Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	create_v	good_a	workmanship_n	4,350	5	11.8942	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26659	The church triumphant, or, A comfortable treatise of the amplitude and largeness of the kingdom of Christ wherein is proved by Scriptures and reason, that the number of the damned is inferiour to that of the elect / by Joseph Alford ...	Alford, Joseph.	1649 (1649)	Wing A921; ESTC R22399	57,799	139

intelligent I am not ignorant that some of the Graecians have derived the word from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to terrifie or make afraid because strength armed with malice is a terrible thing But as concerning their power their opinion who derive the word from the Hebrew liketh me best for there are many Greek words deduced from the Hebrew tongue The Hebrews term both Gods and Devils Schadaim and the more ancient Graecians leaving out the first consonant of the word and reading without prickt-vowels made it Daim then Daimones for both the Graecians and the Latines of elder times pronounced their dipthongues with distinct vowels and not confusedly as we use to do now this word signifieth strength fortitude and power And albeit Schadaim be one of the names of our omnipotent God yet as Elohim the proper appellation of the mighty Lord is communicated to great Princes and Potentates so the word Schadaim is promiscuously attributed to Spirits good and bad for although there be but one omnipotent Lord God yet Paul calleth the Devils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the worldly Princes M. You have discoursed Caelius very learnedly of the appellation of the word neither will I labour to urge any thing in contradiction of it for it strongly argueth their power in that they are of a sensible and an indefatigable nature besides the use and experience of infinite business and occurrences must needs instruct them with an unspeakable knowledge for Antiquitie and length of dayes joined with observation must needs bring forth incredible effects but as there are two sorts of wisdom one Heavenly and Holy another that descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual Devilish James the 3. so likewise there are two sorts of power For as the last is not properly fortitude but boldness not power but impotence and violence so that is not strictly and truly to be termed wisdom but malice that is a crafty and deceitful subtilety to work mischief for as upon an approch of danger if the mind be egged on by its own concupiscence and irregular desires and not by consideration of the publick good this attempt is rather a vitious audacity than a warrantable valour so knowledge without charity and prudence without Justice is malice and subdolous fraudulencie as Plato saith not wisdom Therefore when the all powerful wisdom of God doth frustrate and evacuate the wiles of Satan t is an improprietie to say that the wisdom of God hath overcome the wisdom of the Devil but rather that his malice is subdued by wisdom Also when we speak of the power of the Enemy we should say that audacitie is quelled by valour sury is vanquished by fortitude and rashness disappointed by counsel C. Nothing can be more truly spoken M. Having therefore spoken of the power and wisdom of our omnipotent God how shall we speak of the goodness mercy and clemency of our most indulgent and long suffering Father So incomprehensible i● his mercy that like an exuberant river nay a boundles Ocean it diffuseth it self and refresheth all the corners of the earth Here I am struck dumb and astonished at the wonderful plenty of considerations that roul and flow in upon me search the Scriptures and we find him not so wealthy in any thing as in mercy he chiefly delights himself in the publication the iteration the exaltation of his mercy he discloseth himself expresseth himself manifesteth himself and communicateth himself in mercy David saith Psalm 33. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord and in another place the Lord is endued with plentiful mercy and under the shadow of his wings all people have safety If I reckon up the testimonies of the Apostles and Evangelists I find not a word in them but magnifieth the mercy of our God Let Paul speak for the rest who himself found so great mercy Ephes 2. And you hath he quickned who were dead in sins and trespasses wherein in time past ye walked according to the courss of this world according to the power of the Prince of the air the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience among whom we also had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as others but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quickned us together with Christ by grace ye are saved and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus for by grace are ye saved through saith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God not of works least any man should boast For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before orda●ned that we should walk in them Here we may behold with what magnificence of expression the Apostle doth divulge and depredicate the goodness and mercy of God and how we must disclaime and abandon all our own works and merits by a stedfast adhesion unto and a sure dependance upon the eternal Love of God unto us in Christ Jesus But how is God famous over all the world for his mercy and eminent for the riches of his goodnes in the salvation of a few and the damnation of the rest C. Wonderful things I confess are revealed unto us of the mercy of God in the Holy Scriptures yet some men are not backward to say that his mercy is as conspicuous in the Salvation of one individual Soul as in the preservation of a thousand millions because to that Soul which the infinite mercy of God hath delivered from death eternal there was due an infinite punishment for infinite transgressions M. These are the inventions and vain imaginations of men which are too much accustomed to measure things Divine by the rule of humane judgement Suppose there were in this Citie some man exceeding wealthy and abounding with all kind of outward blessings suppose I say that he should share his munificence to some few nay bestow all his wealth upon them leaving abundance of other Citizens in an abject wanting and contemptible condition would you think this man as truely liberal as if he had made an equal distribution of all his estate among all the Citizens C. By no means but extreamly cruel and a homicide for Seneca said very truely He that seeth a man in miserie is able to succour him and refuseth that man slayeth and murthereth him But to say so of God were horrid impiety because it is Lawfull for him to do what pleaseth him for his will is the perfect reason of his works M. But doe you not remember the old saying that good is of a communicable nature and that the more it is spread and diffused still