Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	angel_n	company_n	zion_n	344	4	8.6321	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01900	The happinesse of the saints in glory, or A treatise of heaven, on Rom. 8. 18 For I reckon, that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. By Tho. Goodwin. B. D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1638 (1638)	STC 12039; ESTC S118384	22,138	106

Oyntment and perfume rejoyce the heart so doth the sweetnesse of a mans friend by hearty counsell The same testifies David in his lamentation for Ionathan 2. Sam 1. 26. I am distressed for thee my brother Ionathan very pleasant hast thou beene unto me Thy love to me was wonderfull passing the love of a woman but I say though the love of friends bee great Ionathan exceeding lovely yet they are not so lovely as God it cannot be affirmed of them that they are love it selfe as God is on then how pleasant will it bee when this vase affection of love shall bee satisfied GOD will come into us and dwell with us and doe but thinke what a pleasant thing it is to have the great God of Heaven and Earth to dwell together with the creature in unity to have him who is love it selfe to dwell in us from all eternity it is said 1 Pet. 1. 8. Whom having not seene you love in whom though you see him not yet beleeving you reioyce with ioy unspeakeable and glorious Why if that bee a cause to make you rejoyce so unspeakably how much more joyfull will you be when you enjoy his presence not onely to kisse him through the lattice as here we doe enjoying onely his presence through his ordinances but to lie in the bosome of his love to bee enfolded in those everlasting armes of his mercy to be loved of love it selfe to be made partaker of all his goodnes and Gods love is free he loves us w th out any cause in our selves why thē brethren cōsider with your selves what is the height depth breedth and length of Gods love to bee filled with all fulnesse of God Eph. 3. 8. Oh what a bottomelesse sea of Gods love shall we be slung into one droppe of which is better than the gold of Ophir yea surpasseth the whole earth In the last place I will endeavour to shew the finall cause and demonstrate the greatnesse of Heaven by this that both the finis cui and the finis cuius that is the end why God hath prepared all this glory and the persons for whom Who is it for that God hath beene from everlasting preparing glory Is it not for his Saints Is it not for his friend and spouse Is it not for Sion Heb. 12. But you are come into Mount Sion and into the City of the living God the heavenly Hierusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the generall assembly and Church of the first borne which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of the sprinkling that speakes better things than that of Abel God hath reserved Heaven for us Heaven is made for the feasting of his first borne he hath in heaven all his children about him there shall bee called a generall assembly of them one will not bee away you know parents they bestow the most cost when they have their children all at once together they respect no cost looking at the joy which is set before them they have joy unspeakeable in the presence of their children together and therefore at times of rejoycing men will send for their children home Now my brethren God will have all his Children home hee will have a generall invitation the great Congregation of the Elect shall bee called together hee will have them all home and therefore hee must needs make great provision consider what he hath vouchsafed to wicked men the worst of men beloved these runne away with the blessings of the World even such as God hath set himselfe against to hate with an eternall hatred why then thinke with your selves what hee hath prepared for those that love him whom with an everlasting love hee hath loved in his Sonne for his Sonnes sake which is as great as himselfe certainly hee will communicate himselfe to the uttermost I say then thinke with your selves what God hath prepared for those that love him Secondly consider the end for which this is and that is to manifest his owne glory hee truely hath had a great deale of glory out of this World already The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy worke hee hath had a great deale of glory out of this World by justifying poore sinners and sanctifying their hearts and also by punishments inflicted upon wicked men but all this is nothing to that glory he meaneth to have not comparable to that he will have in Heaven 2 Thes 3. 10. When hee shall come to be glorified in his Saints and bee admired of all them that beleeve Wee thinke wonderfull things of God and yet all our thoughts shall come farre short of the excellency of his comming he will come beyond our expectation hee will come to purpose to be admired of all them that beleeve The matter of Gods glory the revenues of it must come out of you the chiefest of his glory as for the manifestation of his glory it must come forth of that he will come to be glorified in his Saints hee will then shew how glorious a God he is by manifestation of his glory it must come forth of that he will come to be glorified in his Saints hee will then shew how glorious a God he is by manifesting what glorious creatures he hath made it is not a little glory that will content GOD it is not a little glory that will content a King when hee meaneth to take state Rom. 1. Hee will glorifie himselfe as God or else he would never have begun he would never have gone about it unlesse he meant to doe it to the utmost And in what doth this his glory consist why in making us glorious and the manifestation of his glory as hee is God comes from us It is true indeed Gods essentiall glory can not bee added unto us but the manifestation of his glory shall arise to us we shall have it communicatively as when you see the Sunne reflect upon the waters though you see not the Sunne it selfe yet you see as perfect a manifestation of it as if you should see the Sun it selfe So likewise though you cannot have Gods glory essentially yet you shall have it perfectly communicated to you manifested in you 2 Cor. 8. 23. And therefore the Saints are there called the glory of Christ now thinke with your selves God hath had infinite vast thoughts of glorifying himselfe there hath beene a fountaine of thoughts in him for that cause and that unceasing spring which hath runne in GOD from all eternity must needs make a vaste Sea and who must be the vessels that must goe into this into whom all this must be emptied are they not those that love him those that hee hath loved with an everlasting love why then doe but thinke with your selves how unutterable are the joyes we shall have in Heaven I would adde something