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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	affection_n	heart_n	world_n	2,035	5	4.7692	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03891	Now and ever; shewing, where the work of conversion is thoroughly done, it is done for ever. / By William Jemmat, preacher of the Gospel in Reading.	Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1666 (1666)	Wing J550A; ESTC R178967	36,525	49

run to the Indies and round about the world Therefore labour on as thou hast begun and digest all the pains that are to be taken in fortifying for heaven as for example Follow on still to enjoy the Preaching of the Word though Painful Hateful Chargeable It is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth It is the savour of life unto life and useful divers ways 2 Tim. 3.16 Then go to the Prophets though an Husband say there is no cause or a Wife or a Father or Mother or Friend or Master Fast still in a Religious manner be not wearied with the uncouthness of the exercise it is powerful to do marvels sturdy Devils have been cast out by Fasting and Prayer and so may stout corruptions which seem untameable So for the Sacrament it is an effectal Ordinance of God to Seal up his love to the soul more throughly to strengthen faith to quicken an holy heart to enable us unto holy duties and holy conversation as it were with a new addition of strength It is another Seal of the Righteousness of faith We may be well assured and cheared by it Therefore take pains more then ordinary be not so formal and slight in preparation examine thy estate more fully and particularly lament thy imperfections more deeply discern the Lords body more carefully and reverently provide better then ever heretofore to be a welcome Guest at the Lords Table It is true to do this as it ought to be done will require some time and some retiredness and some thought-taking with sorrows and fears and it may be some anguish of mind But be contented for all that the Harvest will pay for all the labour of the Seed-time thou shalt see in little time how good it was for thee to be so reverent and devoutly affected when Gods face shall shine upon thee more then before and thy Conscience more cheared and cleared and thy weaknesses helped and thy life in all points rectified thou shalt bless the time that ever thou settest to do the work of the Lord so exactly and substantially 3. There be three duties that lie couched in the Similitude here used whereby the perpetuity of the Saints in grace is described They shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary aad they shall walk and not faint It is reported of the Eagle that she is very long-lived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if the Eagle had always a year to live being old she becomes young again and not once but often and when she dyes it is rather that she cannot eat for the length and crookedness of her Beak then for want of vigor and liveliness This her Beak a long time she casteth say Pliny and Aristotle as other creatures do their horns and then she can feed afresh and be as lively as ever So it is a fit Similitude to express the vivacity of Believers whose life Christ is they shall renew their strength by waiting on the Lord as before Ps 103.8 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed as the Eagles But to follow that Similitude which is more express in the Text Of mounting up with wings as Eagles It is but a fable of Zaadias the Jew that every tenth year the Eagle flies to the sphear of the Sun and there burns off her feathers with the heat of the Sun-beams and so grows young again for an hundred years This is confest on all hands that the Eagle flies higher then any other Bird and thence the Proverb is risen Aquila in nubibus spoken of one that soars aloft in remote and abstruse matters which the common sort of men can never reach into And here applyed to Believers may note their heavenly-mindedness they set their affections on things above and not on things which are upon earth It notes also their agility and chearfulness in fulfilling their course though sin as a weight press them down yet they force up their hearts again and still affect the way to heaven as the only way they can take for happiness Then for the other words They shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint As in the word of running saith Musculus is noted fervor and alacrity of spirit so in the word of walking the Prophet sets forth the continuance of proceeding So that in this Similitude we have three things which agree to the godly partly as duties partly as priviledges Heavenly-mindedness Chearfulness and Constancy in their holy course We will speak of them severally that the Uses may be more plain and distinct Doctr. 1. It is the nature of true Believers to lift up their hearts toward spiritual and heavenly things and so they must remember to do as of duty Col 3.1 2. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth And the Psalmist calls them a brood of Travellers in seeking the face of God Psal 24.6 For why they are born of an heavenly Principle which is the Spirit of God and their treasure as they profess is in heaven therefore there also must their hearts be And in the world they find a great deal of sin opposition to good distraction and hindrance from better things vanity and vexation of spirit no contentment in any thing no certainty therefore why should they stay below why should they not mount upward where they are sure to be safe and satisfied and that for ever and ever the Bird is safest when she keeps highest on earth there are snares and enemies everywhere and that continually Use To reprove earthly-minded people who are altogether set upon things below Profits Lands Houses Honors Easie living Voluptuousness so that they would care for no other heaven if they might always live where they do They plainly shew themselves to be but Crows and Buzzards who never get higher then the lowest Region therefore one day they are likely to come to a fearful end Phil. 3.19 They mind earthly things and their end is destruction It must also check and condemn the earthly-mindedness of the godly themselves who mount not up as they ought to do but too much rest in these vanities below as if of Eagles they would turn some vile and base Birds whom any Carrion will content well enough It is too lamentable to see how some good men are rivetted into the earth and inordinately seek after profit till grace wither and they begin to fall into a Consumption in respect of their souls The time and thoughts and cares and affections which should be bent and spent upon heaven and the things thereof are now turned for earth and earthly advantages The heart is straightned and almost shut up for any charges toward good uses All is for the Wife and Children and their own contentment

according to the perverse humor which is grown in the soul Others are for their Honors and Preferments as if they would have a Jeremy come and reprove them in those words to Baruch Seekest thou great things to thy self Others too much hang upon evil and ungodly men or too much seek to keep in with the wicked multitude as if they meant no longer to be the Servants of Christ Gal. 1.10 If I go about to please men I am not the Servant of Christ Others are held from good duties through fear of men and kept in a luke-warm indifferency as if with Laodicea they thought good to be spewed out of the mouth of Christ For disguised fashions there is no talk now but they must be tolerated and may be used the Preachers were as good hold their peace as seek to take off these superfluities from their heads and shoulders they shall but get ill-will for speaking against these fashions And so of Marriages Sons of God now-a-days marry the Daughters of men and contrarywise and there is no remorse for it no sin in it all is well if there be State and Portion enough with other the like vanities In many things we see great embasement come upon the professed servants of God and such as we hope do serve him in truth To whom I may say as Christ said to his Disciples admiring the fine stones and buildings of the Temple Are these the things that ye look upon are these the contentful Objects of renewed souls what is your understanding enlightned and your judgment rectified and yet so dote upon such trifles as these are Why what need wings to mount up after these things these are the common prey of every unclean and base-conditioned Bird that never flies aloft these are for Owls and not for Eagles you shall leave these for men of this world who have their portion in this life Psal 17.14 Where the Carkase is thither will the Eagles be gathered together saith our Saviour He spake it of himself and of his coming to judgment Wherever he would appear to judge the world thither the godly would resort and come unto him Consider and gather up thy affections for heaven and make them as many as frequent as earnest as ever they were Christ is that sacred Carkase whereon thy soul must feed unto eternal life and if thou be an Eagle indeed thou wilt scent him strongly afar off and long for him and hasten after him as fast as thou canst Well do so here is now a Sacrament at hand and thereby an occasion to renew thy love of Christ and of the things that pertain to his Kingdom Now stir up thy self to thy ancient affections and actions renew thy Covenant with God soar aloft as thou wast wont to do let us see thee after this Sacrament more heavenly-minded then thou hast been of late days let thy speeches and courses speak louder that thou art for heaven in good sadness as we say say more do more give more spend more which may help thee in that journey The Jews upon their eating the Passover must presently walk out of Egypt and thereunto in eating must have a staff in their hand Let the Moral be thus this heavenly Banquet requires an heavenly Appetite affection conversation afterward Get out of the Egypt of this world as fast as thou canst He is an holy and happy Christian who takes every occasion to unfasten his heart from the world earthly in it self even after grace received and must be skrewed up by little and little upon every advantage that it may take So as he hath less earthly joy he shall have more of the heavenly The sweet peace with God and his own Conscience will infinitely countervail the want of all other peace and comfort whatsoever And thrice happy are those souls who by a right estemation of the worth of heavenly things and by a godly jealousie over their own hearts do keep their thoughts and affections above still looking downward with an holy disdain and weariness It is an high pitch of great grace for the heart to say and the life make it good Vanity of vanities vanity of vanities all is vanity and vexation of spirit Doctr. 2. It is the nature and duty of Christians truly fearing God to be chearful and lively in their holy course as the Eagles are nimble and full of spirits to mount upward so are and must Believers be the Lord loves a chearful giver and that is reason enough 2 Cor. 9.7 They must run and walk run and not be weary walk and not faint Use If they be not thus chearful it is a fault and must be amended It is because they wait not on the Lord so duly and carefully as they ought to do The promise is not performed because the condition is not observed Many Christians may wonder at themselves what is come to them that they are so heavy so unweildy so timerous so backward in the way of godliness Their spirits are even gone they have not the heavenly Meditations that sometime they had they delight not in the presence of God to come before him in prayer as sometime they did Accordingly they have but cold comfort and poor answer returned after their prayer They make not good motions nor put in a good word as heretofore Carnal fear and modesty have seised upon them Some one way and some another are mightily come behind themselves and that measure of liveliness which sometime was in them Hereupon they are troubled about their Estate or have just cause to be troubled Well let this be a watch-word to them to become as chearful as ever Say O Christian in every such case as the Psalmist Why art thou so cast down O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me what is the matter that I am so untoward Stir up the gift that is in thee arise and shake thy self as Samson when he was bound with chains or cords repent and do the first works repent and entertain the first Love again Return O Shulam te return return Thou hast the Spirit of God in thee quench him not set him on work as lively as ever Pray and it shall be done Or if that will not serve the turn fast away this dull and melancholy Devil which possesseth thee as is said This kind goeth not out but by fasting and prayer Renew thy Covenant and Vows do something more then ordinary that is the way to be as lively as ever thou wast Consider the occasion which the Lord now offers unto thee Upon a good Banquet we use to be more lively then we were and to gather up our spirits which were almost spent and wasted No such Banquet as the Lord makes for his servants the flesh of his Son which is meat indeed and the blood of his Son which is drink indeed These are the fat things the Wine and Milk of the Gospel Esa 55.1 2. How can a Christian go rightly to