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
A70084	Truth maintained, or, Positions delivered in a sermon at the Savoy since traduced for dangerous, now asserted for sovnd and safe / by Thomas Fvller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. Sermon of reformation.	1643 (1643)	Wing F2475; ESTC R222778	73,801	126

not to know the reasons of their opinions who though citing for it much Canonicall Scripture yet their interpretations thereof may be but Apocrypha Nor dare we receive it not being safe to be familiar with strangers at the first sight and this Tenent is strange as set commonly afoot with these few last yeares I am afraid rather on the contrary of a generall defection Seeing the word is so slighted and the guests begin to play with their meat I feare lest God the master of the feast will call for the Voyder that so when Christ comes to judgement he shall finde no faith on the earth But of things to come little and doubtfully If this opinion of Christs corporall comming very shortly be true I hope if we live we shall have our share therein if otherwise Moses hath no cause to complaine if dying he commeth not into the earthly Canaan but into the Heavenly Meane time whilest we expect the personall comming of Christ let us pray for the peaceable comming back of him who sometimes is called Christ in the Scripture the Lords Annointed O the miserable condition of our Land at this time God hath shewed the whole World that England hath enough in it selfe to make it selfe happy or unhappy as it useth or abuseth it Her homebred wares enough to maintain her and her homebred warres enough to destroy her though no forreigne Nation contribute to her Overthrow Well whilest others fight for Peace let us pray for Peace for Peace on good termes yea on Gods termes and in GODs time when he shall be pleased to give it and we fitted to receive it Let us wish both King and Parliament so well as to wish neither of them better but both of them best Even a happy Accommodation Only this I will adde that his Majesty in making his Medals hath tooke the right course to propagate his promises and most royall intentions to posterity and raise it to behold the performance thereof Seeing Princes memories have beene perpetuated by their Coines when all other Monuments Arches Obelisks Piramids Theaters Trophies and Triumphs have yeelded to Time and been quite forgotten Yea t is probable that the names of some short reigning Emperours had been quite lost if not found in their Impresses on their Monies Coynes having this peculiar priviledge to themselves that after they had beene buried many yeares in the ground when taken up againe they have life enough to speake the names of those Princes that caused them and their Impressions to be stamped either to their eternall shame or lasting honour To conclude let us all provide for that perfect Reformation in the world to come when Christ shall present the Church his Spouse to God his Father Without spot comming from mans corruption or wrincle caused by times continuance When we shall have a new Heaven and a new Earth wherein shall dwell Righteousnesse With judgements reformed from error wils reformed from wilfulnesse affections reformed from mistaking their object or exceeding their measure all powers and parts of soule and body reformed from sinne to sanctity Let us wait all the dayes of our appointed time till our change come Untill this time of Reformation Amen FINIS TRUTH Maintained EXAMINER The A Policy of the Sermon of Reformation THE Scope of the Sermon is Reformation but it so B moderates so modificates and conditionates the Persons and Time and Businesse that Reformation can advance C little in this way or Method As our Astronomers who draw so many Lines and imaginary Circles in the Heavens that they put the Sunne into an heavenly Labyrinth and learned D perplexity such is the Zodiack E you would make for the light of the Gospell and the Sunne of Reformation to move in It was one of the Policyes of the Jewas F Adversaries that when they heard of their Buildings they would build with them They said let us build with you for we seeke your God as you doe But the People of God would have no such Helpers there is no such G Jesuiticall way to hinder our worke as to work with us and under such Insinnations set the Builders at variance when they should fall to labour And how easie is it to reason Flesh and Blood back from a good way and good Resolutions I remember the old H Prophet had soon perswaded even the man of God to returne when he told him I am a Prophet as thou art Treatise A. The Policy of the Sermon Such carnall Policy wherein the subtilty of the Serpent stings the simplicity of the Dove to death I utterly disclaim in my Sermon Christian Policy is necessary as in our Practice so in our Preaching for Piety is alwayes to goe before it but never to goe without it B. But it so moderates and modificates The most Civill Actions will turne wild if not warily moderated But if my Sermon clogges Reformation with false or needlesse Qualifications till the strength of the matter leakes out at them my guilt is great I am confident of my Innocence let the Evidence be produced and the Reader judge C. That Reformation can advance but little in this way Know that Zoar a little one that is lasting is better then a great Babel of Confusion That Reformation which begins slowly and surely will proceed cheerfully and comfortably and continue constantly and durably Builders are content to have their Foundations creepe that so their Superstructures may runne let us make our Ground-worke good and no more hast then good speed D. They put the Sunne into an heavenly Labyrinth and learned perplexity with their imaginary Lines This your strong line more perplexeth me to understand it Onely this I know that you might have instanced more properly in any other Planet which is more loaden with Cycles and Epicycles whilst the Sunne hath found from Astronomers this favour and freedome to be left to the simplest Motion E. Such a Zodiack you would make for the light of the Gospell were I to spread out the Zodiack of the Gospell it should stretch from Pole to Pole and be adequate to the Heavens There should be no more Pagans in the World then there were Smiths at one time in Israel not that I would have any kild but all converted yea the Sunne of Reformation should not have so much darknesse as a shadow to follow it To effect this my wishes are as strong as my power is weake I will God willing pray and preach for it and therefore doe not slander me to be an Hinderer of the Word F. G. H. Of the Jewes adversaries Jesuiticall way The old Prophet What you say is as true in the History as false in the Application to me You compare me to the Ammonites Adversaries to Gods people to Jesuits to the old lying Prophet I hope the God of Michael the Arch-Angell will give me patience when he that disputed with him shall furnish others railing And now torture me no longer with your Accusation come to the