Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
heaven_n father_n person_n trinity_n 1,855 5 9.8106 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

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

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

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 r●s●ect of ●od they are all unresistable and in respect of the event infallible And this David testifieth Psal. 1●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