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	heart_n	let_v	5,807	5	4.4058	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87809	A looking-glasse for Levellers: held out in a sermon, preached at St. Peters Pauls-Wharfe, upon Sunday in the after-noone, Sept. 24. 1648. / By Paul Knell, Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometime chaplain to a regiment of curasiers in His Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing K683; Thomason E465_30; ESTC R204195	16,473	21

and soule whose expresse command is that ye shall not kill If ye will not follow peace ye shall never see the Lord. If here ye banish that from you He will hereafter banish you from him he will renounce you with those words of David Psal 139.19 Depart from me ye bloudy ye bloud-thirsty men And as God abhorreth the bloudy Psal 5. so doth he the covetous man Psal 10. He that said Doe not kill said also Doe not covet as therefore ye must abstaine from bloud so must ye from covetousnesse let not this be on●e named amongst you as becommeth Saints but learn of the Apostle in whatsoever state ye are therewith to be content see that ye covet no mans silver or gold or apparell but having food and rayment be therewith content Ye know whose law it is Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house take heed then Brethren of coveting Bishops houses or any thing else that is anothers and not yours All covet all lose ye may have good Scripture for it Jer. 8.10 I will give their Wives unto others and their fields to them that shall inherit them for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousnesse from the Prophet even unto the Priest They that greedly get away other mens beget a gangrene in their owne estates De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius hares Take heed therefore as our Saviour exhorteth and beware of covetousnesse Consider what S. Paul saith Ephes 5.5 no covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the Kingdome of Christ and of God and consider what the same Apostle saith 1 Tim. 6.9 They that will be rich as it were whether God will or no fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition Covetousnesse tempteth men to murder this is that maketh Levellers so bloudy as they are from whence come wars and fightings among you Surely covetousnesse hath been the originall of them all the lower sort of people strive to be in an higher roome the poore would faine turn tables with the rich they would thus have every valley to be filled and every mountain and hill to be laid low as if in this sense every man were bound to seek anothers wealth they that were borne to nothing strive to get others birth rights calling themselves for sooth the Saints who they say must inherit the earth they would make themselves rich that have nothing and others poore that have great riches But to conclude this Brethren is not the office of Saints it is Gods office it is the Lord that maketh poore and maketh rich Presume not then to take Gods office out of his hand strive not to make your selves rich if God have made you poore but be content with that portion of outward things that he hath given you the silver is mine and the Gold is mine saith the Lord of Hosts Hag. 2.8 Deny him not therefore that priviledge which your owne selves challenge give him leave to doe what he pleaseth with his owne let not the least root of covetousnesse remaine in you remember that godlinesse with contentment is great gaine if the riches of others increase set not your hearts upon them seek not these things below but those above strive not for an inheritance on earth but to have one in heaven that ye may banish cruelty let covetousness be banished first that ye may not thirst after other mens blouds covet not their goods bast thou killed saith God to Ahab and also taken possession well ye know what became of him Jezebel for this stifle therefore not onely you murtherous but also your covetous thoughts if ye must needs be killing mortifie your earthly members if ye must needs be coveting covet earnestly the best gifts God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in faith to be heires of his kingdome labour therefore to get the gold of faith whereby ye may be rich towards God and then although here ye have no temporall inheritance yet hereafter ye shall have one far better ye shall be heires apparent unto Heaven ye shall inherit gloty God will give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified though now ye are in your nonage yet at the last day ye shall be perfect men ye shall be of full age ye shall attain to the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ who shall then invite you to enter upon your inheritance in these words Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Which God of his infinite mercy vouchsafe to grant unto us all for the merits of his beloved Son our blessed Saviour To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost Three Persons one Immortall Invisible Indivisible only wise God be rendred and ascribed as most due is All Honour Glory Power Praise Might Majesty Wisdome and Dominion the residue of this blessed day present and for evermore world without end Amen FINIS