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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	covenant_n	old_a	testament_n	1,680	5	9.6229	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61219	A discourse of the misery of Hell and happiness of Heaven grounded from the following words, Matth. 25, 46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5116; ESTC R26941	13,459	16

a well grounded Hope to go to Heaven because the Promises do belong to thee and thou art within the Covenant and also to thee pertaineth the Adoption inasmuch as thou art so long a Son and Servant of God as thou dost his Will and obeyest his Commands The Scripture doth make known the place of Heaven and also the way which each one must walk in if he would arrive at and enter therein viz. by keeping the Commandments of God which are written and recorded in that same Book The People of old time and of former Generations did talk and preach of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God after the same manner as we do now Such as were his Saints and Children did live by Faith Hab. 2.4 and died in Faith Not having received the Promises but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them Heb. 11.13 And even the ignorant and ungodly Multitude of former Generations have also passed through the Door or Gate and Entrance into the invisible World I mean Death And as the Devils believe and tremble And as the Souls of Abraham Isaac and Jacob do at this Day live so their Souls also live and exist and they have a more clear knowledge and apprehension of the Decree of God concerning Mankind than they had or we have in the days of our Flesh so that in them who sin wilfully what was formerly Ignorance or Unbelief is now a certain fearful looking for of Judgment and fiery Indignation which shall devour them for having been God's Adversaries But such as in the Days of their Flesh were willing and obedient they shall eat the good of the Land Isa 1.19 even of the new Heavens and new Earth where Righteousness dwells And as those who did refuse and rebel shall have a certain fearful looking for of Judgment so unto the Vpright there ariseth Light in the Darkness even after they are passed the darkness of the shadow of Death and they have a comfortable expectation of good things to come The Children of Men will then remember how that the Sinners and Ungodly and merry Men of the World did in their life time receive their good things that is they received their Portion in this Life Psal 17.14 Because by them their Portion is fat and their Meat plenteous Hab. 1.16 And the Godly and Righteous received evil things Persecutions Afflictions Poverty but now they are comforted and the others are tormented Luke 16.25 As is the condition of those who are already gone off from the Stage of this Earth so will ours be in a short time they are dead and we are dying As for my part I was young and now am elderly tho not old and I am fearful and apprehensive every Week of tasting of this bitterness of Death But I do yet more exceedingly fear and quake lest my Soul should be shut under Harches by Death before I have a better and more assured Hope whither it would go As it is written Gather not my Soul with Sinners Psal 26.9 So it is the continued Desire and Prayer of my Soul as the same should be my utmost endeavour throughout this life O Lord our Creator the Invisible One when this Body must return to the Earth as it was and the Spirit to God that gave it O then do Thou not gather my Soul with the Sinners and Transgressors of former Generations Which Prayer as I did write down and lift up my Soul unto God for the same it was thereupon immediately answered directed and dictated unto me That if thou wouldest not have thy Soul gathered with the Sinners and Transgressors of former Generations then thou must be sure not to be one of their number that is thou must not be a Sinner and Transgressor in that Generation wherein thou now livest But this is my Request and my coueting and the thing that I long for That the Lord would be pleased to bind up my Soul in the bundle of Life Into thy Hands I commit my Spirit for Thou hast Redeemed me O Lord God of Truth that my Soul may be gathered up unto the Father of Spirits and that when I do depart or decease from out of this Body I may come unto Mount Sion and to the City of the Living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of Just Men made perfect My Flesh and my Heart faileth but God is the strength of my Heart and my Portion for ever Psal 73.26 It is certain that this Flesh doth fade as a Leaf wax old like a Garment and wither as a Stick and it will not long hold the Soul in and therefore against the time that this our Heart and our Flesh faileth yea our Heart faileth already and before-hand at the thorough Thought and Apprehension thereof It must be our best and wisest and most excellent way to have God for the Strength of our Heart and for our Portion for ever That against the time this Tenement of Clay fails by mouldering and falling down into the Dust He may take us unto his own Home and receive us into Everlasting Mansions which are in our Father's House That as it is written And ye shall go forth and grow up as the Calves of the Stall Mal. 4.2 So we may be fixed and seated in Stalls and Apartments of Glory For the Lord's Portion is his People Jacob is the lot of his Inheritance He found him in a desert Land in the waste howling Wilderness Deut. 32.9 10. This last is just like our Condition now here on Earth where God finds and culls out such and such of the Sons and Daughters of Men the Lord knoweth them that are his as are his People and Jacob for the lot of his Inheritance Now a Lot takes some and leaves others even a few and single ones from out of the Multitude So of old time he took out Jacob for his peculiar People from the rest of Mankind Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then shall ye be a peculiar people unto me above all people for all the earth is mine Exod. 19.4 And so he doth at this day take out by Lot as it were his peculiar People from all Nations Countrys and Languages of Mankind even only those who obey his Voice indeed and keep his Covenant Both the Voice Covenant shewed and manifested within them as also what is written in Ink and Paper in the lively Oracles the Book of the Lord which we commonly call the Bible There is a very great deal said in the Old Testament concerning Heaven Immortality and Eternal Life yea much more then many People are aware of for Heaven Immortality and Eternal Life are there couched and comprehended under all those several Expressions which are repeated over innumerable times in the