Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	eye_n	heart_n	see_v	5,735	5	3.3904	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02537	The great impostor laid open in a sermon at Grayes Inne, Febr. 2.1623. By Ios. Hall D.D.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1623 (1623)	STC 12665; ESTC S116594	14,333	76

dirt in it and therefore knowing that all vertue hath a natiue beauty in it she labours to deforme it by the foulest imputations Would the Israelites be deuout they are idle Doth Dauid daunce for ioy before the Arke he is a foole in a Morris Doth Saint Paul discourse of his heauenly Vision too much learning hath made him mad Doe the Disciples miraculously speake all the tongues of Babel They are full of new wine Doe they preach Christs Kingdome they are seditious The resurrection they are bablers Is a man conscionable he is an Hypocrite Is he conformable he is vnconscionable Is he plaine dealing he is rudely vnciuill Is he wisely insinuatiue he is a flatterer In short such is the wicked craft of the heart that it would let vs see nothing in it owne forme but faine would shew vs euill faire that we might be inamored of it and vertue vgly that we might abhorre it and as it doth for the way so doth it for the end hiding from vs the glory of heauen that is laid vp for ouer-commers and shewing vs nothing but the pleasant closure of wickednesse making vs beleeue that hell is a palace and heauen a dungeon that so we might be in loue with death and thus both in cunning conueyance and false semblance The heart of man is deceitfull aboue all things Ye haue seene the fashion of this deceit cast now your eies vpon the subiect And whom doth it then deceiue It doth deceiue others it can deceiue it selfe it would deceiue Sathan yea God himselfe Others first How many doe we take for honest and sound Christians who yet are but errant hypocrites These Apes of Sathan haue learned to transforme themselues into Angels of light The heart bids the eies looke vpward to heauen when they are full of adultery It bids the hands to raise vp themselues towards their Maker when they are full of bloud It bids the tongue wagge holily when there is nothing in the bosome but Atheous profanenesse It bids the knee to bow like a Camel when the heart is stiffe as an Elephant yea if need bee it can bid a teare fall from the eie or an almes or iust action fall from the hand and all to gull the world with a good opinion In all which false chapmen and horse-coursers doe not more ordinarily deceiue their buyers in shops and faires than wee doe one another in our conuersation Yea so crafty is the heart that it can deceiue it selfe By ouer-weening his own powers as the proud man by vnder-valuing his graces as the modest by mis-taking his estate as the ignorant How many hearts doe thus grossely beguile themselues The first thinkes hee is rich and fine when hee is beggerly and naked so did the Angell of Laodicea The second is poore in his owne spirit when he is rich of Gods spirit The third thinkes that he is a great fauorite of heauen when he is rather branded for an out-cast that he is truly noble when he is a slaue to that which is baser than the worst of Gods creatures sinne Let the proud and ignorant worldling therefore know that though others may mocke him with applauses yet that all the world cannot make him so much a foole as his owne heart Yea so cunning is the heart that it thinkes to goe beyond the deuill himselfe I can thinks it swallow his bait and yet auoid his hooke I can sinne and liue I can repent of sinning and defeat my punishment by repenting I can runne vpon the score and take vp the sweet and rich commodities of sinfull pleasure and when I haue done I can put my selfe vnder the protection of a Sauiour and escape the arrest Oh the world of soules that perish by this fraud fondly beguiling themselues whiles they would beguile the Tempter Yet higher Lastly as Satan went about to deceiue the Son of God so this foolish consort and client of his goes about to deceiue God himselfe The first paire of hearts that euer was were thus credulous to thinke they should now meet with a meanes of knowledge and Deifying which God either knew not of or grudged them and therefore they would be stealing it out of the side of the apple without God yea against him Tush none eye shall see vs Is there knowledge in the most high saith the sottish Atheist Lord haue not we heard thee preach in out streets haue not we cast out Deuils in thy name sayes the smoothing hypocrite as if he could fetch God ouer for an admission into heauen Thou hast not lied to man but to God saith S. Peter to Ananias And pettish Ionas after hee had beene cooled in the belly of the Whale and the Sea yet will be bearing God downe in an argument to the iustifying of his idle choler I doe well to be angry to the death But as the greatest Politicians are oft ouertaken with the grossest follies God owes proud wits a shame the heart of man could not possibly deuise how so much to be foole it selfe as by this wicked presumption Oh yee fooles when will ye vnderstand He that formed the eye shall he not see Hee that teacheth man knowledge shall not he vnderstand The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanitie A rod for the backe of fooles yea a rod of iron for such presumptuous fooles to crush them in peeces like a Potters vessell Ye haue seene the fashion and the subiect of this deceit the sequell or effect followes euery way lamentable For hence it comes to passe that many a one hath had his heart in keeping fortie fiftie threescore yeeres and more and yet is not acquainted with it and all because this craft hath kept it at the Priscillianists locke Tu omnes te nemo It affects to be a searcher of all men no man is allowed to come aboard of it And if a man whether out of curiositie or conscience bee desirous to inquire into it as it is a shame for a man to be a stranger at home Know ye not your owne hearts saith the Apostle it casts it selfe Proteus-like into so many formes that it is very hard to apprehend it One while the man hath no heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Salomon Then hee hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an heart and an heart saith Dauid and one of his hearts contradicts another and then how knowes he whether to beleeue And what certainty what safety can it be for a man to liue vnacquainted with himselfe O● this vnacquaintance secondly arises a dangerous mes-prison of a mans selfe in the nature and quantity of his sinne in the quality of his repentance in his peace and intirenesse with God in his right to heauen and in a word in his whole spirituall estate Of this mes-prison thirdly arises a fearefull disappointment of all his hopes and a plunging into vnauoidable torments Wherein it is miserable to see how cunningly the traiterous hearts of many men beare them in