Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	34,129	5	10.2134	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95692	Theologia Germanica. Or, Mysticall divinitie : a little golden manuall briefly discovering the mysteries, sublimity, perfection and simplicity of Christianity, in belief and practise. Written above 250 years since in high Dutch, & for its worth translated into Latine, and printed at Antwarp, 1558. Whereto is added definitions theologicall and philosophicall. Also a treatise of the soul, and other additions not before printed.	Randall, Giles, translator.	1648 (1648)	Wing T858; Thomason E1162_2; ESTC R210095	77,165	196

God or belonging to God Neither is there any thing which doth challenge or arrogate any thing to it self so that it cometh to pass that it is God only who liveth understandeth is able loveth willeth doeth or leaveth undone That is the eternal and perfect good ought thus to be and where it is otherwise there the matter might be both better and streighter For a good work and beginning if care be had that it be the best becometh most acceptable and let the best be chosen and adhered unto also let man joyn himself to it thing in the creatures But what is the best thing in the creatures Surely where the eternal good and that which is proper unto it doth enlighten and work and where they are most known and loved And what is that which belongeth to God and is proper only to him I say all that is it which may be truly and rightly called and named good when man in the creatures adhereth and cleaveth so to that which is known to be the best as that he remaineth stedfast and flyeth not back then it comes to pass that he attaineth to something which is better then it so far forth until man perceive and understand that that only eternal and perfect good is unmeasurable infinite and to be esteemed above all created goodness CHAP. LVI That God alone is to be loved and honored THerefore if that which is best ought most of all to be loved and if man do follow it then the only eternal good ought without doubt alone to be loved above all things and man ought to stick thereunto only and to joyn himself unto it so far as is in his power And if every good thing ought to be acknowledged as received from the eternal only good as worthily and truly it ought then also the beginning going forward and conclusion ought rightly and truly to be acknowledged and esteemed from it and the same ought to be imputed and adjudged to it so as nothing is left as appertaining to man or the creatures and thus it ought of right to be And whatsoever is said or alledged as against this yet this is the way which leadeth into the true interiour life But what will at last become of this or be manifested there or what manner of life this is like to prove no man uttereth or expresseth neither was it ever declared or did any heart either know or conceive truly the quality of such a life It is briefly contained in this long written discourse by what means it may rightly and truly come to pass that man become free and voyd of arrogating any thing to himself or from willing wishing loving or affecting any thing saving God and Divinity that is the eternal perfect and only good and if any man arrogate to himself will esteem or desire any thing other or more then the eternal good it is too much and vicious Briefly if a man can obtain so far forth as to be the same to God which the hand of man is to man let him rest therewith contented And this ought truly to be done for all breathing creatures especially those who are endued with Reason and chiefly man doth truly and deservedly ow this duty to God This you may gather out of what hath been formerly written This also is to be committed to memory after man hath proceeded so far as that he should verily perswade himself to have attained hereunto it is time then that he should have regard lest the Devil sowing ashes there he seek and repose his whole nature tranquillity rest peace and pleasure in it and so slide into foolish and inordinate liberty and negligence which truly is wholy repugnant and remote from the divine life this befalleth that man who neither hath nor will enter in at the right gate nor by the right way that is by Christ as is aforesaid but willeth and thinketh that he may attain to this perfect truth otherwise by other means or else conceiveth that he hath attained so far already before he come to it in truth id est manifest by the witness of Christ who saith He that will enter by any other means then by me he never entreth rightly nor hath attained the chief truth but is a chief and a robber That we may depart from our and being dead to our own wills live only to God and the performance of his will God grant through him who subjected his will to the will of his heavenly Father who also liveth and raigneth with the Father in the Unity of the Holy Ghost and the perfect Trinity everlastingly Amen Certain grave sayings by which the diligent Schollar of Christ may search into himself and know what is to be sought and strived for concerning the true inward uniting of himself to the one supream good GOd is one and unity existeth and floweth from him alone and yet not out of him otherwise it should decrease and become less Where two are which ought to be preserved and agree together it is possible that betwixt those discord should arise These two cannot disagree saving only in will which would be the greatest cause of all discord in God himself if two things could be in him For there is nothing which may breed disagreement amongst all things which may disagree but dissimilitude of wills This one God willeth that which is one and is contrary to all things which are two Therefore whatsoever he himself hath created he created upon this one otherwise it should have wanted order Further his Creation or the things created could have had no constancy by reason of his contrary will even as now it comes to pass and therefore it must necessarily have perished This Unity could not have been measured considered handled or known but only of one and through one and that sometimes in its contrary Contrariety existeth of it self without the fault of the Adversary Hence it may easily be discerned that this one and this best was to have some object from whence it as far as might be should be known That Object was and is the essence and being of all living things Chiefly and best in the reasonable and by the reasonable creature which was Adam Here the omnipotency mercy and infinite goodness doth shew it self whose name is To the increasing of further knowledg hee created every thing free which he did craate for whatsoever was is and so rem ineth free could not man naturally make or create any thing that was proper Now also that free thing could not more conveniently work in any thing or make it self apparent then in its own object He that concludeth and appropriateth any thing that is free and ought to be free doth the contrary to him which made and created it free this is sin Sin is plainly to be discerned if you will throughly hate it Hatred consisteth in that which is contrary to it which is truly named the seed of God or the Image of God and desireth