Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	affliction_n	eternal_a	moment_n	4,141	5	9.1958	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04986	Ten sermons upon several occasions, preached at Saint Pauls Crosse, and elsewhere. By the Right Reverend Father in God Arthur Lake late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells	Lake, Arthur, 1569-1626.	1640 (1640)	STC 15135; ESTC S108204	119,344	184

in any of you an evill heart and unfaithfull to depart away from the living God Exhort one another dayly while it is called to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnesse of sinne For we are made partakers of Christ if we keepe sure unto the end the beginning wherewith we are upholden We have heard that we must profit and persevere but it is hard to goe on and he that is constant must endure many a conflict therefore Saint Iude adviseth us to seeke helpe and to be of good hope First To seeke helpe Praying in the Holy-Ghrst God saith Saint Austin doth not command impossible things but bids us facere quod possumus petere quod non possumus So that if we want Jam. 4.2.3 we have it not saith Saint Iames because we aske not or if we aske and have it not it is because we aske amisse Saint Jude therefore directs us to aske and not to aske amisse for we must pray in the Holy-Ghost Saint Chrysostome excellently comparing mans Spirituall Birth with his Naturall observes That in his Naturall Birth he comes into the World naked indeed but with Hands that are apt in time to make Clothes to cover him Armour to defend him Food to sustaine him and whatsoever else is requisite Even so saith he the abilitie of a man received in his Spirituall Birth is very small but he is endued with the Grace of Prayer and that is Organum Organorum By it a man obtaines from God whatsoever is desirable by a Child of God Psal 127.1 It is true that except the Lord build the house he laboureth but in vaine that builds and except the Lord keepe the Citty he waketh but in vaine that watcheth Mat. 7.7 but Petite et dabitur Aske and have seeke and find knocke and it shall be opened unto you It is the saying of Gregory the great Precibus insistendū non tantùm ut justè vivamus sed dum iustè vivimus Our progresse and our perseverance must be the one furthered the other supported by prayer for as Solomon speaketh The way of a righteous man is like the light which shineth more and more untill the perfect day Prov. 4.18 but there must be a perpetuall influence into the aire from the Sun to cause continue the light thereof otherwise both would faile So except the grace of God be with us and abide in us we cannot proceed wee cannot persevere Now this grace is had by prayer Iames. 1.5 Jf any man want wisedome saith Saint Iames let him aske it of God Which Christ taught us as Saint Cyprian well observes Cyprian in Orat. Dom. when he willed us to pray Hallowed be thy Name thy kingdome come thy will be done His verbis saith hee quid aliud petimus nisi ut in eo quod esse coepimus p●rseveremus but few make that use of it the reason followeth because they pray not in the holy Ghost In the holy Ghost Intellige locutionem evitabis blasphemiam saith Saint Austin Mistake not that thou blaspheme not Gal. 4.6 Rom. 8.15 He that said the spirit cries Abba father saith in another place The Spirit is he by whom we crie Abba Father so that Clamans is as much as Clamare faciens This praying in the holy Ghost must be expounded by that Rom. 8.26 The Spirit helpeth our infirmities But observe further that to pray in the holy Ghost is to pray by his direction in his word and by his inspiration in our heart 1. By his direction for we must pray according to his will which is expressed in his word The sweete odours of incense were Gods owne prescript 1. Cor. 2.1 1. and nothing sacrificed but what God commaunded quis novit mentem Dei nisi spiritus Dei Therefore hath Christ himselfe given us a forme of prayer wherein all our requests are comprehended 2. By his inspiration Interpellator pro me tuus saith Saint Hillary inenarrabilia a me tibi loquitur it makes intercession for us saith Saint Paul Rom. 8.26 with sighes and grones that cannot be expressed Not our words but our sighes are audible in the sacred eares of God for Wordes are for men but thoughts are for God and how can we lift up pure hands if the holy Ghost doe not season them from our hearts The Spirit therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 helpes our infirmities 2. Tim. 2.8 when he powreth into us the spirit of grace and prayer Our lesson is that we remember the old verse non vox sed votum non chordula Musica Sed Cor Non clamans sed amans pollet in aure Dei The true worshippers do worship God in spirit Ioh. 4.24 and in truth and if we draw neere God with our lips and are farre from him in our hearts our prayer will as little mov him as we are moved with it To conclude I wish that we may so pray that we may say with David Psal 66.18 Blessed bee God that hath not put backe my prayer nor hid his mercie from me And surely if God hath not removed our prayer he will not remove his mercie for we shall looke for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ unto eternall life Looking for the mercie c. We have hitherto been kept to our worke but now are we come to our wages great wages for so little worke for doeing our duty eternall felicity The comparison is very uneven I am perswaded saith Saint Paul that the afflictions of this life Rom. 8.18 are not worthy of the glory that shall be reveiled And our light afflictions which are but for a moment 2. Cor. 4.17 worke for us a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory But God knowes we have an envious eye when we see the prosperity of wicked men in this world Psal 37. 73. we thinke much of it Therefore hee bids us to looke off from the world and to looke to him to compare that temporall life which men live here with that eternall which wee expect herafter the longitude of the one with the brevitie of the other the latitude of the one with the beggerie of the other the depth of the one with the superficiallnesse of the other and then we shall see the difference betwixt them which may move us with Saint Paul to count all things losse and dung for Christs sake with Moses to preferre the afflictions of Gods people before the pleasures of Pharaohs Court Phil. 3.8 Heb. 11.25 Hebr. 11.8 Hebr. 12.2 with Abraham to forsake our owne Country in hope of a better and finally with Christ himselfe to endure any crosse in this world for the joy that is set before us So then our hope is of eternall life But that life is to be obtained of mercie looking for the mercie of our Lord. c. Eternall life if ye looke to the person of Christ obtaining it of God is the reward