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
A07312	The golden art, or The right way of enriching Comprised in ten rules, proued and confirmed by many places of holy Scripture, and illustrated by diuers notable examples of the same. Very profitable for all such persons in citie or countrie, as doe desire to get, increase, conserue, and vse goods with a good conscience. By I.M. Maister in Arts.	Maxwell, James, b. 1581.	1611 (1611)	STC 17700; ESTC S120331	125,557	228

Apostles haue feruent charity among you for charity couereth the multitude of sins Be ye harborous one to another without grudging Let euery man as he hath receiued the gift minister the same one to another Math. 5 42. Luk 6.30.35.36.38 as good disposers of the manifold grace of God Giue vnto him that asketh saith our Sauiour and from him that would borrow of thee turne not away Loue your enemies do good and lend looking for nothing againe and your reward shall be great and ye shall bee the children of the most high for he is kind vnto the vnkind good vnto the euill Be ye therfore mercifull as your father also is mercifull Giue and it shall bee giuen vnto you a good measure pressed downe shaken together and running ouer shall men giue vnto your bosome for with what measure ye mete with the same shal men men mete to you againe Math. 5.7 Math. 10.42 Marke 9.41 Blessed are the merciful for they shal obtain mercy Whosoeuer shall giue vnto one of these little ones to drinke a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple verily I say vnto you hee shall not loose his reward Math. 6 19 20 21 Lay not vp treasures for your selues vpon the earth where the Moath and Canker corrupt and where theeues digge through steale but lay vp treasures for your selues in Heauen where neither the Moath nor Canker corrupteth and where theeues neither dig through nor steale for where your treasure is there will your heart be also Sell that ye haue and giue almes Luk. 12.33 14.12.13 14 16.9 make you bagges which waxe not olde a treasure that can neuer faile in heauen Make you friends with the riches of iniquitie that when yee shall want they may receiue you into euerlasting habitations And when thou makest a dinner or a supper call not thy friends nor thy brethren neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbors lest they also bid thee again a recompense be made thee But when thou makest a feast call the poore the maymed the lame and the blind and thou shalt be blessed because they cannot recompence thee for thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the iust Matth. 25.34 35 36 40 41 42 43 46. Then shall the King say to them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundations of the world for I was an hungred and ye gaue me meat I thirsted and ye gaue me drink I was a stranger ye lodged me I was naked and ye cloathed mee I was sicke and ye visited mee I was in prison and ye came vnto me verely I say vnto you in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethren ye haue done it to me Then shall hee say vnto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the deuill and his angels for I was an hungred and yee gaue me no meate I thirsted and yee gaue mee no drinke I was naked and yee cloathed mee not I was a stranger and ye lodged me not I was sicke and in prison and yee visited mee not Verely I say vnto you in as much as yee did it not to one of the least of these yee did it not to mee If this be true which the Truth hath both said and saieth he shall say then truely many Christians of this last age in Gods account are accursed and many of the men of these last daies must needs go at the last day into euerlasting fire Euen as many as doe now refuse to feed and refresh to cloth and to lodge to visit to comfort Christ Iesus liuing or rather dying daily amongst vs in the persons of poore needie sicke and comfortlesse men Charitie is growne so cold in these last daies that Christ may well wander through our streets wee will not bring him in hee may stand crying at our doors and starue of hunger cold for fault of food and clothes we will neither fill his bellie nor couer his backe hee may lie sicke and sore in the high way and in the corners of our townes we will not build him an hospitall or if we doe it is so little it can hardly lodge him or hold him neither will wee take the paines to goe see him there to cause minister him medicine to bind vp his wounds to cure his sores and to comfort him in his anguish He may for vs lie in prison with fetters on his feet and yet the mercilesse rich man that hath put him in prison will not proue the deliuerer and set him free nor yet will one or moe rich men prooue the redeemer and pay his debts that he may be set at libertie Yea hee may lie dead at our doores or in the high streets and scarcely will we burie him or if we burie him we will be ashamed to accompany him to the buriall place hee is in his members so abiect and contemptible in our eies Euery man findeth out some one excuse or other to cloake and to couer this his coldnesse of charitie The man that hath much and may giue much almes saith hee hath so much adoe with it for other vses that hee cannot spare any part thereof to releeue the poore Christ in heauen I wot well saith hee hath enough and needeth none of my goods and if he were on earth stood in need I would not stand to bestowe vpon him all that I haue And this may suffice On the other hand the man that hath little and yet not so little but that he might impart a little thereof vnto such as haue lesse then he saith he hath little enough for himselfe So that betweene these two sorts of men haue they much or haue they little Christ can haue nothing at all For both of them pretend that they haue too little for themselues too little meate for their owne bellies and therefore Christ must be hungrie too little drinke for their owne mouthes and therefore Christ must bee thirstie too little cloathing for their owne backes and therefore Christ must goe vncouered except hee be couered with ragges too little money in their purses and therefore Christ must be still in prison vnredeemed Thus then all plead they haue too little no than is found that thinketh he hath much or too much And yet Salomon thought Prou. 30 8 that a man might haue too much when hee prayed vnto the Lord not to giue him too much And truely if the man hath too much burthen on his backe when he doth not onely vnder it bow but also breake and if the ship hath too much loading when not onely shee drinketh the salt sea but also sinketh therein then truely that man hath too much riches when his loue of them confidence in them and care for them make the backe of his soule cracke or make the ship of his