Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	heaven_n	life_n	write_v	3,782	5	5.8197	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90395	Severall fresh inward openings, (concerning severall things) which the day will declare of what nature they are, to which judgment they appeal for justice, being contented either to stand or fall by it: and being likewise ready to kiss that condemnation, which they are likely to meet with in the mean time, from all sorts of men, whom they finde ready to deal hardly with them. / Through Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1189; Thomason E608_2; ESTC R205900	38,872	56

best advantage when it seemed most cast off it could never have wished so well for it self as it is provided for its Death Life Misery Happiness were all acted under a vail and were none of them what it took them to be but were all of them what it was best for it they should be Then shall Glory shine round abound him who is what none else is who works as none else can A PARABLE Translated out of JEREM. 48. 11 12 13. Moab hath been at ease from his youth and he hath setled on his lees and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel neither hath he gone into captivity therefore his taste remained in him and his scent is not changed Therefore behold the days come saith the Lord that I will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander and shall empty his vessels and break their bottels And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence THe Moabites were bastard-Israelites Not the children of Abraham but the children of Lot nor the legitimate children of Lot neither They were of kin to Israel of the blood of Israel but not in a direct but in a collateral line Now God who orders all things towards all persons acts very differently towards the Israelites and these He is very sharp and severe towards his own people but very gentle towards these Israel was afflicted from his youth up he is ever and anon scourging Israel Moab hath been at ease from his youth Moab meets with nothing to dissettle him nothing to trouble him nothing to disquiet him but enjoys his portion his habitation from his very youth enjoys his God his worship hath plenty prosperity all goes well with Moab Famine often befalls Israel that they are fain to run for relief into the land of Moab but Moab meets with no such misery or distress Moab hath been at ease from his youth Israel hath been tossed and tumbled up and down emptied from vessel to vessel carryed up and down into several captivities one after another never suffered to rest in his own Land But it hath not been so with Moab Moab hath not been thus emptied Moab hath not thus gone into captivity This is the different Dispensation of God towards Israel and towards Moab Now there followeth a different effect Moab setles upon his lees enjoys possesses his rest and that strength which flows from rest has that in his state which keeps it fresh quick living which preserves his excellency as the lees do the wine Therefore his taste remained in him and his scent is not changed There are two excellent properties in wine The taste and the scent both which are preserved by the vessel wherein it is kept Let a Nation settle in peace and it will gather and keep its sweetness its freshness its beauty its glory but toss and tumble it remove it out of one place into another it quickly loseth all Empty wine out of one vessel into another the taste the scent quickly changeth And this is the common lot of the people of God his dearest his strictest ones by his continual tossing and tumbling of them by his continued sharp vehement exercises upon their spirits they come to lose their taste their taste changes their scent changes that sweetness that freshness that vigor which was once in them quickly wasteth and passeth away after they have been a while emptied from vessel to vessel O what a sweet taste is there in a true Israelite a lively Israelite How lovely is the Israel of God when it is new-made when it comes newly out of the fingers of God! Moab is not worthy to be compared to him for taste for scent But how suddenly is this changed by Gods emptying him from vessel to vessel But now it is otherwise with Moab with the more bastardly fort Their excellency their life their beauty their religion their loveliness remains still the same They are not thus emptied from vessel to vessel and therefore they keep that taste and scent they had But shall it always be thus No there shall be a time for Moab to be met with too Though Judgment must begin at the house of God yet it will not end there but after he hath done with Israel he will begin with Moab after he hath done emptying Israel he will empty Moab and then he shall lose his taste and scent also And then he shall finde that it was not for his excellency beyond Israel that he scaped all this while His Religion his God his Worship was not of so much value beyond Israels because he thrived in it and kept up the life and vigor of it when Israels was falling and a great degree fallen But he shall be ashamed of that God that he framed to himself as well as Israel was of that God they framed to themselves That which might carry the bell for excellency O Christians is fallen is smitten to death That Knowledg of God that Life that Zeal that Holiness which did sparkle with lustre and heavenly beauty hath not been spared But that which is of a more degenerate birth doth yet live But shall it live Can God be just in making Israel ashamed of Bethel and suffer Moab to go on prosperously in worshipping Chemosh No certainly it cannot be thus but Moab shall be made ashamed of Chemosh as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence A Word to the Mad Folks YE have been very eminent many of you formerly in your generations the springing up and sprouting forth of your Religion strictness of conversation sweetness of deportment hath yeelded an wholesom savor to all with whom ye have conversed Ye have sweetly enjoyed God though ye have now forgot it not onely at a distance in longing desires but neerer at hand even in close embraces Gifts Graces Ordinances Duties spiritual exercises of all kindes ye have been well acquainted with and have known how to suck life through them and if ye have been skilful indeed how to let them fall and fasten upon the life it self But now ye are dead to all this All this is gone and passed away ye have been slain to this by him who was wont to convey life to you through it He that built you hath made you desolate And as your frame and fabrick was more beautiful and glorious then was elsewhere to be found So proportionable have been your ruine and desolations from the Lord who hath dealt so sharply with none as with you It hath not been done to any under Heaven so as hath been done to Jerusalem And it is not fit a book of Lamentations should be written for you because nothing that can be said is deep enough to express your misery Ye are so slain to your Religion that the very sweetness life vigor power purity of it stinks in your nostrils That which to others carries the greatest excellency carries to you the greatest