Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	descend_v	ladder_n	1,870	5	11.7110	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20786	The divine lanthorne, or, A sermon preached in S. Pauls Church appointed for the crosse the 17. of July M.DC.XXXCI. by Thomas Drant of Shaston in Com. Dorset.	Drant, Thomas, b. 1601 or 2.	1637 (1637)	STC 7164.3; ESTC S4093	30,788	62

presence of the Light lux simplissima est omnia occupat Light shines every where GOD is in this respect Light Immense is a peculiar Attribute wherewith He is clothed Hee comprehends all places none include Him wee doe acknowledge Him with Augustine sine situ ubique praesentem sine loco ubique totum sine extensione omnia implentem without site every where present every where whole without place and without extension of parts filling all things all bodies have their proper place and there we say they are circumscriptively nor would Aristotle exempt the highest Heaven could wee finde out a bodie or superficies to encircle it how excellent are the Angels who behold the face of GOD in glory how dignified by CHRIST himselfe who though He tooke not their nature yet weares their name the Angell of the Covenant how ever they are limited in their natures they are of finite vertue nor is Gabriell than with the Hierarchy in Heaven when he stoopes to the Mother of GOD with an Ave on earth Haile Mary these are in their places definitively it is GODS prerogative royall of which to rifle Him it were a meere treason and robbery to be in all places repletively it weares indeed the image and stampe of Apocrypha yet search it to the quick and kernell and a mysterious weight is shrind in it the Spirit of the LORD filleth the world How filleth vertually alone as the Sunne though fixt in his owne Orbe yet enlightens all things with his beames doth cherish them with his heate enliven them with his influence or as a King who sits on his throne and stretches out the rod of his power over all his Dominions rules all the people of his Realmes with the Scepter of his Authority if we coast here we devest GOD of His power and bring Him downe to His creatures nay under them for the very Aire is every where nature not being patient of a vacuity if I digg downe to the center of the earth it is at the point of my spade if I shoote up as high as Heaven it is at the top of my Arrow how than filleth what per partes as the Aire whose parts though Homogeneall take yet up all places severally where no bodily substance is or as CHRIST the ubiquitary may storme at this truth he shall stifle it is if we reflect on His Deitie every where if on His Man-hood in those courts of blisse above which shall hold Him till at the last day Hee shall breake the cloudes and come with flames of fire to judge all flesh is GOD so Can the Heavens or the Heaven of Heavens containe Him No adest ubique ubique totus est non per partes usquam est sed in omnibus omnis est it is Saint Hilaries descant on that streine of the sweete singer of Israel Thou art neere O LORD and all thy Commandements are true How than filleth so as that He is mixt with things sublunary which was the foule Blasphemy of the Manichees or as their substantiall forme makes one compound with them which was the stale and engine to all heathenish Idolatry if wee beleeve Averroes a Patriarke of their owne No GOD is above all things saies the Apostle Rom. 6. and in Isaiahs vision He is high and lifted up and how ever the Poet fills his cheekes with a Iovis omnia plena or we heare it from a tongue divinely toucht and with a true Cherubim In Him we live and moove and have our being yet it is so not that GOD is part of our substance but Author of it being the onely source and fountaine of our life motion being the Platonists who stil'd GOD the soule of the world did fancy yet and coine a god to themselves who was supreme to this and him they bedect and crown'd with this rich Epithite the parent of the worlds soule a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alwaies existent in himselfe simple omnipresent How is GOD Omnipresent Soft Critick thou art running on shelves which will shipwrack and split thee that GOD is every where I beleeve it and my faith shall Anchor here how He is so what Alexander hath a sword to cut a sunder this Gordian knot what Library of the world a key to unlock this mistery for quomodo ubiquè sit intellectu non capimus so Lumbard out of the golden-mouth'd Homilist doth schoole us and bids hush such malapart enquiries as may entitle us to insolence not improove our knowledge When we speake of GOD we are to beleeve an ubiquity though what this ubiquity is is a bottome we cannot unravell Heaven is His throne and the earth His footstoole in Isaiah in Ieremy Hee fills Heaven and Earth omnia implet sine inclusione I am taught by Saint Augustine here and I am told by Saint Hilarie there that a miracle is spher'd in it Deum ubiquè esse nusquam abesse in omnibus esse totum esse that GOD is present every where and in His whole Essence so to sift this Sacrament were to bee quaintly mad but what puzzles my reason my faith shall not startle at I beleeve though I boult my dores I locke not GOD in though I close my casements I shut not GOD out If I take a fee to blinde my eyes He sees it for He is in my closet He is my cloister when I make it a stewes and under a religious coole live as in a brothell-house when I unhallow it by irreverence as if I came to a Mart to bargaine with not an Oratory to beseech Him GOD is in His Temple His residence is especially here though His presence be every where indeed tangit omnia but non aequaliter tangit omnia GOD fills all places with His presence His Church with His gratious presence no place excludes Him this is sure of Him it is His Highnesse Court of Requests where our petitions are best put up it is that ladder of Iacob where the Angels ascend with our suites and descend againe besprinkling us with graces it is that Navy Royall which transports our holy Merchandize to Heaven it was the cheate with which Ieroboam guld the Israelites in Iosephus my good people and friends you cannot but know that no place is without GOD and that no place doth containe GOD wheresoever we pray He can heare us wheresoever we worship He can see us therefore the Temple is superfluous a journey needlesse to Hierusalem GOD is better able to come to you than you are to goe to Him GODS Essence 't is true is diffusive through Heaven and Earth as my soule through every fraction of my body yet as this hath its chiefe seate in my heart so the beauty of the LORD is peculiar to His owne house One thing have J desired of the LORD and that will I seeke after that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all