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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02144	Seasonable thoughts of divine providence affording comfort to those who are in danger. Instruction to all that are delivered from the late sad visitation. Wherein we are inform'd whether our preservation be a fruit of God's special love, or of his common providence.	Chishull, John.	1666 (1666)	Wing C3903B; ESTC R176572	27,160	97

glory 2 Cor. 4.17 Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 4. Though he hath often given them up into the hands of wicked men that they might shew their malice and hatred against them yet he never gave them up to the wills of such he hath not left wicked men at their own liberty to do as they pleased but God hath reserved to himself the ordering and proportioning of their troubles to their strength he hath appointed what they shall suffer for number how many blows they shall bear for weight how heavy they shall be and for time how long they shall continue 5. God hath always had such a Care of them that they have never perished under their afflictions Though they have fallen yet they have not perished They have laid down their lives but they have not lost them Their lives have not been taken away but upon such terms as they have been willing to part with them and in which they are gainers Phil. 1.21 He that could say To him to live was Christ could also say to dye is gain therefore he comforted himself in this That though he might lay down his life in those troubles which he underwent at Rome yet he should have a considerable value for it for Christ should be manifested in his body whether it were by life or death Obj. 2. Scripture and Experience both tell us That all things fall alike to all Eccles 9.2 3. so that love or hatred is not to be known by any thing before us Ans 1. This must be understood of outward things only thus far That wicked men have their shares in the good things of this life and good men have their part in the evil things of it There is no outward good but the wicked have enjoy'd nor no outward trouble and affliction but hath befallen the righteous and as they have their shares of these so they have but a share of them the good have not all the evil nor the wicked all the good of this world and there is reason for this because the wicked have their good things here and the good have their evil things 2. Though all things do fall alike to all yet all things do not work alike to all God's care is seen in ordering those things which befall his people for their good in making those things good in the conclusion which are evil in themselves whereas those things which are good in themselves or at least reputed so among men are for the hurt of those who enjoy them when they fall into the hands of wicked men Psal 11.6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares There is nothing that such a one enjoys but it is a snare to him to entangle and hold him fast till God cast him into Hell whereas the same things are helps to a good man to bring him to Heaven Rom. 8.28 All things work together for good to those that love God So that although Good and Evil be dispensed promiscuously among good and bad and they seem to fare all alike yet does God under these carry on distinct and different works of Mercy and Judgment of Mercy to the good for their Salvation and of Judgment to the wicked for their hardning So that herein is seen the Providence of God towards his people that he furthers their Salvation by those things which are an occasion of hardening others and by those Providences which are common to them and others he carries on a special design of Grace and Mercy to them So that there is a vast difference betwixt those things which seem to be the same For though the godly have all the troubles in the World which any other do meet withall yet they have not the Wrath and Displeasure of God in them but a secret assistance and support under them and though the wicked have all the outward blessings that God bestows upon his own yet they have not the Love of God in and through them and his Blessing with them as the godly have 3. Though outward things are not sufficient to discover Love or Hatred they alone are not proofs of one or other yet it is unquestionably true That the Love and Hatred of God do run thorough these things also God orders and disposes outward things in his love to the Godly and though sense cannot discern his Love by these yet Faith can often see it thorow them and the outward Providences of God speak his displeasure to the wicked yea he often times gives them those things in wrath in which they blessed themselves and when they have both finished their races and they shall both look back upon their lives from Eternity they will both agree in this That they were in nothing more unlike than in that in which they seemed to be alike Obj. 3. But we see that not only the godly do partake of the same Judgements which befall the wicked but the wicked also do share in the same mercies and preservations with the righteous they also are preserved in time of danger with the other no judgement but takes away as good as it leaves behind it and leaves as bad as it takes away where then is seen God's care of his people Ans There is a great difference betwixt the Judgments and Mercies of the good and bad though they seem to be the same and to sence without difference For the Mercies of the godly are indeed sent in Mercy to his people he orders one Mercy towards another a temporal Mercy towards a spiritual one and one Mercy is a pledg of another so that a good man can say often times by Faith as Leah did Gen. 30.11 Behold a troop cometh And as David reasoned from his deliverance from the Lyon and the Bear to his deliverance from the Philistins so can a good man reason from one Mercy of any kind to another but if God give any thing to a wicked man that seems a Mercy it is but to prevent a greater Mercy a Temporal to prevent a Spiritual he gives them temporal Rewards here for any service they do him to take off their claim to any hereafter Again if he send any Judgment upon his people it is not to destroy but to prevent destruction he sends temporal judgments to prevent spiritual he afflicts them here that they might not perish with the World but to the wicked he sends one judgment to make way for another thus all the Judgments which fell on the Egyptians in their own Land made way for their overthrow at the Red Sea For this must be observed That though publike Judgments do spare bad as well as good and both seem to be alike wonderfully delivered from it yet it is with a great difference One is a preservation from the Evil and the other a reservation for some greater Evil. We read That the Mourners in Jerusalem were marked Ezek. 9 4. that they might be