Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	able_a	earth_n	lord_n	2,703	5	3.5647	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85517	The grand catastrophe, or The change of government: being a vvord about the last turn of these times written in a letter to a friend, as an essay, either to give, or to receive satisfaction in the dispute of the last change. By one who takes leave to stile himself Johannes Cornubiensis.	Cornubiensis, Johannes.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1488; Thomason E726_12; ESTC R206800	14,042	17

the Creators counsel who ever set himselfe either in desire or designe against the Lord and did receive the one or accomplish the other without doubt if the most high rule in the Kingdomes of men and doe whatsoever he pleaseth there can be no resisting of his wil. I am apt to thinke that the time hastens in which God wil make all the Princes of the earth Nebuchadnezzar-like to graze with the Beasts and to wander in the Wildernesse that they may see and know and understand and consider that he is resolved to deale with them as rebels and that their power and pride and pomp shal be so stained as that all their blood in their owne and vassels veines shal never be able to recover their splendor any more Whatsoever God will in Heaven or Earth that does he And though Monarchy lift up it self above the Skies though it fixe it selfe amongst the Starres yet even thence shal it tumble down by that power which dissolves the Host of Heaven and causeth the Stars to fall as the leaves from the Vine and sith this appears to be his determined purpose upon the whole Earth I perswade my selfe it wil be but a vaine thing for the Kings of the earth and the Princes to take councel together to resist the Lord and his Christ surely when he strikes they 'le be but as a Potters vessel and when God is breaking of them why should not they be to us as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure Nay why rather should not all entertaine with delight the change which God is about to make since it is from the worse to the better from the unrighteous and tyrannous power of Monarchies and Princes into his Government of Judges and Counsellours which were from the beginning which indeed were the first and shal be last in this world till David himselfe doe come againe and the Lord Christ be exalted in his day Thirdly it hath been in my thoughts to consider whether this Prophesie hath received its accomplishment or be yet to be fulfilled Though some Expositors seem to be confident of the past impletion the already fulfilling of this Prophesie yet many doubt it True it is that there was a Tanquam-accomplishing of this Prediction after the returne of the Jewes from the Babylonish captivity but yet I cannot be convinced at present that then there was a total accomplishment of it so as to rest therein and to expect no more from this Scripture for let it be considered whether ever after that returne ever in their best and quietest estate Jerusalem were so ordered and established as that it might in the fulnesse of the Letter and in the whole latitude of the intendment of the phrase be called the city of righteousnesse the faithfull city certainly sacred word wil not give my faith a footing to beleeve it Ezra and Nehemiah in their workes and writings speake at another rate Nehemiah contests about Oppression which was amongst them rife and ridged and that in the prime of their reformation and returne makes me thinke then their state did not deserve the glory of being called The city of righteousnesse and the posture or rather preposterous and disorderly state of affaires which some yeares after he found at Jerusalem doth give little ground to call it all that time the faithfull citie c. This makes me to think that this Prophesie is but parallel to that of Jeremiah 31.23 and therefore it received not its accomplishment at their returne from Babylon but is to be fulfilled when God shall bring them up and back from the North when not only Judah the two Tribes which alone returned from Babylon but likewise Israel the ten Tribes with them should rejoyce in that Government of Judges and Counsellours as at first until they come to their Kingdome-state under the reigne of the Messias and David their King And in case there were a fulfilling of this Prophesie after their returne from Babylon I am apt to thinke it was but such a fulfilling as hath been of some others which was rather in part and in assurance of the truth then in whole and full perfection of the Prophesie Fourthly supposing then this Prophesie as yet not to be fulfilled Why may not the Isles of the Gentiles as well looke after and expect the fulfilling of it amongst them I say as well as the remnant of the Jewes Is God only the God of Jewes or is he not equally the God of the Gentiles In the Prophesie of Gods restoring and setting judgement in the earth are not the Gentiles expresly mentioned to share therein Isa 42. And are not they said to be expecttants waiting for his Law Nay doth not the connexion of this and the next chapter import that this Prophesie relates to the times of the Nations flowing into the light and Law of the Messias certaine I am the Rabbins who use to make advantage of all Scriptures to the utmost for their owne Nation and are not favourers of us sinners of the Gentiles doe understand this Scripture of the times of the Messiah who shal prevaile over the wicked so Kimchies phrase is for us Gentiles And clear it is that the Gentiles are promised and so Prophesied of to partake with to share in and suck of the same breasts of consolation with the Jewes now whether it be a consolation to have good Judges and righteous Counsellours as Israel had at the first and in the beginning let those speake who have felt the burthen and tasted the bitternesse of the tyranny of rebellious Princes and Monarchs Since then this Promise or Prophesie call it as we please referres to the Jewes expresly as a mercy to come in its season let us not bind our selves with the cords of feare and diffidence from coming in to participate with them in the same for as much as we are now of the same body and fellow heires of the same hopes and partners in the same promises with them that being destroyed which made the difference Neither let it be thought too great ambition for us Gentiles to precede them in the injoying of those Prophesies since we doe goe before them in greater matters And why may not God hereby provoke the Jewes to jealousie and emulation when they shal see us to love and enjoy what once they had as yet want and yet this wil not hinder but that the Jewes shal have in time a gradual though not specificall preheminence above us the Gentiles for albeit we be the first in the injoyment of the fulfilling yet may they be the chiefe in the perfection of this promised mercy though they come in last yet may they be advanced to highest place and so the first shal be last and the last shall be first they the first in the Promise last in the performance we the last first in the fulfilling and yet they the last come up to be the chiefe in the injoyment And so Christ who is first our salvation