Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	create_v	fruit_n	lip_n	2,112	5	9.2614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32179	A glimpse of eternity very useful to awaken sinners and to comfort saints : profitable to be read in families / by A.C.	A. C. (Abraham Caley)	1679 (1679)	Wing C290A; ESTC R31283	161,448	236

thing extraordinary that after an hundred and twenty years his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated o and that of the Israelites in the Wilderness was as strange that after forty years their cloaths and shooes waxed not old But what is recorded as a strange unwonted thing in them holds true in Heaven the Saints shall ever see God and yet their sight never was dim shall be cloathed with the Garment of Salvation and those Garments never wax old Abel hath been in Heaven five thousand years and upward and were there so many thousands to be deducted from his future happiness it would be some diminution to it but this adds much to his happiness that after so long a tract of time he is not one whit nearer the expiration of his happiness On the other side there is no wasting in the eternal punishments in Hell Drexellius makes this observation from those words of our Saviour (p) John 15. 6. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned Where he observeth the words do not run in the future tense he shall be cast forth and shall be cast into the fire and burned but all i● the present tense he is cast forth is withered men cast them into the fire and they are burned This saith he is the state and condition of the damned they are burned that is they are alwaies burning when a thousand years are past as it was at first so it is still they are burned after a thousand thousand years more as it was before so it is still they are burned If after millions of years the question were asked What is now their state and condition what do they what suffer they how doth it fare with them There can be no other answer returned but they are burned continually and eternally burning The Apostle saith of the Sodomites that they were set forth as an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire it was many hundred years before the Apostle wrote this that they were doomed to those prisons of Fire yet all that time before they had been burning at this day they are still burning and so shall continue burning to all eternity All the burnings they have already endured deduct nothing from their future sufferings nor in the least abate the tale of their ensuing calamities but they have as much to suffer and if I may so speak as long a time to suffer in as when they went first to their own place CHAP. VII Of Eternal Happiness and Misery without intermission and without mixture in Heaven or Hell 4. ETernity is without any intermission There is no intermitting in time in the days of Joshua when the Sun and Moon stood still and some say there was the like pause in the Stars yet time did not stand but posted on its wonted course in the daies of Hezekiah when the Sun went backward ten degrees yet time went on the men then living were not the younger for that retrograde motion and if there be no intermissions in time much less in eternity and this undeniably followeth upon what was before spoken for if there be no succession in eternity but whatsoever good is enjoyed in Heaven and whatsoever suffering is endured in Hell be all at once it will thence follow that there is no interruptions in the happiness of the one nor any intermissions in the punishment of the other 1. There is no interruption in the happiness enjoyed in Heaven and this adds not a little to the greatness of it The best enjoyments in this life are often interrupted yea even the spiritual enjoyments of Believers God is often as a stranger in the Land of their souls and as a Wayfaring-man who tarrieth but for a night his visitations are less frequent and when they are many times not lasting the best of the Saints have experience of Gods access and recess of his drawing near them and his with-drawing from them God sometimes looks through the window shews himself through the Lattice shineth upon them with the light of his countenance makes some of his glory and goodness pass before them so as at present they are able to say with the Church The Lord is my Portion saith my soul but at other times God hideth his face withdraws his comforting presence so as at present they have no taste of his goodness nor smell of the sweet savour of his precious Oyntments nor intimations of his love nor illapses of the light of his Countenance they seek him but cannot find him they cry and shout yet he shutteth out their Prayer they go to the Word to hear what God will speak to them hoping that God may create the fruit of the lips peace yet cannot hear one word of comfort they follow God from Duty to Duty from Ordinance to Ordinance and yet God answereth them neither by Prophets nor by Dreames neither by Prayer nor Word nor Sacrament so as they many times cry out I have lost God the Comforter who should relieve my soul is far off from me or in the language of Sion The Lord hath forsaken me my God hath forgotten me And as they have these sad interruptions in their sense and feeling of Gods love so likewise in that joy and comfort which results from it what they say of Apes and Monkies that in the full of the Moon they are pleasant and jocund often skipping up and down doing their apish tricks but in the wain are dull and sottish not careing to stir in like manner Believers while the candle of God shineth upon their head they are filled with joy and that sometimes beyond what they are well able to bear as Ephraim who begged of God Lord withdraw a while thy joyes from me the weakness of this earthly vessel is not able to hold so great joyes And Severinus that Indian Saint being recovered out of a great sickness in which he found the glorious illapses of God upon his soul cryed out Oh my God do not for pities sake thus over-joy me if I must have these consolations take me to Heaven he that hath tasted of thy sweetness must needs after live in bitterness whereas on the other side when God hides himself and withdraws his presence there is no voice of joy heard in their tabernacles nothing remaining of those joyes they once had but onely a sad remembrance that they once had them Bernard on a time found himself much indisposed yet having striven with himself and then with God in prayer evidently found the visitations of God but this lasted but a while therefore he said of it Oh blessed hour but oh short stay Oh that it had lasted longer (a) Rara hora brevis mora si durrasset And Jeofry of Peroun being in a journey with Bernard one while was so filled with joy that he said he hoped be should never be sad more all