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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	let_v	see_v	5,984	5	3.0591	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52476	Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...	Norton, John, 1606-1663.; Norton, John, 1606-1663. Copy of the letter returned by the ministers of New-England to Mr. John Dury about his pacification.	1664 (1664)	Wing N1324; ESTC R40050	44,511	76

to the self-same thing is God For what thing for our heavenly house our house not made with hands he that fits us for these things is God And thus doth he fit us by trouble by these matters of groaning that do pass over us from day to day This should be a great incouragement There is a place prepared for you but remember you must be fit for your place you are not fit for your place in that you are meerly Regenerate but you must pass through such a measure of Obedience both active and passive that is appointed for you that by this means you may be meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light The place is fit for us already but we are not fit for it as soon as we are Regenerate 2 Cor. 5. he doth there instance in the troubles of the body the grief of the outward man we are burthened with our body but all this while a fitting for our place If you belong to God he is working you to the self-same thing be your trouble this or that the Cholick Palsie Stone or whatever he is working us for the self-same thing This is a great matter in our troubles to consider that God by them is fitting us for our place in Heaven Reas 2. From the Quality of the Undertaker that hath undertaken the reception of our Souls to himself I will come and receive you to my self If it be so let us that suffer according to the will of God 1 Pet. 4.19 commit the keeping of our Souls to him you may boldly do it he sends a fiery Chariot for Elijah likely it was an Angel He makes his Angels spirits his Ministers a flame of fire Heb. 1.7 Christ hath his way to carry your Souls to Heaven you do not believe what a condition your Souls will be in as soon as ever they are out of the body do but think what a meeting here is but we believe not these things As Christ when he sent to his Disciples to comfort them Luke 24.11 they thought they were tale tales so when we hear of these things we look at them but as idle tale but saith Christ I will come and receive you to my self Reas 3. Taken from the Person we shall be with namely Christ Phil. 1.23 You shall be with Christ which is best of all or which is farre better There is no better House then this Mansion there is no better Presence then his Presence therefore well might he say It is best of all or farre better Instruction 1. Learn from hence that the most and the greatest Communion that we have with Christ in this life still leaves us in a condition of absence from Christ compared with that Communion we shall have with him after death So faith the Apostle 2 Cor. 5.8 We are willing to be absent from the body and present with the Lord ver 6. for while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord It is a place of absence from the Lord that is compared with what we shall have after death If you think of Paul Who did enjoy Christ more then Paul did Did not Paul enjoy Church-communion Yes but notwithstanding this was a place of absence from the Lord compared with the society that by death he should be in Was not Paul acquainted with any godly men you know what he saith of Timothy but yet saith he I am absent from mine own people The word that is here translated Absent signifies Absence from his own people he loved Timothy well but he thinks the Spirits of just men made perfect exceed the Spirit of Timothy Here is no Companion that is like the Company there here is no Communion will satisfie here Where most of Christ is it is best but yet it is absence comparatively We are absent from the Lord. Instr 2. The New man the Believer is never at rest till he is with Christ in his Mansion-house If you never finde any such thing in you but that if you might have your desire you would be here alwayes believe it you have not this New man in you this New man never is at rest till it comes to Christ It is true there is weakness in the best and unbelief-may prevail too-too much but I speak of this new Nature that is in these and reigns in these that are Regenerate You know how it is with those that love one another after that Jacob knew what was become of Joseph there was no staying of Jacob Let me go and see him before I dye Gen. 45.28 What was the reason of it there was an intire love one unto another You know how it is with those that do indeed love one another that have been long absent one from another they cannot rest until they meet Was there any did ever love another as the New man loves Christ The New man loves him with a divine love the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame Cant. 8.6 There are some on earth that do long after Christ there are those on earth that do desire after Heaven and do any love another as Jesus Christ loves the New man There must be a meeting between these two Lovers I will come and receive you to my self Mark how John concludes the Revelations Chap. 22. ver 21. Behold I come saith Christ He that-testifieth of these things saith I come Amen even so come Lord Iesus Here is a longing to be with Christ In any of your quaeries concerning Christ you are never at rest rill you come to Heaven it is the proper Being of the Sun to be in motion this New man is a divine man and his motion is still unto and after Christ Instruction 3. The death of the Believer it is a reception of the Soul by Christ Jesus Christ receiving of our Soules at Death is an incouragement to strengthen us against the fear of Death Are you affraid of going to your Mansion house are you affraid of going to Christ Mark what the Apostle saith Phil. 1.23 I desire to depart and to be with Christ The Greek word is a Marriners Phrase and signifies as much as to set sayle from the shore I desire my time were come to be loosed that I might go to my Mansion There are three Cords or Bonds that do Intangle us the loosing from which doth sweeten Death to us 1. The Bond of the Cross I desire to be dissolved and loosed from the afflictions and miseries of this present life This is in it's place a lawful thing to desire in Gods time 2. There is a Bond of Corruption the body of Death this I desire to be loosed from O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this Death Rom. 7.24 There are pangs in the Best But if you have the new man in you you cannot bear them There is Vain-glory there and there is Impatience there and there is Envy there and Unspiritualness which