Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	ghost_n	holy_a	5,369	5	5.6194	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22193	The description of heaven. Or, A diuine and comfortable discourse of the nature of the eternall heaven the habitation of God, and all the Elect. Composed in Latine, by Cunradus Aslachus. And conuerted into English, by Raph Iennings.	Aslakssøn, Cort, 1564-1624.; Jennings, Ralph.	1623 (1623)	STC 860; ESTC S113648	21,359	92

peace on earth Where he punctually distinguisheth betwixt the earth and the Lords most holy mansions And againe in Deut. 4.39 God is aboue in Heauen and Psal 113.4 Iehovah is eleuated farre aboue all Nations aboue all Heauens is his glory who can equallize our God Ie●●nah who inhabiteth in the highest Also the seate of Angels and blessed Saints is said to be in the same heauen for the Angels continually see the face of the Father which is in heauen and Paul sayth Our conuersation is in heauen In which heauen In these he addeth whence wee expect our Sauiour into which himselfe is already ascended The heauen therefore of the blessed is planted by God farre aboue all other heauens in the highest altitude Againe hence it followeth the heauen of the blessed to bee there whither Christ himselfe is ascended in his owne body for Christ hath made regresse vnto his Father whence he went out whose seat is in the kingdome of the blessed as is cleare in that of Iohn 7.33 Yet a little while am I with you and after retyre vnto him who sent mee and againe Iohn 16.28 I went out from my Father into the world and againe I leaue the world and retyre vnto my Father And Christ is substantially ascended aboue those visible heauens to wit the ayerie and starry firmaments as Ephes 4.10 He that descended is the same who ascended aboue all heauens that hee might accomplish all things Hebr. 4.14 hee is sayd to haue pierced the heauens and Hebr. 7.26 hee is exalted aboue all heauens and againe Hebr. 1.3 4. and Ephes 1.20 Hee is sayd to sit at the right hand of God in the highest Heauens and as sayth Augustine Christ eleuated his body to heauen he abstracted not his Maiestie yet from the earth according to his corporall and carnall presence which the word assumed hee is ascended into the heauen hee is not heere there hee sits at the ●ight hand of his Father and ●●t he is heere also for his maiesticall presence retyred not And Cyrill on Iohn is consonant ●eereto No man doubts when Chirst ascended to the heauens albeit he was heere by his virtuall presence of the spirit hee is totally absent in his carnall Againe it is requisite that the ●aithfull beleeue that though Christ is corporally absent yet doth hee vertually gouerne vs and all things else being continually present with those that call vpon his name And in the same sense is Vigill the Martyr The Sonne of God quoth he according to his Humanitie departed from vs but according to his Diuinitie hee saith to vs Loe euen I am with you vnto the end of the world for those whom hee left and from whom hee departed according to his Humanitie according to his Diuinitie hee neither left nor forsooke for in the forme of a seruant hee is in heauen absent from vs but in the forme of God wherein hee departed not from vs hee is present now on earth with vs. And this is the iudgement of the Ancient concerning Christ his peregrination into the Heauen of the blessed But as Saint Augustine ad●●onisheth vs It is a needlesse ●ouerlurious fantasie to search ●here and how the Lord pre●●nce is seated in this most high ●ace onely wee are to beleeue 〈◊〉 to bee in heauen for it is not ●●r our frailtie to discourse of ●●destiall secrets but it rather ●●●cernes our faith to bee wise ●odestly concerning the digni●● of the Lords presence It is ●●en cleare that the heauen of ●●e blessed is the most high Pa●●ce of God and the blessed An●●ls placed and confirmed a●●ue the two other heauens to ●●it the ayerie and Syderiall fir●●ments Sixtly It remaines lastly to ●ee surueyed what and how ●●eat this heauen is In qualitie ●●is most eternall incorruptible ●●d cleare I terme it eternall not because it existed without beginning but because it is euer to endure without all end and decay Whence that of Augustine Hence then my soule seeth how farre it is eternall aboue all times when thy house which cannot bee trauersed ouer though respectiue to thee it cannot be coeternall yet vncessantly adhering to thee it admits not the least temporall intermission And as Ambrose Paul saith hee exhorts vs to couet mansions in the highest heauens which are eternall but that is incorruptible which in that eternall time of her durance hath an immunitie from all change and alteration or the least corruption Paul therefore auerres that heauenly Ierusalem which Abraham expected to haue firme fundaments that is most sure and immo●●ueable ●●ounds and as in the Ap●●●●●ps that celest all Citie is made of pure gold and established on 〈◊〉 most firme and precious foundation described also to be cor●●borate with inuincible walls 〈◊〉 which things describe and ●otifie the perpetuitie and incorruptible existence of this ●eauen But their conceit is im●ious and vaine who conceyt this heauen to haue also resided without beginning from eterni●●● If so bee that an eternall habitation must needs be reciprocall to an eternall God alas ●he Lord wants no place since ●hat his extent exceeds al place ●e being of a most simple es●ence which is as well without 〈◊〉 within all things as Zanchlus ●nd the ancient Diuines affirme ●nd most clearely is this Citie celestiall portraytured in the description of the terrent Ierusalem Reuel 21. ver 23. There is want neither of Sun or Moone to yeeld lustre therein for Gods glory giueth it a plenary Illustration namely the heauenly Ierusalem whereof the Lambe is the Lampe and as Augustine aptly saith That most Emperiall City is incomparably cleare where are Victory Verity Dignitie where are Sanctitie Life and Eternitie Nor sings Zanchius any lesse excellently of the splendor of this supernall Citie That most supreame Heauen shall shine with a farre more excellent light it shall want no Sunne nor Moone for the glory of God is the light thereof Againe nor must we suppose as some doe the illustrious Sunne-beame of that essentiall glory to reflect and issue from God as from the Sunne and heauen to be illustrate with it for whatsoeuer is in the essence of God and demeanes therefrom is participator like as the Sonne and Holy Ghost which proceed ordinarily from the Father and this sole title is onely giuen vnto Christ namely that he is the splendour of glory that light therefore whereby the heauen is illustrate as from a cause efficient and whereby the soules of the blessed are illuminate that they may perceiue God is a created subiect or matter But the quantitie of the supreame Heauen is depiete vnder the figure of the holy Citie as Apocal. 21.10 where it is called That great city by which term● certainly he instanceth the latitude thereof to be excessiue the magnitude both incomperable and incomprehensible yet declares he it to be finite when he ●ntimates it also possibly circundate by the Angel it is by Christ also verified to be a most large City when hee affirmes it to haue very many