Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	ascend_v	descend_v	ladder_n	1,837	5	11.6158	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09990	The nevv covenant, or the saints portion A treatise vnfolding the all-sufficiencie of God, and mans uprightnes, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteene sermons vpon Gen. 17. 1. 2. Wherevnto are adioyned foure sermons vpon Eccles. 9.1. 2. 11. 12. By the late faithfull and worthie minister of Iesus Christ Iohn Preston. Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiestie, maister of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670.	1629 (1629)	STC 20241; ESTC S101919	353,487	626

them and trusts in the Lord may not he wither Beloved I will adde but that in briefe seest thou a man that doth not reckon the Lord to be All-sufficient that doth not rest on him alone but makes flesh his arme and trusts in any creature that hath such thoughts as these I haue the favour of high persons and therefore I am safe or I haue many friends to backe me and to support me and defend me and therefore I am safe I haue a great estate to helpe me against dangers to provide for me against the time of difficultie and therefore it shall goe well enough with me I say be it thine owne case or seest thou any man doing so be assured that such a man shall certainly wither cursed shall that man be that doth this that makes flesh his arme Againe on the other side seest thou a man that is willing to depriue himselfe of all these things when it is to keepe a good conscience when he put to it It is an evidence that he resteth on God that he trusts in him alone be assured howsoever that man may be vnder a cloud and though it may be winter with him for a little while yet he shall spring againe his light shall breake forth and he shall prosper sayth the Text Ier. 17. That is the place I haue reference to and his leafe shall be greene The other man sayth the Text there though God doe come to him and all about him yet he shall not see good he shall haue no part in it but he shall surely wither sooner or later On the other side Though evill doe come vpō this man that trusts in God yet he shall not see evill Now my Beloved consider that we may draw to a conclusion whether you doe this or no which you are here exhorted vnto But it may be a man will be readie to say I hope I doe performe this It is well if you doe But I will say but one word to you if you doe thus looke vpon God as All-sufficient if you reckon him your portion doe you walke as one that sees him in his greatnesse and in his almightie power Remember that in Pro. 30. when Agur lookes vpon God and himselfe together sayth he I am worse then a Beast I haue not the vnder standing of a man in me And why sayth he I haue not the knowledge of the holy one he that ascends and he that descends he that holds the winds in his fist he that gathers the waters in his lap as into a garment he that stretcheth forth the ends of the earth and that settles it who knowes him sayth he who can tell his name or his sonnes name The meaning of it is this sayth he when I consider what God is and beginne to thinke how I haue walked with him and how short I am of knowing him as I should sayth he I am as a Beast I am confounded and amazed Now consider that and make it your owne case who walkes with God my Beloved and seeth him that ascends and descends which hath reference to that vision that appeared to Iacob The Lord was on the toppe of the ladd●r and the Angels descended and ascended That is All the Creatures both in heaven and earth are like messengers that goe to and fro at his Commandement who walkes with God as knowing this providence of his that sets the Angels a-worke all the hoasts all the particulars of them in their kinde to doe this busines and that busines Who walkes with God as seeing him sending a messenger to doe every thing that we see done in the world sending a messenger to take away such a mans life to giue another life and health sending a messenger to remoue such a difficultie from one man And againe stopping vp another mans passage This you call accident when you see a concurrence of two things together the cause whereof you know not but he knowes both who walkes with the Lord as seeing him do this or that through the ends of the earth Againe he holds the windes in his fist who sees him as such a God that is able to hold the windes in his fist Who lookes vpon him as such a God The breath of a man that is lesse then the winde he holds it in his fist as a man holds a thing in his hand and that he keepes there at his pleasure Who lookes vpon God as thus great in power And so againe breathing the holy Ghost who lookes vpon God as one that dispenseth it as it pleaseth him to giue it and withdraw it at his will Who lookes vpon him as one sending forth motions and iniecting them into the minde stirring it this way or that way as the windes and the stormes and the Creatures He hath them all in his hand and holds them all in his fist for by these workes of nature we may learne to know the greatnesse of God and to reflect vpon our selues and see how farre we are short of him And so againe who lookes vpon him as lapping vp the waters as in a garment That is When the Sea is outragious yet he takes it as you would take a little water in your lap sometimes and he containes it and gathers it vp and sometimes he lets it loose againe And so likewise he is able when the people are vnruly even great Nations that sometimes are readie to over-spread his Church and to run over it with proud waters yet he is able to keepe them backe he is able to restraine them and to shut them vp with barres and doores as he doth the waters He that lappes the waters in a garment is he not able to restraine men that are violent against vs in wrath Who can stand before wrath and envie that is like a violent water that overflowes all and that carries all before it Yet he that laps the waters as a garment he is able to restraine them wheresoever he findes them And so againe who walks with him as knowing him that establisheth the ends of the earth That is as the originall shewes more clearely as one that hath founded the great and waightie earth vpon nothing Sayth he that God when a mans spirit hath instabilitie and inconstancy in it naturally he that establisheth the earth vpon nothing making a mightie building where there was no foundation he can establish thy spirit too Suppose there be nothing to support the Church to suppo●● a man when he is falling or that he hath no friend to prop him nothing to vnderlay him yet he that hath set the earth vpon nothing but vpon the thinne ayre that you know is not able to support it but he onely sayth to the earth stand there is he not able to support a man in any case See now the Lord in this greatnesse of his But who walkes as seeing him thus in his greatnesse and in his All-sufficiencie For all these doe but expresse the All-sufficiencie