be found The consideration of this Doctrine should be a strong motiue vnto vs to direct our hearts together with all their powers motions and affections chiefely and primarily vnto God Other things wee may meditate on and desire so far foorth as they hould a candle vnto vs and pricke vs forward to the primary and onely true Obiect But God alone must be the white to which wee all must ayme the Ocean wherevnto the riuers of our affections must all flow and the Center wherein the lines of our best indeauours must all meete That man that loues his daughter will be carefull to bestow her in marriage vpon such a one as desires her for loue and out of his loue will assure her a good ioynture But if hee hate his daughter hee will not care what becomes of her hee will giue his consent to any that shall make loue vnto her Oh then my dearely beloued Brethren if you loue your hearts bestow them on God that askes them for loue that askes them not for any benefit to himselfe but for aduantage vnto them that askes them to inrich and beautifie them with the iewels ornaments of sauing graces here in this world and to indow them with the crown of euerlasting blessednesse in the world to come But if you hate your hearts let either the world haue them that they may become stages for Folly theaters for Vanitie beds for Securitie consistories for Deceipt and chaires for Pride or let the flesh haue them that they may be seates for Idlenesse anvills for Lewdnesse tables for Epicurisme furnaces for Lust or let all manner of sinne and impietie haue them that there may be liberty giuen to Sathan to make Schoole-houses of them wherein to read lectures of Atheisme of Idolatrie of Superstition of Blasphemy of Prophanation of Disobedience of Vncleannesse of Cousenage of Oppression of Drunkennesse of Luxury of Riot and the like till they become meere Chaoses of confusion and vassals of damnation to burne for euer as neuer-perishing Salamanders in the red vengeance of endlesse tortures from which the Lord of his infinite mercye deliuer vs all Amen FINIS