Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	air_n	body_n	water_n	10,358	5	6.5960	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19906	Yehovah summa totalis or, All in all, and, the same for euer: or, an addition to Mirum in modum. / By the first author, Iohn Dauies.	Davies, John, 1565?-1618.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618. Mirum in modum.	1607 (1607)	STC 6337; ESTC S109347	39,757	86

yea for euer liues Is yesterday to day and ere the same Which constancy of state a diff'rence giues Betwixt the Pagan Gods which he did frame To be but halfe Gods that is Gods in name The neerer then to this true God we draw The more his Sonnes-beames feede our vitall flame Which frozen in our dregs that frost doth thaw And make vs hot with loue and cold with awe Thus no lesse good is he he then is great VVhich are past Qualitie and Quantitie Both bee'ng much more then more then most com For so they must by his Immensitie pleat VVhich is the cause of his Vbiquity For nought but Greatnesse simply infinite Can fill and ouerfill All really That is aswell in Essence as in might Sith either are alike indefinite And say'ng he fils all who is all in all I meane not onely all his hands haue wrought As Heau'n Earth Hell in part or generall And all they hold but all that may be thought If Thought may reach it that haue further raught Either in deed or possibility For He that in his Compasse all hath brought Not onely fils That Vninersity But ouerfils farre more Capacity The Creatures finite are sith they may be Drawne to a generall or speciall Head By eithers Forme or their Diuersity But no Predicament ere compassed His Largenesse that is still vnlimitted The Heathen Sages led by Natures light Held the first CAVSE could not be measured Sith it in greatnesse was most infinite But what it was they could not tell aright So hee 's each where in Essence and in Pow'r Sith all is One in Him the onely ONE Like as the Soule though in the Head her Tovvre She cheefely sits yet is she in that Throne And euery Member totally alone Then in each Part her Povv'r with her appeares T' inspire those Organs vvhich she plaies vpon Yet from the filthie Pipes no filth she beares Nor vveares she euer as the Organ vveares So in a sort but farre more excellent Is God in his vvhole Essence povv'r and all In all that is in this ALL resident And ouer all that ALL in generall VVithout bee'ng toucht vvith Matter corporall Though so me grope for him hee 's not tangible Bee'ng a Sprit most simply Spirituall VVhich to the Soule alone is sensible But of the Sence incomprehensible And Things are said to Bee that be in Pow'r In any thing wherein their pow'r hath port Our Caesars so are chiefely in the Towre Which CESAR built as in their cheefest Fort But God is all in all in other sort For in his Substance totally intire Hee is in al that 's liuing or amort Bee 't great or small Earth water Aire or Fire Or what els is or can haue Beeing hier Looke what our Bodies by our Sences know Our Soules but by one Pow'r perceiue the same Which sowed in our Vnderstanding growes More purely there then in out Bodies frame Although our Intellect may bee too blame For it doth purge the Obiects of the Sence And make that vpright which the Sense made lame Eu'n so in GOD Things haue more excellence Then in our dul and base Intelligence Thus is his Pow'r where ere his Essence is VVhich Pow'r is two-fold as some Doctors teach That 's Absolute and Actuall by this He doth what ere he will within his reach Then doth he All sith it past all doth stretch By his Pow'r absolute he can fulfill VVhat may be done without his Natures breach And so his Pow'r extends beyond his Will VVhich could saue All yet some it saues to spill That which he doth is no lesse definite Then it is certaine but what he can do Is as vncertaine as it 's infinite For he can make more Heau'ns and fill them too But that he will not so his Word vndo Who by his Actuall powre can nought fulfill But what his cleare Fore-sight did reach vnto But his Pow'r absolute beyond his Will Is able to do all that is not ill Then if his Will and Povv'r vnequall be How shall we equall make his Properties Here is a Cloud through which I cannot see With Humane Reasons most vnequall Eyes Which make such Equals Inequalities But light me Lord of light the Truth to view Which in this Mistery ecclipsed lies And let me in thy Paths this Truth pursue Till it I find for all thy Waies be true Thy Will and Povv'r are equall as thou art Both alike absolute in their true kinds Yet hast thou bound them both by heau'nly Art To Will and do no more then WISEDOME finds Within her Bounds which both the other binds There they are Equall sith that each extends To Wisedome vtmost Compasse and that winds About all Workes that haue all holy Ends And so thy Will and Povv'r are equall friends And where thy Povv'r doth ouer-reach thy Will There onely Wisedome wils it should do so That 's in some Cases by Her bounded stil That 's when thy will doth let thy Creatures know What thy Povv'r could did not thy Will say no. But thou canst make thy Will to match thy Might If so thou would'st but Wisedome cryeth ho In thy Wils motion it to stay aright And so thy Will and Povv'r haue equall height Now downe the Daies Eye goes though yet it lookes All firy redde as chaft with Nights approach For Lîght could neuer vgly Darknes brook No more then bright Renovvne can black Reproch Then halla heere my Muse with Phoebus Coach This day too much thou hast bestow'd thy winges Too much thou dost on Secrets darke encroch Fly high yet not too nigh too lofty Things Which nought comes nere for Clouds and Glitterings NOw mantle Muse sith now thou straite must Tow'r For lo the modest East doth blush for shame That shameles Night on it should haue such pow'r To lie'with It till Phoebus sees the same And partes them with a farre more blushing flame By which our Hemisphere Inhabiters May see to toile in Ernest or in Game Then vp betimes aboue the pale-fac'st Stars Fear'd with that flame to find their * Gouerners Which is that blessed Essence Three in One Blessed I well may call it for the same Is truely blessed past comparison For what Blisse can the highest Wisedome name But is most perfect in his formelesse Frame Al that delights the Soule or ioyes the Sense Or makes Selfe-loue refinde in him to flame yea all that can excell Selfe-EXCELLENCE Is truely in his ALL-SVFFICIENCE Ist't health of Body which thou dost desire He is the Fount of al Salubritie I st ' strength or Vallor Hee is both intire I st ' Fairenes Then hee s selfe-FORMOSITY To see whose face is high'st FELICITY I' st Pleasures They as in their Center in Him rest Or Glory i st Him Angels glorifie I st Riches More then All is his at least For he hath more then can be all exprest Kings of the Earth seeme blessed in their Crovvnes Yet they but onely seeme