Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	cloud_n	earth_n	rain_n	2,189	5	9.5355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03025	Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1631 (1631)	STC 13167.5; ESTC S2727	61,976	360

to all men once to dye death is a punishment of sinne not sinne itselfe yet sure it is the height of punishment when it is suddaine I doe not desire not to dye at all but not all at once I know I must dye and I thinke of my death yet is it not alwayes in my thoughts the best of us all may be taken napping I will ever pray God when he doth fell me not to doe it at a blowe that I may see my selfe falling and bethink me in the fall and thus it is a comfortable thing to fall into the hands of the living God He that knowes his masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes and yet I cannot say whether shall bee worse beaten hee that may know it and will not or hee that doth know it and doth it not the one sinnes against his knowledge the other sinnes because hee will not know and shall one day not be knowne God made this world not barely to looke on but to contemplate on and of Him in it here the Christian the Philosopher part they are led by reason we by faith they argue we beleeve they enquire the manner how all were made the Christian why He is not curious in the manner but lookes at the end for the glorie of God and the way to our glorie and useth them not for spectacles but motives to the glorifying of him of whom he hath them and if wee enjoy these as we should we shall one day enjoy him from whom we enjoy them This World is oft compar'd unto a sea our life is the Shippe we are the passengers the grave is the common haven Heaven is the shore and well is the grave compar'd unto a haven for there wee unload the things of this world are neither borne with us nor doe dye with us we goe out of this world as we came into it naked why are wee so covetous of those things which are so hard to get and so certaine to be lost If I enjoy them all I shall not enjoy them long or if enjoy but some I shall shortly have use of none I will comfort my selfe against the want of them with the assurance that I shall one day not have need of them Who can but once look backe upon his creation and dares distrust God for his preservation whether is it easier to give or to continue life to keepe thee or to make thee If He have given thee the greater why dost thou distrust Him for the less Or if thou distrust Him for earth how will you take His word for Heaven Oh God they have forgot of whō they live that distrust thee for their life This life is a race and wee doe not live but travell but we have another race beside this of our soule as well as of our bodie since both must bee runne and the one will not tarrie for the other I will trie who can runne fastest if I have finished my life not my course I have made more haste than good speede Every thing else hath a beginning it is onely Gods title Which was and is and is to come Eternity is only there our glory must be not that wee have liv'd ever but shall doe so If wee looke but out into the World we shall see almost as many miracles as things that trees and plants should every yeare dye and recover that the Sunne should only lighten and warme the earth and not burne it that the heavens should distill its raine in drops and not in rivers full and drowne us where they do but wet us God is not lesse miraculous in preserving the World than in making it and as His mercie so His glorie is over all His workes Religion with some men is but a matter of fashion Many are of Agrippa's Religion almost Christians such men shall be saved as they doe beleeve almost God will never owne such halfe-fac'd followers The hypocrisie of a Pharisee would have shamed thee into an outside of Christianitie and unlesse your righteousnesse exceede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter c. It is not onely want of grace but wit to dissemble where we may be discernd if I will needs bee a Christian I will be one to some purpose I heare men cōmended now adaies as the Lord did the unjust steward because they deale wisely not honestly 't is held no crime to deceive but to be seene to be discovered that 's a foule fault he is a novice that doth that the care of many is not to live innocent but close they cast how to go as Saul to Endor to the Divell in a disguise but they cosen onely mens eyes Gods they cannot and since they will not be knowne for what they are now they shall not be knowne for what they would be one day God shall say unto them Depart from me yee workers of iniquitie I know you not To dissemble sinne was never the way to be pardon'd it only he that confesseth his sinne shall finde mercie never be asham'd to say what thou wer't not asham'd to do blush to commit them but not to tell of them it is better that the world note thee for a sinner than God for an hypocrite Some there are that heare onely to tell and many times make differences where there were none meant it is not good alwaies to tell all wee heare many a man speaks that in his anger which in coole bloud he would not owne and we doe a double wrong by relating that which the one is sorrie to heare and the other to have spoken when he is himselfe I will heare all and report onely the best he that makes debate betweene others layes a baite for himselfe it is safe and honest to compose discords but sowe none I will labour what I can to set others together but not by the eares When wee behold for who can choose such a world of sinnes in every corner of the world buyers and sellers in the temple and not whipped out selling our soules for the provision of their bodies others with Zimri Cosbi out-facing judgement how doe we not wonder and blesse our selves that we enjoy so good so much some thing any thing that Pharaohs leane kine are not seene amongst us and the metamorphosis of famine of the heavens to Brasse and the earth to Iron that either the clouds are not shut to with-hold their raine or that the windowes of heaven are not opened to raine not water but fire and brimstone It is admirable where the fact is so foule that the reprive is so long Oh Lord we have nothing to say for our selves but acknowledge it is thy mercie that wee are not consumed Good natures are wonne rather with intreatie than curstnesse if wee doe not more love God for His goodnesse that He doth preserve us then feare Him for His power that He can destroy us His mercies are ill bestow'd and worse

that He may leave us inexcusable wash His hands of us and say perditio tua ex te c. Our destruction if it do come is from our selves if wee could but wish well to our owne soules we could not but do well and yet it is not wishing but doing well that doth the deed I will do what I can and I will desire to do what I should and cannot God accepts a willing mind and if I am willing beyond my ability He will either make me able or accept my wil. O God thou that workest in me both to will and to do work my will to thine and my power to my will that I may not onely will or desire but do thy wil. God doth not looke for every thing from every one for ten talents where He left but two onely Hee there exacts much where He hath given much if the seed of thorny or stony ground bring forth no fruit or withered it is no marvell but where He hath dung'd and gooded to expect a crop is but reasonable The more I have the more I have to answere for the greater my trust the greater my account Let others care how to get more my care shall be how to pay for that I have already All lands do not yeeld the same things and the same land doth not yeeld all things thus God divides His blessings to us as He doth to these to some strength of body to another strength of wit to one health to another knowledge c. He hath distributed to no man all things yet to every man some thing he is strangely miserable that hath nothing but this doth not please if every one have not all they growe surly What wilt thou give me since I go childlesse could the best of the Patriarkes say It is hard and rare to see that in others which we want our selves and would have and be still Whil'st I am in this world I shall ever behold this inequalitie and if I cannot make a covenant with mine eyes I will with my heart Since I cannot but see it I will learn not to repine at it it is the Lord let Him do whatsoever He will God calls some men to martyrdome when others would startle at a stake and yet good Christians too all men as all trees are not fit for fewell that are fit for use every one cannot hold out against the prison and the hatchet It is an easie matter to dare affliction before it come and when it doth come run away from it We know not of what spirit wee are what metall we are made of our prayer must be first not to meet with persecutions and next to endure them but not meet them Earth is but our rode to Heaven and the things of this world like high-way fruit are common to all the sunne shines and raine falls alike upon the just and upon the unjust lest they should bee thought evils they are given unto the good and least they should be too well thought of they are afforded to the evill There is another good which is wholly the Godly's and wholly to be sought for the kingdome of Heaven and the righteousnesse thereof they whose kingdome is not of this world can see the kingdomes of this world with their SAVIOVR from the pinnacle and contemn them or at least not fall downe and worship them It shall not trouble me that I am out-bid in these things by others I will bee contented to excell them in better things the comfort I have and the glory I shall have The covetous man never hath enough like Pharaohs leane kine eates but is never the fuller toiles and sweats wakes and wants for all this it is a greater miserie to desire much than to have nothing of no man can it be better said all is vanitie and vexation of spirit he is his owne tormentor and doth at once make himselfe a hell here and provide himselfe one hereafter he is never at rest till hee rest his last which yet is the beginning of a worse torment so he robs himselfe both of the pleasure of this life and of a better It is good to bee covetous of good things and labour for the food which perisheth not of this I will never have enough but pray Lord give me ever more of this bread ever and more All that God made at first was good He made them so He left them so if they be not still so the dishonour may be His the smart will be ours their goodnes consists in their good usage and our sinne in the abuse of them God make us but to remember why they were made and we cannot be to seek how they should be used Our Saviours commendation of Iohn Baptist was that hee was a burning and shining lampe the hypocrit like a glow-worme shines but burnes not others like hell fire burne but shine not and must looke to have their portion in the fire they resemble We are not excusable if we doe onely shine and not burne or burne and not shine the one we see condemned in the Laodiceans because they wanted heate the other in the foolish virgins because they wanted light Hee must first shine one earth that will after shine in heaven and burne on earth that will burne in hell Rest is the whetstone of labour And that which we usually say of hope is true of this if it were not for rest the heart would breake wherefore God hath given for every day a night to rest in and for every seven a day and a night We could not live if wee had not this yet this must not be our life to live at ease he shall never enter into Gods rest that so loves his owne Every one almost with the Iewes is weather wise and prognosticates without booke when you see a cloud arise out of the west ye say there comes a showre c. hypocrites that can discerne the face of the weather and not of the times how vainely are men inquisitive for the provision of their bodies and let their soules shift you will not plant or graft without consulting with your neighbours and your almanack but in the point of salvation huddle on and the Minister and Gods Word is not intended How ill holp up art thou to know the state of the heavens and not of thy soule If thou wilt needs contemplate it behold it as thy home not as thy Calendar to better not thy knowledge but thy life or thy knowledge of a better life and thy desire of that place where the Father of life is and where thou desirest to live God made not death neither delights He in the destruction of the living ôh God suffer not that which thou diddest not make to prevaile over that which thou hast made and redeemed Man is the glory of His maker and thy glorie thou wilt not give to another and suffer not us to sell that glorie thou hast allreadie given that we lose not our