Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	1,890	5	9.4049	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19308	A religious inquisition: or, A short scrutinie after religion Wherein the large cope of true religion is narrowly inquired. By Iohn Cope, of Grayes-Inne, Esquire.	Cope, John, of Gray's Inn.	1629 (1629)	STC 5722; ESTC S118371	36,759	136

Idoll as that he sets it in the place of God or lastly the worship which God challengeth to himselfe and thus worship or honour may be said in generall to be giuen as well to the creature as to the Creator But it is the forme of euery thing that giues it being The truth of worship to God-ward the formall cause of Religion Now the forme of this Religion may be taken to consist in two things In the Worship of God and in the truth of that Worship Here is not meant that forme spoken of by Paul to Timothy 2. Tim. 3.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. which a man may haue and yet deny the power of Religion but that forme which is powerfull to make a man truly religious must informe a man what Religion is So that he that will be religious must worship God and that in Trueth First he must worship God And what is God Himselfe tels vs that his Name is Exod. 3.14 I AM and Christ in the Gospell of S. Iohn Ioh. 8.58 being asked of the Iewes whether he had seene Abraham being not yet fifty yeers old does not answer them That before Abraham was I was but said vnto them before Abraham was I AM. And what is he That I AM saies God and that is All and that All is All. Let a man mount vpon the wings of cogitation which is swifter then any flying bird into the highest Heauen which is the Seate of Gods incomprehensible Maiestie and there imagine an vnimaginable glory that He is let him come downe into the Firmament and if he can without dazeling looke vpon that orient Ruby and that splendent Diamond the bigger and lesser light round beset with the sparkling Starres all which doe as much excell in operatiue vertue the most precious Stone the Earth affoordes as there is distance betweene heauen and earth and that He is Let him passe thorow the element of fire and there make a little stay where he shall stand in the middest of fire and not burne nor be sensible of the heate if hee were bodily there which fire sets on fire all other bodies and that He is Let him make a step lower into the element of Aire and there hee shall finde such a friendly discord as that neither moisture shall quench heate nor heate dry vp moisture without temperature no liuing creature could breathe and that He is Let him take a iourny to the vttermost parts of the earth and where-euer he comes inquire of God and there hee shall here of Him for the earth and the fulnesse thereof is the Lords Psal 24.1 Let him discend into the Store-house of the earth and search the seuerall Cabinets of Gods Iewels and the whole Treasury of his Riches and there hee is to be found Psal 104.5 For he hath laid the foundation of the earth Let him go downe into the deepes of the water and there take view of Gods creatures which are for number incredible and many of them for shape proportion and condition accounted Monsters and likewise thinke vpon that common benefit which all liuing creatures receiue from this element of water without which they could not subsist and there he shall vnderstand of Him they are the words of the Psalmist Psal 135.6 Whatsoeuer pleased the Lord that did he in the heauen and in the earth and in the sea And when a man hath taken a sight of the Mycrocosme or great world and receiued some apprehension of God therein let him cast his eye vpon that Mycrocosme or little world himselfe wherein is as much contracted and compacted as is conteined in the whole Vniuerse and see if there hee can receiue any farther information of God There a man shall see as it were the Sunne and Moone vnderstanding and sence placed in the vppermost and sphericall part of his body The opinion of the Naturalist is that the Sunne and a man generate a man Sol homo generāt hominem which in this fabricke is true that the sunne of vnderstanding working vpon the terrene and elementary parts of a man makes vp a man and withall this glorious and Heauenly Planet sends forth light and influence whereby the whole man is continually directed and preserued Here likewise may bee obserued the Quotidian motion of this Planet which daily visiteth the whole man with sweete comfort and illumination and the annuall motion like vnto that yeerely progresse of the Sunne wherein it takes a more particular and serious view of all the parts of the Earth And indeed it is a good yeeres worke for the swiftest contemplation to take an exact consideration of all the faculties and parts of a man and that inward and estimatiue sence which is called by some the common sence and represents the Moone receiues all the light it hath from the vnderstanding whence commeth the Eclipse as may be said of this Moone within a man when the earthly carnall and externall parts of a man are interposed betweene sence and the light of the vnderstanding and the like eclipse is there of the Sunne which is resembled by the vnderstanding when sence interposeth it selfe betweene a man and true reason Let a man looke into the firmament of thoughts and cogitations which are in number and quality like the twinkling Starres of Heauen whereof some are fixed but most wandering and hee shall easily discerne a similitude betweene the things compared which is likewise to be found in the whole bodie of a man The shape of a man as long as he is conteined in the round wombe of his Mother is Globary till that diuine part of him be infused which requires a maiestike and commanding stature since God hath subiected all the creatures vnder his gouernement which is liuely expressed by Ouid the Poet who hauing set forth the Creation of the world with the creatures inhabiting therein proceeds with words to this purpose There was yet wanting saith hee a more perfect and sacred liuing creature that should bee capable of transcendent knowledge Ouid. Metamorph lib. 1. Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae Deerat adhuc quod dominari in caetera posset Natus homo est Proraque cùm spectent animalia caetera terram Os homini sublime dedit coelùmque videre Iussit erectos ad sidera tollere vultus and might beare rule ouer all other things Man was borne and whereas all other creatures were framed with their eyes cast downe vpon the earth God gaue man a lofty countenance and an vpright and stately proportion commanding him to looke vp to heauen from whence he came But the elements retaine the same qualities and opposition in the body of a man which they had before this composition for heate and coldnesse and moisture and drinesse are in continuall strife which shall haue the predominancy and which is a strange thing this discord is a cause both of the conseruation and destruction of the same