Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	house_n	know_v	tabernacle_n	2,587	5	10.1960	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09971	Grace to the humble· As preparations to receive the Sacrament. Preached by the late famous preacher Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinity, and chaplen in ordinary to his Mtie. Master of Immanuel Colledge, and sometimes preacher in Lincolnes-Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1639 (1639)	STC 20228; ESTC S106423	39,427	175

he will bee sure to keepe sinne off for that is it which destroyes him hee will be sure to maintaine a good conscience But now take another man a common man that hath nothing given him but the bulke of the body that is satisfied with meate drinke and cloathing and house and friends and the flesh and sinne hee will let all goe that destroyes himselfe God Christ faith and a good conscience and all and therefore wee are to judge aright of ourselves as the Apostle It is no more I that doe it but sinne that dwels in mee The Apostle counts the flesh a troubleblesome guest hee would gladly be rid of him and so we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle bee destroyed we have a building given us of God that is an house not made with hands but eternall in the heavens That is the regenerate part so long as that is going up it makes no matter though the outward man suffer much So long as this new building is goeing up it makes no matter though the old one be pulled downe but when a man hath no such new building going up he hath reason to keepe up the old let a mans judgement bee right let him conceive that to bee himselfe which is in himselfe and then it is easy to deny himselfe You never deny your selves but you are great gayners by it and let a man yeeld to the flesh and hee looses by it and that is the reason that is given verse the 24. and in other Gospels who soever shall lose his life for my sake shal save it but when a man shall save his life his libertie his credit when God calls for it shall be but as a flower God wil blow upon it he shall quickly loose it hee that will save any of those he shal quickly loose them God will so bring it to passe in the end if you would consider that promise whosoever shall forsake houses or brethren or sisters or fathers or mothers or wives or lands for my sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit life everlasting there would bee no difficultie in this thing But you will say wee see such as wal●e most perfectly most deny themselves a●e most despised most trampled on but this is no good argument For as in the midst of all contents God can fill our hearts with bittern●sse so in the midst of all wants God can fill our hearts with all comforts as tribulations abound so comfort abounds the Apostle Paul found this so he had his consolations abounding when his afflictions increased Consider with your selves whether any man lost any thing by denying himselfe to honour God Did Abraham loose by it by denying himselfe in his sonne Isaack no his sonne was given him was Salomon a looser by denying himselfe in riches and honour when he asked wisedome to governe the commonwealth No he gained all did Ioseph loose by denying himselfe in his lust Though for the present to lose by it being cast into the prison yet that was but a step to his honours None ever gained by yeelding to the flesh As Ruben by yeelding to his lust his father tells him Rueben thou art my might and the beginning of my strength Thou shalt not be excellent because thou wentest up to thy fathers bed thy excellency is gone Hee should have had a Priesthood because hee was the first borne but hee lost it for Levi had it he should have had the kingdome but lost it for Iudah had it Hee being the first borne should have had a double portion but he lost it for Ioseph had it thus he was a loser in it though at first he seemed to gaine Now if these things be setled in us we shal come easily to deny our selves now that you may be perswaded to this cōsider two things Consider all these creatures wherein you see comfort can neyther doe you good nor hurt without God there is nothing that doth good but the blessing of God or the cursing of of God that is no creature can comfort unlesse God bids it comfort us for that is the blessing of it when God must say refresh him comfort him strengthen him or else it cannot doe no good I am the Lord who shew mercy judgement and righteousnesse he shewes mercy not the creatures Therefore wee had neede to deny our selves in any thing that is contrary to him The creatures are but instruments and you know all instruments worke by some efficacy which they receive from their efficient cause they comfort with borrowed comfort as the ayre inlightens with borrowed light and the water heats with borrowed heate If you get your requests riches and honours and pleasures to you eyther they will be snares to you or crosses to you we cannot promise our selves good from them as they come from Gods promise but onely from his mercy So on the other side when we deny our selves we can have no hurt by them unlesse God bids them hurt us let the Axe be never so keene yet it will never doe any thing except the carpenter takes it in his hand and sets to the work so the tongues of men though they bee as sharpe as a sword yet Shimei cannot curse David till God bids him curse him Put case that they will hurt you or doe you good yet all things wherein God bids you deny your selves you must God hee keepes all things commit therefore what thou hast to him put them into his hand It was the speech of a great and wise man when he fell from the favour of the King if I had served God as I have served the King I had not come to this that is had I committed the Kings favour to Gods keeping I should not have lost it There is no change here upon earth but there is first a change in heaven except there bee an eclipse first there you shall finde none here to helpe you to deny your selves labour to act these three graces First the knowledge of God Secondly Faith Thirdly love Labour to act them stirre up in you first the knowledge of God consider that you shall finde him worthy that you should deny any thing for him consider that hee is the fairest often thousand As a man faith of a friend that hath done much for him that hath ventured his life for him if that friend should come to him and aske him any thing if he have any ingenuity in him he will say let him have it for hee is worthy of it so must wee doe with Christ. Thus Paul argues this I saith that every one of you saith I am Paul I am Apollo I am Cephas I am Christ is Christ divided was Paul circumcised for you that is those men are not to bee named with Christ hath not hee beene crucified for you is not worthy to be looked after before other men So David when hee