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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	eternal_a	life_n	lord_n	2,333	5	3.6477	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25359	A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester the xxix of May MDCLXXXI, being Trinity Sunday, and the day of His Majesties happy birth and restauration by Henry Anderson ...	Anderson, Henry, b. 1651 or 2.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3093; ESTC R16092	19,305	35

the foolish Egyptians or those Persians that gave veneration only to the lustre of their Jewels The Christian account as to Divine Arithmetick is cast up for another world to be a Denizen of the New Jerusalem an Heir of Eden a Peer of Paradise a Pearl of Vertue a Star of Glory Although we are Sojourners here however we are Municipes Coeli Freemen of Heaven and have the priviledge to be called and own'd by God as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fellow-Citizens of the Saints A Christian is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that lives in the confines of Heaven so that whilst he is here on Earth he wants but the courteous hand of Death to put him into possession of that above Heaven then is my home the Creator my Father the Judge my Advocate the Spirit my Consolation therefore there is nothing on Earth that I desire besides thee The opposition of Notes on both being the Second General now appears First In primacy of order King David is the glass in which we may behold Christian practice In his thoughts Heaven takes the precedency of Earth Whom have I in Heaven but thee O Lord This is his first care to seek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Kingdom of God here is the primum mobile that moves his heart his will and his affections Heaven then the desire on Earth follows after and it is honour enough for this vile Earth to wait upon Heaven Let us not now chaffer Heaven for Earth as sottish Indians truck away Ore for glass and for the gaudy nothing of this life hazard our immortal souls to everlasting flames and for the toyes and vanities of this world lose an Eternal Kingdom and for a glorious mortality bid adieu to Heaven which ought to have the precedency in our heart and affection Open our eyes O Lord that we may see those glorious rayes that stream from the Divinity and so beautiful an object will be enough to draw and attract our hearts unto thee echoing forth the Anthem of the Text Whom have I in Heaven but thee And there is none upon Earth that I desire besides thee Secondly Take it in the sense of the verbs habeo desideravi habeo in Coelis I have in Heaven desideravi in terris I desire on Earth Here we tire our selves with a restless fancy still wandering through the Creation but never finding any satisfaction but in Heaven there are all things that may delight us and solace the faculties of our Soul For God is a plenitude of light to the understanding a multitude of peace to the will Eternal joy and consolation to the memory And in Heaven all our desires shall be satisfied with fruition and those exellencies will always supply new and fresh desires to the soul which in the beatifical vision shall enlarge into that vast and infinite satisfaction that it shall be lost in the enjoyment and most happily plunged in that fruition which we shall never fully understand but be still more and more happy in having pleasures so great as to transcend our knowledge How glorious is that Sun that sets not and how clear is that day that is not chased by the darkness of the night Heaven is that resplendent residence and of this bliss there is such a fullness that our heads are too thick to understand it or if we were able to understand it yet our hearts are too narrow to give it entrance or if our hearts could hold it yet our tongues are too stammering to express and utter it For the glory of the invisible heavens out-strips humane capacity and out-goes our invention it is such as eye hath not seen ear heard nor yet enter'd into the heart of man to conceive what the Almighty the great Being of Beings hath prepar'd in Heaven for those that fear him And though some vessels contain more than others yet all shall be full there shall be no vacuity or want in any Lastly Take it in the diversity of the prepositions cùm praeter nothing with nothing besides thee O Lord Heap up all the riches of the world into one pile till they reach the Stars and charm all the delights of the world into one Circle and enjoy them freely yet there is a desire in man which looks above them for whom have I in Heaven but thee And there is nothing on Earth that I desire besides thee The organ of a Christian Ear is not for Earth its musick is mixt with too many discords 't is Heaven it aims at the Angels with whom it would consort and the melody of the superiour powers that yields the most absolute concord This is the Psaltery that King David sings to and is the true Ela of a Christian Whom have I in Heaven but Thee and there is nothing on Earth I desire besides Thee How miserable are they then whose Pleasures only divert them from God their Maker and have no other Apology for their Neglect of Heaven than what Sin can make that court the World and for a fading Embrace exchange a Diadem of Bliss a Crown of Glory And here let us raise our Thoughts from Earth to Heaven because the Glorious Trinity is a fairer Object for Contemplation For in the Glass of the Trinity we may behold all Felicity it will be Joy to Man's Soul Health to his Body Beauty to his Eyes Musick to his Ears Honey to his Mouth Perfume to his Nostrils whole Happiness to every Part. Therefore let us no longer doat upon this Mole-hill of Earth or prize its artificial complexioned Pleasures Structures of Cedar and Vermilion Garments and Embroideries of Aholiab Tables of Delicacies Couches of Ease and Ivory all Things here below are but Bracteata Foelicitas Copper leav'd with Gold If we do but behold the Pavement of Heaven stuck with Stars as so many sparkling Diamonds How despicable and mean is the Stateliest Palace of the greatest Monarch If the Hangings be so precious What must we think of the Room If the Frontispiece be so Glorious What are those better Parts yet unseen Magnum Mirabile sub tanta Majestate O think then what Treasures what Riches what Excellences are in those Courts above where the Gates of the New-Jerusalem is beyond the Orient Majesty of Pearl and Streets more splendid than pure Gold where there is no need of the clear Light of the Moon nor the bright Beams of the Sun What Ineffable Glory is in God the Light of those Heavenly Tabernacles Consider but the Eternal Joyes of that Place and how heartless and dying is the best of worldly Pleasures Nay were the whole World turned into a Seraglio of Delight and every Region into an Arabia could every Field become a Paradise and every Object that we meet with bring with it a Magazine of Pleasure had we all the Enjoyments this Life could triumph in yet without God we should find them dismal Fruitions Heaven doth as far surmount all these things as