Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	angel_n	head_n	zion_n	17	3	8.2725	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02904	Hels torments, and heavens glorie	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1601 (1601)	STC 13048.5; ESTC S2725	31,181	186

seeing never satisfide God as he is sight beyond estimate Which angels tongues are untaught to discover Whose splendor doth the heavens illustrate Vnto which sight each sight becomes a lover Whom all the glorious court of heaven laud With praises of eternities applaud There where no teares are to interprete greeves Nor any sighs heart dolours to expound There where no treasure as surpris'd by theeves Nor any voice that speakes with sorrowes sound No use of passions no distempered thought No spot of sinne no deed of errour wrought The native home of pilgrime soules abod Rest's habitation ioies true residence Ierusalem's new citie built by God Form'd by the hands of his owne excellence With gold-pav'd streets the wals of precious stone Where all sound praise to him sits on the throne Finis ❧ Of the glorie of the blessed Saints in Heaven TO the end there might want nothing to stir up our mindes to vertue after the paines which Almightie God threateneth to the wicked he dooth also set before us the reward of the good which is that glorie and everlasting life which the blessed Saints doe enjoy in heaven whereby he dooth very mightily allure us to the love of the same But what manner of thing this reward and what this life is there is no tongue neither of angels nor of men that is sufficient to expresse it Howbeit that wee may have some kind of savor knowledge therof I intend here to rehearse even word for word what S. Augustine sayth in one of his meditations speaking of the life everlasting ensuing this transitorie time and the joies of the blessed Saints in heaven O life sayth he prepared by almighty God for his friends a blessed life a secure life a quiet life a beautifull life a cleane life a chast life a holy life a life that knoweth no death a life without sadnesse without labour without greefe without trouble without corruption without feare without variety without alteration a life replenished with all beautie and dignity where there is neither enemy that can offend nor delight that can annoy where love is perfect and no feare at all where the day is everlasting and the spirit of all is one where almightie God is seene face to face who is the only meat whereupon they feed without lothsomnesse it delighteth me to consider thy brightnesse thy treasures do rejoice my longing heart The more I consider thee the more I am stricken in love with thee The great desire I have of thee doth wonderfully delight me no lesse pleasure is it to me to keep thee in my remembrance O life most happie ô kingdome truly blessed wherin there is no death nor end neither yet succession of time where the day continuing evermore without night knoweth not anie mutation where the victorious conqueror being joined with those everlasting quires of Angels and having his head crowned with a garland of glorie singeth unto Almightie God one of the songs of Syon Oh happie yea and most happie should my soule bee if when the race of this my pilgrimage is ended I might bee worthie to see thy glorie thy blessednes thy beautie the wals and gates of thy city thy streets thy lodgings thy noble citizens and thine omnipotent king in his most glorious majestie The stones of thy wals are precious thy gates are adorned with bright pearles thy streets are of very fine excellent gold in which there never faile perpetuall praises thy houses are paved with rich stones wrought throghout with Zaphirs and covered above with massie gold where no uncleane thing may enter neither dooth any abide there that is defiled Faire and beautifull in thy delights art thou ô Ierusalem our mother none of those thinges are suffered in thee that are suffered here There is great diversitie betweene thy things and the things that we doe continually see in this life In thee is never seene neither darkenesse nor night neither yet any change of time The light that shineth in thee commeth neither of lampes nor of Sunne or Moone nor yet of bright glittering stars but God that proceedeth of God and the light that commeth of light is he that giveth clearenesse unto thee Even the very king of kings himselfe keepeth continuall residence in the middest of thee compassed about with his officers and servants There doe the Angels in their orders and quires sing a most sweet and melodious harmonie There is celebrated a perpetuall solemnitie and feast with everie one of them that commeth thither after his departure out of this pilgrimage There bee the orders of Prophets there is the famous companie of the Apostles there is the invincible armie of Martyrs there is the most reverent assembly of confessours there are the true and perfect religious persons there are the holy Virgines which have overcome both the pleasures of the world and the frailtie of their owne nature there are the young men and young women more auncient in vertue than in yeares there are the sheepe and little lambs that have escaped from the wolves and from the deceitfull snares of this life and therefore do now keep a perpetuall feast each one in his place all alike in joy though different in degree There Charitie raigneth in her full perfection for unto them God is all in all whome they behold without end in whose love they be all continually inflamed whom they doe alwaies love and in loving do praise and in praising doe love and all their exercises consist in praises without wearinesse and without travell O happie were I yea and very happy indeed if at what time I shall bee loosed out of the prison of this wretched bodie I might bee thought worthie to hear those songs of that heavenly melodie sung in the praise of the everlasting king by all the cittizens of that so noble cittie Happie were I and very happie if I might obtaine a roome among the chaplaines of that chappell and wait for my turne also to sing my Alleluia If I might be neare to my king my God my Lord and see him in his glorie even as he promised mee when he said O father this is my last determinate will that all those that thou hast given unto mee may bee with me and see the glorie which I had with thee before the world was created Hetherto are the words of S. Augustine Nowe tell mee Christian brother what a day of glorious shine shall that bee unto thee if thou lead thy life in Gods feare when after the course of this pilgrimage thou shalt passe from death to immortallitie and in that passage when others shall begin to feare thou shalt begin to rejoyce and lift up thyhead because the day of thy deliverance is at hand Come foorth a little sayth S. Ierome unto the Virgine Eustochia out of the prison of this body and when thou art before the gate of this Tabernacle set before thy eyes the reward that thou hopest to have for thy present labours Tell