Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08481	Gods rebuke in taking from vs that worthy and honourable gentleman Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, the first day of May this present yeere 1618, he being at that time high Sheriffe of Suffolke whose Christian life and comfortable end are here faithfully recorded. Together with diuers profitable and necessarie instructions; deliuered first in a discourse at his funerall, and now inlarged, and published, for the benefit of others not then present. By T.O. aliàs P. minister of the word of God at Denham in Suffolke.	Oldmayne, Timothy.	1619 (1619)	STC 18805; ESTC S113488	40,569	121

for the righteousnesse of Christ preferring it before all the glory and riches in the world whatsoeuer Oh saith he lifting vp his dying eyes to heauen that I doe Well Sir quoth I hold out in this holy desire of yours you shall my life for yours be fully satisfied After which discourse of ours once ended it cannot be imagined how wonderfully his heart was cheared the Sonne of righteousnesse hauing by this time brought saluation vnder his wings the loue of God like the Sunne oft times breaking out of a blacke cloud shining comfortably vpon his soule which made him desirous as wee well perceiued by him to haue spoken much more And as glad should we haue beene to haue heard him but by this time his glasse was run and those two louing friends his soule and body I meane were shaking hands and bidding one another for a time farewell The which I perceiuing asked him whether I should pray with him againe or no Yes answered hee with all my heart which words of his he drew out with a fainting breath exceeding long In the middest of which praier of mine he was heard of some in whose armes he died to vtter these words Lord Iesus I come to thee and so lying quietly for a time not stirring scarcely hand or foot which is a thing to be wondred at hee dying in his full strength within a short space after he yeelded that blessed soule of his into the armes of his Sauiour in whose loue he slept Qualis vita finis ita The Catastrophe as you see in all points suiting the Scene forepassed hee liued vertuously and died blessedly The vse that we are to make principally of both these vnto our selues is this that wee now all of vs follow his holy and Christian example imitating herein the warie Pilot whose manner is passing through a troublesome Sea wherein is both Scylla and Charibdis Rockes and Sands dangerous and deuouring if perchance hee spieth a ship gliding along before him guided by some faire and kilfull hand and now entred the wished Hauen to follow her course with as little aberration as possibly may be So I beseech you brethren let vs order and dispose our selues making his course our guide and his life our example Let vs as little swerue from him as he swerued from Christ so shall we without question meet at the length comfortably together in that blessed Hauen where hee hath now cast Anchor where no tempest can annoy vs or storme how boisterous soeuer trouble vs where a gale of pleasure shall blow continually vpon our sailes where the Sonne of righteousnesse shall be our only Load-starre and the Father and Holy Ghost be Prora Puppis all in all vnto vs which God grant But now for that the holy Scriptures are indeed our Vrim and Thummim liuely Oracles teaching vs and all the seruants of God what vse to make further of this and any other the like calamitie let vs I beseech you now draw neere to the same and heare what the Lord speaketh to his people out of a part of that Psalme euen now sung Psal 39. verse 11. The words are these When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie thou as a moth makest his beautie to consume surely euery man is vanitie The which words taken generally are no other then a plaine Demonstration wherein our Prophet doth manifest to the world what God is how great how glorious in power infinite in maiestie incomprehensible Things indeed most necessary to be knowne in regard of God that man may yeeld the greater obedience and reuerence vnto him of whom naturally hee hath so meane and ordinary thoughts imagining him if not worse then himselfe as those Heathens doe Act. 17. gold and siluer yet at the leastwise like vnto himselfe as it is plaine Psal 50.21 Now that he that runneth may reade these things in God therefore doth our Prophet demonstrate and set forth this God though not as God doth himselfe elsewhere by his glorious name Gen. 3.14 and glorious workes 1. Of Creation Ier. 5.20 2. Of Prouidence Ier. 23.24 yet in as familiar a manner and way of comparison comparing him and man together Man wee know of all other creatures here in this inferiour world is the most excellent comming most neere to God Gen. 1.26 created after his owne image in whose breast are hidden those sparkes of diuine nature a little lower then God Psal 8.6 and a little world of himselfe being most valiant hardie and of noble spirit before whom the beasts of the earth tremble and whose presence the fowles of the heauen cannot endure If then our Prophet will needs compare the Creator with the creature with whom may he better doe it then with man And if not with him Whereunto will ye liken me saith the Lord Isa 40.18 Neither are we indeed to imagine as though our Prophet by this comparison of his had any minde at all to darken or blemish in the least respect the glory and beauty of this Almightie God Alas brethren if hee had such a thought as farre be such thoughts from vs so to conceit this comparison doubtlesse this will not doe it What beauty trow you is in the silliest worme to blemish the glory of the mightiest Prince or what light is in a small and fading sparkle to darken the lustre of the glorious Sunne Nay rather wee ought to know that this comparison here of our Prophet doth serue most excellently as it vsually falleth out when contraries are compared to set forth the wonderfull difference betweene God and man his power and mans weaknesse his eternitie and mans vanitie That we may yet looke further into these things let vs I beseech you consider in the Demonstration these Two things 1. The precedent 2. The subsequent The Precedent in these words when thou with c. The Subsequent in these Thou as a moth makest c. And withall let vs obserue him laying downe the ground of this latter Surely saith hee euery man is vanitie In the precedent we are not to behold God sleeping but waking When a sleepe no difference betweene the Coward and valiant man the couragious Lyon and timerous Hare and therefore he setteth forth God not onely awake but rousing vp himselfe meaning indeed to shew himselfe a God in punishing man for his offences and taking this course with him then what followeth the subsequent is as a Moth c. well put both together the precedent and subsequent and then you haue the comparison whereof I spake before God compared to a fretting deuouring Moth and man to a pleasant and delightfull garment the Moth seaseth vpon the garment and the beautie of the garment presently wasteth God rebuketh man for his sinne and man withall his glory sodainely vanisheth And no maruell for he is but vanitie To see the comparison a little better A garment we know let it be of neuer so rich a cloth or the thred neuer so purely spunne