Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	amen_n	father_n	holy_a	2,005	5	4.7979	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36356	A sermon preach'd before Their Majesties in their chappel at St. James's the 25th. Sunday after Pentecost, November 17th. 1686 by J.D. of the Society of Jesus.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1687 (1687)	Wing D1928; ESTC R8587	8,533	32

Devotion you enslav'd Faith to Sense Reason to Passion Soul to Body and by a false Perspective representing unto your selves great for little and little for great you aspired to settle your Greatness and Happiness in a Contemptible World by relinquishing God And whereas like the Mustard-seed raising your self from little to great to God to Eternal Bliss by your own increase you should have increased the Kingdom of Heaven Falling from great to little you have made an accession to the Princedom of Torment And now quid prodest quid prodest what doth it avail you what doth it avail you to have master'd a World The World is where it was and you in Hell. Crucior in hac flamma exclaims the Rich Man we commonly call Dives I am tormented in this Fire Where our Saviour bringing in Abraham and Dives discoursing together emboldens me to put in a Word to my purpose and so end Good News O Dives from the other World. And what says he are the Tydings of the other World to me who am in pain but painful Your Children are jocund And I sighing They peaceable enjoy the Riches the Titles the Honours with so much Toil thou entailest upon them And my Inheritance are gnashing of Teeth a never-dying Worm Reproach and Ignominy That Pallace of which Wealth laid the first Stone by Magnificency the Architect is now compleated And I unhappy dwell in a Dungeon of Horror and Darkness The Gardens you design'd are curiously divided the Walks laid out the Flowers breath a constant Spring and Paradise And here in stench I am chain'd only permitted to walk with my dismal Fancy from torment to torment Comfort O Davies those little Cypresses all thrive and are grown up to defiance of the scorching Sun. And I burn Your Fountains run and sport your Waterworks Play to admiration within your shady Groves and neither Shade or a drop of Water have I to temper my excessive Flames That Wilderness you planted with such exquisit art is grown up into a Labyrinth where pleasure has lost its self to be found by all that enter And I am lost says he in the inextricable Labyrinth of Fire of Torment of a woful Eternity I burn I burn and burn I must for ever Cruciar in hac flamma Such beloved Brethren is the apparent increase and real decrease of those who value Interest above Religion their own Humours above Gods Precepts Body above Soul Vice above Virtue and Earth above Heaven and so it ends without ever finding an end of misery By an opposite way of living let us change the decrease into an increase by a right estimate of what is Truth and what Imposture what Temporal what Eternal The Mustard-seed begins early no sooner committed to the Earth but it works its increase its perseverant of a hot nature that is as it were resolute The like are we to be we must begin we must persevere we must be resolute Regnum Coelorum vim patitur violenti rapiunt illud The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent bear it away We are to be resolute in a True Faith of undaunted Hope and fervent Charity that so by raising our thoughts to a true esteem of our Soul to God to Life Eternal we may increase the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Heaven like the Mustard-seed may increase by us which God of his Infinite Mercy grant us In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen FINIS