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	trinity_n	unity_n	2,602	5	9.3119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66465	Poetical piety, or, Poetry made pious by rendering into its method observations arising from various divine subjects, useful for these prophane and enormous times : to which is added, a brief alphabetical expositor, explaining the most intricate words made use of in this book, to the conception of a mean reader, and may serve as a remembrancer to the imperfect memory / by William Williams ...	Williams, William, of Cardigan.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2785; ESTC R8078	64,141	220

admire thy Nature and thy Name Thy Nature for its Sanctity so bright Thy Name as the Immortal God of Might So Wonderful thou art who can display What is the Lord should he require a day Well may'st thou be most wondrous unto me That didst him puzzle who required Three * Symonides desired three days to consider what God was but could not find out his perfection Symonides his Tongue was ty'd by thee This I foresee and this thou hast foreshown Hereafter Man shall know thee as Man 's known I know thee but in part the which therefore Makes me ambitious for to know thee more The more I know thee more I do admire Yet in admiring more I still desire Till Heaven makes my Knowledge more entire I lose my self in searching after thee Since Comprehensive thou art not to me O manifest thy self unto me more Hereafter then thou hast done heretofore That I may know thee as thou may'st be known Of those that do themselves thy Servants own I would Importune more but fear I should Who am a Worm be with my God too bold In being too familiar some thereby Create Contempt through familiarity Lo then my Muse let 's for a while be mute Admiting God in every Attribute As in his Wisdom Goodness Justice Might Love Mercy Meekness let us take delight And all he makes apparent to our sight In all Transactions still on him depend That neither had Beginning nor has end Whose Knowledge as he is Mans Thoughts transcend It is too high a Theme this God to know Essentially by Mortals here below Whom Angels do admire may men adore That ever liv'd and lives for evermore Know God essentially no Creature can Within this world that is a living man For God he is a Spirit and therefore In truth and Spirit men should him adore To know him as he is man is deny'd The sight 's too glorious till mans gloryfi'd Abraham's Isack's Jacob's God is he One undivided and in Persons Three The Father Son and Holy Ghost each one Of these Three Persons make but God alone The Essence is but one none can divide The Godhead where Three Persons do abide Though this mans Reason cannot comprehend To this belief man must his Faith extend Till death unvails this hidden mistery By mans translation to Eternity Mean while may men beware lest they should make An Idol God and the true God forsake Some things there are ador'd as Gods the same Bear no relation to God save the name Therefore to worship such is sin and shame Though there be Idol Gods the God of might From Heathen Gods I thus declare the right God is my God and God my God shall be No God but God the God of Gods is he Three Persons in one Godhead that agree Of the Consubstantiality of the Trinity of Persons in the Vnity of the Divine Essence These Trinity of Persons be For Nature Co-essential Co-equal each for Dignity For Time they 're Co-eternal The Father's God the Son is God The Holy Ghost likewise Is not a person that is odd But both these equalise To Father Son and Holy Ghost The Godhead appertains Who 's Lord of the Caelestiall Host Eternal that remains SUBJECT II. Of the Incomprehensible Eternity There is no Subject save our God so high To treat upon as is ETERNITY Observation I. WHat head what heart what tongue of mortal man Imagine apprehend or utter can The meainng of this word Eternity In it 's extensive latitude that prie What it imply's not one aright can tell Unless he were in Heaven or in Hell Observation II. Some things there are whereby it is descry'd As though by these it should be signifi'd But few comparisons that can descry It 's boundless bottomless profoundity When these cannot be Fathom'd I declare It is superlative and not t'compare Observation III. Some in their shadows of Eternity Present a wheel the same to signify This signature is endless and therefore Do's represent Eternity the more It 's being endless like a wheel or Ring Pourtrays Eternity some wheeling thing Observation IIII. By wheels and Rings the Antients did of Old Eternity as endless then behold All things Orbicular in their esteem Like to Eternity it self did seem They thought of it when they themselves turn'd round And by their making Circles on the ground Observation V. These Metaphors are helps to signifie The things that be obscure to mortal eye But not the things as in themselves they are What 's signifi'd by signs are not t'compare For Instance when mans Pictures drawn by Art Though 't is mans Picture cannot act mans part Observation VI. No Sphere nor Globe nor round Circumference Can represent the magnitude Immense Of boundless bottomless Eternity For aye continuing in its constancy Without all doubt there is no emblem fit Whereby resemblance may be made to it Observation VII Of all the temporal things mine eyes have view'd I Have not seen its true similitude Some to describe it did proceed thus far That it resembles what 's Orbicular If to their thoughts herein we condescend The Reason is because it has no end Observation VIII Circles and Rings Sphears Globes the Sun and Moon Eternity foreshews like night the noon The night so gloomy that it vails our sight The noon so glorious by Meridian light Thus what 's Eternity not one can tell On this side Heaven nor on this side Hell Observation IX Number the Sands that on the shoar do lie The Grass o' th Fields or Stars i' th Azure skie All creeping flying and all swimming things All Gravel Stones and all the watry springs As these mans apprehension do excell So what 's Eternity no man can tell Observation X. Yet some resemblance thus to it is made As if we meant the Sunshine by the shade Or like a thing hid by some noted mark That 's seen by day but groap'd for in the dark By glimering light somtimes we chance t' espy The duskish shadows of Eternity Observation XI * Eternity considered in Hell is a night of Sorrow And such a night as never knows a morrow This side the grave what mortals Estimation Admits of it's nocturnal Termination Let him conjecture it in Hell remaining For evermore remain without refraining Observation XII * Eternity confidered in Heaven Eternity is such a day of Pleasure As everlasting and immense for measure Such endless joy and such surpassing glory As farr transcends the reach of humane story Of which these Characters may well be given If but considered as it is in Heaven Observation XIII * Eternity considered both in Heaven and in Hell Eternity is sorrow dread and sadness Eternity again is joy and gladness In Hell 't is grief 't is horror and damnation In Heaven glory Honour and Salvation And thus you see by this my breviate story 'T is Hells dishonour and 't is Heaven's glory Observation XIII No mortal man can in his heart or brain The meaning of