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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	city_n	great_a	house_n	2,802	5	5.4702	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44414	A sermon preach'd before my lord major at Guild-Hall Chappel on the 30th of Octob., 1681 by George Hooper ...	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2705; ESTC R4457	20,330	39

are become like Gods and we shall live for ever We have a Heaven in our Breasts we make the Sphere of our Conversation so to all about us We are only less happy now then we shall be hereafter but in a Felicity begun already of the same kind For let us suppose that God would appear bountiful to some Fortunate man here below What Present should we expect from Heaven Power or Honour or Riches they are not necessary Causes of a happy Life are not inconsistent with Trouble and Vexation They are what the World Chance or the Devil may bestow But a gift fit for a God to give what can it be but himself what can it be But to bless our sight with Moses his view Exod. 33.19 a Display of all his Excellencies to Proclaim himself and cause his Glory to pass before us To proclaim our style too to call us his Friends and adopt us for his Sons to publish our Pardon aloud from Heaven and declare his Love before all the Creation to discover too to us as to St. Paul his future Glories and to open his third Heaven to our view and our Expectations and Lastly till he shall take us up thither to come down himself to come unto us and make his abode with us to bring his Heaven here In what trouble now shall that Breast be that is secur'd of the affection of a God and what other thing will he desire that Loves him His present Fruition is greater then any thing but his Hopes And of those too he is as well assured as of what he now enjoys His Peace no man can take from him his Joy must be perfectly Compleat and his Satisfaction infinite This inward Joy when it fills and overflows the Heart how will it Cheer and enliven the Countenance What an agreeable Lustre and divine Brightness will it cast Then will the Face of man look indeed like the Image of God and discover by the Glory who it is that dwells within This Love burning inward when it sends forth its Light and its Heat and shines out on others in Kindness Long-suffering Gentleness and Goodness must too engage and warm their mutual Affections Nothing can appear so Attractive nothing so Lovely The Temple of Salomon in all its Beauty overlay'd with Gold within and without and fill'd with the Glory of the Lord was not so glorious as one of these Houses under the second Dispensation as one of these Temples of the Holy Ghost You have the Pourtraiture of this in the Description of St. Stephen He was full of the Holy Ghost and all that sat in the Council looking stedfastly upon him Act. 6.15 saw his Face as it had been the Face of an Angel These Graces if Vouch-safe'd to any Family would recommend it in the Eyes of a discerning Heathen to be more happy then Plenty Authority or Greatness of Blood could make them The Gentleness Goodness and Meekness of the Master the Fidelity and Affectionate concern of the Inferior relations Temperance in all their Lives and Joy in all their Faces the Peace of man and of God the Correspondence betwixt themselves and the Intercourse of Love betwixt them and Heaven all this must make the admiring Spectator take up Jacob's saying Gen. 28.17 Surely the Lord is in this Place this is no other but the House of God and this the Gate of Heaven And were there but a City compos'd of such Families this yet would be but one Family and like that now described the Spirit of God dwelling in it and his holy Protection watching over it Peace within its Walls and Plenteousness within its Palaces All the Inhabitants nearer in their Persons then their Dwellings the City esteem'd not from the beauty proportion or order of the Buildings but from the symmetry the Harmony of the Inhabitants Such an Union as this is to make the true Neighbourhood and the Happiest Commerce So compacted it would have a surer strength then from Walls and Bulwarks This would make it the Fairest the strongest the best order'd the Richest City of the World It would be like the Great City the Holy Jerusalem descending from God out of Heaven at each Gate an Angel its building of precious stones For all Policies and Ordinances of the best constituted Cities are but faint imitations of the Graces of the Spirit are set up to procure the Shadow of Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness c. Joyning of Houses designs uniting of Minds a Corporation speaks it self to be one body Companies and fraternities are appointed for nearer associations to make yet a firmer tye then what results only from common interest There are seasons of Cheerfulness and days of Joy Civility thence call'd and there learnt affected Gentleness and customary complaisance artificial Goodness and Pretended Love There is the profession of faithful dealing Order and Obedience are own'd and Intemperance as well as other Filth remov'd out of sight and from the observation of these rules and the benefit of Peace and security arises Wealth and Plenty As on the contrary when the manners of men are distant from any likeness of these Graces when Hatred Discontent Variance Spite Insolence even in subjects Faithlessness Fraud and Luxury come together and take place a City then is only an Association of Evils and the Nuisance as great as the advantage that was intended As Neighbouring houses at other times a common strength are found too nigh in a Fire and Company the Comfort and convenience of mankind is dangerous in time of Infection and it is their Wisdom then to live at distance If intemperance prevails in the Town It is no better then a common receptacle of Impurity if Fraud and Perjury it is but as a Den of Thieves If Malice Revenge and Mutiny it is as a place of Battle If ye bite and devour one another take heed says the Apostle in this Chapter to the Galatians that ye be not Consumed one of another Neither is it needful to shew how Dammageable these Vices are to Commerce and how impossible it is to manage it in that Company We may only observe that Tumultuousness and Sedition are as great Enemies to Trade as they are to Government while they are growing they disturb and hinder it as hereafter when they are form'd into a War they will plunder its Effects Parties and Animosities take off mens Minds from the Business of their Imployment and Faction grows up to be a Trade Men are Apprentices to other Mysteries and set up for Politicians and then no wonder if our Commerce flourishes not if Honesty and Lawful Industry Riches and Plenty go seek out other Dwellings After a great and general Judgement of God the Children of men went to make Bricks to build a City Gen. 11. and a Tower that should reach to Heaven But when by another just Judgement from the same righteous Hand they begun to vary and spake not the same Language they were