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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	world_n	worldly_a	worship_v	49	3	7.8317	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67781	The tryall of true wisdom, with how to become wise indeed, or, A choice and cheap gift for a friend both to please and pleasure him, be he inferior or superior, sinful or faithful, ignorant or intelligent / By R. Younge ... ; add this as an appendix, or third part, to The hearts index, and, A short and sure way, to grace and salvation.	Younge, Richard.; Younge, Richard. Hearts-index, or, self-knowledg.; Younge, Richard. Short and sure way to grace and salvation.	1658 (1658)	Wing Y194; ESTC R39197	35,053	36

into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared there for them that love him 1 Cor. 2. 9. §. 55. Now as I have shewn these two sorts of men their folly to the end some of them may be convinced and ashamed and consequently become soul-wise that so they may be saved which is the principal thing I drive at for I take no pleasure in disgracing men purposely So it were as easie to prove that all sorts of sinners are no better then sots and shallow-brains in comparison of the conscientious Christian Nor do I see but it may prove of great and general concernment therefore that others also may have benefit by the same I will briefly touch upon some particulars And the next that I will speak to shall be such as come neerest to these last mentioned that is your Covetous Miserly Muck-worms who though they be neer neighbours to those Ambodexters I last spake of yet they are not the same men Now although you cannot name one property of a natural fool but the Covetous man is in that particular a greater fool Yet I will make the parallel in one onely lest I should weary my Reader before I have dispatcht all my Clients or halfe listed my men The Covetous miser if you mark it esteems not of things according to their true value but preferreth bables and trifles before things of greatest worth which is the most remarkable property of a naturall fool that is being like the ignorant Indians in Florida Virginia New England and K●nida who for a Copper kettle and a few toyes as Beads and Hatchets will depart from the purest gold and sell you a whole Countrey with the houses and ground which they dwell upon As Iudas preferred thirty pieces of silver before him that was Lord of the whole world and ransome of man-kinde so the covetous man prefers Earth yea hell to heaven time to eternity his body before his soul yea his outward estate before either soule or body Whereas the godly care for the soul as the chief jewell and onely treasure and for the body for the soules sake and settle their inheritance in no land but the land of promise their end being to possesse a kingdome without end They are not like Shebna who built his sepulchre in one Countrey and was buried in another But like our English Merchants that traffique in Turkey get wealth in Turky yet plant not in Turky but transport for England It cannot be said of them as it may of the most that they worship the golden Calfe because they consider that Pecunia the worlds Queen I meane that world whereof the Devill is King extends her Regiments but to the brim of the grave and is not current one step farther Worldly hearts are penny-wise and pound-foolish they know how to set high prizes upon the worthlesse trash of this world but for heavenly things or the God that owns them they shamefully under-value Like Judas who valued Maries ointment which she bestowed upon the feet of Christ at three hundred pieces of silver and sold his Master on whom that odour was spent for thirty But it is not so with the godly they think it the best purchase that ever was in the world to buy him who bought them in comparison of whom all things else are dross and dung as Paul speaks Phil. 3. 8. And indeed if we once have him we have all thing as the Apostle argues Rom. 8. 32. 1 Cor. 3. 21 22 23. So that the godly's man is onely rich the servant of Christ is Lord of all Whereas by a just judgement of God upon the covetous Miser who makes Mammon his god The Devill makes them his Drudges to get and bring him in Gold as the King of Spain does the poor Indians that he may keep it in banke for the next prodigall to spend as ill as the other got it As how often is that spent upon one Christmas revelling by the son which was forty years a getting by the Father O fools incomparable to take a world of care and paines endure so much grief sting of conscience loss of credit to deprive themselves of Heaven damn their own souls to get wealth and when they have got it not to be a jot the better for it Yea they are less satisfied and contented then other men meanlier accommedated then mean men Yea a poor beggar that hath nothing here is in better estate then a rich Miser that hath nothing in effect either here or hereafter O that they would but use that yea half that wit study and industry hereafter to save their souls that they have formerly done to damn them But hear more Aristippus cared onely for his body as if he had had no soule Zeno but for his soule as if he had had no body Achitophel for his Family alone as if neither soule nor body had been worth caring for but these neither for body nor soule nor any thing but for a little muck to leave behind them Yea he can finde in his heart to goe to hell for another that wishes him gone and will damn his own soul to leave his son rich Yea what a deale of paines and care does the covetous man take for his own damnation ever tormenting himself to get that for getting whereof he shall be tormented so himselfe is voluntarily miserable here and hereafter that others may be happy And so much of the Miser The next I will fall upon shall be such as equall these in their Idolatry another way as 56. Fourthly what think you of common Idolaters are not they arrant fools I 'le give you but one instance mentioned Exod. 32. and you will need no more Turn to the place and there you shall find that those blockish Israelites made them a molten Calfe and then said This is thy god that brought thee out of the land of Egypt ver. 34. This is such a pregnant example that there needs no more to prove it that a Beast should be their god yea and a beast of their own making and that this beast should have brought them out of Egypt which could not move it selfe but as it was moved and that before it had any being This is such a blockish absurdity that as one would think should never enter into the heart of him who is endowed with a reasonable soule But what can the Prince of darknesse propound that a wicked heart blinded with the custome of sinne and given up by God to be further blinded by Satan will not believe as appears by our Ranters Shakers and Quakers at this day And such other fools are the Papists though great Clerks and wise men who if I could intend to aquaint you maintain a thousand ridiculous tenents stif●y defending those things for truth which the Holy Ghost calls in expresse words The doctrine of devils 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. And most justly are they forsaken of their reason who have abandoned God Yea most just