Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	apostle_n	speak_v	spirit_n	2,923	5	4.8555	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56274	The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted by Timothy Puller ...	Puller, Timothy, 1638?-1693.	1679 (1679)	Wing P4197; ESTC R10670	256,737	603

familiaritate excitantur S. Aug. Confess 10. c. 33. Voices and our hearing and our affections raised by Psalms and Hymns and Doxologies and mutual incitements to praise God and by musical instruments also where they may be had that we may set forth the praises of God with all our faculties and in the most elevated manner we are capable In our Church is proposed to us great variety in which we may entertain our chearful Devotion for Psalms we have the divinely inspired Psalms of David from whence every one according to their condition may be furnished with most excellent Forms of praise and joy in God according to their several circumstances For Hymns y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Jo. 17. of Praise we have select Forms taken out of Holy Scripture or in use in the ancient Church in the variety of which with Doxologies also and Hallelujahs we are entertained and delighted We have also in laudable use many excellent spiritual Songs z Carmenque Christo quasi Deo dicere secum invicem Plin. secundus ad Traj Ep. of more artificial composure a Peculiares quaedam magis artificiosae Cantiones Bez. in 5. Eph. 19. Ere Christianâ foret si in Ecclesiâ Cantiones ad populum intellectas ad usum pietatis permitterent Praesules Wicelius p. 21. so that we may praise God according to the utmost of our abilities With these the Moderation of the Church doth not only call off her people from vain obscene and impious Songs which do the Devils work in a sure and insensible manner which is to debauch and vitiate the dispositions and natures of such as use them but hereby we are furnisht also to speak to our selves and to admonish one another as the Apostle exhorts in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs singing with grace making melody in our hearts to the Lord b Eph. 5. 19. Col. 3. 16. In which our Church with the Apostle doth chiefly endeavour to promote the grace and devotion of the heart which is most worthy to inspire our praise The sincere elevation of the Spirit being the life of all our Psalmody even that half which makes the whole without which the tongues of men and Angels as without Charity are like a sounding brass or tinkling Cymbal Where this grace of the heart is united with the melody of the Voice we may entertain our selves with that joy in God which is the most refined sort of delight we can enjoy We join with the Church Militant on Earth and the Church Triumphant in Heaven We make the best use of that gift of Speech which we have given us to interpret our thoughts by articulate voice and stir up our own and others affections to set forth the high praises of the most Excellent Majesty of God whom it becomes us to serve not only with our nature but our skill If we ought to praise God with melody then a grave and solemn Musick which is useful to govern the melody and also encrease it may be useful to the praise and worship of God and if persons love what is costly as well as useful in their private Houses why should any envy themselves or others some comely magnificence in the holy service of God especially when such an instrument may make our affections as well as our singing more regular and composed Neither is this help to melody ever the worse because David us'd it in the Holy Service of God He praised God in the most excellent manner he could upon Harp and Organ and such Musical Instruments as were in use for the honour of God and called upon others very earnestly and instantly to praise God with the same and it may be noted that praising God by assistance of Instrumental Musick was more ancient than giving the Law in Sinai more ancient c Exod. 15. 20. than the Ceremonies of the Tabernacle or the Temple Wherefore it is rather to be esteemed the effect of natural Religion than any Ceremonial Law of Moses of which the Musick David used was no part and being never appointed was never abolished according to the mistake of the Geneva Notes and of many others from them whereas they might have been taught otherwise from Calvin d Psalmus sit in quo concinendo adhibetur Musicum aliquod Instrumentum p●ater linguam Calvin in Col. 3. 16. in Cap. 6. Amos v. 5. himself in his Comment upon Coloss 3. 16. Where he expoundeth a Psalm to be that in the singing of which some Musical Instrument is used beside the tongue And in that David us'd the help of Instrumental Musick although there was no express Command of God for so doing much more among Christians e Advers●s q●osdam ●anaticos qui cantum Ecclesiasticum ●●o Inti●hristiano 〈…〉 Vorstius in Eph. 5. 19. who are not required to look for particular Commands extraordinary some things may be used as circumstances and helps in the worship of God which are not required by any express Text of Scripture So that from the example of David we are neither bound up to a strict imitation of every thing he did neither doth the Church neglect his Example where the reason remains the same but makes use of its Christian Liberty as it judgeth most for edification and good order in the service of God f Curandum est ut illa quoque Musica sit digna templo Dei. Erasmus de amab Eccl. Concord where may be observed the Moderation of our Church in that Musick is used not as of necessity but of choice And though the Psalmody appointed in our Church is that which recites the divine praises as much as may be in the words of the inspired Psalmists although singing of Psalms in meter is no part of our Liturgy yet great is the Moderation and condescension of our Church in permitting an accommodation in this matter to the most imperfect as indeed the whole use also of Musick is in condescension to the imperfection of our state because our affections are more stir'd up by the same means as our voices and melody are assisted The Moderation of our Church may be further observed herein in that 1. Nothing is ordered to be sung with instrumental Musick but what is taken out of Holy Scripture g Extra Psal nos V. T. aliquid Poeticè compositum in Ecclesia ca●ere vetatur Conc. Bracarens Can. 30. 2. All is sung in the Common language 3. The Musick only governs and moderates the Song and encreaseth the melody 4. Our Musick and Singing is such as S. Austin commended at Alexandria nearer pronouncing than singing designed wholly for edification consistent with gravity h Ad gravitatem att●●r peratus cantus Calv. Instir l. 3. §. 20. and Christian simplicity answering the designs of Religion framed not only for delighting the Ear but affecting the Heart i Vt per ob●ectamenta aurium animus in affectum pietatis ass●●gat S. Aug. Confess 10. and raising

say O but how shall I know that the Holy Ghost is within me Some man perchance will say forsooth as the tree is known by the fruit so is also the Holy Ghost The fruits of the Holy Ghost according to the mind of St Paul are these Gal. 5. Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faithfulness Meekness Temperance c. Contrariwise the deeds of the flesh are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Wantonness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Debate Emulation Wrath Contention Sedition Heresy Envy Murder Drunkenness Gluttony and such like Here now is the Glass wherein thou must behold thy self and discern whether thou hast the Holy Ghost within thee or the spirit of the flesh If thou see thy works be vertuous and good consonant to the prescript rule of Gods word savoury and tasting not of the flesh but the Spirit then assure thy self thou art endued with the Holy Ghost otherwise in thinking well of thy self thou dost but deceive thy self The Holy Ghost doth always declare himself by his fruitful and gracious gifts b 2d Part of the Hom. for Whit-sunday But to conclude ye shall briefly take this short lesson Wherever ye find the spirit of arrogance and pride the spirit of envy hatred contention cruelty c. Assure your selves that there is the spirit of the Devil and not of God albeit they pretend to the world outwardly ever so much Holiness for as the Gospel teacheth us The Spirit of Jesus is a good holy sweet lowly merciful Spirit full of charity and love full of forgiveness and pity not rendring evil for evil extremity for extremity According to which rule If any man live uprightly of him it may be safely pronounced That he hath the Holy Ghost within him if not there is a plain token he doth usurp the name of the Holy Ghost in vain As for the manner and measure of the operations of the Holy Spirit The modesty and Moderation of our Church doth not decree any thing lest as St Austin saith Humane infirmity proceed beyond what is safe Yet our Church gives a right account in sundry places of its Homilies c Second Part of the Homily of Falling from God How the Holy Spirit comes to be withdrawn from men By all these Examples of Holy Scripture we know that as we forsake God so shall he even forsake us When he withdraweth from us his word the right doctrine of Christ his gracious assistance and aid which is ever joined with his Word and leaveth us to our own wit and will and strength He declareth then he beginneth to forsake us d First Part of the Homily of falling from God which is as it follows after any do neglect the same if they be unthankful to him if they order not their lives according to his Example and Doctrine c. From whence we see also that our Church judgeth the promise of the spirit is as the blessings of the Gospel are generally conditional For as God for his part delivered his Son to suffer death for us so again we for our parts should walk in a godly life as becometh his Children so to do e 2. Part of the Homily of Alms-deeds He that is first made good by the Spirit and Grace of God afterward bringeth forth good fruits As for those who affirm a supernatural and immediate illumination necessary without which other ordinary means are insufficient either to give us certainty of the authority or interpretation of Divine Writ 1. They affirm that which no where is declared 2. That which we have little reason to credit from them that affirm so We having neither experience of their extraordinary knowledge or goodness but have found them most mistaken of any in their interpretations of Scripture and also by the notes of having the Spirit delivered in Scripture what is quite different hath appear'd 3. The holding such an opinion tends to lessen the authority of the written word of God and to make the dictates of the humane spirit if not sometime the Diabolical equal with the Holy Canon And those others who lay the stress of the proof of the authority of Scripture and the certainty of Faith and the interpretation of Scripture upon such uncertainties as only the internal testimony of the Spirit as is yet neither proved necessary or real however of which there is no proof unto others verily such labour unprofitably to overthrow Christianity and render all our Faith uncertain 4. Their Doctrine leads to such Enthusiasm as is not consistent with the peace of Kingdoms much less the peace of Gods Church But such is the constant Moderation of our Church though it doth reject and oppose all fanatical and ungrounded pretences to the Spirit Yet our Church most frequently and with all humble reverence owns the necessity of the gracious aids and assistance of the Spirit as the phrase is in our Homilies several times used as without which we can do nothing pleasing to God For in the power and vertue of the Holy Ghost resteth all wisdom and all ability to know God and to please him f 3d Part of the Homily for Rogation Week Therefore we pray that in all things he will mercifully direct and rule our hearts we pray to God to grant us his Spirit that those things which we do may please him g In the Absolution Collect after the H. C. Hom. of falling from God To prevent us in all our doings c. because of the ill condition of those who are not governed by the Spirit of God CHAP. VI. The Moderation of the Church in its judgment of Doctrines § 1. Our Church doth wisely distinguish between what is necessary for Salvation and what is not § 2. Her Articles are few § 3. Which are generally exhibited not as Articles of Faith but consent Concerning subscription § 4. Our Articles are propounded so as to avoid unnecessary controversy § 5. The wise Moderation of the Kings of England in their Injunctions to Preachers and Orders taken to preserve Truth Vnity and Charity § 6. The Controversies of the late Age are well moderated by the determinations of our Church § 7. As our Church requires our consent in nothing contrary to sense or reason so it hath also contain'd it self from immoderate curiosity in treating of venerable mysteries § 8. Our Church doth not insist upon such kinds of certainty as others without just cause do exact § 9. Doctrines are so propounded to those in our Churches Communion as not to render useless their own reasons and judgments The reasonableness of which is proved and the Objections answered § 10. The use which we are all allowed of our private judgments is requir'd to be menag'd with a due submission to the Church The duty of which submission is laid down in sundry Propositions § 1. BEcause all things in Divine Revelation are alike true but not alike necessary for furtherance of Faith and Piety and establishing Union among Christians