Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	incense_n	prayer_n	smoke_n	1,391	5	11.4786	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

intermission contemplate his Glory and euer serue him by continuall thankesgiuing and praising his Name in Heauen which is his eternall and celestiall Temple and hee that sits on the Throne shall dwell with them for they shall neuer be separated from his presence 16 And they shall be no more an hungry or thirstie nor the Sunne or any heate shall trouble them 17 For the Lambe who is in the middest of the Throne to wit coequall in power with his Father he shall feed them and guide them to the liuely fountaines of waters to wit they shall feed of that Spirituall and liuely bread and drinke of that Spirituall and liuely water euen himselfe Iohn 4.14 which Water he promised to the Samaritane woman at the well And GOD shall wipe all teares from their eyes for he shall both by the greatnesse of their present ioyes put quite out of their memories all the sorrow of their former troubles and shall also giue them eternall ioy which shall neuer be mixed with any kind of trouble or feare so shall they not be molested with the vehemencie of the Sunne or any other heate which signifies great troubles and sorrow CHAP. VIII ARGVMENT The opening of the seuenth Seale The seuen Trumpets comming out of it The effect of the prayers of the faithfull signified by the vision of the fire of the Altar Some persecution and some heresies signified by haile mixt with blood and fire in the first trumpet The great persecution by the hill of fire in the second The number of heresies by the starres falling into the fountaines of water in the third The vniuersall infirmitie in the Church in some things by the Sunne Moone and starres darkened in the fourth ANd when hee opened the seuenth Seale there was silence in heauen almost halfe an houre aswell to let mee know that hee had once already summarily declared the whole things which was to come after as by silence a while to giue me occasion to meditate vpon that vision which I had seene to the effect that afterward I might the better vnderstand the more particular rehearsall thereof which now vnder another vision and forme was to be declared vnto me by the opening of the seuenth Seale 2 And I saw seuen Angels standing before God to execute whatsoeuer thing it should please him to command them and by his direction there were seuen Trumpets giuen vnto them that by these Trumpets they might with one Maiestie denounce to the world such plagues as they were by the command of God to powre foorth vpon it 3 Then another Angel came and stood before the Altar hauing a golden censer in his hand and there was much incense giuen vnto him that he might offer vp the prayers of the Saints vpon the golden Altar that is before the Throne 4 And the smoke of the incense which is the prayers of the Saints mounted vp from the hand of the Angel to the sight of God 5 Then the Angel tooke this new emptied censer and filled it againe with the fire of the Altar and did cast it downe on the earth and there were thundrings voices lightenings and earthquakes By this Angel and his proceedings we are assured and made certaine that Christ shall euer be vigilant ouer his owne and that specially in straightest times hee will heare their prayers and euer renew them with some light of the Gospel by the working of his holy Spirit And to assure vs hereof the vision of this Angel was showne vnto me immediatly before that by the seuen Trumpets he is to dilate these visions showen me in the former Seales This Angel was Christ he stood before the Altar this Altar is likewise himselfe as I declared before his standing before it meaneth that by his office of Mediatour hee was to doe as followes He had a golden censer in his hand for he keeps the censer wherein are contained the incense which the Saints giue him to wit their prayers to be offered vp to God by his mediation who is that golden and pure Altar which is euer in the presence of God and whose requests are no time refused and therefore that incense and the smoke thereof mounts vp to the sight of God to assure vs that our prayers being offered in that forme are euer acceptable The effect whereof doeth appeare by the Angels filling againe the censer with the fire of the Altar and casting it on the earth wherewith is ioyned the noise ye heard of for these prayers procure that their Mediatour shall out of his golden boxe to wit out of his treasure of power send downe the fire of the Altar to wit the holy Spirit which remaineth with him to make thunders voices lightnings and earthquakes to wit to giue againe the Law by renewing the efficacie of the Gospel in the hearts of the faithfull alluding to the giuing of the olde Law whereof these fearefull noises were the fore-runners This surely is the care and effect that our Master in all troublesome times renewes to strengthen our weakenesse with 6 And then the seuen Angels which had the seuen trumpets prepared themselues to blow for although they were before directed yet were they not permitted to execute their office no more then the foure Angels who stayed the foure windes while Christ had strengthened and armed his owne as is said to assure vs that euer before any great temptation hee will make the backes of the elect ready and able to beare such burthens as hee is to lay vpon them 1. Cor. 10.13 7 Then the first Angel blew and there was a great haile and fire mixed with blood and this storme was cast downe vpon the earth whereupon followed that the third part of the trees was withered and burnt vp and all greene grasse was withered and burnt vp for the first plague which hath already begun to worke shall be mixed partly of haile which is heresie for as haile showers by the harme they doe to the corne makes them to become deare so heresie makes the true haruest of the Lord to become scant This haile or heresie and spirituall persecution is ioyned with the sword and persecution of the flesh which is signified by the fire and the blood This fiery and two edged triall shall make the third part to wit a part but not the greatest number of trees to wit of renowmed men and all greene grasse to wit all them that are not wel founded and strong in the trewth this greene grasse is that sort of professours Marke 4. vers 5 6 7. of whom Christ spake in the parable of the seed sowen in sandie and thornie ground it shall make them I say to fall from the trewth and so become withered and vnprofitable 8 Then the second Angel blew and there fell as it had beene a great hill all burning in fire and this hill was cast into the sea and the third part of the sea became blood 9 And the third part of the liuing

their constancie and patience in the time of their persecution they shall as it were reigne ouer the earth and by their Martyrdome be Iudges therof for it is called Christs reigning and the Saints vpon the earth when his word and trew professours thereof shine visibly therein as I haue said and these were they who adored not the beast to wit they are the elect who were predestinate before all beginnings to be preserued from all infections and heresies which is generally represented by this part of them that the beast or Babylon shal raise and maintaine as the greatest and most perillous that euer shall be raised by Satan And the honourable sitting of the Saints and soules of Martyrs was shewed to me to assure me that how soone the soule of any faithfull man is parted from the body it ascendeth immediatly vnto heauen there abiding in all glory the reioyning againe of his glorified body at the latter day coniunctly to possesse all glory in heauen eternally like as by the contrary the reprobate soule how soone it parteth from the body of the wicked goes down immediatly to hell there abiding in all torment the knitting again with his cursed body at the latter day there iointly to be subiect to eternall paine neither is there any resting place by the way for any of them and the rest of the dead to wit all the wicked shal not be reuiued while this space be complete for the wicked shall neither during this space nor at any time thereafter taste of the regeneration which is the first resurrection and second birth as Christ said to Nicodemus and therfore as I said already Blessed and happy are they who are partakers of the first resurrection for the second death to wit hell shall haue no power of them but they shall be Priests of God and Christ and reigne with him these thousand yeeres to wit they shal eternally in heauen offer vp that Eucharisticall Sacrifice of praise to God and so be ioyned in fellowship with the chosen which were vpon the earth in that aforesaid time This first part of this vision is begun alreadie now followeth the next part 7 And when these happy dayes are expired then shal the deuill be loosed out of his prison 8 And he shal go forth with greater liberty to seduce the nations which are in the four airths of the earth to wit he shal not only after the spreding of many heresies cause a general blindnes defection but also make a great persecution vpon the faithful Church by gathering Gog and Magog to battell against them whose number is like the sand of the sea to wit after innumerable troubles at last he shall gather to the great day of the battell of the Lord of the which ye heard in the sixt Trumpet and sixt phiale and last immediately before this Vision Gog and Magog to wit two great seates of Monarchies and Tyrannies ouer the Church who both at one time shall rise in the latter dayes and both at another time shal be destroyed by the blast of Christes breath as ye shall heare whereof the one is the auowed and professed enemie of GOD and his CHRIST but the other is Babylon the hypocriticall and most dangerous aduersary Of these two ye heard in the sixt Trumpet and so these two although pride and enuie shall still keepe a rooted malice betwixt them yet they shall both with innumerable forces make warre against the trew Church as Herod and Pilate did band themselues against Christ notwithstanding the particular dislikes which were betwixt them It is these and their forces that must fight against the Saints at Arma-geddon as ye heard in the sixt phiale and the special drawers on of this battell shal be the three frogs who are the last vermin bred of the smoake of the bottomlesse pit as ye also heard in the said phiale 9 These great forces then went vp vpon the earth for the diuel raised them out of the bottomlesse pit and they spread themselues vpon the breadth of the earth so great was their number and compassed the Tents or dwellings of the Saints and the holy Citie for they were prepared to inuade the trew Church on all sides and by all meanes but the fire came downe from heauen and deuoured them for God by his Almighty power euen when their power was greatest and nothing so like as an apparant rooting out of all the faithfull in rebus desperatis did miraculously confound all the aduersaries of his Church And now comes in the third and last part of this Vision to wit the description of the Consummation 10 For I did see the diuel who seduced these wicked cast into a lake of fire and brimstone to wit in hell out of the which he shall neuer come againe where also the beast and the false prophet were as ye heard before Here now I saw the diuel punished eternally to my greater comfort for troubling the Church where before I saw onely his instruments punished as I said in the beginning of this Vision and he and his instruments shall be tormented there day and night to wit incessantly for euer and euer 11 Then I saw a great white Throne and one sitting thereupon in all glory and brightnesse to wit IESVS CHRIST now comming from heauen to iudge the earth and from his sight fled the earth and the heauen and their place was not found for the whole earth and much of the heauen shall be destroyed and renewed at his last comming 12 And I saw all the dead great and small standing in GOD his sight for then is the resurrection of the dead who at that time must be iudged And the bookes were opened to wit the counsels and secrets of all mens hearts and another booke to wit the booke of Life was opened to the effect that all those whose names were written into it to wit predestinated and elected for saluation before all beginnings might there be selected for eternall Glory And the dead were iudged out of these things which were written in the bookes according to their workes for as God is a Spirit so iudgeth he the thoughts of man and so by faith onely iustifies him which notwithstanding is done according to his workes because they as the fruits of faith cannot be separated from it and beare witnesse of the same to men in the earth 13 And the Sea gaue vp all the dead she had for all the dead must then rise as I haue shewed already And death and hell gaue vp all they had for not onely the bodies but euen the soules of the wicked shal be iudged there and euery one was iudged according to his workes as I presently did shew you 14 And hell and death were casten in the Lake of fire which is the second death to wit hell and death shall then be closed vp for euer within themselues and shall neuer againe come forth to trouble the Saints for death which is the last