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
A18016	Remember Lots wife Two godly and fruitfull sermons verie conuenient for this our time: lately preached on a Sunday in the Cathedral Church of S. Peters, in Excester: the one, in the forenoone: the other, in the afternoone the same day. By Iohn C.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1588 (1588)	STC 4665; ESTC S116841	50,873	124

he also taught to King Pharao before whom Ioseph his sonne presented him How old art thou sayd Pharao to him he answered the whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundred and thirtie yeeres fewe and euill haue the daies of my life been He is a pilgrime A similitude neere one in effect with that of Iob likening man to a flower and with that of the Lord calling man dust For as the flower is oppressed with many annoyes in heate and cold and of short time and as the dust is now moyst on the groūd then drie flying in the winde without certeyntie or constanines So is the pilgrime a straunger from home looking to his place of rest and euer trauayleth till he come thether oppressed each while with many great daungers and miseries Hebr. 11.10.13 The fathers sayth the Apostle all dyed confessed themselues to be strangers and pilgrimes on the earth and that they sought for a Citie hauing a foundation whose builder maker is God Some say that this pilgrimage of man is set forth by the example of Hagar the handmayd of Sara Gen. 16.4 who flying from Abrahams house wandred in the wildernesse and was councelled by the Angell to returne agayne to her Mistris But Dauid truely confesseth 1. Pet. 2.11 I am a straunger and pilgrime with thee as all my fathers were And so may we say euery one of vs. Therefore let vs abstaine from fleshly lustes therefore let vs walke and not tarie Let vs not choose the lustes of sinne that hinder vs proceede wee towards Ierusalem that holy Citie and euer recognize our condition and duetie of life Here agayne wee be warned to looke backe to our former time what wee haue been that wee haue been vile sinners offenders agaynst God transgressors of his law straungers from the commonweale of Israell and slaues in Aegipt vnder the tyrannie of our spirituall Pharao Wee are also admonished to looke before vs both on things present and also to come If we be the children of God brought into his merne●ous light by Iesus Christ from bondage into freedome from sinne into righteousnesse from the power of the deuill to the grace of God let vs bee glad and reioyce in the Lord with continuall thankfulnesse If yet any be in ignorance in blindnesse in sinne in stubbornnes of heart and thereby contemne the Gospell let him feare tremble quake stand in awe of Gods iudgements but yet not forget a timely and fruitfull Repentance Neuer to bee merie nor sing nor leaue of to pray aske and craue pardon vntill a mercifull deliuerance as that birde which being ensnared neuer leaueth crying vntill he dye or bee deliuered And hauing future things before our eyes as markes whereto men shoote forget not but remember daylie and hourelie O thou mortall man that Mors non tardabit Death commeth on without tariyng Death hasteneth on thee respecting not any ornament or treasure either of bodie or minde For be thou neuer so fayre and well fauoured yet with fayre Absolon must thou dye though happely not in that sort and in the kingdome of death there is no difference betweene Nireus and Thersites Nireus Thersites of whom the Poets feigne the one to be the fayrest the other to be the most deformed of all them that came to Priamus pallace or Troy and that they striuing in hell after death who should bee preferred verdit was giuen Menippus being the Iudge that there was no difference betweene them Herevnto also commeth as well Diues as poore Lazarus aswell wise Salomon as foolish Nabal But thou braggest of thy parents Nobilitie and then art of gentle blood c. What of that Can these things deliuer thee No truely But hearken what I heare one say Te quide nobili generositate tuorum parentum tumescis superbia interrogo c. I demaund of thée saith hée which art puft vp in pride by meanes of thy noble Parentage whether those thy parents bee either dead or liuing If they be liuing knowe this it will not bee long ere they will dye for death commeth on them with speede If they bee dead then hearken what S. Augustine sayth Aug. de ver Inocen ca. vlt. Respice eorum sepulchra aliorum pauperum vide quis dominus quis pauper discerne si poteris vinctum à Rege fortem à debili pulchrum à deformi c. Behold their Sepulchres and the graues also of poore men and see who is the Lord who is the poore man discerne if thou be able betweene the King and the prisoner the strong man and the feeble the beautifull and the vglie Looke vppon their sepulchres and I suppose thou mayst not finde any great difference there betwene the rich man and the begger except peraduenture in this that in the rich mans graue thou maist finde a greater sauour of corruption than in the poore mans pit for that he was fed more delicately in his life than the poore man De. van seculi The same Augustine sayth againe in a certayne Sermon Considera c. Marke well the groanes of them that haue lately beene your companions what they haue béen what they now be and how vainlie their wealth serued to their profite Lo there is nothing of them remayning to bée seene but ashes which if they could now speake vnto you would vtter these words O ye vaine men to what ende doe ye so ouerlade your liues with vices sinnes Looke vpon our bones and thereby bee ashamed of your insatiable couetousnes Quod vos estis nos fuimus quodnas fumus vos eritis What you bee now haue we been and what now we bee shall you be hereafter O ye fooles remember that in one night Luke 12. that great foole mentioned in the Gospell had his soule rapt from him vncerteyne of his heyre O man remember what betided that glorious Rich man which was clothed in purple Luke 16. death taketh holde vpon and is throwne downe into torments notwithstanding the solemnitie of his funeralles Hug 〈◊〉 de ●●ma Dic mihi sayth another vbi sunt amatores seculi qui tam magni fuerunt Dic quid eis profuit inanis gloria breuis latitia mundi potentia Tell me where be now the friends of this worlde become which haue been of such estimation Shewe me what their vaine glorie their short gladnesse their worldly pompe their fleshly pleasures their false riches profited them What is become of their laughter of their sport of their boasting Here see wee the corps giuen to the wormes and peraduenture their soules appoynted to perpetuall torments in another place Baruch also to draw men to the consideration of the power of God vpon the proude Potentates of the earth and to the mindfulnes of mans condition sayth Baruch 3.16.17.19 Where are the Princes of the heathen and such as ruled the beastes vpon earth They that had their pastime with the foules of the heauen that hoorded