Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	father_n	ghost_n	son_n	12,682	5	5.5144	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59657	Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings / by Thomas Shephard ...	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.; Adderley, William.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3104; ESTC R33878	30,111	60

in all our prayers we are to looke for all good from the Father for his Sonnes sake to be conveyed us by the holy Ghost and hence it is said Iohn 6. 10. No man com●s to me but whom the Father draws Why It is the immediate office and worke of the holy Ghost to draw and apply the soul unto Christ why then is it said Vnle●se the Father draw The reason is because that which was perfected and consummated by the holy Ghost was intentionally and by way of purpose and decree begun originally by the Father and this is that which Christs words have chiefly reference unto viz the Father through the Son by the holy Ghost draws But I have waded too far in this Divinity the cleer knowledge of which is reserved for us in heaven But thus much to satisfie you yet the word Father in the Lords Prayer I conceive under correction as it doth not exclude any person of the God-head so it s chiefly set downe there not so much to denote the Person of the Father as the affection of God as a Father to us his Sons by Christ which we are to believe in our first approaching to our prayers to be as nay to transcend the affection of any father to his Son when we com to call upon him for those six things which the Petitions set down for those three ends kingdom power and glory which the Prayer concludes withall Your fourth trouble is your aptnesse to go to God immediately especially when his graces are most striving in his ordinances contrary to that of Christ Yee believe in God believe also in me So indeed it is usuall for religious nature often to out-run and get the start of grace as it appeares in many other so in this case you put looke as it is with every man when God awakens him effectually he first seeks to his kitchin physick to save himselfe by his duties praying mourning re●orming endeavouring repenting working before he will seeke out to the Physician and to Christ to save him Because it was naturall to Adam to seeke to live by his working it is naturall to every Son and branch of that root to seeke to save himselfe by doing as well as hee can or as God gives him the strength and grace So it is here It was naturall to Adam to depend upon and go to God immediately as a creature to a Creator as a Sonne to go nakedly to God as a Father Christ was not then known nor seen so it is naturall to every man when rectified Nature is stirred up to go immediately to God It is grace in the second Covenant that reveales and drawes to Jesus Christ and to God by Christ Heb. 7. 25. For cure of this distemper ponder but these three things 1. Cleerely convince the soule that the immortall invisible and most holy God that dwelleth in an un-approachable light hath set out himselfe to be seen or made himselfe only visible in Jesus Christ so that he would have no man looke upon him any other waies then as he hath revealed himselfe in his Son In whom though in all other creatures his vestigia and footsteeps are to be seen as he is God the face of God is to be seen which no creature is able to behold but there being the brightnesse of his glory● and the expresse Image of his Person Heb. 1. 3. And as hee is man the very heart of God both in respect of affection and will to be seen So that in and through Jesus Christ especially his humane nature the glory of the great God breakes out like the Sun through the clouds most brightly in respect of us and therefore in and through his humane nature we are onely to behold God in whom all that a Christian desires to know is to bee seen which is the face and heart of so deare a friend 2 Cor. 4. 6. Ioh. 14. 9 10. For we know by too lamentable experience how the whole world vanishing in their smoaky thoughts of the glory of God as he is considered in himselfe and not able to conceive or retain the knowledge of him did hence invent and set up I makes as ●it objects for their drunken staggering understanding to fasten upon and to be limited with and hence adored God before these as our Popish Hypocrites doe before the Altar and in these and at these as Papists doe in respect of their Images Hence the Lord to cure this inveterate naturall malady hath in the second Person united himselfe to man Christ Jesus through whom we are both able to our everlasting wonderment to see him and also here bound onely to behold him who as he is a sit handle for our faith so he is a ●it object for our weak mindes to behold the glory of the most high God in Wherefore then do you offer to go unto God without Christ when as you are not so much as to looke upon God but as he appeares in Christ Is not the humane nature of the Lord Jesus more easie to be seen and conceived of then the invisible unlimited eternall God-head 2. Secondly See evidently that there is not any dram or drop of God you have especially in Gods ordinances but it issues from the blood and is purchased by the intercession and delivered unto you by the hand of Jesus Christ Eph●s 1. 7. H●br 7. 25. Iohn 5. 22. You should never have heard the sound of the gospel nor never have had day of Patience nor never have heard of Gods Ordinances to finde him in nor never have been comforted quickned enlarged affected by God Ordinances were it not for Jesus Christ the efficacy of whose blood and power of whose glorious intercession doth at the very instant you feele any good in Gods Ordinances prevaile with God the Father for what you feel for the Father loveth the Sonne and hath put all things into his hands Iohn 4. 35. that all men might honour the Son all the three Persons plotting chiefly for the honour of the second so that you may see nay you are bound to believe at the time you feele your heart savingly affected in any ordinance now the Lord Jesus who is at the right hand of God in heaven who is now in his glory now he remembring me a poore worme on earth now I feele the fruite of his death O what a miserable forlorn wretch had I been were it not for Jesus Christ Mercy could never have helped enlightned comforted quickned assured enlarged me and Justice could never have relieved my dead bloudy peris●ing lost Soul had it not been for Jesus Christ whose Spirit power grace comfort presence sweetnesse I taste drink and am satisfied abundantly with and now doe enjoy Oh Sir me thinks the sad meditation of this should make you in all Gods ordinances where you are apt to say you go immediately to God to hasten suddenly in your thoughts affections praises to Jesus Christ Nay me thinks you should speedily