Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	beget_v	father_n	son_n	11,645	5	6.8465	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25742	Order and disorder, or, The world made and undone being meditations upon the creation and the fall : as it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis.	Apsley, Allen, Sir, 1616-1683.	1679 (1679)	Wing A3594; ESTC R31266	45,515	85

In guiding mens unto his own designs In these outgoings would I sing his praise But my weak sense with the too glorious rays Is struck with such confusion that I find Only the worlds first Chaos in my mind Where Light and Beauty lie wrapt up in seed And cannot be from the dark prison freed Except that Power by whom the world was made My soul in her imperfect strugglings aid Her rude conceptions into forms dispose And words impart which may those forms disclose O thou eternal spring of glory whence All other streams derive their excellence From whose Love issues every good desire Quicken my dull earth with celestial fire And let the sacred theam that is my choice Give utterance and musick to my voice Singing the works by which thou art reveal'd What dark Eternity hath kept conceal'd From mortals apprehensions what hath been Before the race of Time did first begin It were presumptuous folly to enquire Let not my thoughts beyond their bound aspire Time limits mortals and Time had its birth In whose Beginning God made Heaven and Earth God the great Elohim to say no more Whose sacred Name we rather must adore Than venture to explain for He alone Dwells in himself and to himself is known And so even that by which we have our sight His covering is He clothes himself with light Easier we may the winds in prison shut The whole vast Ocean in a nut-shell put The Mountains in a little ballance weigh And with a Bullrush plumm the deepest Sea Than stretch frail humane thought unto the height Of the great God Immense and Infinite Containing all things in himself alone Being at once in all contain'd in none Yet as a hidden spring appears in streams The Sun is seen in its reflected beams Whose high embodied Glory is too bright Too strong an object for weak mortal sight So in Gods visible productions we What is invisible in some sort see While we considering each created thing Are led up to an uncreated spring And by gradations of successive Time At last unto Eternity do climb As we in tracks of second causes tread Unto the first uncaused cause are led And know while we perpetual motion see There must a first self-moving Power be To whom all the inferiour motions tend In whom they are begun and where they end This First eternal Cause th' Original Of Being Life and Motion GOD we call In whom all Wisdome Goodness Glory Might Whatever can himself or us delight Unite centring in his Perfection Whose Nature can admit but only One Divided Soveraignty makes neither great Wanting what 's shar'd to make the summ compleat And yet this soveraign sacred Unitie Is not alone for in this one are three Distinguisht not divided so that what One person is the other is not that Yet all the three are but one God most High One uncompounded pure Divinity Wherein subsist so the Mysterious three That they in Power and Glory equal be Each doth himself and all the rest possess In undisturbed joy and blessedness There 's no Inferiour nor no Later there All Coeternal all Coequal are And yet this Parity Order admits The Father first eternally begets Within himself his Son substantial Word And Wisdom as his second and their third The ever blessed spirit is which doth Alike eternally proceed from both These three distinctly thus in one Divine Pure Perfect Self-supplying Essence shine And all cooperate in all works done Exteriourly yet so as every one In a peculiar manner suited to His Person doth the common action do Herein the Father is the Principal Whose sacred counsels are th' Original Of every Act produced by the Son By'the Spirit wrought up to perfection I' the Creation thus by'the Fathers wise decree Such things should in such time and order be The first foundation of the world was laid The Fabrique by th' Eternal Word was made Not as th' instrument but joynt actor who Joy'd to fulfill the counsels which he knew By the concurrent Spirit all parts were Fitly dispos'd distinguisht rendred fair In such harmonious and wise order set As universal Beauty did compleat This most mysterious Triple Unitie In Essence One and in subsistence Three Was that great Elohim who first design'd Then made the Worlds that Angels and Mankind Him in his rich out-goings might adore And celebrate his praise for evermore Who from Eternity himself supplied And had no need of any thing beside Nor any other cause that did him move To make a World but his extensive Love It self delighting to communicate Its Glory in the creatures to dilate While they are led by their own excellence T' admire the first pure high Intelligence By all the Powers and vertues which they have To that Omnipotence who those Powers gave By all their glories and their joys to his Who is the fountain of all joy and bliss By all their wants and imbecillities To the full magazine of rich supplies Where Power Love Justice and Mercy shine In their still fixed heights and ne're decline No streams can shrink the self-supplying spring No retributions can more fulness bring To the eternal fountain which doth run In sacred circles ends where it begun And thence with inexhausted life and force Begins again a new yet the same course It instituted in Times infant birth When the Creator first made Heaven and Earth Time though it all things into motion bring Is not it self any substantial thing But only Motions measure As a twin Born with it and they both at once begin With the existence of the rolling sphere Before which neither time nor motion were Time being a still continued number made By the vicissitude of Light and Shade By the Moons growth and by her waxing old By the successive Reign of heat and cold Thus leading back all ages to the womb Of vast Eternity from whence they come And bringing new successions forth until Heaven its last revolutions shall fulfil And all things unto their first state restore When Motion ceasing Time shall be no more But with the visible Heavens shall expire While they consume in the worlds funeral fire Th' invisible Heavens being still the same Shall not be toucht by the devouring flame Treating of which let 's wave Platonick dreams Of Worlds made in Idea fitter theams For Poets fancies than the reverent view Of Contemplation fixt on what is true And only certain kept upon record In the Creators own revealed word Which when it taught us how our world was made Wrapt up th' invisible in mystique shade Yet through those clouds we see God did create A place his presence doth irradiate Where he doth in his brightest lustre