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
A30153	A holy life, the beauty of Christianity, or, An exhortation to Christians to be holy by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5537; ESTC R30867	84,448	237

attends the Closet which I may call by the name of vacancy When men have a Closet to talk of not to pray in a Closet to look upon not to bow before God in a Closet to lay up Gold in but not to mourn in for the sins of my life A Closet that could it speak would say my owner is seldom here upon his knees before the God of Heaven seldom here humbling himself for the iniquity of his heart or or to thank God for the mercies of his life Thirdly Then also a man is guilty of Closet-iniquity when though he doth not utterly live in the neglect of duty he formally carnally and without reverence and godly fear performs it Also when he asketh God for that which he cannot abide should be given him or when he prayeth for that in his Closet that he cannot abide in his house nor his life Fourthly Then also a man is guilty of Closet-iniquity when he desireth that the sound of the devotion he doth there may be heard by them without in the house the street or of those that dwell by For a Closet is only for the man and God to do things in secretly These things let the professor beware of lest he add to his iniquity sin untill he and it comes to be loathsom The Closet is by God appointed for men to wait upon him in and to do it without hypocrisie To wait there for his mind and his will and also for grace to perform it And how can a man that went last time out of his Closet to be nought have the face to come thither again If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear my prayer and if so then he will not meet me in my Closet and if so then I shall quickly be weary thereof being left to my self and the vanity of my mind It is a great thing to be a Closet-Christian and to hold it he must be a Close-Christian that will be a Closet-Christian When I say a Close-Christian I mean one that is so in the hidden part and that also walks with God Many there be that profess Christ who doe oftener in London frequent the Coffee-house than their Closet and that sooner in a morning run to make bargains than to pray unto God and begin the day with him But for thee who professest the name of Christ do thou depart from all these things do thou make conscience of reading and practising do thou follow after righteousness do thou make conscience of beginning the day with God for he that begins it not with him will hardly end it with him He that runs from God in the morning will hardly find him at the close of the day Nor will he that begin● with the world and the vanities thereof in the first place be very capable of walking with God all the day after 'T is he that finds God in his Closet that will carry the savour of him into his house his shop and his more open conversation when Moses had been with God in the Mount his face shone he brought of that glory into the Camp Sixthly I add again let those that name the name of Christ depart from the iniquity that cleav●th to opinions This is a sad age ●or that let opinions in them●elves be never so good never ●o necessary never so innocent ●et there are spirits in the world ●hat will entail iniquity to them ●nd will make the vanity so inseparable with the opinion that 't is almost impossible with some to take in the opinion and leave out the iniquity that by craft and subtilty of Satan is joyned thereto Nor is this a thing new and of yesterday It has been thus almost in all ages of the Church of God and that not only in things small and indifferent but in things fundamental and most substantial I need instance in none other for proof hereof but the doctrine of faith and holiness If faith be preached as that which is absolutely necessary to Justification then faith-fantastical and loosness and remisness in life with some are joyned therewith If holiness of life be preached as necessary to salvation then faith is undervalued and set below its place and works as to justification with God set up and made co-partners with Christ● merits in the remission of sins Thu● iniquity joyneth it self with the great and most substantials of th● Gospel and 't is hard to receive an● good opinion what ever but iniquity will joyn it self thereto Wicked spirits do not only tempt men to transgress the moral law but do present themselves in heavenly things working there and labouring in them to wrest the judgment and turn the understanding and conscience awry in those high and most important things Wherefore I say we must be the more watchful and careful lest we be abused in our notions and best principles by the iniquities that joyn themselves thereto 'T is strange to see at this day how notwithstanding all the threatnings of God men are wedded to their own opinions beyond what the law of grace and love will admit Here 's a Presbyter here 's an Independent an Anabaptist so joyned each man to his own opinion that they cannot have that communion one with another as by the testament of the Lord Jesus they are commanded and injoyned What is the cause Is the Truth No! God is ●he author of no confusion in the Church of God It is then because every man makes too much of his own opinion abounds too much in his own sence and takes not care to separate his opinion from the iniquity that cleaveth thereto That this confusion is in the Church of Christ I am of Paul I of Apollo I of Cephas I of Christ is too manifest But what unbecoming language is this for the Children of the same Father members of the same body and heirs of the same glory to be accustomed to whether it is Pride or Hypocrisie or Ignorance or Self or the Devil or the Jesuite or all these joyntly working with the Church that makes and maintains these names of distinction This distance and want of love this contempt of one another these base and undervaluing thoughts of brethren will be better seen to the shame and confusion of some in the Judgment In the mean time I advise thee with whom I am at this time concerned to take heed of this mixture this sinful mixture of trut● and iniquity together And to help thee in this thing keep thine eye much upon thine own base self labour also to be sensible of the imperf●ctions that cleave to thy best performances be clothed with humility and prefer thy brother before thy self and know that Christianity lieth not in small matters neither before God nor understanding men And it would be well if those that so stickle by their private and unscriptural notions which only is iniquity cleaving to truth I say it would be well if such were more sound