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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	affection_n	love_n	see_v	834	5	3.2228	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77743	A sermon preached at the funeral of that truly pious and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Nich. Thorowgood at Godelman in Surrey. / By John Buck, Minister of the Gospel.	Buck, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing B5308A; ESTC R173204	13,879	25

Mysterious Actings of Providence in the World Job 10.3 Psal 73.16 we could before give no account of nor durst demand any How we were afflicted and yet beloved What Souls are as to their Royal Original and what as to their most vivacious Actings without the assistance of any corporeal Organ with innumerable difficulties no Hypothesis in Philosophy can give an exact solution of Oh the knowledge that a Soul one minute in glory hath of delightful Mysteries beyond what on Earth we are capable of by the most painful Converse with Men or Books He knows more than us all and is perfectly happy in the knowledge of what he knows whilst in the knowledge of many things we are miserable and as to our knowledge of what we ought chiefly to know have reason to sigh out the complaint of our ignorance 2. Exactness of conformity in every thing to the divine Image For what Grace in our blessed Conformity thereunto is not then in its liveliest and highest Exercise Our Love our Delight our Joy and Rejoycing is so if not Desire Faith and Fear wholly ceasing As we actually enjoy the good or happiness we wished for believed or dreaded the loss of And as for our obedience in every thing to the Divine Will it is the most chearful constant and perfect or to what end do we pray Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven 3. Constancy of abode They are no longer complaining Heb. 13.14 We have here no continuing City No more restless in their motions from place to place like Noah's Dove that found no rest for the sole of her Foot the Waters had so covered the Earth but plucked in rather by a tender hand into the heavenly Ark where they have rest perpetual are fixed the Citizens of the New Jerusalem that City above where they are for ever at home And oh the happiness of this beyond what possibly at present we entertain the thoughts of It is so undoubtedly as to that Venerable Gray-headed Disciple and Soldier of our dear Redeemer deceased of any man I have known since he first left his Publick Living for the sake of conscientious innocent Nonconformity His Life appeared but one continued Journey and Travel from place to place and no removal thereof was apparently more his death's stroke than his last from his Native County and dear People of his Affections as he often stiled them to sing out his dying sweet and Swan-like Notes with you 4. Sweetest Harmony and Concord one with another It seems the least of doubts that Souls departed know each other in Glory Why not as well as Adam in the state of Innocency Of whom it is said that as soon as he awaked out of his deep Sleep He knew Eve to be bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh And no small part truly of their Happiness is it that they have the highest satisfaction and contentment one in another as partakers of the same Rest and alike imployed in the same most noble and delightful work of Praise Heaven admits of no Mistakes nor misunderstandings one of another and 't is pity this lower World should do it There are no Treacherous Judas's to betray us with a Kiss nor faithless Friends whose friendship is as vanishing as the smoak and vapour but rather a Hooper and a Ridley more fairly-shaking hands than ever they agreed in their Prisons A Luther and a Calvin sworn Friends or rather a perpetual and everlasting Friendship that shall never once be violated begun not only with known Friends deceased but all the Holy Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and Martyrs we never before saw or knew And may there as the liveliest Emblem of Heaven be more of Brotherly Peace Love and Amity on Earth May no trifling difference in Judgment separate Affections but each one for the future make it their only contention who shall most advance the Interest of the Lord Jesus in the World and resolve to leave those of lesser moment to such as think they have greater Concerns to mind than an endless blessed Eternity we are professedly waiting hoping longing for and hastning to And which follows on this 5. Fulness unspeakableness and Eternity of Delight and joy 1. Fulness and unspeakableness It is a Joy redundant and overflowing yet what admits of degrees or it had never been said They that be wise Dan. 12.3 shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever But every holy glorified Soul more or less capacious is as truly full of it as the lesser Vessel thrown into the Sea less capacious yet is as full as the greater Matt. 25.21 Psal 16.11 A Joy too great to enter into us for which we are bid to enter into it A Fulness inexhaustible and that lasts for ever A Joy that at present supports under the most painful Tribulations and Afflictive Losses Rom. 5.3 Heb. 10.34 Primitive Worthies gloried therein And took joyfully the spoiling of their goods as knowing they had in heaven a more enduring substance A Joy of which God himself is the Author which was of everlasting preparation Matt. 25.34 and the most affecting Subject of his dearest Son's Intercession He had never Grace more apparently poured into his Lips Psal 45.2 than when he uttered These things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves John 17.13 v. 24. Or as the everlasting subject thereof he pleaded Father I will that those whom thou hast given me be with we where I am that they may behold the glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world A Joy compleatly satisfactory and that as to the place of it Heaven excelling in glory all that is earthly Luke 23.43 Rev. 21.10 Rev. 21.2 Luke 22.29 Luke 12.32 Matt. 25.32 Rev. 4.8 Rev. 2.10 It is stiled upon this Account Paradise the great City the new Jerusalem the Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world the work of it Praises and Thanksgiving of any the most noble and delightful Its advancement Thrones Scepters and Crowns our Company God Christ and glorified Beings And our heavenly Converse as with the former so the latter communicating their thoughts to us and we ours to them in a way much more noble and excellent than that at present of our quaintest and exactest Oratory Oh the various Delights and Joys resulting from each part of such our fulness and variety of Happiness yet no way diverting us from God the Chief but leading of us rather to the greater admiration of his rich Sovereign Love and Goodness in preparing each part of it for Creatures the most vile and unworthy and the highest thankfulness to him for the Death and Satisfaction of his Son by which only it hath been obtain'd and purchased And 2. Eternity It is what shall never have an end We are never more dreading