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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	element_n	fire_n	13,062	5	7.1789	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49329	Look unto Jesus, or, An ascent to the Holy Mount to see Jesus Christ in his glory whereby the active and contemplative believer may have the eyes of his understanding more inlightned to behold in some measure the eternity and immutability of the Lord Jesus Christ ... : at the end of the book is an appendix, shewing the certainty of the calling of the Jews / written by Edward Lane.	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1663 (1663)	Wing L332; ESTC R25446	348,301	421

and meets with many checks Pro. 14.34 exalteth a Nation as Solomon tells us much more will she Adorn and Beautifie the place of her own Habitation where she shineth without any Eclipse and where she ruleth without any Disturbance or Resistance whatsoever A most Glorious Provision doubtless it will appear to be which will also abundantly satisfie When God was about to bring his people into the Land of Promise he tells them what was prepared for them viz. Great and goodly Cities which they builded not Deut. 6.10 11. House full of all good things which they filled not Wells digged which they digged not Vineyards and Olive Trees which they planted not all should be made ready to their hands against their coming thither so shall there be a preparation made by Jesus Christ for the Saints in the life that is to come of all things whatsoever their Souls can desire And since we have made mention of this Land which the Lord promised to give unto his People when he brought them up out of Egypt and which is indeed a Symbol of the Eternal Inheritance let us proceed a little further in this matter confining our Mediations to a short Parallel between that Land and the Celestial Canaan which shall be given to all that are Israelites indeed for their everlasting Possession In the third Chapter of Exodus Ex 3.8 God tells Moses that he would bring his People unto a good Land and a large unto a Land flowing with Milk and Honey unto the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebuzites Now since that Heaven and Earth as they are prepared by Jesus Christ shall be the Receptacle of the Saints hereafter let us in a short Survey see how they will both answer their Type in the several parts thereof First for Heaven It is surely a good Land to speak of it by way of Allusion the Holy Ghost in Scripture leadeth us herein and that in this very Particular Heb. 11.16 calling Heaven a Country Good in respect of Vicinity for where there are good Neighbours the place is commonly by those that are good the better liked Now in Heaven there dwells Goodness it self a good God and a good Saviour good Angels and good Souls All very Good As it is therefore a part of the Torment which the Damned suffer in Hell to be ever in the Company of evil Angels and ugly Devils so surely is it a great happiness to be ever in the sweet Society of Saints and glorious Angels nay of God himself Good then in respect of good Neighbourhood good also in respect of the abundance of good things that are there flowing I say not with Milk and Honey but with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory There are good things for the Soul and good things for the Body which being largely laid open by others we shall not insist upon them here There is the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good but not of the least Evil whatsoever How good is it to behold the King in his Beauty Es 33.17 1 John 3.2 to see God as he is in his Glory This is the Ne plus ultra of the Soul hitherto she aspires and no further For in his presence is fulness of joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore This is the Priviledge of that place alone and therefore surely it is very good so good that it is impossible it should be better and impossible also for us that are so evil as yet fully to know it Well was it therefore sung in that Anthem of old Quis Chalcedon Quis Jacinthus Norunt illi qui sunt intus When once we come to taste of this Goodness and to drink of the River of these Pleasures we shall then see that clearly which now we can see but through a Glass darkly It is also a large Land so large that no hand but his that stretched it forth can be able to mete it out though there have been some who have too vainly busied themselves in calculating the Dimensions of it Some have undertaken to set out the extent of it thus As the Element of Water is ten times bigger then the Earth the Air ten times bigger then the Water the Fire ten times bigger then the Air So with the like proportion each Heaven bigger then another And thus do the Grashoppers of the earth skip beyond their Line Es 40.22 who because they can as they think bestride the Molehil of their own Element from whence they were extracted will presume also to take the length of the span of God's right hand But away with this Arrogancy far unbeseeming those that dwell in houses of Clay rather indeed should our thoughts be swallowed up with astonishment when we take into our consideration the largeness of the Place and our affections likewise should be enlarged towards it remembring what our Saviour calleth it John 14.2 His Fathers House wherein as he saith there are many mansions Therefore it must needs be very great We see how it is here in this life according to the greatness of persons so commonly are their houses enlarged Luke 12.18 Even the rich Tool in the Gospel when he perceived the world coming in fast upon him he presently concludes to pull down his Barns and to build up greater And when Nebuchadnezzar grew to be Great in the earth Oh how he prides himself in the sutableness of his Neast Dan. 4.30 Is not this great Babylon saith he that I have built for the honour of my Majesty Thus do filly men stand like Cocks crowing upon their Hillocks applauding themselves in the largeness of their Train and Elbow-room which they have obtained in the world answerable forsooth to the heighth and greatness of their Spirits when yet notwithstanding poor Creatures they are but walking pieces of earth and a small Ell possibly of that ground which they tread upon will one day be big enough to hold them Well then if this be the manner of men to have House and Land here agreeable to their little Greatness how great and large is that place where the great God himself dwelleth And where he will gather his Children together into their Mansions ordained for them Surely it is beyond all expression beyond all admiration We shall indeed come to see and know it in that day when we walk the Round with Jesus Christ who will certainly then shew unto us all the Glory and Beauty of his House which yesterday that is from the beginning he built and created and now again in his faithfulness is gone to prepare for us but till then we must not be too busie in our shallow apprehensions of it Thirdly As it is a good Land and a large so it is the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebuzites that