Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bread_n	eat_v	life_n	12,959	5	6.6561	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14678	Alæ seraphicæ The seraphins vvings to raise us unto heauen. Deliuered in six sermons, partly at Saint Peters in Westminster, partly at S. Aldates in Oxford. 1623. By Iohn Wall Doctor in Diuinity, of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1627 (1627)	STC 24985; ESTC S119339	77,171	152

time yee should awake and returne with the Shunamite I would to God yee were as those Switzers who are ready to serue for the best pay If Satan bee able to giue more follow him If Satan be able to promise more follow him Quis fascinauit Who is it that hath bewitched you as the Apostle writeth to the Galatians had ye rather eate huskes and feede swine with the prodigall then haue bread enough and sit at table with the children Had yee rather lie in hell as sheepe that death may gnaw vpon you then raigne in heauen as Iudges that life may abide in you By how much it is better to sit in a throne and iudge the tribes of Israel then to stand at the barre and here the sentence of condemnation by so much is it more safe and comfortable to follow God then man Christ then Belial 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nazian Let vs flie the world and the Prince thereof but seeke Christ and sticke vnto his mercie the exhortation is enforced by that of Ambrose teneat clauus si reuocat infirmitas If the weaknesse of our flesh and the infirmitie of our nature draw vs from him let the remembrance of his death and the nayles of his crosse pin vs to him Who could make vs but hee who did saue vs but hee who but hee shall adorne vs with his grace and crowne vs with his glorie set vs in his presence where there is fulnesse of ioy and place vs at his right hand where there are pleasures for euermore how can yee neglect so great saluation how can ye leaue so great felicitie ye haue seene his starre in the East and hee that bringeth light out of darkenesse hath shined in your hearts to the light of knowledge in the face of Christ Iesus There is no excuse left but the stay of his promise and the expectation of his goodnesse that it is not yet but shall be hereafter in the second birth of the whole vniuerse which is the terme and point of this complement and perfection My last circumstance that knocks at the doore of your hearts and eares to keepe them open It is stored of a Romane that he neuer beheld the rubbish of old marble or lookt vpon the ruines of any ancient building but he wept and cryed Recordatione temporum meliorum ploro I grieue and lament to thinke of the dayes which are gone and past But wee are contrary and as he lookt backe with griefe and sorrow on that which is past so wee looke forward with ioy and comfort towards that which is to come the changing of our flesh the instauration of our nature the renewing of the world the transformation of the elements when the creature that trauels and groanes vnto this present shall bee deliuered from the bondage of corruption for then it is wee must enioy the right and seate of Iudicature and prehemmence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the regeneration Which some call the resurrection others call the redemption of our bodies when mortalitie shall bee swallowed vp of life and this corruptible shall put on incorruption For the first generation and birth of man is when hee comes into the world the second generation and birth of man is when hee is raised out of the world and taken into heauen Ad contemplandum lumen aeternitatis as Saint Gregorie speakes to contemplate the Lord and to behold eternitie and as there is a regeneration of the inward man after the image of God by grace and faith in the bloud of Christ and the lauour of Baptisme termed by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The lauour of regeneration where he is begot of the immortall seede and borne as it were anew of water and the spirit so must there be a regeneration of the outward man by the power of God Who shall change our vile bodies and make them like vnto his glorious body which extends to euery creature sublunarie as the elements coelestiall as the heauens Behold saith God I create a new earth and a new heauen Behold saith Iohn I see a new earth and a new heauen So that we may boldly cry with Peter Expectamus nouos coelos We looke for a new earth and a new heauen according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnesse For he shall change them and they shall be changed the earth shall be changed and cloathed with beautie the aire shall be changed and purged from obscuritie the fire shall be changed that is do not consume the water shall be changed that it do not putrifie the heauens shall be changed for they shall rest from motion and receiue a greater perfection of brightnesse and claritie the Sunne shall stand in the East and the Moone in the West where first they were created that wee may behold the faire beautie of the Lord and looke vpon his Sonne in a throne of glorie Sonne of God and yet Sonne of man for hee shall iudge as hee was iudged and returne in the same forme wherein he was despised that euery eye may see whom they pierst and be not affraid of him they crucified for the greatnesse of his power and the brightnesse of his presence Quid facturus saith that notable Moralist if his enemies went backe and fell to the ground when he came in weakenesse and humilitie to be iudged how shall they start and bee confounded when he comes in power and maiesty to iudge the world and to pronounce the sentence of condemnation against euery cursed malefactor Foelix trembled at the mention of it and these vnhappy Foelixes shall neuer be able to abide the sight of his glorious throne enuironed with a guard of heauenly souldiers At length wee see what our hope is and when it shall be reuealed not before the day of iudgement and the coming of our Sauiour Beware then lest yee bee ouer hastie to iudge before your time I speake onely of priuate censure vncharitable suspition malicious calumnie spightfull detraction which is not iudicium but praeiudicium not iudgement but preiudice Eagle-sighted in the faults of others and ready to sticke as flies in the sores and vlcers of their griefes and infirmities As for that golden pillar of publike iudicature The ground and basis of regular states and well ordered kingdomes it is strengthened in my text and ministerially with subordination deriued to such as are Apostolique For if wee shall iudge the tribes of Israel and the families of the earth nay the whole world together with the blessed Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how much rather smaller things and such as pertaine vnto life the argument is not humane but diuine drawne from the mouth and pen of that great Doctor and vessell of election in the sixt Chapter and the first Epistle to the Corinthians Where hee speakes inclusiuely and makes himselfe a Iudge as well of things temporall as of things eternall and let all such as hold the sonnes of Zadocke most vnworthy of all iusticiarie function

vs to a reckoning If we haue gained nothing wee shall loose all if wee haue bene carefull of a little wee shall be rulers ouer much and when that mysticall traueller that went a farre off shall returne home he will not onely gratulate our pietie with an Euge bone serue well done good seruant but reward our fidelitie with an intraui gaudium Domini tui Enter into thy masters ioy These words are a gracious inuitation of our Sauiour Christ to the quiet fruition of peace and rest Whereof I may say as King Solomon did of his Spouses tongue Lac mel sub lingua tua Milke and honie are vnder thy roofe milke and hony are vnder their couer the milke of diuine truth and spirituall comfort the hony of liquid pleasure and most incomparable sweetnesse streaming and deriued vpon the heires of righteousnesse that it may be true which Dauid long since prophesied Exultabunt sancti in gloria the Saints shall reioyce with glorie and sing vpon their beds the beds of peace and holinesse the beds of securitie and blessednesse in the mount of God and Citie of Ierusalem If you please to marke the cells as it were of this waxen combe from whence the hony drops yee shall find they are but three First the right and power of the admission they are authorized by God to make their entry and therefore saith the text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Enter Secondly the nature and qualitie of their possession it is ioy and felicitie and therefore saith the text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Enter into ioy Last of all the benefit and priuiledge of their seruice and relation they are ioyned with their master and made partners with our Sauiour and therefore saith the text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Enter into thy masters ioy In that we haue leaue to enter I note that priuate secresie of that heauenly kingdome In that wee must enter into ioy I note the sweete iucunditie of our future condition In that it is the ioy of our master I note the wonderfull dignitie of euery Christian Lift vp your heads byee gates and bee ye lifted vp yee euerlasting doores the King of glorie shall come in Yea and all his Saints with him the King and his daughter the Lord and his seruants God and his Church Christ and his members to the end they may receiue Denarium salutis as S. Austin speakes the hire of their labour and the pennie of their saluation How iustly may wee cry with Peter Master whither shall we goe Thou hast the words of eternall life It is thy life wee seeke and it is thy ioy wee hope to enter whilst thou dost so freely call vs and so graciously inuite vs to the communion and fellowship of thine euerlasting inheritance Intra in gaudium Domini tui Enter into thy masters ioy By this yee may see what the Text imports and therefore since a great an effectuall doore is opened to mee from the readinesse of your hearts and the promptnesse of your deuotion I will descend speedily and make entry Me thinkes I heare your expectation say to mee as Christ vnto you all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Enter And who I pray you would not gladly enter the gates of Paradise if he might All like the sweetnesse of the place few the straitnesse of the way and though we care not to be holy yet wee desire to be happie euer crying with the Prophet Amaui Domine habitationem domus tui O God I haue loued the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth Yet is it not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercy No man commeth to the Sonne the knowledge of the Sonne vnlesse the Father draw him no man comes vnto the Father the glory of the Father vnlesse the Sonne admit him Hee it is that puts some on the right hand with a Venite benedicti Come yee blessed others on the left hand with a Recedite maledicti Depart ye cursed that saith vnto one enter of another cast him forth into outward darknesse where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth Whence is that of Iohn Blessed are they which doe his will and haue right in the tree of life to enter the gates of the Citie For without shall be dogs and inchanters and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and euery one that loueth and speaketh lyes the last and the 14. of the Apoca. It is a curious diuision which I read in S. Bernard and worthy obseruation Alij mercantur alij furantur c. Some purchase heauen and they are such as make friends with the riches of iniquitie others steale heauen and they are like the woman that was healed by the secret touch of our Sauiours garment many inuade heauen and take it by force for indeed the kingdome of heauen suffers violence and they may bee compared to Iacob that stroue with God and wrestled with an Angell but whether theeues and robbers that steale heauen by faith or Merchants and Factors that purchase heauen by charitie or vsurers and intruders that inuade heauen and take it by force the most gracious and acceptable force of prayers and deuotion they must all confesse that it is in the name and mediation of Christ Iesus by that new and liuing way as the Apostle notes Which he made for vs through the vayle that is his flesh Heb. 10. 20. So that I may say of heauen and the doores thereof as Saint Iohn doth of the booke and the seales thereof Nemo dignus est inuentus there is none found worthie to open the booke and to loose the seales thereof but onely the Lambe and there is none found worthy to open the gates of heauen and to loose the barres thereof but onely the Lambe that Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world Hence is he termed the way and if that be not plaine and easie the doore and if that be not open and peruious life and saluation in the abstract that hath the keyes of death and of hell or rather of felicitie and of heauen where hee sits at the right hand of God and saith vnto vs enter Enter friends and take your comfort enter seruants and take your wages enter children and take your patrimonie enter brethren and take your portion enter all ye that seeke the kingdome of heauen and the righteousnesse thereof and receiue a crowne which is layd vp for you in the highest Diues non excluditur the poore is not shut out for want of money the rich is not turned backe for the abundance of his comforts the weake is not thrust out for want of strength nor the mightie refused for the danger of their forces but euery one hath boldnesse to draw neare vnto the throne of grace by the merits of Christ Iesus For it is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come towards the ioy of thy master and looke vpon it with desire and greedinesse as one that