Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	river_n	side_n	4,590	4	6.1866	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30638	The fathers legacy: or Burtons collections Containing many excellent instructions for age, and youth, shewing them how to live godly in this life, and to attaine everlasting happinesse in the life to come. First written for the instruction of his onely son, and now set forth for the benefit of others. By Edw: Burton.	Burton, Edward, of Stanton, Derbyshire.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6159; ESTC R215093	76,775	223

because thou hast not refused to doe it I sweare to thee saith he by my selfe that I will multiply thy seed as the starres of heaven and the sands of the Sea and among them also one shall be Christ the Saviour of the world Was not this good pay for so little paines King David one night began to think with himselfe that he had ow a house of Cedar and the Arke of God lay but under a Tent and therefore resolved to build a House for the said Arke which onely cogitation God took in so good part as he sent Nathan the Prophet unto him presently to refuse the thing but yet to tell him that forsomuch as he had determined such a matter God would build a house or rather a K●ngdome to him and his posteritie which should last for ever and from which he would never take away his mercy which promise we see now fulfilled in Christ what should I recite many like examples Christ giveth a generall note hereof when he calleth the workmen payeth to each man his wages so duly as also when he saith of himself Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me by which place is evident that God suffereth no labour in his service to be lost or unpaid And albeit he payeth also and that abundantly in this life yet as by those two examples appeareth he deferreth his chiefe pay unto his coming in the end of the day that is after this life in the resurrection of the just as himselfe saith in another place of this payment then reserved for Gods servants in the life to come We are now to consider what and what manner a thing it is and whether it be worth so much labour and travell as the service of God requireth or no. And first of all if we will beleeve the holy Scripturs calling it a Kingdome an heavenly Kingdome an everlasting Kingdome a most blessed Kingdome We must needes confesse it to be a marvellous great reward For that worldly Princes doe not use to give Kingdoms to their servants for recompence of their labours and if they did or were able to doe it yet could it be neither heavenly nor everlasting nor a blessed Kingdome Secondly if we credit that which St. Paul saith of it that neither eye hath seen nor eare heard nor heart of man conceived how great a matter it is Then must we yet admit a greater opinion thereof for that we have seen many wonderfull things in our dayes we have heard more wonderfull we may conceive most wonderfull and almost infinit How then shall we come to understand the greatnesse and value of the rewards surely no tongue created either of man or Angel can expresse the same No imagination conceive no understanding comprehend it Christ himself hath said no man knoweth it but he that injoyeth it and therefore he calleth it hidden Manna in the same place notwithstanding as it is reported of a learned Geometrician that finding the length of Hercules foote upon the hill of Olimpus drew out his whole body by the proportion of that one part so we by some thing only set down in Scripture and by some other Circumstances agreeing thereunto may frame a conjecture of the matter though it come far behind the thing it self I have shewed before how the Scripture calleth it a heavenly and everlasting and a most blessed Kingdom whereby is signified that all must be Kings that are admitted thither To take effect it is called in other places a Crown of glory a Throne of Majesty a Paradice or place of pleasure a life everlasting St. John the Evangelist being in his banishment by speciall priviledge made privy to some knowledge and feeling thereof as well for his own comfort as for ours taketh in and to describe it by comparison of City affirming that the whole City was of pure gold with a great and high wall of the precious stone called Jaspis This wall had also 12. foundations made of 12. distinct precious stones which he there nameth also 12. gates made of 12. rich stones called Margarites and every gate hath an entire Margarite The streets of the City were paved with gold interlaid also with pearles and precious stones the light of the City was the clearnesse and shining of Christ himself siting in the midst thereof From whose seate proceeded a River of water as cleare as Cristall to refresh the City and on both sides of the bankes there grew the tree of life giving out continuall and perpetual fruit There was no night in that City nor any defiled thing entred there but they that are within shall raign saith he for ever and ever By this description of the most rich and precious things that this world hath St. John would give us to understand the infinite value glory and majesty of this felicity prepared for us in heaven though as I have noted before it being the princely inheritance of our Saviour Christ the Kingdom of his Father the eternall habitation of the holy Trinity prepared before all worlds to set out the glory and expresse the power of him that hath no end not measure either in power or glory we may very well think with St. Paul that neither tongue can declare it nor heart can imagine it O miserable Children of men that are born to so rare and singuler a dignity and yet cannot be brought to consider love or esteem of the same Other such considerations there be to shew the greatnesse of this felicity is that if God hath given so many pleasures and comfortable guifts in this life as we see are in this world being a place of bannishment a place of sinners a vail of misery and the time of repenting weeping and wailing what will he do in the life to come to the just to his friends in the time of joy and marriage of his Son This was a most forceable consideration with good St. Augustine who in the secret speech of his soule with God said thus O Lord if thou for this vile body of ours give us so great and innumerable benefits from the Firmament from the Ayre from the Earth from the Sea by light by darknesse by heate by shadow by dewes by showers by winds by raines by birds by fishes by beasts by trees by multitude of hearbes and variety of plants and by the ministry of all thy Creatures O sweet Lord what manner of things how great how good and how innumerable are those which thou hast prepared in our heavenly country where w● shall see thee face to face If thou do 〈◊〉 great things for us in our prison wh●● wilt thou give us in our pallace If th●● givest so many things in this world t● good and evill men together wh●● hast thou layd up for good men onl● in the world to come If thine enemie● and friends together are so well provided for in this life what shall th● only friends receive in the life to com●● If there be so great