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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	full_a	lord_n	psal_n	2,435	5	7.5110	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73009	Tvvo sermons delivered at St. Peters in Exeter. By Rychard Pecke, Master of Arts, and minister of Gods word, at Columpton in Devon; Two sermons delivered at St. Peters in Exeter	Pecke, Richard.	1632 (1632)	STC 19522.5; ESTC S104988	46,565	83

acknowledgment of our wretched condition wee can impartially accuse arraigne and condemne our selues for the very least of our sinnes as guilty of being damn'd for euer If thirdly vpon this sense and full acknowledgement our hearts within being prickt can sigh with bitternesse can melt with sorrow can cry for griefe of heart and mourne greatly If fourthly vpon all this our hearts becomming sensible both of the need and sweetnesse of Gods mercy 1 Sam. 7. 2. with the Israelites can lament after the Lord and with Dauids heare can bray and pant after the water-brookes Psal 42. 1. of his refreshing mercy in the blood of Christ If fistly as in the old creation the Firmament diuided the waters from the waters So if in this beginning Gen. 1. 6. of new creation this sorrow for our sinnes and thirst of pardon can make such diuisions in our resolutions within and carriages without that wee can truly say of our selues as the yong man in the story of himselfe to an inticing harlot Ego non sum ego Both hearts and liues are chang'd and altered Here 's the Art and method of rending mortifying crucisying humbling circumcising and fallowing of our hearts or of dealing with them as Plowmen with their ground in fallowing So that as in regard of Euangelicall grace to bee now sowne wee had need bee Seeds-men in regard of the crop of future glory wee desire to be Haruest men so in regard of our barren hearts to bee here broken vp wee must turne Plowmen You looke for reason 1 Why are we not seruants at our Lord and Masters Reas 1. beck subiects and vassals at our Kings command T is hee commands vs to put our hands to Plow Thus saith the Lord of bosts to the men of Iuda Ier 4. 3. and Ierusalem Break vp your fallow ground and sow not among thornes and shall wee not resolue obedience The Centurion you know sayes to his seruant Mat. 8. 9. but goe and hee goeth to another but come and he commeth to another doc this and hee doth it and should wee like vntamed Heyfers draw back from the yoke nay when he that made vs bids vs when he that bought vs with the inualuable price of his owne blood commands vs But if the Lords command be no sufficient tie 2 Let our owne necessity bee a second reason to Reas 2. cuince the duty And here doc yee but thinke with me on these three specialties 1 The naturall indisposition of our hearts vnto any fruitfulnesse in weldoing without this plowing 2 Our losse of labour in sowing vpon neglect of plowing 3 Our hopelesnesse of haruest in case we plow not and thence iudge our necessity of becomming Plowmen 1 The naturail indisposition of our hearts vnto Branch 1 any fruitfulnesse in weldoing I appeale to the cleanest heart of the dearest of all Gods Saints if out of its abundant selfe-experience it will not say with the Leper Leu. 13. 45. vncleane vncleane if out of its truest sense of its owne secret inherent filth and rottennesse it will not proclayme it selfe vnapt vtterly for the least crop or handfull of sauing goodnesse You know what the Prophet sayes of it The heart is deceitfull aboue all Ier. 17. 9. things yea and desperately wicked You know what the Lord obseru'd it to be Only euill and that continually Gen. 6. 5. Which howeuer in its primitiue purity faire as the Moone fruitfull as Lebanon as a valley spread forth as a garden by the riuers side as a tree which the Lord hath planted like Nebuchadnezzars tree whole leaues were faire and the Num. 24 6. Dan 4. 12. fruit thereof much Yet now since Adams fall both Scripture and wofull experience can too truly tell vs that nought but the nettles of reuenge impatience wrath nought but the docks of pride lust hypocrisie nought but the thornes of couetousnesse worldlimindednesse and the like are the naturall burthens this ground now beareth nay suppose that restrayning enforcement that ciuill culture or education yeeldeth yet what can all this perhaps nip the tops of these weeds a little but that their stalks or at least their roots that they without this initiall worke of Gods spirit should be pluckt vp or quell'd and kill'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I say it cannot be Had wee not neede become Plowment then and plow and breakvp our hearts But here 's not all 2 The losse of labour in sowing the seed of the Branch 2. Gospell vpon our hearts while they lie vnfallowed and not broken vp see that next And here consider will not the weeds and briars of vumortified lusts in our vnbroken hearts so choak the seed that it will not comevp so suck and draw away the moysture of holy thoughts motions eiaculations prayer that it will not nourish the roots so keepe off the Sunne-beames and showers of all sensible influence of spirituall comforts that they will not cherish the blades so clip and cling about the stems of outward performances that they will not sauingly either spring or spread At least will not the vnsauory and stinking weeds of our corruptions by this meanes suffered multiply grow bigger and stronger till the whole field of our hearts ouerrun here with become nought but a receptacle for snakes a possession for the Cormorant and Bitterne an habitation for Dragons and a couert for Owles Vndoubtedly that field that 's Isa 34. 13. cloy'd with these inconueniences whateuer seed the Husbandman bestowes thereon will bring in but poore profit at the yeeres end Is there no need of plowing then and breaking this field vp 3 Adde lastly our hopelesnesse of any haruest else Branch 3. Beloued did euer any reape where no ground was till'd doth God exalt where none are humbled raise where none deiected or crowne where none hath suffered So neither is the haruest of true ioy and peace either inchoate here or consummate heareafter to be expected in our naturall and carnall hearts not first till'd and broken vp The haruest of spirituall ioy growes not but out of the seed of teares and this seede takes root kindely no where but in the Psal 126. 5. ground of sorrow for sinne Therefore he that would Ver. 6. bring his sheaues in his bosome with him must first goe on this way weeping Hee that would haue his heart bound vp in the bundle of life must haue it first thus broken Hee that would earne a rich and euerlasting liuing indeed must ply this calling and he that would shout as with the ioy of haruest must set about this plowing Was it not thus in the conuert Iaylour Acts 16. 34. he ioyes you know as in the day of haruest but the plow had first been in his heart Sirs what shall I Ver. 30. doe to be saued So the conuert Iewes Act. 2. 47. A plentifull crop t is like they reapt of spirituall gladnesse But Saint Peters plow had first