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	weight_n	10,184	5	9.3838	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64861	The compleat scholler; or, A relation of the life, and latter-end especially, of Caleb Vernon who dyed in the Lord on the 29th of the ninth month, 1665. Aged twelve years and six months. Commending to youth the most excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord.	Vernon, John, fl. 1666.	1666 (1666)	Wing V250B; ESTC R219857	45,377	107

to his support though his seeming reserved and drooping posture after his first dayes rejoycing to see his Parents in London he would not own to be melancholy but solemn meditation about his eternal estate with hope and some joy yet mixed at first with more fears and doubtings nor could any thing allure him into the Country again though his Father offered his company the Plague and number of his Patients beginning to abate because he prized he said the opportunities of the Word in London above life or hopes of more health elsewhere saying sometimes with ardency A day in thy Courts is better than a thousand elsewhere And thus began first to open himself to his Mother Mother I now begin to see the vanity of all things in this life and it is a troublesome world if I were assured of the Love of God I would chuse rather to dye than live And having intermitting fits with wearisom restless nights he said to his Mother about the beginning of the ninth month in the morning with joy Mother I have seen the Face of God and God hath as it were taken me into his Arms this night and assured me of his Love mentioning these Scriptures following as his refreshment And him that cometh to me I will in no-wise cast out And why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God c. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils saying God had shewed him he might not trust to man for his healing but look unto and trust in him and whereas said he I was before very restless that I could not lye still in one place yet afterwards I was at great ease and could lie very quiet though I had no sleep Then cryed he out of his vileness also most humbly and said I see now how I was by nature plunged in sin and iniquity but my Lord Iesus Christ which he uttered ardently hath been a ransom for me and spake particularly of the vanity of his mind before his sickness and blessed the Lord for his Visitation In the midst of one fit he spake affectionately This is my comfort in my affliction Thy Word hath quickned me Upon the fifth of the ninth month he had many fainting fits but his faith and hope was so maintained in the midst of ●hem that he said joyfully Mother My flesh and my heart faileth me but God is ●he strength of my life and my portion for ●ver joying in God as his God in va●iety of pithy expressions saying How ●ad would it be with me now if God were not ●ny God On the 7th of the ninth month his fit came as formerly which at first was grievous causing him to cry out once What shall I do but he checked himself presently and said Why I know God will help me and I will trust in him admiring much his goodness to him His Mother leaving him to lie quiet sent the Maid but he desired to be left alone and sometime after sending to him again he sent his Mother word he was very sick but God made it easie to him and when his Mother came he told her he was made so joyful through the light of Gods countenance that though he was very weak as ever he was in his body yet he could lie still magnified the Lord greatly for his Grace in chusing him who was he said so very vile by nature And now Mother saith he God hath taken away all my slavis● fear and whereas it was so with me that I could not endure to be in a room by my self now I care not how much I am alone He di● particularly complain then of a frothy frame before his Visitation blessing the Lord again for bringing this Sickness upon him saying For these light affliction● which are but for a moment work for me ●● far more exceeding and eternal weight ●● Glory and mentioned the words also i● Rev. 7. 14. These are they which came o● of great tribulation washing their robes in the blood of the Lamb. He said one sin of his at Ewel had often lain heavy upon his heart namely his disobedience to his Mother once not going to bed when she had commanded it She told him she hoped God had pardoned it and all other his sins in Christ by whose Blood all was done away and she had both forgiven it him and had forgotten it which much satisfied him saying he hoped God would set him on the Rock that was higher than he and if he pleased to spare him he desired to be found obedient to him and desired to be joyned to his People asking his Mother if I. S. who had proposed himself and he knew was suspended for further tryal came forward saying It would be a sad thing if he should go backward in the things of God And then much admired the goodness of God to him saying How good is it to have an Interest in Christ now and how miserable is the contrary in such a condition as I am in and was much taken up with the consideration of Eternity so that his Mother marvelled at his sweet discourse at this time and thought his face even shined with the Grace of God that was on him he continued in a very heavenly frame of heart to the time of her going to bed and desiring to restrain him from talking more having had little rest he answered that talk about common things he found hurtful to him and he wanted breath quickly but to speak of the things of God was not wearisome but refreshing And the Maid of a worthy Acquaintance in Prison coming to see him he sent her Master word he loved him as he was the Lord's Prisoner and he was sure God would deliver his Prisoners Being asked how he knew that he said he had his Word for it which said that he would bring them from the East and from the West from the North and from all places whither they had been carried away captive and he was sure not a tittle of his Word should fail till all was fulfilled And that the enemies of the Lord he was sure should be destroyed for the Word of the Lord had said it repeating then some words of the 47th of Isa. to prove it and desired the Maid to tell her Master also that he was in the place where God would have him to be and desired him to stand fast in the Lord and not give way to the Adversary and desire her Mistris to be content and not to faint but consider that God was able to make up all her Husbands losses unto her His Father making ready two Larks for him he solemnly invited his Father Mother Brother Sister and Cousin to sup with him asking his Father whether it was not Levi that made a Feast to invite his Kindred unto Christ when he was converted ●nd did in a gracious manner before them give