Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	angel_n	glorious_a	glory_n	3,298	5	5.7831	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86499	God, a rich supply of all good Setting forth, I. The beleevers interest in it. II. The riches of it in quantity. III. The gloriousnesse of it in quality. IV. The meanes of sealing up all: namely, Christ. All illustrated, with many wonderfull and remarkable spirituall experiences, not onely of former, but of later Christians. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2565; Thomason E1341_3; ESTC R209144	14,400	31

of silver Striped with the blood of Christ inlayed with the operation of spirit sanctifying them unto us Yea there is somewhat of God himselfe stamped upon every creature which onely the beleeving eye can see On vegetables life on Animals understanding and wisdome And so much of God as is in a creature is most glorious And God that is in them hath layd his Command upon them to doe us good if we beleive and goodnesse is glorious If there were but the divine order in Gods dispensations of outward things first this then that as is best for our welfare this were glorious He first provides for us the breast then bread He dispenseth as the parent doth clothes suites fit for our age and so they sit handsomely Look how grimme disorder is so comely and glorious is order He gives not all at once to over-whelm us nor the last thing first or the first last 2. There is a glory in spirituals In gifts some as in knowledge elocution c. but in grace and graces more For the grace of favour It clothes us with Christs righteousnesse This must needs be glorious 2 Cor. 5. la it being the righteousnesse of God You may perceive it by considering how grimme the sight of sin was to you before you saw that glorious clothing upon you Whiles ye see not your selves in Christ mantled in and clothed with his righteousnesse you are an abhorring to your selves But when you behold your selves yea and as beheld of God in Christs righteousnesse you see your glory so that you can glory 1 Cor. 1. two la. Christ is made to us righteousnesse c. that he that glorieth may glory in the Lord. The Apostle adds 1 Cor. 3. that the very ministry that holds forth this righteousnesse to us is far more glorious then the glorious giving of that glorious fierie Law as it is set forth and called Deut. 33.2 The Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir and shone forth from mount Paran and he came with ten thousand of his Saints from his right hand went a FIERIE Law for them And then too the graces of the Saints are glorious They are the spiritual creation of God Eph. 2.10 The purchase of Christs blood Eph. 1.7 8. The breathings of the Spirit Ioh. 20.22 The Image of God in us Eph. 4.24 They make the soule of man in the bent of it like Adams soule yea it is another divine soule in our natural soule So that by all glories aforesayd a Saint is made most glorious within his own court or habitation He dwels in Christ glorious in his garments glorious in his complexion he is ful of righteousnesse and holinesse Solomon was glorious the Lillies saith Christ are more glorious then he but Christ most glorious and spiritually and imputatively as he was so are we in this world 1 Iohn 4.17 3. There is the glory of heaven which is the plat-forme of all our happinesse I need not argue this glory but rather declare it if I or any else could Here below we have a glory but it is like the glory of a glow-worme brightened at the night-shining of the stars in comparison of heaven which is as the glaring of Diamonds or sparkling of Chrystal looking-glasses the glosse of cloth of gold and Tissu at the sight of the noon-sun In heaven every glory is lightened and hightened to a transcendency of translucidation and lustre Our natural bodies shall glitter above the face of Moses Stephen or innocent Adam namely like the body of Christ 1 Cor. 15. which was most glorious on Tabor Our reason shall be equalized too if not made superlative above the highest intellectuals of Angels forasmuch as we are neerer in union with God through Christ they And as for our graces every grace shall be raised to the highest perfection and actings that graces can be extended or exalted There in glory we have the sight of God either by some extraordinary Species representing the divine essence a light of glory the mean while elevating the understanding with a supernatural strength to behold the representation or by the light of glory elevating and strengthening the understanding to the highest pitch of apprehension to behold the divine essence immediately presented without any Species or by any immediate clear vision of God without Species or elevation by any light more then is innate in the glorified intellectuals Doubtlesse by unspeakable union with Christ in him we shall apprehend God as he so far forth as he is man doth apprehend him to our utmost proportion In heaven the fountain of our happinesse is substantial glory Namely God himselfe perfecting our substances to the highest of our kinde our company the Angels ful of superlative glorious qualities the place filled with rayes of both and we perfected and polished in all things to a glorious hue and luster The floure coloured shining spring the Golden sea as Homer calls it with morning beames or the spangsed starry heavens in a serene evening are but shaddows to this glory in Heaven Our communion there is like the most ravishing musick our sights all of admiration and our thoughts seraphical raptures The fourth thing to be explained is the means viz. Christ Jesus God considered in himself is able to supply being infinite rich and glorious And naturally he is willing as the chiefe good to communicate his goodness to his creatures considered in their meer and pure naturals but there is not in him a moral willingnesse as we may say a willingnesse of free choise to be communicative of himselfe to fallen man but through Jesus Christ God foreseeing what was wisedome and justice to himselfe chose us in Christ And now in time communicates himselfe no other way but through Jesus Christ He is fixt in and shines through the Orbe of Christ Jesus 2 Cor. 4. Shines to us in the face of Christ Jesus even as after the Sun was made upon the fourth day though there was some general light afore as innocent Adam had a legal light there was no light to be communicated to the world but through the Sun The sum of all we wil say of this is briefly this 1. That Christs incarnation is the fundamental insurance of our assurance of our neerernesse to God then Angels Heb. 2. That he wil be our Immanuel Matth. 1. Applyed Rom. 8. to our justification and salvation And so wil doe by us as he did by Christ in all excellencies whereof we may be capable 2. The perfecting and formal act of the vertue of this incarnation to communicate himselfe to us is our actual union with Christ by the Spirit 3. That Christ is the pattern to which we must in all things according to our proportion be conformed to and is the beginning of the reassimilating and making us like to Gods image in the first Innocent Adam Christ therefore is called the first borne of every creature c. Useful is this Doctrine 1. For invitation of all that