Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	able_a	lord_n	spirit_n	2,051	5	4.7627	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74620	The camp at Gilgal. Or, A view of the Kings army, and spirituall provision made for it.	Ferne, H. (Henry), 1602-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing F788; Thomason E1178_2; ESTC R208093	26,230	60

Ioseph from dealing hardly with his Brethren this doe saith he and live for I feare God Gen. 42.18 Finally it will drive you to him for protection in the times of distresse which was the next duty commended to you Dependance upon Gods Providence II. A Dependance upon Gods providence and protection Feare doth usually drive men from that which is feared when they can see nothing but the evill of it or lesse good then evill in it but this Feare is attractive drawes to God because that power of his which is the ground of this feare is not only a power of inflicting evill but of saving too as when he sets himselfe between the hoasts of the Israelites and Egyptians in the pillar of the Cloud which gave light and comfort to the Israelites but shewed blacknes and terrour to their Enemies Exod. 14.20 But see the promise of protection how that Power shall be imployed for the security of them that feare him The Angell of the Lord encampeth round about them Psa 34.7 and God will appoint salvation for Walls and Bullwarks Es 26.1 here are Fortifications beyond your out-works the protection of God drawes the outmost lines of defence keepes the outmost guards round about them that feare him for which the Psalmist often calleth the Lord his sheild and buckler his rocke and towre of defence The Lord to clear this plainly in delivering his People frō the great hoast of the Midianites tells Gideon the people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands least Israell vaunt themselves against me saying mine owne hand hath saved me Iud. 7.2 that Israell might not say the Midianites are too many for me so indeed they were if successe had depended on their Number rather then Gods protection the Lord said to Gideon the people with thee are too many for me so he reduceth them to three hundred and sends them against so many thousand of the Midianites that the Salvation might appeare to be wrought only by his power In the Camp at Gilgal where all the men of warr were circumcised while they were sore not well able to help themselves in which case two men Simeon Levi fell upon a whole Citty and slew all the males Gen. 34. they were fare by his protection that made the terrour and feare of them fall upon the Amorites round about so that their hearts melted and there was no spirit in them because of the children of Israel as we see Jos 5.1 So when they went up to Ierusalem at the three great Feasts thrice every yeare by Gods command and thereupon their borders were left naked of men to defend them the Lord promised and did make it good that none should so much as desire their Land when they went up to appeare before the Lord Exod. 34.24 Their going up to Ierusalem was to worship and offer sacrifice and if they stayed at home or neglected the service they could not expect the defence promised and this puts me in mind of what I commended to you in the third place Prayer Dayly Prayer III. PRayer or dayly invocation or calling upon God whereby that protection and defence is implored and obtained whereby you shew your dependance upon that protection and doe returne unto him his daily worship acknowledging him to be your God by begging of him what you stand in need of as forgivenes of sinnes grace food and preservation by giving him thankes for the good things you daily receive from his gratious and powerfull hand of Providence opened to you to feed you and stretched over you to protect and defend you It will not be thought by many that a Souldier should have very much time to bestow on devotion yet is it often seen that Souldiers can find too much time to spend upon Idlenes and vanity and if we looke into Acts. 10. we may see how Cornelius a Centurion or Captaine imployed his spare time He was a devout man and prayed to Godalway v. 2. There are differences indeed o● Times and according to the necessities and exigencies of them there are differences of the performance of this duty of prayer and worship for sometimes it is more publique and solemne as when you meet together in a body to pray sometimes in Private by your selves which should be your daily worship and sometimes the streits of time will not suffer it to be performed either by publique meeting or private retiring as when you are suddenly commanded upon Service yet then may it be done in the closet of your heart by mentall ejaculations and inward elevations of the mind to God So you have three wayes of performing this your duty of prayer worship to God the two first wayes as opportunity will give leave and that opportunity is not to be neglected the last way you may use upon what imployments soever you shall be put When the Israelites journeyed not but rested in a place then they kept the charge of the Lord Num. 9.19 that is they attended upon the publique worship of the Lord performed in the Tabernacle which could not be solemnly observed when the Camp removed their frequent Journeyings also being a Cause of the neglect and forbearance of Circumcision till the Camp came to be pitched in Gilgal So when you rest in Garrison as Cornelius did of whom you heard above or when you make any aboad in the Camp as the Israelites did sometime in the wildernes and after that in Gilgal then have you all opportunities of performing your private devotion and also of attending upon the duties of publique worship in praying to God and hearing his word For which purpose you have Chaplaines in your Regiments to minister unto you and he that shall find you lying under hedges sporting by the high wayes cannot but see you have spare time and think in all reason you should be compelled to come in as those were in the Parable Luk. 14.23 But in the necessary streits of time God will admit of limitations and some forbearances in his worship for the safety of the whole Army which is concerned in the speedy performance of suddain duties that the Souldier is called to He doth it in a matter of lesse moment Mat. 5.23 If thou bringest thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest that thy Brother hath ought against thee leave there thy gift before the Altar c. He suffers a breach in his own worship till the breach of charity between man and man be made up but the offering must not be taken away he that brought it must return to offer so when you are broken of your accustomed time for devotion by a suddain command for service consider these two things first that you carry your heart and therefore an Altar about with you from whence you may offer up your thoughts and desires to God as you March towards or encounter with an Enemy Secondly that you left your offering before the Altar when