Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	joy_n	rejoice_v	unspeakable_a	2,438	5	10.5853	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93746	The nature of God's kingdom and dominion over men clearly laid open and explained, as the same relates to these following particulars ... in a discourse on Deut. 8.2. wherein is likewise shewed, what influence these things ought to have upon our life and conversation / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5125; ESTC R42792	28,272	40

of the Bible and of all his Servants and Reasonable Creatures mentioned therein are to this purpose The Servants of God did keep his Commandments but all his Creatures whom he had endued with Reason did not And so it is of all the Men and Women that ever trod upon this Earth whose Names though they are not Recorded in that ●ook yet they are in the Register of him Who bringeth out that gre●t Host of his Creation by number and calleth them all by their Names So likewise besides the ordinary manner of dealing with his People he did tempt and prove Job by his great and extraordinary Afflictions who in all them Sinned not nor yet Charged God foolishly for indeed God did well and wisely as to him What is Man that thou shouldest Magnifie him and that thou shouldst set thine Heart upon him and that thou shouldst Visit him every Morning and try him every Moment Job 7. 17 18. All things are full of Temptation even to the necessary Victuals which we Eat for there may be Gluttony and to the Clothes which we wear for there may be Pride even to all our Thoughts and we do think continually for there may be and too often is Vanity and Evil. To our Words for in the multitude of them there wants not Sin and we may soon Speak Falshood or Folly and so to our Actions and Doings for there Sin Iniquity and Transgression do beset us round and it is easy falling into any of them And so all Companies and Conversation with our fellow Creatures do prove a Snare unto us or there is Man Pleasing and Perverting the thing that is Right to humour and comply with those that are above us in outward Degree or Riches As also there is a fear of Bearing Witness unto the Truth and Speaking it out least they should fall under the Displeasure of Men. Many such like things do shew that the Trial of Man is had every Moment as also it is had when he is at and amidst the Worship and Service of God and at Religious Duties It is properly and truly a Life of Probation and Trial. And we are here upon or according to our good or ill Behaviour so we shall have the Eternal Favour of God or be rejected by him Like as Apprentices are commonly put out a Month before hand for Trial to see whither the master will take them for Seven Years or not so these Seventy Years on this Earth we Men and Women are upon Trial for all Eternity God hereby Proving us whither we shall be meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light or Reprobates Reprobate Silver shall Men call them because the Lord hath Rejected them Jer. 6. 30. As it is with the Earth it self so it will be with the Men and Women the Reasonable Inhabitants thereof For the Earth which drinketh in the Rain that cometh oft upon it receiveth Blessing from God But that which beareth Thornes and Briers is Rejected and is nigh unto Cursing whose End is to be Burned Heb. 6. 7. 8. The good Fishes are to be gathered into Vessels and the bad are to be cast away So shall it be at the End of the World The Angels shall come forth and shall Sever the Wicked from among the Just Mat. 13. 41 42. So God will do at the End of World but all this mean while during which the Generations pass through here whither it be Six or Seven Thousand Years it is the time of their Probation ●nd Trial but after that is over and finished God will then proceed to a Decision and Sentence For the more effectual Trial and Probation of Mankind He hath also ordained a Life of Faith and a State of Absence from the Lord which is Grounded from 2 Cor. 5. 6 7. Whilst we are at home in the Body we are absent from the Lord for we Walk by Faith and not by Sight The right Understanding of these two things This Life of Trial and Probation and this walking by Faith do clearly open unto us the Nature of God's Kingdom and Dominion over us Men. It was never known in any Nation Country and Language that the People there should obey a King or Ruler whom neither they themselves nor yet any of his Subjects ever saw Which last it put in because whereas Earthly Kings do Rule over Countreys of vast Extent and Circumference and of Millions of Inhabitants who are dispersed all over it and he being but little and Circumscribed in Passion as other Men it seldom or never happens that he doth see all his Subjects nor yet do all his Subjects ever see him But yet a very great many do and have seen him So that all the others having them for undoubted Witnesses and Assurance that there is such an One they do and must obey him nevertheless although they have not seen him But as to God tho' he fills Heaven and Earth and all things and all places with his Presence though his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion endureth throughout all Generations yet no Man of any Generation or Country did ever see him No Man hath seen God at any time The Only begotten Son which is in the Bosom of the Father he hath declared him John 1. 18. And yet he reqires and expects to be obeyed by all Nations Kindred and Languages yea by all the Inhabitants of the World Whom we are to Obey though we do not see him and all One as if we did see him And though God gives no present Visible Recompence but contrariwise We often sustain outward Loss Inconvenience and Hardship for performing Service unto him yet he Requires it Hereby God is Glorified and here is the Faith and Patience of the Saints to perform it nevertheless Now Faith is the Substance of things hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen And this Faith doth properly terminate upon an Unseen God as it 's Object Whom having not seen ye Love in whom though ye see him not yet believing ye Rejoyce with Joy Unspeakable and full of Glory Receiving the End of your Faith the Salvation of your Souls 1 Pet. 1. 8 9. We Read very often in Scripture of the Name of the Lord The Heathen shall fear the Name of the Lord so declare the Name of the Lord in Zion Psal 102. 15 21. And of calling o● the Name of the Lord. Which Name of the Lord to speak after the manner of Men doth suppose and import as much as if his Person were distant and not seen by us But here to pursue the like Reasoning as is in Psal 75. 1. Vnto thee O God do we give Thanks Vnto thee do we give Thanks for that thy Name is near thy Wonderous Works declare So here it is Unto thee O God do we yield Obedience and render Worship for that thy Name or rather thy Person included in that Name is real thy Visible Works declare which we cannot so much as look