Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	glorious_a	vile_a	2,633	5	9.7400	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49458	A sermon preached before the Right Worshipfull Company of the Levant Merchants at St. Olav's Hart-Street, Thursday Decemb. 15, 1664 by John Luke ...	Luke, John, 1633 or 4-1702.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3472; ESTC R3028	16,798	48

Soul for evincing whereof to indubitate certainty whether there be indeed a weapon of proof in the armory of reason I must not now digress to examine they have doubted of the immortality of the Soul but for the resurrection of the body it hath ever been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 2.34.24.11 Act. 17.32 a matter to make merry with to mock and scoff at * Caecil apud Minut Foel aniles fabulae with some pueritia deliramenta with others the best word that Pliny that most diligent searcher of the effects of nature meeting with some fictitious shew hereof in the roving conceits of the laughing Philosopher can afford it in the seventh book of his Natural History c. 55. where he derides them who think it shall be otherwise with them after they are dead then it was before they were born whose blasphemies tonching this matter in another place I abhor to repeat but you may read if you can abide it in the seventh Chap. of the 2d Book of that History with these and some such exceptions incomparable and in this particularly admirable that it should be written by one who thought himself every whit mortal Soles occidere redire possunt Nobis cùm semel occidit brevis lux Nox est perpetuò una dormienda That the ditty wherewith the Heathen people used to lull themselves asleep Whether tends all this 1 Tim. 6.20 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Tim. 1.10 O Christian keep that which is committed to thy trust Thou hast a sure word of prophesie the light of the Old but especially of the New Testament wherein besides the many plain propositions of faith the blessed Apostle in this chapter condescends to treat with our reason and argues us into found and efficacious belief unless we not only think we shall perish with beasts but have already sunk our selves below them in want of understanding The Resurrection without a proverb 't is as sure as death Read and humbly learn the price at which God hath set thee Pierce through the clouds with the eye of faith and live in the sight and influence of things invisible Which brings me to the 2d at this time the last use 'T is needfull I deliver all in the mass and summe which the time though renewed would fail me to number out in parcells Accept and preserve it in the words of S. Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homil. de resurrect mort fine Let our Ethicks be suitable to these Dogmaticks our life answerable to this doctrine especially in the confortable powerfull language of our blessed Apostle in the conclusion of this his excellent discourse Therefore my beloved Brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your Labour is not in vain in the Lord. The resurrection of the dead is the calling the whole world before the Judgement-seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5 10. that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad How should this restrain us from all sin the wages whereof we know to be death Rom. 6.23 how should it animate us to all holy conversation and godliness which we are sure shall receive the gift of God eternal life To work out our own salvation to act with an eye on the recompense on reward to the glorifying of God is not derogatory from God's glory but the highest advancing it is not in a Christian to be mercenary but to be dutifull and thankfull 2 Cor. 4.17 Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Death it self and the grave are vanquished and made the passages to eternal life Are we not startled at the thoughts of these approaching glories Be not weary of this burden of mortality don 't we long with the blessed Apostle to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven 2 Cor. 5.2 To hear the melody of Angels to speak in the dialect of glory to see in the perspectives of immortality to enjoy what eye hath not seen 1 Cor. 2.9 nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him to crowd about the eternal throne with Cherubims and Seraphims and all the heavenly host Rev. 4.10 and fall down and worship him that lives for ever and ever to give thee O God in thy own heaven some worthy praise for all thy infinite goodness and loving kindness to thy sinfull vile and miserable creatures which we cannot do as we would whiles lost in flesh and abused with corrupted senses but when it shall please thee to call us above to consort us with thy holy Angels to cause this corruptible to put on incorruption this mortal immortality we shall not neglect one moment in the ages of eternity Phil. 5.20 Be our conversation in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Raise we our minds to eternal vigours be our hearts inflamed with victorious joyes and our lips opened in the voice of triumph Persume your minds with the sweet spices of the East feed your eyes with the fair beauties of the morning the morning after which no evening shall follow Value your Souls capable of everlasting glories your bodies improveable beyond the light of the Sun and disdain a glance at the decitfull allurements of this transitory life Your minds obsequious to heavenly attractives and aspiring without fainting to the perfections and exaltations of immortality Ioh. 11.25 Which blessed estate Christ Jesus the Resurrection and the Life grant unto us for his own mercies sake Amen FINIS