Selected quad for the lemma: glory_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	lord_n	name_n	praise_v	7,539	5	9.1162	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25296	Good counsell and advice to all the Friends of truth to be read throughout all their families by them whom the Lord hath called and is calling into his everlasting covenant / written from Amsterdam by William Ames.	Ames, William, d. 1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3006; ESTC R18427	7,497	16

Good Counsell AND ADVICE TO ALL THE Friends of Truth To be Read throughout all their Families by them whom the Lord hath Called and is Calling into his everlasting Covenant VVritten from Amsterdam by William Ames LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and mouth near Aldersgate 1661. Friends the Lord hath put it into my heart to write unto you concerning those things which are most needful to be witnessed by you and brought forth in you and amongst you MY Brethren Sisters and Friends the Almighty God hath visited you in his everlasting love and in a time in which you were without the true peace did the Lord reach unto you and called you into the way where peace is found Then did the Lord touch your hearts and begot in you a Hunger Thirst and breathing after himself and he opened the way unto you which before you knew not wherein you might find rest and be satisfied and the Almighty hath shined amongst you and the brightness of his rising did break forth in you by which your hearts were enlightned that you have seen and comprehended all the worlds waies in which you also did walk And the Lord hath watched over you for good even unto this day he hath preserved you in many difficulties and dangers which appeared against you he rebuked the proud for your sakes and the Mighty who contemned you brought he into cotempt he preserved you in the midest of the fiery rage of men and hath not suffered the flame to hurt you Salvation hath been your defence round about and life did spring up within you the vertue of the Almighty attended you that you might feed upon it that the Immortal vertue might be your daily bread the power of his Arm reached unto you to bear you in the way that you should walk that thereby your hearts might be purged from all uncleannesse that you might have fellowship with your God The glory of his power broke forth in you which gave you courage and dominion the eternal inheritance was opened unto you to draw your affections thither that your portion might be with your God and that he might be your lot for ever that your minds might be redeemed from the Earth and your affections from things that perish that you might know your life to be in God and your strength to be the power of his Arm that the light of his countenance might be your delight and the brightness of his glory your joy that his Righteousness might be your covering and his wisdome a fountain within you that in his counsel you might dwell to praise his name for ever You dear Children whose rejoycing is in the Lord who dwell in his power and his eternal Counsel and wisdome your dwelling is glorious you seek not the favour of men neither do you seek to be esteemed by men above others but your peace is to know that you are esteemed by the Lord you are poor but the Lord is to you riches you are weak but the Lord is strength unto you your delight is not to flourish in knowledge therein to appear before men to gain a great name and to be looked upon to be the greatest but your delight is to know the Tree of life flourishing in you and you love not your lives unto death for the love of God who hath called you and you are content to be esteemed fools and do not seek by the wisdome of words in the exalted knowledge or any disobedience to fly the reproach of men You delight in the least appearance of God in any and you dispise it not because they in whom it appears are not so wise as you you look not upon the poor with disdain but the love of God flows from you to the needy you delight to deal your bread to the hungry that they also might be partakers of your refreshments and the poor in spirit you cherish with delight because you judge not with respect of persons for the spirit of true Judgment is within you You are not offended when another is esteemed above you neither for that cause nor any other doth evil lodge in your hearts you strive not to rule over others but you rejoyce to be ruled by the Lord whose power is in your inward parts and the glory of his rising is the light in which you walk your day shall never be darkned neither shall the night overtake you who keep the word of life the proud shall not prosper in their way neither shall the mighty prevail against you your way hath the Almighty Established and his eternal and out-stretched Arm shall guide you therein and therewith will he overcome your enemies whensoever they shall rise against you that his Name might be glorious amongst the Heathen and that his renown might spread to the ends of the Earth and that you might dwell with him for ever in the Kingdome prepared for you Therefore you that have a quick and a large comprehension take heed that when your understandings are opened and knowledge increaseth that that part which delighteth in knowledge without the power of God get not up to live in exaltation there for in that state you deceive your own Souls which should be nourished by the Power and Presence of God And although you shine in appearance as Stars of Heaven in that state yet you being without the power of God by which you should be kept there hath the Dragon power over you and he will bring you down to the Earth in the day of tryal for many aspire thither and though they have a zeal for God yet they themselves being exalted in knowledge above the power and wisdome of God they are without the true feeling fellowship or discerning And thus many times they disdain the appearance of God in others who are meek and poor and appear not in that excellency of wisdome and knowledge in the thoughts of the conceited wise as they do and to such spirits the Declaration of truth by our dear Brethren declared though in the power and wisdom of God becomes as an old thing if it appear not in that excellency of the wisdome of words which may suite with their spirits and so that by which the poor and the meek who truly fear God are refreshed is to them a loathing because of their fulness of which they ought to be empty and by such spirits my dear Brethren do often suffer by back-bitings and secret reproaches besides the burden of that Spirit it self And although such in the general may have in their understanding how God ought to be worshiped and what is his way and in that knowledge be exalted yet the secrets of the Lord they know not neither is his Counsel the place of their dwellings and although they may have a zeal for the Lord and his way yet they themselves are out of it and being without the power of God they cannot overcome their lusts and this is the cause