Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	father_n	holy_a	10,731	5	4.9228	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67068	God made visible in his workes, or, A treatise of the externall workes of God first, in generall, out of the words of the Psalmist, Psalm 35, 6 : secondly, in particular of the Creation, out of the words of Moses, Genesis, Chap. 1 and 2 : thirdly, of Gods actuall Providence / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing W358; ESTC R38408	12,999	22

GOD MADE VISIBLE IN HIS WORKES OR A TREATISE OF THE EXTERNALL Workes of GOD First in Generall out of the words of the Psalmist Psal. 135.6 Secondly in Particular of the Creation out of the words of MOSES GENESIS Chap. 1. and 2. Thirdly of GODS actuall Providence By George Walker B. of Divinity and Pastour of St. John Evangelists Church in LONDON ROM. 1.20 For the invisible things of him from the Creation of the world are clearly seene being understood by the things that are made even his eternall Power and God-head so that they are without excuse London Printed by G.M. for John Bartlet at the signe of the gilt Cup neare S. Austins-gate in Pauls Church-yard 1641. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL MY MVCH HONOVRED friends Sir Thomas Barrington Sir Gilbert Gerard Sir William Massam and Sir Martin Lumley Knights and Baronets now honourable Knights of the house of Commons in the high Court of Parliament Grace and peace with increase of all blâ—ssings temporall and eternâ—ll Right Worshipfull THat undeserved favour and respect which I have found at your hands and the due respect which I owe to your religious families do oblige me to shew some testimony of my thankfulnes And because I have no better present at this time but this Treatise of Gods externall Workes composed out of Sermons heretofore preached to mine own little flock and in the troublesome time of my late bonds brought into this forme I must crave pardon for my boldnesse in presuming to offer it to your hands seeing persons of higher place have defamed and branded these and the rest of my Sermons preached for divers yeares last past with the reproachfull name of factious and seditious doctrines and by their grievous accusations have caused me to be shut up as the great troubler of the City wherin I live and kept in sure hold least this my manner of preaching might proove dangerous and a cause of much hurt and many troubles in these changeable and doubtfull times From these and such crimes and unjust accusations as I have in part purged and cleared my selfe already in a legall way so by your help and favour I hope ere long to be openly acquitted and justified before the world If you shall be pleased to cast a favourable eye upon these my poore laboures and to take a view of them I doubt not but the precious matter being Gods pure word will abundantly recompence the failing of the composer and the defects of his skill and workman-Wherfore humbly craving your kind acceptance of this small token of love and slender acknowledgement of duty and service and desiring to become more indebted to you by your favourable respect shewed thereunto I commend your worthy persons and religious families to the grace and blessing of the Almighty whose invisible majesty even his divine power and God-head is clearly seene from the Creation of the world which is in this Treatise plainly described and understood by the things created Yours in all Christian duty and service GEORGE WALKER OF The externall Works of GOD in generall PSALM 135.6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in Heaven and in Earth in the sea and all deepe places THE externall outward workes of God which follow in the next place after his internall workes are indeed nothing but his actuall execution of his eternall counsell purpose and decree For the unfolding of which workes in generall and laying open of the nature use and severall kindes of them I have made choise of this Text From the wordes and circumstances whereof we may easily gather all points of instruction necessary to be knowne concerning the generall nature use and kindes of them First here the words of the Psalmist shew that he speakes of Gods outward workes because he limits them to places and times to Heaven Earth Sea and all deep places Secondly he speakes of them all in generall none excepted so the Hebrew word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifies all in generall whatsoever doth plainly shew and also the perfect enumeration of all places which are in the world and wherin any outward sensible and visible work can be done to wit the Heaven the Earth the Seas and all deepe places Thirdly he sheweth that God is the author of these works as he is Jehovah that one eternall God in whom there are three persons Father Son and Holy Ghost for he saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Jehovah the Lord doth or hath done Fourthly he sheweth that the Lord doth â—ll these workes of himselfe according to his owne will and pleasure and none of them all by comâ—ulsion unwittingly and unwillingly but even as hee pleased and after the counsell of his will and pleasure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whatsoever the Lord pleased Fifthly he intimates that all these workes of God come necessarily infallibly inevitably and irresistably to passe and that none of them all can faile which God hath beene pleased to doe but so come to passe as he pleaseth in every respect even in the same time and place This hee intimates in that he saith every thing whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done Sixtly he sheweth that these outward workes tend to make God knowne and are of use to bring us to the knowledge of the true God and in and by them God is knowne aright and his greatnesse also This is manifest by the dependance of this ver. on the former For having said I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods he brings in this text as an argument and proofe saying whatsoever the Lord pleased that he hath done which is in effâ—â—t all one as if he had said I know this by his doing of all his outward works for whatsoever the Lord pleased that he hath done Seventhly and lastly he shewes the severall kinds of Gods outward workes that they are not only creation but also actuall providence which concludes in it the government of the world the fall of man and the restauration of man-kind by the redemption of the world Workes of creation he expresseth vers. 7. and workes of his actuall providence as ordering governing and saving of his people by Christ which was signified in the deliverance from Egypt he reckons up in the rest of the Psalme both before and after my text So then it is manifest that this text considered with the circumstances thereof serves abundantly for the opening of the nature use and kind of Gods outward works In the unfolding whereof First let us note the order coherence and scope of it Secondly let us take a view of the wordes and sift out the true sence of them Thirdly let us observe out of them by way of doctrine a perfect description of Gods outward workes in generall and lastly apply for some use the doctrine to our sâ—lves The order and coherence is this First the Prophet in the 3. first verses exhorts all to praise the

all the Persons as Psal. 33.6 By the word of the Lord that is the Sonne were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the Spirit of his mouth To which adde Job 33.4 The Spirit of God made me John 1.2 10. Colos. 1.16 where it is said that by the eternall word the Sonne all things were made both in Heaven and Earth visible and invisible and without him was made nothing of all that was made So likewise in that outward worke of Judgement executed on Sodome and Gomorrah Gen. 19.24 Jehovah is said to raine downe from Jehovah out of Heaven fire and brimstone that is Jehovah the Son from Jehovah the Father who are both one and the same God Jehovah yea that these externall workes of God are not divided some to one Person and some to another in the Trinity but are common to all the Persons and proceed from that one common essence according to that saying of the School-men opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa Our Saviour sheweth most plainly Ioh. 5.19 22. where he saith that as the Sonne cannot worke of himselfe alone without the Father but he must have and see the Father working with him so the Father doth not judge any that is by his owne proper act of judgement but hath committed all judgement to the Sonne that he may have a hand in all judgements together with himselfe and Iohn 16.13 14. speaking of that speciall illumination of mens hearts and inward teaching which seemes most proper to the Spirit he saith it is not of himselfe alone but it is what he hath heard and received from the Father and the Sonne And therefore the second Branch is manifest that the doer of the outward workes of God is Jehovah our God and all the three Persons in God The third Branch comprehends in it the outward moving cause of all these outward workes namely Gods owne will and pleasure for he is said to do them according to his eternall purpose and after the counsell of his owne will This is expressed in the description and in the words of the Text {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Whatsoever the Lord pleased that is whatsoever is according to the Lords will and pleasure that he hath done and this is testified in other Scriptures as Psal. 115.3 where it is said that the Lord doth whatsoever pleaseth him and Isa. 46.10 where the Lord saith I will do all my pleasure and Ionah 1.14 All which places shew that first the Lord hath a mind and pleasure to doe such things and therupon he doth them Also Ephes. 1.11 It is said he doth worke all things after the counsell of his will And Acts 2.23 4.28 the worke of our Redemption by Christ and all that he did and suffered is said to be done by the determinate counsell of God Therfore this Branch is manifest namely That Gods will and pleasure is the only inward mooving cause of all his outward works and that they are nothing but the execution of his eternall will and decree The fourth Branch by which these outward works are specially distinguished from his inward operation comprehends in it the subject wherein these workes do subsist and the circumstance of time and place wherein they are done For these workes are not done within God himselfe neither doe they subsist in his Essence as his inward operations do but they are Extra Dei essentiam without Gods essence they are done in all the world and upon the creatures some in Heaven and some in Earth others in the Sea and all deepe places as my Text saith and they have their circumstances of time and place as God hath appointed from all eternity The Creation was in the first beginning of time in the first six dayes of the world Gen. 1. The Redemption wrought by Christ in the midst of yeares betweene the Law and the Gospell Hab. 3.2 and upon the mountaine where Hierusalem stood Isa. 25.6 7. The great execution shall be at the end of the world in the last day of Judgement and the works of Gods governement and actuall providence as they are divers so they are done at divers times and in divers places of the world as experience teacheth on the very day which the Lord appointed did the flood come upon the old world Gen. 7.11 In the same day which God had fore-told was Israel delivered out of Aegypt Exod. 21.41 And howsoever the words of the Apostle Act. 17.18 intimate that in God and not without him We live moove and have our being yet we are not thus to understand that these things are and that we subsist in Gods Essence and that we are so in God as his inward operations and eternall decrees are But that we all are compassed about with Gods presence and essentiall power which are every where and by him as by the chiefe efficient cause and authour of life motion and being are sustained and upheld in life being and motion continually For to be in God that is to subsist in his essence doth necessarily imply coeternity and consubstantiality with God Quicquid est in Deo Deus est nothing can be within his Essence but it must be coeternall with God and of the same Substance with him Hee who denies this must needes deny God to be immutable and most simple free from all composition Therfore this Branch also is most manifest and doth containe in it nothing but solid Truth The fifth Branch containes in it the manner of Gods outward works to wit that in respect of God himselfe they are done with such power as cannot be resisted and in respect of the event they are certaine infallible and cannot faile This is truely collected from the Text For it is said that all Whatsoever the Lord pleaseth hee doth or hath done which shewes that not one jot of his will and pleasure failes but comes to passe If his will or pleasure could be resisted or any thing prevented which he willeth to worke surely the Divell who is so cunning watchfull and malitious would in some things have defeated God or this either by himselfe or some of his instruments But this Text affirmes the contrary that whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done in all the world Therfore in râ—sâ—ect of â—od they are all unresistable and in respect of the event infallible And this David testifieth Psal. 1â—5 3 saying The Lord doth whatsoever pleaseth him And Isa. 46.10 my counsell shall stand and I will performe all my pleasure yea because these are voluntary workes of God and are willed and decreed in his secret counsell from all eternity as I have noted before therefore they must needs be unresistable for Who can resist his will Rom. 9.19 The sixth Branch containes the principall use and effects of Gods outward workes namely the making of himselfe knowne in his nature and essentiall attributes and so communicating himselfe to his elect That Gods externall workes doe all serve for

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