Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	ascend_v	descend_v	ladder_n	1,837	5	11.6158	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06685	The soules pilgrimage to a celestial glorie: or, the perfect vvay to heaven and to God. Written by J.M. Master of Arts	Monlas, John.; Maxwell, James, b. 1581, attributed name.	1634 (1634)	STC 17141; ESTC S102722	91,677	186

is as it were Iacobs Ladder whereby the Angels of divine consolations descend upon us on earth and our holy prayers and religious thoughts and meditations ascend unto Heaven This Ladder hath three principall steps As the feare of the Lord makes us ascend unto Iesus Christ which is our wisedome for through and by God he hath made us wisedome 1. Cor. 1.30 Iesus Christ leades us to God his Father and God receives and lodgeth us in Heaven and therefore we first feare him if ever we hope or thinke to enter into his favour This feare of God is the head spring and fountaine from whence wee draw and exhaust the sacred mysteries of our salvation and David tells us in formall and expresse termes That the feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome Psal 111.10 Thereby to teach us that all this knowledge and learning whereof men vaunt and glory is nothing else but pure folly if it derive not his Origen or beginning from the feare of the Lord. This feare is here taken for the principle of wisedome and Iesus Christ himselfe in many places of Scripture hath assumed and taken the title of Wisedome because he is the wisdome of the Father as wee reade in the former alledged Chapter of 1. Cor. 1.30 But in the book of Genes Chap. 31.42 He himselfe is by Moses called the feare of Isaac Except the God of my Father the God of Abraham and the feare of Isaac had beene with me thou hadst sent me away empty But here the best Interpreters by this feare of Isaac doe understand the second person of the Trinity Iesus Christ our Saviour who had not yet assumed and cloathed our humane nature and of whom Isaac was the true type and figure It is an excellent question of Saint Augustine in his Citie of God that is If this filiall feare after the death of the faithfull Children of the Lord remaine with them in Heaven yea or no Those who maintaine the contrary fortifie themselues from the Apostle Saint Iohn Chap. 4. ver 18. There is no feare in love but perfect love casteth out feare because feare hath torment and hee that feareth is not made perfect in love from whence they argue Where there is perfect Love there is no feare But among the Saints in Heaven there is perfect Love Therefore among the Saints in Heaven there is no feare And from the same place and passage of Saint Iohn they derive and draw another Argument thus All feare is accompanied with torment But in Heaven there is no torment Therefore in Heaven there is no feare They say moreover That this feare should then deprive them of their rest and repose and consequently that they could not enjoy a perfect felicity whiles they were troubled and tormented with any apprehension or feare Others answere That the Apostle Saint Iohn understands not to speake there of a chast and filiall but of a servile feare and to fortifie and support their opinion they alledge the Psal 19.9 The feare of the Lord is cleane enduring for ever And Saint Augustine expounding this sort of feare saith Non enim est timor exterrens à malo quod accidere potest sed tenens in bono quod amitti non potest This kinde of feare makes us not apprehend any evill which can befall us but makes us so to keepe fast good that wee may not lose it And afterwards he againe addeth Timoris Casti nomine ea voluntas significata est quo nos necesse erit nolle Peceare non solicitudine necessitatis sed tranquillitate charitatis He sayes that by this name of chast feare is signified the will whereby it is necessary that we will not sinne not for the care of necessity but for the tranquillity of Charity Hee then concludes that indeed Servile feare cannot enter into Heaven but onely the filiall and yet notwithstanding it must be after it hath lost the effects which it produceth in this present life to wit this naturall apprehension whereby shee feares that the soule falls from the State of Grace No no this feare in Heaven shall be but a perfect reverence honour and piety and a full and absolute devotion which wee shall beare to the service of GOD whereby every one seeing the divine Majestie shall profoundly and perfectly study to serue and honour him in all reverence And for this cause it is why the 70. Interpreters have turned Timorem Dei the feare of God into this Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to wit Dei pietatem the piety which we beare to God and so it remaines true which the Prophet David had said long before The feare of the Lord is cleane enduring for ever In this Elementary world the feare of God is the most assured way to goe to celestiall Hierusalem Those who have not beene to a place if they foolishly rashly runne athwart fields they then runne a great hazard to goe astray and to lose themselues among woods or bryars or peradventure to fall into the hands of cruell and mercilesse theeves So those who will ascend to the top of the holy Mountaine of sacred Sion If they are not curbed and retained by the golden bridle of the feare of God If without wisedome or judgement they runne over craggie rockes full of thornes and bryars for such are the wayes to Sion Heaven without doubt they will fall into the errour of precipices or else they will serve for prey or fewell to eternall flames The feare of God is the pledge and seale of his love and favour the which hee placeth and planteth in the midst of our hearts when he will call us to him and conserue us to his service For he hath united and tyed us to him with the linkes and chaynes of his love in his owne house Hee for ever makes us his domesticall servants yea his heires and adoptive children and in this quality hee makes vs to enter into the inheritance of eternall life above in Heaven with Iesus Christ his only welbeloved Sonne who is our eldest Brother Neither are they phantastick imaginations or light presumptions which must make us beleeve these things for it is God himselfe which hath pronounced them by his Prophet Ieremy Chap. 22.39.40 I will give them one heart and one way that they may feare me for ever and I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turne away from them to doe them good but I will put my feare into their hearts that they shall not depart from me The feare of the Lord takes place among the rarest presents and richest Iewels which the Holy Ghost discovereth to his Elect and it is the entry to the greatest which is wisedome it selfe for as Salomon saith truth The beginning of wisedome is the feare of God For when the Holy Ghost will operate in the heart of any man hee then stampes and markes him with his seale which is the feare of God and then conducts