Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	jacob_n	ladder_n	1,902	5	11.5153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55565	Quadriga salutis, or, The four general heads of Christian religion surveyed and explained ... with some few annotations annexed at the latter end.	Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1657 (1657)	Wing P3073; ESTC R13515	58,465	158

ingenuously confess that it would be more for the edification of the Church if public prayers were performed in a language that is common both to Priest and People Pope John the 8th of that name could not elude or resist the force of this Text or the reasonableness of the practice of the Moravians who did celebrate divine service in the Sclavonian tongue which was the vulgar or mother-tongue of that Nation For in an Epistle written by the said Pope in the yea● 808 to Stentor Prince of Moravia touching this point he doth cite this parcel of Pauls Epistle and saith that he that made the Hebrew and the Latine tongues did make other tongues also for the glorifying of his name withall When this business of having the public service in the vulgar-tongues was hotly controverted in the Church there was a voice in the air heard to say Let every spirit praise the Lord and every tongue confess his name as Z●inger reports cited by Dr. Iames Manud art 6. Si populus intelligat orationem sacerdotis meliùs reducitur in deum devotiùs respondet Amen APHOR. 7. It is not warrantable to lay aside the Lords Prayer IF it be a prayer and there is a command extant for the using of it there cannot be any just pretensions for discarding it out of our Liturgies In the Posie of godly prayers this was ever held the most fragrant flower it is sal omnium divinorum officiorum the salt of the spiritual sacrifice for as every sacrifice under the Law was seasoned with salt so all devotion wch is a Gospel●Sacrifice should be seasoned with this prayer {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} left it prove insipid or unsavoury Let none suppose that it was intended onely for Christians of the lower form for St. Austin assures us that it was made not onely for the Lambs but even for the Rams of the flock arietibus gregis i. Apostolis suis dominus dedit and elswhere he adds it to be a form necessary for every particular believer Iustin Martyr saith that the Apostles themselves did use this prayer at the celebrating of the Eucharist which was very frequently in those daies and we may presume that he delivered but his knowledge herein for he living so neer the Apostles might very well understand their practice in this or any other affair If it hath been too often used heretofore as some urge sure I am it is now used too seldom which is the worser fault of the two as of two extremes one may be far worser than the other And it may be well supposed that they have too mean a conceit of this prayer and too high an esteem of their compositions that will not vouchsafe it a room among them One of the reasons given for abolishing the Common-prayer-Book was because it gave offence to divers godly Christians sure I am that the omitting of this prayer or casheering of it for company with our other prayers of the Church gives greatet offence to persons really godly who are as much grieved in spirit at this affront as at any other put upon the Christian Religion in these frantick Corybantiasms that have of late years possessed this Nation The omitting of this Prayer and Creed and Commandments in the public Assemblies have made some men believe that they were but some Grotesques and superfluities in our Religion some parentheses as it were or things indifferent that might be used or omitted at pleasure so that the people have often since mused what Religion hath been taught them these 1600 in this land when the very corner-stones of it are now taken away and the foundations are digged up Where zeal not guided with discretion is in the Commission of Reformation it knows not where to stop or stay but is alwaies pulling down but knows not how to build up or erect any thing like an Apollyon being onely skilfull to destroy to unravel and root up all Et convellere tota Fundamenta quibus nixatur vita salusque Lucret l. 4. OF THE SACRAMENTS APHOR. 1. Sacraments why ordain'd HE that made man and knew best how to instruct and teach him in the great interest of his salvation thought fit to inclose apples of gold in pictures of silver heavenly mysteries in earthly representations and objects because it is natural to man to a●cend to super-natural verities by natural help● and to ●cale heaven by a ladder whose rounds are made as it were of gross materials and whose bottom like that of Iacob stands upon the earth though the top reacheth to heaven Geom●ters do use certain Schems and Diagrams drawn in the sands or on paper to assist the weak capacities of their Scholars to understand some Conclusions or problems of their Art So God vouchsafes to instruct his Scholars not onely by words but also by signs and symbols to speak not onely to the ear but also to the eye the preaching of the word was not thought * sufficient to inform mens dull capacities and to stir up their other faculties to their proper duties but Sacraments are also added which are a kinde of a visible word Both have the same use the one to teach the minde by the sense of seeing as the other by the sense of hearing And to this purpose the Sacrament is more effectual than the word having a greater energy * and force upon the mind because the eye is a better instructer than the ear * Segniùs irritant animos demissa per aures Quam quae sunt oculis sub●ecta fidelibus Horat de arte Poet APHOR. 2. Their efficacy from the Author alone THere is no such vertue inherent in the Sacramental symbols to work good upon the soul as there is in herbs or mineral waters to work good upon the body the very applying of the Sacraments as an active to a passive or the opus operatum a● the Romish writers express it the very action or deed done doth not do the deed as is pretended God doth not tye his grace to the Means nor to the Ministrators whose worthiness doth not contribute to nor unworthiness derogate from the Sacraments but the work depends wholly upon the good pleasure of the Ordainer and Institutor of them who doth preside in this grand Agend of the Church and who doth exhibit grace therein to all but it is not effectual and beneficial to any but to the worthy Receiver qualified by previous dispositions and expedients We do not depreciate the Sacraments or make them lower or lesser than what indeed they were intended to be by asserting the efficacy and vertue derived from them to him that ordained them We do not over-value nor under-value them we know who have offended in these extremes We do not make them empty Pageants and bare shadows or dumb shews the Church of England declares otherwise in few words Sacraments are not