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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	absence_n	absent_a	law_n	30	3	4.6342	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51247	Anōthekrypta, or, Glorious mysteries wherein the grand proceedings betwixt Christ and the soule ... : is clearly laid open ... / by S.M., minister of the Gospel of God.	Moore, Samuel, b. 1617.	1647 (1647)	Wing M2586; ESTC R9458	79,159	237

here as such Vessels will hold speak experience Are not some so full of Christ at some times as that they can scarce containe themselves in a huge world and hence would faine be with Christ that they may bee more inlarg'd like their object to receive as much of him as can bee given What mortall can tell how much the affections of Saints are inflamed and how much their zeal is kindled when God comes in sweetly and comfort breakes in upon them like a flood Then even then how loose they stick to the Creatures and how much they long to be above them with the Creator I want words to expresse These like the Israelites when once they had got a taste of the grapes of Canaan they cannot be at quiet untill they are caried thither Is not this to keep men longing who would bee found lothing had they all fulnesse here what is' t else God speaks good to the heart but 't is here a little and there a little to keep their stomacks open that he may put in more when he ha's a minde so to doe God communicates all at once in heaven too though some have other thoughts this puts a difference betwixt fruition of his communications on earth the possession of them in heaven for here he gives out himselfe but by degrees now a little and then a little as we said before God serves his children as you deale with yours an heire in his minority is kept under to make him know himselfe and hee receives his substance only by parcels and small pieces but when he comes to be of full yeares then his whole inheritance comes in at once a And in this sence as the Apostle speaks the believing heir while he is a child differs nothing from a servāt though he be Lord of all But when he 's of ripe yeares comes into those heavēly places hee is made a Lord yea a King his Father gives him his portion all at once Gal. 4.1 If discoveries of God in glory bee not full and at once then these absurdities would follow 1. The vision of God then would be but graduall but imperfect and in part there as wel as here and stil the glorified would stand in doubt when the rest should be revealed which kinde of doubting would argue distrust which cannot possibly have place in heaven Nor did it ever enter into the thoughts of the most High that the least occasion should be given to such an evill And certainely when Saints are where they can sin no more from any cause in themselves or without themselves such as urge the Principle must needs be guilty of charging God For by the rules and lawes of such kinde of arguing 't will easily be gather'd that the Lord 's shutting in of himselfe though but for a season makes the soule question the certainty of future discoveries Concerning which persons I had almost said their blasphemie is of a very high nature but. 2. Where then were the Saints cessation from labour would there not then bee a continuall want of the exercise of grace yea even of faith hope patience and long-suffering untill the accomplishment of such a full discovery of God to the soule And who knowes not that those graces shall cease to exist be when once the Saints are made glorious For what need will there be of faith to evidence things visible and such things as are not at a distance from the S t s what need of hope to waite for that which is had already and what an uncomfortable Doctrine will this bee found to dying Christians In a word grace is swallowed up of glory yet I grant that love shall be ever active in those heavenly places The third part of glory is the convolution or turning of the whole soul on God according unto what he reveals of himselfe in such a maner here alas Christians cannot roule themselves on God immediately fully Here the means is cal'd in to help and wee see little is done but by the meanes Faith comes by hearing as the Scriptures speak Besides who can doe it fully when as hee that knowes but in part trusts and believes but in part for how can he assent unto what he knowes not Adde to this that here the thoughts wander from God cannot be kept in in holy employments and the heart is oft absent and afarre off when the person is present as God complains and this either from some defect in the manner of the administration of the word the absence of the spirit and power concurring or some cause subordinate thereunto But in Heaven the presence of God holds the soule close to it selfe so that it cannot wander cannot stir from God and the Majestie and glory with the amiablenesse of the same presence drawes out all the abilities of the whole soul to act answerable unto the lawes nearenesse and dearenesse of such a relation as is betwixt God and her selfe Hence 't is as easie for a glorified soule to bee turn'd on God and to doe for God as to be God having freed her from all power of acting otherwise having also implanted in her an in-written constitution an innate instinct by glory To be compleatly glorified is to be freed from all imperfections of soule and body and to enjoy all perfection in them both joyntly which by reason of Terminus â quo viz. the miseries and evills that Saints are delivered from is fitly call'd in sacred writ Redemption and in regard of terminus ad quem 't is as truely and properly 1 Cor. 1. 30. Gal. 3. 13. Eph. 1. 13 14. Eph. 1. 3. Iohn 3. 36. 1 Pet. 5. 10. Cap. 1. 4. stiled beatification life eternall Glory glorification and an immortall inheritance On which two branches there growes that blissfull fruit which the glorified eate in the midst of the Paradise of God Of these 2. in their order it is that we intend to speake Wee begin first with the immunities of the soule which are a part of her glory The first is glorious liberty such as is peculiar to the children of God viz. freedom from all infringements and soule-straitning powers 1. All power and possibility of sinning against her soveraigne good conceptions of sinne shall then cease to be much more then shall the births of sin which are Death be annihilated There remaines no Condemnation for her because she 's in Christ walkes after the spirit of God and followes the Lambe whither soever hee goes Sin Death Divels and Hell are swallowed up in the victories of her Husband 2. From al spots of sin all spiritual impurity all low thoughts of God and high thoughts of her selfe all irregularity of will as it was rebellious to right reason with greatest opposition Though here she could not elect or reject like the Lord yet in glory shee shall Adde to this her freedome from all unsoundnesse of judgement and taints of error which while she was unglorified she