Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	create_v	lord_n	praise_v	2,444	5	9.8565	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49761	An history of angells being a theologicall treatise of our communion and warre with them : handled on the 6th chapter of the Ephesians, the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 verses / by Henry Lawrence ...; Of our communion and warre with angels	Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1649 (1649)	Wing L660; ESTC R12895	135,420	210

sutable and fitted to act this nature as may be seene by their effects both upon us and upon the world though wee are not so to judge of their power as the Manichees who feigned two supreame powers a good and a bad which conflicted perpetually each with other for their power falls as farre below Gods as it is above us and infinitely more Against the Rulers of the darknesse of this world Heere the Divels are described from the universall dominion they have in this world they are called the Rulers of the darknesse of this world to shewe what the Divell is conversant about all his worke is to bring in darknes and to shewe principally the seate of his Empire Hee is not the ruler of the world that is Gods Territory but of the darknes of this world the children of darknes though hee ceaseth not to interpose and excercise rule even over the children of light and within the Saints so farre as darknes possesseth them It is also called the darknesse of this world to shewe the terme of his Empire it is but in this life in another himselfe shal be subject to darknes and eternall torments Against spirituall wickednesse in high places Beza translates it spirituall malices the words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirituallnes of evill and wickednesse carnall wickednesses are inferiour to spirituall wickednesses which occupieth the highest part of the soule which possesses the understanding more and are not laid out in carnall passions and concupiscences so as the Divell hath a most excelling malice Hee layes out himselfe in the excercise of and provoking us to the most spirituall wickednesses though hee is in the other also and labours to make even carnall sins as much spirituall as is possible by causing them to be acted against light and against love and engagements In high places the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza translates it in sublimi on high that is in high places your enemy hath the advantage ground hee is on high hee hath gained the hill hee is in the aire how mighty an advantage this is in a combate you knowe but it signifies in Heavenly as in the margent of your bookes which may have relation aswell to things as places and then it shewes the things about which his malicious studyes are conversant that is to take all heavenly things from us and to deprive us of what ever is heavenly And now what say you to your Antagonist heere is a dreadfull enemy formed already you have heard fables of Giants heere is a Gyant indeed great in subtilty excellent in nature mighty in power large in dominion above all eminent in ill and malice wee are apt to feare onely what wee see but invisible things are the best and worst they are the greatest as our originall sin which wee see not but by its effects and this great invisible prince that casts so many darts at us the blowes of which wee feele but consider not the hand that gives them whence comes all our mischeife I would set out this enemy a litle in his owne coulours that wee may knowe him and knowe how to deale with him wee shall surely finde him as blacke as wee can paint him the ignorance of our evills may cover them but not relieve them let us knowe him and wee shall knowe how to deale with him there is strength and might in Iesus Christ God hath but raised him up as Pharoah to make his power knowne upon him wee have weapons can reach him and an arme strong enough but wee must arme our selves but wee must use it wee shall overcome but wee must fight Put on therefore a firme courage for before all be done your enemy will appeare extreamely blacke and dreadfull and yet to comfort you greater is hee that is in you then hee that is in the world Now for a more perfect knowledge of this great enemy wee will launch a litle into that comon place of the nature of Angells yet keeping neere the Scripture and not departing from our assured rule the word of God nor intending so large a compasse of discourse as the thing will beare though the knowledge of it is of very great use in many respects but so farre forth as it may afford a full light to the discourse wee have undertaken And first how excellent soever their nature is that they are creatures there is no question though Aristotle will needs have them eternall substances a thing altogether derogatory to God who onely is eternall and therefore as the first cause must needs be the former and maker of all other things It is true that Moses doth not particularly describe their creation accommodating himselfe to the rudenesse and ignorance of that time in which hee writ and therefore particularizes onely in visible things But that they were created wee have cleare scripture for it Coloss. 1.16 For by him were all things created whether in heaven or earth visible or invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him Wee shall not insist heere upon the particuler titles but you see heere creation of things in heaven aswell as in earth and invisible aswell as visible so Psal. 148.5 Let them praise the name of the Lord for hee commanded and they were created What was created all that hee had named before the heavens and the Angells Hee begins with the first and most eminent peeces of creation If you aske when they were created certainely not before the created matter of the visible world for Moses saith In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth if they had bene therefore created before there should have bene a beginning of time and working before that besides it s said God wrought all his workes in sixe dayes and rested the seaventh If you aske what day they were created in all likelyhood the first day with the supreame heaven in respect of the similitude of their nature they give also another reason Job 38.7 When the morning starres sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joye because they seeme there to applaud God in the workes of his creation vizt when the highest heavens and first matter was created out of which other things was formed 2. These excellent creatures are true substances and doe really exist contrary to the opinion of the Saduces that denied Angells and Spirits that is that thought by the name of Angells was meant nothing but good or ill inspirations or motions or els the wonders and apparitions which were wrought by God but nothing is more absurd then this for First they were created therefore they were substances and not accidents in another subject 2. They are endowed with understanding and will by virtue of which they were capable of sinning and departing from the truth of obeying or standing out against God 3. From their office they appeare before God they serve God wee are commaunded to