Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	soul_n	16,341	5	5.1635	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05462	Erubhin or Miscellanies Christian and Iudaicall, and others Penned for recreation at vacant houres. By Iohn Lightfoote, Master in Arts, sometimes of Christs Colledge in Cambridge.	Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.	1629 (1629)	STC 15593; ESTC S108555	67,393	223

in this moneth is called the end of the yeare Exod. 23.16 And this I take to bee the reason why the Iewes began to reade the Bible in their Synagogues at the feast of Tabernacles viz. that they might begin the lecture of the Creation in Gen. 1. at that time of the yeare that the world was created The manner of the Creation shewes the workeman powerfull and wise The making of the Angells concealed by Moses lest men should like those hereticks in Epiph. thinke they helped God in the Creation For if their day of their Creation which was in most likelihood the first had beene named wicked men would haue bene ready to haue taken them for actors in this worke which were onely spectators Therefore as God hides Moses after his death so Moses hides the Creation of them least they should be deified and the honour due to the Creator giuen to the creature God in framing the world begins aboue and workes downeward and in three dayes hee layes the parts of the world and in the three other dayes he adornes those parts The first day hee makes all the heauens the matter of the earth and comes downe so low as the light The second lower and makes the firmament or aire The third lowest of all and makes distinction of earth and water Thus in three dayes the parts or body of the world is laid in three dayes more and in the same order they are furnished For on The fourth day the Heauens which were made the first day are deckt with starrs The fifth day the Firmament which was made the second day is filled with birds The sixth day the Earth which was laid fit the third day is replenished with beasts and lastly man Thus God in the sixe dayes finished all his worke of Creation For the ten things that the Chaldee Paraphrast saith God created on the euening of the Sabbath after the world was finished I referre them to their Authors to beleeue them R. Iarchi on Gen. 2. obserues that God created one day superior things and another day inferior his words are to this purpose On the first day he created heauē aboue earth beneath On the second day the firmament aboue On the third let the dry land appeare beneath On the fourth day lights aboue On the fifth day let the waters bring foorth beneath On the sixt hee must create both Superior and Inferior as he had done on the first least there should bee confusion in his worke therefore he made man of both his soule from aboue and his body from beneath R. Tancuman shewes how the making of the Tabernacle harmonizeth with the making of the world The light of the first day answered by the candlesticke for light the first worke and the spreading of the Firmament like a curtaine answered by the curtaines the second worke and so of the rest Euery one knowes the old conceit of the worlds lasting sixe thousand yeares because it was made in sixe dayes and of Elias Prophesie among the Iewes of the world ending at the end of sixe thousand which Prophesie of his is flat against the words of Christ Many beleeue these opinions yet few prepare for the end which they thinke is so neere God hath taught vs by the course of the Creation of the old world what our proceedings must be that wee may become a new creation or new heauens a new earth renewed both in soule and bodie On the first day he made the light so the first thing in the new man must be light of knowledge so saith S. Paul Heb. 11. He that commeth to God must know that he is 2. On the second day he made the Firmament so called because of its surenesse so the second step in mans new creation must be firmamentum fidei the sure foundation of faith 3. On the third day the seas and trees bearing fruit So the third step in the new man is that he become waters of repentant teares and that hee bring foorth fruit worthy of these teares Bring foorth fruit worthy of repentance saith the Baptist Mat. 3. 4. On the fourth day God created the Sunne that whereas on the first day there was light but without heat now on the fourth day there is light and heate ioyned together So the fourth step in the new creation of a new man is that he ioyne the heate of zeale with the light of his knowledge as in the sacrifices fire and salt were euer ioyned 5. The fifth dayes work was of fishes to play in the seas and the foules to flie toward heauen So the fifth step in a new creature is to liue and reioyce in a sea of troubles and to flie by prayer and contemplation to heauen 6. On the sixth day God makes man and all these things performed man is a new creature To reckō them altogether then as S. Peter does his golden chaine of vertues 2. Pet. 1. Adde to your light of knowledge the firmament of faith to your faith seas of repentant teares to your teares the fruitfull trees of good workes to your good workes the hot Sunshine of zeale to your Zeale the winged foules of prayer and contemplation Et ecce omnia facta sunt noua Behold you are become a new creature As the Bible begins so it ends with a new creation of a new heauen and a new earth and a new paradise and a new tree of life Apoc. 21. vnto all which O thou whom my soule loueth say come CAP. XLVII Of the fall of Adam THe fall of Adam was the death of himselfe the death of vs and the death of Christ. At his fall were three offenders three offences persons offended Three offenders Satan Adam Eue three offences Ignorance weakenesse and malice three persons offended Father Sonne and holy Ghost Eue sinned of Ignorance and so sinned against the Sonne the God of knowledge and she was forgiuen and so S. Paul sinned and was forgiuen 1. Tim. 1.13 Adam sinned of weakenesse and so sinned against the Father the God of power and he was pardoned and so S. Peter sinned and he was pardoned Mat. 26. But Satan sinned of set malice and so sinned against the holy Ghost the God of loue and he was not forgiuen For he that speaketh against the holy Ghost shall neuer bee forgiuen Marke 3.29 And in Gods censuring of these three Gen. 3. He questioneth Adam Euah before he sentenceth because he had mercie for them nay more he promiseth Christ before hee inflict punishment but for the Serpent hee neuer questioned because hee would shew him no mercie God left Adam to his owne freewil and suffered him to fall quia sciebat se c. because hee knew how to turne that fall of his to his saluation When Lazarus died Christ was not there that the raysing of Lazarus by Christ might be the more glorious So when Adam fel as I may say so God would not be there for he left Adam