Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	moth_n	thief_n	treasure_n	2,143	5	9.3630	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06462	A compendious and a very fruteful treatyse, teachynge the waye of dyenge well written to a frende, by the flowre of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete Londoner, late deceassed, on whose soule Iesu haue mercy.	Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.	1534 (1534)	STC 16934; ESTC S122071	22,183	84

conscience where euer is a place a seete for the hie maiestie of the holy trinitie All other thinges necessary for this lyfe be not to be cared for nor yet to be valured more then their dignities requirith that is to say no more thā is cōuenient for instrumētes toles to y e pilgremage passage of this strāge coūtrey For in this world we haue no home our father dwelleth not in his region we be in this lyfe out of our ꝓpre countrey we shulde hast home ward to the ioyful presēce of our owne father y t abydeth vs in heuen the whiche hath a greatter charge ouer vs his chyldern here than he hathe ouer the beastes or byrdes the whiche by his only prouision without their care lacketh nothinge for their necessitie Moche more sayth our master Christ if we tourned all our care to godwarde we shulde not be destitute of such thinges as necessarily this present lyfe nedeth And where Christe so streytly commaundeth almes dedes sayinge that who so euer helpeth not a pore man in his nede he wil not helpe him nor yet knowe him at the fearefull day of dome in so moche that it pleaseth Christ to say that euery pore man representeth the person of goddes son so that he that regardeth not a pore man despiseth the son of god In this doctryne what thynke you Whether dothe Christe commaunde almes deades for the poore mans sake that shulde take almes or for the ryche mans sake that shoulde gyue almes In takynge almes I fynde no vertue and nedes it is a thynge parteynynge to vertue that Christ wolde haue done Therfore surely it is for the ryche mans sake For it is Christes lesson that techeth vs to haue no inwarde loue to these casual goodes the whiche we must put from vs where we see theym that wante suche thynges And a profe of a perfecte stomake is taken in him that vtterly leauyth and forsakethe all this worlde to folowe Christe the whiche beddeth the ryche man that wyll be perfecte to go sell al that he hath deale all to poore men For as harde a thynge it is to plucke through the smale nedels eie a greatte caboull rope as to brynge a ryche man in at heuens wycket not that it is impossible for a riche man to be saued but by cause it is harde for a man in a whelthy state to kepe his minde in a due order to godward without beyng drowned or infected by the contagious lustes and corrupted plesures the which foloweth the fortunate lyfe of this worlde And nothynge is more in a rich man to be feared than lest he sette his mynde to loue his ryches the whiche loue can neuer stande with the pleasure of god Remembre the sayenge of thappostelle saynct Paule The loue of ryches is the rote of all syn Therfore let not this loue grow in your harte from whense shuld springe the frute of damnation Here of my frende walker I trust you se that without question it is Christes wil to haue vs lyttel regarde this life and moche lesse to regarde all the commodities apperteining to this lyfe It is god that sayth The losinge of lyfe in this worlde is the fynding of life in a nother worlde and that wepynge sorowe peyne tribulation pouertye shame persecution and fynally death in this lyfe is laughinge ioy pleasure ease ryches honour quietnes and fynallye lyfe in the kyngedome of god Contrarye the same maister testifiethe that myrthe welthe reste glorye abundance strengthe libertye rule fynally life in this worlde is lamentyng grefe trouble slaunder myserye wekenes thraldome bondage and fynally deathe in goddes reygne In this tenor and key sowneth al our holy scripture Wherfore my thynke it is inough to proue to a Christened man that the welthy state of this worlde is vayne and ieoperdous by cause Christe so teacheth and preacheth and surely a greater profe by reason for this matter with you I wyll not vse atte this tyme. Let Christe be beleued that beddeth you gether a tresure in heuen where your ryches shall besure from mothes wormes and rustynge from theues fyer and water If your treasure be ones couched in heuen streyghte your harte shall also be there and soo shall you take no pleasure of taryinge in this lyfe but rather it shal be werines and tediousnes to you to be here absente from your hartes desyre the whiche alwaye stycketh and cleueth to your treasure in heuen If hit soo be that after Christes consaille you haue there put al your goodes and substance If nother we feare death nor loue this lyfe I thynke the chefe impedimentes lettis of our purpose to dye wel be taken away nowe we may a litel deuise what thing may helpe vs in our iourney after these stones and blockes be gone ¶ In my mynde nothynge shalle further vs more to a gladde deth than shall an ordinate lyfe that is to liue in a iust a due maner after one rule one forme euer awake in a quicke remēbrāce of death as though euery houre were our last space of induraunce in this world When you rise in the morning determine so to passe y e day folowing as though at nyght a graue shuld be your bed Let euery daye be reckened with you as your last This minde shal make you bestowe well your lyfe the whiche is to you vncerteyne howe longe it shall contynue ye rather in doubte you be how sone or how shortly life shalbe taken from you What so euer you take in hande bethinke you that before you ende it death may oppresse you workynge This is the thynge that Christ wolde haue vs do when he so often warneth and admonisheth vs to take hede and to loke aboute vs bycause nother the daye nor the houre of our callynge is certayne to vs. Therfore it is our parte of a tyme so moche vncertaine to make a time sure certayne and present that we neuer be taken vnwares by the whiche meanes we shal gladly suffre deth seyng it is a thyng so longe before prepared For why shulde it be a strange thynge to reken euery day to be the laste I see not but that thynge that happeneth and chanseth to some of vs myght come to any of vs and lyke wise all might haue that that a fewe hath There is no cause to deny but as wel this day you or I myght dye as we see this day some other deed though we be not deed this daye yet it is trowthe that this day we dye and dailye sithen our fyrste byrthe we haue died in as moche that dayly some parte of our life hath ben diminished euer as we haue growen so euer life hath decresed We were babys we were chyldern we were boyes we were yonge men all these ages be loste and tyll yesterdaye all tyme past is gone and lost This same selfe day that we nowe lyue is deuyded and parted with death Styll without ceassing we approche