Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	heart_n	sorrow_n	tear_n	3,398	5	8.0837	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05052	Manassehs miraculous metamorphosis representing to euery sinne-loaden (if sinne-loathing) soule, 1 A conduit of consolation. 2 A comfort against desperation. 3 A con[du]ct to deuotion. A sermon preached before the thrice-famous Vniuersity of Cambridge, at Great Saint Maries, Septemb. 10. Anno Dom. 1620. By George Langford, Master of Arts, preacher of Gods Word, and chaplaine to the right honourable Thomas earle of Exceter.	Langford, George.	1621 (1621)	STC 15193A; ESTC S106794	32,330	42

Rusticum Monachum Abailardus Omnes Patres sic at ego non sic the tyde of opinion seemes to glide that way but wee affect to striue against the streame and extreamely to crosse the current of Antiquitie As these are thus troubled with a swelling spleene so our Enemies at Rome are much molested with an ouerflowing gall These Catilines thinke our case desperate that there is no Roome for vs no mansions in our Fathers house Hence is it that their great Cham the Pope worshipt might hee be vpon the Euening before Good-friday in great solemnitie curseth vs all to hell whereas * In one of the praiers appointed in our Liturgy for Good-friday Ier. 8.22 we for recompence the next day pray for the conuersion and saluation of him and his as being Heretikes But is there no Balme at Gilead to recouer the health of the daughter of England What Scythian cruelty is this to deny that to Christians which they grant to meere Pagans Doth not their Leaden-Legend report fides sit penes Authorem beleeue it who list that the soules of a This former fable is to bee seen in the Reuelations of S. Bridgit A book allowed by the Pope And Alphonsus Cia●onus a Spanish Frier hath defended this opinion Traianus and b Damascen relates both these Legēds Damasc orat de defunct but hee concludes At nos definimus nihil tantum fraternitatis studio ratiocinamur Falconella were both of them rescued from hell transported into Abrahams bosome the one at the praiers of c Did God euer the like Pope Gregory the other of Tecla And may not much more flagitious sinners suppose wee were such become religious Conuerts But surely the Romish malignancy would extenuate our sicknesse would wee exenterate our Mother and change the ayre but alas the infection is there too grosse nor could it be any better then a furious phrensie to resort to that Romish Mountebancke hauing at home such approu'd Physitians And be it that they may boast of their Aër yet sure I am their fountaines are sealed vp The Nobles as d Ier. 14.3 Iuel Apolog. Ieremy complaines haue sent their seruants to the water who came to the welles but returned with their vessels empty which may more iustly constraine vs to remoue from Rome then the failing of the Conduits compelled the later Romanes to descend from the seauen hils and inhabite the Plaine Iohn 6.68 Our Church hath the words of eternall life whither then shall we goe It is the Arke of Noah the Vine of Salomon the Spouse of our Sauiour producing a fruitful progeny reducing many fruitlesse run-agates many renegates as here Manasses who being conuerted turnes vnto the Lord by prayer Hee prayed to the Lord his God And thus much of the Agent Hee Now followes the Action Prayed Hitherto you haue seene Manasses not with Lots wife 2. The Action Gen. 19.26 trāsform'd into a pillar of Salt but with the Poets * Amphion● wife Niobe into a weeping and waimenting stone now shall you see him with an humble and lowly heart raising his ruined soule deprest with sinne deprostrate for sinne lifting vp his bleared eyes streaming with teares swelling for sorrow you shall see him roose vp the one and raise vp the other from the centre of the circled earth beyond the circumference of the heauens Behold therefore this penitent Publican on bended knees with a broken heart behold his hands beating and thumping his flinty and obdurate brest looke well vpon this huge Whale as one stiles that Whipster Dr. Worship Luk. 7. behold in him a modest boldnesse and bold modestie an acting passion and a passionate action looke into the grates of the Prison and you shall find him praying euen him who had tired himselfe in pursuing vanity and attired himselfe not with Tertullians Christian-like cloake Tert. lib. de pall Rom. 13.14 Reu. 6.11 Gen. 37.31 Saint Pauls wedding Garment or Saint Iohns White robes but with Iosephs Parti-coloured coate besmear'd with blood euen him shall ye find retiring to God by praire with cheeks impearl'd with teares with hands wringing for sorrow with an heart rieuing with sighs with a breast breaking with sobs for hee hee it is that prayed He tooke vnto him words as the Lord exhorted Israel by Hosea Hos 14.3 Isa 38.14 hee turned to his God with his father Hezekiah he chattered like a Crane he mourned like a Doue and fixing his eyes vpon Heauen that Starre-spangled Canopy hee poured out a torrent of melodious Harmony I list not here largely to dilate vpon the definition or description of praire whether it bee an eleuation of the mind to God as one whether it be a communication of man with God as Caluin whether it be either of these or both these Caluin Instit Nor need I macerate my selfe about the distribution of praire blessed Saint Paul hath exquisitely and excellently expressed the kinds thereof 1 Tim 2.1 Tim. 1.2 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 First there bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 deprecations against euils to bee auoided 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secondly there be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 petitions for good things to be obtained 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thirdly there bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Intercessions for others to whom we are obliged 4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fourthly there be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thanksgiuings for the auoiding of euils the obtaining of benefits by our selues or others I dwell not in these but post on to this proposition extracted from the propounded patterne of this our Manasses namely That it is the constant practise of euery penitent conuert to poure out his prayers to prefer his Petitions to send vp his suites and supplications to his God Let Ananias seeke in the house of Iudas after Saul of Tarsus Acts 9.11 and behold hee shall finde him praying Act. 9. Heare you not the Pythagoricall harmony of reuerting Israel sounding so shrilly their De profundis Psal 130.1 Out of the depths haue I cried vnto thee O Lord Psal 130. And surely August in Psa 130. valdè in profundo sunt qui nec clamant de profundo as saith Saint Austin Those are stifeled in the depths who cry not out of the depths A Tennis-ball percussus surgit the harder you strike it the higher it rebounds The Lords obedient children the harshlier they be intreated the heartilier they intreat and sue for pardon Ier. 29.12 stiffe necked Israel being humbled by the yoke of Babel Shall goe and cry and pray vnto their God Ier. 29. Therefore shall euery one that is godly make his prayer vnto thee O God Psal 32.6 surely in the flouds of great waters then euen then shall they come neare thee Ier. 9.1 But oh that my head was full of water and mine eyes two fountaines of teares that I might weepe day and night for the neglect for the contempt of this duty