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
A18432	Fulfordo et Fulfordae A sermon preached at Exeter, in the cathedral church, the sixth day of August commonly called Iesus day 1594. in memoriall of the cities deliuerance in the daies of King Edvvard the sixt. Wherein is intreated of the goodnes of God toward man, and of the ingratitude of man toward God. By Iohn Charldon, Doctor of Diuinitie. In which also some fewe thinges are added, then omitted through want of time.	Chardon, John, d. 1601.	1595 (1595)	STC 5000; ESTC S107731	37,202	98

in sacrifices as when his voyce is obeyed 1. Sam. 15.22 To obey with him is better than sacrifice and to hearken is better than the fat of rammes Rebellion in his sight is as the sinne of witchcraft and transgression is wickednesse and idolatrie Whereby wee are taught that the Lorde hateth nothing more than the sinnes of ingratitude disobedience which in his owne people hee punished diuers and sundrie waies that they might knowe and acknowledge the God that had made them and the mightie one of Israel that had redeemed them The Lord giue vs grace to amend the like faults by the correction and punishment of them Happie were we if by their harmes we could learne to beware For beloued the workings of God whether in blessing or afflicting present or past to our selues or others particularly well and carefully examined would learne vs manie a fruitefull lesson if wee had the grace to consider them S. Paul feared the Corinthians in his first Epistle written to them the tenth chapter and the sixt verse with the examples of the Iewes past long before that they should not vse the like vices which they did least they should be destroyed as they were Now let vs make those examples ours for as the same apostle saith in the eleuenth verse of the forementioned chapter they are written to admonish vs also whom the ends of the world are more nighly come vpon that we lust not as they lusted that we be not idolaters as were some of them that we commit not fornication as some of them committed fornication that we tempt not Christ as some of them tempted him that we murmur not as some of them murmured to be short that we rebel not as some of them also rebelled least following the like impieties wee incurre the like punnishments and to our manifest and iust condemnation cause and procure the heauens and earth the hils and mountaines the rocks and mightie foundations yea and the beasts of the land and the foules of the aire before mentioned to testifie against vs and our obstinacie As for the heauens and earth they in great measure haue already witnessed Gods most heauie wrath and indignation against vs that in regard of the violating of his law contempt of his word If these maye not serue yet then greater tokens of his wrath than these in his creatures about and vnder vs shall appeare toward vs and finalnally vnles we repent we shall perish in his iustice vtterly that in his mercie refused to embrace him and his truth obediently For if wee regard not the bountifulnes and loue of God our Sauiour toward vs if wee despise the riches of his goodnes patience and long suffrance Rom. 2.4 if we contemn his word the word of saluation if the seed thereof shall not fructifie in our hearts if the peace which we haue with God ingender impietie if our ciuill peace breed nothing than beastly securitie if plentie work pride if with Israel Num. 1● 6 wee loathe Manna if we fall a lusting after flesh and set a nought the food of angels if we tempt God as wearie of our profession i● we be waterlesse clowdes carried about of winds Iude ver 12. if we be corrupt trees without frute if we despise gouernment and speak euil of them that are in authoritie Iude 8. if wee liue as a people caring neither for God law nor religion if we forsake Christ and bid him farewell if we sit downe and fall asleepe in the seate of the scornefull Psal 1.1 if with the deafe adder we stoppe our eares at the voyce of the charmer Psa 58 4.5 then shall all the blessings of God bee turned into curses the message of life shal be vnto vs a sauor of death vnto death our vineyard shal be laid wast Esa 5.5 6. the hedge thereof shal be eaten vp and the wall broken and troden downe it shall not bee cut nor digged but briers and thornes shal growe vp and the cloudes shall not rayne vpon it Deutronom 28.37 wee shall bee a wonder a prouerbe a common talke a reproach an astonishment an hissing Ier. 24 9. a curse in all places Ieremie the fiue and twentieth and the ninth tenth verses a iust reward of our vnkindnesse and rebellion against the Lord ther shal be taken from vs the voyce of mirth and the voyce of gladnes our laughter shall be turned into mourning and our ioy into sorrow our former wealth and pleasure shall but adde a greater burden vnto our woe Thus shall all the curses of God come vpon vs shall pursue vs and ouertake vs till we be consumed and that because wee would not obey the voyce of our God to keepe his commaundements and his ordinaunces which hee commaunded vs Deuter 28.45 For would the Lord plague the Citie where his Name was called vppon Ierem. 25.29 and should we goe free But ô Lord God and Father of mercies this bee farre from vs and our posteritie for euer And so brethren I will commend you to God and to the word of his grace Act. 20.32 which is able to builde further and to finish his woorke in you and to giue you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified And withall I giue you that exhortation which Ioshua gaue to the Children of Israel in the three and twentieth chapter and eleuenth verse Take good heed vnto your selues that ye loue the Lord your God And in the seauenth vearse Ioyne not your selues to the Gentiles companie not with the Nations which wander in and out among you I meane not Perizzites but Papists not Iebusites but Iesuites for as did the Scribes and Pharises Matth. 23.15 they compasse sea and land to make one of their profession and when he is made they make him two-fold more the childe of hell than they themselues are Wherefore deare Brethren beware of them for as Saint Paul warned the Galathians in the fourth chapter and seauenteenth verse of the like sort of men Depereunt vos non benè they are iealous ouer you amisse euen to serue their owne turne they would exclude you from the loue that you beare to GOD his truth from the loue that ye beare to his Ministers who preach not themselues 2. Corinth 4.5 but Christ Iesus the Lord and themselues your seruaunts for Iesus sake to this end that ye shuld altogether loue them and follow them But beloued doo not so Sticke fast vnto the Lord your God as ye haue done vnto this day Ios 23.8 Yee know in all your hearts and in all your soules what and how great things the Lord hath done for ye Now therefore feare the Lord and serue him in vprightnes and in truth and awaye with those Gods which your fathers serued beyond the floud and in Egypt and serue ye the Lord Ios 24.14 Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels 2. Cor. 6.14 the match is vnequall Come out from among them vers 17. and seperate your selues touch