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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	triumphant_a	4,101	5	10.5762	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62089	Being for ever with the Lord, the great hope, end and comfort of believers what it is, and how to be obtained and forethought of / preached by Matthew Sylvester ; and published at the publick request of Mr. Ri. Baxter, at the hearing of it.	Sylvester, Matthew, 1636 or 7-1708.	1688 (1688)	Wing S6329; ESTC R34636	31,001	96

of Christ Mat. 11.29 Heaven could not bear the Pride of Angels no more can Christ endure the Pride of Man. Please not your selves or others till you have answer'd all your Master's Claims Rom. 15.1 2 3. Gal. 1.10 Be knit to nothing but to your Lord in Heaven for why should he be made an Underling or Cipher here below Christ ours in Heaven a better Patrimony and Inheritance than States and Kingdoms here Be more sollicitous about the temper tendency and genuine Issues of your Hearts and Ways than about the Events of Providence 2 Cor. 5.9 10. Your best Concernments are with Christ if they succeed you cannot lose Treasures above and your exalted Head in Bonds in Power and in Possession to secure them speak you too safe and rich to be undone Be silent Prostrates at the foot of Christ if his presence be your Happiness he must needs be much above you every way therefore observe the Words the Looks the Steps of Christ and let them rule you And let his Dispensations here below be all admir'd by you and rested in Christ is in Heaven about your Work and that he be pleased by you doth most concern you and best become you And when you come to be with him for ever how deeply and quickly will he make you sensible of that great Wisdom wonderful Grace and mighty Power which brought you safely to himself in Glory 11. And O what a Figure will Christ then make in Heaven when that State is compleatly filled and when he hath gathered all his Family up to Glory 2 Pet. 1.11 If in those preparatory Scenes of Providence wherein the Redeemer addrest himself to Action and began his glorious Atchievements and was priviledged to open the Sealed Book there were such Acclamations and solemn Congratulations of this his peculiar Priviledg Prerogative by all in Heaven Earth and if there were such prostrate Venerations of him as we find in Rev. 4 8-11 5 9-14 and this conjunctly with his Father How will his Name and Glory be aggrandized when all his Favorites shall be with him All the Mysteries of Godliness relate to Christ and have their undoubted Aggravations from him 1 Tim. 3.16 and how wondrously glorious hath God represented him to us below Col. 1 15-19 2.2 3 9 10. Heb. 1 2-13 Rev. 1.5 6. John 14.6 And if these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these earthly things these shadowings forth of Christ and of his Kingdom to us even by Schemes accommodated to our Capacities in this our dark and distant State be looked upon as scarcely to be credited by Masters in Israel and yet so wonderful in the Eyes of the discerning Christian What would the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be then thought to be were they discovered to us in words more suited to their Excellency than to our Capacity John 3.12 with 1 Cor. 1.23 24. 2 9-14 2.12 2-4 We find great notices taken of him by the Heavenly State whilst in this outward Court ministring in the Port and posture of a Servant For as the Spirit of Prophecy foretold him Types represented him and the Word of Promise entitled us to the hopes and benefits of his Appearance and propitious Mediation So the Spirit forms his Body Angels declare his Birth Miracles attest his Dignity Doctrines and Authority and Ability to form us for and bring us to Himself Nature obeys him Devils fly before him Moses and Elias talk with him Souls come in by Multitudes and value nothing like his Person Conduct Government and Grace God owns him as his Son as his Royal Oracle and Agent by a Voice from Heaven 2 Pet. 1 16-21 1 Joh. 5 6-12 and all the Institutions and Transactions of the Kingdom of God amongst Men must have the Name of Christ enstamp'd upon them And when Christ had finished his Course and Work below God raises him from the Dead and shews him openly commands the Angels to worship him and to report his Resurrection makes this the great Base and Pillar of his Gospel-Kingdom carries him up to Heaven many hundreds of credible Witnesses beholding his Ascension and sets him at his own right Hand putting the Reigns of all Government into his Hands And then the Father sends the Holy Spirit in the Son's Name to glorify him as Christ had said before John 16 13-15 to seal this Truth to enable Persons to declare and prove it and to make the Gospel prosperous in its great Design But as to Christ himself he in the heavenly Places and Affairs for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports both sits far above all Principality Power Might Dominion and every Name that is named in even the World to come having all things under his Feet because he is given as Head over all things to his Church which is his Body the fulness of him that filleth all in all Ephes 1 20-23 Hence the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named of him Eph. 3.15 The Church in the compleatness of its Triumphant State is called his Everlasting Kingdom 2 Pet. 1.11 And when he shall have put down all Rule Authority and Power he will deliver up the Kingdom to the Father as a fit Present to the Majesty of Heaven as a clear Proof and Monument of his own Mediatorial Faithfulness and as fit Subjects of his own Paternal Government and Delight or as his acquired Inheritance to possess for ever 1 Cor. 15 24-28 For who can any way imagine that the delivery of these Subjects to the Father shall be the deposing of the Son from his triumphant Government that well considers Christ as placed by God upon the same Throne with himself Rev. 3.21 Is not Christ said to reign for ever and ever Rev. 11.15 O what a Pleonasm or fulness of expression is there in that passage Ephes 3.21 It is a Doxology richly phrased and that as in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereto I never yet read or heard of any Parallel in any Greek Author See also 2 Pet. 3.18 so vast is the reach of the inspiring Spirit so deep the Thoughts so full the Heart of the inspired Pen-man because so great the Dignity and Prerogatives of our enthroned and glorified Redeemer in this his Day and Kingdom What Eye so sharp and strong on Earth as to comprehend or tolerably to reach the sense of that great Passage in 1 Tim. 6.14.16 〈◊〉 Timothy is charged to keep the ●●●mandment till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ mind now what follows which in his Times he shall shew who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who only hath Immortality dwelling in Light which no Man can approach unto whom no Man hath seen nor can see to whom is as well as be Honour and Power everlasting Amen And here O that my heart was equal to wha● poor purblind I discern in this great Passage as shewing what notice must and will be taken of Jesus Christ hereafter For tho