Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	build_v	peter_n	rock_n	5,754	5	9.5900	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74677	Eugenius Theodidactus. The prophetical trumpeter sounding an allarum to England illustrating the fate of Great Britain, past, present, and to come. Such wonderful things to happen these seven yeers following, as have not been heard of heretofore. A celestial vision. VVith a description of heaven and heavenly things, motives to pacifie Gods threatned wrath: of a bloody, fiery way of the day of judgment, and of saints and angels. / Sung in a most heavenly hymn, to the great comfort of all good Christians, by the Muses most unworthy, John Heydon, gent. philomat.	Heydon, John, b. 1629.	1655 (1655)	Thomason E1671_3; ESTC R208414	82,593	168

So to affect and recreate the minde As that the more we thereof do possess The more our love whereof we shall express Again the artificial lights men make As torches tapers lamps and candles slake Are soon burnt out extinct and therefore need Some fomentarie adjunct them to feed But as for precious Stones their sparkling light Is genuine by Nature shineth bright And glisters in the most obscure dark place Alwayes retaining their resplendant grace And therefore do most lively represent The splendor fair and beauty excellent Of th' ever selfe subsisting Deitie Alwaies the same one-same eternity This citie is inviron'd bounded round With a great high-topt wall thick strong and sound Which unto us doth thus much intimate That though i' th' Churches Militant esrate The congregations of Christs faithful Saints Were stil molested ful of wofull plaint Tost to and fro with storms Tyrannicall With persecutions most satanicall And like Noes-ark were ne're in peace or rest With worldly billowing-waves dasht and distrest Yet in this Chuch-triumphant they shal be From all heart-hurting fear of danger free Surely securely kept from least annoy In heav'nly safetie sempiternall joy For why the Doctrine apostolicall Shall as a firm invincible strong wall Debar and keep out heart deluding errors All unclean creatures Lyers and the tortors VVhich their abominations might effect For this wall Doctrinall doth them reject And thus the Prophet Ieremie doth call A constont Preacher a strong brazen wall Now this strong wall is made more admirable By Stately Ports and ground-work solid stable Twelve Gates are about it plac't conveniently VVhich thus much do unto us signifie That all her friends and Citizens shall see The way to th' city easie plain to be Plain to the just to th' unjust narrow straight Easie to those to these most intricate And on these Gates were charactred most fair The names of Isr'els twelve tribes to declare Their good assu●ance and their ready way That none might wander erre or go astray There needs no use of a conducting guide Their way lying ope ' to them on every side But here by th' names of Israels twelve tribes The sacred spirit unto us describes They being once Gods sole peculiar Vine Til they did from his Love and Lure decline That by a figure are in them included The elected Gentiles once from grace secluded Even people of all Nations under heaven To whom Salvation God in Christ hath given Are here all ta'ne for sp'rituall Israelites Whom Christ the Corner-stone to th' Jews unites At these twelve Gates twelve angels there did stand But not like Edens-angels in their hand Holding a sword a sword like fiery flame To daunt and drive what ever thither came But here these angels stand like Porters kind That Abr'ams faithfull Sons access may find Unto the tree of life and sacred spring VVhich grows and flows from Christ this Edens King VVith most commodious decent scituation Are these twelve gates plac ' 'bout this heav'nly station And good Ezechiel doth them thus digest Three East three North three south and three by west These three tribes names Dan Ioseph Semamen Orethe three Eastern Gates were to be seen Orethe three Ports set on the Northern side Iude Levi Reubens names might be discride Ore the three southern gates th' inscription Of Simeon Isachar and Zabu●on Also the three gates on the VVest part had The name of Aser Napthalem and God Of which most decent triple distribution Of these twelve Gates this is the resolution Namely that all the Saint-elected souls VVhose names are written Heav'ns eternall rowles From whatsoever quarter of the earth They had their first originall and birth Yet had but one especiall means t' ascend Unto this Citie their hopes happy end To wit the blest profession of the trinitie Hereby to Christ th' are joynd in neer affinitie And that they thus professing three in one Shall finde the way wide ope to heav'ns high throne Shall find the path more parent plain and straight And at the Gates twelve angels for them wait A twelf fold Ground-work and Foundatoin strong Did also to this mighty wall belong I mean not to the Citie but the VVall For of the Citie Christ is all in all Upon which twelve Foundations glorious rare Christs twelve apostles names were graven faire Who here are said to be this Walls foundation By their apostolique administration For having by their blest Ministry Christ Jesus Doctrine preached publikely Unto the World as the first instruments Are therefore thus the twelve strong Firmaments Not that they are the Principall Foundation But having first place in this Fabrication Are as I so may say the first stones laid On which the building of this wall was made For no man is so silly as to say That the Foundation doth it self down lay But that 's the office of the architector Which is Christ Jesus this great works director This Cities Soveraign whose un-shrinking shoulders Are this most glorious Cities firm upholders Who laid his twelve disciples as Supporters Of this Quadrangled walls most spacious quarters As those in whom his Churches doctrine pure Did most consist and constantly endure Thus are th' apostles grounds of ministration But Christ the only Basis of Salvation But what sayes Rome to this that man of Sin Who proudly reignes and rules as Lord and King Peters supremacy superiour State Is here me thinks quite torn worn out of date For though our Saviour call'd his Faith the Rock Whereon hee 'd build his Church his Love his Flock And his and all th' apostles Doctrine pure To be his Churches ground-work grounded sure Yet neither is St. Peter here exprest To be in dignity above the rest Nor yet to be the principall Foundation But one with others have their Station Then surely hence 't is most apparent plain That antichrist of Rome doth not maintain His proud priority from Peters Faith But from his Person whom he falsly saith T' have been Romes Bishop which nor he nor 's crue Shall ere be able to approve as true His person 't is I say not Doctrine pure Oh this it is the Pope can worst endure Therefore since he mis-deems Christs blest foundation He ne're shall have least part in Christs Salvation But now return we whence we have digrest The Light-bright Angel which did manifest Unto S. Iohn this glorious sacred sight Now like some noble Pers'nage Princely wight Like to another prudent Ne●emie Or like good Ezra ful of prudencie By th' Symbole of a Golden Reed in ' his hand Did represent that he with that Met-wand The Cities spacious round should measure out The height length breadth and compass all about Entries and wall environing the same All under line and measure truly came All most exactly form'd with due respect By the arch-artist of this architect Yea with a Golden Reed he meets the same Most fit to measure such a glorious frame By which externall gesture the angel here As else-where