Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	body_n	moon_n	star_n	2,625	5	9.1398	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20531	Anwick his meditations vpon Gods monarchie and the deuill his kingdome And of the knowledge that man in this life may obtaine of the almightie, eternal, and most glorious godhed: with other thinges not only worth the reading but also the marking and the retayning.	Anwick, I.	1587 (1587)	STC 694; ESTC S108317	93,450	132

had he hidden in himselfe halfe his glory for euery thing is best discerned by his contrary Therefore the eternall vertue the infinite comfort and the most pleasaunt fruicte of Gods mercy could neuer haue beene so precious and comfortable to Gods elect except it had beene matched with a contrary vertue as infinite great as excellent and as much to be praysed as it selfe euen Gods iustice in generall but especially on the wicked reprobate Thus it appeareth how it pleased God to make for his owne purpose to shew foorth his wonderfull power a Theater or stage for the inhabitaunts of Heauen Earth and Hell to behold his vnspeakable woorkes and ordained the meanes and matter to work on how euery thing should come to his forepointed ende And that was and is some to saluation and some to damnation and all both for to shew foorth his own glory purposed in himselfe before the world was and to shew himselfe vnto all three regiments Heauen Earth Hell to Angels Deuils and mankind to bee the almighty eternall and most glorious God of mercy and iustice Oh that men would therefore feare him and submit their willes to his will because he is the chiefe Monarch of all in all will they nill they This is that very true God whom all the holy and noble Patriarches from the beginning did serue and honor before the general flood with such sacrifices as were then allowed of vntill wickednes did so abound as in these our dayes that God was as it were compelled to destroy by water and seemed to begin the world anew This is that most leuing God that cannot forget such as loue feare him * For when he was to execute iustice vpon Genes 6. the vniuersall world hee prouided for his seruant Noah commaunding him 120. yeares before to make the Arke in readines for safegard of him and his whereas all others for infidelitie pride and disobedience with other horrible and filthy sinnes perished by water The like kindnes he shewed vnto his seruant Lot when he by fire and brimstone from Heauen destroyed Sodome and Gomorah with other Cities And to all the Godly from age to age hee hath shewed like grace and mercy and greater to some by so much as the Gospell surmounteth the law in goodnes towards Gods elect This is that God * that those Abraham for a cheefe seruant Genes 12. made him of counsell what hee would doe to Sodome and Gomorah hee made him also his friend chiefe member of his visible Church on Earth and gaue him this honorable title the father of beleeuers of whose seed the promised Messias by a lineall discent came into the world in his appointed time to saue so many of the damned seed of Adam as God before the world was had elected to bee saued by the death and rising againe * of that vnspotted Lambe Christ Iesus stain from the beginning in his own person by Gods Reuel 13. 8. eternal decree forepointment also * in his elect members This is the same glorious maiestie that hath created the Heauen and the Heauen of Heauens with all the heauenly bodies And also hell with fiery tormentes the Sky the Sun the Mone the Starres the Sea and the Earth with al their contentes last of all man according to his owne ymage and for his owne purpose and eternall glory Euerlasting praises be vnto this most holy and glorious Psal 1●5 16 God * that possesseth the Heauens and hath giuen the Earth to the children of men therein to stay and breath a whyle and so to passe away some to Heauen and some to Hel. Therefore wee ought to learne of Dauid to answere the wicked when in skorne they aske where is God wee may say our God is in Heauen and doth euery where what pleaseth him Hee is there accompanied with his holy Angels and soules of his elect in such pleasant rest quiet felicitie as no fleshly eie hath or can see no eare hath hard it told because no tongue is sufficient to expresse it nor learning disribe it no cunning with pen or pensel able to paint it out no thought strong ynough to imagine nor fleshly hart woorthy to conceaue it Saint Iohn in his reuelation hath said so much to blaze and declare the glorious ioy of this almightie and eternall God which hee will giue to his elect in the world to come as is possible for man to speake write or vnderstand and yet farre of from that it is indeede * For we 1 Cor. 13 12. see in this world as it were but through a glasse nothing perfectly but the time will come when wee shall see God face to face This euerlasting Monarch and almighty Iehoua is all in al and onely may bee said to bee For none but hee can iustly say without addition I am and why Euen because hee onely I meane God hath his being in of and by himselfe and all other creatures in of for from and by him alone There was neuer none of Adams lyne except the holy Ghost wrought in him to that end that could attaine to the true knowledge of this almighty and onely Monarch The heathen Philosophers saw a far of an vnknown thing which they very well perceiued to bee the cause of all other causes first moouer of all that moueth further knowledge they could not get by al the wisedome and cunning of men Therfore it is most true * that the wisedome of this world 1 Cor. 1 20. is foolishnes with God And contrarywise worldly wise men not yet new borne by the holy Ghost esteeme the simplicitie of the Gospel very foolishnes in comparison of their owne wisedome Therefore they cannot attaine to the true knowledge and wisedome of God And why Euen because * no man can Iohn 6. 44. 14. 6. come to the Father but by the Sonne And again * no man can come to the Sonne except the Father draw him Therefore those Philosophers and mighty wise men could not attaine to the true knowledge and wisedome of God neither can the mighty and wise men in these daies reach vnto it because they are not drawen thereunto by the holy Ghost proceding both from the Father and the Sonne and the meanes to bee drawne is to submitte our selues to the gouernment of Gods woord wherein by seeking wee shal find the supply of al our want And set vs * exalt and praise the name of the Lord that only woorketh woonders * for who so taketh on Esai 25. 1. Eccle. 18. him to tell out his woonderful woorks when he hath done al that hee can hee is new to beginne againe for it is an vnpossible enterprise A DESCRIPTION OF THE NAME and nature of Satan and what power it hath pleased God to giue him ouer mankind as well the Godly as godlesse viz. the elect and the reprobate CAP. 2. NOw that which hath bene said of God cannot bee sufficient except mention likewise bee