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
A80426	Higayon selah. Ierusalem fatall to her assailants. Discovered in a sermon before the Honorable House of commons August 29. 1649. At Margarets Westminster, upon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall victory over the Lord Ormond, in routing his whole army, and raising the seige of Dublin in Ireland, by the garrison thereof under the command of lieutenant Generall Jones. / By William Cooper M.A. minister of the gospel at Olaves Southwark.	Cooper, William, minister at St. Olave's Southwark.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6064; Thomason E572_4; ESTC R206160	37,133	45

was so familiar among the Prophets in the degenerate time of the Church that the obstinate Jews would come in scorn asking Ier. 23.33 14 c. what is the burden of the Lord but they found it a burden to them indeed Pharaoh made light of Gods threats and plagues on him by Moses and Aaron but at last they sunck him as a stone to the bottom of the Sea Ahab made light of Michaiahs word but it proved a heavy burden to Ahab as Iehu cals it 2 Kings 9.25 The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel i. e. This vengeance threatned on the besiegers is for Israels sake in favour of Israel All the havock that he makes of great persons of families of whole Cities Armies Nations is for Israel the whole current of Gods judgements is but a comment and confirmation of this pertinent to this and very pregnant is that of the Prophet Isa 43.1 2 3 4 5. when he tells Israel there as here that he was his maker redeemer and preserver from all evils he gives the reason of all verse 3 4. I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour I gave Egypt for thy ransome Ethiopia and Seba for thee since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore will I give men for thee people for thy sake The Lord takes away multitudes of wicked men as drosse and counts them but as the dung of the Earth for Israel What a distinguishing love is here in a gracious God that puts so vaste a difference between men and men between party and party accounting his own honourable his enemies base his own precious his enemies vile The Lord like a Lion goes forth and tears what ever he meets with to feed his young be it men or beasts Thus the Lord makes bloody sacrifices and slaughters his adversaries bee they never so mighty or many Rev. 19.17 18 19. as we have it notably described by Iohn in the Revelations Having armed and mounted Iesus Christ with royall conquering power brings in the Angel inviting all to a great feast which he cals the supper of God the provision is flesh costly flesh to eat the flesh of Kings the flesh of Captains the flesh of mighty men of hosts and them that sit on them c. I do not take the words litterally of Birds feeding on the carkasses of the churches slaughtered enemies lying unburied though that may be too but of warriours mingling themselves with the Church for pay and prey or of militant Saints who being married to Iesus Christ as conquerours hee sups them upon the spoiles of their enemies Psal 74.14 the mighty Behemoths and Leviathans that prey on Sea and Land the insatiable Potentates of the Earth even they shall be meat for his people as Ioshua and Caleb said the mighty Anachs should be bread for Israel Num. 14.9 Thus out of the 〈◊〉 comes forth meat and out of the strong commeth sweetnesse the Lord will make the Lion that wars against Sampson to fall by his hands he shall tear him as a Kid and the carkasse of him shall yeeld Sampson honey Saith the Lord which stretcheth forth the Heavens c. Then the Lord comes forth armed as a God he puts on all his majesty and all his might when he engages for Ierusalem then he awakes as a great Lyon and as a Gyant refreshed with Wine Then the hils melt and the earth trembles at his presence when he commeth forth to ayde Jerusalem for then he commeth forth like a God that is like himself the Lord will put forth no lesse grandour and glory in delivering Ierusalem then when he made the world Let all saith God be reduced to a Chaos of confusion such seemed once our condition and now little better to those that cannot or will not see yet I will fetch order out of that saith the Lord Let all be covered over with darknesse and jumbled into rubbish nay let all be shut up again into the wombe of nothing at least that nothing of inhability improbability and impossibility too as to a created agent yet I will create deliverance fetch out a cosmos a beautifull pile and face of things praise the Lord in this great last restauration of the world which we trust is now beginning The Lord will make a new heaven and a new earth Revel 21.1 The Lord will make quite another world and all this for Israel Have you not heard hath it not been told you that it is I and onely I doe this that I make nothing of my peoples enemies be they many a whole world of them as vers 3. Yet I spread out the heavens while they besiege then Ierusalem I 'le overwing their multitudes I 'le front them and flanck them I will catch them all in a Net for I stretch out the heavens and for their power their mining their confidence let them look to their ground I lay the foundations of the earth let them dig as deep as hell to hide counsell and to shake thy wals and cast thee down O Ierusalem I will countermine them I 'le blow them quite up they shall be buried in their own rubbish saith the Lord what if they abound with courage and malice insomuch that my people are even afraid of them is it not I that form the spirit of man within him I take and give courage I will make thee stout-hearted as women but I will make them that are feeble among my people as David for I form the spirit of man within him And for the Savage disposition of the enemy I tame that saith God Daniel and the Lyons shall lodge quietly together my Lambs shall feed safely among the Bears and Wolves my Children shall play with Aspes and Cockatrices for I form the spirit of man within Right honourable and beloved Here 's matter of courage and confidence for us here 's ground not of prayer onely but of praise this day Was not the enemy sweld with that height of arrogance and presumption upon his numbers and advantages had he not so neer compassed and carried Dublin as to say it could not be delivered out of his hands without a miracle Loe our Creator hath wrought this miracle when he that stretcheth out the heavens c. undertakes it he can doe it and hath done it and did he ever appear like a God for us yet more then in this engagement so few and feeble against so many and mighty 1200 Horse and not the third part of 4000 Foot in the act on conquering 19000 and beyond their own purposes and thoughts to charge the whole Army yet carried on Thus if the spirit of the Lord come on Sampson he shall break his cords and slay heapes upon heapes with an Asses jaw-bone but let us not anticipate Here have yee seen the Lord of Hosts armed like himself now hear the Herauld sounding the trumpet before him in the next