Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21192	A heavenly hymne to the king of heaven. Presented in a sermon, by Iames Eglesfield, Mr. of Arts in Queenes Colledge ...	Eglesfield, James, b. 1601 or 2.	1640 (1640)	STC 7545; ESTC S114013	12,004	38

taste like Gide●ns Souldiers who did lap and not drink of the waters Leaving the Well I come to the Well-spring from the action to th● agent in the originall concluded in the last word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our Translation expounded He in both one first and last α and ● In imitation of himselfe I have kept himselfe as the best wine last In the former part you have seene the beames here is the Sun lux there the River here the Fountaine there the fruit here the Tree a tree of everlasting life which Hilary desiring to manifest unto men in the Paradise of the Scriptures observeth five meanes First his Name that he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 anoynted with the oyle of gladnesse above his fellowes Secondly by his birth not by generation regeneration or adoption but by the power of the holy Ghost Thirdly by his Nature one with God Fourthly by his power over all things Fiftly by his profession that he is the Way the Truth and the life But my Text points out two more guides to finde out this Agent his Words and his Workes like the two Doves of Venus leading to a golden branch not as that for Aeneas to descend to hell but with Enoch and Elias to sore aloft to Heaven In his words never any spoke like him Vox hominem sonat ô Deus certe God speaking in the forme of man nay God speaking not man His works inforcing the very Iewes to confesse and say truly this is the Son of God Aske his words and they will answer as himselfe did to the woman of Samaria He is the Messias that speaketh unto you Aske with Iohn Baptist Art thou he that should come or looke we for another why his Workes beare witnesse the Saviour is come for the dumbe speake the deafe heare the lame walke If we consider these helpes they will plainly descry unto us the print of the Deitie and distinguish the Creator from the creature First via eminentiae he is eminent above all the Israelites not onely as Saul higher by the head but as omnipotent to impotent an infinite to a finite agent whose power is boundlesse for he hath done all Secondly via negationis for in his works he never stayned his honour with any imperfection Solomon in all his royaltie was not clothed with one of these for he hath done all things well Thirdly via causationis for onely God is omnipotent to doe all So that with Greg. I may say He is God not onely Nuncupater as Moses to Pharaoh Deus inter omnia but Essentialiter Deus super omnia ille opifex mundi melioris origo and not only God but man aequalis patri novum creans mundum minor patre perditum reparans mundum minor patre in forma servi aequalis in forma Dei That he was not God alone his sighing weeping speaking affirme that he was not an imaginary body as the phantasticall Manichees dreamed his eating drinking sleeping touching witnesseth all which are affections of a body naturall The Hereticks that held him meere man his body palpable confounds The Arrians that held him a meere created Spirit a Spirit not having flesh and bones all his words workes and wonders declare proclaiming to all the world that he is the promised Messias in whose Person Deitie and humanity are united so that of this Agent with Thomas I may conclude he is Homo Deus and Deus homo In the matter of his actions I admire the bredth that he hath done al In the manner his depth that he hath done all things well This sacred King of Glory that he ought to bee had in remembrance and sought out of all that love and desire his second comming hath done all things well not only to approve himself the unmatchable God which is essentiall goodnes but likewise by precept to command by practice to leade and by miraculous actions to draw men on earth on the way to Heaven leaving them his Word for their instructions his workes morall for their imitation his Word a light his life a lanthorne Christi vita morum disciplina Peter must come Zacheus must run and all his Disciples with an inward affection and outward conversation must follow the steps of his most sacred uprightnesse for as Marriners by Sea avoyd the Rocks directing their course not by darke earth but by the light of Heaven so men who passe in the barque of their bodies through the waves of this world to the shoare of rest cannot escape the sands of sin but by Christ Iesus the only bright light the undoubted star the stern of the Church militant here the haven of the Church Triumphant in Heaven Wherfore let all the blessed Saints who set sayle for the salvation of their soules esteeme his words as the words of truth imitate his works as perfect holinesse with reverent admiration recounting his wonders as effects of his Deitie To informe the ignorant there is verbum sapientia to reforme the ranging sinner there is vitae innocentiae to turne our hearts to the living God there is digitus divinae potentiae In the glasse of his Word see the face of your soules it is speculum animae follow his life it is viae vitae Augustae although Augustae haec iter est serpens ad magni testa tonantis In the re-view of his wonders take an heart inflamed with Thomas and confesse my Lord and my God onely beware of two dangerous rockes on which many have made shipwracke of their soules the one partiall conceit of their owne perfection here fell the Pharisees the other irreligious Atheisme which presseth the souls of licentious Libertines into Hell but trace thou vertue in the golden meane imitating him in well-doing who did all things well To do all things well is the Royalty of God but to do nothing well is the badge of the Beast and those who become like the beasts must perish Let no man boast of perfection least pride bee his ruine nor sell his soule to sinne in the sight of the Lord least the gates of hell prevayle against him but keepe the middle way from thy naturall imperfection strive to heavenly perfection be watchfull over thy wayes yet humble in thy thoughts Heaven hath onely good Hell onely bad the earth a mixture of both If the Brownist could do all things well he were to good for the earth the carelesse carnall Epicure doth nothing well therefore he is too bad for heaven The luke-warme Newter like the Stoicks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is indifferent for good or evill is fit neither for heaven nor earth onely those Christians are as Benjamin filis dextrae and true Israelites without guile which are in the valley of vision ascending and yet not ascended growing up in grace as plants of Gods right hand bringing forth leaves of good words and fruits of good workes not seeking for humane applause without or selfe partiall conceit to please themselves within Let all therfore from the greatest Noble in Israel to the poorest worme in Iacob that dwelleth in the dust strive with heart and hand in imitation of his Saviour Christ Iesus to do all things well that it may go well with them in the day of the Lord. Amen FINIS