Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	rest_n	rest_v	1,999	5	9.3821	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53897	The patriarchal funeral, or, A sermon preached before the Right Honourable George Lord Berkeley upon the death of his father by John Pearson.	Pearson, John, 1613-1686.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1004; ESTC R33037	13,582	36

Now when the time drew nigh that Israel must die when his body drew nearer to the Earth and his soul to Heaven when his desires were highest and his words of the greatest efficacy he called unto his Sons and blessed them every one according to his blessing he blessed them But as he loved Joseph more then all his Brethren so he blessed him above them all he made one Tribe of every Son and two of him his affection shew'd it self Rhetorical in his Benediction saying The blessings of thy Father have prevailed above the blessings of my Progenitors unto the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his Brethren Giving this Benediction Iacob dies receiving this Blessing Ioseph survives who can render no other Retribution after his death but care of his Burial and tears at his Funeral And therefore he made a mourning for his Father who had blessed him Fourthly he made a mourning for his Father who had mourned for him The Parents cares and Fears are equal and when any infelicity besides their children their griefs are great and all these bear a proportion with their love Now the love of Iacob to Ioseph was transcendent and being so it rais'd as high an hatred in the hearts of his Brethren by which he was in their intention and in his Fathers opinion dead And now the Funeral is Ioseph's let us see how Iacob does appear He rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his Son many days Here is a real demonstration upon a supposed death and a serious mourning at a feigned Funeral Had his dearest Son been dead yet he might well take comfort in his numerous off-spring but he did not for all his Sons and all his Daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said For I will goe down into the grave unto my Son mourning thus his Father wept for him Thus it pleased God to permit this happy deceit of envious Brethren this pious mistake of an affectionate Father not only for a great example of Paternal love but also to teach all Sons to measure their griefs at their Fathers death by a consideration of those sorrows which their Parents would have expressed had they dyed before them Howsoever Ioseph was but just in this for he made a mourning for his Father who had mourn'd for him Lastly he made a mourning for his Father who came down to die with him It was the old expression of Parents comfort that at their deaths they might have their children to close their eyes and it hath been equally the desire of children to be made happy by that occasion in shewing the last testimony of their duty at their Parents death Now Iacob who upon the supposed death of Ioseph had said I will goe down into the grave unto my Son upon the certain intelligence of his life and safety resolveth to goe down and die with him For when he saw the Waggons which Joseph sent and his spirit revived Israel said It is enough Joseph my Son is yet alive I will goe and see him before I die and when Ioseph first presented himself unto him in the land of Egypt the first words which he spake were these Now let me die since I have seen thy face because thou art yet alive Now he which said at first I will goe and see him before I die and when he saw him said Now let me die resolved nothing in that journey but to die with Ioseph And he made a moursing for his Father who came down to die with him For all these reasons Ioseph mourned for his Father who begat him remembring his natural generation for his Father who loved him not forgetting his singular affection for his Father who had blessed him considering his double Benediction for his Father who had mourned for him meditating a pious retaliation for his Father who came down to die with him embracing the opportunity of a dutiful expression And thus I close up the first general part of the Text or the Solemnization of the Obsequies The Second general Part of the same presents us with the Continuation of the Solemnity Which ministers a double Consideration one as consisting of not many days the other as determining how many days And he made a mourning for his Father seven days Immediately after Iacobs death in Egypt forty days were fulfilled for his embalming and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days They which have no hope of a life to come may extend their griefs for the loss of this and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man But so tedious a Funeral Solemnity is a tacite profession of Infidelity When Moses went up unto the Mountain of Nebo and died there the children of Israel wept for him in the plains of Moab thirty dayes The plains of Moab were nearer to the Land of Promise then Egypt was and some light of the joys of the life to come was discovered under the Law and therefore more then half of the Egyptian Solemnity was cut off by the Faith of the Israelites But this Patriarchal Funeral was made in Canaan the Land of Promise the Type of Heaven it was appointed by Ioseph a blessed Patriarch and a Type of Christ it continued some days to declare his natural affection but those not many to express his religious expectation Had it been extended longer it had demonstrated more of duty but less of faith he had shew'd himself more a Son but less a Patriarch But now he is become a great Example in mourning some days of filial duty in mourning few days of Divinity Which is our first Consideration The Second leads us to the determinate number of the days which are expresly Seven And he made a mourning for his Father seven days The Iews took special notice of this act of Ioseph and in the land of Canaan observed the number of these days Seven days doe men mourn for him that is dead saith the Son of Sirach and though it be not unto us a law yet it is a proper subject of our Observation It was afterward one of the laws of Moses He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days And therefore well did Ioseph teach the Israelites to mourn the same number of days that with their tears of natural affection they might mingle some thoughts of their natural pollution Again the number of Seven is the number of rest In six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and he rested on the Seventh day from all his works which he had made Now Ioseph knew that there remaineth a rest to the people of God he was fully assured that as the days of the years of his