Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	word_n	world_n	yield_v	281	3	6.7527	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02525	Contemplations vpon the principall passages of the holy storie. The first volume, in foure bookes by J.H. ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1612 (1612)	STC 12650; ESTC S122621	82,503	377

King of glory If the lowest pauement of that heauen of thine bee so glorious what shall we thinke of the better parts yet vnseene And if this Sunne of thine bee of such brightnesse and maiesty oh what is the glory of the maker of it And yet if some other of thy starres were let downe as low as it those other starres would bee Sunnes to vs which now thou hadst rather to haue admired in their distance And if such a skie be prepared for the vse and benefit euen of thine enemies also vpon earth how happie shall those eternall Tabernacles bee which thou hast sequestred for thine owne Behold then in this high and stately building of thine I see three stages This lowest heauen for fowles for vapours for meteors The second for the starres The third for thine Angels and Saints The first is thine outward Court open for all The second is the body of thy couered Temple wherin are those candles of heauen perpetually burning The third is thine Holy of Holies In the first is tumult and vanity In the second immutability rest In the third glory and blessednes The first we feele the second we see the third we beleeue In these two lower is no felicity for neither the fowles nor starres are happy It is the third heauen alone where thou O blessed Trinity enioyest thy selfe and thy glorified spirits inioy thee It is the manifestation of thy glorious presence that makes heauen to be it selfe This is the priuiledge of thy children that they he reseeing thee which art inuisible by the eye of faith haue already begun that heauen which the perfect sight of thee shall make perfect aboue Let my soule then let these heauens alone till it may see as it is seeene That wee may descend to this lowest and meanest region of heauen wherwith our senses are more acquainted What maruels doe euen heere meete with vs There are thy clouds the bottles of raine vessels as thin as the liquor which is contained in them there they hange and mooue though mighty with their burden How they are vpheld and why they fall heere and now wee know not and wonder these thou makest one while as some aery seas to hold water an other while as some aery fornaces whence thou scatterest thy sudden fires vnto all parts of the earth astonishing the world with the fearefull noyse of that eruption out of the midst of water thou fetchest fire and hard stones out of the midst of thinne vapours another while as some steele glasses wherein the Sunne lookes and shewes his face in the variety of those colours which he hath not There are thy streames of light blazing and falling stars fires darted vp and downe in many formes hollow openings and as it were gulfes in the skie bright circles about the moone and other planets snowes haile In all which it is enough to admire thine hand though wee cannot search out thine action There are thy subtle windes which wee heare and feele yet neither can see their substance nor know their causes whence and whither they passe and what they are thou knowest There are thy fowles of all shapes colours notes natures whiles I compare these with the inhabitants of that other heauen I find those starres and spirits like one another These meteors and fowles in as many varieties as there are seuerall creatures Why is this Is it because man for whose sake these are made delights in change thou in constancie Or is it that in these thou maiest shew thine owne skill and their imperfection There is no varietie in that which is perfect because there is but one perfection and so much shall wee grow neerer to perfectnesse by how much wee draw neerer to vnitie and vniformitie From thence if wee goe downe to the great deepe the wombe of moisture the well of fountaines the great pond of the world wee know not whether to wonder at the Element it selfe or the guests which it containes How doth that sea of thine roare and fome and swell as if it would swallow vp the earth Thou stayest the rage of it by an incensible violence and by a naturall miracle confinest his waues why it mooues and why it staies it is ●o vs equally wonderfull what liuing mountaines such are thy Whales rowle vp and downe in those fearefull billows for greatnesse of number hugenesse of quantity strangenesse of shapes variety of fashions neither ayre nor earth can compare with the waters I say nothing of thy hid treasures which thy wisedome hath reposed in the bowels of the earth and sea How secretly and how basely are they laide vp secretly that wee might not seeke them basely that we might not ouer esteeme them I neede not dig so low as these mettals mineries quarres which yeeld riches enough of obseruation to the soule How many millions of wonders doth the very face of the earth offer mee which of these herbes floures trees leaues seeds fruits is there What beast what worme wherein wee may not see the footsteps of a Deitie wherein wee may not read infinitenesse of power of skill and must be forced to confesse that hee which made the Angels and starres of heauen made also the vermin on earth O God the hart of man is too strait to admire enough euen that which he treads vpon What shall we say to thee the maker of all these O Lord how wonderfull are thy works in all the world in wisedome hast thou made them all And in all these thou spakest and they were done Thy wil is thy word thy word is thy deed Our tongue and hand and hart are different all are one in thee which art simply one infinite Here needed no helps no instruments what could be present with the eternal what needed or what could bee added to the infinite Thine hand is not shortned thy word is still equally effectuall say thou the word and my soule shall be made new againe say thou the word my body shall be repayred from his dust For all things obey thee O Lord why doe I not yeeld to the word of thy counsell since I must yeeld as all thy creatures to the word of thy command Man BVt O God what a little Lord hast thou made ouer this great world The least corne of sand is not so small to the whole earth as man is to the heauen when I see the heauens the sun moone and stars O God what is man Who would thinke thou shouldst make all these creatures for one and that one well-neere the least of all Yet none but hee can see what thou hast done none but hee can admire and adore thee in what he seeth how had hee need to doe nothing but this since hee alone must doe it Certainly the price and vertue of things consists not in the quantity one diamond is more woorth then manie quarries of stone one loadstone hath more vertue then mountaines of earth It is lawfull for vs to