Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	affection_n	know_v	love_n	3,601	5	5.2122	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51697	The axe at the root of professors miscarriages in a plain detection of, and a wholesome caveat against the miscarriages opposite to faith in God / by Thomas Mall ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.	1668 (1668)	Wing M328; ESTC R12069	51,837	51

upon others now dequaint your selves with him now or never now or else he will not be at peace with you and good will not come unto you Let it not alwayes be said They know not Psa ●2 3 neither will they understand they walk on in darkness O! unto reading and hearing add praying that you may not only be Book-taught but God-taught You need not ascend up into Heaven to bring Christ down from above nor to descend into the deep Rom. 10.6 to bring up Christ from the dead that you may be acquainted with him John 17.3 the Word is nigh you which being read heard and prayed over will give you that knowledge of God and Christ which is life eternal 5. Against resting in a Form of Knowledge Rom. 2.20 Map●●●● E●●er H●sye ●●cidas Jam. 3 17. Re●ing in a Form of Knowledge The word signifieth the shew the appearance the Image of Knowledge Hath not this been your sin Have not you affected the reputation of knowledg more than the reality of knowledg Hath not the Name been better esteem'd by you than the Thing Have not you satisfied your selves with a dark and confused knowledge Hath not your light been darkness The wisdome from above is pure and therefore clear and distinct Have not you satisfied your selves with a supless knowledge 2 〈…〉 without the favour that is in saving knowledge Knowledge in Scripture doth connote affection It is tea●me● by the 〈◊〉 men ●ap●●● 〈◊〉 or 〈…〉 and that which carrieth not the heart and affections with it deserveth not the name of Knowledge and therefore those that did not like and love God are said not to know God Have not you satisfied your selves without an experimental knowledge of God of the exercise of his Power Wisdome Goodness Mercy c. for your eternal welfare in working effectually upon your hearts by his Word and Spirit Have not you satisfied your selves with an unactive knowledge To have notions according to Knowledge Jer 10 14 and actions according to Ignorance is to be bruitish in knowledge Have not you set up your rest in such acknowledge as is short of making men live peaceably humbly obediently and believingly as saying knowledge doth This Kind of knowledge i. b.t a form of knowledge without the truth substance and reality of knowledge as a form of godliness 2 Tim 3 5 Verban ti●● connotant affectum effectam Job 28 28 Psa 111 10 is the appearance o● godliness without the payer of godliness The knowledge of God doth note 〈…〉 barren nations concerning God which do not render 〈◊〉 better in ou● lives or liker unto God He knee no sin in Paul is in Peter He did no sin To depart from evil is understanding They ha●e a good understanding that do his Commandements Josiah 〈◊〉 street in performing his known duty And was not this to know me Jer 22 16 saith the Lord ●●ch as do not dwake to righteousness the Greek is awake righteously i. e. that do not give their minds and endeavours to righteousness they have not the knowledge of God 1 Cor 15 31 Have not you ●●tisfied your selver without knowing God in and through Christ Here let it be minded T G●win's Christier forth p 1 ● that the Object of that Faith that is required in the first Commandement in all its acts both direct and reflect inward and outward is God in Christ or interest in God in and through Christ The Deity Father Son and Spirit is the ultimate Object but Jesus Christ God dwelling in flesh Eph 2 18 1 Pet 1 21 is the more immediate Object thereof Christ leads ●s by the hand and we are said by Christ to believe on God that our Faith might be in God But have you ever had a real and intuitive sight of Jesus Christ in his glory Sheph●a●d on the pa●able of the V●●gins p 74 75 202 203 204 not only from report nor only from his works nor only from the bare letter of the Word but from the Spirit Have you ever beheld such a glory in Christs person as hath caused you to esteem him in all his glory as your present greatest and enly good 2 〈◊〉 4 6 Hath God ever given you the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ If not you must repent of your Knowledge under the notion of Ignorance and be sure that for the future you be restless after a clear distinct savory experimental active Knowledge of God in Christ 6. Not growing in Knowledge Against not growing in Knowledge 〈…〉 3 4 5. Is not saving knowledge a growing thing Were not the risings and increasings of the waters of the Sanctuary a type thereof But ala●● have not the best set up their rest in low attainments of saving knowledge Have not some conceited themselves taught by God immediately by the Spirit and needed not any of Gods medi●●e teachings by the ministry of man or by the Scriptures As for such whatever knowledge they pretend to the truth is they are altogether without the saving knowledge of God As he saith one who thinks himself so good that he cannot be better was never so good as he should be So he that thinks he knows so much as he can learn no more 1 Cor 8 2 from the Scriptures and Mini●ry know● nothing as he ought As for those that have the beginnings of life eternal John 17 3 in the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ certainly it hath been their great fault that they have not made conscience of growing in knowledge daily both of getting the knowledge of more duties and of more sins and more of the goodness of those duties and of the evil of those sins which they knew already as they ought How seldome have Sermons been attended for this very end How seldome have Ministers been consulted with for this very end Doth not your not growing in grace evidence that you have not grown in knowledge The Ap●stle puts both together 2 Pet 3 18 Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to hint to us that in proportion to our spiritual growth in knowledge is our growth in grace Is not your neglect of growing in knowledge evident in your decayes in knowledge not seeing so much evil in sin especially such and such particular sins nor so much good in duty especially such and such particular duties nor so much beauty in truth especially such and such particular truths no● so much deformity in errour especially such and such particular errours as formerly No wonder that God deals with us as he hath threatned to deal with them that know him not No wonder if God seem to resolve that this generation of English Professors shall not enter into the promised Canaan They were those that had not known Gods wayes to whom the Lord swore that they should not enter into his rest To

true as the light or visnal-faculty is planted in the eye or else he cannot comprehend that light that shines unto him The evidence then which a true believer hath of any truth of God which he embraceth is the manifesting of that truth unto the Spirit not only by a form of words to the natural understanding but beyond that by a kind of demonstration unto the spiritual mind as the evidence of any object to the eye is by the shining of the light upon it which makes it to appear to be such as it is This kind of testifying or evidencing things Rom 8 16 in a spiritual way the Apostle calls The witnessing of Gods Spirit with our Spirit mentioning expresly two Spirits whereof if either be wanting there can be no Divine testimony But is not our belief grounded upon the testimony of Reason upon the consonancy of Scripture-revelations to right Reason And is not the testimony of reason an humane testimony Yea Do not we believe upon an humane testimony when we believe any thing written in the Scriptures for the testimony of the Scriptures If that we believe the Scriptures themselves upon the general consent of the Church or upon the probability and reasonableness of the things therein delivered or upon the observation of the truth of those writings in most things which all make up but an humane testimony This the same learned and judicious Divine proves thus White c p 98 99 The assent unto one thing for another is built upon that to which we first give our assent as a stone in a wall though it lyes immediately upon that stone that is next under it yet it is indeed supported by the foundation which bears up all the building We say we do believe but is not our Assent without sutable impressions upon our hearts and without a sutable carriage in our lives Doth the reality of Gods being believed Baxter's Divine Lise on John 17 3 make us look upon our selves and all things as nothing without God as nothing in comparison of God and to let the beeing and reality of our love desire and endeavours be let out upon the most real and transcendent Beeing Doth the belief of Gods Vnity contract and unite our stragling affections and call them home from multifarious Vanity Doth the belief of Gods Immensity and Incomprehensibility fill our Souls with admiration Doth the belief of Gods Eternity draw our Souls from transitory to eternal things Doth the belief of Gods Simplicity make us in love with holy simplicity Doth the belief of Gods Invisibility make us mostly esteem and value things invisible Doth the belief of Gods Immutability beget in us unchangeable resolutions for God Doth the belief of Gods Almightiness sill us continually with holy fear and promote trusting in him Doth the belief of Gods Wisdome make us delight in the wisdome which is from above and to choose God for our Teacher and Counsellour Doth the belief of Gods Goodness fill our Souls with a superlative love unto God and industrious desires to be conform●d to his goodness in our measure Doth the belief of Gods Holiness cause us to have most high and honourable esteems of holiness in the creature and to fall in love with it and wholly conform our selves to Gods holiness in Christ Doth the belief of Gods Truth and Faithfulness make us resolved for duty and an holy life seeing the commands of God are serious and the promises and threats true The true and sound assent to any Divine Revelation as an holy truth includeth a correspondency in the believer to the thing believed Such an assent descends from the understanding to the affections and so to the conversation True Faith and right Obedience cannot be separated for he that believes the truth of Gods promises fill'd with such things as he doth most want must needs desire the good contained in them and seeing God hath declared the effect of his promises attainable only in wayes of obedience if he neglect that means it is manifest he doth not desire the end Certainly if our assent doth not cannot act no more than a dead body can rise and walk it is but a dead faith The Apostle doth not say as one well observes Faith is dead without works Manton on Jam 2 20. but Faith without works is dead I here is a difference between these predications as there is between those A man without motion is dead and a man is dead without motion Works are not the cause that give life to Faith but yet they are the effects that argue life in Faith Faith is not alwayes alike lively but yet it is alwayes living and operation is the necessary effect of life O! What cause have we to repent of our dead Faith And what Shall it alwayes remain dead Take heed I beseech you not only of setting no your rest in a Knowledge but in a Faith falsely so called Take heed of pleasing your selves any longer with the name of Faith and remaining destitute of the vertue of Faith for the crucifying your lusts and corruptions and conforming your hearts and lives to the Commandements of God To assent to truth with the neglect of goodness or with lazy desires after goodness is but a vain Faith That assent that doth not now subdue sin Gen. 23.4 will not suppress fear when you come to dye What! will ye not yet bury your dead out of your sight Chap. III. The Miscarriages opposite to Consenting to have God to be your God the third Act of Faith 1. Against resusing God REfusing God Beware of still refusing to have the true God to be a God unto you and a God over you to have him to be your Portion and Soveraign To be God Gen. 17.1 7. Rom. 9.5 implies to be enough unto all to be an all-sufficient and self-sufficient good and to be over all and above all to be an all-commanding good Ephes 4.6 To refuse God is to refuse to place our happiness in him and to come under his government Hath not this been your sin God hath offered himself to be your chief good and absolute Soveraign but have not you refused such offers Yea do not you still refuse them There are many degrees of refusing as one well observes Although we may be free of some of them Ob. Sedgwick's Fountain opened c. chap. 6. yet are not we comprized in some one or other of them Are not some guilty of refusing by way of presumptuous persecution Are not others by way of malicious opposition Are not others by way of scornful derision Are not others by way of open though not malicious resistance And if we be not guilty of any of these refusings yet are not we guilty of refusing by way of dissent or unperswasion Are not we yet unperswaded to accept of God upon his own tearms Certainly there is no medium 'twixt Faith and Infidelity 'twixt receiving of God and refusing of God