Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bless_v	lord_n	praise_v	9,372	5	10.9825	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55575	Divine love: or The willingness of Jesus Christ to save sinners discovered in three divine dialogues, between 1. Christ and a publican. 2. Christ and a Pharisee. 3. Christ and a doubting Christian. With several other brief tracts. By V.P.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1677 (1677)	Wing P3086; ESTC R220962	49,397	288

and Family are without good overseers and by this means your goods are diminished poverty will approach and it may be more dangers also as loss of life c. These you will say are no Benefits but disadvantages and those no mean ones neither so that you would be glad truly to know what benefit can come to you by this Cross which seemeth rather to bring you very great loss and damage To these things I answer that it is true indeed as you say of your bodies families children substance poverty life c. But if you would consider a while with inward eyes as you now behold them with outward then perhaps you would find more ease Do you not now by your inward sense perceive that you must part from all these things as well as with other worldly benesits Tell me then have you not this benefit by your Cross to learn to loath and leave the world and to long for and desire another world where is perpetuity and eternal happiness You ought of your own mind and free will to have forsaken the world and all earthly things using this world as though you used it not and having your hearts only set upon your treasures in Heaaven or else you can never be Christ true Disciple that is to be saved and to be where he is And think you my dear hearts in the Lord think you that this is no benefit to be compelled to do thus by this cross that so you may assuredly enjoy enless glory with the Lord. How doth God now as it were fatherly correct you to remember you of your former offences concerning these things and all other your miscarriages that your repentance and remission might ensue thereupon How doth God now compel you to call upon him and to be earnest in prayer Are these no benefits doth not the Scripture say that God doth correct us in this world because we should not be damned with the world That God chastneth every one whom he loveth that the end of this his correction shall be joy and holiness doth not the Scripture say that they are happy that suffer for righteousness sake as ye do that the glory and spirit of God resteth upon them that as you are now made like unto Christ insuffering so you shall be made like unto him in reigning doth not the Scripture say you are now going the high-way and right way to Heaven My dearly beloved what greater benefit then this can a godly heart desire The Lord open our hearts to see and feel this indeed then shall we think the Cross and afflictions which are the means to bring us to this to be very advantagious Then shall we thank God that he would chastise us And that we may do this indeed my dearly beloved Let us still remember that our Cross comes from God and that they come from God as a Father for our profit and benefit and therefore that we ought to call to mind our sins and to ask pardon for them and to look certainly for help at Gods hand in his good time such help as shall make most for Gods glory and for the comfort and benefit of our souls eternally Now if we do throughly believe and sensibly conceive these things then there will issue out from us hearty thanksgiving which God requireth as a most precious sacrifice And that we may all be thus thankful through Christ let us use earnest prayer to our God and dear Father begging of him to bless us keep us and comfort us under his sweet Cross for ever and ever Amen Amen To Mr. Laurence Sanders By Mr. John Bradford Martyr AH good brother that I could alwaies have God his majesty mercy Heaven and Hell before me then should I indure as Moses as seeing him that is invisible Blessed are they that die in the Lord then how much more they that die for the Lord. All here therefore God be praised do willingly pledg our Captain Christ of his Cup even when he will or how he will Let us rejoice in the straight way which few find and fewer walk therein but fewest of all continue therein unto the end Doubting of Gods favour is the very Dungeon of dispair Who live soberly but such as are holy Once accepted and beloved of God in Christ and ever beloved for whom he loveth he loveth to the end Repentance and justification is the Gramar School wherein we must first be conversant and learned before we go to the University of Gods most holy predestination The pattern which we must follow is Christ himself and not the multitude nor custome In all things we must avoid the seeking of our selves as well in doing as in learning things undone Long did the Lord linger and tarry to have shewed mercy upon us but we were ever the longer the worse He that will not have Gods blessing it shall be taken from him Bishop Ridly In a Letter to the dispersed brethren WE never had a better or more just cause either to continue our life or shed our blood we cannot take in hand a more certain clear and manifest Truth For it is not any ceremony for which we contend but it toucheth the very substance of our whole Religion yea even Christ himself What can all their cruelty do against us but make our Crowns more glorious yea beautify and multiply the same I esteem nothing available for me which will not further the glory of God Whosoever knowingly neglecteth and regardeth not to keep a good conscience he cannot have peace with God nor a lively Faith in his mercy If our Doctrine were once the truth of Gods word do you think that the alteration and change of the times can ever make it an untruth Let us joyn hands together in Christ and if we cannot overthrow yet over power and as much as in us lies let us shake those strong holds not with carnal but with spiritual weapons It is not the slanderers evil Tongue but a mans own evil deed that can defile him before God Yours by Gods grace in our Master Christs cause unto the Stake and thenceforth without all dangeror peril for ever and ever Doctor Taylor In a Letter to Bishop Cranmer GOD be praised again and again for this your excellent promotion which you are called unto at this present in that you are counted worthy to be allowed among the number of Christs Records and witnesses England hath had but a few learned Bishops that would stick to Christ so as to burn for his cause For Gods sake pray for us for we fail not daily to pray for you we are strongter and stronger in the Lord his name be praised and we doubt not but ye be so also in Christ sweet School Heaven is all and wholly on our side Rejoice therefore in the Lord and again I say rejoyce Pray for me I will pray for you God be praised since my condemnation I was never afraid to die Bishop Hooper In a Letter to