Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	arm_n	foot_n	head_n	5,115	5	8.9239	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02538	Heauen vpon earth, or Of true peace, and tranquillitie of minde. By Ios. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1606 (1606)	STC 12666; ESTC S119001	38,487	228

of friends of companions while God is with him Am I contemned of the world It is enough for me that I am honored of God of both I cānot The world loue me more if I were lesse friends with God It cannot hate me so much as God hates it what care I to be hated of thē whom God hateth He is vnworthy of Gods fauor that cannot thinke it happines enough with out the worlds How easy is it for such a man whiles the world disgraces him at once to scorne and pitty it that it cannot think nothing more contemptible then it self I am empouerished with losses That was neuer throughly good that may be lost My riches will not leese mee yea tho I forgoe all to my skin yet haue I not lost any part of my welth For if hee bee rich that hath somthing how rich is he that hath the maker and owner of al thinges I am weak and diseased in body He cannot miscarry that hath his maker for his Physician Yet my soule the better part is sound for that cannot be weake whose strength God is How many are sicke in that complain not I can bee content to bee let blood in the arme or foot for the curing of the head or heart The health of the principall part is more ioy to mee then it is trouble to be distempered in the inferiour Let me knowe that God fauours me thē I haue liberty in prison home in banishment honor in contempt in losses wealth health in infirmity life in death and in all these happines And surely if our perfect fruition of God be our complete heauen it must needs be that our inchoate cōuersing with him is our heauen imperfectly the entrance into the other which me thinks differs frō this not in the kind of it but in degree For the cōtinuatiō of which happy society sith strāgenes leeseth acquaintāce and breedeth neglect on our part must be a daily renuing of heuēly familiarity by seeking him vp euen with the cōtēpt of al inferior distractiō by talking with him in our secret inuocatiōs by hearing his cōferēce with vs and by mutual intertainment of ech other in the sweet discourses of our daily meditatiōs He is a sullē vnsociable frend that wants words God shal take no pleasur in vs if we be silēt The hart that is ful of loue cannot but haue a busy tongue Al our talk with God is either Suites or Thankes In them the christian heart pours out it selfe to his maker and would not change this priuiledge for a world All his annoiances al his wants all his dislikes are poured into the bosome of his inuisible friēd who likes vs stil so much more as wee aske more as wee complaine more Oh the easy and happy recourse that the poore soule hath to the hye throne of heauen We stay not for the holding out of a golden scepter to warne our admissiō before which our presence should bee presumption and death No houre is vnseasonable no persō too base no words too homely no fact too hard no importunity too great we speak familiarly we are heard answered comforted Another-while God interchangeably speakes vnto vs by the secret voyce or his spirit or by the audible sound of his word we heare adore answere him By both which the minde so communicates it selfe to God and hath God so plentifully communicated vnto it that hereby it growes to such an habit of heauenlinesse as that now it wants nothing but dissolution of full glory Sect. 23. OVt of this main groūd once setled in the heart like as so many riuers from one common sea flow those subordinate resolutions which wee require as necessary to our peace whether in respect of our actions or our estate For our actiōs ther must be a secret vow passed in the soul both of cōstāt refraining frō what soeuer may offend that maiesty we rest vpō and aboue this of true and Canonicall obedience to God without all care of difficulty and in spight of all contradictions of nature Not out of the confidence of our owne power Impotent men who are we that we shoulde either vow or performe But as hee saide Giue what thou bid'st and bid what thou wilt Hence the courage of Moses durst venture his hand to take vppe the crawling and hissing Serpent Hence Peter durst walke vpon the Pauement of the waues Hence that Heroicall spirit of Luther a man made of metall fit for so great a worke durst resolue and professe to enter into that fore-warned cittye tho there had been as many diuells in their streetes as tiles on their houses Both these vowes as wee once solemnly made by others so for our peace must wee renew in our selues Thus the experienced mind both knowing that it hath met with a good friend withall what the price of a friend is cannot but be carefull to retayne him and wary of displeasing therefore to cut off all daungers of variance voluntarily takes a double oath of alleageance of it selfe to God which neither benefit shall induce vs to breake if we might gaine a world nor feare vrge vs thereto tho we must leese our selues The wauering hart that finds continuall combates in it selfe betwixt Pleasure Conscience so equally matched that neither gets the day is not yet capable of peace and whether euer ouer commeth is troubled both with resistance victory Barren Rebecca found more ease then whē her twins struggled in her womb If Iacob had been there alone she had not complained of that painfull contentiō One while Pleasure holdes the fort and Conscience assaults it which when it hath entred at last by strong hand after manye batteries of iudgementes denounced ere long pleasure either corruptes the watch or by some cuning stratagem findes way to recouer her first hold so our part is euer atempting and euer resisting betwixt both the hart cānot haue peace because it resolues not For while the soule is held in suspense it cannot enioy the pleasure it vseth because it is halfe taken vp with feare Onely a strong and resolute repulse of pleasure is truly pleasant For therein the Conscience filling vs with heauenly delight maketh sweete Triumphes in it selfe as beeing now the Lorde of his own dominions knowing what to trust to No man knows the pleasure of this thought I haue dōe wel but he that hath felt it he that hath felt it contemnes all pleasure to it It is a false slander raysed on Christianity that it makes men dūpish and melancholicke for therfore are we heuy because wee are not enough Christians Wee haue religion enough to mislike pleasures not enough to ouercome thē But if wee bee once conquerours ouer our selues and haue deuoted our selues wholly to God there can be nothing but heauenly mirth in the soule Loe here ye philosophers the true Musick of heauen which the good heart continually heareth and answeares it in the iust measurs of ioy