Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	head_n	king_n	lift_v	5,022	5	10.4371	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15447	Seuen goulden candlestickes houlding the seauen greatest lights of Christian religion shewing vnto all men what they should beleeue, & how they ought to walke in this life, that they may attayne vnto eternall life. By Gr: Williams Doctor of Divinity	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 25719; ESTC S120026	710,322	935

letting fall the Tortoise out of her bill that so falling vpon a stone the shell might be broken it fell vpon his head and killed him so the deuill deales with these men he lifts them vp as hee did Simon Magus to make them flie in the aire and then as he did to the said Magus he throwes them downe to breake their neckes and therefore it had beene good for many they had neuer beene thus lifted vp It is reported of one Gaufredus Monachus Clarevallensis Bosq●ier de monomachia that hauing refused a Bishopricke in his life time he appeared after his death vnto his chamber-fellow and said that hee did well in refusing that Bishopricke which his friends would haue had him to accept quia si in numero Episcoporum fuisset in numero damnatorum esset because that if he had been of the number of the Bishops he should now haue beene of the number of the damned not that all Bishops must be damned God forbid there haue beene and there are many of them exceeding good learned painefull and vpright men though I must vnfainedly confesse I haue seene some not as I would wish but that if hee had aspired to that dignity by that vnlawfull meanes as it is most likely it was offered him for otherwise it had beene most lawfull for him both to desire it and to accept it for hee that desireth the office of a Bishop desireth a good worke saith the Apostle or though he might lawfully haue attained vnto it yet if hee finding himselfe though fit enough to be a Monke yet vnfit to be a Bishop had accepted the same then certainely it must needes haue followed that if more mercy were not shewed then hee deserued hee must needes bee in the number of the damned and it would bee well for many if they did not rise to fall for of such ascenders Bonauen de ascen ser 4. p 199. Bonauenture saith that quantum ascenderunt per ambitionem in mundo tantum descendent per damnationem in inferno by how much the higher they haue ascenbed by their ambition in the world by so much the greater shall be their damnation in hell and so of these the Prophet Dauid saith in a mysticall sense though literally I confesse it spoken of sea-faring men quod ascendunt vsque ad Coelum descendunt vsque ad Abyssos that they are lifted vp to the Heauens and downe againe they fall into the bottomelesse pit but they doe not descend in the same manner as they ascend for they doe ascend most willingly but they shall bee cast downe most violently into that place of vtter darkenesse Luke 12. Thou foole this night they shall take away thy soule from thee euen as a Sergeant doth a prisoner into his goale against his will and they doe ascend by degrees by little and little and by the space of forty fifty or sixty yeeres but they shall suddenly fall away like the lightening whereof our Sauiour speaketh I saw Satan as a lightening falling downe from heauen i. e. suddenly and fearefully they shall fall to ruine Diabolus itaque homo Bernard in flor p. 2090. c. homo vterque ascendere voluit sed praepostere hic ad scientiam ille ad potentiam ambo ad superbiam and so both the Deuill and wicked men would each of them ascend but preposterously men to bee wise the deuill to bee great and both to be proud saith Saint Bernard for which they shall both fall downe to hell How the godly doe ascend Secondly good men doe ascend aswell as the euill and wicked and though they doe not ascend after the same manner yet they doe it the same way saith Saint Bernard as the wicked doe Idem de gradibus humilit p. 972. because as the same way leadeth vnto the city as goeth from the city and by the same doore wee enter into the house as we goe out of the house so if we would returne vnto the truth and ascend vp into heauen wee neede not seeke any other new way but by which we haue descended and fallen downe from heauen we must ascend and climbe vp into heauen and as Cacus dragged his cattell backewards into his caue so we vestigia retrorsum must retire backe by the same steps as we haue proceeded forward but you know wee fell by pride we would be like God Gen. 3.5 and therefore we must ascend by humility wee must know our selues to bee nothing and worth nothing this is the way and there is none other but this qui aliter vadit cadit potius quam ascendit and hee that would by any other way ascend vp to heauen hee doth surely fall from heauen because it was enacted by the eternall Law of the God of heauen that euery one which exalteth himselfe shall be humbled The way to heauen is humility and hee that humbleth himselfe shall be exalted And therefore Christ hauing not as he was God any way whereby he might ascend because nothing is higher then God and God cannot be higher then he is by his humiliation and descention he found how to ascend for comming to bee incarnate and to suffer death that we should not suffer eternall death therefore God exalted him and gaue him a name aboue all other names to teach vs that by humility onely wee may ascend to eternall felicity Goe thou and doe thou likewise humble thy selfe if thou wouldest bee exalted into heauen and because thine humility is full of pride lay hold vpon the humility of Iesus Christ for that is onely perfect and therefore it is that only that can bring thee to perfection Fourthly we reade that Christ ascended and was lifted vp Christ ascended three speciall times and that as we finde three speciall times 1. vpon the Crosse when the Iewes insulted ouer him 2. from his Graue when the Deuils trembled at it 3. into Heauen when all the hoste of heauen reioyced at it and said Lift vp your heads O yee gates and bee yee lifted vp yee euerlasting doores that the King of glory may come in for this is hee that hath troden the wine-fat alone and is worthy of all glory and honour for euermore And so you see how many sorts there be of ascenders and you see I thinke how fearefull is the ascention of Satan and of wicked men Bernard de ascen ser 4. pag. 199. and how glorious is the ascention of the Saints And we finde that as S. Bernard saith omnes cupidi sumus ascentionis exaltationem concupiscimus omnes we all desire to be exalted wee all would faine bee lifted vp to heauen but who shall teach vs the way thither lest wee should bee seduced by him that fell from thence and so seeking to ascend vp into heauen we should fearefully fall downe into hell Who saith Saint Bernard but he Iohn 3.13 of whom it is written that he ascended vp on high that ascended vp aboue