Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	ear_n	hear_v	2,313	5	5.3163	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84947	Theios divine beames of glorious light. Shining from the sacred scriptures, which expell the fogges of error, that engender darknesse, in doubting soules, by mistaken thoughts, touching the diety, faith, and Christain ordinances. With a cordial to heal the corasives which the ill potion prepared by Mr. John Fry, a late member of Parliament, hath ingendred. / Written by one, who desires more that God may be glorified, then to affix his name to gain the vaine applause of man. Licensed and entered in the Stationeers Hall book.	Fry, John, 1609-1657, Attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing F2256; Thomason E625_10; ESTC R206458	8,705	15

screw'd faces doe they make c. This savours of much lightnesse in Mr. Fry like the carriage of the Scribes and Pharisees to Christ and his Apostles deriding and scorning them for their devotion and as the poor Publican was disdained by the boasting Pharisee who smote upon his breast and prayed saying God be mercifull to me a sinner But Christs Apostles were of another minde they rejoyced to heare of devout praying yea the holy and blessed Spirit of God is promised to help the infirmities of those whose desires are so full that they cannot expresse themselves Rom. 8. Yea and Jesus Christ himselfe wept and groaned when he prayed at the raising of Lazarus and fell down on the ground when he prayed in his Agony in the Garden devotion when it is most sound and heavenly in the heart will teach the mouth Prov. 16.23 and stirre up the body to a zeale heaven-ward as of sincerity as in the sight of God speaking in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 III. Exception Master Fry saith againe in the same book in derision of this devotion How like a company of Conjurers doe they mumble out the beginnings of their prayers that the people may not hear them and when artificially they have raised their voyces what a puling do they make But this is very much for the advantage of the people for when Ministers begin with a loud voyce their spirits are usually so spent that before they have halfe done their Sermons few can heare them in a large Congregation and the voyce is much the clearer and plainer the whole time of Prayer and Sermon by beginning low and increasing the elevation of their voyce IV. Exception out of the said booke is this viz. Mr. Fry saith I must confess I have heard much of beleeving things above Reason and the time was when I swallowed that pill but I may say as St. Paul c. When I was a childe c. Every man that knoweth any thing knoweth this that it is Reason that distinguisheth a man from a beast If you take away his Reason you deny his very Essence and therefore if any man wil consent to give up his Reason I would as soon converse with a beast as with that man and whatsoever pretence some may make of Religion in this particuler certainly there is nothing else in it but ignorance and policy Hereby is Heathenisme much exalted by Mr. Fry and the excellency of faith defaced as doth very clearly appeare by the Gospel Will you know what faith is The Holy Ghost tels us in the Scriptures That it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 Faith teacheth us that all things were made by God of nothing vers 3. Reason cannot reach this and in that Chapter we have many examples above reason which our faith is engaged to beleeve As Abels speaking being dead Enochs translation Noahs Arke Sarahs Childe by Abraham in their old age Isaacks deliverance by the Ram Moses preservation in the Flagges c. Augustine saith that the Saints know God not by the outward sences but in divine ravishings And so Paul told the Ephesians that it was not from darke naturall Philosophy and carnall reason but Gods opening of Beleevers eyes by Divine inlightnings that they come by faith to know what is the hope of their calling and the riches of the glory of Christs Inheritance in them Ephes 1.17 For we are saved by grace through faith which is not to be attained unto by reason of our selves it must be beleeved above reason because even faith it selfe is the gift of God also Ephes 2.8 Peter Martyr tels us that Faith abundantly gathereth out of the holy Scriptures the knowledge of God as much as sufficeth to Salvation or as much as this our life is able to receive yet Paul testifieth this knowledg to be unperfect For now we know him by a Glasse in a shadow and but partly Who knew that his reason could not apprehend what his faith could reach but by beleeving pressed forwards towards the price of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus Phil. 3.12 13 14. In a word the eye hath not seen nor eare heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man by reason to know the things which by faith we are to beleeve God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 10 11 12. FINIS