Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	soul_n	16,341	5	5.1635	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42258	Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.	Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.	1651 (1651)	Wing G2150A; ESTC R24265	68,241	186

Souldier knows not the goods of their friends from the goods of their enemies When the Citizens of Papia in Italy were at dissention by reason of the Faction between the Guelphs and the Gibellines the Gibellines procured a favourer of theirs called Facinas Cajus to assist them covenanting that hee should have the goods of Guelphes for his labour but he being once come into the City and prevailing he spared the goods of neither of them whereupon the Gibellines complained saying that their goods were also spoiled hee answered them that indeed they themselves were Gibellines and should bee safe but their goods were Guelphes and so belonged to the Souldiers And so it may fall out to them who have bin unfaithful to God Religion and their Country though they themselves may prove to be Catholikes yet their goods and places of preferment may be counted Hereticks Labour good both for body and soule The Heavens move and are pure the earth stands still and is full of dregs the industrious man hath no leisure to sinne the idle man hath neither leisure nor power to avoid sin Labour then is as wholsome for the soul as 't is profitable for the body Live-well and Dye-well are Twins Living and Dying well are Twins daughters of grace like Lea and Rachel and therefore as Jacob could not enjoy his Rachel till he had married Leah So all must first live well which is tedious and unpleasant before they can dye well which is beautifull and faire Thus the two Temples in Rome of Honour and Vertue were so contiguously built that no man could goe into the Temple of Honour before he went into the Temple of Vertue Apenance for Drunkennesse A Monke of Prague that had lived all his time in a Cloyster knowing little of the fashions of the world was at length appointed by his Superiour to receive Confessions which hee did of all such as came to him and he enjoyned penance according to the nature of the sins that were confest amongst the rest there came one which made confession that he was guilty of Drunkennesse The Fryar askt the Penitent what kind of sinne that was The man told him that it was drinking too much strong drink but the Fryar having no experience of it put off the mans penance to another time and in the interim he gate a good quantity of strong Liquor into his chamber where he so handled the matter that he stole himself drunk which he being but a novice that way made him very sick for a time when the man came to him again for his penance the Fryar enjoyned him to be drunk againe and so ever after he appointed all that confest drunkennesse no other penance but to be drunk againe supposing that to be drunk had punishment enough in it selfe The power of Preaching As the walls of Jerico fell downe by the Trumpets of the Priests so the strong holds of Satan are overthrowne by the Ministery of the Word A fit Embleme for over-curious women Mercury being to make a garment for the Moone could never fit her but either it would be too big or too little by reason she was alwayes increasing or decreasing This may be the Embleme of some women whose curiosity about their clothes can hardly be satisfied To speak well a hard lesson One comming to a Holy man desired him to learne him some good Lesson the good man bade him endeavour to speak well and when he had learned that to come to him againe and he would give him another Lesson The Holy man meeting afterward with his Scholler asked him if hee had learned his Lesson He answered no saying it was so difficult that he knew not when hee should learne it They that spend their estate in Luxury deserve no pitty It is reported of Alphonsus King of Arragon that when a Knight of his had consumed a great patrimony by lust and luxury and besides ran into debt and being to be cast into prison by his Creditors his friends petitioned the King for him The King answered that if he had spent so much money in the service of his Prince or for the good of his Country or in relieving his kindred I would have hearkned to you but seeing he hath spent so much upon his body 't is fit his body should smart for it So when we look up to God for mercy in our distresse and the comfort of the creatures have forsaken us he may justly answer If you had spent that abundance of the creature which I afforded you in my service or for the good of my people I would have heard you but now it is just you should be left in your distresse and that so much pleasure as you have had so much misery should follow according to Abrahams speech to the rich Glutton Luk. 16. 25. The Sermon is not done untill it be practised A Lady that was not her selfe at Church that day seeing her man come home askt him if Sermon were done He answered no Why then said she doe you come away He answered that though the Preacher had done speaking yet the Sermon was not done till the hearers had practised it Tyrants are Gods Rods which he casts into the fire when he hath done with them Caesar having bathed his sword in the blood of the Senate and his owne Countrey-men is after a while miserably murdered in the Senate by his owne friends Caessius and Brutus to shew unto Tyrants that the highest step of their greatnesse is tyed to a halter and that they are but the scourges and rods of the Almighty which he will cast into the fire as soon as he hath done with them Though Kings Crownes sit light upon their heads yet oftentimes they lye heavy upon their Consciences Philip the third of Spaine whose life was free from grosse evils professing that hee would rather lose all his Kingdomes then offend God willingly yet being in the Agony of death and considering more thorowly of his account he was to give to God feare struck into him and these words brake from him Oh would to God I had never reigned Oh that those yeares I have spent in my Kingdome I had lived a private life in the wildernesse Oh that I had lived a solitary life with God! how much more securely should I now have dyed how much more confidently should I have gone to the Throne of God what does all my glory profit me but that I have so much the more torment in my death Christians lives should answer Christs rules Ponormitan having read the 5 6 and 7. Chapters of Matthew and comparing the lives of people with those Rules of Christ said that either that was no Gospel or the people no Christians A triumphant Conquerour becomes a patient sufferer for Jesus Christ Trojane the Emperour had sent Eustochius one of his chiefe Captaines against the Barbarians who having vanquished them returned home The Emperour being very joyfull at this newes goes to meet him and brings him