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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51266	The grand inquiry who is the righteous man: or, The character of a true beleever in his approaches towards heaven. Whereunto is added The resolution of a case of separation betwixt man and wife, propounded to the author by a party much concerned. By William Moore rector at Whalley in Lancashire.	Moore, William, rector of Whalley, Lancashire.	1658 (1658)	Wing M2612; ESTC R214225	54,012	181

and see if we have not great reason of rejoycing even in our greatest trials It is true indeed no affliction for the present is joyous but grievous O but afterwards it works the quiet fruit of righteousnesse to them that are exercised therewith And take notice of it Beleved these are times of triall and one way or other we are sure to come to it So h●d we need to have our strength about us for the flesh is weak We have the word in general Rom 8.28 We know that all things work together for good to them that love God This is a sweet word And is not here matter of great joy whatsoever our condition is be it prosperity or adversity Nay observe further if not in adversity rather then prosperity David will acknowledge it Thou Lord of very faithfulnesse hast caused me to be troubled Do we not see how it files off the rust Isai 27.9 By this the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged and this is the fruit to take away his sin So the drosse consumes and we come out of the fire of affliction as gold refined out of the furnace So it excites our graces And the more our Camomile is trodden on it sends forth a sweeter savour Jam. 1.2 My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations When ye fall into temptations into divers temptations enough to make others stagger to reel to and fro like a drunken man and put them to their wits end yet count this your joy count it all joy And why so knowing that the triall of your faith worketh patience and let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing So Rom. 5.3 Now we rejoyce in hope of the glory of God and not only so but we glory in tribulation also In ipsa tribulatione spes gloriae in ipsa tribulatione gloria spei In tribulation it self is the hope of glory nay in tribulation it self is the glory of our hope and wherefore The Apostle followes it Knowing that tribulation worketh patience patience experience experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts What heap upon heap and grace upon grace and all flowing on us through the benefit of afflictions Are ye not now satisfied 1 Pet. 4.14 If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you The Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God The Spirit of God never rests so gloriously upon the Saints as in the time of suffering Then appears the glory of their faith the glory of their patience hope long-suffering gentlenesse meeknesse goodnesse all the fruits of the Spirit Nor only an increase of grace here but of glory hereafter 2 Cor. 4 18. Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Our light affliction light because but momentany that short affliction compare it with eternity it works glory for us and a weight of glory a great weight an exceeding weight a more exceeding weight a far more exceeding weight a far more exceeding and eternall weight So do but compare your sufferings your layings out with your comings in happy men could you but see your own happinesse how it purifies you from the drosse of sin how it refines your graces how it works you for that weight of glory Mat. 5.11 Happy are ye when men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven The more you suffer here the greater measure and degree of glory shall you have hereafter Rejoyce therefore nay double and treble your rejoycings rejoyce and be glad and exceeding glad Rejoyce in the Lord and be glad ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart 7. Whilest we look behind us Consider the time past As David Psal 77.10 I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High I will remember the works of the Lord and call to minde his wondrous works of old time So do but recount your former experiences of Gods mercies And is not here matter of great joy but think with your selves how it lift up the heart of Haman when he cast his eyes back upon those favours which Ahashuerus had bestowed upon him Esth 5.11 And Haman told them of all the glory of his riches and the multitude of his children and all the things wherein the King had promoted him And when he had been with the King at Esthers Banquet Vers 9. Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart If Haman could rejoyce so much in the favour of a wavering and unconstant man how much more reason have we of rejoycing in the favours of Almighty God with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of changing So do but cast your eyes back upon what he hath already done and shall we not much rejoyce in his mercies Psal 126.3 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad And as good as great yea and many of them Psal 139.17 How precious are thy thoughts toward me O God How great is the sum of them If I should count them they are more in number then the sand Not a minute of time passeth over our heads but we taste his mercies every day that we uprise Lam. 3.22 It is of the Lords mercy that we are not consum'd because his compassions fail not they are new every morning Besides those ordinary and common favours none of us all if we look behinde us at some time or other we have had experience of special and particular deliverances What dangers do continually surround us we may easily guess if we do but consider our adversary the devill how like a roaring Lion he still walks about seeking daily whom he may devour and then the enmity that is in the creatures but especially that desperate wickednesse that lies in our own hearts How are we hunted as a partridge upon the mountains But blessed be God we are escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered The greater our danger the greater our deliverance the more that our sorrow was the greater is our joy As a man that hath been long tost upon the troublesome seas Haec olim meminisse juvabit he then rejoyces when he gets into the harbour As the Israelites when they stood safe upon the banks of the red sea and beheld the drowning of the Egyptians So shall we not look behinde us that we may rejoyce whilest thus we behold the salvation of our God But above all observe that great deliverance from the hands of Satan from the chains of sin wherein we were led captive by him at his pleasure Cast your eyes behinde you and consider Eph. 2.1 You hath