Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	heaven_n	holy_a	praise_v	2,811	5	9.5530	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01346	A sermon intended for Paul's Crosse, but preached in the Church of St. Paul's, London, the III. of December, M.DC.XXV. Vpon the late decrease and withdrawing of Gods heauie visitation of the plague of pestilence from the said citie. By Tho: Fuller, Master of Arts in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1626 (1626)	STC 11467; ESTC S102824	32,124	70

obey him Not a seruant here below that will endure his Masters disgrace ais aio negas nego saith hee in the Comedy Their Masters word goes still for a lawe and hee will be more iealous of his Masters honour then his owne peace shall earthly seruants be so obseruant of their earthly Masters from whom time may release them or distance of place secure them and shall we dare to neglect our obeisance against him against whom there is no priuiledge No place nor any time can exempt vs from his Dominion The vnprofitable seruant that gaue his Master his owne Talent yet was condemned because hee did not increase it where shall they then appeare that doe not giue him what of right belongs to him When the Pharisees tempted Christ by asking him whether they should giue tribute to Caesar or no he called for a penny and seeing Cesars image and superscription vpon it iudged it his giue saith he to Cesar the things which are Cesars and to God the things which are Gods Honour and glory and praise is that which of due belongs to him and that which all the host of Heauen Angells and Saints daily sing vnto him Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heauen and Earth are full of thy glory the glorious company of Prophets praise thee the noble army of Martyrs praise thee The Holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee In the Angels song there went gloria in Excelsis before Pax in terris no peace on earth if no glory to Heauen and yeeld but that Peace shall be within our Walls plenteousnes within our dwellings Would yee yet know a farther reason wherfore yee should praise him my Text tels you For his goodnesse c. Meruailous are thy workes saith Dauid in Wisdome hast tho● made them all the earth is full of thy goodnesse so is the broad Sea also not the least creature in the Ayre or the Earth or the Water but if we rightly consider it is fearefully and wonderfully made the least part or member of them is more then the weake and shallow reach of Man is able either duly to commend or to comprehend rightly It is a true position in morality nimia familiaritas parit contemptum it is also true in Diuinity Perseuerantia consuetudi●is amisit admirationem quàm multa vsitata caleantur qua considerata stupent saith Augustine how many things doth custome make vile which consideration would make admirable Did wee but with Dauid truly consider the creation of our selues that wee are wonderfully made and that our bones were not hidden from him though they were formed in a secret place it would enforce vs to giue acclamation to the workmanship of our Maker as that sweet singer of Israell there did Meruailous are thy workes O Lord and that my soule knowes right-well Then haue the wondrous workes of God their true end when we take them for wonders when we tremble at the sight of them and feare that mighty Lord that hath wrought them God doth not miracula propter miracula but for our sakes not caring so much himselfe to doe them as that wee consider and beare them away The gratious God saith Dauid hath made his wonderfull workes to bee had in remembrance O Lord how gratious art thou thy workes are very deepe an vnwise man knoweth it not and a foole doth not vnderstand it So that all his Goodnesse is extended to vs and his Meruailous workes are done for vs which are the Children of men The last part of all O that Men c. Tantus ille tantilli nos this addes to our engagement That he should so consider vs and thinke vpon vs that neuer thinke vpon him that he should regard vs that neuer minde him for vs that haue deserued so little at his hands nay rather so much so much misery so many plagues being non prius nati quàm damnati that are not onely strangers but enemies and that the most despightfully conditioned that can bee vessells of wrath and sonnes of perdition that he should doe all these things for vs how are we honoured that he will vouchsafe to be honoured by vs so vile so vnworthy as we are All that we can doe is a thousand times lesse then a drop of raine to the Ocea● he is infinite of himselfe and nothing can bee added to him it is onely our happinesse our welfare and aduantage The wonder which Dauid here instanceth in is the recouery of vs out of sicknesse Wee little consider how daily and hourely wee stand beholding to God for our liues and healths when wee haue such enemies within the Elements wherof we are composed heate and cold moisture and drought which being brethren of one house as one called them but withall the Fathers and Founders of vs as it were of our natures if they but fall at variance within vs how will they rend and teare vs like wilde Boares how many haue beene buryed aliue in the graue of their earthly and melancholike Imaginations how many burnt in the flames of pestilent and hot diseases their bowels set on fire like an Ouen their blood dried vp their inwards withered and wasted with the violence thereof The vapours and fumes of their owne vitious stomacks like a contagious Ayre how many haue they poysoned and choaked vp and finally how many haue been glutted and ouercharged with water betweene their owne skinne and bones And therefore we must conclude and cry with the Prophet It is the wonderfull mercie of God that we are not consumed When a grape-gatherer comes will he not leaue some grapes if ought in the opening of this Scripture hath escaped me as my ignorance weaknes dare hope for no other it wil be your charity to impute it to multitude of other priuate businesse and breuitie of time in which as Agabus with the girdle of Paul I am confined these few sands are too little to expatiate my selfe in these many and various points which offer themselues to our consideration though not all of some yet somewhat I hope I haue spoken of all I would gladly conclude with some short application How many are there now in this City aliue that haue beene summoned as Hezekiah was to set their house in order for they thought no other but they must die that haue seene before them the greedy and inexorable Graue with open mouth ready to receiue them that friends and Phisitions haue all forsaken giuing them for dead yet haue escaped and are recouered and many there are also to whom God hath giuen continuance of health in this generall Deluge of infection when so many thousands haue fal●e round about vs To what shall we attribute this were we not in the same Ayre did wee not conuerse with the same men are not our bodies equally subiect to the like diseases was it not onely as our Sauiour saith that the workes of the Lord might be manifest who spake to