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_v	2,057	5	5.7368	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03347	The splendour of the spouse A sermon preached in the parish church of Ware, Anno Domini, 1638. By Augustine Hill, rector of Dengey, in the county of Essex.	Hill, Augustine, d. 1660.	1640 (1640)	STC 13468; ESTC S116585	15,346	25

Hittite nor her portion for what was hers naturally Ezekiel 16. but sinne and everlasting death the wages of it nor her parts for the best child of grace acknowledgeth In me there dwelleth no manner of thing that is good all then was in him free and pure love Now we say magnes amoris amor Rom. 7 love hath an attractive power to draw love therefore let every Spouse of Christ remember to returne love to him againe that every heart may plead for it selfe as Peter did Lord thou knowest that I love thee O then let us pitch and settle our affections upon him who is as Saint Bernard saith verè amans amabilis one most truly loving us and most worthy to be beloved of us the Apostle pronounceth an extreame Anathema to him that failes in the retribution of it If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 16.22 let him be Anathema Maranatha and it should be a double engagement of our obedience and thanke and let us not onely with the inward man love him but with the outward also honour and confesse him who pleads for us before his Father in heaven 't is but a dead heart that hath a dumbe voyce when Christ his cause is in question Canes latrare possunt pro Dominis non vis me latrare pro Christo Hier. Tract 3. op 40. saith Saint Jerome to Ruffinus the Dogges will barke for their masters and wilt thou not have me speake for Christ and he goes on si ista causadi scordiae est mori possum tacere non possum if that be the cause of our jarres I may dye before hold my peace yea let us so farre as in us lyeth not suffer him to be blasphemed by others it was the zealous resolution of that holy Father Ego si patrem si matrem si uxorem si filios si germanos adversum Christum meum audivissem ista dicentes quasi rabidus canis blasphemantia ora lacerassem fuisset in primis manus mea super eos Id op 20. And lastly it should be a double engagement of our obedience and thankefulnesse of our obedience to live unto him who hath so dearely loved us as to dye for us and our thankefulnesse may have that heavenly burden of the Saints Rev. 1.5 6. To him that hath loved us and washed us from our sinnes in his owne blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen The word is rendred Vicina my neighbour adjoyning Inhabitant Themistocles having a house to sell commended it that it had bonum vicinum a good neighbour the Churches blisse is that Christ is pleased to dwell with them yea in them and make a resolution as in the Psalme Psalm 32. Here will I dwell for I have a delight therein and not onely vicina but proxima my nearest one both for counsell and comfort he revealeth his secrets to them and is ready at all assayes to helpe them yea amica my friend as Abraham was called the friend of God Jac. 2.23 He need feare no enemy who hath God to his friend yet the originall word goes further for it is taken from feeding or conversing together and expresseth that inward familiarity and union that is betwixt them It must teach us all by no meanes to estrange our selves from Christ but to keepe a correspondence with him to cherish our familiarity friendship to preserve our union that we professing him to be ours he may confesse us to be his as he doth his Church here My love which is a terme both of propriety and of possession Of propriety he claimes a speciall interest in his Church and he hath a true right in us all both by making us his at the first and by buying us againe when we had made away our selves his deare purchase we are therefore let us not alienate our selves from him either in our affection for he is the proper and adaequate object of our love minus east è te amat Aug. qui aliquid praeter te amat quod non propter te amat he loves thee amisse who loves any thing besides thee which he loves not in and for thee nor in our obedience but wholly devote our selves to him and him alone that none may have the honour of our service but he that abased himselfe to save us Of possession he hath a speciall care and custody of his Church he keepes them as choycely as his jewels as the apple of his owne eye he keepes their head as with a shield that not a haire of it shall perish yea their very feet that they dash them not against a stone By the Daughters are meant either forraigne Congregations as the Daughter of Babylon Psalme 137. or else as I conceive such as live within the Pale of the visible Church enjoy the same holy Word and Sacraments which the elect Spouse of Christ doth yet are they Thornes to his Lily Spinae propter malignitatem morum filiae propter Sacramentorum communionem Aug. Vincentio Epist 48. Id in Ps 36. eadem professio sed non idem cor saith the same Father they have the same profession but not the same heart therefore the more dangerous Mali Christianitantò nocentiores quanto interiores mimici saith Saint August Tom. 4. De side rerum invisibilium if that worke be his the more inward enemies the more hurtfull Saint Bernard descanting of the Churches complaint of her bitternesse saith she was amara prius in nece martyrum amarior postea in conflictu haereticorum amarissima in moribus domesticorum bitter first in the death of her Martyrs more bitter in succeeding ages in her concertation with Heretikes most bitter in these last times in the corrupt manners of them of her owne houshold 2 Cor. 11.26 1 Iohn 2.19 Saint Paul speaks of perils among false brethren and Saint John of some they went out from us Rom. 2. but they were not of us they are not all Israel which are of Israel Rom. 9 6. And he is a Jew which is one inwardly Our Saviour mentions some that come in sheeps clothing Tertul. Quae nam sunt ist ae pelles ovium nisi nominis Christiani extrinsecus superficies they have the name but not the nature of Christians their habit shewes them to be Daughters of Jerusalem but in heart they are but Daughters of Babylon therefore Christ leaves them to a common appellation not gracing them with his appropriating terme my Th●se whom Christ ownes not here he will deny hereafter and though they be never so nigh him and enjoy all the outward priviledges of the Church yet non novi vos is their doome depart from me Mat. 7. I know you not So I returne from the Goats to the Sheepe the Church of Christ here compared to a Lily for as the Lily doth open her selfe to receive