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
B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

been brought up in the Court of glory One that in the day of thine espousalls to him shall put a degree of honour more upon thee though thou wer 't the Empresse of the world before No honour like the honour to be call'd the sons and daughters of the most High If thou hast an ambitious eye here is an object of highest honour for thee thou shalt be daughter to that King that can bind Kings in chaines and Nobles in links of iron and Bride to him that hath Emperors for his meanest servants and is Heire of eternity 2. Hast thou a wanton eye will beauty move thy affection My Master is the fairest of ten thousand white and ruddy Cant. 5.10 His head is of most fine gold his locks bushy and black as a Raven c. See the full description of him in that Chapter The creatures beauty is mouldring paint but His native beauty is permanent glory 3. Hast thou a covetous eye and doest thou look for a great joynture My Master hath it for thee Hee is rich in inheritance heaven is his and earth is his and the sea is the work of his hands He is rich in moveables Every beast of the forrest is his and the cattell upon a thousand hills The fowls of the mountaine and the wild beasts of the field Ay and all is thine for hee can with-hold no good thing from those that live uprightly The Father of glory gives all with his Son in marriage He hath given us his Son shall hee not with him give us all things 4. Hast thou a sober ingenuous eye that thou thinkest love is the best riches and a certainty in that the best joynture Know that my Master is of a loving nature too Read this delicious Song tell me what Gallant ever courted his Mistresse though far above himself with such Rethoricall expressions of love as this precious Jesus woes poor dust and ashes O tell me poore creature how wouldst thou desire to try my Masters love towards thee O man did ever Bridegroome do so much for his Bride why man he hath come and left his pallace of Glory for thee and lived a scornfull tedious life upon the earth he hath pleaded night and day with his angry father in heaven for thee that thy soule might not be damned but thou mightst be married to him he hath made thee a path for thy prayers to his father and thou hast not had a gracious answer to one prayer but hath come under Christs hand and been sealed with my masters blood Wilt thou try him by what he hath or will suffer for thee Why poor creature for thee hath he been buffeted beaten whipt prickt with a crowne of thorns for thee did he suffer his precious side to be ript with a speare for thee did that precious bloody balsamy sweat trickle down his sacred cheeks for thee was he nailed to crosse for thee he did suffer such torments as made his dying soule cry out Eli Eli lama sabachthani is this no suffering doth not he deserve thee that hath suffered so much for thee that art but a peece of momentary clay The Gallant perhaps will venture his life for his Mistresse but my Master hath more then ventured his life for thee he embraced death for thee He knew he should dye yet to shew that he valued not his heart blood for thee he shund not the crosse I doubt whether a gallant would fight a duell for his Love if he were certain he should be slain in that duel But this my Master hath done for thee Some have a trick to try the constancy of their lovers by making them long suitors If they be content to woe seven years then perhaps they will love This is but an unmannerly trick but yet thus hast thou tryed my Lord and Master most unworthy creature He hath proved himself constant in his patient woings and waitings upon thy scorne this hath been his woing place every minister came with a love-letter from my Master to thee He hath come himselfe many a time and knockt at the door of thine heart whilst thou hast been in bed with sin yea he hath stood and knockt while his locks have been wet with the dew of the night O hard heart Why dost thou tire out my Masters patience most worthlesse creature What hath he not staid for thee long enough is not yet the constancy of his love approved to thee What was it for a portion he should have with thee what portion but sin he must give his blood to cleanse thee before he can embrace thee yet rather then loose thee he will do it O precious melting love here love was stronger then the grave indeed was ever love like his Let me be familiar with thee this day I would gladly make joy in heaven this day for the marriage of some poor soule to my Master What makes thee so coy and scornfull Art thou a creature of such deserts dost thou think What dost thou deserve if any thing it is hell yet he even he who is in heaven it self and glory it self he woes thee What will move thee Thou art vile and filthie polluted in thy blood more loathsome then a toad worse then the stinking leper that goes up and down the stree●s O come come this day and be married to the Lord Christ Take him and him alone not for the heaven thou shalt have with him but for the heaven thou shalt have in him he shall make thee admired thou shalt be a Queen thou that art the childe of the Devil shalt become the childe of God thou that wert so filthy shalt learne the carriage of a Kings daughter thou that wert all dirty and besmeared with sin shalt become all faire Thou art all faire my s ouse Thou that hadst nothing but raggs of iniquity shalt now be clothed with the glorious robes of righteousnesse Isai 61. vers 10. Thou shalt be cloathed with the garments of salvation and covered with the robes of righteousnesse Thou shalt be deckt like a Bridegroome and as a Bride decks her selfe with jewells He shall make thee so glister with graces and shine with holinesse in thy life and conversation that the worlds eye shall be dazled upon thee and they shall say of thee Who is this O you that are children of pleasure Come O make haste and be married to this glorious Bridegroome the King of glory waits upon you to honour you this day O come to the wedding become his friends and Eat of his fatnesse and drink of his sweetnesse and be merry and rejoyce in the God of your salvation and let us all cry out Effice O Christe nos dignos ut ad Nuptias Agni aliquando introducamur Lord make us all worthy of such a Bridegroome Secondly Are the Saints of God hidden creatures that the world must say of them Who are th●se Then judge not that ye be not judged Say not This man is a Saint and the other a