Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	face_n	moses_n	shine_v	2,681	5	9.0852	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16641	Abdias the prophet, interpreted by T.B. fellovv of Magdalene College in Oxforde. Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted	Brasbridge, Thomas, fl. 1590.	1574 (1574)	STC 3548; ESTC S109671	43,473	114

of the sonne of man and of his Saincts and drinke their bloud you haue no life in you Here is an addition to the letter which maketh much for the Romanistes that teache men to call vpon Saincts that are dead to pray vnto thē which we can not do without a fayth and a beléefe in them as it is written Howe shal they cal on him in whō they haue not beléeued But faith beléefe is proper only vnto almighty God and is the meane wherby we do eate the fleshe drinke the bloud of our sauiour Christ As he teacheth vs in these words I am the bread of life he that cōmeth to me shal not hunger and he that beleeueth in me shall neuer thirst The reason is this whosoeuer eateth my fleshe and drinketh my bloud hath eternall life and I will raise him vp at the last day For my fleshe is meate in déede my bloud is drinke in déede Héere our sauiour techeth vs that he is bread he is meat drinke vnto vs we must come vnto him we muste eate him we muste drink him we shal not hūger nor thyrst for euer And this is the meane wherby we do eat his flesh drink his bloud to put away our hūger our thyrst euē to beleue in him For he saith He that beléeueth in me shal neuer thyrst Therfore if the aduersaries of the Gospel might be permitted to add vnto the letter saying thus Except ye eate the flesh of the sonne of man of his Saincts and so foorth they might easily proue that it is lawfull for vs to put our trust in saincts to beléeue in them as in sauiours consequently that it is good necessary to pray vnto thē But our sauiour without any additiō saith Except ye eate the flesh of the sonne of man drink his bloud ye haue no life in you This is the true letter which if we kéepe in this place in al other places of the scripture without any alteratiō it serueth so for the confirmation of the truth that the aduersaries can haue no aduantage agaynst it But if we take the letter only without the true feare meaning therof the cōmodity that cōmeth therby auayleth vs nothing for that is to take the vessel without wine whiche dothe vs no good Therefore in this respecte also it may be truely sayde The letter rather killeth than giueth life Moreouer for the better vnderstanding of the Apostles wordes it is to be noted that the true letter is diuersly vnderstanded in the scripture First the playn sense of the scripture without any morall or mysterie is called that letter of the which it hath bin sufficiētly spoken before Secondly that true vnderstāding of the scriptures literally morally allegorically as it cōteineth all necessarie knowledge without the spirite of God whiche causeth vs to bring foorth fruites according to the same may be called a letter that killeth They that are destitute of the spirite of God without the which no man can liue although he haue al knowledge are like the high way side or the stony groūde or the briers and brambles in the which and among the which the good séede can not prosper and bring foorth fruit This knowledge without the spirite of God is a letter that encreaseth the damnation of men rather than profiteth them For our Sauiour sayth that seruant that knew his masters will and prepared not him selfe neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes Of this damnable letter it maye séeme that the Apostle speaketh where he sayth Shal not vncircuncision which is by nature if it kéepe the lawe iudge thée whiche by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the law For he is not a Iewe whiche is one outward neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Iewe which is one within and the circumcision is of the heart in the spirite not in the letter whose praise is not of mē but of god Thirdly not only al knowledge without good works but also external works that are done in hypocriste as comming to the church to heare the word of God without a desire to be reformed thereby may be called a letter that killeth When men come to beare what the Preacher can do and not to learne what they them selues ought to do when men pray with their lippes and not with their hearts or do any good worke for vayne glory or to get them a name among men so foorth this is a letter that profiteth not Of this letter the Apostle séemeth to speake where he sayth Nowe are we deliuered from the law béeing dead vnto it wherin we were holden that we shuld serue in newnesse of spirite not in the oldnesse of the letter Finally the law cōsidered by it selfe without Christ is called a letter that killeth As where the Apostle sayth God hath made vs able ministers of the new testament not of the letter but of the spirite for the letter killeth but the spirite giueth life Where the Apostle writeth these words he disputeth agaynst false Christians that receyued Christ but not aright for they ioyned the law with Christ as a necessary part of our saluatiō they would not acknowledge Christ of him selfe to be a sufficient sauiour they ioyned the lawe with Christ as felow in office with him in working our saluation making him to be but halfe a sauiour alleaging for their purpose the glorious promulgation of the lawe as that it was giuen with thunder and lightening with the sound of a trumpet with fire and great smoke Also when Moses came from the mounte with the two tables his face did so shine that the people were not able to behold the brightnes therof Vnto this the Apostle answereth that the glory of the Gospel darkneth the glory of the law For the law was giuen but for a tyme but the glory of the Gospell continueth vnto the ende Also as the brightnesse of Moses face was glorious so the vayle wherwith he was couered was a tokē of imperfectiō a type of infidelity in the people But through the grace of God offred by the Gospel we are made perfect are changed into the image of his glory and are able as it were in a glasse to behold the same with open face And the more to deface the law béeing compared with Christ he calleth it the ministery of cōdēnation a letter that killeth For through our default it killeth after a sort in that it layeth our iniquities before vs letteth vs sée in our selues the image of death through sinne wherby as much as lieth in it it casteth vs down into the dānable pit of desperation there leaueth vs sore wounded without al hope of life But the spirit that is to say the gospell by meanes wherof the spirit of God worketh in