Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	eternal_a	glory_n	immortality_n	1,513	5	10.0609	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19611	The terrestriall paradise, or, Happinesse on earth. Written by Robert Crofts	R. C. (Robert Crofts)	1639 (1639)	STC 6044; ESTC S109076	37,271	114

happinesse As for example The azur'd Heaven so richly deckt and counterpointed with Stars and rowling Torches never ceasing over our heads enjoying the same by contemplation he mounteth higher and is carried with admiration feare love and reverence of the Authour and soveraigne Lord of all So that we can even by our corporall eys from the Earth look to the Moon the Sun the starry Heaven and therein sweetly please our selves in the view and contemplation of their glorious aspect Their bright lovely twinkling silver heavenly rays from thence by the eye of reason wee can see further to the Christalline Heaven yea to the Emperiall above the Spheres and there contemplate farre more excellent glory delights and happinesse So as even by reason in and through these earthly Felicities our dim eyes as through spectacles may espy some light of God himselfe and of his infinite beauty ple●santnesse sweetnesse and excellency But if wee adde the eie of Faith also to our Reason wee may view farther and see more plainly This Author of all happinesse God himselfe and his Celestiall glory And taste of the ocean of his infinite sweetnesse and heavenly pleasures And as Reason so faith also in the view and contemplation of heaven may make a very good use of earthly comparisons similitudes delights and happinesse Wee often finde in the sacred Scriptures that earthly comparisons are used to expresse heavenly excellencies to our apprehension So as by the Riches Honour Kingdomes Crowns Glory Delights and Pleasures of the Earth wee may looke infinitely higher by the light of Reason and of Faith and therby contemplate those infinitely more excellent Treasures Crowns Kingdomes Glory and Delights of Heaven Faith goes before time and makes things future present in such sort as therby we may even in this life in some degree possesse the happinesse of Heaven in so much as by faithfull and heavenly contemplation we may even set our souls in Heaven before-hand tasting already of future happinesse entertayning our selves with God himself and with Angels And so enjoying in our thoughts and contemplations a Paradise of heavenly Pleasures and Felicities on earth Let us therfore often in contemplation by the light of Reason and of Faith which are the best Opticks view and contemplate those glorious Crowns Treasures Delights Felicities which wee expect hereafter to possesse in the Heavens and as in a mirrour behold his glory who is the fountain Perfection of al pleasure happines It is the poore despised and miserable mans onely hope and joy on earth To be rich honorable and happy in Heaven The rich honorarable and prosperous man also with reason imagines That if Terrestriall Prosperity afford him some Felicities and Pleasures Hee shall be much more happy when he shall possesse those eternall Riches Honours and Pleasures of Heaven Let our souls then often soare aloft upon the wings of Reason and of Faith unto the Empirean Heaven where our desires shall be accomplished with all manner of Felicities Would we have Thrones This Imperiall Heaven shall be our Footstool Would wee have Crownes Glory and Immortality shall environ our heads Do we desire Treasures Inestimable riches are in this house of our God Would we have Pleasures Rivers of pleasures are at his right hand for evermore Let us then untie our selves from the covetous ambitious intemperate and vitious desire of these earthly Felicities and with a Pitch full of desire and love elevate our Thoughts to those most glorious Riches Kingdomes and Pleasures of Heaven The riches of the World so much as wee do possesse In the good use therof let us still enjoy freely and cheerfully onely let us convert our covetous base sordid and vitious desire therof To the love desire and enjoyance of a contented minde and of the riches of divine grace Those eternall Treasures of Heaven yea even to possesse God himselfe In such desires let us greatly rejoyce So also Honour and good repute may we still enjoy And instead of that ravenous and unsatiable thirst of ayry and vain honour composed of Pride Vain-glory Hypocrisie and sundry vices Let every one of us aspire by the assistance of the Divine Power to be Lord of himself The Worlds Master To triumph over all infernall Powers To be a Sonne of God an heire to the Kingdome of Heaven And in such desires and aspirations Let us take marvellous joy and Pleasure All lawfull and good pleasures also in such good use let us freely enjoy onely let us convert our vain vitious unlawfull intemperate desire therof To desire and wish for those most sweet pleasures which proceed from a happy tranquillity of the soule and joy in God and to taste in some measure before hand of that divine Manna that celestiall Nectar those fountaines of Pleasures which wee hope and expect to enjoy with God himself for ever in the Heavens Let us then freely and cheerfully walke into this terrestriall Paradise the vast Palace of the World and enjoy the felicities thereof for to this end they were created that we should use them well and so enjoy them Even the meanest delights therof were ordained for this purpose and may be of excellent use As for example The chirping of Birds who learn to sing of Nature to charme our eares through the sweet harmony of their warbling when these please our eares then may we think of the sweet Musick of Saints and Angels which shall ravish our spirits And the Fountaines though insensible yet strive with the sweet murmurs of their prety purlings to afford us delectation When this delights our thoughts Then may we contemplate those heavenly Fountains of Life which shall fill us with extreme delectation for ever In this Terrestriall Palace the Spring the Summer and Autumne are incessantly busied in producing our happinesse for a season but let us think in the Celestiall Paradise an Eternitie shall accomplish us with more felicity then we can imagine Here we see the Sun Moon Stars The Skies Fire Torches Pearles Gold and divers other glorious sights and beauties Let us then think of that Glory of which if wee could with Saint Peter espie but one ray wee should like him be so dazeled at the glittering thereof as wee should for ever desire to dwell there and to build Tabernacles When we see and taste of sweet and pleasant Cates Banquetting Festivall and dainty meats of all sorts of sparkling and delicious wines and other pleasing liquors Let us then think of that Celestiall Manna the food of Heaven of that divine Nectar the sweetnesse of eternall joy and happinesse That everlasting Lovefeast to which the Angels shall invite us and where wee shall enjoy infinite pleasures and happinesse for ever This divine Manna this heavenly Nectar if we could but taste therof but truly think therof indeed it were sufficient to charme our spirits and sweetly to bring them into a most pleasing extasie In so much that in such heavenly thoughts and contemplations wee may already in