Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47040	The future state, or, A discourse attempting some display of the souls happiness, in regard to that eternally progressive knowledge, or eternal increase of knowledge, and the consequences of it, which is amongst the blessed in heaven by a country gentleman, a worshipper of God in the way of the Church of England.	Whitaker, Edward.; Jones, George, d. 1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing J941B; ESTC R13197	63,632	160

can have any Knowledge of them without great Extension of Presence is beyond all Imagination or possibility of Conception 14. Great is the Mystery of Godliness and certainly even the Man Christ Jesus is a far more Glorious Person than the most of Christians yea or of Christian Divines do conceive or apprehend He is called the Sun of Righteousness and compared to Light snd doth Enlighten all the Intellectual World He is the Express Image of his Father's Person That is perhaps the most Lively Character and Expression of the Deity that is among Created Beings He is Sat down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High That is He is next the Pure Godhead the most Illustrious Essence in the World His Power Wisdom Goodness Presence and other Attributes are far Superiour to those of any other Creatures and they approach so near those of God himself as to be an Apt and Fair Resemblance of them 15. Let no Man misunderstand me in what I have said concerning the Humane Nature of Christ Jesus I do not assert the Vbiquity of it nor do I deny his Divine or the Vnion thereof to the Humane I Extend the Presence of his Humane Nature no farther than the Nature of his Mediatory Office doth require it He is the Great Prophet Priest and King of Humane Race And as far as the Exercise of these several Offices do require his Presence so far I Extend it and no farther Though I will not determine that these are the Bounds or Limits of it And touching the Doctrine of the Trinity and the Vmon of the Eternal Word with the Humane Nature I esteem it the Great Essential as well as the Great Mystery of the Christian Religion and do very heartily believe it 16. If any Man shall doubt the Truth of what I have said concerning the Presence of Christ's Humane Nature because he is not able to comprehend or imagine the Manner of it I answer The Existence of Multitudes of things is Certain though the manner thereof may be Incomprehensible The Existence of the Humane Soul in the Body is Certain and that it gives Life and Motion to it but how 't is Vnited and by what Ties and Ligaments 't is fastened there and how it gives Life and Motion to it no Man can tell That Children are Formed in their Mother's Wombs and that Birds and Fouls are Formed of Eggs is Vndenyable but how these things are done no Man is able to inform us 17. Besides we are ignorant of the Nature of Humane Minds and what Improvements they are capable of being advanced unto aster they are freed from their Gross and Heavy Bodies And we know as little of the Nature of those Spiritual Bodies where-withal we shall be invested at the Resurrection and which Christ Jesus is already cloathed withal in the Heavens Peradventure the Soul of our Saviour may be so far advanced and perfected as to be able to actuate a Spiritual Body of very vast Dimensions And this Body may penetrate all Gross and Material Bodies even as Light doth the Purest Christal So that to deny the Presence of Christ's Humane Nature because we cannot comprehend the manner of it especially since we know so little of the Capacity of a Humane Mind and such was that of Christ Jesus or of the Nature of that Spiritual and Glorious Body which is the Tabernacle and Habitation of it is I think Unreasonable 18. But after all that I have said on this Subject I shall add thus much I do not confidently affirm it I only propose it to the Consideration of Free and Vnprejudiced Minds and leave them fully the Liberty to Embrace or Reject it as they see ca●se Only I would desire them well to consider how many and great things the Scripture speaks of the Man Christ Jesus In Him Dwells al● the Fulness of the Godbead He is filled with the Holy Spirit that he may be a Head of Vital Influence to all his Members He is the Universal Law-giver and Light of all Men and will be the Universal Judge of all the World Which doth imply great Largeness of Knowledge Wisdom and Power and by consequence a very Extensive Presence 19. But what means all this long Discourse Why this If Extension of Presence be Reconcileable and Consistent with the Humane Nature of our Saviour in his Glorified Estate it may be Reconcileable with it in the Blessed If he be a True Man notwithstanding his Presence is Extended to very vast Distances The Blessed may be so though their Presence be Extended in some Good Degree and Measure And if the Humane Nature in the Holy Jesus be capable of these Extensions and this Amplitude the same Nature is capable of it in the Blessed in their Degree and Proportion 20. And this Extension of Presence will very much increase their Intuitive Knowledge they will be able to see and observe at one View much of the Works of God and many of the Productions of his Infinite Power Wisdom and Goodness By it they will be able to observe the Connexion and Dependance of things on each other and consequently the Beauty and Harmony of them which will very much Affect Delight them He that beholds one Piece or Part of a Curious Picture or Statue is not Moved or Delighted by it but he that beholds it altogether and observes the Relation and Symmetry of its Parts to and with each other is even transported with the Admiration of it He that Views only one Part of a Landskip finds peradventure but little Pleasure in the Prospect of it but he that Sees it altogether and in its whole Extent and Dimensions finds a Marvellous Complaisance therein 21. Though this Extension of Presence in the Future State should be doubted and consequently the Increase of Intuitive Knowledge thereby yet it may be very much increased by Facility of Motion from Place to Place which almost all Divines and Christians do acknowledge a Power of Property Inherent in the Blessed All confess a Power of removing themselves from one determinate Spot of the Vniverse to another with Incredible Swiftness For amongst other Properties of the Glorious Bodies where-with they will be invested at the Resurrection they reckon Quickness and Agility for Motion and Action And surely Spiritual Bodies are in their own Nature more Agile and Fit for Motion than these Gross and Earthly Bodies that we now bear about with us 22. The Blessed being thus Agile and Fit for Motion they may as easily pass from World to World or from One part of the Vniverse to Another as we do from Village to Village in the Country or from Street to Street in a vast and populous City Some Philosophers have imagined the Sun Moon and Stars with other Planetary Bodies to be so many Habitable Worlds and the Learned Hevelius hath lately given us a Map of the Moon in which he hath described and distinguished the several Seas and Countreys in it 23. And if