Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	eternal_a	house_n	tabernacle_n	3,054	5	10.0533	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77743	A sermon preached at the funeral of that truly pious and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Nich. Thorowgood at Godelman in Surrey. / By John Buck, Minister of the Gospel.	Buck, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing B5308A; ESTC R173204	13,879	25

in it than hitherto through remissness or sloth I have been Are not threatned Judgments calling for Intercessors I might be one in the gap to prevent Are not hungry bellies and naked backs calling for Relief It will be at the last day my greatest Honour and Happiness Mat. 25.34 to the 40. to have fed and cloathed them Are not dark secure and comfortless Souls needing Counsels Awakenings and Supports I 'de spare no pains to Awaken Direct and Chear And shall I be of farther use and service to neither Have I finished my whole work Might no Talent be better improved nor in any thing the Honour of my dear Redeemer more advanced Is his Church in her fullest Glory I would rejoice to see her in Am I dying ere Religion is living And soon again as conquered by quite different motives they are breathing out quite contrary desires pleading When Lord shall I be released from this present bondage and misery When from this heavy load of Corruption When from the cruel buffetings of Satan When from the grief I am in for the Afflictions of thy Zion for which I weep Lam. 1.16 mine eye mine eye runneth down with water When from the tempting Flatteries and unkind Persecutions of this vain and foolish world that would allure or affright me from my Reward and Crown When shall I exchange these dead cold and heartless duties for Triumphant Praises and Hallelujahs When for transient visits on earth shall I have a permanent enjoyment of Thee in Heaven Ah! I see a beauty a desirableness in nothing that can be matched with thy All-Glorious Perfections Husband Wife and Children are dear but thou art dearer to me than all how it repents me that I should place so much of affection on them as I have done Come Lord Jesus come quickly Rev. 22.20 Judg. 5.28 Cant. 8.14 Why so slack in thy approaches Why is thy chariot so long in coming Why tarry the wheels thereof Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or young Hart upon the mountains of spices But a little while and I shall be triumphing in thy blessed Arms and Bosom where I shall sin no more and sorrow no more A Pain a Sigh a Groan more as the happiest I ever felt finisheth my days and compleats my joys And who longs not with me for the approach of this hour Shall I carry none with me to Heaven as unwilling to be happy alone Holy David was in a strait as to the choice of three the greatest evils Famine Pestilence and Sword 2 Sam. 24.14 The Saint is oftentimes so as to two the greatest goods the Work and Service of Life and the Reward and Gain of Death Censure not any for it Vse I 'T is sad when an over-weening affection to any creature-comfort is the reason of it Earthly delights are put into the same balance with heavenly but not where hopes of farther service in the world is so O Grace indeed to be found weighing the Soul-advantages of others in the same scale with our own O Noble Soul that can be willing to be one moment out of Heaven in hopes of being others happy Convoy thither 2. Think Heaven desirable Needs must it be so as what frees us from every pinching strait particularly that of Living or Dying For the Soul there how unwilling soever it was to quit this life is wholly freed from any the least inclination of returning back to it under no more sharp conflicts of leaving creature-comforts but triumphs in God as better than all Truly holy souls are immediately with Christ at their departure Doct. II With him as in a state of Separation from their earthly bodies so without the assuming of any Aereal there is not any more need of this for a heavenly converse with their fellow-Spirits than of Angels one with another With him as not sleeping in the Grave till the Resurrection nor tormented with Purgatory-Flames As the former is an inlet to the greatest Infidelity and Atheism so the latter is greatly derogatory from the Riches of Free-Grace in their forgiveness and pardon as implying a Punishment of a fault remitted a Forgiving the Treason but Executing the Traytor For which may they continue to plead who experience the secular gain thereof as of any the most profitable fire in their Kitchen others as great Masters of Reason as themselves dare not but as fully redeemed by the Blood of Christ from all future pains and misery can heartily laugh at those of an imaginary Purgatory For we are told we have Redemption through his blood Eph. 1.7 the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace And how far a less noble Redemption and Forgiveness would it be than he hath obtained for us were we after this life to be refined for Heaven in Flames according to the Popish notion not differing from those of Hell Luke 23.43 except in duration The Converted Thief enters the very day he suffered into Paradise It is not to be thought that no greater happiness was designed him in the promise of it than the assurance of it after some longer continuance of time Acts 7.59 than the very present day in which it was made Stephen cemmends his Spirit to Christ at his Death Our good works Rev. 14.13 Eccl. 12.7 as meant of their reward are said to follow us The dust to return to the earth as it was and the spirit unto God that gave it And which seems to be the most convincing Argument of it Are or can they be rightly desirous of a Dissolution upon no other account It is not to be supposed Thinking Rational Creatures should be willing to part with Life the greatest of Temporal Blessings for the Redemption of which a man will give skin for skin Job 2.8 and all that he hath for a silent state in the grave or the most insupportable of pains No rather strip them of their hopes of a present happiness at death and very unaccountable are their desires of it They as knowing when the earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved 2 Cor. 5.1 2. they shall have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens are groaning enrnestly desiring to be clothed upon with their house which is from heaven Don't be prejudiced against Religion or a holy life Vse for any the greatest earthly afflictions or sufferings of gracious souls You have little reason to be so their Deaths are so happy if their Lives are so miserable their Exit is Peace their Reward Life Everlasting Psal 37.37 Gal. 6.8 and their present sorrow and affliction the blessed school in which they have been disciplined and trained up for it And will you continue to be so prejudiced Psal 119.67 Live rather their lives as you would dye their deaths It is most foolish without this to wish Numb 23.10 Let me dye the death of the righteous and let my last