Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	evil_a	heart_n	thought_n	2,080	5	8.0009	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53902	The raptures of a flaming spirit Being a directory, wherein methodically is contained the several parts of prayer. With select expressions for the performance of the duty. As the author useth to express himself before and after his sermons. By Nico. Pearson. &c.	Pearson, Nicolas, fl. 1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1010A; ESTC R217486	58,578	311

look'd upon their glory but forgot the frailty Wordly Lusts hath abused our Sight and cozen'd our Understanding The Earth is thy Foot-stool we have made it our Throne Heaven is thy Throne we have made it our Foot-stool We have been for this World as tho it would never have an ending and for the VVorld to come as tho it would never have beginning Instead of laying up our Treasure in Heaven we have laid up our Heaven in our Treasure We have been gross Idolaters in paying Adorations to earthy things We have pawn'd Heaven for a few trifles and given infinite of years purchase for them We have taken our Egyptian Jewels those Temporal Blessings thou hast so plentifully cast amongst us and have made a Golden Calf of them adoring and trusting it and have fallen off from the Cause of Causes We have set up Idols in our Hearts that destroy our Happiness The VVise Man trusteth in his VVisdom the Strong Man in his Strength and the Rich Man in his Riches Thus we have brought our selves under the Curse by trusting in the arm of Flesh The Ballances of Deceit are in our hands We have wrought a deceitful Work We have walk'd in a Fool 's Paradise surveying the fading Flowers of Imaginary Felicities catching at the Apples of Sodom that vanish away in Smoke We have been serious about Trifles and trifl'd about Serious Things We have furied our selves in the pursuit of the fugitive Toys of this life which if they were put into the Ballance would prove altogether lighter than Vanity We have spent our Money for that which is not Bread and our Labour for that which satisfieth not We have wandr'd at random in the vast emptiness of the Creature What we find most perfect in this World is rather meerly Fictitious and Imaginative than Real and Substantial the best Condition of this Life being but a Variety of Vanity We have wildr'd our selves in our own Mazes and wearied our selves with meer Vanity We have sold our selves for naught With Esau we have despised our Birth-right With Cain we have gone out from the presence of the Lord. With the Prodigal we have gone into a far Countrey Every step we have set forward in Sin hath been a step backward from thee Our Habitation hath been in the midst of Deceit 't is thro Deceit that we refuse to know the Lord. We have drawn the Worlds two Brests Profit and Pleasure and fallen asleep at them but have neglected the Things that concern our Everlasting Peace We have neither delighted in the Law of God nor the God of the Law The Thefts and Wiles of Prosperity hath not only stoln us away from our selves but from God Our Desires and Affections have been journeying we know not where We have cause to be ashamed because of the Oaks that we desired and the Gardens that we have chosen We have trusted unanchor'd Hope in fleeting Streams We have pitch'd our thoughts and the restless desires of our Souls upon the Creature as tho there were nothing beyond the Creature We have stretched out our widen'd Arms beyond their Dimensions and our Hands have grasp'd beyond their Distance to incompass this inferiour Orb but we are forc'd to come off not only with Vanity of Vanities but with Vexation of Spirit We have sought the Living among the Dead Happiness where 't is not to be found We have sought Strength in Weakness Riches in Poverty Gloryin Shame and Life in Death and in this course we have forsaken our own Mercy We find by woful experience that all Wordly Enjoyments stand upon two lame Legs Insufficiency Uncertainty The end of all our Earthly Comforts eateth up the pleasure we had in them like Pharaoh's lean Kine We have sown the VVind to reap the VVhirl-wind The Magnetic Power of the VVorld hath drawn our Countenances downward which thou madest erect for the Contemplation of Thee and thy VVorks but now the Curse of the Serpent is upon us upon our Bellies do we creep and Dust do we eat all the days of our lives We are deeply sunk in the VVorlds Quicksands The Earth hath swallow'd us up alive Our Affections the Feet of our Souls have stuck fast in the mire and clay of the VVorld so that we have been hindred from running the race that hath been set before us We have wearied our selves in the way of VVickedness but the way of Truth we have not known The bewitching of VVordly trifles have obscured and hid from us the good things We have rather chosen to go astray than to walk in the sweet Rules of thy Commands Our Rest and our Lusts have shared our Time VVe are strangers to the life of Grace thro the Ignorance that is in us We have taken bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter What Poison or Gall so bitter as Sin Yet we have delighted our selves therein VVhat more sweet than thy Testimony More to be desired than gold yea than much fine gold sweeter also then the honey and the honey-comb yet we nauseated them Damn'd Satan with his Orphean Aires and dexterous VVarbles with Masques and Triumphs hath inticed us along in the paths of Death Sin hath betray'd us with a Kiss Pleasure merrieth our Senses for a while but Horror followeth after and vultereth our unconsuming Hearts Sin is sweet in the commission but bitter in the recollection in the Mouth 't is as sweet as honey but in the Belly as bitter as gall Sinful Pleasures have been the Thieves that have train'd us out of the way and robb'd us With Ahab we have sold our selves to work wickedness We have made hast in the paths of Death We have not onely woven the Spider's Web but we have hatch'd the Cockatrice Egg. Our Actions have not onely been vain and unprofitable but dangerous We have not onely not been for thee but against thee We have not onely not gathered but scattered We have desp'rately invaded the most equal Rules of the Gospel We have broken thy Bonds in sunder and cast away thy Cords from us We have laid the Reins of our Loyalty upon the Neck of Licentious Liberty We have proceeded from Evil to Evil not considering thy Purity and Justice We have drawn Iniquity with the Cords of Vanity Every thought and imagination of our hearts have been evil and that continually The frame of our hearts have not onely been evil continually but our hearts have framed that which hath been evil continually Altho thou hatest iniquity with a perfect hatred yet even as a Fountain casteth forth her water so have we cast out our iniquities before thee Heaven and Earth testifie against us that thou as an indulgent Father hast brought us up as dear Children but we have rebell'd against thee We have be-leaper'd our selves with Sin and like drunken men have stagger'd in our own vomit VVe have wrought abbomination before thee As a Mill-wheel is continually turn'd round and ever drench'd with a new stream so are we continually