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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	word_n	8,769	5	4.5336	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61219	A discourse of the misery of Hell and happiness of Heaven grounded from the following words, Matth. 25, 46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5116; ESTC R26941	13,459	16

Books of Moses the Psalms and the Prophets The Lords portion is his people the Lord the hope of their fathers Jer. 50.7 Happy is that people whose God is the Lord Psal 144.15 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God Psal 146.5 And by all such Phrases and Forms of Speech there which the Holy Ghost makes use of to shew that such of his Creatures as serve and obey him they have also an Interest and Propriety in him He is their God or my God or such like In all these as under a Vail is contained Heaven Immortality and Eternal Life For there is a way of assuredly gathering and reasoning out of the Scriptures to bring out such and such Truths although they seem to speak nothing thereof in plain and express Words Even so it is here for by the same way of assuredly gathering and reasoning out of the Scriptures as is used in Heb. 11.16 He was not ashamed to be called their God so far goes the Text there cited out of the Old-Testament but then saith the Reasoning by the Spirit further for he hath prepared for them a City From this very place we lay down and establish that grand Position and Affirmation which is certainly true That where-ever in the Old Testament God is said to be their God therein is contained the Promise of Heaven Immortality and Eternal Life this being that City which he hath prepared for them And to make this Matter a little more plain and clear the Reason hereof stands on this wise He is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City That is They had Confidence and Assurance that God would do somewhat more for his Servants than Temporal and present Mercies for they were also common unto others But as he is just and good so he would make some Requital for Obedience and for that Hardship and Inconvenience his Servants meet with from the World for his sake which they did expect hereafter in another place and that is Heaven and also themselves should remain or else be raised up again into a State capable to receive and partake of that great Good God had prepared for his Creatures which must be by continuing or giving them Life again For they were sensibly bereaved of this present Life and here they did not continue by reason of Death So that of Necessity therein must virtually be contained the Promise of Immortality and Eternal Life and therefore Paul saith appositely and pertinently to the Matter here treated of in Hope of Eternal Life which God that cannot lie promised before the World began but hath in due time manifested his Word through preaching Tit. 1.2 for discovery hath been made thereof by little and little It was contained in those general Expressions afore-mentioned the Lord their God I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and such like God was the same then and his Decrees alike sure although they were not so clearly made known unto Men. And therefore now it is called Hope which entreth into that within the vail Heb. 6.19 a better hope Heb. 7.19 a lively hope 1 Pet. 1.3 all in opposition to those faint Guesses and imperfect Knowledge they had thereof under the Law It is speaking plainly under the Gospel according to John 16.25 in opposition to those dark Speeches which God spake by Moses or those Parables and Proverbs which he spake by his Servants the Prophets They under the Old-Testament Dispensation had but a dull and glimmering Prospect beyond the Earthly Canaan But now the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished Death and hath brought Life and Immortality to light thro' the Gospel 2 Tim. 1.10 And tho in the Gospel it is spoken more plainly concerning Heaven Immortality and Eternal Life and also more suitable unto our Carnal Apprehensions and Fleshly Mind in describing it by the outward Representations of a Marriage Supper Gold Honour Pleasure Satisfaction Blessedness and such like yet there is also somewhat spoken of these things in the Old-Testament But all that and much more than all that is comprehended under that one saying The Lord our God the Lord is my Portion for ever Perhaps the Hearer or Reader may expect that now I am a discoursing of the Happiness of Heaven here I should be unto thee as a very lovely Song of one that hath a pleasant Voice and can play well on an Instrument Ezek. 33.32 This being so very delightful a Subject that if here thou canst not tickle the Ear and please thy Auditory thou never wilt But now suppose I should here use Ten Thousand Words in Rhetorical Flourishes in the greatest Eloquency and Wit of Man with the most smooth Language with the greatest Connexion and Exactness of Stile and all concerning this best of Subjects the Happiness or Joys of Heaven yet as it is said That she who cast her two mites into the treasury cast in more than all they who gave of their abundance So here it would be there would be more said concerning Heaven in these four or five words only the Lord my God or the Lord is my Portion for ever For all these are the Words which the Spirit did dictate so that there is more contain'd in them than in five Millions of other Words concerning it This will also further appear from this following significancy and Reasoning viz. If the Lord is our God or if the Lord is my Strength and my Portion for ever thence it follows also of consequence That all that Blessedness Happiness Goodness Delight Satisfaction and Immortality which is in God the Everlasting Creator of the Ends of the Earth as it is all in him which is any where in the World for they are all but Rays and Emanations from this infinite Fountain of Life and Being I say all these are communicated and imparted forth even as far as the small Vessel is capable to receive brimfull and running over to such of his Creatures and People to whom he is the Lord their God and they are his Portion and the Lot of his Inheritance ●s they can reciprocally say The Lord is my strength and my portion for ever There is but one thing in the World which hinders all the reasonable Creatures on the Earth from this Blessedness and Union with their God and that is Sin O accursed thing which we gather assuredly from what is written Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord Acts 3.19 As the foregoing part of the Verse doth illustrate and shew that so by the latter part of the Verse the Holy Ghost doth signifie that such of his Creatures as shall then be more nearly and immediately in the Presence of God where is fulness of Joy and at whose Right Hand are Pleasures for evermore all Refreshing Content Satisfaction yea and