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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	adam_n	eat_v	tree_n	1,488	5	8.1174	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65309	Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1139; ESTC R34736	91,573	245

Sodomites that he might preserve his Angel-guests who were come into his house Gen. 19.8 Did not Satan instigate him to this Necessity will not excuse impiety 3 d. Snare is to Colour over sin with the Pretence of Vertue Alcibiades hung a Curtain curiously embroidered over a foul Picture full of Owls and Satyrs Satan puts Good names on sin as Physitians call that Film in the eye which hinders the sight a Pearl in the eye Satan Colour'd over Jehu's Ambition with the Name of Zeal 2 Kin. 10.16 He makes men believe Revenge is Valour Covetousness Frugality as if one should write balm-water upon a glass of Poyson 4 th Snare of Satan is to carry on his mischievous designs under a pretence of Friendship He puts off his Lions Skin and comes in Sheeps Clothing Thus Satan came to Christ Command that these Stones be made bread Mat. 4.3 As if he had said I see thou art Hungry I therefore out of Pity Counsel thee to get something to eat turn stones to bread that thy hunger may be satisfied but Christ spied the Serpent in the Temptation and repulsed him Thus Satan came to Eve under the Notion of a Friend Eat saith he of the Tree in the midst of the Garden Ye shall not dye ye shall be as Gods Gen. 3.4 5. As if he had said I perswade you only to that which will put you into a better condition than now ye are eat of the Tree of knowledge and it will make you Omniscient What a kind Devil was here but Eve found a Worm in the Apple Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes 5 th Snare if Satan cannot take a Christian off from duty he will put him on too far in duty Humiliation is a duty but Satan suggests that the Soul is not humbled enough and indeed he never thinks it humbled enough till it despairs Satan comes thus to a man Thy sins have bin great and thy Sorrow should be proportionable But is it so canst thou say thou hast bin as great a Mourner as thou hast bin a Sinner what is a drop of Sorrow to a Sea of Sin This is laid only as a Snare the subtil enemy would have a Christian weep himself blind and in a desperate humour throw away the Anchor of Hope And if Satan hath such fallacies and as a Decoy draws so many Millions into his snares is there not cause of jealous fear lest we should be trappan'd The fear of God will make us Fear Hells stratagems Satans snares are worse than his darts 2. The Fear of God will make a man afraid of his own Heart Luther used to say he feared his Heart more than the Pope or Cardinals Ier. 17.9 The Heart is deceitful above all things 1. It is deceitful The word signifies it is a Jacob or Supplanter As Jacob supplanted his brother and got away the blessing so our Hearts would supplant and beguile us 2. Above all things There is deceit in Weights deceit in Friends but the Heart hath an art of deceiving beyond all In the best hearts there is some fallaciousness David was upright in all things save only in the matter of Vriah 1 King 15.5 A Godly man Knowing there is a spice of this deceit in his Heart Fears himself The flesh is a Bosom-Traitor No man can believe what evil is in his Heart 2 Kin. 8.12 Is thy Servant a Dog Hazael could not believe his Heart had bin big of such Monsters If one had come to Noah and said thou wilt be drunk shortly he would have said Is thy Servant a Dog No man knows what is in his breast or what scandal he may fall into if God leaveth him Christ warns his own Apostles to take heed of surfeiting and drunkenness Luk. 21.34 A Godly man therefore fears his Heart with a Fear of Caution and jealousie The Heart is not only stubborn but subtil Let us a little Trace this Impostor and see if there be not cause to fear it The heart shows it's deceitfulness about 1. Things Sinful 2. Things Sacred 1. The Heart shows it's deceitfulness about things sinful this deceit is 1. In hiding of sin as Rahab hid the spies in the flax Josh. 2.6 So the Heart Hides sin and how doth it hide it Just as Adam hid himself under fig-leaves so the Heart hides sin under the figleaves of excuses It was done against the will or in a Passion or it was long of others Aaron laid his sin in making the Golden calf upon the people Exo. 32.22 The people are set on mischief And Adam tacitly laid his sin upon God himself Gen. 3.12 The Woman thou gavest me she gave me of the tree As to say If thou hadst not given me this tempting woman I had not eat 2. The Hearts deceit is seen in Flattering of us it will make us believe we are not so bad as we are The Physitian deceives the patient when he tells him his disease is not so dangerous yet he is falling into the hands of death The Heart will tell a man he is free from Theft when yet he robs others of their Good Name he is free from Drunkenness when though he will not be drunk with Wine he will be drunk with Passion Thus the Heart is a flattering Glass to make one look fairer than he is and is there not cause to suspect this Impostor 2. The Heart shews it's deceitfulness about things Sacred it will be ready to put us off with Counterfeit Grace Many have bin deceived in taking false Mony and it is to be feared in taking false Grace 1. The Heart is ready to deceive with a false repentance A Sinner is troubled a little for Sin or rather the consequent of it and perhaps sheds a few tears and now his Heart sooths him up that he is a true Penitent But every legal terrour is not Repentance Acts 2.37 They were pricked in their Heart yet after this Peter said unto them Repent ver 38. If every slight Trouble for sin were true Repentance then Iudas and Cain may be listed in the number of penitents Evangelical Repentance works a change of Heart 1 Cor. 6.11 It produceth Sanctity But the false penitentiary though he hath trouble of Spirit yet no Metamorphise or change He hath a weeping Eye but an adulterous Heart Ahab Fasts and puts on sack-cloth but after this he puts the Prophet Micaiah in Prison 1 Kin. 22.27 2. The Heart is apt to deceive with a false Faith it would put the dead child in the room of the living They in the second of Iohn are said to believe But Christ did not believe their faith John 2.24 True Faith as it casts it self into Christs arms to embrace him so it casts it self at Christs feet to serve him But spurious Faith though it be forward to Receive Christs benefits yet it plucks the Government from his shoulders Isa. 9.6 It would have him a Priest but not upon his throne Zach. 6.13 Thus the Heart