Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	believe_v	lord_n	unbelief_n	5,320	5	10.6764	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68257	The eagle and the body described in one sermon preached before Queene Elizabeth of precious memorie, in Lent. Anno 1601. By William Barlovv ...	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1609 (1609)	STC 1450; ESTC S100872	14,448	40

bodies are corruptible not in friends who like the waters of Tema in a moysture they swell in a drought they faile Sacrificeth not to his net relies not vpon his meanes and policie which often prooues either the Spiders Web or the Cockatrice egge a folly or a destruction but with Ieremies EAGLE that builds his neast on high he rouzeth himselfe with the Prophets comfortable question whom haue I in heauen but THEE and what is there on earth that I desire in comparison of THEE And this is speciale specimen electorum saith Gregory the speciall argument whereby yee may know a right Eagle the chosen child of God This being proper but to One kind of men saith Philo who with Moses building their Tent without the host farre from the host with Elias being stript of their cloake these outward and worldly impediments still hauing in their eye Maries object that same vnum necessarium conuerseth with God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a mind sequestred from all earthly thoughts And these are they saith he which are so often in Scripture called viri Dei For there are viri terrae men of the earth such as with the Giants of the old Testament will build with the Eagles Let vs build say they a Tower but it is that they may haue a name on earth that by an vnlimited ioyning of house to house office to office honour to honour they may professe themselues of that humour in earnest which Saint Peter fell into by amazement Let vs build vs HEERE a Tabernacle an infallible note he will not say of a reprobate but certainly of a world-man not yet regenerate And there are Viri Coeli as the Chaldees and naturall Philosophers who in the height of their vnderstanding could pierce the clouds discouer the motions of the heauens the influence of the starres the proprieties of times the impressions in the aire the periods of Empires yea metaphysically inquire into the nature of God himselfe and yet come farre short of the first whom he calleth Virum Dei the man of God whose mind lift vp by the Spirit of God within him liueth in the earth as in terra obliuionis in a land where all things are forgotten and is as a dead man to the world because his life is hid with Christ in God Therefore as Saint Hierom speaketh in his mundanis nolit esse perpetuus in these worldly things he affects no perpetuity because the place is ABOVE where he purposeth his ETERNITIE And this is the first propertie of the Eagle following the Body euen to the very heauens and the conclusion for it is that of the Prophet Beatus qui ascensiones in corde disposuit Blessed is that man who hath set his heart to flie VPWARD The second is the SHARPE SIGHT of the Elect because the naturall man cannot perceiue the things that be of God For though his vnderstanding which Nazianz calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the eye and lampe of reason be piercing sharpe able to enter euen the secrets of nature yea to the deepenesse of Satan yet the farthest Horizon it can reach is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Clement that which may be made manifest by demonstration whereas the spirituall man discerneth all the deepe things of God euen that most profound mysterie of this BODIE God manifested in the flesh and making it the obiect vnto the eyes of Reason and Faith shewes the different vse which they make thereof First as it is Corpus Carnis that it should be conceiued in the wombe of a Virgin without the helpe of man heere Reason like Sarah laugheth the Philosopher stumbleth yea the blessed virgin her selfe at first demurred with a quomodo how can this be Then as Corpus mortis that our God should die and his death giue vs life the Iew stormes at the sollie the Grecians count it a reproch yea Peter himselfe gaue it an absit Then as Corpus Gloriae that being dead it should rise againe euen the disciples themselues not hauing as yet the spirit tooke it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a feigned thing But the Eagles eye which Philo calleth fidem oculatam faith illuminated by the holy Ghost in that strange birth acknowledgeth a diuine miracle in that shamefull death a glorious victorie in his returne from death an assured hope of glory And the reason of that difference is giuen by Saint Augustine for that as the eye if it be either blind or purblind cannot perfectly discerne the cleerest obiect so saith he animus pollutus or turbatus a mind defiled with sinne or troubled with worldly cates Deum etiam praesentem videre non potest cannot see God though he were present with them But as the same Father writeth of the Eagle that being aloft in the clouds shee can discerne Sub frutice Leporem sub fluctibus piscem Vnder the shrubs a Hare vnder the waues a fish so Faith being Eagle eyed can with Moses in a bramble bush see the maiestie of God with Abednego in the fierie Ouen see the presence of Christ with Elizeus in the streightest siege an army of Angels to defend him with Saint Paul in the heape of afflictions behold a weight of glory prouided for him And so much for the second propertie of the Eagle belonging onely to the Elect the summe whereof is that of Hilary Hoc officium fides profitetur c. THIS is the proper office of FAITH to attaine that which neither wit nor reason can reach vnto The conclusion that prayer of the distressed Father Lord I beleeue helpe thou mine vnbeliefe The third followeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they will flocke or be gathered together wherein many things are worth obseruation if time would suffer First in the pr●ae position 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ioint resort and Communion of Saints both in their inward m●n for howsoeuer they bee either triumphant in heauen or militant on earth or disperst in place or vnequall in condition or aliens in nation or differing in some cirucmstance of opinion yet congregabuntur there will be among them a vnanimous coalition aswell mutuall betweene thēselues in charitable affection as also in a concurrent desire of this one BODIE which is their head Christ professing the same Faith resting vpon the same hope holding the vnitie of the same spirit in the bond of peace So for their outward man also euen these bodies which whether consumed by fire or suncke in the seas or deuoured of beasts or rotted in their graues or quartered yea minsed by tyrants yet congregabuntur they shall all be gathered in one place and bee ioyned with the same Christ to sit with him in his Throne Secondly the verbe it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no translation doth fully expresse it hauing more in it then resorting or gathering bringing with it a