Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	earth_n	heaven_n	new_a	5,460	4	7.3880	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12203	The spirituall-mans aime guiding a Christian in his affections and actions, through the sundry passages of this life, so that Gods glory, and his owne salvation may be the maine end of all / by the faithfull and reverend divine, R. Sibbes ... ; published by T.G. and P.N.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1637 (1637)	STC 22513; ESTC S1655	25,951	96

part of our life away and every day wee live wee live a day lesse it is gone and past and never returnes againe as water which it is gone and whether wee walke or doe any thing the time passeth While you heare and while I speake the time passeth and never returnes againe so the fashion of this world passeth away All thinges are passing here VVhat is the ground of this that all things are thus passing Goods that are not stable we say they are moveables and indeed those things that wee call immoveables are moveables All passe away heaven and earth will passe away ere long And there will bee a new heaven and a new earth Kingdomes passe away and Kings passe away and States passe away VVhat is become of Rome VVhat is become of Ierusalem VVhat is become of Babylon and all those goodly Cities All are passed away they are all gone This experience speakes as well as Divinitie Now the ground of all this is not onely the Nature of things taken from the Nature of all things that are made of nothing and therefore subject to fall to their first principles againe That is the fundamentall reason why things may bee moove-able and passe away But that they are so it is not a sufficient reason for GOD might have suspended the mutabilitie of things if hee would as the heavenly Angels are mutable because they are Created but God hath suspended there mutability world without end And therfore it is not sufficient that all things are of nothing it shewes that of themselves they may turne to nothing indeed But there is another reason behinde that now since the fall of man there is a curse upon all things There is a sentence of mutability and change and a sentence of passing is passed upon all this that all things that have a beginning shal have an end and that this world shal be a Stage of changes and alteration There is a sentence of Vanitie upon the Creature as Saint Paul saith Divinely The Creature is subject to Vanitie not of his owne will but because God hath subdued it to Vanitie Rom. 8. Man committed Treason and therefore the Creatures which are mans servants all mourne for their masters fall they all mourne in blacke as it were All the Creatures are subiect to Vanitie all the Creatures under the Sunne are subiect to mutabilitie and change but we may thanke our selves wee are the grand-traitors that brought this miserie upon the Creature that is the true reason why all things passe away and so why our selves have the sentence of death upon us wee passe away and the things passe away and wee in the use of them Thus you see the ground of this why things passe away in the sentence of mutabilitie and vanitie that God hath passed upon them If this be so beloved let us learne not to passe much for things that will passe away not to passe for them learne all the former directions The fashion of this world passeth away Shall wee grieve much for the losse of that that wee cannot hold Wee say if a glasse be broke is a man much angrie a frayle thing is broken If a friend bee dead shall a man bee therefore angry The fashion of this world passeth away A sentence is passed upon them Shall I be moved at that that God hath set downe a Law for that one generation shall goe and another shall follow after and there is a succession as in the streames of water Shall I oppose Cods sentence God hath made all things fraile and it is but the common condition of all since the fall So it should be a use of comfort and contentment with any thing in this world place or Riches or honour I must leave them I know not how soone and this will breed a disposition of contentment It is enough for him that must leave all I know not how soone have I little or much I must leave all here is enough for him that must leave all and therefore leave worldly things to worldly men leave all these vaine things to vaine men shall I build a fixed hope on vaine things Oh! no that should not be so As we must learne contentment so it should take us off from the hopes of this world and from promising our selves that which we have no promise in the world for nor experience VVho promised thee thou shouldest enioy thy wise long that thou shouldest enjoy thy children long thy place long haste thou a promise for this The nature of things fight against thee The things of the world are variable Have wee not experience of former times And have wee not Scriptures to shew that all is Vanitie Why should wee promise our selves that which the Word doth not promise us or that wee cannot see experience of in the world Why would wee have a condition severed from all men The seeing of things in a condition of fading as it should teach us contentment in the use of all things so it should teach us moderation and wisedome that Wee should not promise our selves any thing in this world And it should teach us to provide for stable for certaine things in changes and alterations Looke to somewhat that may stand by us when all these things are gone will all these things leave me and must I leave them How is it with me for world without end Shall I not therefore looke for those comforts and those graces and for that condition that will abide when I am gone hence what desperate folly were it Let us labour for a sanctifyed use of the passing away of these things that wee may provide for that which is not subiect to alteration and change The favour of God in Christ is for everlasting The Graces of Gods Spirit are for Everlasting The condition of Gods Children is for everlasting And therefore why should we looke after perishing things and neglect better For a Christian hath the realtie of things hee hath a Husband for ever Hee hath matter of ioy for ever he hath a possession for ever then there will be a new world All these things are but Shews the Christian hath the realty of al that never passes away and therefore considering that all things else passe away but the things that belong to a Christian as a Christian let Christians learne to make most of their best calling and value themselves as they are Christians and value others as they are Christians not as they are rich or as they are poore as they are noble or as they are great The fashion of this world passeth away value them by that they have of eternitie what of the Spirit is in them what of the Image of God is in them What Grace is in them are they new borne are they truely noble are they new Creatures value them by that and labour to get that stamped upon our children and upon our friends Labour to have Communion so