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heart_n	apostle_n	preach_v	word_n	3,267	5	4.6936	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14742	The happinesse of practice. By Samuel VVard, Bachelour in Diuinity, and preacher of Ipswich	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 25044; ESTC S119473	15,779	52

delicate aboue the Hony and the Hony-combe sweeter then the taste of any Nectar Some say the study of the Law is cragged that if the gaine of practice did not sweeten it few would plot vpon Ployden But I beleeue few would study Saint Paul and preach as Saint Paul did instantly in season out of season quaintly and rarely they might for credit and preferment but painfully and profitably I hardly beleeue they would feruently and feelingly they cannot except the sweetnesse of their practice driue and constraine them Of all men I hold them fooles that bend their studies to Diuinitie not intending to bee Doers as well as Students and Preachers not much vviser such as will be professors of Religion and not practicioners The Parables in the Talmud fits their folly well resembling them to such as plowe and sow all the yeere and neuer reape to the Grashopper that sings all the Summer and wants in the Winter to vvomen euer conceiuing and euer making abortion neuer comming to the birth and best of all to that of Christ distinguishing Hearers into foolish that build on the Sand of Hearing and professing blowne downe vvith euery puffe of Trouble and the wise that build on the Rocke of Doing vnshakeable Search all the Scripture and see if any Couenants or Grants vvere made to Knowing and not all to Doing Is not the ancient tenour of the Law Doe this and Liue and the Gospell Beleeue and liue which implies an act to be done and that act implying sundry cōsequents fruits of it Hee that doth my Fathers will hee is my Brother and Sister Not euery one that saith Lord Lord but hee that the doth my Fathers will To him that doth ill shall be tribulation and anguish to euery soule of Iew and Grecian to him that doth well shall bee honour and peace vpon all the Israel of God Vnto whom shall that Euge be giuen at that great Day but to the doer and in what forme but Well done thou good Seruant that hast not buried thy Talent in a Napkin Hee himselfe expresseth the manner Behold I come quickly my reward is in my hand to giue euery man according to his workes Blessed is euery one that doth my Commandements that hee may eate of the Tree of Life and enter thorow the gates into the City In all which happinesse in this life and that to come is conferred vpon the liuing acts and exercises not vpon the dead habits of any grace whatsoeuer In all labour there is aboundance but in the conceits of the braine and talke of the lippes nothing but emptinesse and misery If one could doe as much as Master Stoughton prints and many credible witnesses report of the young Gentlewoman of nine yeeres old that can say euery sillable of the new Testament by heart and vpon triall not faile in returning a line without the right Chapter verse yet practice neuer a iot nor tittle of it happy were such if they had neuer heard word of Gods Word If one should take paines to get together a great number of songs curiously set artificially composed yea and knew how to sing or play them and yet neuer heard them sung or plaid what pleasure had hee of them The practice and vse of all operatiue Arts is all in all in Diuinity the chiefe of all which else is as the Vine excellent only in the sweet iuice of it otherwise fit not so much as Pin or Pegge Next to Gods glory and a mans owne good a Christian placeth much happinesse in winning and edifying others to which purpose a speechlesse life hath more life in it then a liueles speech I rrisistable is the Suada of a good life aboue a faire profession Chrysostome calls good works vnanswerable Syllogismes inuincible Demonstrations to confute and conuert Pagans withall tells vs they haue a louder language then the Sunne and Moone whose sound yet goes ouer all the world publishing Gods glory not in Hebrew Greeke or Latine which many barbarous Nations vnderstand not but in an oratory they can better skill of An Archer puts not more force into an Arrow he shoots then the life of the speaker into his speech whence it comes that one and the same Sermon or counsell in seuerall mens mouthes differ as much as a shaft out of a Gyants or Childs shooting Miracles sayes hee are now ceased good conuersation comes in their place the Apostles might haue preached long enough without audience or acceptance had not their miracles as Bells towled to their Sermons and as Harbengers made way into mens hearts for their doctrine by such weapons they conquered the world as Gedeons souldiers the Midianites carrying in one hand the burning Lampe of a good life and in the other the loud shrill Trumpets of preaching otherwise plaine men will answere as Iouinian to the orthodox and Arrian Bishops contending about the faith Of your learning and subtill disputations I cannot so well iudge but I can well marke and obserue which of your behauiours is most peaceable and fruitfull and as one Moses renowned for piety to Lucius reputed an Arrian Bishop tendring the confession of his faith to cleere himselfe Tush sayes he What telst thou mee of the faith of the eares Let me haue the faith of the hands I will rather goe without my installment then take it of hands imbrued in bloud bribery and iniustice as all know and report thine to be Arguments are darke and perswasions dull things to liues and actions and most people are like Sheepe easilier following example then led or driuen by preceps and rules Let any man make proofe of both Let a Gentleman or Minister perswade Parishioners to contribute liberally to a Briefe and set a niggardly example and see how much lesse will come of it then if hee said lesse and gaue more What else mooued Christ and the Prophets so frequently to vse that potent figure which Rhetoricians from the speciall vsefulnesse of it call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is when the Orator seconds and enliues his speech with some action as Christ when heere in my Text hee girts himselfe with a Towell and elswhere when hee tooke the Child and set him in the middest of the Apostles the Prophet when hee tooke Pauls Girdle and the old Diuine in Dorotheus that bad his Auditor pluck at a great old Tree which hee could not stir and at a young Sprout easily pluckt vp to shew the difficulty of rooting out an old habit in comparison of the beginnings The reason is words are but wind and vanish into the winde leauing no print or impression more then a Ship in the Sea in comparison of actions which men take markes and notice of This same inartificial argumēt of examples though Schollers lesse regard it as hauing lesse art in it yet is it all the country-mans Logike as the Martyr that answered Bishop Bonner My Lord I cānot dispute but I can dye for the truth mooued the