Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	door_n	head_n	lift_v	2,371	5	9.6688	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77990	Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight : or The excellent on earth. / By the late reverend preacher of the Gospel Jeremiah Burrough.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1648 (1648)	Wing B6090; Thomason E1162_1; ESTC R210094	70,993	190

of people elected and called out from the world to be partakers of the Priviledges of Jesus Christ The people of the Jews the seed of Jacob were the Church of God as the seed of such an one And this typified the Church that should be after a company that are taken out of the world to partake of the priviledges of Jesus Christ Canst thou say that thou art of the Church The word that we translate Church is a company that is called out from the world Canst thou ever tell of a work of God separating thee from the world that when thou wentest according to the world God gave thee a mighty call that made a separation between thee and the world For it is said so of the seed of Jacob Numb 23.9 From the tops of the rocks I saw him and beheld him lo the people shall dwell alone they shall not be reckoned among the Nations they shall be separated from the nations All the seed of Jacob are called out of the world they are separated from them by a mighty work of God to partake of Christ and be a member of him And upon this such an one mightily longs after all the outward priviledges of the Church to enjoy all the outward ordinances of Christ after his way those that are of the seed of Jacob they prize the excellency of Jacob as the greatest excellency their hearts are towards it and they rejoyce in that above all the excellency in the world If you ask what this excellency of Jacob is It is the joyning of Gods people in the way of ordinances and duties of Gods worship in the purity of them This in Scripture is called the excellency of Jacob Psal 47.4 He shall chuse our inheritance for us the excellency of Jacob whom he loved It is an excellent Scripture O it is a blessed thing to give all to God to let God chuse our inheritance What is our inheritance The excellency of Jacob whom he loved What was that The worship of God and his ordinances joyning with the people of God in the way of his ordinances in his temple those were the things that were the ordinances of God in those times those are called the excellency of Jacob and so it is now the excellency of a people to enjoy Gods ordinancies You have another expression to the same purpose And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah an inheritour of my mountain and mine elect shall inherit it and my servants shall dwell there Isaiah 65.9 What is the mountain of God Gods Ordinances in his Church I will bring a seed out of Jacob and Judah and they shall inherit my moantain So that the greatest inheritance of the seed of Jacob is the mountain of the Lord communion with the Church of God and his ordinances if you be of the seed of Jacob your hearts prize and rejoyce in this and that you have in Psal 24. vers 3 4 5. you shall find how the seed of Jacob prize the enjoyment of God in his Ordinances Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord who shall stand in his holy place He that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation This is the generation of them that seek him that seek thy face O Jacob. It is so in the book but the particle O is not in the originall and therefore it may be read thus That seek the face of Jacob it may be read in the Genitive case as well as in the Vocative This is the generation of them that seek him even of Jacob and then he turns to God that seek thy face but because his heart was full of this of seeking Gods face though he intend to mention what generation it was the generation of Jacob he puts in that before the generation of Jacob that seek thy face that is this is the generation that so prize God in his ordinances and account it such a blessing of God that joyn themselves to the Church of God and set up his ordinances and wayes this is the blessed generation these are those that seek God truly We seek not God truly unlesse we seek him in his own wayes unlesse we seek him in all his ordinances we cannot comfort our souls that we seek him in truth For as in the way of obedience we cannot have comfort in our obedience that it is true except it be universall to all Gods commandments so we cannot have comfort in our seeking that it is true except it be in all his ordinances and wayes therefore we must be of the generation of them that seek the face of the Church that seek thy face O Jacob. So it follows in that place lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors that the King of glory may come in Where should the King of glory come but into his Church Who is the King of glory The Lord strong and almighty still the Church is called on to entertain Christ in his glory so this is spoken of the Church Thus you may know whether you be of the seed of Jacob. Again if you be the seed of Jacob you have the inheritance of Jacob and account it your inheritance What was Jacobs inheritance Deuter. 33.2 The Lord came from Sinai and from his right hand came a fiery law The law of God is a fiery law yet in verse 4. Moses commanded us a law even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. So that though the law be a fiery law a strict law a severe law yet it is the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. If you be of the congregation of Jacob you account the law of God to be part of your inheritance not onely to be that which you are bound to that you must obey whether you will or no but you rejoyce in the law of God as your inheritance For my part I know not a more sure note of a gracious heart then this one that rejoyceth in Gods law as his inheritance as you know what expressions David hath he rejoyced in it more then in Gold and Silver more then in the honey and the honey-comb It is one thing to obey Gods Law and another to rejoyce in it as an inheritance If thou be of the seed of Jacob thou hast the inheritance of the seed of Jacob. Another is he that is of the seed of Jacob is faithfull in the place that God hath set him Jacob in serving of Laban Gen. 31.6 though he were churlish he professeth that withall his power he served his father It is an excellent text for servants you would fain have time to seek God and God forbid but there should be some time allowed the poorest and meanest servant to seek God alone But art thou of the seed of Jacob then be like