Selected quad for the lemma: reason_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	believe_v	faith_n	revelation_n	2,830	5	9.5573	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59937	Oukoumenē melloōsa, the world to come, Heb. 2, 5, or, The doctrine of the Kingdom of God and his Christ to come on earth ... tendred in the mean-time out of faith in his own soul and love towards all men ... / by W.S. ...	Sherwin, William, 1607-1687?	1671 (1671)	Wing S3407; ESTC R30641	36,208	42

news thereof from God and accordingly improve it as follows 1. For vers 18. In the first place David retires himself into the alone presence of his most gracious God and in a most humble manaer acknowledgeth before him his wonderful mercy and goodness to himself and his House both past and present Who am I saith he O Lord God! And what is my House that thou hast brought me hitherto 2. In vers 19. He sets it forth for the time to come further observing and explaining the long continuance thereof not to himself alone but to his House upon a most true and certain perpetuity upon the best security in an unparalled manner for his words are weighty saying And yet this was a small thing in thy sight O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy Servants House for a great while to come viz. whise time shall continue which he revolves again with a holy admiration And is this the manner of Man OLORD GOD 3. In vers 20. he declares that he was at a loss for verbal expressions of due thankfulness for his mercies but tenders his inlarged heart to Gods view saying And what can David say more unto thee For thou Lord God knowest thy Servant 4. In vers 21. he illustrates in his wayof gratitude the truth of Gods promise the reeness of his mercy to him with the greatness thereof in all respects in all those great things which were still illustrated by their present manifestation of them unto him To make saith he thy Servant to know them 5. In vers 22 23 24. he farther illustrates with his own Gods wonderful glorious and rich mercy to his people of Israel first for time past magnifying the greatness of the unparallelled mercy of God to them extolling him above all gods and as the onely true God and that he had proved himself so by his works recorded in his word or related by his people vers 22. Wherefore thou art great O Lord and there is none like thee c. And vers 23. He sets forth the great honour he had procured to his people of Israel by signs and wonders for them c. whom he redeemed out of Egypt that in them he might be glorified above the heathen gods c. And in vers 24. He gratefully rehearseth his now-confirmed mercy to his people of Israel for perpetuity and his Covenant renewed with them to be their God as with Abraham Gen. 17.7 8. so now to them by the Messiah the Son of David much after the ame tenure of words even as this Message is much the same with that recorded in 1 Chron. 17 7 8 9 c. 6. Now as to vers 25. David had made his graceful acknowledgement of so transcendent a mercy to Himself his People and House so now he proceeds further to improve it by frith and prayer vers 25 26. And first joyntly for Himself and his House vers 25. Now O Lord establish thy word for ever concerning thy Servant and concerning his House and do as thou hast said And then vers 26. He adjoyns Gods Covenant with his people of Israel to be their God for ever with his continued prayer for his House as before 〈…〉 ●omited so in Gods presence implored by prayer upon that ground for believing the Promise he poureth out his Prayer 7. In vers 27. He sets down the particular reason of this present exercise of his faith and prayer namely Gods present so grations Revelation of his said wonderful mercy to him For saith he thou O Lord God hast revealed to thy Servant saying I will build thee an House therefore hath thy Servant ●ound in his heart to pray this Prayer unto thee In vers 28 he ruminates upon the former grounds of his faith viz. First that this Promise was from that God that was the great and most glorious God of Israel and secondly from the truth of all his words found experimentally to be true and at present applies both to his part●cular promise then made to himself Thou saith he art that God and thy words be true 9. In the last verse he improveth his special saith in reference to the said s●ecial promise to Him●el● and his House by a twofold Amen or so be it as I may term them twice running again over the same the one seeming to refer as before to Christs said Davidical Kingdom of the thousand years That God would bless his Servants House that it may continue for ever before God and the other to eternity That it might be blessed with his blessing for ever Or else for further inlargement of his prayer That it might not onely continue before him but be blessed also with his Blessing for ever And thus by so grateful acknowledgement manifested by special faith and fervent prayer this humble holy kingly Prophet improved Gods so great and marvellous mercy by the Prophet Nathan revealed to himself for his House and People of Israel for ever Amen VIII Ei●hthly Christian Readers If you shall reckon with me the eight said Ty●es in the Old and New World as the Fifth Foundation o● Faith and this from Ezekiel to be the Eighth the number will be ●●e same an● the strength much greater For as the other two greater Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah foretold Israel's and Judah's Captivi●y as also d●d some of the smaller and by the same Prophets did God also for the ●om●●rt of the faithful Jews foretel their great Rest●uration for Is●●ah is large concerning the New Jerusalem chap. 60. applised by the holy Ghost to the New Jerusalem Rev. 21. And as Jeremiah hath many threatnings of Judgment and Captivity so he hath many Promises of wonderful mercies not onely concerning their Reduction from Bab●l●n but of many more ●ar excelling them particularly That Jerusal●m shall be the Throne of the Lord Chap. 3.17 See our Tract on that Text c So al●o Ezekiel that was set as a sign in in his Person had many signs in his Ministry appointed by God on special occasions yea very much of his Prophecy was symbolical fraught with Divine Hieroglyphicks with sacred Figures and Types not onely as to Judah and Jerusalem's sad Calamities then further and further prevailing c. but more especially Ezekiel from Chap 36 1 2 3 c. to the end of that Book is in many Prophecies Visions Explications large decipherings so full concerning Israel's and Judah's mercies at their last great Restauration that both Daniel and Christ in his Revelation apply improve and explain many things in Ezekiel very remarkably so extraordinary glorious were many of Ezektel's Revelations as in Chap. 1. 10 much to be parallelled with Rev. 4 setting forth a like glorious and gracious manifestation of God unto his Church through Jesus Christ and by h●s holy Spirit set forth by Resemblances of such Appearances like Fire Precious Stones Rain-Bow Wheels Cherubims Living W●ghts and the like and the New Jerusalem in the nine last Chapters of Ezekiel which