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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	heaven_n	triumphant_a	1,523	5	11.0842	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57640	Balaams better wish delivered in a sermon / by William Rose.	Rose, William, fl. 1647-1648.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1940; ESTC R25527	34,950	42

cannot die evill who liveth well Now as that is a good and wel-led life which is passed in holinesse and vertuous actions that an evill one which is led in wickednesse answerably the death is to be weighed from the forepassed actions of life so that if the life be led in a religious observance of God his Law in a holy obedience to his will the death cannot be bad for it is a translation to immortality But if otherwise it is necessary it must be evill for it transmits to eternall misery how comfortably could a good old Simeon pray that hymne and sing while he prayed Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace with what a religious confidence could old Hilarin farewell with his soule d Hier. de Hilar who had served his God sixty years the conscience of that faithfull service satisfied that his future being could not bee unhappy A heavenly life here on earth must needs give security of a happy life in heaven he that lives here hath no cause to feare to die hereafter e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doroth. doctr 8. for indeed I call the holy the onely life the wicked man hath a being here but onely the righteous man lives We use to count our dayes and number our years according to the time we are on earth Deceive not thy self who ever thou art Compute thou hast only lived that day in which thou hast denyed thine own will in which thou hast resisted thy corrupt affections in the which thou hast not transgressed the rule of equity Compute thou hast onely lived that day which malice and wickednesse envy or pride hath not clouded which hath not been wasted in sin in which thou hast stood upon thy guard and hast not been foyled by fleshly temptations Compute thou hast only lived that day which pious meditation and holy practice hath enlightned not which the darknesse of sin hath turned into a night apply only unto thy life that day the benefit of which by a holy conversation hath redounded unto thy soul The rest is but idle pastime a phrase which humours most men well but such empty cyphers will prove nothing but reall woes at heavens account Shall we compute that a day of life in which men consume eternity and heape unto themselves punishments never to have an end such a life tends unto and ends in death and is in truth but a death live therefore while here thou art sow the seeds of holinesse that thou mayst reape happinesse Bud forth in the blossomes of a future life that thou mayst gather the fruit hereafter the present must answer to the future the worldly lusts subdue thy corrupt appetites let the spirit of God rule in thy heart set thy affections on things above let thy conversation be in heaven and hope well one day thou mayst come thither as Cicero said of Hercules he had never been inrolled among the gods in heaven if he had not laid out his way thither while he lived so if we walke not in that holy way while here we live we shall never be registred with the Saints in blisse f Beru There is no way unto the Kingdom without the first-fruits of the Kingdome neither may they hope to reign there as Kings who have not here ruled over their properlusts If yee looke God should take you as he did Enoch you must as he walke with God a holy ever ushers in a happy life It was a bold and sharpe reply of those Philosophers to Alexander an exemplary Prince for Armes and Arts who passing some territories where his conquering sword had made him master hearing of learned men as his manner was sent for them and propounded to them many questions they giving him good resolution as an argument of his royall satisfaction he would have them aske him what they pleased that hee might grant it to them they joyntly asked of him immortality the Prince began to smile before sayes he I thought you wise men but now I thinke you fools to aske of me immortality who my selfe am mortall While I consider the condition and manners of the most of men I may make the like demand give me immortality if nature prompts them or Religion hath better taught them that they are mortall I make my reply with them to Alexander why then doe you live evill letting loose the reynes of all kinde of sin and wickednesse as if you were immortall as if you had no thought of death or feare of judgement For if we weigh well the actions of the most can we judge any otherwise of them for where is he who lives according to the decorum of heaven whose practice answers to that holy faith he would be accounted to make profession of Philosophy tels us that naturally men desire the chiefest good eternalll happinesse But all this while Religion hath been preached in the world it cannot worke so much upon mens affections as to win them to the right means of gaining of it they would obtein the chiefe good yet they would not be good g Aug. Ser. 12. ae verb. Dom. Doest thou not see how thou oughtest to blush at thy selfe who wouldest have all things good yet thy selfe wouldest not be good thy house thou wouldest have filled with goods and shall it have thee an evill master What is it that thou wouldest have ill not a wife not a childe not a servant not a house not a garment not thy shoos and yet thou carest not though thy selfe be evill thinke better of thy life then of thy shoos All things about thee if they be elegant and faire please and wilt thou be vile and filthy in thy selfe if thy good things could speake unto thee which thou enjoyest would they not say unto thee as thou wouldest have us good so doe we desire thee to be and may they not secretly murmur to God against thee behold thou hast given so many good things to this man yet he himselfe is evill Cannot he who gave these good things and makes them good unto thee if thou displease him take away the comfortable enjoyment of them turne the blessing into a curse thy prosperity into thy destruction get therefore with them his good will by doing his good will that at last he may give thee better and more reall the true goods Conjoyne thy selfe to the fellowship of Saints be of the holy Church here below that thou maist be one of the Church triumphant in glory Labour according to the grace of God given unto thee to doe the will of God here on earth as they doe in heaven that so thou maist doe it more perfectly hereafter with them h Cum quibus fuerit vobis consortium devotionis erit communio dignitatis Leo Ser. 5. de Epip For with whom we have a consort devotion we shall have a community of dignity If thou wouldest have the righteous mans end live as doe the righteous let it be thy delight to

of an asse Jer. 22.19 which implies that the civill interment of the body and committing of it to earth was honourable And as the old Law was full of types and ceremonies so they whose soules wereseparated to severall mansions as if they would expresse this truth in a type the faithfull were buryed by themselves from whence was that phrase to be gathered to their Fathers Gen. 25.8 As Jacob gave commandement concerning his bones that he would not be buryed in Egypt k Gen. 47.29 Gather me not with the wicked prayes the Prophet Psal 26.9 not to take notice of the solemnities used at their funerals and to passe the customes from hence derived to other Nations looke we onely to our own They who deny the common faith or whose more vileactions have been a scandall to their profession we eyther bury them not at all or dishonourably but they who live and dye in the faith of Christ and their good conversation hath given us to hope that their bodies shall one day be partakers with their souls in bliffe we give them a more decent buriall in places set a part for that use the Church yard which the Germanes call l Godw. ant Gods Acre or his field where the bodies of his Saints are sown corruptible to spring and arise again incorruptible and immortall 2 The resurrection though our bodies doe moulder and resolve into yet they doe not lose themselves in the dust they onely leave their weaknesse and corruption which adheares unto them by the contagion of sin from which being purged the substance of the body returns again to prove that there is a resurrection were too large a digression and a needlesse labour it being so cleere a constat among Christians that we hold it an article of our faith We are baptized not onely for the remission of sins but also into the resurrection of the flesh 1 Cor. 15. from whence I conceive the Greeks call baptisme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the clothing or putting on of immortality and again we lay down out bodies in the dust in the sure and certain hope thereof It was an ill reading of that Text the wicked shall not arise in judgement Psal 1.5 which strained that glosse m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyr. Hier. cat 18. Theoph. in Joh. 3. not to judgement but to condemnation the true reading is they sholl not stand in judgement according to the * Stare in judicio Latine phrase they shall not be acquitted but fall when they are judged For as Aquinas rightly argues n Suppl 3. partis qu. 75. art 2. that which is taken from the nature of the species is alike found in every individuall of the same species the resurrection is such and therefore it belongs to every particular Every one must arise the most wretched liver and the false beleever but here is the difference o Resurrectio incredulis parata est gloria autem resurrection is sola credentibus repromissa est Eus Em. hom 1. de Symb. though all arise yet the glory of the resurrection is onely promised unto the faithfull Which was that Saint Paul so earnestly endevoured after if I may by any meanes obteine the resurrection of the dead Phil. 3.11 that of the wicked not deserving the title being but an upstanding to everlasting death Here the body being raysed by the power of GOD out of the dust meets it soul again and are conjoyned together to the righteous a joyfull meeting one of them being happy in the other and both of them in a full expectation of a never ending felicity Sad to the wicked soul being fettered again to the body like malefactors accessories in the same guilt to receive together a just but fearfull recompence of reward 3 Judgement is an act of justice terminated upon man A sentence given by GOD upon his actions There is a twofold judgment assigned by Divines a Session and a grand Assize a particular and a generall For every man is to be considered as he is a singular person in himself and as his sins have had influence into others And as he is a member of mankind 1 As he is an individuall and particular person so is he adjudged by God presently after his death when he is doomed according to what he hath done in the body although not fully because not in the body but onely in the soule that onely appearing and having its sentence the body lying asleepe in its dust 2 As he is a part of mankind so he is called at the great and generall day when there shall be a full summons and an universall appearance of all the living that ever were and as generall a sentence neither yet does God judge twice for the same thing and inflict double punishment for one sin but that which before was not compleatly inflicted then shall the wicked be given up to be tormented and the good glorified in soule and body both and thereseems to be in this equity that the body which hath been a fellow worker with the soul either of holinesse unto life or unrighteousnesse unto death should have her part proportionable in the reward by which generall judgement the righteousnesse of God shall be acquitted and vindicated from all slander not onely from the testimony of every guilty conscience but also by the cleere acknowledgement of every one summoned to appeare at the barre Righteous O God art thou and just are thy judgements The secrets of all hearts being then revealed and the full number of each mans sins being then made up for wicked men finish not their sins with their dayes some mens sins following after judgement 1 Tim. 5.24 they give while they live bad examples which are drawn into practice they leave behinde them the memory of unrighteous deeds which multiply to posterity and acknowledge them their first and proper parent So the vertuous lives of good men lead others by the hand unto holinesse and their faith is filed for posterity Abraham is long since in blisse yet is his faith impressed in the hearts of his children who walke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the steps of the faith of that holy Father Rom. 4.12 how will it adde to the crown of rejoycing as glory of that blessed Saint to see so many trails after him in that tread of faith and righteousnesse which he hath before trodden out how will it blisse those faithfull dispensers of the word and other holy men who by their devout faith and religious practice have converted many unto righteousnesse to appeare with those they have brought to fight under Christ his banner might I rather in the rerelead up but one convert then to march in the van of all the worlds happinesse or triumphant glory The Son of man being mounted on the throne of his Majesty then follows disquisition of actions Heavens records shall be brought forth the books shall be opened the book of life and according to their