Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	1,486	5	11.4562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20805	The lambes spouse or the heauenly bride A theologicall discourse, wherin the contract betwixt Christ and the church; the preparation against the mariage; and the solemnization it selfe, and the exclusion of hypocrites and temporizers, is plainly and profitably, with the partucular vses, set forth. Whereunto is annexed an exact preparatiue to the Lords Supper. By T.D. Minister of the word of God.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 7185; ESTC S114693	59,295	211

the marriage and our consumation Vse If wee would bee perfect conquerers and raigne and triumph with Christ in Heauen we must in earth take his part against the mighty Iudg. 5. 23. We must vnder the condu●t of our generall Christ Iesus our Heauenly Michaell as his Angels and souldiers fight against the dragon and his Angells and wee shall ouercome by the bloud of the Lambe and by the worde of his testimony and by not louing our liues vnto death Apoc. 12. 7. 11. Finally wee must put on the whole armour of GOD fayth hope conscience confession and profession of the truth righteousnesse and the sworde of the Spirit which is the worde of GOD Ephesi 6. 13. And wee must pray constantly with all manner of prayer and supplications in the Spirit for our selues and for all Saints c. And by the right vse and continuall handling of these wee shall crucifie the flesh with the affectons and lustes thereof Gallathians 5. 24 wee shal be able to resist in the euill day and hauing finished all things to stand fast and wee shall ouercome sathan and all his batteries and temptations and then after all our fight contention and victory ended wee shall in the life to come eate of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradice of GOD Apoc. 2. 17. we shall eate of the hidden Manna Apoc. 2. 17. wee shall haue power ouer nations vers 26. wee shall bee cloathed with white araye and our name neuer put out of the Booke of life Chap. 35. wee shall be pillers in Gods house and goe out no more 16 12. And to conclude we shall sit with Christ in his Throne euen as he sitteth with his Father in his throne Apoc. 3. 21. which God at length fulfill and accomplish in vs for his most deerely beloued sonnes sake Iesus Christ our onely and all-sufficient redeemer and mediator Amen NOw we are briefly to consider the place where this marriage shal be solemnized and all this glory ioy and priuileges eternally possessed communicated vnto vs. The place therfore is the highest heauens the throne of GOD and the Lambe the heauenly Hierusalem the Cittie of the liuing God Paradise the seates and habitations of the saints Angels the wedding chamber and finally the new heauen the new earth This blessed heauen is a place in respect of substance subiect to no change and corruption in respect of quantity and extent farre exceeding other places and of sufficient capacitie to receiue all the elect of God in respect of qualities it is of all places most bright most glorious most pleasant finally it is such a place wherin no euill can be feared and no good can be wanting and in which GOD doth offer himselfe to bee seene of men and Angels face to face and the humanitie of CHRIST more glorious then the Sunne shall bee seene and bee beheld with vs euen with our bodily eyes Apoc. 21. the whole Chapter and Chapter 22 from the first verse to the sixt verse Hebrew 11. Iohn 14. Wherfore fat be it from vs that vainly looking for a visible Church heere without all spot or wrinckle in order and maner and seeing and finding it not proudly vnthankfully rashly and without cause to deuide and seperate our selues as is the maner of Schismatickes frō the Church of God which notwithstāding al other defects whether in doctrine that is not fundamental or policy yet firmely and purely retaineth the scūd Preaching of Apostolicall doctrine pure inuocation of Gods name in Christ and right vse of the two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords supper for these notes are essentiall substantiall and of the life of the Church other things are outward accidentall and circumstantial and rather of the comelinesse well beeing and ornament then of the simple necessity and essence of the Church yet it were to be much wished that the defects were supplied abuses remoued corruptions taken away but it must bee done by thē who haue lawfull authority in order without tumult and rashnes and repugnance cause and sound ground In the meane time it is the dutie of priuate persons to take the benefit of the word and sacramēts with thankesgiuing least God for their vnthākefulnes in time take it away and to pray for the amendment of that which is amisse and patiently expecting it in the interim to walke in their seuerall callings with diligence and conscience Vse 2. Seeing all blisse felicitie and euer-during happinesse is onely in heauen and not in earth wee must not rest in these temporall and transitorie things of honour wealth preferment beauty buildings credit pleasure delights recreations outward peace and prosperitie neither must wee thinke that true felicitie and happinesse consisteth herein for first all these are vncertaine and transitorie as the grasse vapor flower shaddow they are like Ionas his gourde of one dayes continuance and are like Reeds or rotten posts fayling and causing them to fall that leane vpon them Secondly they are rather by reason of our corrupt nature fnares baits and traps to deceiue and hurt vs as infinite examples euince thē simply meanes and instruments of our selicity and faluation Thirdly they cannot saue our soules and make vs blessed before GOD as Solomon acknowledged when hee called them all vanity of vanities but this worke is proper onely to grace and GODS speciall mercy in Christ. Fourthly they are no especiall and proper endowments of Gods Church and Children though sometimes they in good sort enioy them and pertake of them for the wicked commonly possesse them in farre greater measure then the Godly who are rather rich in minde and in grace then in these externall and perishable profits honours and pleasures Wherefore wee must eleuate our hearts and mindes farre aboue these earthly and momentary things and seeke the things aboue wee must get vs vp into the mountaine of deuine contemplation and by the eyes of true fayth behold and view our Country the Heauenly Canaan we haue no abiding Citie here wherefore we must seeke one to come hauing a foundation whose builder and maker is GOD. And as for these worldly and outward things wee must onely vse them so farre forth as they are lawfull and are helpes vnto vs for the furthering of of our Iorney the aduancement of Godlinesse and no otherwise for els it is better that they should perish then wee and it is farre better that wee should alienate and withdrawe our mindes and affections from them then that they should seperate vs from GOD as they doe the most and depriue vs of the kingdome of Heauen and in this case if they were as deere and necessary vnto vs as our eyes handes feete yea Fathers and Mothers yet we must cut them off and hate them And thus much touching the place The fourth and the last branche is the manifold vses and applications of this doctrine of the heauenly mariage first by consideration hereof wee must be stirred vp