Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

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glory_n	heart_n	light_n	shine_v	7,260	5	9.5022	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49835	The exercise of the spirit in spiritual things and the many good and peaceable fruits of righteousness experimentally witnessed ...	Laythes, Thomas, d. 1701.	1686 (1686)	Wing L751; ESTC R24001	4,532	8

THE EXERCISE OF THE SPIRIT IN Spiritual Things AND The many good and peaceable Fruits of Righteousness Experimentally Witnessed in that great Work of God upon my Soul and Spirit in the time of my first Convincement of the Truth and Since With some Experiences in the time of my Travel and Exercises therein To those whose Faces are turned Zion-ward and Travelling on towards their Eternal and Everlasting Rest And for all People to Try and E●amine themselves by that Manifestation of the Spirit that is given to every Man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 No Chastning for the present seemeth to be Joyous but grievous Nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of Righteousness unto them that are Exercised thereby Heb. 12.11 Bodily Exercise profiteth little but Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life that now is and that which is to Come 1 Tim. 4.8 Printed in the Year 1686. The Exercise of the Spirit in Spiritual Things c. Dear Friends IN Dear and tender Love do I communicate these things following unto you who have travelled and are Witnesses with me herein and not only unto you my Friends is this given forth but in that universal Spirit and love of God really intended for the good of all People and more especially unto those whose desires are real and sincere after the living God and his Eternal Truth And be it further known unto all that great hath been the work of the Lord in this the day of his Power and many the great and weighty Exercises that the dear Children and People of the Lord hath been Exercised in since God in his Everlasting Love did first Visit our Souls and Convince us of our lost and undone State and Condition because of Sin and Transgression which we had long lived and delighted in for many Years yea I say when the Lord our God did first awake our Souls out of Sin and call us to Repentance by his Light and Spirit in our Consciences Oh then was the time of Sore Travel and great Lamentation and Mourning finding our Souls in a lost and undone Condition without a Saviour Till at length God in his infinite Love and great Mercy unto our Immortal Souls opened a door of hope unto us even that great Mistery that was hid from Ages and Generations but now made known unto us the believing Gentiles Christ in you the hope of Glory and believing in him and joyning to his Light which shined in our hearts our faith and hope increases more and more and though at the first this our Estate was not joyous unto us yet afterwards it brought forth the peaceable fruits of Righteousness as we were Exercised thereby First then As one of those good and peaceable fruits of Righteousness that was brought forth in this our sore travel and Exercise in Spirit the Lord did beget a true tender breathing desire in our Hearts and Souls after himself and the true knowledge of his way which desire in us could no way be satisfyed by any external visible thing but our Souls and Spirits still breathed and thirsted after him as the thirsty Hart after the water Brooks yea more then after our daily Food until the Lord in his good time satisfyed our ●ungring Souls with good things and did Administer Rest and Peace unto our troubled Spirits 2. Another good and peaceable fruit was brought forth the Holy fear of the Lord and Oh the Awe and Dread and Fear that was upon us in the time of our first Convincement And not only of things unlawful but even those things that were lawful in themselves and in meat drink and apparrel buying selling and otherwise and if I should here declare and speak of what God hath made some of us Witnesses of there is many that could not believe But this we may say as we have been kept in this holy fear we have been preserved out of much Evil And as the fear of God increased in us the fear of Man deceased and we grew bold and strong in the Lord. 3. Another good and peaceable fruit the Lord did not only beget good desires in our hearts and a fear to offend him but he hath also raised a love in our Souls unto him and his precious Truth which love did far exceed our love to all Natural and Earthly things So that by this love we have been Constrained to part with all other things tho formerly never so near and dear unto us yea I say because of that superabounding and over-coming love which God had shed abroad in our hearts 4. Another good and peaceable fruit hath been Exp●rienced Oh how hath the mighty power of the Lor● broken our hard Hearts and Mollified and Tendred ou● Spirits in a deep sence of our own Nothingness and God● great love and mercy unto our Souls yea with wha● Mourning and Lamentation have we besought the Lor● many time in secret going weeping on our way and seeking the way to Zion with our faces Thither-wards tho despised and rejected of the world yet the Lord hath remembred us in this our low Estate and turned ou● Mourning into Joy and our heaviness into rejoycing Yea he hath bound up the Broken-Hearted and comforted the sorrowful Soul Blessed be his holy Name 5. Another good and peaceable fruit was brough● forth that true Humility and self denial when we became little and low in our own Eyes and of mean Account in the Eyes of the World being made willing to do or to suffer any thing for the Lord and his Truth thinking no Pains too much nor Labour too hard that w● might meet with the beloved of our Souls waiting and depending upon the Lord alone that he which ha● thrown down would raise up again and he that ha●… kill'd would make alive and he that 〈◊〉 wounded 〈◊〉 sin that he would seal our wounded Spirits And how hath he poured Oyl into our wounds and lift up th● hands that hung down and strengthened the feeble Knee● and been a present help unto us in the time of our grea●est need 6. Another good and peaceable fruit was Experienced in this our holy Exercise in Spirit that tho our Peace was lost yea that Peace we had in our former vai● Conversation in the World while we lived and delighte● therein in their worship and going after their Teacher● and in the Forms Fashions Customs and followship thereof and not redeemed therefrom neither knowing the true Worship nor right Teachers nor yet the the holy Union and fellowship in the holy Spirit until the Lord by his dreadful and awakning Call reached unto our Hearts and gave our Spirits no rest often moving of us to come out from among them least we die in our Sins to come out of our vain Conversation and come into the Holy Life and Godly Conversation to come out of their Worship and to come into the true Spiritual Worship which Christ himself had set up and Established above Sixteen