Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	angel_n	glorious_a	holy_a	2,405	5	4.6767	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49758	Parents groans over their wicked children several sermons on Prov. XVII, 25, published for the benefit of all, but especially of good parents and their children / by Edward Lawrence ...	Lawrence, Edward, 1623-1695.	1681 (1681)	Wing L654; ESTC R5524	46,723	144

for your other wicked children 4. Consider thou hast greater things to affect thee with grief and sorrow than thy wicked children there are whole Empires and Kingdoms of men and women and children who have as precious souls as thine or thy childrens these dishonour the same God and perish under his wrath and multitudes that have the Scriptures and Ordinances despise the same Christ and the same Gospel as thy children do and why shouldst thou be more concern'd for one or more of thy wicked children than for the whole world that lies in wickedness 5. Let your sorrow be guided by Scripture and Reason that ye may not provoke God and defile your souls and wound your consciences by sinful groans and tears For this end observe two Rules First Mourn more for their sins whereby they provoke and dishonour God and defile and destroy themselves and others than for any shame or loss in worldly things that befall you hereby that it may appear that the love of God and your childrens souls and not the love of the World hath the greatest influence on your sorrow for I fear that there is usually in good parents too much of carnal sorrow and too little of godly sorrow in their mourning under this great calamity Secondly Let not thy sorrow disease thy body and impair thy health God doth not require us to mourn more for our childrens sins than our own and he never makes it our duty by sorrow for either to destroy our bodies which are the Temples of the Holy Ghost and the truth is that godly sorrow is the health of the soul and never hurts the body for Grace is always a friend and never an enemy to nature and therefore do not deprive thy self of all opportunities to honour God and serve his Church do not make thy yoke-fellow desolate nor thy children Orphans by such sorrow that will neither please God nor ease thy self nor do any good to thy wicked and miserable children 6. Labour to get your Graces strengthened under this great affliction for ye have need of more knowledge and wisdom and faith and hope and love and meekness and patience to inable and fit you to bear this than most other affections and ye must see and enjoy more of God and Christ to keep up your hearts under this than under most other troubles yet by the strength of Christ ye may be inabled not only to bear but to glory in this tribulation and the greater the trouble is the more good ye may gain by it 7. Comfort thy self in that the greatest and best things which thou hast most pray'd for and trusted unto and expected and chiefly loved and desired are all safe and sure 1. Thy God is and will be blessed and glorious for ever whatever becomes of thy child all his infinite perfections are working for his glory Christ himself is Gods and doth the whole work of a Mediator as his servant and for his glory all the blessed Angels and Saints will for ever honour and admire and love and praise him 2. God the Father Son and Holy Ghost are for ever thy own and will to all eternity be glorified in making thee blessed and glorious thou hast a bad child but a good God all thy work will be done thy sins pardoned and kill'd thy graces perfected and body and soul glorified and shall an ungodly child make all thy consolations herein small to thee Lastly Consider this trouble will last but a little while I confess I do not know or can upon search find any thing that can lift up the heart above this trouble but the knowledge and sense of the infinite love of God in Christ to a mans self and of that holy and glorious eternity which this love will shortly bring him unto to tell you that this is and hath been the case of other godly parents may allay something of your grief But what is this but to tell you that others are and have been as miserable as you or to tell you that as wicked children as yours have been sanctified and saved yields some hopes but it can amount to no more than to think they may be sav'd or thy may be damn'd and there is as much reason to fear the one as to hope for the other But for a man to see a gainful death ready to loose him into that world where there is none of this sorrow and to know that at the day of judgment his wicked children will be no more to him than bloody Bonners or Gardiners or damn'd Devils and that he himself shall sit with Christ to judge them and that he shall love and delight in the holiness and justice of the Judg of all the World in passing that sentence upon them Depart ye cursed into everlasting sire prepared for the devil and his angels This is sufficient to overcome all immoderate grief for his ungodly children Lastly I shall finish this discourse in a serious exhortation to these ungodly children who are the grief and bitterness of their good parents And herein I shall 1. Endeavour to convince them of their sins 2. Of their misery 3. Perswade them to forsake their sins that so they may be freed from that misery First I shall set before you the greatness of your sins in these four particulars 1. Ye have broken your Covenant with God 2. Ye have broken the Bonds wherein ye were bound to the Church of God 3. Ye have broken the Bonds of your duty to your parents 4. Ye have broken the Bonds of your duty to your other relations First Ye have broken your Covenant with God whereinto ye were solemnly enter'd by baptism for it 's clear by that Scripture before mention'd Levit. 19.3 That by casting off the authority of your parents ye have disowned the Lord to be your God Your breach of Covenant with God appears more fully in these four particulars 1. Ye do in your hearts and practices deny the Being of God the first Article of the Covenant is that ye should acknowledge and believe that the Lord he is God for he that cometh to God must believe that he is Hebr. 11.6 But this is the language of your hearts and lives That there is no God Ye deny God to be the first and best Being in preferring the creatures before him and saying in effect That the creatures are all and the great Jehovah is but as a cypher to you Ye deny his Omnipresence he fills all places where ye are but ye take no notice of him the presence of a Father or Master hath some influence upon you but it works not at all upon you that there is a God in the room Ye deny his infinite Wisdom that Wisdom of God in contriving the work of Salvation by Jesus Christ I say that Wisdom which is so glorious and wonderful to the principalities and powers of heaven is to such proud and ignorant boys and girls as you but a foolish and ridiculous thing

that death is near whatever ye think of your lives they will be but as a vapour or shadow or smoke as God speaks them to be and though ye put death far from you yet it will be within a hands-breadth of you one day or hour may put an end to your space of repentance and conclude your day of grace and salvation and dispatch you into that world where no new creatures are made ye now defie death as if ye were a fit match for the king of terrors ye scorn the grave and scoff at the day of judgment and deride everlasting burnings but when God shall pour upon you your own wickedness Jer. 14.16 then ye will too late condemn your selves for fools when ye come to reap the fruit of your own folly Secondly I come to give you directions to direct you to true Wisdom that ye may be such wise children as to make glad fathers and not to be the heaviness of your mothers 1. Do not dare to put off your repentance any longer it is not too late to repent so long as God calls you to repentance and gives you time for it Yet is the accepted time yet is the day of salvation God and Christ and Angels and the Church and your bleeding parents are yet ready to receive you in love and joy but it will shortly be too late to repent though it can never be too soon Dear children ye must either perswade your selves that the word of God is a lie and so think ye are secure from hell because ye deny the Bible that threatneth it or ye must presume that ye are not ungodly children as indeed ye are or else ye must conclude that your present state is not safe and good and that therefore ye must either repent or be damn'd and perhaps the devil himself doth not tempt you to resolve that you will never repent but to think that it is yet time enough and that therefore ye will repent hereafter I have sometimes dreaded to hear debauch'd children confidently say That they do not question but they shall be converted and become good when at present they hate to be reformed yea I am perswaded that some secure them selves in their sins by presuming that the prayers of their good parents for their conversion and salvation will at last be heard but how many such have been as Solomon speaks of others Prov. 14.32 driven away in their wickedness in whom that dreadful Scripture hath been fulfill'd Prov. 29.1 He that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy I shall here seriously reason this case a little with you Why should ye continue one moment longer in those sins which ye must repent of or perish and defer repentance for which ye shall have cause for ever to rejoyce and bless God when it is done Are ye not wicked enough already that ye must stay to be worse Have ye not defil'd your selves and provok'd God and refus'd Christ and afflicted your parents long enough already Poor souls if there be one hour yet left wherein ye are sure that ye shall not die and fall into hell or one hour wherein sin is better than grace and wherein it is better be a child of the devil than a child of God or if ye can come into the kingdom of God and begin an eternal life an hour too soon take that hour and spend it on your lusts but if not stop presently and let this be the hour wherein ye begin to believe and repent and reform and wherein ye begin to set your faces towards heaven with an unmovable resolution to walk in the way of faith and obedience till ye come there Direct 2. Judge whether ye have more reason to obey the devil or to obey God as the Apostles said to their Persecutors Acts 4.19 Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to you more than unto God judge ye So say I to you whether it be right to obey the devil rather than God judge ye Consider God hath authority to command you for he is your Maker your Preserver and Redeemer and ye owe your selves to him but the devil neither made nor kept nor bought you and therefore can have no right to command you Consider further that all the Commands of God are the Commands of his Love for he doth not only command you as your Lord but also as your Father and Saviour and therefore he commands you to take himself to be your God and happiness to take his Son Jesus Christ to save you from all evil and to make you for ever holy and blessed but the devil commands you out of hatred and malice and all his commands are the commands of a Murderer and therefore he commands you to defile and to destroy and to damn your selves he commands you to be blind and ignorant to hate and scorn God and Christ and to love sin and death and hell Consider also that God is able to reward your obedience and to punish your disobedience he is that only law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4.12 He can crown you with eternal glory if ye obey him and can cast you into everlasting flames if ye disobey him but the devil who is cursed and tormented himself cannot make you happy if ye obey him nor miserable if ye do forsake and renounce him 3. See the great difference betwixt those wise and holy children who live in obedience to God and their parents and you who live in disobedience to both it is not wealth or poverty or beauty or deformity or sickness or health but sin and grace that make the greatest difference betwixt persons and ye must know God and Christ or else ye cannot understand the worth of a Saint nor the vileness of a Sinner Some of you may look into your own families and there see some of your brethren and sisters like pleasant and fruitful plants about your fathers table when ye are as briars and thorns and weeds in the family they are the crown and joy and you the calamity of your parents all that see them may look upon them as a seed whom the Lord hath blessed but all that see you have reason to judge you to be a cursed generation Poor children is it better to be like Cain than like Abel or like cursed Canaan than like Shem or like Ishmael than like Isaac or like Esau than like Jacob Are not your souls and bodies as precious as the souls and bodies of your good brethren and sisters or can the devil and sin and the world be better to you than to them or is not death and judgment as near you as it is to them or have not ye as much reason to love and obey God and your parents as they or can ye endure the loss of Heaven or torments of Hell better than they if not why should not ye be as good as they are 4.