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
A59599	Adam Abel, or, Vain man a discourse fitted for funeral occasions, but serviceable to men in all ages and conditions of life to make them humble and heavenly-minded / by Samuel Shaw ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3034; ESTC R9572	39,662	130

is dirty and nasty for a Soul to wallow in fitter for a Swine than for a Soul Let another Prophet speak Zech. 9. 3. Tyrus heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets Or let holy Job speak Job 27. 16. He heaps up silver as the dust and prepares raiment as the clay Nay again we will suppose that Riches be made use of yea and good use of which is the best that can be suppos'd yet when Goods encrease they are encreas'd that eat them and What good is there to the owners thereof saving the beholding of them with their eyes Eccl. 5. 11 In a word there is a Curse entail'd upon all that covet after Riches which does unavoidably light upon them all viz. they shall go on still hungring and gaping after more and shall never be filled Eccl. 5. 10. He that loveth silver shall not not be satisfied with silver nor he that loveth abundance with encrease And then he adds as with good reason he might This is also vanity The worth of these things is placed principally in the Fancies of Men. You have heard perhaps of some Rich men who under a melancholick Distemper have fancied themselves to be very Poor and I wonder then what good their Riches do them And I have read of a poor man who in his merry Melancholy would stand upon the Shore and clap his Hands and laugh and rejoyce at the coming in of the Merchants Ships fancying them all to be his own And I wonder what he could have done more if they had been all his own indeed And is not that a Vanity that a man may fancy himself into or out of when he pleases Besides in the latter sence these Riches are Vanity too because they soon vanish They take to themselves wings and fly away as Solomon expresses it yea and that swiftly and irrecoverably as an Eagle towards Heaven Now these Wings are made up of many sorts of Feathers such as Thieves Knaves violent Enemies and Oppressors false and deceitful Friends Fire Sword Wind and Tempests Suits at Law Forgery Perjury Moths and Rust and I know not how many more I will quit this point leaving with you that good and grave Advice of your best Friend Mat. 6. 19 20. Lay not up for your selves treasures upon Earth but lay up for your selves treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal Friends are a Worldly Possession highly prized by some and indeed needed by all They are a very precious Possession a very great but a very rare Treasure True Friends are seldom acquir'd hardly kept and with great Grief parted with There are so many things go to the making up of a true and rightly-accomplish'd Friend that it may well be doubted whether every thousandth man in the World have one They that live in populous places have many Neighbors the Rich have many Servants the Eloquent have many Auditors the Learned have many Pupils and Clients the Honourable and the Worshipful have many Flatterers and perhaps not one of these has a true Friend for neither Affinity Riches Eloquence Learning Honour or Grandeur can purchase true Friendship And indeed there are few men in this depraved state of Mankind fit to make Friends of If a man be foolish or false if he be covetous or selfish if he be cowardly proud or passionate if he be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 self-conceited humerous inconstant or an intemperate self-lover he cannot be made a Friend of And alas where is the man that is not some of all this To keep a Friend is no less difficult than to get one The tenderer any part of the Body is the sooner it is hurt and the easilier-offended Friendship is a tender and delicate thing and easily grieved every small Infirmity Passion or so much as Neglect is apt to wound if not to violate it and Friendship when it comes to be suspected is half broken If no man can be properly called a Friend but such an one as Solomon describes Prov. 17. 17. Who loveth at all times I doubt there will very few be found so inconstant is all human Love so apt to be abated if not abolish'd Is this thy kindness to thy friend said Absalom jeeringly to Hushai because he did not willingly go with his Friend David into Banishment why wentest thou not with thy friend 2 Sam. 16. 17 How often have all men cause to reflect as tartly upon their pretended Friends upon the account of some Commission or Omission or other Is this your Kindness to your Friend Why did you not go hither or thither Why did you not do this or that Why did you not speak thus or thus for your Friend Friends were ordain'd for a time of Adversity but alas they will not abide it few of them are Adversity-proof But at best Friends must part If they have lived lovingly and faithfully all their days which is rare to be found yet Death worse and crueller than the Whisperer that Solomon speaks of will separate the chiefest Friends that ever lov'd or liv'd together and then behold what Lamentation and Mourning The beauty of Israel is slain O Jonathan thou wast slain in thy high places I am distressed for thee my brother Jonathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women 2 Sam. 1. The taking away of such a Friend is like the rending of Limb from Limb or the violent tearing of Soul from Body Oh the desire of mine Eyes cries one Oh the delight of my Soul cries another how art thou taken away as with a stroke and hast left me to grapple with the Misfortunes of an injurious and vexatious World alone Surely every man walketh in a vain shew Children are a pleasant Possession With what Ardours of Soul with what unparallel'd Ravishments are these embrac'd These are Images of our selves nay Parts indeed rather than Pictures these are in a sound Sence Bone of our Bone and Flesh of our Flesh in them we enjoy our selves whilst we live in them we live when we are dead Well all this and a great deal more may be said concerning this Darling of human Nature but does not poor Man walk in a vain shew as to this Possession too After they are begotten and born in Sin and Sorrow and nurst up with much Wakefulness and Wearisomness they become pretty Playfellows and enchant the fond Parents with their sweet Smiles and lisping Rhetorick and every little Trick that is any thing akin to Wit or Ingenuity In the midst of these Charms it may be comes some Disaster or other and breaks a Leg or an Arm an Ague or the Worms and deprave the Constitution or the Small Pox and quite spoyl the Complexion nay it is great odds but some of these prove fatal and mortal and the Child never lives to see itself a Man or Woman but is