Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	earth_n	sea_n	see_v	4,259	5	3.9841	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90389	An eccho from the great deep: containing further inward openings, concerning divers other things, upon some whereof the principles and practises of the mad folks do much depend. As also the life, hope, safety and happiness of the seed of God, is pointed at; which through many dark, dismall, untrodden paths and passages (as particularly through an unthought of death and captivity) they shall at length be led unto. / Through Isaac Pennington (junior) Esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1163; Thomason E618_1; ESTC R206346	113,201	142

their Temple they must dwell in God and God in them The Creature the Creation when it was brought forth it was to be removed at a distance from God God would have communion with the Creature but when and as he pleased after what manner and by what rule he pleased He would not dwell in the same house with him he would not keep continual company with him but he would come and walk and converse with him at what seasons he saw good He puts Adam into the Garden but there he leaves him and what befell him while he left him we all too well know But the Son abideth in the house for ever the Father ever abideth with the Son the Blood the Life the Spirit of the Father continually runneth in the veins of the Son The Word was ever with God and God was ever with the Word the Son lay ever in his bosom and he lay ever in his Sons bosom The Word was made for he was the begining of the Creation of God for his own immediate and everlasting Possession When he keeps him within himself he possesses him there when he sends him forth he goes forth with him and possesses him there also I am not alone but the Father is with me They never are alone they never act alone but where the Father is the Son is and where the Son is the Father is what the Father does the Son does and what the Son does the Father does in him He is not he acts not he speaks not but the Father in him the Father is not acts not speaks not but in him Here him expounding this himself how he was with God in the beginning Prov. 8.22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his Way before his Works of old The Lord had a Way to go a great Circuit to fetch to make Eternity Life Perfection run through all the paths of mortality He had Works of old the things he made a great while ago the whole Weeks Creation that ye read of Why in the very beginning of his Way when he set the first step in it yea even before any of these his Works of old he possessed me Vers 23. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was The Fabrick of Christ was reared from everlasting or if you will from the beginning I was the first he began with and he began with me from everlasting yea then was I perfected I was his Tabernacle pitched I was set up from everlasting Ye cannot conceive how any thing can be brought forth from everlasting neither can ye conceive how any thing can be from everlasting but ye may beleeve the one as well as the other I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was I am not of the stamp of this Creation not such a thing as is brought forth in time but I am that Word wherein God brought forth his own Eternal Being his own Eternal Life and Substance and as he reared up his own Eternity in me so he set me up from Eternity I was not the first in this Creation but from the beginning before ever the Earth was Not from the beginning of this Creation that is but a shadow of the beginning as well as all the things created are but shadows of somewhat else but from the beginning indeed from that beginning which was a beginning from everlasting where all things do begin and end in another-ghess manner then can be shadowed out by draughts of Creation to a created eye and from then was I set up Vers 24. When there were no depths I was brought forth when no fountains abounding with water He instances in the first things and in the greatest things The first thing we read of was the great deep and the deeps they are the wonders of God and where he does wonders These see the Works of the Lord and his Wonders in the deep And the Fountains of Waters are one of his Master-peeces in this Creation Worship him who made the Heaven the Earth the Seas and the Fountains of Waters Yea but there was a more wonderful thing brought forth then these before any of these When there were no dephs I was brought forth when no Fountains abounding with water Vers 25. Before the Mountains were setled before the Hills was I brought forth The depths and fountains they are the eminent things in the Waters The mountains and hills they are as eminent in the Land or dry part of the Creation What mighty mountains are there up and down throughout the whole Earth and what a peece of work was it think you to settle and fix these in their places or to bring forth all the hills throughout the whole world and yet I was before them I was brought forth before them Before the mountains were setled before the hills was I brought forth Vers 26. While as yet he had not made the Earth nor the open places nor the chief part of the dust of the World He speaks very accurately as one who was very well acquainted with the work of Creation He divides the Earth into three parts or represents it under three Considerations There is the bulk of it which is generally hid Then there is the surface or open part of it which lieth open to the eye of the creature for it to view and behold and then there is the spirituous part of it wherein is as it were the life and excellency of the Earth Nor the chief part of the dust of the World There is a choyceness in Earth as well as in other things and God hath a special eye to the chief part The dust is the lightest part the most minute and spirituous the fittest to be formed into any thing God formed man of the dust of the Earth and he hath a choyceness in dust too But before he made either the bulk of the Earth or the open part of it or the chief part of the dust of the World I was brought forth and stood by him Vers 27. When he prepared the Heavens I was there when he set a Compass or Circle upon the face of the depth Here are two wonderful things more his preparing Heaven and Earth He had Works to form and fashion above as well as beneath he had Heavens to make as well as Earth He takes the matter he would make the Heavens of the Sun Moon Stars and all that Host the several Regions and Orbs there and prepares it for it makes it ready for himself to work upon to cast into what form he pleased And he takes the depth out of which and within which he would make the dry Land and the Sea which were jumbled together in one Mass and draws a line about it within this Compass saith he will I do it When he did this says Wisdom Wisdom brought forth which was the Word I was there I saw him do it I knew his meaning in it I perceived the very

skill whereby he wrought it Vers 28. When he established the Clouds above when he strengthened the Fountains of the deep The Clouds had need be well fastened or they would soon drop down They are such great Curtains they had not need only be fastened at the ends but up and down every where God perceived this well enough in his making and stretching them out and therefore when he had made them and set them in their places he established them And the Fountains that continually yeeld so much water the Fountains of the deep that must yeeld waters to maintain all Seas and Rivers and supply the continual expence of waters from each whereof the Earth sucks in much and from whence the multitude of creatures both on the Earth and in the Ayr draw much had need of good store it requites a great stock to nourish these therefore the Lord when he had made them he strengthened them that they might have fulness in themselves and be able to fill all their vessels Vers 29. When he gave to the Sea his Decree that the Waters should not pass his Commandment when he appointed the Foundations of the Earth The Sea is very violent and unruly not to be tamed by mankinde as other creatures are The Foundations of the Earth are very vast things as hard to be mastered as tha Sea But God who made both knows how to rule both and when he divided them he gave each their bounds He gave the Sea his Decree hither may it go but here must it stop the pride of its waves must not swell further Neither may the Foundations of the Earth thrust the Sea out of its place but keep their own station and limits which he likewise appointed them Vers 30. Then I was by him as one brought up with him and I was dayly his delight rejoycing always before him I then stood by him and saw him do all these things and understood his meaning and intent comprehending him fully in every one of them I was then as one that stood by him having the view and comprehension of his whole operation in this Fabrick from first to last Nor was I by him as one then newly brought forth as the first peece of the Creation but as one brought up with him as one who had always been with him as one in whom he always delighted whom he could never tell how to pass a day pleasantly without I was dayly his delight Christ is the delight of God he whom God evermore delighted in he who was still so like himself so perfect and unchangeable in the Image of himself that God could not but take continual pleasure in beholding himself in this glass yea he was so taken with this representation of himself that he could never leave off looking on it He could never forbear looking on him and every look was pleasant to him it is impossible for God to be cloyed with Christ I was dayly his delight Man is not so pleased to behold himself as to behold his Image in his Son that is his pleasure his content the delight of his heart And 't is the delight and pleasure of God not simply to see himself in himself but to see himself brought forth in Christ to behold this Image this draught of himself perfectly brought forth eternally durable to behold every thing of himself brought forth in him living in him acting in him This is his delight the very joy of his heart Rejoycing always before him Christ is not onely delightful to God but delightful in himself before God rejoycing before him Gods heart is full of joy and delight in Christ and because of Christ and Christs heart is full of joy before God he is ever rejoycing Where God and Christ are together there is nothing but delight and joy delight in God joy in Christ God delighting in Christ and Christ rejoycing before God Rejoycing always before him The mirth and rejoycing of the Childe is exceedingly pleasing to the Father specially when it is in his presence and when it flows from the delight and pleasure he hath in the Father The Father is pleased with all his excellencies and perfections as they are brought forth in Christ Christ he is pleased with them as they dwell originally in the Father The Father pours out his own Spirit of Joy into the Son anointing him abundantly with the oyl of gladness and the Son pours forth that joy abundantly and continually in the presence of the Father he is ever rejoycing before him rejoycing in the Person of the Father delighting in the Works of the Father leaping to see how every thing comes from him how every thing returns to him how every thing makes for him how every thing is full of him how every thing is fully in him Oh how ravishing would it be to any eye to any heart to behold things in Christ as God beholds them there or to behold things in God as Christ beholds them there He who once is led to this will meet with true joy with Christ with true delight with God he cannot forbear delighting himself in Christ with God nor from rejoycing continually with Christ before God Vers 31. Rejoycing in the habitable part of his earth and my delights were with the sons of men Christ doth onely rejoyce in God but in every thing that comes from God as God doth not onely rejoyce in Christ but in every thing that he brings forth through Christ There is nothing displeaseth Christ in any thing but its distance from God There is nothing displeaseth God in any thing but its distance from Christ They so entirely love one another that they care not for beholding any thing desire not to enjoy any thing but in one another Rejoycing in the habitable part of his earth Heaven and Earth and all things in both had a Being in God a more compleat substantial Being then this shadowy Being wherein they are brought forth and outwardly appear There Christ knew them there Christ rejoyced in them from thence Christ brought them forth into this state and kinde of being wherein they are thither will Christ bring them back again and rejoyce in them again alass this present state is not a state to be rejoyced in His Earth The Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof It is his own it came from him it was framed by him he made the matter of it he formed and shaped it it was what it was by him it is what it is according to his pleasure and for him it is subjected to weakness and vanity for his sake and he knows and owns it in a way unknown to it in the midst of all its weakness and vanity Man if he be a little exalted doth presently despise that which appears weak and beneath him but God who is mighty in strength and wisdom despiseth not Job 36.5 The habitable part of his Earth In the Earth in his Earth there are habitable and inhabitable parts