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	whole_a	2,731	5	5.0951	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58146	Blessedness, or, God and the world weighted in the balances of the sanctuary and the world found too light preached in a sermon at Paule, before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, Aldermen, and commonalty of the city of London, on a thanksgiving-day, for the prosperity of our navy in a conflict with the Spaniard, October 17, 1656 / by Francis Raworth ...	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing R372; ESTC R18645	28,408	72

come to the Application of the Proposition and treat with your Consciences in these following Deductions or Conclusions First Conclusion from hence is a Vindication of that true Opinion that Gods people have of the false happiness of the World Wicked men are infiliciter felices unhappily happy you feliciter infelices miserable in your Imagination but happy really and indeed You rightly and righteously determine that a man may have a gay coat and a festered Conscience a great Estate in his hands but little or no true comfort in his heart that though Riches have not so much as the wings of a Sparrow in flying to us yet they when gotten make to themselves wings and that of an Eagle to flie away from us That worldly delights are but as a Snow-ball which being with much pains heaped up together melteth presently if the Sun do but shine out That restless man in wrestling and contending for what he desires is but like a childe running up and down in a pleasant Meadow after a painted Butterfly which when he hath taken all the recompence it affords is but onely to besmear his fingers You speak truly and soundly when you say That a dram of Grace is worth a pound of Gold that all the contents and Creatures in the earth are but meer Ciphers unless God be purposed to set on the first Figure That while a Diadem sitteth light on a Princes head it may for all that lie heavy enough on his conscience That there is no indivisible connexion between a Kingdom on Earth and a Crown in Heaven That a man may possibly swim in a Sea of Pleasures in this World and yet sink into an Ocean of wrath and Brimstone in the next That a man may be so honorable so rich so glorious while he lives that every man may be ready to say There goes an happy man yet that man when he dies for want of a configuration to Christ and title to God may be miserable to all Eternity Could men carry their estates beyond the Line of Mortality and with their money ●ee the Angels at last day to plead for them to prevent the Sentence of the Judge of Heaven and Earth or after that Sentence is pronounced bribe the flames of Hell-fire to be pitiful towards and not to prey on or torment them this were something for worldly happiness but when we see that there is no advantage though a man gain the whole world if yet he lose his own soul that all these sublunary felicities are consistent with Gods eternal indignation that these things neither singly nor joyntly can so much as asswage grief put off cares much less adjourn death or prevent Hell where there is no remission of sin no intermission of punishment where the pangs of the damned are not onely for the present intolerable but for the future interminable Who would not pray with a gracious heart Lord let me be rather miserable for a time as the world speaks that I may be happy for ever then that I should be happy for a season onely and after that miserable for ever Lord though I desire to be of the number of those Christians that have their hope and expectation in this world yet deliver me from those worldlings whose entire portion is in this world is this world Psal 17.14 Now we are ready to call the proud happy to lift up them high in our thoughts that are lifted up in the world but when Jesus Christ shall come to give to every man according to his works and in flaming fire to render vengeance to them that know him not on the one hand and on the other hand when he shall come to make up his Jewels that now are despised and to repair their reproaches before God in the sight and audience of men and Angels that now are triumphed over and trampled upon by men Who would deem himself happy at that day if he be not in their case whose God is the Lord The second Deduction Here we see as in a Looking-glass the false Opinion that worldly men have of true happiness or of the state of the godly How ready is a wicked man to compassionate the children of God Alas saith he To what purpose are these men so precise and exact It may be there may be a Judgement day it may be not and how miserable are they to provide for that which no man living ever saw while they neglect that which is obvious to their very senses Honors are certain riches are certain and while they expect their food they starve while they pretend after a Kingdom they go naked while they call God Father they want even the bread of children Whereas no man is miserable in another mans accompt but in his own You may possibly see a Joseph in Prison while Pharaoh keeps a Court a Job on a dung-hill while a Julian is on a Throne You may see them poor and reproached but did they ever tell you they were miserable and when they were without Estates and reputation that they wanted them to make them happy never say a childe of God is miserable till he say so of himself A wicked man may have Blessings and yet not be blessed and a childe of God may have curses still from men and yet not be cursed It s observed That men thus varyed their Opinion about happiness because they supposed the fruition of that whereof they were destitute would make them happy He that was poor said If I had but riches I should be happy and so riches came to be called happiness He that was in reproach said Oh! If I were but respected I should be happy and so respect and repute came to be called happiness He that was diseased said If I had my health I should be happy and so health came to be accompted an happiness The natural man is mistaken in his verdict the Saint saith I accompt all things loss and dung for Christ the natural man I accompt Christ loss and dung for any thing else in this life The Saint seeks for happiness in crosses Job 5.10 but the natural man or Philosopher will assoon seek for light in darkness heat in cold fire in water sweetness in gall and wormwood as for comfort in calamities Hence Christ reads a Lecture contrary to nature Not blessed are the merry but the mourners not the lofty but the weak not the Mammonist but the poor in spirit Matth. 5.3 Vos editis beatos esse pauperes Ergo ut tanto facilius f●atis beati omnia bona vobis adimimus Juliani scomma in Christianos factum Those eight Beatitudes are the eight Paradoxes of the world As Christ said He had bread to eat that his Disciples knew not of so the Disciples of Christ have an happiness to enjoy that the natural man knows not of The World should consider That a man can never properly be miserable till he lose that which made him happy You that call outward things