Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	lay_v	steal_v	treasure_n	2,096	5	9.7691	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01740	A posie of gilloflowers eche differing from other in colour and odour, yet all sweete. By Humfrey Gifford gent.	Gifford, Humphrey.; Tolomei, Claudio, 1492-1555. aut	1580 (1580)	STC 11872; ESTC S108637	86,923	163

that are within vs. Let vs farther consider howe that pouertie is a thing that may bée taken from vs in a day in an howre and as it were in a moment It is not as too bee blynde lame foolishe or maymed or a calamitie whereof no hope remayneth euer to bee cured but pouerty may sodaynlie bee taken away eyther by the beneuolence of thy prince or some noble man or by the meanes of some wealthie friende who mooued by some fauourable motion will aduaunce thee too riches Abdolomenus was most poore Alexander the great had a desire to make him king and it was done presently Héere-vpon Menander sayde well that of all euils pouerty was the lightest for that any friend that wil assist thée may vnlode thee of it On the other side riches are frayle fugitiue when as a man in a moment may be bereft of all O God howe many haue wée our selues séene either by spoyling on the land or by drowning theyr shippes on the Sea or by confiscation of their goods or through the displeasure of the Prince of most rich on the sodayne to become most poore Let vs farther consider that the poore man is néerer the attayning of his ende then is the rich Forasmuch as hée doth not ordinarily desire more then wherewith to supply his necessities which as hath béen shewed before are few and may easily be remedied But the rich man swelling through the pride of his substance hath his naturall and reasonable appetite corrupted and desires to encrease infinitely in his riches whereby it may bée séene that hée is farther from his ende then the poore man What more That the rich man encreasing in wealth encreaseth also in desires and by howe much his riches are the greater so much the greater also are his needes Whereof this sentence was wisely spoken Necesse est eum multis indigere qui multa habeat He that hath many things must of necessitie want many thinges Let it be considered farther that man is borne naked and hath that which he possesseth of the méere grace of God in such sort that if he will rightly estéeme euery thing he ought not to be pensiue and sorowfull for that hée hath not but ought rather to render immortall thankes vnto GOD for that which hée hath Finally let this bée wayde that if pouerty bée euill it is very shorte let it endure as long as it can for all the time wée haue to liue héere béeing compared with the infinite eternity that endureth euerlastingly is but as it were the twinckling of an eye But I greatly maruell that man knowyng how hée must die and somtimes thinking thereof doth not take comfort of his pouertie and as it were of euery other euill that hée suffereth For that either hée beléeues that our soule is immortall as wée ought true and resolutely to beléeue or thinkes as some naughtie and peruerse people doe that shee shall die together with the body If hée déeme it to bee immortall and sées infinite rewardes in an other world sette downe for the good and euerlasting tormentes for the wicked who is hée as one might say that would not little set by all the euill and good of this world to gaine the felicitie of the other But if hée now thinke the soule to bee mortall how can pouertie afflict him if hée consider of the entire destruction of himselfe But if hée resolue of neither of these it is an euil of al others most to bée detested Hyppocrates in his diuine Oracles sayeth that when two euils afflict one place of which the one is great and the other very little the lesser is not felt If then pouertie in comparison of the entire destruction of himselfe bée a light euill how should it so pinch and torment them But as it is most requisite let vs bée Christians and affirme not onely the immortalitie of the soule but vnfaignedly beléeue the infallible lawe of Iesus Christ reuealed vnto vs by the light of his grace taught vs by the diuine scriptures confirmed by the testimonie of so many Martyrs shewed by so many lightes of diuine vnderstandinges approued by the vniuersall lawe of God by which wee are guided through this sea of fayth Let vs I say bée Christians and then wée ought not to account pouertie to bée euill but deeme it rather to bée a true imitation of Christ who whiles hée remained in this world liued alwayes poorely and méekely But besides this imitation the commaundements that the eternall veritie hath left vs to doe in many places teache it vs which if I shoulde héere sette it downe at large I greatly feare that in stéede of a comforting friend yée would thinke mée to bée a tedious preacher I will only rehearse vnto you his wonderfull and diuine philosophy when as hée sayeth I say vnto you Be yée not careful what to eate nor wherwith to cloath your selues Is not the soule of more valew then meate and the body then rayment Beholde the little fowles of the ayre who sow not neither reape nor gather into their barnes and yet our heauenly father feedeth them al. Are not you of more account then they which of you is there that with al your thought can ad one cubyt to your stature Why are you so carefull for apparell consider the Lyllies of the fielde in what sorte they grow they worke not they spinne not and yet I say vnto you that Solomon in all his royaltie was not cloathed like vnto one of these And if God cloath the grasse of the field which too day is séene and too morrow is throwne into the furnace how much rather will hée cloath you O yée of little fayth wherfore bée not troubled in your selues saying What shal wée ●at or what shal we drinke and wherwith shall wée bée cloathed These thoughtes are of the heathen and not of Christians Your heauenly father knoweth well what yée néede Séeke first the kingdome of God and his righteousnes and all other things that yée stand in néede of shal bée giuen vnto you Bée yée not carefull what to eate tomorow but let too morow care for it selfe Sufficient is vnto the day the trauayle thereof O most diuine Philosophy which if it were well tasted of men and not lightly passed ouer no man would euer bée grieued or afflicted with pouertie But wée for the most part haue not any feruent desire to enter to the quick in the searching out the troth of thinges through which it comes to passe that wée seldome or neuer vnderstand aright It is not néedefull to lay vp treasure héere on earth where rust and moathes doe consume but in heauen where neither rust nor moathes do consume nor théeues breake in steale And if wée consider farther how hard it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of heauen there is none of so little vnderstanding but wil despise and abhor riches not but that rich men may be saued but for that y e