Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	motion_n	nature_n	2,722	5	5.9141	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96973	Five sermons, in five several styles; or Waies of preaching. The [brace] first in Bp Andrews his way; before the late King upon the first day of Lent. Second in Bp Hall's way; before the clergie at the author's own ordination in Christ-Church, Oxford. Third in Dr Maine's and Mr Cartwright's way; before the Universitie at St Maries, Oxford. Fourth in the Presbyterian way; before the citie at Saint Paul's London. Fifth in the Independent way; never preached. With an epistle rendring an account of the author's designe in printing these his sermons, as also of the sermons themselves. / By Ab. Wright, sometimes Fellow of St John Baptist Coll. in Oxford.	Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3685; Thomason E1670_1; ESTC R208406	99,151	247

I leave you at this time with a Theologia negativa a negative divinity or divine ignorance and onely tell you what is not heaven The plumage of the swan appeares more faire when it is opposed to the ravens blacknesse and wee may best conjecture at the joyes above if wee consider the miseries here below This life of ours if it were not short yet it is miserable and if it were not miserable yet it is short In this world are a world of troubles we have no resting place here saith the Prophet glory and rest are two things that meet not here the glorious life is not the most quiet and the quiet life is for the most part inglorious riches and honour like Absolons mule do sometimes leave their Master in extremity A consideration if well digested which would gather our divided thoughts and rouse up our Soules to seeke first the Kingdome of heaven and then we know coetera adjicientur other things shall be added unto us And indeed when heaven is once named all other things are but cetera's not worth the naming But now for heaven it is observed by those that are skill'd in the holy tongue that in the sacred name Jehova are none but literae quiescentes mystically impliing thus much unto us that Deus est centrum quietatiuum that God is the God of rest in whose presence there is joy fulness of joy joy for evermore as David sings When once we shall be planted in that celestiall paradise there shall no apple of contention grow between God and us It is Nazianzens note upon that divine antheme of three parts Glory be to God on high on earth peace good will towards men Luk. 2. pugnas dissidia nescire deum angelos that there are no broils nor brabbles in heaven There shall the Soul be satisfied in all her desires there shall be no actuall or potentiall evill no actuall because grace being consummate in the Saints excludes all sin no poetential for they being confirmed in goodnesse cannot sin There shall be no sorrow nor tears the effect of sorrow those rivers of our eyes shall be dried up there shall be no more death for resurrectio erit mors mortis At that jubilee of glory the conqueror shall be disarmed and we whom death hath overcome shall overcome death Our bodies rising first immortall not subject to any more disease or death we shall not any more stand in need of those ordinary helpes of meat and drinke by which our nature is preserved for it shall then be our meat and drink to do our Fathers will Secondly our bodies shall rise glorious the just shall shine like the sun in the firm ament saies the Prophet qualis erit splendor animarum quando solis claritatem habebit lux corporum and how great then shall the splendour of our Soules be when that of our bodies shall exceed the Suns And to confirme the verity and solidity of this glory it shall not onely be revealed unto us but saith the Apostle in us Jerusalem as the Kings daughter is all glorious within Thirdly they shall be perfect every defective member shall be restored to it's inregrity Jacob shall not halt nor Isaac be blind nor Mephibosheth be lame Fourthly our bodies shall be raised impassionate free from such passions as may hurt and offend but not from the passions of joy the joy of the soul shall be the soul of joy Lastly they shall be spirituall that is in quality not in substance they shall still remaine the same quantitative bodies bounded and limited with their natural dimensions For otherwise how could Job see God with the same eyes he had while he lived Our bodies therefore shall be endued with most unspeakable perfections and most perfectly clarified from all imperfections but they shall not be disrobed of their natural properties briefly they shal be spirituall in a three-fold sence Fist in that they shall be wholly freed from all earthly drossy corruptions all the sences shall be more subtle the body it 's selfe shall become more light and apt to motion and as neer the nature and qualitie of a spirit as a body may be Secondly cause they shall be no more upheld and maintain'd by earthly meanes and helpes but be preserved by spirituall meanes i e. by the power of Gods holy Spirit What use shall there be of the creature when the Creator himselfe the Lord of heaven and earth is in place And in these two respects especially they shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 equal to angels Thirdly they shall be Spiritual because they shall never rebell but be alwaies subject and obedient to the regenerate soul without contradiction they shall obey the motions of the spirit Other particulars I cease to enquire cause the Scripture doth forbeare to deliver them and in the silence of the holy-Ghost I will not be curious least by this meanes I loose my selfe in the labyrinth of these everlasting habitations whereto the Arts never taught an entrance in nor Divinity ever discovered a passage out The greatest light we have which is but dimm neither is held out vnto us by Scripture and the primitive Doctors of the Church in these particulars of eternall life or eternal habitations first in the comfort that the Saints shall pertake of there Secondly in their joy Thirdly in the sight and Lastly in the knowledge which the Saints shall have of the blessed Trinity in heaven And first as to the comfort this is in some sort expressed John 14 2. In my fathers house are many mansions Where our Saviour administers severall Recipees of comfort to his afflcted disciples by reason of his going away and of this comfort the first beam is that that state which he promises them and in them all faithful believers is a house it hath a foundation no earth-quake shall shake it it hath a wall no artillery shall batter it it hath a roof no tempest shall pierce it It is a house that affords security and that is one degree of comfort And then Secondly it is his Fathers house a house in which he hath interest and that is another degree of this consolation It was his fathers and so his and his and so ours for we are not joynt purchasers of heaven with the Saints but we are co-heirs with Christ Jesus by death we are gathered to our fathers in nature and by death through his mercy gathered to his father also where we shall have a full satisfaction in that wherein Saint Philip placed all satisfaction Lord shew us thy Father and 't is enough John the 4. 8. We shall see his father and see him made ours in Christ And then a third degree of this comfort is that in this house of his fathers thus by him made ours there are mansions which word in the originall and latine and our language signifies a remaining an abiding and fixing and denotes the perpetuity the everlastingnesse of that