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	hand_n	right_a	7,859	5	6.1468	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03549	Crumbs of comfort: or, Grace in its various degrees, and yet oneness in kind, Mat. 14. 27. By Mr. William Guthrie.	Guthrie, William, 1620-1665.	1681 (1681)	Wing G2275A; ESTC R177752	4,494	8

resolv'd to give out divers Administrations of which himself is head and he will have different members of his body with which he will be served with divers Administrations of the Spirit he will have eyes tongue hands yea love more than I do yet I believe more than ye know 2ly This gradual difference the Lord keep that the ransome may be still in request for if we had gotten in our hand we should have lost respect to the ransome the thought of our infirmities and that we must come to Christ makes him precious to us 3ly He is pleased to keep this diversity of administration because earth cannot bear grace in its perfection therefore the Lord hath hewen it out in a small measure for the Lord is resolved to transplant all the trees of grace to Emanuel's Land where there is b … thing of the Holy Ghost we would work no more if Grace were at its perfection 5ly The Lord is pleased to do because he intends that there shall be a clear difference between heaven and earth O how sweet will Heaven and Christ and the fulness of joy at his right hand be to the soul that is never satiate how sweet will heaven be to him that never could get corruption mortified but was trailed many a day up and down with it Infer 1. Go not away then with an evil report of him though ye find not these things in your self that others of his people has found and I obtest you to count Crumbs essential bread though ye get no more at present make sure of the true nature and being of Grace make sure that ye have a respect to his Commands tho ye cannot get further to any mark of grace 2. Do not judge with a spirit of jealousie because ye are not all of the same size there is some below you in understanding the matters of God that when it comes to the point will be as particular in confession of the truth as any 5. Be not censorious though any with many degrees shall fall into corruption But then again if he that has but grace in the third degree come honourably throughout not polluted with the temptation how aggravating is thy sin who has received grace in the sixth degree But be it known to you that it is not degrees of grace that holds up grace to fight with corruption and temptation with desertion but the Soveraignty that makes it stand for if it were the degrees of grace that keep a man up how comes it that he who has the lively exercise of grace he is almost overcome of a temptation and foiled in an evil frame and grace at under with him that he is run down with corruption Truly none can give a reason for it but he who has set bound to the Sea and said Hitherto shalt thou come and no further hath set bounds to a mans corruptions that such a length it shall come and no further therefore listen much to God and his Soveraignty and very little to your own receipts of grace yea in the highest degree that men do create and that with influences of the spirit 7. That the gradual degrees of grace and parts is not founded upon disproportion of natural proprieties 8. Grace runs in that channel that most in forthcoming where least expected and this because they are come of an evil kind and evil edification and so few means of grace and so little professions and yet all of these good symptoms of a choice Christian 9. For ground of encouragement the Masters honour and glory and our well-being is winded up that is our standing stedfast in an evil time and is the accomplishment of all the greatest promises in the word since we have many sweet clouds and showers of prayers in behalf of those who own the truths of God and if we were not more beholden to other mens prayers than our own we should be in a poor case but there will be forth-coming in many beyond expectation in respect of solid acknowledgment and bearing witness to the truths of God in a declining time when people when great parts will fail but there will be rich forthcoming in point of faith it 's easie believing when no opposition to call the Court when none calls again but those who durst never much say great things they would do will exceedingly transcend great lights in testimony-bearing 10. There will be forthcoming in point of Charity to suffering worthy Ministers and others of his people in strait for him and I assure you that this is not the least piece of Religion But 4. as the reason why God takes this way because it 's most usual that way which we pitch on and that person we esteem and mean elect the Lord trusts it and it 's a hundred to one and ever he proceed that road way Now you that are great professors in the Countrey pray you desire not tryals people says that they will do this and that and the other thing when call'd to it away with your Romances 5. We have much hope of some peoples praise faithfulness and honesty who have little or none of themselves Be not then upon no terms casten to a dispondency when the matter comes to a choak because ye have nothing promising in you answerable thereto for he gives out the expences immediately when we are call'd to disburse and least expecting it Lastly The eminent shining-professors let fear of shame disgrace dishonour to your self and Master promote you to be forthcoming for the Masters praise in word thought and deed and to be practical in patience temperance holiness and summarily make it all your work how ye may be to his glory who has taken so much pains upon you Printed for Alexander Kennedy 1681.