Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	full_a	joy_n	unspeakable_a	3,596	5	10.3032	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44673	A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1699 (1699)	Wing H3021; ESTC R19328	73,289	250

if the reason of Gods conduct and the course of his dispensation herein had been equally hidden as that State it self is it had been a bold presumption to enquire and prie into it modesty and reverence should have restrained us But when we find it holds a manifest agreement with other parts of his Counsel that are sufficiently revealed and that the excellency of the Divine Wisdom is most conspicuous and principally to be beheld and admired in ordering the apt congruities and correspondencies of things with each other and especially of the ends he proposes to himself with the Methods and Ways he takes to effect them 't were very great oscitancy and an undutiful negligence not to observe them when they stand in view that we may render him his due acknowledgments and honour thereupon 'T is manifest that as God did not create Man at first in that which he designed to be his final State but as a Probationer in a State of Trial in order to a further State So when he Apostatized and fell from God he was graciously pleased to order for him a New Tryal and put him into the hands of his merciful Redeemer who is intrusted with these Keys and with the Power of Life and Death over him to be managed and exercised according to the terms plainly set down and declared in His Gospel Wheresoever he is with sufficient evidence revealed and made known Men immediately come under obligation to believe in him to intrust and commit themselves into the same hands to rely upon the truth of his Word in every thing he reveals as the ground of their submitting to his Authority in every thing he requires What concerns their present practice he hath plainly shewn them so much as it was requisite they should preapprehend of future Retributions Rewards and Punishments he hath revealed also not that they should have the knowledge hereof by immediate inspection but by taking his word That as their first Transgression was founded in Infidelity that they did not believe God but a lying Spi●it against him their first step in their Recovery and return to God should be to believe him and take his word about things th●y have themselves no immediate sight or knowledge of This point was by no means to be quitted to the first Apostates As if Gods saying to them if you Transgress you shall Die or go into Hades was no sufficient inforcement of the Precept unless he had given them a distinct view of the States of felicity or misery which their Obedience or Disobedience would lead them into This had been to give away the whole cause to the revolted Rebels and rather to con●ess errour and oversight in the Divine Government than impute fault to the impugners of it This being the State of the Case How suitable had it been to the design of this Second Trial to be made with Men to withdraw the vail and let every ones own Eyes be their informers of all the Glories of the Heavenly State and hereupon proclaim and preach the Gospel to them that they should all partake herein that would entirely deny themselves come off from their own bottom give themselves up absolutely to the Interest Love Service and Communion of their Redeemer and of God in him To fortifie them against the assaults and dangers of their Earthly Pilgrimage by reversing that Rule The Just shall live by Faith even that Faith which is the Substance of the things hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen or by inverting the method that in reference to such things We are to walk by Faith not by Sight and letting it be We are to walk by Sight not by Faith And that lest any should refuse such Compliance with their Great Lord Whole Hades should be no longer so but made naked before them and the covering of Hell and Destruction be taken off and their own Eyes behold the infernal horrors their own Ears hear the shrieks and howlings of accursed Creatures that having rejected their Redeemer are rejected by him We are not here to consider what course would most certainly effect their Salvation but what most became the Wise Holy God to preserve the Dignity of his own Government and save them too otherwise Almighty Power could save all at once As therefore we have cause to acknowledge the kindness and compassion of our Blessed Lord who hath these Keys in giving us for the kind such notices as he hath of the state of the things in Hades So we have equal cause to admire his Wisdom that he gi●es us not those of another kind that should more powerfully strike sense and amaze us more but instruct us less That continues it to be Hades still a state of things to us unseen as yet As the case would have been on the other supposition the most generous noble part of our Religion had been sullied or lost the Tryal of our Faith which is to be found unto Praise Honour and Glory at the appearin● of Jesus Christ even upon this account that they who had not seen him in his mean circumstances on Earth nor did now see him amidst all the Glories of his exalted State yet believing lov'd him and rejoyced in him with joy unspeakable and full of Glory 1 Pet. 1.7 8. This Faith and all the glorious tryals of it with its admirable atchievements and performances whereby the Elders heretofore obtained so good a Report and high renown on Earth and which filled the World with wonder had all vanished into obscurity and Darkness i. e. If they had believed no more or no greater things than every Man besides had the immediate view of by his own Eye-sight And yet the trial had been greater on another Account than the Divine Wisdom in conjunction with Goodness and Compassion thought fit ordinarily to put sincere Christians upon For who could with any tolerable patience have endured longer abode on Earth after they should once have had the glory of the Heavenly state immediately set in view before their Eyes especially considering not so much the Sufferings as the impurities of their present State What for great reason was a special vouchsafement to one Apostle was for as great to be common to all Christians How great is the Wisdom and Mercy of our Blessed Lord in this partial concealment of our future State and that while so much as is sufficient is revealed there is yet an Hades upon it and it may still be said It doth not yet appear what we shall be 1 Joh. 3.2 But as these Majestick Life-breathing words of our Great Lord do plainly offer the things that have been mentioned and many more such that might occur to our Thoughts and Meditation so will they be thought on in vain if they be not followed and answered by suitable Dispositions and Actions of Heart and Life Therefore the further use we are to make of this great Subject will be to lay down 2. Divers