Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	life_n	see_v	3,300	5	3.3210	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64745	The Mount of Olives: or, Solitary devotions. By Henry Vaughan silurist. With an excellent discourse of the blessed state of man in glory, written by the most reverend and holy Father Anselm Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and now done into English.	Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695.; Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.	1652 (1652)	Wing V122; ESTC R203875	62,277	216

felt with a little rigidnesse more then ordinary or wring him hard in any part of it he will presently cry out forbeare you hurt me What is this Did not he a little before affirme himself found and being now but moderately touched doth he cry out of paine Is this man thinkst thou in health Truly I think not It is not then such a health as this which is but a meere remission that they shall receive in the life to come whose salvation is expresly promised to proceed from the Lord Rev. 21. For God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes and there shall he no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more paine for the former things are past away Rev. 7. They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more nor shall the Sun light on them nor any heate for God shall cover them with his right hand and with his holy arme shall be defend them What then shall be able to hurt them whose covering and inclosure shall be the arme of God But what manner of health that shall be I know for a certain that neither I nor any man else either by my owne or anothers apprehension or experiment can possibly expresse If any man desires to know the qualities of Feavers and diverse other diseases I can quickly satisfie him as well by the experience I have had of them in my own body as by relation from others but that which neither by my own understanding nor sensation I have never perceived nor received any knowledge of it from another how can I say any thing of it Onely this I shall absolutely assert and I do verily beleeve it that this health of the life to come shall fill the whole man with such an immutable inviolable and inexpressible sweetnesse and solace as shall utterly repel and for ever drive away all thoughts of infirmities their accessions or revolutions And let this suffice to have been spoken of our health in the world to come The next branch that comes in order to be now spoken of is Pleasure which by another name or definition rather we shall call the Delectation of the corporeal senses And this truly most men are very much taken with because the corporeal senses in every man delight in those things which are adjudged proper or peculiar to them and withal beneficial or helpful For to instance in a few the sense of smelling is much recreated or pleased with the variety of sweet and comfortable odours the sense of tasting with the different relishes or gust of several meats confections and drinks And all the rest as every mans natural appetite carries him have their several and different delights But these delectations are not alwayes pleasing na● they prove oftentimes distastful and troublesome to their greatest lovers for they are indeed but transitory and bestial But those delectations or pleasures which in the world to come shall be poured out upon the righteous are everlasting and rational And for this cause I do not see how it is possible to expresse them so as to make them intelligible or subject to our understanding in this life especially because we cannot find in the pleasures of this life any example or similitude which hath in it any collation with them or can give us the least light or manifestation of them for those heavenly delights the more we enjoy them will be the more deare and acceptable to us for the fulnesse of those joyes breeds no surfeit And such delights as these are I beleeve no man ever in this world did so far perceive or taste as to be able to describe unto others the true state or favour of them Two blessed and two miserable states of man we know to be the greater and the lesser His great or perfect state of blisse is in the Kingdome of God his lesser is that which Adam forfeited the joy of Paradise As for his states of misery his great and endlesse one is in the lake of fire and brimstone and his lesser in the continual travels and afflictions of this present life Now it is clear that no man in this life after Adam did ever taste of either of those two states of blisse But if we had tried or tasted of onely that lesser state of blisse which Adam enjoyed in Paradise we might then perhaps by the mediation or means of the lesser conjucture or guesse at the greater As now being borne and bred up in the lesser state of misery we can give many plain and convincing demonstrations of our deplorable condition in the greater Wherefore seeing the pleasure we speak of is a branch or portion of that greater state of blisse I cannot conceive of any possibility to expresse it unlesse we may do it by some similitudes that are quite contrary to the greater state of misery and drawne from the lesser For example or instance let us suppose that there stood before us a naked man with hot and flaming irons thrust into the very apples of his eyes and into every part and member of his body his veines nerves and muscles so that neither his marrow nor his entrails nor any the most inward and tender parts were free from the anguish and immanity of the torment and that he were as sensible of the paine in every member as he must needs be in the very balls of his eyes What shall I say now of this man is he not miserably tormented And who amongst these dispersed and ubiquitary paines thus inflicted will be so irrational as to think that he can have any ease or pleasure In the same manner but by a quite contrary consideration may we conjecture or guesse at the delectations and pleasures of the life to come for as this man is filled and pained all over with torments so shall ineffable and endlesse pleasures be poured upon and over-flow the righteous Their eyes their eares and their hearts yea their very bones as the Prophet David saith shall be glad and rejoyce every part and every member of them shall be crowned and replenished with the fulnesse and the life of pleasures Yea their whole man shall be truly and abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of Gods house and he shall make them drink of the river of his pleasures for with him is the fountain of life and in his light shall we see light Whosoever then is the happy man that shall be counted worthy to enjoy these heavenly pleasures I cannot see as to the comforts of the body what more he can desire The onely thing that in order to what we are to treat of shall be added to him is long life And this shall not be wanting there for our Saviour testifies that the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal Matth. 25. Having done now with these blessings bestowed upon the body there remaine other more excellent gifts which are every way as desirable but these belong to the