Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	natural_a	spirit_n	1,503	5	5.1182	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29711	The temple opened, or, The great mystery of the millennium and the first resurrection revealed and found to be different from all the accounts that have been given thereof by any who have hitherto wrote on the same subject : more fully and plainly opening the nature of the death humbly presented to the King and Parliament by Thomas Brookhouse.	Brookhouse, Thomas.	1696 (1696)	Wing B4972; ESTC R18149	52,493	72

objected It cannot be in a literal sence because of the Inestimable Materials This makes little for the Richness and Sumptuousness of the Materials is not so much to be understood literally as to set forth that most admirable Beauty and Harmony it will introduce and to make it a more proper Representative of Heaven of which it is really and truly a Type and nothing else John was set upon a Mountain to see this glorious sight and he tells us It came down from Heaven and therefore cannot be Heaven it self He might be set on a Mountain to see as far as Judea he being in Patmos but I rather think it was to see as far as Britannia where this happy State should first dawn and where the First Pillar in this Temple of God or of the New Jerusalem should be erected which is a peculiar Promise to the Philadelphian Church which we really and in truth have amongst us Jerusalem in Palestine will be the Tower of the Flock or the Cupola of this most Magnificent Structure and all other Cittadels will be as Pillars to support the Main Fabrick It will be like St. Peters at Rome and all the rest answering our Cathedral 〈◊〉 Further John saith He saw no Temple in it which plainly sets forth the changing the Temple-Administration for that of a City And how excellently is this Dispensation suited to the Age of the World The World is now Adult and come to its Manhood and what more proper Scenes can we have than Cities which are the Discretional and Political parts of her Furniture But further The Body of Jesus Christ is the Grand Pattern of things in Heaven and in Earth and were we but well-instructed in our own Frame we might almost know any thing The last expired Dispensation has been only a Fermentation in the Stomach or a preparing of the Juyces to convert them into Blood which this City-Heart disperses and makes to circulate through all the Body The Circulation of the Blood being found out the Gospel which is the Blood of the World could not be long a Mystery and the Blood coming to the Extream Parts reverts as I hinted before proving thereby the Church to be Re-born or the Witnesses to have their Resurrection in the West The Increment of Christs Natural Body is the Great Rule of all our Dispensation or Cause of Alterations of all the Political Affairs in the World As the Flesh grows the Politicks of the World change The Flesh is the Incremental or Changeable Part and the Spirit the Firmamental or Immoveable Part being God himself That common measure of Prophetick Time of Time Times and Half a Time has a peculiar respect to the Age of Christ And the Three Grand Dispensations by Father Son and Holy Spirit have a peculiar Regard to his Childhood Youth and Manhood In the dark shadowy Dispensation of the Jews He was growing in the Womb and to Constantine's time a Child and the last 1260 years he was a Youth and what Aestuations and Fermentations there are in Youth is well known and 't is as well known how Youths are corrupted and imposed upon who are Heirs to great Estates But now he is Adult and come to his Manhood and therefore as is usual for Heirs makes claim to his Estate which is no less than the whole World Hitherto he has been as it were in his Nonage But Now as the Apostle expresses it his Body the Church is come to the Measure of the Fulness of his Stature which is not well Translated for 't is Christi Adulti in the Latin which ought to be rendred of Christ come to his Manhood or grown a Man Before Other Lords Ruled over his Heritage But Now in the Millennium being his Manhood he will Rule Himself He Now Claims all Power and Authority and gives and bestows the Kingdoms of this World to whom he pleases And whosoever henceforward Exercises any Power or Authority on Earth if not delegated by him 't is either Permission or Usurpation for all Power and Dominion belongs to Him And when Kings come to their Kingdoms 't is usual to prefer some City before others for their Residence Therefore Jerusalem in Palestine is the place He will reside and put his Name there The Text saith The Name of the City shall be THE LORD IS THERE 'T is also speaking Spiritually usual for Men who come to Age to Marry and take a House Jerusalem is this House and the Church Regenerate is the Bride and blessed are those that are called to the Wedding Saith John Blessed are they which are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb That is Blessed are those that are Members of the Church regenerate Blessed are those that live in the times of this happy Administration of the New Jerusalem for they if they be Holy shall be Sharers of the First Resurrection or be invested with the First Fruits of his Power They shall enter into and have the Priviledges of this Holy City if they are cloathed in their Wedding Garments the white Linnen of Holiness but if not they must stand without The Text saith And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that Defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a Lye but they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life And Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in thorow the Gate into the City For without are Dogs and Sorcerors and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolators and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lye And all these things are to be understood in a Literal as well as in a Spiritual sence No indigested crude stuff must come to the Heart but pure and rarified Blood And what can Men object against this most happy Administration I know they will say It will make strange Alterations and overturn all their Old Constitutions in the World I allow this 'T is said Old things are passed away and behold I make all things New And Men may thank themselves for this for if they had not built with Wood Hay and Stubble it had not been pulled down If they had made due Provision for the Infant Bride she had not turned Prostitute and so had now had no occasion to have been washed and purified she had been ready long ago and had not now occasion to make her self ready Christ set the World a Blessed Pattern but they would not follow it The Text saith And it came to pass that He went throughout every City and Village preaching and shewing the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of God and the Twelve were with him And another saith And Jesus went about all the Cities and Villages teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the Doctrine of the Kingdom This was the way which our Saviour took and had it been continued hitherto there had been no need of a New Administration The Way and Method a Doctrine was first planted is the most