Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	bring_v	lord_n	milk_n	1,453	5	9.6655	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47324	The Christian sufferer supported, or, A discourse concerning the grounds of Christian fortitude shewing at once that the sufferings of good men are not inconsistent with God's special providence : as also the several supports which our religion affords them under their sufferings, and particularly against the fear of a violent death / by Richard Kidder ...	Kidder, Richard, 1633-1703.	1680 (1680)	Wing K398; ESTC R656	85,271	258

things Especially when we remember that in that estate we shall be perfect men That our weakness and our folly shall be taken away and all that which hinders and indisposes us in this lower World shall be taken out of the way Our Understandings shall then be clear and we shall no more be troubled with the fumes and mists that now are before our eyes We shall judge no longer by false Rules and Measures we shall not be blinded by prejudice and prepossession by passion and by secular respects We that now know as Children do shall then know clearly and as we are known And then our Wills that are now crooked and perverse and in great measure unresigned which is the source of our trouble in this life shall be rectified and swallowed up into the Divine Will Our Passions shall no longer disturb and blind us but we shall be perfected and completed throughly refined and purified and perfectly relish the Joys of a future state which as much surpass all the good things of this World as the Heavens surpass this lump of Earth we tread on After all this it must be remembred that that state shall abide for Ever We shall there for Ever be with the Lord. Our Kingdom shall have no end nor shall our Crown fade away We shall not know what the infirmities of Age and what the fears of Death mean There will be an eternal Day without a succeeding Night a Shine without fear of Clouds or Tempest a perpetual Triumph without mixture and Allay This gives an unspeakable weight to that Crown of glory and it will not now sit uneasily upon our heads we not being burdened with the anxious thoughts of death and a future reckoning 2. I consider the clearness of the Revelation of this Eternal life For this is a Consideration of great moment in the case that lies before us For had not the revelation been clear the thing it self could not have wrought very powerfully upon us The heathen world wanted this discovery to animate them to worthy actions And for the Jews we read nothing in the five Books of Moses of Eternal life I do not deny but that devout and holy men amongst them had about them an expectation of a future Bliss Nay more I make no doubt they had also among them some shadows and obsecure Images of this Blessed State But then as this was not on Gods part any express Promise so it is certain that they had but very obscure notices of this happiness But thanks be to God the case is better with us Our Lord hath abolished death 2 Tim. 1.10 and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel We have it now clearly and openly revealed and have by the Religion of Jesus Christ received the utmost assurance of it It is not now obscured under Types and Veils under the wealth and plenty of a Land that flowed with Milk and Honey but it is now revealed clearly and our Lord hath given us the utmost assurance that we could desire in the case He hath not only taught us this Doctrine but confirmed it to us by many Miracles and particularly by his own Resurrection from the dead and after that he himself ascended into Heaven in the sight of his Disciples What shall we say now Can we forbear to use the Apostles words 1 Pet. 1.3 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope or to the hope of life as one Greek Copy hath it by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you We are now begotten to the hope of life and immortality The Blessed Tidings thereof was brought us from heaven by the Son of God and he confirmed what he said by Miracles that were unquestionable and to give us the greatest assurance he did himself rise out of the Grave and ascended thither visibly What is there wanting now to confirm our faith if we do but credit the very History of the Gospel That tells us the many wonders that Christ did even besides what are written and that these are written that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ and that believing Joh. 20.31 we might have life or as one Greek Copy hath it eternal life through his name 3. I consider how fit this hope of Eternal life is to work upon us and to render us patient and constant under the sufferings which meet us in our way to Heaven Surely the Apostle judged so when he said Rejoyce 1 Pet. 4.13 inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy It will have a mighty force upon us if we be not much wanting 2 Cor. 4.16 For which cause we faint not while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal There is enough in the thing it self to support us And if it do it not it is because we do not believe it or do not keep our eye fixt upon it For we find that the hope of other things incomparably less hath a mighty force and influence upon us Out of the faint hope of Riches we endure labours and Watchings we patiently dig into the bowels of the earth and adventure our lives upon the uncertain Seas we deny sleep to our eyes and slumber to our eye-lids We are content to endure repulses and disappointments that we may get preferment and enjoy our pleasure afterward We keep something in our eye that supports us under our pain and labour of life And in yet these things we have not that assurance of success nor yet if we had can we have any certainty that we shall long enjoy what we so vehemently pusue Besides all the mean while we do but grasp at a shadow and court a trifle Let us then be perswaded to keep our eyes fixt upon our Reward and we shall find our selves much at ease under the labours and sufferings of this life Let us raise up our wearied hearts and eyes to that state of Rest and Bliss into which our Lord is entred to prepare a place for us If we think of the good Land we are going to possess we shall support our selves under the labours of a barren Wilderness And if our hearts be but throughly set on Heaven we shall not greatly complain of the roughness of the way to it The hopes of a Child to be born into the world reconciles the otherwise fearful Mother to the pains of her Travail What will not then the hope of Eternal glory be able to do We are here but forming a new for a more blessed state of things We hope to be brought forth ere