Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	death_n	soul_n	7,226	5	5.8870	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43723	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Julian Vicountess Camden at Camden Jan. 12, 1680/1	Hicks, Henry, d. 1692.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1918B; ESTC R40987	14,992	36

shall become as the Angels of God freed from all those necessities and conveniencies of support which we are constrained to whilst here muffled up in matter A Change that will most compleatly and adequately satisfie our most outstretched desires so that we shall never be plunged into want or any jealousies ever so to be A Change that will cloth us with Glory and so we shall need no other apparel with immortality and so we shall never crave the supports and reparation of food nor any drugs and antidotes for we shall be above the power of an Elementary composition and the wounds of an Earthly constitution Diseases and Pains are but the Harbingers of death to usher in a final divorse of Soul and Body but our Change will conquer death it self so that there will be no farther use of his ghastly retinue We shall for ever bid adeiu to languishing pulses and broken sighs and we shall never again be in old Barzillai's condition who could neither tast nor hear but had outliv'd his senses for these shall be refined and sublimated beyond the power of Age and Decay We shall be admitted into the presence and enjoyment of an everlasting felicity and when we are fashioned to his glorious body shall be acknowledged Sons of the most highest and sure this is a happy Change 3. Which 3ly is wrought by our Saviour Jesus Christ Our Text tells us that he shall do it by that power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself A Power to which nothing is impossible or difficult a power that can rally the separated parcells and ruines of our body to an union as easily as at the first he spake them into being and activity and as easily cloth the united flesh with glory and immortality If he pleases he can dart such beams upon Man as he did upon Angels and can change him into such a life and lustre for he has all power given him both in Heaven and Earth and there wants nothing but his inclination to do this for us and that he will do it he has engag'd his word to keep us from doubt or fainting Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold the glory which thou hast given me and he farther words himself thus And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them as it he had said O Father it is my endeavour and desire that all those faithful servants which thou hast given me may enjoy the full participation of my glory and that for this end they may at last be received up into thy Heavenly kingdom for the Glory which thou hast given me I have not received nor reserved for my self but will communicate it to the members of my body and will stamp them with the same glorious impression Thus did our faithful High Priest stoop to the infirmities of our nature that he might exalt it and instate us in an Eternity of glory if we shall faithfully approve our selves to him here by keeping Consciences void of offence towards God and towards man Which more then hints to us to consider the Practical part of our Text namely what we are to do in order to this glorious Change Which is To have our Conversation in Heaven By which is meant our leading such an holy and godly life here as our Religion bids us expect hereafter or in the words of the Apostle To be holy as he that hath called us is Holy To be holy in all manner of Conversation And indeed till we are so we should have no relish even of Heaven it self Nay we should grope for Paradice in the midst of it What satisfaction can there be in that happiness to a man drowned in sensualities which is the Object only of pure and refined Souls so that the pure in heart must only see God What should the Luxurious man who makes it the business and the design of his life to eat and provoke Hunger what relish can he have of the place where they neither hunger nor thirst What should the man of Wantonness and Dalliances who will sacrifice his manhood and his reason to a bruitish sensuality what should he do there where they neither marry nor are given in marriage What should the stormy revengeful man who delights only in Blood and Slaughter what should he do there where there is nought but concord and love and where there are no flames but such as kindle Seraphims Our senses cannot only not be admitted into Heaven but if they were to be so they could not enjoy it whilst blurr'd and sullied with the black characters of an ill spent life If we could suppose a Vicious man should carry his evil inclinations of Pride and Envy Malice and Revenge Lust and Intemperance to that glorious Kingdom with him Heaven would be no Heaven to such a one the Place would be odious the Company troublesome the Imployment ungrateful and the Eternity a burden intollerable he would be uneasy to holy Souls and they to him So that Flesh and Blood not only must not but cannot inherit the Kingdom of God not till our souls are conform'd to such a rectitude as they stand disposed in their respective offices to perform their Makers will are they fit to enjoy him So that our Conversation must be in Heaven whilst we are here in our earthly pilgrimage if ever we intend to be glorified Citizens of the Jerusalem above and we must endeavor to make good by our practise what we every day pretend to desire of God by our Prayers namely that his will may be done by us on earth with as much chearfulness and alacrity as it is by his Angels his winged messengers in Heaven 2. To which we must add the second part of our Text and that is To look for and expect our Saviours coming which implies Constancy and Perseverance in our duties to have our Account right stated and ready cast up because we know not how soon we shall be summoned to give an account of our stewardship The Text indeed seems to mean the last coming of Christ to Judgment but every mans particular doom to which the day of death consigns him is approaching even at the doors The●efore it highly concerns us all to keep our faculties wakeful and vigilent that we may not be surpriz'd by the day of darkness that we may never go out of the world with the Fools Motto in our Mouths with a non putabam I did not think It concerns us whilst it is called to day to improve every advantage and opportunity to our great and only interest to settle our thoughts desires and affections upon Heavenly matters and by our prudence to anticipate that farewel which we must give to all the enjoyments of this life and to engage not only our desires but our endeavors also after that prize which God the righteous Judge will give to all those who shall so expect his