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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	father_n	heaven_n	holy_a	10,196	5	5.1385	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03760	Christ's last sermon, or, The everlasting estate and condition of all men in the world to come. Exactly describing the everlasting, blessed, and happy condition of the children of God in glory for ever: with the everlasting, endlesse, and caseless [sic] condition of wicked men in the world to come forever. Set forth for the comfort of the godly, and for the terror of the ungodly. / By a godly, able and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, J.H.	Hart, John, D.D.	1664 (1664)	Wing H940B; ESTC R177841	23,456	47

the enjoyment ●nd embracements of your friends society whose ●●ve and favour is altogether inconstant and ●●angeable you may be taken from them or they from you in a moment O but your friends 〈◊〉 Heaven they are immortall and their love is ●●changeable they and you shall then and there ●●ve for ever and enjoy one another and rejoice ●●ne with another for ever but your dearest ●●iends on earth must die they must leave you ●●●t your joy in Heaven shall no man take from ●●u In Heaven there is God your Father and Christ your Head and Husband and Saviour there even in his humane nature wherein he ●●ffered death on the Crosse for you and your ●omforter God the holy Spirit is there yea ●●d all your friends How mightily do children ●●●ng to go home to their fathers house or a wife 〈◊〉 her husband so earnestly should our souls ●●sire to go to heaven our fathers house to Christ our head and husband where there is good pany only and that to all eternity And then lastly the Glory of Heaven is stant and permanent In Heaven all is safe sure all things continue there fixed and imm●able Heaven is an Inheritance settled upon Saints for ever and sealed unto them by broad Seal of Christs Blood I have shewed you in part what those ●●sions of glory are which the Saints shall e●●● hereafter I come now and I must be brief ●●ving a little touch on it already to show what those losses and crosses are which B●●vers may meet withall here below and first the losses which you may meet withall in 〈◊〉 world What are they poor trifles a 〈◊〉 pebble-stones as it were a little earthly t●●● sure it may be such as is not considerable S●●● little what those worldly enjoyments are wh●●● possibly thou mayest lose for Christs sake F●● thou losest nothing for Christ here but wh●● vanity and emptiness broken Cistrens that 〈◊〉 hold no water For as one saith well A w●●full of honours or pleasures cannot satisfie one 〈◊〉 with any solid comfort Thou mayest as soon 〈◊〉 thy Chest with Grace as thy heart with Go●● There is not that in the Creature which 〈◊〉 look for Experience tells us a man may at o●●● have a house full of Gold and yet a heart ful●●● sorrow They that enjoy the most of the world cannot say they have enough therefore the losse of it is not considerable not to be comparers with the gain of Heaven Seconly there is nothing thou losest for Heaven but what is the portion of the wicked Wo●dly comforts are wicked mens portions Yea and ●●●s all the portion that ever they shall have either here or hereafter Son remember saith Abraham to Dives being in hell that thou in thy life-time re●eivest thy good things They that have their Heaven in this world shall have nothing in Heaven in the world to come Thirdly thou canst ●ose nothing for Christ that can be profitable to ●hee All the outward good things of this life cannot sanctifie nor purchase one dram of saving Grace for thee They may prove share to ●hee or be occasions of sin to you or draw you from Christ as they did the Young-man in the Gospel but they will never drive you to Christ and commonly they that have most of Gold have ●east of Grace or rather no Grace at all And as they cannot sanctifie you so they cannot save you They can neither she●●er you from the judgements of God here of from the stroke of ●eath Neither can they preserve you from hell hereafter Rich Dives went to hell when poor Lozarus was carried unto Heaven Wordly things cannot purchase Heaven if the whole world would lend you their shoulders th●●● could not lift you up to Heaven Fourth there is nothing here below that is certain 〈◊〉 things under the Sun are mutable sublu●●● enjoyments more changeable then the Mo●●● inconstant even as the Winde certain on●● in uncertainties And as they are uncerta●●● so they are corruptible and perishing Ch●●● calls them meat that perisheth Joh. 6.27 〈◊〉 things which either moths or rust may consu●● or thieves may steal away from you or they 〈◊〉 be destroyed by fire which if you do posse●● while you live yet you must leave them beh●●● you when you die For as we brought noth●●● into the World so it is certain we shall carry 〈◊〉 thing out of the world 1 Tim. 6.7 Fifthly outward enjoyments are often v●● troublesome they bring many fears many ca●● much sorrow and vexation There is a car●● get and a care to keep riches as the Wise n●●● faith All is vanity so is it also vexation of ●●●rit Worldly comforts they are like Roses th●● have sharp prickles as well as sweet flowers man may have much bitternesse in his least 〈◊〉 comforts here therefore do not think much 〈◊〉 part with all things here below for Christ 〈◊〉 thou shalt be no loser by the bargain Thou sh●● receive an hundred fold more in this life and the world to come eternall life Mark 10.30 I come now in the next place in a word to ●ew you what these Crosses are which Believers do oftentimes undergo for the Kingdom of Heavens sake and they are very small and in●●siderable also in respect of the glory that follows The Apostles endured as much tribulations for the Kingdom of heavens sake as possibly ●●ould be yet what did they think of it We ●●ckon saith St. Paul that the afflictions of this ●se are not worthy to be compared with the gloly that shall be For first they are but light our light afflictions And as they are light so they are ●●or short they are but for a moment Our light affliction saith the Apostle which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and ●●ternall weight of glory Hence it is that the ●●ints of old were so joyfull in all their tribulations hence they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer for the name of Christ I shall come now to shew you how it is that ●ose Mansions of glory in Heaven will make ●ood all our losses and crosses upon earth and his appears further for these reasons For first 〈◊〉 you have heard already the glory of the glo●●fied Saint in heaven is infinite and durable ●nd therefore must needs exceed and make good 〈◊〉 their losses which as you have also heard are ●●te and uncertain We use to account more of ●ose things which are durable and lasting than those things which are of no certainty Secondly The only yea all the treasures the Saints are laid up in Heaven and what ne● any care for losing a few triffles so long as th● treasure is safe If a man lose a few triff●●● yet if he have a safe treasury to go to he 〈◊〉 soon make good so small a losse Beloved all t●●● things you do enjoy here are but triffles but t●●● things which you shall enjoy hereafter in h●●ven are no lesse then a treasure