Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	know_v	4,869	5	4.2588	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91900	The saints longings after their heavenly country. A sermon preached at St. Pauls church on Tuesday the sixth of June; 1654. At a solemn anniversary meeting of the Cheshire Gentlemen, and freemen of the City of London, born in the same county. / By that faithful and painfull servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Ralph Robinson late minister of Mary Wolnoth London.	Robinson, Ralph, 1614-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1712; Thomason E848_3; ESTC R207320	21,164	43

earthly Country before it Abundance are of that prophane Cardinals mind who would not give his part in Paris for his part in Paradise Most prefer Egypt before Canaan These are none of Abrahams stock he thought Heaven better than Canaan they judge every dirty Country better than Heaven It is a sign these men have never travelled in this Celestial Country it is a sign they beleeve not what they hear reported of it that prefer House and Shop or such Mannors in their own Country before those rich possessions that are in Heaven Secondly Be contented if God have given you an Inheritance in this Country though you have not so great Estates on Earth as others have One foot breadth in Heaven is worth a hundred Millions of Acres on Earth if you have an interest in the body glory honor riches of this celestial Country you have more than if you had ten thousand Worlds I have all my Brother faith Jacob Gen. 33. 11. He had the dew of Heaven as well as the fatness of the Earth A man may be a Lord of many Earthly Countries and yet live and die under the wrath of God Ahasuerus had the command of all those Countries from Judea to Ethiopia even One hundred twenty seven Provinces and yet because he was not an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven he died miserable and poor Thirdly You that have an interest in this Country boast of it It is a great mercy to have our being in a wholesom Country such is Heaven Revel 21. 4. What a mercy is it to have a spiritual being from Heaven and an eternal being in Heaven Glory in your Country that others may be provoked to travel to it to trade in it This is the second Point The third and last Doctrine is A true Beleever hath strong desires after his heavenly Country 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 faith Text they seek it they seek it with their strongest desires as sick man seeks health as a covetous man seeks money They groan after it so the Apostle expresseth it 2 Cor. 5. 2. For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven Our conversation saith the Apostle is in Heaven Phil. 3. 20. Their hearts were carried out aftes it they longed to be in it A beleever when he is under some sad darknesse of spirit when he hath some great work to do for the good of the Church may be unwilling to leave the world as Hezekiah was Isa. 38. 2 3. But when their work is done when all is clear between God and their souls then they would be in their heavenly Country Quest What is implyed by this phrase desiring a heavenly Country Answ 1. To desire Heaven is to labor to have an interest in it To labor to make it sure to our selves that it doth belong to us to make good our propriety in it according to that of the Apostle 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give all diligence to make your calling and election sure 2. To desire every day more and more to fit our selves for it He that saith he desires an heavenly Country and doth not use all diligence to be made meet for it as the Apostle speaks Col. 1. 12. doth but mock himself 3. To seek a heavenly Country is to long continually to be in it This is that which was the Patriarchs seeking they longed to be in that heavenly Canaan of which the earthly was a pledge and seal Qu. 2. Why do Beleevers so desire their heavenly Country Ans. These desires of their heavenly Country spring from a double root 1. The unsatisfactoriness they finde in their earthly Countries They find nothing here but labor sorrow sin toyl emptiness disappointment vexation c. They have had enough of their earthly Countrie alreadie therefore they desire a better Country It is enough Lord saith Elijah take away my life for I am no better than my Fathers I King 19. 4. He had had as much of the world as he did desire he had found it to be a lying vanity therefore he desires to be in another place And then secondly The felicity they beleeve and hope for in their Heavenly Country They know that they shall have in that Country all that their souls can wish They shall have Grace in perfection Joy in perfection I desire saith the Apostle to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 1. 23. They see that in their heavenly Country which will make them compleatly happy So faith Paul We know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle was dissolved we have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from Heaven 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. The Uses are these First It condemns them that never have any desire of this Heavenly Country They have no serious thoughts of it they study not how to get thither they pray not for it they speak not of it they love not discourses about it They drudge and toyl for the world rise early go to bed late c. but they minde not Heaven This is very sad How will such men do when they come to die what comfort will they have if Heaven be not their Country Hell must This Country you must leave and you know not how soon and what will your hundreds and thousands your Houses your Lands then stand you in stead you must pack away and leave all you have scraped together behind you When you see death at your bed side you will wish you had minded a better Country more and the world less It is the complaint of the Church Cant. 1. 6. against her mothers Children They made me saith she the keeper of the vineyards but my own vineyard have I not kept You will another day curse all your care and diligence about the world which hath hindred you from seeking Heaven and this Heavenly Country Secondly Let me intreat all of you to imitate this example of the Patriarchs Seek your better Country It is good when men seek the good of their Earthly Countrie You are met this day to testifie your respects towards your Native Country It is a lawful and warrantable thing to do so Nature commands men to desire their native Countrie It is unthankfulnefs to forget the place which gave us breath and provided for us our first food The Greek Proverb is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The smoak of a mans own Country is brighter than flame in a strange Land Ulysses longed to see the smoak of his Country It is an honorible thing for men that have Estates to consult how they may advantage their native Country These Meetings heretofore have been very instrnmental for much good in the erecting of Schools the maintaining of Lectures you may help to save many a soul as you have ability and opportunity it would do well to think on these