Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	child_n	lord_n	praise_v	2,690	5	9.7618	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36938	The Christian's compass, or, The mariner's companion being a brief compendium of the principles of religion, in the things which are necessary to be known and practised by all who profess the name of Christ / long since prepared, and now published by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1658 (1658)	Wing D2671; ESTC R8810	36,678	107

meditate terror Yet rejoyce in this that we are within ken of the good land A few Watches more we must run and indeed we must watch as we sail and then we shall see eye to eye and discern the fair haven fairly open for us to enter and land where we long to be On an Anchor that lost its hold and came home and left the ship adrift This Anchor sure had not good ground For if it had it would have kept its hold and not have left the ship thus to drive I see the anchor of hope will not serve the turne to hold the soul in a tempest except the ground of that hope be good There is a hope which hath but an evill ground and in the day of distress it will fail and force the soul to drive O my soule look to thy Hope see where thou castest it Be sure thy Anchor be within the vaile Hope is not good nor grounded except on Christ and free-grace Now the Lord Jesus Christ himselfe and God even the Father who hath loved mee and hath given me everlasting consolation and good hope through grace even that same God comfort my heart and establisheth me in every good word and work that though my hope be singly grounded on grace yet it may bee accompanied with good words and works that I deceive not my self lest my anchor come home and I run afloat ful of fear without hopes or hold in the day of Tempest and tryals On a ship that was left by the Mariners upon the Goodwin-sands in a storm and fetcht off by some Seamen sent to relieve it by my Lord of VVarwick What fearful and unfaithful Mariners were these that left the Vessel to sink and shifted for themselves while their stay and pains might have secured themselves and it well enough Ah Lord may the ship of the state never meet with such Mariners But if that doth stir up some noble Warwicks to send relief to secure the ship which the perfidious Seamen cowardly and unconscionably desert Trust not in men Oh my soul who are unstable as the waters Rely only upon the living God who never forsakes his in a storm or tempest If they prove fearfull and false that ought to tend thy security God can raise up others if he pleases to fetch thee off at any time from any rocks or sands Yea if men fail Sands shall be so good as to keep thee from wracking till Jehovah send help from above to save thee from the waters on which thou sailest that thou sink not and perish On the parting of a ships company at the end of a voyage With what joy do these all part and how glad are these men to leave each other and yet without any malice or ill will They love each other as companions and yet are glad to part company this is indeed a friendly farewell of friends Why should it not be thus between thy soul and body O my heart at the end of thy voyage when death comes and calls upon thee to strike sail and part Why art so loath to leave the carkase thy companion when thou art to go ashore in thy spirit upon Emmannels land Come leap and skip O soul part with the carkase with joy Thy voyage is ended thy months are out Go take thy pay receive thy wages which yet is of grace and not of works Be as glad to go out of the body and to leave it as the Seaman is to leave his ship Yet remember you shall return to your ship again when Mortality shall have put on Immortality your body shall be new rigged and trimmed up And though at the end of time in the World to come John tells us there shall be no Sea yet the Psalmist tells us there shall be a River of Pleasures on which thy soul and body shall sail and swim in an eternall calm of unexpressable bliss in the presence of God in the company of Christ Angels and Saints for evermore Strike fail here O my soul and turmoyle thy self on the Sea of this World no longer THese were some occasional Meditations of my own in the yeer 1642. when I was at sea And I make them thus publike as a pattern that all spiritual Saylors if they have no better may by this imitate themselves upon the like occasions to raise up such Meditations as these are REader I have now ended my Voyage I 'le conclude my Navigation If thou by the help of this Compass arrive the Port I mean Heaven I have my ayme and end therefore I 'le add no more but this This is my desired Haven which I sail unto And while I sail I 'le sing Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull works to the children of men So it is in the Psalm which I commend to every Saylor to studie and to sing Ps 107.30 31. FINIS