Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	see_v	5,633	4	3.5188	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60259	Reformations preservation opened in a sermon preached at Westminster before the honourable House of Commons, at the late solemne fast, July 26, 1643 / by Sidr. Simpson.	Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3825; ESTC R24543	22,494	36

Therefore it is called a weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. ult Secondly this must be evident Psal 50.23 and therefore he that offers me praise saith God he glorifies me From hence it is attributed to the Church that is reformed and after the minde of God Glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God Psal 63.2 Psal 87.3 My soule thirsts to see thy power and thy glory as I have seene it in the Sanctuary And because that upon this one great part of the discourse hangs I shall therefore by the way make it evident that by Glory is understood here a Church reformed And that from a threefold ground 1. By considering the context 2. Because there is nothing in the reformation of the Church but what is included in the word glory in the Scripture phrase 3. Because there is nothing in glory but what is in a Church reformed First if you looke to the context you shall finde there a branch comming out of the earth in the 2. v. that is Isa 5.7 Isa 44.3.4 a Church erected when the face of it was spoyled corrupted yea undiscernible this is beautifull The Septuagint render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all parts according to the will of God it is such the members whereof are holy vers 3. are purged vers 4. and that by the Spirit of Judgement and by the spirit of burning Secondly whereas there goes but two things to the reformation of the Church they are both in the word glory First there must be all the ordinances thus the Arke was called glory 1 Sam. 4.21 and the Arke signified both the word and Sacraments here are communicants in these and they are such as are cleansed and undefiled vers 3. here is thirdly government 2 Pet. 2.10 it is said of some they doe despise and not respect dominions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or glories as the word is and the glory that is there spoken is not eivill but ecclesiasticall for it is such a kinde of despising as Corah and Dathan were guilty of against Moses Jude 8.11 Now they opposed Moses not as a Magistrate but as a Minister and Law-giver unto the Church and therfore they said Are not all the people of the Lord holy and not wise or valorous or true hearted which art the vertues of a Magistrate Besides false teachers are for the most part flatterers of Prin-ces not Despisers as Zedekiah was and Simon Magus who adored Nero. Whenyou have the ordinances then the Second thing required to a Reformation is to have them pure and after Gods prescript without humane addition or alteration take this for a rule the more plain Gods ordinances are the more powerfull the more there is of man the lesse there is of God in them Ezek. 44.7 God tells them they had polluted his Sanctuary that is made it common the facramentall bread did them no more good than their owne ordinary bread and the company of the Saints no more then the company and society of men You have this in the text too for here is beauty joyned with glory in vers 2. and beauty is a native complexion here is glory joyned with purging the spirit of judgement and of burning in the verse before my text here is holinesse written on every Soule vers 3. and to be holy is all one with being set apart to a holy use and being prepared and fitted for it Thirdly take glory in the highest sense that possibly you can yet then it suites with reformation Take glory for blisse and happinesse in heaven the Scripture so describes a Church as you can scarse know heaven and it asunder Heb. 12.22.23 † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesich You are come to the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem unto innumerable Company of Angels unto the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3.15 Heb. 11. last LXX Vocant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 generall assembly to the Church of the first borne which are written in heaven unto God the Judge of all and unto the Spirits of just men made * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3.15 Heb. 11. last LXX Vocant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perfect c. and yet it is apparent it is meant of the Church here for he saith they are come into it and if he had onely meant it concerning the Communion all Saints had together he had not attained his end for which he spake these words which was to prove that in the new Testament there was such a Communion as the old had not in comparison of it Rev. 21. You have there spoken of a City all whose pavement and gates are Jewels you would thinke it were heaven but it is not For you read in the 22.15 of a Judgement day that doth come after There are three things that make heaven or everlasting glory 1. Gods revealing of himselfe 2. Gods full communicating himselfe Vniformis in Dewn convolutio intellectualiū virtutum Dionyside divin nom c. 4. cessante discursu mentis intuitus figitur in contemplatione unius simplicis veritatis Aqu. 22. q. 180. 1 Chro. 16.11 2 Chro. 7.14 3. The convolution or turning of all the Soule upon God according unto what he doth reveale of himself and all these are in the Church reformed First there is a revelation of God Ephes 3.10 the unsearchable riches of Christ and the manifold wisedome of God is knowne in the Church therefore it is called his face wherein you may see all the motions and turnings of his heart it is called his beauty Psal 27.4 I long to see thy beauty Beauty is the symmetry and proportion of all parts if you looke on the actions of God in the world you cannot see how one attribute can accord with another The guilty soule understands not how God can be just and pardon him the presuming spirit understands not how God can prosper him and hate him the troubled sinner how God can afflict and love him You shall see all these in the Church well agreed Psal 73.17 Secondly In heaven there is a full conveyance of God and so there is in the Church Ephese 1. ult the Church is the fulnesse of God that is that which he fills his fulnesse passively They have the increases of God Colos 2.19 Now there is nothing in the phrase of Scripture called by the name of God but what is eminent as the mountaines of God the City of God the increases of God therefore there are such increases as passe the understanding of any but these that have experience and feeling of them Thirdly In heaven the soule is fixed on God and being so is changed into his likenesse the Apostle saith the selfe-same thing concerning the Church 2 Cor. 3. ult we looke upon him with open face and are changed into the same image from glory to glory in the ministration of the word There is no difference betweene heaven and a Church reformed but onely this