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	thief_n	treasure_n	2,291	5	9.6844	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13413	Nevves from Ierusalem containing, 1. The beauty of the citie of the great King. 2. The vanitie of the isles of the sonns of men. 3. The comming of the Kings sonne. VVritten by Augustin Taylor, preacher at Hawarden.	Taylor, Augustine.	1623 (1623)	STC 23723; ESTC S111349	16,441	72

world all the vessels of his house were of pure gold for siluer was not esteemed in the dayes of Solomon He had all the Kings from the riuer of the Philistians to Egypt to serue him Hee had fortie thousand horses in his stables to ride He had 12. thousand Chariots and horses with furniture to them for his vse Hee had two hundred speares and three hundred shieldes of beaten gold borne before him and it is said that he spent in bread euery day in his house one thousand nine hundred thirtie and seuen quarters of meale and floure he spent in flesh thirtie fat oxen an hundred sheepe besides Harts Buckes and fat Foule He had seuen hundred Queenes and three hundred Concubines were not these things verified in the sacred Historie I should blush to report them because they almost seeme impossible and therfore incredible yet not these but more things the holy Scripture testifies of Salomons worldly riches and prosperitie but now since he inioyed all these things in his dayes let vs know how he was satisfied in the euening and whether he went content and pleased to his bed or no no that he did not for hauing fully and largely tasted all the best content that those riches could afford he deliuers these words from his vnsatisfied mind with a disliking voyce Fccles 1 Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas Vanitie of vanities and all is vanitie those that now will not hereafter shall repent when this remedilesse complaint shall come too late Diuitiarum Iactantia quid nobis contulit What hath the brauery of our riches profited vs none at all They can doe the possessors of them no good when they haue most neede of helpe Prou. 11. They cannot profit a man in the day of wrath I haue read that Byas Priennaeus a Sage of Greece beholding his Countrey ouerthrowne by his enemies forsook it fled with his neighbours they carried away so much of their riches as by all means they could seeing him goe so singly and beare nothing but himself demanded of him why he left his treasure behind him he answered my treasure is in my brest I take it yours is but vpon you backes you mistake it it is in the power of the enemie to make you poore and no change no mishap no enemy can take my treasure for whilst I haue a being I am rich and when I am not I am not poore his resolution deserues eternall memory it is look't for in a Christian but it is strange to heare a Heathen esteeme all things vanity Man is like vnto a rouling wheele that runs about from day to day and yet it is but in the same place at the yeers end where it was in the beginning So man toyles and labours all his time vpon earth to gather wealth and riches and yet is as poore vpon that day he dies as he was vpon that day he was borne Therefore I say to you as Saint Paul did to Timothy 1. Tim. 6. We brought nothing into the world and it is certaine we can carry nothing out Therfore if we haue food and raiment let vs therewith be content content sits reioycing and singing in a supposed chaire of state indeed ' its rather a truth then a supposition for it is a chaire of contented estate and smiles to see the couetous worldling take such paines to make other men pleasure and although the contented man be but tenant to a poore Cottage coucred but with straw or clods of earth sheltered from the violence of the winds with the curled tops of the shadie trees such a one as he may stand in the middle and touch the roofe with his head and both wals with both his hands Yet he heares not of the mutation in the Court he feares not their disimulation in the Citie but liues richly cōtent in a poore home you see the Cottage is as much worth as the Court but for the show Weake walles of clay giues as much assurance of safety as walles of stone lined with Wainscot or cloth of Arras all the oddes is in the show The poore man sleepes as soundly vpon his bed of straw as the rich man vpon his bed of downe and the difference is but in the show and the mean man is kept as warme in countrey russet and homely gray as the mightiest man in his cloth of gold and curious silkes yet all the oddes is in the show the poore mans woollen cap keepes his head as drie as the rich mans beauer they only but differ in the show a browne crust and fountaine water preserues the poore man in health as well as the rich man is kept with his daintest cates purest wine stil the difference is in the show a wooden dish is as wholesome to drinke in as a cup of gold but for the show the rich man exceeds the poore for the quantitie the colour and the show but the poore man exceeds the rich for the quality the condition and the substance the rich mans part is greater but the poore mans part is better and I know not how it happens they were both set to run one course and the rich hath all the honour and glory of it from the poore in the middle of it but sure I am they were both alike in the beginning and shall be alike in the end Aut in vtero aut in vrna Senec. Epist 91. Either in the wombe or in the tombe Interuallis distinguimur exitu equamur It is the interim of this short life that we are somewhat in some things vnlike some are Lords of more and of lesse some are Princes and some are beggars and some winne the world and some lose it and some haue much and are not pleased and some haue little are well content but Ex. 16. He that gathers much hath nothing ouer and he that gathers little hath not the lesse Qui dilligit auram non iustificabitur Hee that loueth gold shall neuer be iustified and the words of Christ are Matth. 19. Verily I say vnto you a rich man can hardly enter into the kingdome of God because some take so much care and toyle to lay vp treasure together vpon earth which theeues and moths and canker consume and are both negligent and vnwilling to lay vp treasure in heauen such setting their minds onely vpon earth with earthly riches shall perish and prouiding no treasure heauenly in heauen shall neuer come Iames 5. Go to now you rich men weepe and howle for the miserie that shall come vpon you your riches are corrupt your garmentsare moth-eaten your gold and siluer are cankred and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you and shall eat your flesh vp as it were fire you haue heaped vp wrath for the last dayes A man accounts his riches his best friend to accompany relieue comfort a man in aduersitie and riches can neuer doe it They are like flatterers which when a man is in most