Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	child_n	israel_n	pharaoh_n	1,683	5	10.2863	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00812	A dialogue philosophicall. Wherein natures secret closet is opened, and the cause of all motion in nature shewed ovt of matter and forme, tending to mount mans minde from nature to supernaturall and celestial promotion: and how all things exist in the number of three. : Together with the wittie inuention of an artificiall perpetuall motion, presented to the kings most excellent maiestie. / All which are discoursed betweene two speakers, Philadelph, and Theophrast, brought together by Thomas Tymme, professour of diuinitie..	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1612 (1612)	STC 24416; ESTC S95612	68,496	81

they may account themselues miserable Theophrast The tribulations and afflictions which Gods children doe suffer in this life maketh them not miserable because by them as by a way Acts 14.22 they enter into the Kingdome of Heauen The Saints and children of God doe most gloriously shine in tribulation whereby also they are assured of Gods loue For they know that if they be not vnder chastisement whereof all Gods children are partakers they are bastards not sonnes therefore tribulation worketh in them patience patience experience Heb. 12. experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed This maketh them to say confidently with the Apostle Rom. 5.3 Who shall separate me from the loue of God in Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword and so forth Rom. 8.35 I am perswaded saith he that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. For all things proceede happily to them that loue God And this is an especiall comfort to them that their afflictions shall not be perpetuall as shall be those of the wicked whose rod shall not come into the lot of the righteous Psal 125.3 for affliction shall destroy the wicked Moab shall be threshed as strawe To a worldly and carnall minde which looketh vpon nothing but vpon the prosperitie of the wicked affliction seemeth vnfit for Gods children and therefore repining at their miserie haue said Doe they that dwell at Babilon any better that they should haue the dominion of Sion Thou sufferest them that sinne and destroyest thy owne people But wee must haue an eye to the wisedome of God herein who hath made the way to celestiall felicitie very hard and vnpleasant least men being detained with the pleasures of this life should be stayed from their heauenly course and therefore hee sendeth vpon them tribulation to make them more speedily to come vnto him For thus he dealt with his olde people the children of Israel laying on their backes the great affliction vnder Pharaoh that they might the more earnestly desire the land of promise before Abraham had a setled rest he liued a Pilgrimes life before Dauid enioyed the Kingdome he was a long time persecuted by Saul before Iacob was enriched he was in seruitude to Laban 14. yeeres before Ioseph had the rule in Egipt he was cast into prison before the Israelites came into the land of Promise they wandred fortie yeeres in the Wildernesse Thus you may see the good end of affliction which is like vnto Aarons rod being rightly vsed it is Gods rod sent for our good but if it be cast vnder foote and despised it will be a serpent and sting vs. Philadelph In what points doth the felicitie to come consist Theophrast The true felicitie of that Heauenly and most blessed life to come consisteth in these things First in the restoring of all the chiefe things in Nature to a farre greater and more high perfection then now they haue Rom 8.19 of the which S. Paul writeth thus The feruent desire of the creature waiteth when the sonnes of God shall be reuealed Because the creature is subiect vnto vanitie not of it owne will but by reason of him that hath subdued it vnder hope Because the creature shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertie of the Sonnes of God For we know that euery creaure groaneth with vs also and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present Also in his Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians he saith that all things whether in Heauen or in Earth shall be restored in Christ And the Apostle S. Peter 2 Pet. 3.7 speaking of the same restoring writeth thus Verse 10. The Heauens and Earth which are now are kept by the same word in store and reserued vnto fire against the day of iudgement And afterward he saith Verse 13. The Heauens shall passe away with a noise and the Elements shall melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shall be brent and being on fire shall be dissolued But we looke for new Heauens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse By which words I gather that when Christ our Lord shall come to iudgement in the last period of time the foure Elements whereof all creatures consist hauing in them matter both combustible and incombustible as the Heauen shall by the wonderfull power of God be changed For the combustible hauing in it a corrupt and drossie matter which maketh them subiect to corruption shall in that great and generall refining day be purged through fire and then God will make new Heauens and a new Earth bring all things to a Christaline clearenesse and will make the foure Elements perfect simple and fixed in themselues that all things may be brought to a Quintessence of eternitie So that the world as touching the Nature thereof and substance shall not perish but be made new to a greater perfection then now it hath In regard whereof S. Iohn compareth it to a Citie which is made of pure golde with a great and high wall of the precious stone called Iaspis the wall whereof had also twelue foundations made of 12. precious stones Also 12. gates made of 12. rich stones called Margarites and euery gate was an entire Margarit The streetes of the Citie were paued with gold enterlaide also with pearles and precious stones The light of the Citie was the clearenesse and shining of Christ himselfe sitting in the middest thereof from whose seat proceeded a riuer of water as cleare as Christall to refresh the Citie and on both sides of the bankes there grew the Tree of life giuing out continuall fruit There was no night in that Citie nor any defiled thing entered therein but they saith he that are within shall liue for euer and euer By this description S. Iohn giueth vs to vnderstand that so great is the felicitie prepared for vs in the Kingdome of Heauen 1 Cor. 2. that the eye hath not seene neither the eare heard nor the heart of man conceiued what things God hath prepared for those that loue him Apoc. 2. The Kingdome and Citie shall in amplenesse and beautie be farre beyond the reach of mans reason to comprehend Yet the ample greatnesse may partly be conceiued by the view of the starres For if the least of them be of such greatnesse as all the Princes of the world haue not within their power so much compasse and space and yet an innumerable multitude of starres haue place in the firmament where there remaineth still roome space for many moe how great then is the amplenesse and capasitie of the Heauen it selfe Verely we may say with Baruch O Israel Baru 3.24 how great is the house of God and