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
A34673	The covenant of Gods free grace most sweetly unfolded and comfortably applied to a disquieted soul from that text of 2 Sam. 23. Ver. 5. : also a doctrinall conclusion that there is in all such who are effectually called, in-dwelling spirituall gifs [sic] and graces wrought and created in them by the Holy Ghost / by that reverend and faithful minister of Gods word, Mr. John Cotton, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New-England ; whereunto is added, A profession of faith, made by the reverend divine, Mr. John Davenport, in New-England, at his admission into one of the Churches there.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Davenport, John, 1597-1670. A profession of faith.	1645 (1645)	Wing C6424; ESTC R30971	35,301	46

otherwise not to rest contented in any state whatsoever untill they have gotten themselves within this Covenant that they would not think themselves out of danger nor well provided till they can thus assure themselves they are within this Covenant wee should not have our desires so strait and narrow as to be satisfied with earthly things at any time Psal 81.10 Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it gape after greater things then these breath after this everlasting Covenant Lift up your heads O yee gates and be yee lift up yee everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in Psal 24.9 Close you not therefore with these things they will yeeld you but little content the wicked inlarge their desire as hell it self they will travell all the world over from Sea to Sea to get wealth how then should wee enlarge our hearts and gape wide after heavenly things that are of an everlasting continuance untill wee are in a safe and sure condition and let all our desires be after the Covenant of Grace Vse 2 Secondly if wee are in this Covenant of Grace we may then lawfully comfort our selves in the injoyment of all other good things whatsoever because all mercies and blessings spring up from this Covenant of Grace and herein should we fix all our desires all our salvation and delights Jer. 9.23.24 Thus saith the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome nor the mighty in his might nor the rich man in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that hee understandeth and knoweth mee that I am the Lord which exerciseth judgement and loving kindnesse in the earth Vse 3 Thirdly it may serve to teach every godly man who hath a part in this Covenant to make account that he hath full possession of his salvation that all his desires and delights are satisfied if wee have but this Covenant we do not well to desire any thing more for in it are contained all things and having it we have all things are Gods children in any dangers are they overcome with any sorrows let them but consider of this Covenant of God made unto them in the blood of Christ and they shall find comfort sufficient to support them through all Why doubt we of deliverance from sin or any danger none evill can befall us by vertue of this Covenant if wee therefore want any thing let us consider what a covenant wee are in Vse 4 Fourthly it is a comfort for all Gods children that they are safe from all dangers and have salvation already 2 Tim. 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling we are put into a covenant of salvation let us therefore be thankfull to God for it and doubt no longer Vse 5 Fifthly those that are in this Covenant they must make use of it to the perfecting of their salvation and fulfilling of their desires You will say you finde your sins not pardoned and you are 〈◊〉 troubled about them if you be within this Covenant your sins are pardoned unto you But you will say still I finde sin striving and corruption breaking forth Well have you given up your selves to be Gods servants to bow and submit your selves to his holy and blessed will in all things here is then a covenant for thee promising pardon of sin Micah 7.18 who is a God like thee forgiving iniquity transgression and sin and passing by offences But you will say your corruptions are strong and you cannot get power over them Here is salvation to deliver thee from the bondage of thy sins But you will say further you are subject to long sicknesses and diseases very tedious yet notwithstanding here is consolation enough in this Covenant for thee to save thee at length out of all You will further say you want the comfort of this Covenant consider this is a comfort making up your desires unto you so far as the Lord sees meet if in crosses you would not depart from God nor sit loose from him God hath promised you shall not therefore make use of it for this end Do you that are parents desire that your children and all that belongs to you may do well in this life having this Covenant you have all you only want a heart fitted and disposed to apply it unto your self plead you therefore with God and intreat him that hee would be pleased to make good this Covenant unto you Thus much for the third point raised from the words Further saith hee Although he make it not to grow his meaning is that although God make not his family to grow in this world but cause it to see hard times and undergo many crosses and troubles yet this is his comfort and all the stay of his heart and his salvation That God hath made with him an everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure So that the point to be observed from hence is this Doctr. 4 That howsoever God deals with our families yet the Covenant of Grace must be to us the satisfying of our desires and delights and the summe of our salvation This Covenant God made to us and let that suffice us in all it was that wherewith God supported Paul when there was sent unto him a messenger from Satan to buffet him My grace saith the Lord is sufficient for thee This Covenant of thy is sufficient to pardon sin and to heal sin therefore whether Paul prospered or prospered not in his spirituall state he must be contented for Gods grace is sufficient for him David saw his house would fall upon strange changes in regard of the great failings of his children that they should be carried away captive and in a manner into obscurity of darknesse through Gods withdrawing the light of his countenance from shining upon them occasioned by the great disorders that were before seen in it this his condition he might have seen in Ethan the Ezrabite who lived in his dayes Psal 89 39. Though before hee saw all this evill yet this was sufficient for him though his house prospered not that God had promised in his Covenant that hee would not forsake him and his although hee made them not to grow and the Reasons are Reas 1 First because God had made a promise that our houses shall stand for ever though they do not sprout nor flourish like a branch yet God will not take away his mercies from them Reason 2 Secondly hee hath promised to sanctifie such crosses that their proud hearts should be humbled and that they should become bettered for that which they have suffered they shall thereby be brought to acknowledge Gods great mercy unto them and all their crosses trialls and afflictions shall at length turn to their great advantage Reason 3 Thirdly how ever God deals with us in outward things yet his Covenant is a certain ground for our eternall inheritance although a mans house may be turned upside down yet notwithstanding here is our comfort we