Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	divine_a	subsist_v	subsistence_n	3,560	5	13.2403	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47528	God acknowledged, or, The true interest of the nation and all that fear God opened in a sermon preached December the 11th, 1695 : being the day appointed by the king for publick prayer and humiliation / by Benjamin Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1696 (1696)	Wing K67; ESTC R18483	36,478	50

Quality from him or from his Being as the Wisdom of Man is many as one notes are Men but not Wise Men. 6. To Acknowledge God Is to acknowledge his Justice and Holiness Judgment and Justice are the Habitation of his Throne Psal. 97.2 He can do no Man any wrong because he is Justice and Righteousness it self whatsoever God brings upon a Nation or People or particular Person 't is Right or in Righteousness Righteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee Jer. 12. 1. Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do Right Gen. 18. 25. We may judge of his Justice and Righteousness by considering of the nature of his Law that is Just Holy and Good what is the Law of God but a written Impression of his Holy Nature also the Justice and Righteousness of God is seen in his punishing the Wicked for their Sin but more especially in punishing his own Son when he came to stand in our stead and Law-place as our Sponsor and blessed Surety he spared not his own Son as an act of Justice when he undertakes to pay our Debts or satisfie Divine Justice for our Offences God will render unto every man according to the fruit of their doings he will not lay upon man more than is right Job 34. 23. He hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve Ezra 9. 13. 7. To Acknowledge God Is to acknowledge his Goodness Mercy and Faithfulness his Mercy endureth for ever There is none good but God that is essentially good perfectly good and so there is none Righteous but he he is a God ready to forgive plenteous in Mercy and Goodness who is a God like unto thee pardoning Iniquity Transgression and Sin Mich. 7. There is in God not only pardoning Goodness but protecting preserving redeeming strengthning and comforting Goodness God is infinitely and immutably Good 8. To Acknowledge God Is to own and acknowledge him to be man's chief good and that our only Happiness lies in him not in the Creature but in the Creator not in having great Portions of worldly Goods but in having a special Interest and Portion in God Many say who will shew us any good Psal. 4. 6. What was that good why Corn Oyl and Wine but what saith David Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon us thou hast put more joy into my heart than the time when their corn and wine encreaseth verse 7. 8. Earthly things may be called our goods but not our good they that never tasted how good God is never knew true good That cannot be Man's chief good that cannot answer the necessities of his better part namely his Soul God is a Soul Good a Soul satisfying Good a Soul Inriching Good the Heathens laboured to find out what was the chief Good and finding nothing in this world could satisfie the Soul neither Riches Honours Pleasures nor Knowledge concluded there was some Superiour Being or an Infinite God that must be Man's chiefest Good that cannot be our chief Good that cannot fill our Desires nor make us truly and everlastingly Happy Men may in the fulness of all their Sufficiency be in straits and be miserable who are possessed of never so great Riches Honours and earthly Pleasures that which Sickness and Death may rob us of cannot be our chiefest Good Sirs We never rightly acknowledge God until we know by our own Experience and acknowledge him to be our chiefest and only Happiness 9. To Acknowledge God Is to fear and reverence his dreadful Name and serve him as our God and only Soveraign of our Souls If I be a master where is my fear faith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 1. 6. The whole of Man's Duty is expressed sometimes by fearing of God said Joseph Do thus and live for I fear God He acknowledgeth God this way and himself to be his Servant I fear God I cannot dare not Sin how shall I do this great wickedness and sin against God They that fear not God are Men of no Religion The fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom Pray remember to Acknowledge God is to fear him and dread to offend or displease him 10. To acknowledge God Is to trust in him at all times to make him our Hope and Help to depend upon him for Counsel and Direction in all we go about and submit our Wills to his Will and patiently to take and endure whatsoever he lays upon us To Trust in God Is to have Confidence in God 't is to lean upon God upon his Wisdom upon his Conduct on his Strength Faithfulness and gracious Promises and not to depend upon our own Wisdom see the verse before my Text Trust in the Lord and lean not to thy own Understanding acknowledge him that is Trust in him To Trust in God is also to expect and hope from God and to wait for Counsel indeed it is the Character of a godly Man to trust in God as well as it is his Wisdom and Safety We can as one observes never trust Man too little nor in God too much Curssed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm Jer. 17. 5. but blessed is the Man that Trusteth in the Lord and whose Strength the Lord is 11. To Acknowledge God Is to acknowledge Jesus Christ to be God not God by Office but God by Nature the only wise God the Eternal God Co-equal with the Father Phil. 2. 6. Who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God though a distinct Subsistence or Person from the Father yet one in Essence subsisting in the form of God imports not Christ's Appearance in exerting of God's Power but his actual Existence in the Divine Nature To the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty dominion and power Jude 25. We are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternal life Joh. 5. 20. This it is to acknowledge God viz. To own Christ to be God ye believe in God believe also in me i. e. Ye acknowledge the Father is God acknowledge the Son also to be the same God it would be Idolatry to give Divine Adoration to Christ if he was not the true Eternal God Moreover it would justifie the Blasphemy of the Jews who charged him to be a Deceiver and a Blasphemer who because he was as they thought no more than a meer Man made himself equal with God not to acknowledge Christ to be God is not truly and fully to acknowledge God because Christ is God we ought not only to acknowledge the Being of God but also his manner of Being or the three Persons in the God-head 12. To Acknowledge God Is to acknowledge all the good things we receive to come from him whether Temporal or Spiritual even Life and all the comforts of Life Wisdom Knowledge Riches Honours Friends Peace Health Relations Prosperity And also 't is to acknowledge all