Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	pray_v	prayer_n	saint_n	5,346	5	6.7276	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01303	The vvoman of Canaan A comfortable sermon of faith in temptations and afflictions. Preached at Saint Buttolphes without Aldersgate in London, the 15. of February. 1573. By Maister William Fulke Doctor of Diuinity and Maister of Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge.; Comfortable sermon of faith, in temptations and afflictions	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1611 (1611)	STC 11425; ESTC S102776	25,978	93

them so they might be rid of the exclamation and out-cry that shee made after them to cause all the world to wonder at them Thirdly Christ graunted nothing at their request but rather flatly denieth that hee will haue any thing to doe with her Fourthly if shee had prayed to them and they made intercession for her and obtayned their desire yet there is great difference betweene praying to them that are dead and praying to them that are aliue And therefore it is maruell what they meane to gather an argument for the inuocation of dead Saints out of this place where neither the woman prayeth to the Apostles nor the Apostles pray for her nor Christ graunteth any thing at their request and besides all this the Apostles were not dead but aliue they should haue small comfort I trow in this example yet such for all the world be the rest of their arguments The Virgin Mary prayed for the Bridgrome when shee sayd They haue no wine If this was a request what was her aunswer woman what haue I to doe with thee But aboue the rest they haue one notable example of the rich man that being in the torments of hell prayed vnto Abraham No doubt a worthy example for vs to follow that of a damned spirit in Hell we must learne to make our prayers vnto Saints in Heauen By such authority the doctrine of Diuells may well bee established but the children of God are taught an other forme of prayer by their Heauenly-Schoole Maister But what remedy found the rich man by praying to Abraham that we might bee encouraged by his example to Pray to Saints Hee made two requests and neither of them both was graunted Alas what comfort should any man take by these examples to pray to dead Saints and yet these be the best reasons they haue out of the Scripture sure it is a pittifull case that men will leaue God who hath comanded vs to call vpon him and promised to heare vs to call vpon dead men to whom we haue no commandement nor example of any godly person to pray neither haue they made any promise neither if they had made any promise were they able to performe it But let vs leaue the Papists with their wofull arguments and returne to the Apostles in their request made vnto Christ Dismisse her say they for she crieth after vs. By these words we may easily perceiue how importunatly she continued her sute although he held his peace answered her not one word for still shee cryed and was nothing discouraged wherby we see that this first repulse did so little diminish her desire that it kindled it more more And so doth God often-times in suspending and deferring the answer and effect of our praiers prouoke vs most earnestly to pray both that we may know of whom we haue receiued a benefit and that wee may the more esteeme it when we haue it and so render worthy thankes to him that is the author of it For such is our malignity that if we be preuented with Gods benifits as often-times wee are or else obtaine them immediatly vpon our request we forget that we receiued them of God and so become vnthankfull for them Also wee doe not greatly esteeme those things which wee haue not long wanted nor much desired whereby as for small benefits and not great gifts we render slender thankes to God Therefore God in great wisdom prolongeth sometimes the performance of his promised benifits that men might acknowledge of whom they obtaine thē worthily esteeme them thankfully receiue them and profitably imploy them But now let vs see what answer our Sauiour Christ maketh to the request of his disciples I am not sent saith he but vnto the lost sheep of the house of Israel An vncomfortable answer doubtlesse to the poore woman wherby he pronounceth that he hath no commission of God to do any thing for her in as much as his vocation extended onely to the Israelites and shee was one of the Gentils and a Cananite It was a great temptation vnto her before that he in whom all health is promised and which willingly offered himselfe to all other and by his comfortable voice did call all that are oppressed vnto him kept silence to her alone and beeing so earnestly intreated to extend his fauour towards her yet answereth her not one word but it is ten times greater that now when hee is vrged by his Disciples to speake hee seemeth to put her out of all hope and comfort because he was not sent but vnto the lost sheep of the house of Israel of which number she was none and therefore might not looke for any fauour at his hands And this answer which hee maketh was not a pretended answer to serue for the time but it was most true indeed For although he was not sent only to the Iewes yet was he sent first vnto the Iewes And that wall of seperation which deuided the Iewes from the Gentils was not broken downe before the resurrection of Christ. And therfore in the tenth of this Gospel he forbad his Disciples to goe into the way of the Gentils nor the citties of the Samaritans but go rather saith he vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israell Euen so hee saith now truly I am not sent but vnto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel First therefore let vs consider the sence of these words and afterward the waight of the temptation Therefore that he saith he was not sent he meaneth not that he was not sent at all but that as yet it pertained not to his vocation to call the Gentils but the Iewes only For that he was also sent vnto the Gentils appeareth plainly by the word of God in the Prophet Esay where the Lord speaketh vnto our Sauiour Christ in the person of a Mediator It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob and the desolations of Israell I will also giue thee for a light vnto the Gentiles that thou maist bee my saluation vnto the ends of the world Where-vnto the Prophet Simeon agreeth in his Canticle saying Mine eyes haue seene thy saluation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people to bee a light to lighten the Gentils and to bee the glory of thy people Israell These words of his therefore must bee vnderstood of that present time in which hee spake them For as then hee was not sent vnto the Gentils but vnto the lost sheepe onely of the house of Israell By the lost sheepe of the house of Israel hee meaneth not the Elect onely but all the whole nation of the Iewes with whom God made the Couenant and vnto whom the redemption was promised for vnto them all it was first offered which because it was of them refused it was afterward made common vnto the Gentils For our Sauiour Christ acknowledgeth a little before his passion that hee