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

Text snippets containing the quad

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

if but a minute in it How mercilesse and cruell is the fire above all other clements but then to be thrown into those unquenchable flames the fire that shall never go out who can dwell with everlasting burnings But yet further Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Lord have mercy upon me saith the woman in the Gospell for my daughter is grievously tormented with a Devill But one Devill yet grievously tormented and it was her daughter yet Lord have mercy upon me Do not your ears tingle and your hearts tremble to think of that heavie doom when sentenc'd amongst all those hellish Fiends those infernal Furies amongst all the Devils in that pit of darknesse in those everlasting burnings and for ever and ever Oh what ghastly looks what fearfull howlings and what hideous yellings Then shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth indeed Take yet another sight Isa 5.14 Hell hath inlarged her mouth wide and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoyceth shall descend into it He that now rejoyceth in his pomp and glory and with all his multitude for hells mouth is wide Mat. 7.13 Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat But strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it Beloved here is our rejoycing that we are not in the number of those many but in the number of these few that we are prepared for life and delivered from that sad destruction Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ So no pit nor darknesse nor fire nor Devill to torment them Luk. 1.74 He hath delivered us out of the hand of our enemies that we might serve him without fear We are delivered from them and the more we consider the horror of that bottomlesse pit that blacknesse of darknesse that unquenchable fire the more we consider those fearful howlings and those hideous yellings with the Devil and his Angels the greater is our joy especially whilest we take notice of the multitudes that go down to hell That so many millions are devoured in that pit and that we are delivered where so few escape the more they are the more cause we have to rejoyce in that great deliverance As the Israelites whilest they stood safe upon the shore and beheld the drowning of the Egyptians in the sea or as they when delivered from the bloudy plot of that cruel Haman wheresoever the word came the Jewes they had light and gladnesse a feast and a good day If they for a deliverance from that which kils the body how much more we for a deliverance from that which casts both soul and body into hell The greater the deliverance is the more is our joy Rejoyce ye Righteous 3 Whilest we look without us Whilest we behold the glory of the heavens above us the riches of the earth below us that variety of all creatures round about us Psal 8.3 When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained What is man that thou art mindfull of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field the fowls of the air and the fish of the the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea All things to serve Man that goodly canopy of heaven that covers us so bespangled with variety of stars that rich green mantle of the earth that supports us so bestudded with variety of plants those vast dominions both of air and water so peopled with an infinite variety of creatures not only for mans necessity but his recreation and delight All under mans command So in their first creation Gen. 1.26 Let us make man in our own image after our own likenesse and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowle of the air and over the cattell and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth It is true indeed man by his fall as he hath defaced Gods image so hath he forfeited his rule But here is the joy of Saints Christ hath renew'd their title 1 Cor. 3.21 All things are yours whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods All are yours ye are the heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ who is heir of all things And is not here matter of great joy We see the men of the world how they rejoyce when they have gotten but a little but a very little in comparison of the whole world when Alcibiades viewed his Kingdoms in a Map they seemed but as the prick of a pin in comparison of the Globe But the whole world is yours As Paul in another case If any man have cause to glory I much more O ye that are highly favoured be not awanting to your selves Are ye in distresse in necessities in wants Do ye murmur and complain It is because your eyes are held as Elisha's servant Behold the mountain is full of horses of fire and chariots of fire round about Elisha You have the wealth of the whole world about you All 's yours Do ye want something as ye think but ye want nothing as God thinks Though ye have it not in your own hands yet is it in his hands who knowes what is better for you then you do your selves Every man is not an Abraham fit to be exceeding rich And what good doth a long garment on the back of a little child you have his word Psal 34.10 The Lions lack and suffer hunger but they that fear the Lord shall want no good thing The Lion is a beast of prey he can feed upon dead carkasses whilest others perish in the famine yet sooner shall the Lion lack then they that fear the Lord any thing which may be for Gods glory or their good Do we not see a Daniel as fair and as well liking with his pulse and water as those that feed at the Kings table So God suites a portion to their mindes and they are content with what they have They desire no more And here 's a wealth beyond that of Alexander Who so rich as he that hath as much as he desires Godlinesse with contentment is great gain Without ifs or ands it is so it is gain gain with a witnesse great gain Nay more what can you desire more here 's gain with contentment O ye covetous muck-worms ye that still feed upon the earth that toyle and sweat and vex and fret rising up betimes going late to bed eating the bread of carefulnesse scarce giving rest unto your bodies nor yet peace to