Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96329	The danger of greatnesse: or Uzziah his exaltation and destruction: set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, and the reverend Assembly of Divines, in the church of Martins in the Fields, the 14th day of January, 1645. being a speciall day of humiliation set apart to seek God, for his direction in the setling of the great worke of church-government. / By Jeremiah Whitaker, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1711; Thomason E316_1; ESTC R200519	42,588	49

and those speciall gifts of grace when men are effectually called of God according to his purpose Rom. 11.19 they are without repentance on Gods part who doth bestrow them and on the sinners part that doth receive them 2 Cor. 7.10 for repentance unto salvation is never to be repented of because the soul of a poor sinner that is converted to Christ findes more good in Christ transcendently above all that it was possible for a man in a state of nature to imagin But upright men though they cannot fall away either totally or finally yet they may decline in many particulars really visibly so far as that in respect of gifts and graces and in respect of use and service to others and of comforts to themselves it may not be with them as in former times their sun may go down at noon and their lamp to the eye of men may be put out in obscure darknesse Asa that mighty Prince both good and great of whom the Lord gives this testimony though the high-places were not removed 2 King 15.14 neverthelesse As●s heart was perfect with the Lord all his dayes yet this Asa sinneth 2 Chron. 16.3 ver 7. in hiring Benhadad the King of Syria to break his league with Baasha in not relying upon the Lord in not hearkning to the admonition of Hananiah When he had thus sinned he could not endure to be reproved a very sad distemper that a good man should be so far transported with lusts ver 10. that he had rather undergo the disease that would kill him then endure the medicine that would heal him Asa was wroth with the Seer and put him in the prison-house for he was in a great rage not at his own sin but at the reproof of the Prophet At that time also Asa oppressed some of the people When corruptions are swelled so high that they cannot endure admonition there is no possibility left to keep them within any bounds of moderation And to all these sad declinings there is added in the close when he was upon his death-bed ver 12. when his disease in his feet was very great yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord but to the Physician If men may go so far in doing things that are right Vse 1 when themselves all that while are not upright then 1. Mution dixtram suam libens in are reliquit O sublimit as animi I Regul●● ne unus pro multis viveret toto corpore cruces patitur O virum fortem in captivitate victorem Tertul Apol. 2 Cor. 11.14 15. Let every man be ashamed to fall short of that which men have attained to that want uprightnesse let not Pagans outstrip Christians Shall a Mutius be more couragious a Regulus more faithfull among them that are without then a seeming Cephas or Apollo among them that are within shall an Ahab humble himself greatly a Iehn reform abuses of worship strenuously shall an Herod do many things at the preaching of Iohn Baptist shall Satan and his messengers transform themselves into Angels of light and shall the children of the light lye covered under obscure darknesse Shall a generation of men that knew not God that were strangers from the Covenant of grace that never called upon God shall opposers go beyond professours and they that could not endure so much as the form of godlinesse shall they do things more justly lesse partially then those that professe the power of it Surely our light is clearer our rule is purer our Master whom we serve is better our hopes are higher the rewards we expect are greater shall we only in our lives be worse when in all other priviledges we are better What condition can be more sad Ezek. 16.24 then that Judah should be guilty of more abominations then Sodom and Samaria and what sentence more just Mat. 12.21 22. then that God should make Nineveh rise up and condemn this generation and should pronounce that dreadfull saying Mat. 11.22 24. It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah for Tyre and Sydon in the day of judgement then for you 2. As we should not come short of them that have done righteous things when themselves have been unrighteous So we should never content our selves with any common grace received with any externall act performed till the Lord by an inward spirituall change hath carried us into a state beyond a reprobate thus far a reprobate may go Let not thy soul stay here do you not all expect distinguishing comforts when you dye Why to you not seek distinguishing graces while you live Will a righteous God sever thee from the wicked in thy death when thou art not at all severed from the wicked in thy life It was a wise resolution of that great Prince Three things considerable in man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there three have severall delights 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antooin Pius l. 3 2 ●4 sirnamed Pius If my delights be only those of sense and pleasure these are common to brute beasts whose sensitive comforts may be greater because their senses are stronger if my delight be only to fulfill the will of the flesh and of the minde and to do whatever seems good to an eye of carnall sense and reason this is common to men with Phalaris and Nero and the like who were rather monsters then men If in duties of an higher nature I only minde those that are plausible to the world this is no more then they may do who deny God will betray their Countrey when it may be for their credit and advantage and like them who when the doors were shut and the curtains drawn account nothing filthy or unlawfull that is delightfull if all these things be common to the good and to the bad surely there is something that is peculiar to the good As to enjoy comforts moderately to endure discomforts patiently to keep a contented quiet minde within in the midst of all the storms without in life to overcome the fear of death c. Our Saviour leads us higher bids us deny our selves take up his crosse and follow him count all things but losse and dung to win Christ and assures us without these we cannot be his Disciples that all perswasions to the contrary are meer presumptions and in the issue will betray the soul into the hands of the King of terrours for except your righteousnesse shall not only equall but exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 5.10 ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Rest not therefore in that which men may want and be happy which men may enjoy and yet be miserable 3. If men may do things that are right and yet not be upright then let no man account himself because he doth something that is right that therefore he is righteous Non minus sine sacramentis salvatus est latro quaem cum