Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	great_a	place_n	7,966	5	4.2960	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43575	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honourable William Lord Pagett, Baron of Beaudefert, &c. By John Heynes, A.M. and preacher of the New Church, Westminster	Heynes, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing H17646A; ESTC R216791	19,530	47

assaulted with sickness with pains and aches and distempers such which shall never decay myriads of Ages shall not make the flower of our youth to fall or fade nor bring the least wrinkle or deformity upon us there shall be an everlasting spring our greenness and verdure shall never be turned we shall have incorruptible bodies that is we shall never die for where there is no sin there can be no death there shall be none of the causes of death neither natural within us nor accidental from without us There shall be no Serpent in that Paradise of God no Tempter no forbidden fruit there shall be no infectious Air there shall be no death in the land of the living Again our bodies shall be raised in power they shall have a wonderful strength and vigor whereby they may be inabled to bear that exceeding weight of glory We shall have glorious bodies God shall refine them and make them like the purest sky they shall shine like the brightness of the firmament Dan. xii 3. and as the stars for ever and ever Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Mat. xiii 43. as our Saviour tells us adding immediately who hath ears to hear let him hear Fulgtbit anima luce divinae sapientiae ex quâ luce r●spiendescentia quaedam in ip●a quoque c●p●ra transfundet●r Now besides what Scripture hath said it is clear and evident to our very reason that there shall be such a change wrought upon the body whether we consider the exalted state of the Soul which is to be united to it or the nature of the place where it is to have its constant residence and abode even the Heaven of Heavens the Court and Palace of the great King where there is no Earth nor Water nor any other of the Elements of this lower World neither any of the Creatures that live in them but pure light of unconceivable brightness now since we are to be in such a place our bodies must have such qualities as shall be correspondent and suitable to the purity of it for otherwise we should not be capable of living in it the grossness and heaviness of our bodies would incline and sway us down to this dull Earth again we should soon be weary of that strange place and groan and sigh to be delivered from it as the pure and holy Souls of good men do from this Now consider seriously with your selves what the advantages of this glorious change shall be it is a thing agreed upon by learned men and approved by experience that the frame and temper of our minds doth much depend upon the prevailing humors of our body nothing is more plain than this the mutability and changeableness of the disposition of our minds may convince us of it how are we at some times prest down with the weight of the body being almost stifled and suffocated with the noysome vapors that do ascend from it insomuch that we can neither think nor act with that force and vigor that is proper to the Soul and Spirit of man we become in a manner meer lumps of clay and 't is an hard matter to discern any thing in us that may distinguish us from the very brute creatures and yet we the very same persons when the cloud is removed when the fog that benighted us is dispersed and scattered what an alteration do we find how serene and clear are our minds how free are our thoughts how nimble and active is the Soul and how quick and lively in all its motions and operations Now think with your selves if a good temper of body can so much promote the pleasure and happiness of our minds whilst we are here what an exalted condition shall we be in when our bodies are become wholly spiritual when there shall be no gross or earthly alloy in our constitution when the clouds arising from these lower regions shall never interpose or come between the Soul and its glorious object But so much may suffice to be spoken concerning the first particular viz. What this change shall be and wherein it doth consist II. I come now to the second thing intended and that is to shew what assurance we have of it or what grounds and reasons there are to persuade our selves that thus it shall be and this I shall dispatch in a few words we have as great assurance as the thing is capable of and it lies in these four particulars First in the promise of God who in his Word hath declared that whomsoever he leads by his Counsels he will bring at last to his glory besides my Text there are divers other passages of Scripture which I have occasionally mentioned already and therefore shall not trouble you with a needless repetition of them only give me leave to shew you what reason you have to acquiesce and rest satisfied in these promises and that both upon the account of his power and of his truth and faithfulness upon the account of his power he is Omnipotent he is Almighty he can do whatever he pleases men may promise and not be able to perform but we cannot conceive any such thing concerning God without doing him the greatest injury imaginable he that made the world of nothing and framed these bodies of ours out of the dust how easie a thing is it for him to change these vile bodies of ours and transform them into the likeness of that of our glorious Redeemer Again we have reason to depend and rely without scruple upon the promise of God if we consider his truth and faithfulness he cannot lye nor deceive his creatures those are weaknesses and imperfections utterly inconsistent with the holy nature of God and therefore the Scripture pronounces them blessed who trust in God in a right manner because it is impossible they should be deceived or disappointed Psal 146.5 6. Happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help In omnibus Deum frielem invenim is in ultimo deficiet faliet August whose hope is in the Lord his God which made Heaven and Earth and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever Now this God who is just in all his Actions and true and faithful in all his sayings hath told us that he will glorifie these vile bodies of ours 1 Tit. 2. In hope of Eternal Life which God that cannot lye hath promised unto us II. Our assurance lyes in the resurrection and glorification of Christ which was not only an Example and Pattern of ours but is also the Cause because he is risen we shall rise also because he is glorified we may be sure we shall be glorified together with him This appears from the relation we bear unto him he is our head we are the members of his body now if the head be glorious so shall we his members be also we are his servants and followers and therefore may conclude he will in his