Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77291	The divinity of the Trinity cleared, by wiping off the false glosses put upon several places of Scripture by Mr. John Biddle, in his book intituled The apostolical and true opinion touching the Holy Trinity, &c. Written by a very learned man, lately deceased.	Brayne, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4322; Thomason E809_25; ESTC R19017	31,675	32

and worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Jehovah came to be given and distributed to the Father Soe and Spirit thus gone forth in God as to be called God be God and worshipped 4. This is cleared from the use of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. 20.12 These last have wrought but one hour and thou hast made them equal with us that is not in proportion as Mr. Biddle dreams but in proportion one having as much as another viz. a penny so also Luke 6.34 Acts 11.17 5. So that the Father having the knowledge of the times which the Sonne hath not makes not the Father greater then the Sonne nor the Sonnes having all judgement makes not him greater then the Father they having that in themselves makes an equality among them as Elohims and one as Jehovah all are Jehovahs committed to the Elohims 6. In God is no form or proportion of parts therefore equality cannot be attributed to God in such a way as that the sence in that kinde would prove meerly carnal The portions of the Elohims in Jehovah to our understandings is exprest Prov 8.12 Wisdom Prudence and Knowledge which ver 22. Jehovah possest before his works There is one notable place to object from 1 Cor. 8.6 Resp 1 Cor. 8.4 He saith in opposition to Idols who are nothing that there is no God other then one in the World which is spoke of the World Estate signifying Jehovah Ver. 6. In the Church Estate to the Saints is but the one God to them is a Father Jehovah discovering himself in the Gospel in the Father the Elohim in the excellent Majesty which the World knows not in which the Church outstript the World in divine manifestations of God called a knowing God as revealed by the Son or in his Son as a Father it being revealed in the Gospel-state onely And the words to be read thus ver 6. But the one God to us is a Father disjoyning Gods being as Jehovah to the World onely but gone forth in himself a Father to the Church revealed in the Gospel by his Sonne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now whereas the Translators place the Verb Substantive as understood before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saying But to us is one God the Father it ought to be placed between 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and the Father but to us the one God is a Father 1 Or they make the God in the world and the Church two 2 By this distinction God is distinguisht according to the distinctive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not in his Essence but Gospel-manifestation of himself to believers as a Father in the Son more pretious then as a Creator Joh. 10.34 35. Is it not written in your Law I have said ye are Gods If he have called them Gods to whom the word of God came and the Scripture cannot be dissolved c. 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God 's here answers to Elohim Psal 82.6 and proves the word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods to be of the plural number 2 The Psal ver 1. proves it to concern Judges judging by Gods Word and not God to be worshipped but men honoured of God 3 Called Gods because intrusted with that act was proper to God as his vicegerents in judgeing justifying condemning and sentencing to death and yet such but nomine non re 4 These because instituted of God are called Gods when other Judges ruling by other Laws are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lords and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 opposed to Elohim Esa 26.13 because they sat not as the Elohim in the seat of God as Gods which is the highest of all honour As for 1 Cor. 4.5 the many Gods in Heaven as Sun Moon Stars and the Lords Saturn Mars Venus Mercury Many Gods in earth Rom. 1.23 worshipping forms of men of fowls of four-footed beasts and creeping things as appeares by what the Apostle hinted at ver 4. where he saith that an Idol is nothing in the world so that Idols are in this text clearly oppposed to the true God Quest If in portion the Son be equal with God Phil. 2.7 how comes he to be less then the Father the Father greater then he which must be said of his divine nature as he was the Son in relation to God his Father Joh. 14.28 when again he saith The Father and I are one Resp 1. In the beginning of the way of God viz. his going forth in himself viz. Jehovah in the Elohims Father Son and Spirit were one and equal as in the uncreated being of God 2. But in the goings forth of God came to be inequality between the Father that never came forth and the Son which came forth from God John 13.3 John 16.27 30. And the Spirit which cometh forth from the Father John 15.26 and 14.26 3. This going forth from God is a ceasing as it were the use of and injoyment in it self the injoyments of its portions as God for a time as it were setting themselves apart from it called an emptying himself Phil. 2.7 that he might become a servant 4. He came into the world Joh. 16.28 that is into the state of creatures in man to clear which glorious mystery of God no Scripture hath that fulness in it that Phil. 2.6 7 8. hath in it which is much abused and mis-understood of men I shall therefore the more fully speak thereunto And the rather because as the Son was sent the Spirit was sent as the Son came forth from the Father the Spirit did as the Son took on him the form of a servant so the Spirit in becoming the advocate of Gods elect whence this text clearing the equality in the estate of the Sons inequality with God proves the Spirits also and stops the mouth of adversaries and blasphemers proving that that was to be done in the Son of God and yet not destroy his divinity or equality in being which may also be done in the holy Spirit and not destroy his divinity or equality in being to God The first and main objection is from ver 5. where it is said Let the same mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus and 1 Tim. 2.5 makes appear what was spoken of Jesus Christ was spoken of man and not God Resp By Jesus Christ is meant sometimes not the humane nature or the Son of man but the Son of God also and indeed as Christ when he asked the Disciple Peter had this confession Mat. 16.16 Thou art Christ the Son of the living God The one is not a foundation to build the Church on to stand by without the other Whatever Mr. Biddle dreams of his doctrine will come to nothing for he that in Scipture is the Son of man is called the Son of God also Both are intentionally spoke of though the Son of God is not mentioned for the doctrine of the Apostle being to teach men from what in Christ was to be imitated