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truth_n	apostle_n	church_n	spirit_n	3,973	5	5.1707	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09046	Contemplative pictures with wholesome precepts. The first part: Of God. Of the diuell. Of goodnesse. Of badnesse. Of heauen: and of hell. By Richard Bernard.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1610 (1610)	STC 1934; ESTC S113785	22,316	156

cares not the grown man forced with it but resists not and old age with it Crammocklike crooked but feeles it not Yet is nothing more in vse to be knowne more hindering mans good to be auoided more subtill to be looked vnto more inward to be felt more perilous to bee preuented more forcibly assaulting vs to be strongly of all resisted By it Satan gets of the heart possession by it is hindered the spirits illumination Our vnderstanding by sinne is darkned our thoughts from God estranged the heart in goodnesse is fainted the faculty of the will weakened and the quietnesse of conscience interrupted Faith fals to doubting hope le ts goe her hold and loue turnes her liking into loathing Yea if repentance vpon euery sin cut not the cord of vanitie and grace grow vp in the roome with sincerity this death in sinne will bring death for sinne which will turne saluation offered but carelesly reiected into confusion deserued but now not greatly feared Precepts LOue not Reader the works of darknesse lest thy eies cannot behold the light To saue thee from sinne learne the commandements know thy natural inclination and striue for amendment Heare how God threats and stand in awe obserue his iudgements to discerne of his wrath Other mens punishments for thy personall faults make thē admonishments that thou no more doe fall Oppose Gods precepts to temptations of pleasure the reward of that heauenly life to this temporvrie and earthly losse For sake not God for any worldly good Sinne not heere as a seruant to Satan neglect not true holinesse which is with God commendable and shall be recompenced with endlesse happines Remember thou must die and therefore liue to die Consider the day of account to make a good reckoning As thou art heere so looke to stand there if heere sinnefull there shamefull if heere regardlesse of the commandement there certainly expect seuere punishment from which the Lord deliuer thee Amen The Picture of Heauen HEauen is the hauen of rest desired of all hoped for of many but onely enioyed of the best It is the highest place the seat and throne of God the habitation of Angels the harbour for the iust It is the court of the great King the mighty Creator It is the Lords Tabernacle the faithfull mans receptacle the Region resplendent the comfortable continent the Citie of safetie security the sacred sanctuarie of peace prosperitie All in it are without misery neuer after subiect to calamitie It is a Paradise for pleasure a Citie for beauty and a Kingdome for state Heere is life temporall there life eternall here the beginnings of grace there the perfection of goodnesse There is God in his fulnesse of glory yet to none dreadfull there he raignes in iustice and yet with none wrathfull The company are all triumphant as heere they haue beene members Militant All is in tune concord neuer discord sweet melody neuer any bitter malady Such fulnesse there is of all things such loue mutually in all such respect from all to each others state and place as no excesse is seen nor any defect is felt who that haue least can desire no more and those that haue most discerne no want in other All is beautifulnesse there without blemish immeasurable beyond all motion excellent beyond all imagination The wals thereof are of stones most precious the streets paued with pure gold all the worke is framed curiously set out with all sorts of pearle very sumptuously and adorned with al skil mostgloriously It is decked with all delights replenished with all pleasure garnished with algraces beutified with the best companie flourishing with the flowre of all nations There is the roiall Priesthood the peculiar people the children of light the new creatures the elect by Gods preordination the separated Society by Gods effectuall vocation and the holy Saints by the spirits sanctification There are metioifully together the Head and his body Christ and his Church the Prince of peace with his Patriarks and Prophets Priests and Professors Apostles and Apostolicall men Saints true seruants to God Ministers of the Gospell and Martyrs for the truth They are all there noble none ignominious all Kings raigning all victoriously triumphing None contemptible all honourable All inuested in glory crowned in Maiestie cloathed in sincerity Their faces shine with comely beautie their hearts are filled with pietie their tongues extoll the Lord with spirituall alacritie and in their hands they hold Palms in token of victorie This heauenly happinesse cannot bee imagined the blessings are so many they cannot bee numbred so innumerable as they cannot be comprehended so incomparable as cannot be equaled of such value as cannot bee prized so great as not to bee measured and of such eternitie as they neuer can be ended They be ioifull in an euer-reioicing ioy they cry aloud Hosannah and sing cheerefully Halleluiah They stand before the face of God in inestimable fauour in the view of Angels with brightnesse ouershining the Sunne Mercy embraceth them without doubt of miserie in comfort without discontentment in peace endlesse in glory matchlesse There is mirth without sadnesse health without sicknesse sobernesse of countenance without sorrow tranquillity without vndermining trecherie liuelihood without labour goods and riches without greeuance in getting without care in keeping and a full felicity of all things without adding without diminishing Ther is flowrishing youth neuer decaying strength neuer abating comelie countenance neuer withering liuelinesse is without fading couragiousnesse of heart and spirit without danting There is euer loue without lothing or dislike victorie without feare of after vanquishment gladnesse without diminution of goodnesse Mortalitie hath put on immortalitie corruption glorification No sin is there to be seene the Law is fulfilled the curse is remoued death subdued the promises of the Gospell fully accomplished Faith hath her perfect work in charitie hope her desired happinesse loue a large scope in euerlasting vnitie There is no Foe to fight no Cousener to collogue no Parasite to dissemble no Superiour among them to command no Inferiour to yeeld obedience no maligning enuie no proud Soueraignetie All are now equall members no diuided orders no sorrainers but brethren no strangers but all of the houshold of faith Children of one holie Father coheirs with Christ their elder brother There are no teares the cause is taken away No torment Christ freed them by his punishment no dreade Christ set them at libertie from death no crying there is no paine no pangs or sorrowfull passion they possesse peace in Paradise No disease can infect the body it is not subiect to sicknesse it is freed from infirmities and cannot be distressed by calamities There is no sighing nor sobbing through sorrow of heart such accidents cannot happen no lamētable complaints for iniuries offred no wrongs can there be wrought No ill successe nor wofull wants no griefe of mind nor anguish of spirit no cruell oppression nor ominous action find there a subiect to harbour in neither