Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	altar_n	golden_a	incense_n	2,065	5	12.3070	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38823	The Gospel treasury opened, or, The holiest of all unvailing discovering yet more the riches of grace and glory to the vessels of mercy unto whom onely it is given to know the mysteries of that kingdom and the excellency of spirit, power, truth above letter, forms, shadows / in several sermons preached at Kensington & elswhere by John Everard ; whereunto is added the mystical divinity of Dionysius the Areopagite spoken of Acts 17:34 with collections out of other divine authors translated by Dr. Everard, never before printed in English.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1657 (1657)	Wing E3531; ESTC R29421	513,595	936

God t is onely his well-beloved in us and who also is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared and revealed him Whatever it be that a man sees or comprehends that cannot be God that cannot be truth It can be at most but the Emblem the shadow of truth as in a man we cannot see his life but we may see him live even so truth cannot be seen but you may see the Effects and Fruits of truth But he that marries Achsah To him will I give The Rending of the Vail that is He shall see as much As a creature Can See and live as God said to Moses Achsah She will give you A glimpse A sight through the cleft of the rock as was to Moses The Back-parts of IEHOVAH But Truth cannot be seen In the True glory and splendor thereof onely the back parts of her She will admit you into the Sanctum Sanctorum she will beg of her Father to give you a blessing that seeing he hath given you the south-land as it is here in this Chapter that he will give you Springs of water That you shal not onely have the Nether Springs The Letter of the Word External Ordinances and outward Duties Bodily Worships and the like but you shall have The Upper Springs The life of the Letter the power the quickning Spirit to see not onely Christs body and touch it but you shall have the vertue of The breaking of His Body and the benefit of the sheding of his blood And When the Vail is Rent take but a short view of those priviledges and precious things you shall then have Though I have hinted at them in general as I went along yet let us view a little the particular things contained within the Holie of Holies as time at present will give leave When ye came to the Tabernacle there was first as I told you A worldly sanctuary as the Apostle sets them down Heb. 9. 1. And therein was Ordinances and Divine service for so the Apostle calls it in the first verse And therein was the Candlesticks and the table and the Shew-bread and thither came the Priests and did their office there was sacrifices and offerings for themselves and all the people And All they could learn there was but worldly and external Ordinances bodily worships which concerned not the heart and the inward man But if they offered such and such External things as was required this was all But into the second Vail within the Holie of Holies thither the High Priest must come but once a year for we shall onely at present touch at those particulars mentioned there by the Apostle And first There was the golden Censer which typified Christs offering the prayers of the Saints as it is exprest Rev. 8. there is an Angel which had the Golden Censer and there was given him much Incense that he should offer it with the prayers of the Saints upon the golden Altar which Angel is Jesus Christ the Angel of the Covenant shewing unto us thus much that he is the Mediator between God and man for whose sake all our services are accepted nothing is accepted from us with the Father But what his Son doth in us Be they never such glorious actions and done with never so specious religious pretences yet if they be Our actions they stink they are abominable In him onely he is well pleased They are his actions onely that can be savour● meat to him Although as they be our actions they may seem beautiful and glorious to us yet to him they stink A dead man hath the shape of a man but he stinketh So thy duties though they have the shape of Right and Holy duties to us yet they are to him but dead works Heb. 9. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God who through the eternal spirit offered himself When your services are not from an Internal prin●iple from the work of the Eternal Spirit but are like the Motion of Clocks and Watches which is from Art and External weights not from nature all such services are dead works Within the Vail we come really to see All our works nothing they are abominable yet we think highly of them While we remain in the worldly Sanctuary and are gotten no farther But here within the Vail God speaks to us as he did to Iob and we are convinced of our Vileness Behold saith Iob then I am vile I will lay my hand upon my mouth I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee I abhor my self in dust and ashes Iob had oft made confession of sin before in words and in the notion And practised dayly External worship but yet we may see all along for all tha● what an high Opinion Iob had of himself of his strictness and righteousness Iob sacrificed often and constantly and observed the letter very strictly and thereby Iob maintained a high opinion of himself But now the vail must be rent and God must appear himself to darken and confound all Iobs righteousness before Iob could say I am vile Iob was strict in Externals but Iob could not Really loath and Abhor himself though in words he might as many can easily and frequently do that dayly but to be really VILE in themselves this work is from above from Heaven from God And so we come to see what it is and for what we or our actions are accepted it must be his sons work in us else he loaths all even the best of your Sacrifices if it be not Jesus Christ in us that doth All viz. that loves God and Fears God and obeyes God and believes in God c. his Father regards it not that may seem a Paradox but yet it is a truth for indeed and in truth there is nothing fears God but God nor Nothing obeys God● but God nor Nothing loves God but God He a●cepts his own work in us and nothing else God cannot accept any thing any creature doth out of himself but what himself doth what his Son doth that pleases him that he canno● but accept This is that Achsah that so pleases her Father that he can deny her nothing This is the first thing we shall have after the Vail is rent and none can attain this Really and in good earnest But He to whom the vail is Rent The next thing there Exprest is The Ark overlaid with Gold the Ark of the Covenant overlaid with gold overlaid round about with pure gold Having married Achsah we shall also have power to break open this Mystery Christ is He in whom all the promises are Yea and Amen they are all fulfilled in him As all our actions must be derived from him as from the fountain that is if they be not quickned and animated with the power purity holiness excellency of Jesus Christ that they are of himself and of his own