Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	flower_n	root_n	stalk_n	1,862	5	10.9023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

consist for an unsubstantiall unessentiall conjecturall or verball Faith is as a glimmering fire smothered in smoak or moysture which would willingly burne but yet hath no right Ens thereto but when a right Ens is given to it then that little sparke of fire encreaseth whence a faire shining light ariseth and then t is manifest that in the wood such a fire and faire light lay hid which before was not known 42. And this is to be understood likewise in a child of God while the poore soule is wrapt up in the anger of God it s like a glimmering Wi●k that would willingly burne and cannot by reason of the vanity of sinnes and the anger of God but when the soule being a little sparke of Divine fire getteth into it selfe Gods Love Ens Viz. Christs flesh and blood then that sparke groweth to a great fire and light which shineth and sendeth forth its light with faire vertues and good workes and liveth in great patience under the vanity of this World and yet groweth forth as a faire flower out of the wild Earth 43. A similitude whereof we have in the Sunne and the Earth Namely that if the Sunne should not shine upon the Earth no fruit could grow but when the Sunne shineth upon the Earth and penetrates into the Ens of the Earth then the Ens of the Earth receiveth the vertue or powerfull influence of the Sun into it selfe whereupon a great hunger ariseth in the Ens of the Earth after the vertue of the Sun and this hunger impresseth and feedeth upon the vertue and influence of the Sun and by this hunger of the Ens of the Earth which eagerly reacheth after the Ens of the Sunne an Hearb is drawne out of the Earth with a stalke in which also the Ens and vertue of the Sunne ascends up along in the growth and flourishing of the Hearb and the Sun with his beames of light becommeth substantiall in the Ens of the Earth in the stalke and root and we see how through the power of the Sunne and Starres in the spirit of the World another body ariseth out of the stalke different from the root in the Earth also how the stalke doth put forth a bud to a faire flower and afterwards to fruit and we see how the Sun afterwards from time to time ripeneth and sweetneth the same fruit 44. And thus it is with man the ground of the soule is the Divine field when it receiveth the Divine Sun-shine into it selfe a Divine plant springeth forth and this is the new birth whereof Christ speaketh now this plant must bee nourished from above by the celestiall influence and drawne up in growth by the Divine Sun and by the Divine Water and preserved by the Divine constellation Viz. the Divine vertue or power of God till it commeth to bee a Divine body of a Divine and Angelicall figure as the body on the stalke 45. And as the body on the stalke must stand in raine winde and stormes in heat and cold and suffer the Sunne to ripen it So likewise must a Christian stand in this thorny World in the awaked anger of God in the Kingdome of the Devill amongst many wicked men and suffer himselfe to be beaten with scorne and contempt and yet he must turne his hope and confidence from all creatures onely and alone upon the Divine Sun and suffer it to ripen him and beget him to an heavenly fruit 46. Not Temples or houses of stone or humane Ordinances and formes of Word worship do beget or regenerate him to a newnesse of life but the Divine Sun in the Divine Constellation of the Powers of the Word of God in the Temple of Jesus Christ in himselfe doth beget him out of the Fountaine of life Jesus Christ so that he is a branch on the Vine of Christ and bringeth forth good Grapes which the Divine Sun ripeneth that Gods children being his loving fellow members may eate them whereby they also grow and flourish in and with him which Grapes are good Doctrine life and workes 47. A man must come to the practice effectuall performance and fruitfulnesse in Christianity otherwise the new birth is not yet manifest in him nor the Noble branch yet born no tickling or soothing comforting with promises or Scripture evidences and boasting of a Faith doth availe any man at all if the faith make him not a child conformable to God in Essence and will which faith bringeth forth Divine fruit 48. All that men now doe strive dispute contend and fight about and thereby destroy and lay desolate countrey and people is onely a meere huske without fruit a forme without power a Mammon without Christian mercy aand it belongeth to the fiery World for separation and shall be decided in the judgement of the Lord. There is ●o true understanding in any party they contend all onely about the Name and the Will of God and no Party will doe it they minde nothing but their owne glory preferments and pleasure of the flesh if they were true Christians they would have no strife or contention 49. A good Tree beareth good fruit for every one and though sometimes it must suffer the wind to break off its branches and fruit and the Sun to wither and dry them up yea when they are ripe to be devoured of Swine or trodden under foot yet for all this it endeavoureth still to bring forth more good fruit 50. And thus a true Christian in Christ can will nothing else but what Christ willeth in him and though he must suffer his good fruit which doth spring and grow forth out of the internall Man to bee often trampled upon and spoyled by the evill flesh and blood and also by the Devils winde the wicked censure and false interpretation of the hypocriticall Luciferian Serpent and the wickednesse of the World yet the Tree of the new Plant in the life of Christ doth still stand and spring forth through the outward mortall Man maugre all opposition irresistably as eternity springeth through time and giveth life and power to time and as the day doth arise and breake forth through the night and changeth the night into day and yet the night remaineth there still in it selfe and yet it i● not knowne or discerned in the day So likewise the Divine day doth spring and bud forth in us through our eternall night and changeth the night to wit Gods Anger Hell Death Anguish and eternall destruction into the Divine Day of joy and consolation albeit the darke night with the Ens of the Serpent and the poyson in flesh and blood rageth and striveth against it 51. Therefore beloved Sir and Christian Brother we have more need to endeavour for the growth and encrease of the precious Corall and how we may come to it then to run after the unprofitable Pratings and conjecturall Fictions in the feigned holinesse where one Brother despiseth reproacheth rejecteth and proclaimeth the other for