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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	babylon_n	mercy_n	zion_n	28	3	9.2722	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79291	Heart-salve for a wounded soul... Or meditations of comfort for the holy living, and happy dying Christian either in the depths of dark desertion, or in the heighth of heavens glorious union. The second edition, with an addition of an elegie upon an eminent occasion. By Tho. Calvert, minister of the gospel.	Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing C323A; ESTC R230932	68,723	208

Fathers when they died Gen. 23.9 Gen. 49.29 Gen. 50.25 Rut. 1.17 2 Sam. 19.37 for bodies as well as Souls because they purchased burial places for their family aapart So both Jacob and Joseph charged their Children to carry them out of Egypt and bury them with their Fathers and thei● own people in Canaan Whic● desire of theirs to be buried nea● their holy Kindred did 1. Shew their love to one another desiring their company being dead whom they loved living 2. They did it to testifie the faith in the Resurrection hopin● by this means at the last Resurr●ction they should all rise togethe● in glory 3. Not to mention a third s●perstitious reason by which p●●haps they might be induced 〈◊〉 opinion of receiving some wo● or acceptableness to God by ●●ing near to those in the Gra● who for holiness were dear to hi● and beloved of him Thus J●ahs death was a gathering to his ●thers of his Body to the Sep●●chres of his Fathers and of his Soul to the company of all the Holy Fathers that died in the same faith pose may be seen To this purin the knowledge of the words Sanctuaria Brandea Habeo sepulchrum super quod jaceam commenda biliorem Deo futurum est me credam quod super sancte corporis ossa requi escam Ambros de excessa fra● Saty. in cap. 2. Baron Annal how far this Superstition afterward grew which Scolars may inquire after Our Saviour tells of this happy gatering I say unto you that many shall come from the East and West and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven Our departure out of this life wheresoever we live East West North South sends all holy Souls to sit at the same Table of Glory with all Patriarchs and Believers that have been since the beginning of the World Here we sit at Table hand over-head Judas has his hand in the same dish with Jesus Goats and Sheep go in the same Pasture good and bad are mixed but hereafter there shall be a seperation there shall be a society of the blessed where no unclean thing shall enter The Godly shall sit at a Table by themselves none shall come there without a wedding Garment Here is Mega Chaos a great confusion Habak 1.4 but there wil be a time when there shall be Mega Chasma a great Gulfe seperating distance whereby sinners an● Saints shall be kept from blending together Luke 16.16 That same last division which shall be made i● fearful to think on when Goat shall go among Goats and Shee● with Sheep yea that we ma● quake and tremble at it of tho●● many hundreds that hear me th● day there shall be a divisio● some shall go to the right han● other shall be gathered to the le● we are all gathered together her● there will be a seperation Mat. 24. ●● 4● yea two that sit in one Seat of t● that lie in one bed the one sh● he taken and the other left the 〈◊〉 gathered to glory the other tu●bled into a lake of wrath ne● to meet again To confirm t● doctrine of gathering we have the Parables of our Saviour of the Wheat and Tares which here grow together but at length shall be seperated Mat. 13. when Wheat shall be gathered to the Barn The Jews Liturgy print at Venice Of ancient this was the common Epitaph Sit anima cius in fasciculo viventium Hen. Kornmannus in lib. de mirac mhrtuor cap. 30. and Tares to burn The modern Jews have a prayer for their dead which has more of Babylon than Zion in it 1 Sam. 25.29 The Lord say they have mercy on the Soul of N. or such a one who is gone to his World therefore I vow to give alms for him that his Soul may be bound up in the bundle of life with the Souls of Abraham Isaac Jacob Sarah Rebecca Rachel Leah and the rest of the Righteous men and women Amen Though part of this prayer be foolishly superstitious to pray for the dead yet that which is for our purpose in hand is the phrase of the bundle of life which the Scripture acknowledges Which manner of speaking instruct us that God keeps all the Souls of his Saints bound up by themselves as it were in one blessed bundle A bundle it is called first to signifie that they were once disperst one from another here on earth but are there collected into one company and place 2. To signifie the unity of the blessed These flie not asunder in discord there is perfect agreement and concord A bundle a tied up Fagott a Wheat Sheaf is an embleme of unanimity 3. To signifie the firm perpetuity of their estate God has bound them up fast and surely and what can break Heaven's bundles 4. It notes their felicity and happiness it s a bundle of life and glorious immortality Thus are they gathered all the faithfu● Members one to another and al● to their Head Jesus Christ Deat● gathers Souls but the great gathering day is when Bodies and Souls shall all be gathered together unto Glory Why should not the Saints be gathered together by themselves they never desired the society of the wicked yea it is an heavy part of their Cross that there are Ishmaels in the same family with them Here living among the wicked their bodies are joyned but their affections hea●ts and wills are distinct and seperate Reason 2 They have had many gatherings by themselves Luke 10.20 1. They have their names and they only all written and gathered in one Book of Life by Election Mat. 24.11 2. They all flie and are gathered like Eagles unto one Carcase and food of life Jesus Christ to seed on him in Word and Sacraments 1 Cor. 19. Use 3. How far so ever they be separates they are all gathered into one common communion of Grace and why should they not be gathered at last into one communion of blessedness and Glory Are the Saints Souls gathered in death till then must there be a mixture This will meet with them who accurse the Moon for some spots they find in her such as will either throw away the Church or themselves out of the Church because the Fringes of her Coat are somewhere rent off all is not aright in her True it is and O that the Lord would purge his Temple and set up Pastors after his own Heart that there is something in the Church as black as Tents of Kedar Cant. 1. for which good hearts will mourn but withall in many other things she is comely as the Curtains of Solomon for which we owe the Lord much praise It is one thing to live where means of pure worship are wanting Greenh in his common place of religion chap. 13. Title the Church another to be where false worship is erected for the first we are not to flie the Church but by purges and patience to stay the