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	see_v	weight_n	2,658	5	9.2701	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47631	A treatise of the divine promises in five bookes : in the first, a generall description of their nature, kinds, excellency, right use, properties, and the persons to whom they belong : in the foure last, a declaration of the covenant it selfe .../ by Edvvard Legh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1014; ESTC R19654	173,632	533

their children after their owne pleasure to satisfie their will but GOD our heavenly Father in great wisdome considereth with what correction and when to chastize his so as may be most for their profit yea the best profit to repaire his image of holinesse in them 2. In the just measure and continuance thereof Ier. 46.28 30.11 Esay 27.7 8. 1 Cor. 10.13 they shall not be tempted above their strength GOD will not lay more on man then is meet that he should enter into iudgemēt with God Iob 34.23 Affliction is momentany CHRIST comforts his Disciples with the shortnesse of afflictions Ioh. 16.16 GOD will not keepe his anger for ever Ier. 3.12 Ezek. 16.42 Micah 7.18 nor cast off for ever Lam. 3.31 David had great experience of this as he often professeth Psal. 30.5 Psal. 103.9 The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous Psalme 125.3 2. In love and tendernesse GOD compareth himselfe to a Father Psal. 103.13 14. to a Mother Esay 49.15 16. I will not execute the fiercenesse of mine anger for I am GOD and not man Hesea 11.9 and in the 8. verse he saith His heart is turned within him his repentings are kindled together GOD there imitates parents saith Theodoret when any misery is upon a child their bowels yearne more There is an excellent expression in Iudg. 10.16 His soule was grieved for the misery of Israel He doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men Lam. 3.33 Judgement is called his Strange worke Esay 28.21 which wee inforce him unto Atque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox In all their afflictions hee is afflicted Esay 63.9 Affliction cannot separate from his love Rom. 8.35 39. He preserveth their teares as pretious liquor in his bottle Psal. 56.8 See Psal. 116.15 Psal. 31.7 Psal. 38.9 Psal. 145.8 9. 3. For good GOD afflicts his children for their good There are many benefits which GOD promiseth and his Spirit worketh by afflictions 1. Generall they are blessed whom the LORD correcteth Behold happy is the man whom GOD correcteth therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty Iob 5.17 the like promise we have Iam. 1.12 Psal. 94.12 Whom the LORD loveth hee correcteth even as a father the sonne in whom hee delighteth Pro. 3.12 Quem unicè diligit whom he cockers above the rest of his children so the Hebrew word signifieth That Sonne in whom hee is well pleased saith Mercerus quem approbat whom he makes his white boy so Theophylact interprets Heb. 12.6 The Originall there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chastize is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sonne or childe Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall waight of glory Wee shall have for Affliction Glory For light affliction Heavie Massie Substantiall Glory a waight of Glory For Momentany affliction eternall Glory He addeth also degrees of comparison yea goeth beyond all degrees calling it More excellent farre more excellent an exceeding excessive eternall weight of Glory See Rom. 8.18 Acts 14.22 2 Tim. 2.12 1 Cor. 11.32 Matth. 5.10 11. Luke 6.22 1 Pet. 3.14 4.14 Iam. 5.11 Psal. 119.71 Lament 3.27 2. Speciall 1. Afflictions are trialls the godly by them have experience of their frailties and graces and come to know GOD and themselves 2 Chron. 33.13 This is oft set out by this comparison of gold and silver tried by the fire Zach. 13.9 Prov. 17.3 Psal. 66.10 1 Pet. 4.12 Iames calls afflictions temptations because they serve to try what is in us GOD led the Israelites forty yeares in the wildernesse To prove them and to know what was in their heart that is that they might know saith Iunius The skill of a Pilot is unknowne but in a tempest the valour of a Captaine is unseene but in a battell and the worth of a Christian is untried but in triall and temptation 2. They shall purge sinne they are soveraigne medicines to kill spirituall diseases GODS children shall come out of the fornace of affliction much more refined and purified as Iob did and lose nothing but their drosse By this the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged and this is all the fruite to take away his sinne Esay 27.9 I will purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy tinne Esay 1.25 Many shall be purified made white and tried Dan. 12.10 Wee know that all things worke together for good to them that love GOD to them who are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8.28 Wee that is not only I and you but all the faithfull know have great proofe of it by daily experience that all afflictions for of them he specially speaketh how many or how great soever they be shall procure and further our chiefest good the welfare and happinesse of our soules See Iohn 15.2 Prov. 20.30 Psal 119.67 Esay 4.4 Iob 33.16 17. 36.8 9 10 15. Hosea 2.6 7. 3. They quicken graces they make us partakers of GODS holinesse and bring forth the quiet fruit of righteousnesse Heb. 12.10 11. The inward man is renewed by them 2 Cor. 4.16 1. Faith is exercised in beleeving most assuredly the promises that GOD hath made of our deliverance that the triall of your faith being much more pretious then of gold that perisheth though it be tryed with fire might be found unto praise and glory at the appearing of JESUS CHRIST CHRIST Faith is as much advanced by afflictions as gold by fire The 11. Chapter to the Hebrewes proveth this Afflictions saith one cause us to seeke out GODS promise the promise to seeke faith faith to seeke prayer and prayer to find GOD. 2. Hope in assuring her selfe of the reward promised to them that suffer patiently Tribulatiō worketh patience patience experience and experience hope Rom. 5.3 4. 3. Patience is exercised in bearing quietly Tribulation worketh patience as was said Account it all joy when yee fall into divers temptations knowing this that the triall of your faith worketh patience Iam. 1.2 3. 3. To helpe us to beare them and in due time to remove them GOD promiseth to helpe us to beare afflictions and in due time to remove them Though he fall hee shall not be utterly cast downe for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand Psal. 37.24 As their afflictions abound so shall their consolations also 2 Cor. 1.5 They shall have the Comforter himselfe Ioh. 14.16 Ioh. 15.26 16.7 GOD often promiseth to his people to be a sure and speedy helpe in all troubles David had great experience thereof The booke of Psalmes is full of those speeches GOD is my Rocke my Tower my Refuge my Shield and Buckler my Health and Strength Psal. 18.2 Psal. 31.3 Psal. 71.3 Psal. 94.22 73.25 26. All which speeches shew that what helpe any man in any danger may finde in any earthly meanes whatsoever GOD is the same and