Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	earth_n	great_a	8,291	5	3.1263	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11261	An hundred heauenly thoughts And resolutions, tending to draw the minde from euill to good. Written by W. S. preacher of Gods worde in S. Iohns of Mathermarket in Norwich.	Stinnet, William.	1616 (1616)	STC 21527; ESTC S112134	22,139	174

to them wee then take liberty to loose the raines to our senses delights and our reason now seruile to passion accepts no satisfaction without inioying But O how oft haue I beene taught that poysoned drinke may be in a golden cup. When I see then a woman of beauty I le watch if I can spy any vertue If I descry none I le not care a straw for her company 89 A Blessed man he is that hath such qualities as he is beloued in all good companies whose society draws to godlines but cursed are those whose foule courses cary men to wickednes To which not onely nature bends them but the base bringing vp they receiue at their Parents hands confirmes them But if hee that sets a a traueller out of his way commits villany so these drawing out of the way of heauen shall smart for such iniquity 90 THe children of God me thinkes are full of beauty I finde in them most louely sweetnesse Lambes they bee and therefore gentle Doues they bee and therefore simple The wicked mee thinkes are full of deformity I finde in them most loathsome bitternesse Dogges they bee and therefore currish Swine they bee and therefore swinish Oh then I will much and greatly delight in the blessed Saints and detest the cursed doers For the Lamb and the Doue are two pretty Creatures but the Dogge and the Hogge are sullen beasts 91 THe dainty varieties of pleasing delights that be among the wicked draw mens minds with easie consent to vanitie sometimes short and suddaine delights sometimes long and pleasant deuises are offered but all be higher points staires to sin oh that man knew the great growing of the stinking weed of sin virtue growes not without exquisite labour sin alone willingly vertue springs after a long season sinne quickly in a short space gets vp yea sin though but a sparke sets all on fire presently I purpose then that mine eies shal be watchfull and my heart resolute that not the least weed of sin shall grow in me for I see of a little kernell growes a great tree of a little spawne a great fish 92 THe outward duties of Gods seruice I see haue long holily beene obserued by many but the inward and hearty duties I feare mee of a few Call vpon our formalists to practise some noble deeds of vertue heereto you shall find them smally enclyned But did they serue GOD aright their minds so well trained and long exercised in vertue would giue some rare demonstration of it As for me I euer wil conceiue To goe to Church for fashion is an abuse of Religion and to pray without deuotion is breath to no purpose 93 SVch heaps of sorrows accompany this life as require a vertuous resolutiō of mind to passe them ouer sometimes heauines of heart assailes vs strange stories scarre vs dangerous sicknesse afflicts vs and wee cannot be quiet but long to be in our delightfull country and heauenly dwelling Hence this hath bene my resolute thought He that will hould out the yeare must bide the winter and summer and he that will goe to Heauen must indure the miseries of this world 94 IF wee could behold an armed man of an extreame and vnresistable force whose violence a thousand thousand could not withstand it would breed in vs some maruailous contemplations but greater extreamer force and violence wee know in sin yet we are no whit amazed at it Angells in heauen men on earth are weake to conquer sin But thankes be to Christ that hath gotten victory But since sins force is so violen● I le rufully eye him but not come nigh him A sword hath a sharp point and a Cannon a great force but let them alone and they will doe no harme 95 SVch is the foule basenesse of Man as the very beasts out stripe him yea and in many things doe teach him Some hypocrites there be artificially smoothing vp and smothering sinne which haue not art enough to learne to auoid it although the dumb creatures instruct them Haue I not seene a dog reioyce at the sight of his Master when his vnchast Mistris will frowne at his comming home Oh fact full of wretchednesse fuller of disgrace and fullest of guiltinesse Oh Lord keepe mee that my affections be not drunken with such beastly sinnes and that I may not be gouerned by them 96 VVIth vnspeakeable griefe I haue thought on the abominable wrongs offred by cruell men to GODS poore Saints that should haue greatest kindnesse Poore hearts by lofty spirits are broken with vnkindnesse and affliction Yet comfort comes from aboue which cheeres their vitall spirrits But oh how these throughly wound their consciences and will God suffer these wrongs Oh no but he will shake the seat of these secure Tyrants Me thinkes they are worse then souldiers stabd at heart For hee that is wounded at hart hath made an end of his daies but hee that hath a wound in his soule knowes not when to end his sorrow 97 SVch as were neerely acquainted with sinne and haue discarded it know the poysonful disposition of it it spreads it selfe as dead poyson in a cup and like a plague infects the soundest persons vertue is not so spreading not so speedie in conueying I maruaile not then why so many be bad and so few good It is because truth hath much a doe to be beleeued but a lie runnes farre before it be stayed 98 O Full often hath my breast swollen with eager desire of heauen for when I beheld the earth mine eyes being my diligent intelligencers carryes me to much comfortablenesse In this world weepings and mournings changings and turnings vanity and folly euery where abounds and he that is in highest estate euen as a poore wretch with languishing steps runs fast to his graue But in heauen are all incomparable excellencies and vneffable dignities Oh sweet and noble place to bee in I le be more glad then Children be of sweet meat to go to such a country and to dwell in this neuer enough praised City The vigor of mens wit that can shew it selfe in any subiect must here be blunted they cannot speake enough of this euer-noble City if they compare it with the country they shewe therein most rude simplicity if with the Court Alasse a Rich Court is a goodly sight but he that lookes vp to Heauen will not care for the world 99 WHo so when they see good can loue it and affect it I count such persons my principal friends whose acquaintance I would not superficially entertaine for sure there is no ioy in our life if we inioy not such companions with such I learne holy helpes to heauen and happy resolutions with such I am instructed to conquer passions but he that flies from good and scoffes at God I count him already with the Diuell And though hee walke in the world yet he hath a hell in his conscience This shal be then mine earnest intreaty vnto God that such good and worthy friends which bee this worlds comfort may not bee drawne away from me by my bad desert 100 MEn haue in vse a two-fould Glasse One most for the proud Man the other for the Wise The proud man whiles hee lookes in his Glasse waxes the prouder The humble whiles on his he waxes the wiser O Lord grant while the proud Mans Looking-Glasse makes him the prouder my Houre-Glasse may make me wise to remember my ende FINIS