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
A32847	A theological discourse of angels and their ministries wherein their existence, nature, number, order and offices are modestly treated of : with the character of those for whose benefit especially they are commissioned, and such practical inferences deduced as are most proper to the premises : also an appendix containing some reflections upon Mr. Webster's displaying supposed witchcraft / by Benjamin Camfield ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.; Webster, John, 1610-1682. Displaying of supposed witchcraft.	1678 (1678)	Wing C388; ESTC R18390	139,675	230

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 15.16 But then to this General we have another word added in the Greek which our English distinguisheth not at all from it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it denotes a particular service under the former 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 9.12 Like to that of the Deacons in the Christian Church who served Tables and provided for the necessities of the Poor and Needy And to this special Deaconry and Service in the World they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solemnly sent forth and Commissioned as Legats and Officers from above Thus the learned Doctor Hammond interprets the seven Spirits Revel 1.4 and 4.5 The Angels which attend and wait upon God and are as in the Sanhedrim the Officers waiting on the Head of the Sanhedrim to go on all their Messages or as in the Church the Deacons to attend the commands of the Governour of the Church and to perform them Now that we may take in the whole course of the Angels Imploy and Ministration we will consider of it distinctly 1. With reference unto God himself 2. To Christ God-Man 3. To the whole World especially of Mankind and 4. To the faithful Servants of God and Christ call'd in the Text the Heirs of Salvation Sect. I. Their Ministry unto God First I say they are Ministring Spirits unto God Almighty Damascen puts this into the definition of an Angel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that in a threefold capacity 1. They are the constant Attendants of his glorious Court and Presence waiting upon and following of him wheresoever he goes So a chief among them said to Zacharias I am Gabriel that stand in the presence of the Lord Saint Luke 1.19 And I saw the Lord sitting in his Throne saith Micaiah the Prophet and all the Host of Heav'n standing by him on his right hand and on his left 1 Kings 22.19 that is The Great King on his Throne and his Guard or Retinue of Angels round about him And in this as some conceive the special manner of the Divine Appearance or Presence in some places more than in others consists whereas otherwise God is Omni-present and every-where alike as Arnobius says viz. in this his Train and Attendance So that the Lord of Hosts is there said to be peculiarly present where his Court is that is where the holy Angels keep their Station and Rendezvous Hence Iacob having seen a Ladder reaching from Heav'n to Earth and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon it saith Gen. 28.16 17. Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not how dreadful is this place It is no other but the House of God even the Gate of Heav'n That is Heav'ns Guild-Hall Court or Palace as our learned Mede hath it for the Gate was wont to be the Judgment-Hall and place where Kings and Senators used to sit attended by their Guard and Ministers Thus in the Prophecy of Daniel the Antient of Days is represented coming to Judgment Dan. 7.10 Thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him And in the same stile of the same appearance too Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied as Saint Iude Records it ver 14. Behold the Lord cometh with his holy Myriads or ten thousands For so it ought to be rendred according to the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not as we have it with ten thousands by his Saints unless by Saints we mean these holy ones as sometimes they are call'd Dan. 4.13 17. A like expression of the Divine Presence we find in that of Moses Deuter. 33.2 The Lord came from Sinai unto them and rose up from Seir unto them he shined forth from Mount-Paran he came with ten thousands of Saints or holy ones or with his holy Myriads with his holy ten thousands as it should rather be translated from his right hand went a fiery Law for them Whereunto the Psalmist also relates Ps. 68.17 The Chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of Angels the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy place From whence we read in the New-Testament of the Law giv'n by Angels there Who have received the Law by the disposition of Angels Act. 7.53 Ordained by Angels in the hands of a Mediator meaning Moses Gal. 3.19 The word spoken by Angels Heb. 2.2 Howbeit in the Old-Testament Story it-self we meet with no such thing in terms but only that the Lord descended upon the Mount in a fiery and smoaking Cloud with Thunders and Lightnings and the voice of a Trumpet Exod. 19 The expression therefore seems to proceed upon this supposition that the special Presence of the Divine Majesty or his Glory as the Scripture calls it wheresoever it is said to be consists in the encamping of his Sacred Retinue the holy Angels And accordingly we read in the Gospel that Christ shall come at last in the glory of his Father that is with an host of Angels as the Holy Ghost himself seems to expound it The Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels Saint Matth. 16.27 Saint Mark 8.38 Thus Heav'n we know is the place of God's most glorious Residence that being the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or habitation of Angels Saint Iude 6. ver who therefore are call'd the host of heav'n and said alwayes to behold the face of God ther● And accordingly we are taught to pray Our Father which art in Heav'n The Prophet Isaiah before had set the example Ch. 63.15 Look down from heav'n and behold from the habitation of thine holiness and thy glory that is where thy Throne is surrounded with Myriads of holy and glorious Angels And thus was God present of old in his Temple and the places where his name was recorded upon Earth So in the Vision of Isaiah 6.1 I saw the Lord sitting upon a Throne high and lifted up and his Train filled the Temple The LXX have it the house was filled with his glory Most probably the Seraphim or Angels as there it follows ver 3. And this seems to be imply'd in that of the Psalmist Before the Gods I will sing praise unto thee I will worshp towards thy holy Temple and praise thy Name Ps. 138.1 2. For that the Angels are call'd Gods I noted before and the Greek here reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Angels and the vulgar Latin accordingly in conspectu Angelorum in the view or presence of the Angels Agreeably whereto we may also interpret that place of Solomon cautioning against rash vows in the House of God Eccles. 5.4 5 6. When thou vowest a vow defer not to pay it suffer not thy mouth to cause they flesh to sin neither say thou before the Angel it was an error that is let not such a foolish excuse come from thee in the House of God before the holy Angels taking the word collectively as we do Man Turk Spaniard