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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	soul_n	world_n	8,003	5	4.7352	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54460	A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties chappel at Windsor, on Trinity-Sunday, May 30. 1686 by the Reverend Father John Persall ...	Persall, John, 1633-1702.	1686 (1686)	Wing P1651; ESTC R11064	11,103	35

even in this Night of Mortality some Souls by the help of Divine Grace and Light of Faith arrive to so high a pitch of Divine Love that nothing here below neither Pleasure nor Torment can move them So S. Vincent in a Bed of Roses contemns the Allurements of Pleasures and S. Lawrence in a Bed of Flames upon a Gridiron the Cruelty of Tyranny How many have fled to the remotest Desarts How many have shut themselves up in Monasteries betwixt four Walls of a little Cell not to be diverted from the delicious Contemplation of their Great God Now all this Amability is common to all Three Persons with this difference that in the Father it is originally as in a Fountain receiv'd from no other Person in the Son it is receiv'd by communication from the Father in the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son Which very Communication is infinitely amiable had we Eyes to behold it The chief Property of the Father is to speak which he does not to the Ear but to the Heart and Eye of the Soul delivering his Great Word with so Divine a Grace that the most delicious Voice that ever was heard the most agreeable Garbo that ever a pure Creature spoke with is but a meer Stuttering and Stammering if compar'd to it But the chief Perfection of Speaking is taken from the Word spoken if that be clear expressive sincere and eloquent both it and he who speaks it become in a high degree amiable The Eternal Word represents its Object to your view infinitely clearer than that could represent it self tho' never so intimately present so expressive it is that being but One only Word it expresses all Truths all Creatures whether actual or but barely possible All the delicious Objects of our Senses whatever can be seen or heard all the Truths our Understanding is able to conceive all the Delights our Will can desire 't is most sincere and true expressing all just as 't is represented in the Divine Knowledge and as it is in it self 't is eloquent above expression exhibiting to our view all the Tropes and Figures all the Art and Skill of Speaking that is possible Now from the Eternal Father thus speaking and from the Eternal Word thus expressing must needs proceed an Infinitely Amiable Love What can be more amiable than Love it self Love I say a Divine and infinitely perfect Love of an infinitely beautiful God Quam bonus suavis est Domine Spiritus tuus How good how sweet is thy Divine Spirit How good diffusing it self by Grace and Charity in Pious Souls How sweet giving them even in this life anticipately a taste of those joys which will beatifie them for all Eternity in the next The perfection of Love is taken from the Lover the Beloved and the natural intenseness of the Love the nobler the Lover is also the more deserving the Beloved is the perfecter is the Love The Lover here are the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity the Beloved are the same three Persons meeting and embracing each other in the perfect Unity of one God The Father loves the Son the Son loves the Father the Father and the Son love the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost reciprocally loves the Father and the Son and moreover is the very Love whereby they Love each other all Infinite in all Perfections Dearly beloved Christians no Tongue or Pen can ever express the amability of the three Divine Persons it may perhaps by a Pious Soul in Prayer be felt and as it were tasted expressed in words it cannot be Do you desire to experience even in this life a feeling and taste of it Remember what the great Moses was bid to do when he approach'd the burning Bush Gen. c. 3. v. 3. Draw not nigh hither put off thy Shoes we must not approach to contemplate this great Mystery till we have cast off all the Dirt and Dust of terrene desires our Conversation must be no more on Earth but in Heaven Almighty God never regales sensual Souls with Spiritual Delights but such as neither find nor so much as seek after the vain Pastimes of this World This makes your Great Saints proclaim War against Flesh and Blood always annoying vexing and mortifying their Bodies because they experience that the more they withdraw themselves from Earth the more Almighty God permits them to tast of Heaven 't is a real truth though few will believe it that none lead a pleasanter life in this World than those who give themselves wholly to Almighty God for his Divine Majesty will never be overcome in Love The three Persons of the Blessed Trinity will love such a Soul come to it and regale it according to our Saviours Promise St. John c. 14. v. 23. If any Man love me he will keep my Words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him The Eternal Father will perfect that Image he created to his likeness the Son will illuminate it with the Rays of new Supernatural Lights the Holy Ghost will sweetly inflame it with Divine Love But remember the Condition we must keep his Commandments and in order to this let us look upon the Sacred Trinity as a Pattern to square our Actions by which is my third Point You will perhaps wonder how so profound and incomprehensible a Mystery can ever serve us as a Pattern for our poor and weak Actions Is it possible for a miserable Creature to imitate these ineffable Operations of the Divine Persons But remember that our Soul tho' now by Original Sin plung'd in Flesh and Blood is created to the perfect Image of her God God made Man to his own Image Gen. 1. v. 27. What wonder then if we endeavour to reform the Picture by comparing it with the Prototypon Besides do's not our Saviour himself assign the Perfection of his Eternal Father for a Pattern to frame ours by Be you perfect says he as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect Matth. c. 5. v. 48. Come then let us once more cast an eye towards this great Mystery and see whether we cannot find something for our Imitation We learn'd to Believe in the First Part to Love in the Second let us learn to rectifie our exteriour Actions in the Third The first thing which occurs for our Imitation is the Unity of all Three Persons in One Substance We cannot Identifie our Natures really distinct but we may unite them by Charity and Love Hence Christ just before his Passion prays to his Eternal Father in S. John c. 17. v. 20 21. not only for his Apostles but for all that were to believe by their Word That they might be One as His Father in him and he in his Father are One We must remember we are all Members of the same Body under the same Head Christ and consequently each one is to be in one another so as to make his Interest our own we ought to condole as