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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,214	5	9.7060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86450	The valley of vision, or A clear sight of sundry sacred truths. Delivered in twenty-one sermons; by that learned and reverend divine, Richard Holsvvorth, Dr. in Divinity, sometimes Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, Master of Emanuel Colledge, and late preacher at Peters Poore in London. The particular titles and texts are set downe in the next leafe.	Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649.; Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649. Peoples happinesse.	1651 (1651)	Wing H2404; Thomason E631_1; ESTC R202438	355,440	597

that would take up almost the whole houre for a man to name the Authors that bring out variety of interpretations Therefore I will not trouble you with that I will not so much as gather them up together it will be but an unusefull point least I seeme to handle Commentaries and not the Text. I will onely touch at them in the last part as they come in my way and as they are usefull for the understanding of this Scripture Now we look to the second thing these good things there is no difficulty in the rest The desire here is an ardent desire the inspection is an accurate inspection to penetrate with a mans eyes so to looke as to look through to make a good inspection The Angells that are here spoken of I shewed to you and made it plaine that they are the good Angells there is no difficulty in any of these three words Well the onely difficulty is in this word Into which The word is Plurall yet all the Latine not onely Coppies and Translations of the Bible all but some that are later and there is no Writing of all the Latine Fathers excepting one or two that is Ireneus it is still read In quem in the Singular number Vpon whom So the Rhemists Translation reads it following the vulgar Latine they read On whome the Angells desire to looke We read Into which the Angells desire to looke Thereupon Gregory applies this Scripture to God himselfe that the object of the Angells inspection it is God understanding the three persons of the Sacred Trinity De deo c. sayth Gregory these things are uttered concerning God that it is upon him that the Angells desire to look Others apply it not to the three persons in the sacred Trinity but to the Holy Ghost in particular that there is so great glory such c●equall and coessentiall glory of the Holy Ghost with the Father and the Son that the Angells desire to blesse their spirituall eyes with the continuall looking on it And indeed there is some probability for this reading for the Holy Ghost for the comming of the Holy Ghost is the immediate antecedent before the Text the Holy Ghost came downe from Heaven and then followes according to their reading Vpon whome the Angells desire to look Venerable Bede applies it by a way himselfe in particular he applies it in the Singular number but to the second person in Trinity Christ and Christ considered especially in his humane nature and the reason is somewhat probable because in the Verse before there is twice mention of Christ the Spirit of Christ and the Sufferings of Christ and then followes according to his reading Vpon whome the Angells desire to looke And if I should follow now this reading and take it in the Singular number and doe that injury and wrong to the Greeke Copy it would afford one or two very good points of instruction and the reading is not at all dissonant to the Articles of faith For certainly the Angells desire to look upon God and to behold the humane nature of Christ and to look upon the three persons in the sacred Trinity And if we should applie it to Christ it would afford a good point of Instruction whether we apply it to his humane nature or his divine If to his humane nature so the point is this that Christs humane nature at the right hand of God is made so glorious that the very Angells themselves as venerable Bede sayth not onely desire to fill their eyes with the glorious beams of his Divine nature but with that far transcendent excellency of glory wherewith his humane nature is cloathed They desire to see the glory of his humane nature It must needs argue a great deale of glory as much as it is capable of that is laid upon the humane nature of Christ more then on the Angelicall nature though it be not a Spirit that though in it selfe a body is not capable of so much glory as a Spirit yet the humane nature of Christ by reason of the hypostaticall union is capable of more glory then the Angells are And it must needs be a greater glory because the Angells desire to looke into it It is a point of great comfort to us to consider that our nature hath received already so much glory in Christ our head We know that our nature is capable of beatificall glory in the Members since it hath received already in such abundance in Christ our head it shall receive in an unspeakable manner there shall be a great deale of beatificall glory upon the Saints our nature in Christ is capable of glory already That is the first point if we apply it to the humane nature of Christ Againe if we apply it to the Divinity of Christ that the Angells look on Christ as God it affords us a point of Instruction that is this There is one essentiall beatitude of Angells and Saints in Heaven of men and Angells There is no essentiall difference in the beatitude of Saints and Angells Christ sayth in the Gospell we shall be like the Angells and be as they are What is the essentiall beatitude of Angells To look upon the Son of God Christ is as Basile speaks the delight of Angells And what is the beatitude of Saints To look upon the Son of God We know when we shall appeare we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is There is our happinesse in looking to Christ What is the beatitude essentiall of Angells Christ tells us Mat. 18. There Angells behold the face of your heavenly Father The face of God the beatificall Vision is their beatitude And what is the essentiall beatitude of the Saints Christ tells us Mat. 5.6 Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Then here is no difference at all in the essentiall beatitude of the one and of the other Therefore the Scripture as in one place it calls Angells our fellow Servants Rev. 19. See thou doe it not for I am thy fellow Servant Angells are fellow Servants with Apostles and fellow Ministers and Ministers are fellow-Angells for so Ministers are called As they are called our fellow Servants so the Saints are their fellow Angells Heirs of the same Salvation Heb. 12. We are come to the first borne that are written in Heaven and to an innumerable company of Angells to enjoy the society of Angells we are fellow Heirs of the same Salvation there is the same-Heaven for both the same happinesse for both the same glory for both the same inheritance for both therefore the same happinesse because the same inheritance There is sayth St. Austin well one and the same inheritance of glory for them and us that is the Heavenly immortall inheritance sayth he sweetly Heaven is the inheritance of both which is as great to every one as to all and as great and full of Roome for many as to few Every one hath all Heaven that is all blisse all