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
a57873	Præterita, or, A summary of several sermons the greater part preached many years past, in several places, and upon sundry occasion / by John Ramsey ...	Ramsey, John, Minister of East Rudham.	1659 (1659)	Wing R225; ESTC R31142	238,016	312

habet yet God will not be served by halves that which is but almost done is not done at all nor can ought be presumed to be done so long as it remains unfinished It is a Maxime in the civil law (q) Quicquid in calore iracundiae vel fit vel dicitur non prius ratum est quam si perseverantia apparuit judicium animi fuisse Regul juris ex Digest whatsoever is done or spoken in hot blood or anger is of no effect or force as being a sudden and rash act unlesse it be further confirmed and ratified by a deliberate resolution So they that are religious onely in heat of blood hot-spurs in devotion by fits and starts and most violent for a turn or two who follow the chase eagerly till they meet with the hony as Jonathan sometimes did these I say are of no account and estimation except they approve declare themselves to be so in their cold blood by constancy and perseverance For it is not the receiving but keeping of faith that quickens the dead soul they are not the beginnings but the end that commend a christian and Tertullian is peremptory in the case (r) Nemo Christianus nisi qui ad finem usque perseveraverit Tertul. Praescr adv Haer. cap. 3. there cannot be a true Christian that perseveres not unto the end what is this but to look out of Sodome with Lots wife to go out of Aegypt with the dissembling Israelites to put the hand to the plow and then look back to begin in the spirit and end in the flesh with the foolish Galatians to work and not to work out what is this but to render our selves like unto blazing stars or fiery Meteors that yield a short blaze and shine and forthwith vanish in smoak and smother to flirt up from the ground with the frisking Grashopper and presently to fall down upon the earth this is it that argues men foolish builders with him in the parable and affords matter of open contempt and scorn This man began to build but was not able to finish it Luk. 14.30 2. Pass we then from the Act to the Object whereabout the act is conversant The second thing considerable in the matter of the duty The specification of the object Your salvation and that is said to be our salvation were there no reward for the righteous as David infers with a note of certainty doubtlesse there is then were they as St. Paul reasons the case of all men most misorable were the reward severed and separated from the work (ſ) Mercedem si tollas nihil in vita hominum tam inutile tam stultum videri potest quam virtus Lactant. de Justit lib. 5. cap. 19. nihil tam inutile tam stultum quam virtus saith Lactantius there were nothing more vain and unprofitable then Christianity and true religion were it any trivial or light commodity an ordinary or inferiour kind of good it were more then questionable whether it would recompense our pains much lesse satisfie our expectation and that to pursue it with so great toile and travel were not to tread in their steps or wanderings who sweat out the spirit and life of their most stately steeds of great price and value to gain it may be with much hazard and uncertainty a small quarry of a small or no price at all meeting with more pain in the chase then they find pleasure or profit in the purchase which scarce entertains them with a supper And lest such like jealousies should damp and daunt our desires or rebate the edge of our endeavours the Apostle tells us we work for salvation which will sufficiently requite and repay us for our pains there is not so great difficulty or tediousnesse in the work Two things in the object 1. Excellency Salvation 2. Property Your but there is far greater dignity and duration in the reward so that he ven and earth time and eternity are not more differenced and distanced each from other if St. Paul may be judge 2 Cor. 4.17 For our light afflictions which are but for a moment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the word of the text works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory There are two things that are the common attractives of affection and are wont to excite and provoke love (t) Aristot 2. Pocit cap. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Philosopher property and excellency when the object is amiable and lovely in it self and when it is proper and peculiar to the party both meet together and kiss each other in the Apostles precept such is the excellency that it is no less then salvation and for the property it is our salvation a common salvation indeed as St. Jude stiles it in the extent and multitude of possessours yet proper to the owner and that best becomes every one that most properly belongs to him and property and interest is the ground of care and diligence and where excellency and property fall in each with other they cannot but whet on industry in the most secure and sluggish dispositions and set every man to work The very name of salvation is a short notation and description of the excellency as being the Elixar and quintessence of perfection the adaequate object and ultimate end of mans desire This is the whole man and without this every man is altogether vanity The Syriack and Arabick translations turn the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into life and so seemingly neglect not only the Emphasis but the efficacy of the speech For though salvation be a life yet all life is not a salvation And God himself who is blessed for ever and the glorious Angels lead a happy a thrice happy life and yet are no way capable of salvation (u) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est ca vita quae miseris deploratae spei perditis homini bus obvenit Cameron in Loc. Myroth Evangelic which is proper unto those which were sometime wretched and miserable and utterly lost in themselves and there is a double consideration of it 1. As an Immunity or Freedom 2. As a Dignity or high Priviledge First Salvation is an immunity from misery a freedome from the danger of the greatest evils Salvation is an immunity and freedom sin death and eternal damnation It is not safety only but salvation and betwixt these two there is a broad and wide difference That man may be said to preserve another who prevents his ruine and destruction But he only can be said to save that recovers and restores it being lost Which moved the Oratour to break forth by way of admiration (*) Hoc quantum est ita magnum ut uno latino vocabulo exprimi non possit Is est nimirum Soter qui salutem dedit Cicer. lib. 2. cont Verrem O how great a thing is this so great that it cannot be expressed in one Latine word Is est