Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	militant_a	5,036	5	12.4963	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62994	Atheismus vapulans, or, A treatise against atheism, rationally confuting the atheists of these times by Will. Towers ... Polytheismus vapulans, or, There is but one God.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.; Towers, William, 1617?-1666. Polytheismus vapulans.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1959; ESTC R23437	141,181	385

ought to worship God the more reverently and sincerely 1 Cor. 11.10 because of the Angels Untill I make thine enemies thy foot-stool Ps 110.1 Here the wicked are the foot-stool of God in being subjected to his will though against their own and in this respect the worshipping at his footstool does mean that we should not refrain even in the sight of the wicked to sing that new Song Ps 40.3 which God hath put into our Mouth and which they are unacquainted with even praise unto our God to this end that many even the wicked may see it and fear and trust in the Lord in the last place and out of the first Text He tells us † Pag. 472 Col. 2. in Fine Scabellum ejus est ipsa Christi humanitas the Manhood of Christ is this foot-stool To the purpose then understand we by this foot-stool as Auguanus does in the simplicity of his heart the humanity of Christ quae totaliter Deo conform is est and not only that but the whole Earth also and in that Earth not only the Church the Saints of God but the very wicked also and not only the Church Militant on Earth but that part of it which is triumphant in Heaven confirm'd in an establisht undecaying Righteousness by Christ Jesus the Holy Angels of God and understand we not by this foot-stool exclusively the humanity of Christ and nothing else but that nay understand we not that humanity of Christ only Sacramented as Doway does in the design of their hearts and then if it does not more redound to the honour of God and to the edifying and increasing of his Church that we should sincerely worship God all the Earth over not only in the Congregation of the Saints the more to inflame their devotion by the Conjunction of ours with theirs but in the presence of the wicked to make them asham'd of their irreligious folly and to invite them by our example to draw near unto the Lord with unfeigned Lips and unfeining Hearts and all this because of the Angels of God nay because of the God of those Angels if thus to do and thus every where to do and upon these grounds does not conspire in a more probable effectuality and a more innocent uninsnaring conspiration to both those ends then to worship the Body of Christ himself as that foot-stool and only to worship that Body Sacramented at some times in some places with some few then we will quit this extensive interpretation and run totis pedibus into their limited sentence 28. And least that reason which David gives and which they render because IT is holy might bear sway against this multiform sense confining the foot-stool only to one and the worship to that very footstool to evade this pretended reason I must give them to know not only that that word in the Original may be equally translated IT or He but that in that place it ought rather to be translated he because in the Verse after is set down what that worship is to invocate the Lord and because though it were so for IT is holy yet the worship is not of it but at it explained in the last verse of that Psalm and in both the same words in which the reverence is charged upon us in the 5. v. Exalt ye the Lord our God and ad re say they and worship say we Hitherto there is a perfect agreement with the 5. 1 Cor. 1.10 and last v. they do what the Apostle would have us all to do though Doway will neither hearken to us nor him speak the same thing and the explication follows In or at his holy Mount because the Lord our God is holy the Mount is confessedly holy yet the holiness of the Mount is not alleged as a reason why we should worship it but the holiness of our God why we should worship in or at his holy Mount I go on to inquire after their And elsewhere by which words and some search I find out of their notes upon Gen. 48.5 That they mean the Invocation of Angels grounded upon Mat. 18. Acts 12.1 Cor. 11. For want of their New Testament of which I am bereft they ought to be content as I must that I reply out of the Originals 29. And first what says Matthew for them He says but not for them that Christ himself said 18.10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in Heaven their Angels do alwaies behold the Face of my Father which is in Heaven what means our Saviour by this not that we should invoke Angels himself tels us no such matter but that we should not despise little ones that is it which himself tels us and upon this ground because they have Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had they hence infer'd that God had appointed Angels Ministring Spirits to take care for and to protect little ones they had argu'd right and we would shake hands with them in this matter let them tell us no more then what that Text tells us let them infer no more then what our Saviour Christ infers and we are agreed is it not enough to that purpose to take off contempt from little ones that God takes so much care of them as to appoint Angels over them though they never pray as they are never bid so to do to Angels and are not those words design'd to this purpose by Christ had Christ said Despise them not Ps 115.16 for to these Children of Men I have given the Earth Despise them not for it is for their sake Job 38.8.9 that I have shut up the Sea with doors and made the Cloud the Garment thereof and tho thick darkness a swadling band for it Despise them not for for them it is that I have created the Lights in the Firmanent of Heaven for signs and seasons Gen. 1.14 Ps 104.19 for dars and years 't is for them that I have appointed the Moon for seasons for them that the Sun knoweth his going down His going down with his Rays into the Bowels of the Earth and his bringing up from thence Herb for the service both of Man and Child that God hath done all or any of these for mankind is reason enough not to contemn the least of them but is it reason enough that Man should fall down and first worship and then eat his Herb Sarculo Amicas Colit hic Fruges Et suum hic mandit Bibit ille E man Thesourus è Soc Jesu Numen If so Happy the Heathen that are Heathen still Felices Gentes quibus haec nascuntur in Hortis Numina Juven That Man should exalt the Sun and adore the Moon that Man should bow to the Sea and kneel down to the Lights nay to the Cloud nay to the thick darkness and do his reverence to these swadling bands and to that Garment as to sacred Reliques for all of these let us