Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	abode_n	dwell_v	zion_n	16	3	9.0895	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85666	An exposition of the five first chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, with useful observations thereupon. / Delivered in severall lectures in London, by William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1851; Thomason E272_1; ESTC R212187	422,046	514

his Name be glorious and so it 's vox laudis and brought in to answer the Objections and Cavils the people might make they might say What will God leave us expose us to the people of forain enemies shall we and ours be cut off will he thus deal with his people is it come to this What equity is in it The Angels to prevent such murmurings and vile speech said Blessed c. even when hee is in a way of judgement hee is to be honoured and made glorious Blessed is the glory of the Lord from his place Wee must make some search into these words and inquire after the person the place and the glory The person here is taken to be Christ who appeared unto the Prophet in the Vision The place the Throne where Christ sate and the glory that 's mentioned in the end of the first Chapter And Christ now being about to go off his Throne and put an end to the Vision the Angels cryed Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place This is not all wee must expect from the words they type out unto us the departure of the Lord from the Temple that God would be gone and take away that which was the chief glory of it From his place God is illocall and the Rabbins use that word to signifie Gods illocality which notes place Makom is a space or place because all things subsist in them Hammakom per Antiphrafin is illocalis infinitus one that subsists or is comprehended in no place and so is an attribute of God How then is God here said to have place Nimekomo From his place God properly hath no place it 's sensu metaphorico that place is given to him where hee in any speciall manner doth manifest his glory power grace and goodnesse that is said to be his place And three places God is said to have in the Scripture 1. The heavens Isa 66.1 Heaven is my throne and 1 King 8.30 heare in heaven thy dwelling place 2. The humble heart Isa 57.15 that is Gods dwelling place And 3. The Temple in Sion Psal 132.13 14. Sion was his habitation there was his rest and abode that is in the Temple being in Sion in the Temple and Sanctuary were his voyce his Way Psal 18.6 Psal 77.13 That was the place where his honour dwelt Psal 26.8 The habitation of his glory The words are in the originall the place of the habitation or Tabernacle of his glory alluding to that in Exod. 40.24 25. where it 's said The glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle So the glory of the Lord filled the Temple there was the presence of God there was manifestations of his glory there hee heard Prayers and there he gave out many gracious answers there he accepted of their sacrifices and communicated himself unto them there was the Ark and sign of Gods presence and the Cherubims from between which God gave out the answers In these things lay the glory of the Temple but now God would be gone and all the glory of the Temple should depart God moved not from place to place being infinite illocall immovable but he is said to depart when he ceases to do as formerly hee did in the soul when you find not God acting and manifesting himself you say hee is gone Here now God would answer them no more not accept their sacrifice nor heare their prayers c. hee would not do as formerly he had done he would not protect them any longer but look upon them as being unworthy of his presence glory protection and hope and in his wrath leave them to ruine and spoyl of their adversaries and this was Gods departing according to that in Hos 5.15 I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence That phrase blessed glory of the Lord you may for the better understanding conceive thus Blessed be the glorious Lord or the glory the Lord or if you will take it as it 's read the meaning is that the glory of the Lord is to be celebrated Observ 1. That those that are call'd to imployment in the Church of Christ have need not only of Christs word but Christs Spirit also Christ had spoken largely unto Ezekiel and here the Spirit lifts him up and doth in especiall manner animate and arm him to the work when the Apostles had been long with Christ heard his Sermons seen his Miracles life joyned with him in prayer all this would not do it though Christ had forty dayes spoken to them in pa ticular of the things of the Kingdome Acts 1.3 till they had the Spirit and were fill'd with that therefore Christ bid them wait for it he knew they had need of it ver 4. and that it would do more in them then all he had said unto them the Spirit would be Doctor intus and acquaint them with all truth The Spirit would purge out their feares and distempers it would warm heat seal ratifie and make them resolute in the work 2. That the Angels do sympathise with the Church and people of God in their miseries This voyce was as I shewed in the opening the voyce of the living creatures and they made a noise lamenting the state of Jerusalem God being upon the leaving of it and exposing it to great misery Ah said they the blessed and glorious Lord is going from his place and all miseries are now stepping in upon his people this affected them wee know that the Angels reioyce at the conversion of sinners and by the Law of contraries we infer they are sadded at the destruction of sinners of States and Churches they have been imployed to comfort in trouble and where there is no sympathy there is little solace Do you not think that the Angel seeing Christ his Lord and Master in his agony that hee did sympathise first with him and then strengthen him Angels being without sin are as full of pity as the Devils are of cruelty God Christ and the Spirit are full of pity and it cannot be that Angels which are so neer them should be voyd of it no they have a holy sympathy with us in Gods departure from a place is sad newes even to Angels 3. The happinesse of a people is to have the Lord and his glory amongst them and their greatest misery is to have God depart from them most think the happinesse of a people to lie in liberty honour plenty of all things David once subscribed to it Psal 144.15 Happy are the people are in such a case but he quickly crosseth out that subscription and said yea happy is that people whose God is their Lord there 's the happinesse to have God amongst them hee is the glory of a people Zach. 2.5 hee was the glory in the midst of Jerusalem there God dwelt as his worship Laws oracles miracles testified and so hee made Jerusalem glorious among all nations Where true Religion is pure Worship and Ordinances and God working for the good

be it great or small short or long it hath this name in the Hebrew language Jer. 3.8 a Bill of divorce is mentioned the word in the originall is Sephar a book of Divorce It was the use of the Jewes to call any Writing though it had but a few lines in it Sephar a book And so a Catalogue that had not many names in it is called a book Mat. 1.1 The book or the catalogue of the generation of Jesus Christ This Book of Ezekiel is large having eight and fourty Chapters in it and may rather be called a Volume then Sephar a Book a Bill a Catalogue Some Books in the Scripture that are far less then this of Ezekiel have that title Esther which is not long hath this title Megillath Esther the Volume of Esther or the Book of Esther so it is in your Bibles The word cometh from Gabal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to roll or fold up for the use of the Jewes was to fold up their Writings as being the best way to preserve them from dust and other dangers These two words are sometimes found both together as in this Prophet Chap. 2. v. 9. There was sent unto the Prophet a hand and in it there was Megillath Sephar a roll of a Book The Jewes had many Megillaths many such volumes or rolls especially five which they did use at severall times There was the Megillath of the Canticles which they read at the Feast of the Passeover because it contained much of the love of God to the Church and in the Passeover they apprehended much of Gods love towards them 2. Then they had the Megillath of Ruth which was read a● the Feast of Pentecost because it contained the Genealogie and originall of David their King who was so beloved and dear unto them 3. They had the Megillath of Ecclesiastes and that they read at the Feast of Tabernacles in memory of Gods protection of them forty yeers in the Wilderness because that volume did contain in it many acts of Gods providence which watcheth over his people continually The fourth was the Megillath of Esther which was read in the Moneth of Adar because that discovered the plot of Haman and the goodness of God that did deliver them from that imminent danger The last Megillath was the Book of the Lamentations and this contained as the summe so the bewailing of the Babylonish captivity which was grievous unto them This Book they read in the fifth Moneth which was answerable to the latter end of July These were all little books little volumes Ezekiel is rather a Megillath and Ezekiel must be one volume a book written in the Babylonish captivity some five hundred and fourscore yeers before Christ so that it is above two thousand two hundred yeers since this book was written From hence you may observe First the Wisdome of God in causing this and other books to be written A book is a writing the originall word signifieth to write Here is the wisdome and goodness of God that the Prophecies of Ezekiel and other Prophets should be written God will have his Church furnished with and regulated by written truths not unwritten traditions The Jewes they had their Cabbala which they say were full of secret Mysteries The Papists they have their Traditions they call them unwritten verities and wee call them unwritten vanities We have a sure word of Prophecie to stick unto and they uncertain fancies which corrupt the worship of God and indanger immortall souls Bellarmine hath a whole book de Verbo Dei non scripto of the Word of God unwritten such words of God wee acknowledge not It was the wisdome of God that the Prophets should write and that their writings should be extant When the Lawyer asked Christ what he should do to inherit eternall life Christ doth not send him to unwritten Traditions or to Jewish Cabbala's but he sends him to a known and written Law What is written in the Law how readest thou Luke 10.26 So wee must look to what is written and how we may reade not what they tell us was revealed to such a Saint and hath continued to so many generations and is the truth of God these are delusions The writings of the Prophets and Apostles are sufficient for us and wee acknowledge the infinite goodness of God in that these should be written for us to have resort unto If this Prophets others and Apostles works had not been written there would have been great inconveniences some things would have been forgotten some neglected many things corrupted and all things in time questioned and so the whole truth would have been without authority in the hearts of people Secondly see here the providence of God likewise in preserving this book of Ezekiel which was written in Babylon for there was the Prophet and there he had his visions for a book to be preserved in Babylon is a wonder The Law was lost in Sion in Manasses his dayes and found again in Josiah his time If the Law may be lost in Sion much more may a Prophecie be lost in Babylon and if not lost in Babylon yet it might have been left in Babylon if not left there it might have miscarryed in their return if not then yet when Titus and Vespasian took and sacked Jerusalem it might there have perished and been utterly extinguished and we never have heard of this Prophecie of Ezekiel But here is the hand of God manifested in it that though this Prophecie were revealed to Ezekiel in Babylon and run through so many hazards yet it should be preserved to this very day Again see where is the true antiquity This book was written five hundred and fourscore yeers before Christ two thousand two hundred yeers ago and is not this book now very ancient other Prophets and the whole Scripture are the true Antiquity Papists and many amongst us stand upon antiquity and what is their antiquity The Fathers or some Heathen Writers are their antiquity But what is the true antiquity but the Word of God That is Prima veritas and pura veritas the first truth and the pure truth that is the fountain all other are but muddy channels When any points are in controversie they flie to Fathers and to Antiquity and what is found there they take for truth but this is to desert God and run to man My people have forsaken me the fountain of living waters Jerem. 2.13 and hewed them out cisrerns broken cisterns that can hold no water I am the fountain saith God my Scriptures are the fountain of living waters yet they run to their own pits and cisterns that hold no water Some moth-eaten and old writings some ancient copies that have lain hid some hundreds of yeers from the world are brought forth obtruded upon people for truths and they must be truths But for your direction know that if they be not in the Kings Records what ever writings they be never regard