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
B01727	The servant's audit: a sermon preached at the funerals of the right worshipful Sr. Edmund Anderson baronet, in the church of Broughton in the county of Lincoln, Febr. 15. 1660. / By Edward Boteler ... now rector of Wintringham in that county ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3803A; ESTC R212802	28,513	80

both sees not only things present and conceives of them when past but deals with past present and to come and by a kind of Divinity can make things that are not as though they were And yet this heart of man in its highest sublimest most reflex and abstracted conceptions is not able to frame a Notion which may entertain these joyes more unsuited to such an undertaking than his hand is to span the circumference of the world the convex and extimate superficies of Heaven and Earth Hence it is that the Fathers and those Divines who have dealt most in Meditation when they have screwed their souls to the highest have yet been infinitely below and drooping and left us still to ghess only not know what these joyes are However we are beholden to them for their adventures and they have in this obliged us that our souls being in this life of Zacheus's pitch low and dwarfish they have lent us their Sycamore-trees their boughs and branches upon which we may climb and see Jesus Sometimes we run to Negatives which express it by not expressing it The tears of Hell are not sufficient to bewail the loss of the joyes of Heaven And then I am sure our Positives must needs be scant And yet such as they are take a few of them They are Certa securitas secura tranquilitas tranquilla jucunditas jucunda faelicitas faelix eternitas so Saint Prosper A certain security a secure peace a peaceable pleasure a pleasant happiness a happy eternity Festicitas sine tabe Tranquilitas si●● labe serenitas sine nube A feast and no consuming a peace and no confounding a clearnesse and no over-clouding so Saint Bernard Perenne solstitium sayes the same Father ubi nec longitudo terminum nec claritas occasum nec satietas fastidium habebit An everlasting stay of the Sun of Righteousnesse where he cannot decline where the length hath no end the brightnesse no fall the fulnesse no loathing But to leave these descants of the Fathers the laudable essayes of their parts and piety Let me only tell you there shall be Nicol. de Gorran Elucid in Ep. ad Philip. p. 442. Expulsus omnis inquietudinis amplexus summae dulcedinis as I find an Author glossing upon this Subject Nothing to interrupt joy every thing to encrease joy and I shall then hasten to a conclusion Nothing to interrupt joy No sin no suffering 1. Luk. 15.7 No sin Joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth And if remission make joy what shall abolition do Hereafter shall be no time for sin as Heaven shall be no place for it Sin is that which now vails and skreens the joyful face of God from the soul It is that which now cramps a Believers comforts seizeth on and deads all his joyes Comprehendêrunt me iniquitates meae Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me Psa 40.12 so that I am not able to look up Sins do often now cloud the light of God's countenance and overcast the Heavens but then Delevi ut nubem Isa 44.22 I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins Then the time is determined to finish transgression Dan. 9.24 and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness to cut off these sinful dayes and begin those joyful dayes in which men cannot sin No sin that 's first 2. No suffering Suffering puts joy out of tune Psa 137.4 How shall we sing the Lord's Song in a strange Land But a Saint in joy may say to sufferings as our Saviour to the Pharisees Joh. 7.34 Where I am thither you cannot come Piety is no protection here but Heaven gives indisputable security 1. Against all Losses David shall there no more lament Jonathan 2 Sam. 1.26 Jer. 31.15 a friend nor Rachel her children Jacob shall no more complain that Joseph is not Gen. 42.36 Joh. 11.21 Nor Martha that if Jesus had been there 2 Chron. 35.25 her brother had not died Israel shall no more lament the losse of Josiah a peaceable a pious a peerlesse Prince Mat. 9.15 for the dayes of mourning shall be over Nor shall the children of the Bridechamber fast and mourn because the Bridegroome is taken from them Rev. 19.7 9. for they shall rejoyce and be glad because they are called to the marriage-supper of the Lamb Ch. 14.4 and shall follow the Lamb whither-soever he goeth 2. Against all pain For when the vile bodies of the Saints shall be changed Phil. 3.21 and fashioned like unto Christ's glorious body they shall be impassible And as Philosophers ascribe the strength and vigor of the Heavens to their Quint-essence there being no Elementary quality strong enough to encounter them they are above the assaults of heat and cold and so incorruptible so shall the joyes of Heaven be above the reach of all contrarieties not to be troubled by any pains if any could get out of Hell where all shall be shut up 1 King 15.23 2 King 4. Now Asa is diseased in his feet And the Shunamite's child complains My head my head But then the bodies of the Saints shall be united to Christ their head and as soon may their head ake as they feele any pain 3. Against death Death shall be then out-dated The streets of the new Jerusalem are swept clean from all these evils Rev. 21.4 There shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain Thoughts of death take off from joy The great General was so farre from glorying in his puissant Army Xerxes that he is said to have wept to think that death in so few years should clear the field of so many thousands But here Corruptible shall put on incorruption 1 Cor. 15.53 54. and mortal shall put on immortality and then shall be brought to passe the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory Then shall that promise be made good Hos 13.14 I will ransome them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction And that for the first particular which advanceth this joy there shall be nothing to interrupt it It shall secure against Losse Pain Death 2. There shall be every thing that can increase this joy Externa societas Interna satietas Aeterna jucunditas them three And I am beholden to Saint Bernard for them 1. Externa societas good company no inconsiderable advantage Alcibiades when he sold an house in Athens set the greater rate upon it because it had good neighbours it will hugely inhance the price of heavenly joyes that those many Mansions are possessed by such desirable Inhabitants There are the Saints of all ages of whom such excellent things are spoken The ancient Patriarchs The goodly fellowship of