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A43663	The moral schechinah, or, A discourse of Gods glory in a sermon preached at the last Yorkshire-feast in Bow-church, London, June 11, 1682 / by George Hickes.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1857; ESTC R10895	13,920	39

The Moral Shechinah Or a Discourse of Gods Glory IN A SERMON Preached at the last YORKSHIRE-FEAST IN Bow-Church London June 11. 1682. BY GEORGE HICKES D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty LONDON Printed by J. Wallis for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1682. To my Honoured FRIENDS COUNTRYMEN THE STEWARDS Of the last YORKSHIRE-FEAST Mr. William Thomson Mr. Thomas Hutton Mr. Richard Fountaine Mr. John Hargrave Mr. William Wenslay Mr. William Wilkinson Mr. Anthony Warde Mr. Michael Thompson Mr. Christopher Conyers Mr. James Holdsworth Mr. James Gibson Mr. Nicholas Craige Gentlemen ALtho' the Glory of God which is the Subject of this Discourse be the supream end of all Human Actions yet it is very certain from many of the greatest Pretenders to Religion that they have obscure perverse and incongrous Notions of it And if what I have said upon it in this short compass may any way contribute to rectifie such mens apprehensions I shall be thankful to God for it and think my pains very well spent I had presented you sooner with it but that I was hindered by sundry Avocations and perhaps had I published it when you first desired me it might not have done so much Good amongst us as now it may do in cooler times when men are in a better temper and more fit to mind both the concerns of this World and that which is to come I wish you all happiness and shall be ready to serve every one of you in particular as I have all of you in general in first Preaching and now Publishing this Discourse which comes with all due respects from Gentlemen Your most obedient Servant George Hickes A SERMON PREACHED At the Yorkshire Feast July 11. 1682. ON 1 COR. x. 32. Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God THE good or bad success of mens undertakings depending very much upon the knowledge of the end for which they are to act it must needs concern all Christians to get right and clear Notions of the Glory of God which Christianity asserts to be the supream end of all Human Actions and which tho' men generally pretend to understand yet it is very certain from many mens inconsistent practices that they are grievously mistaken in the Notion of it or if they be not that they act against their Understandings and Consciences in acting so contrary to while they pretend to act for the Glory of God Wherefore in discoursing upon these words which propose the Glory of God unto us as the Supream end of all Human Actions I shall first endeavour to explain the true Notion of it 2. I shall make a general division of Human Actions into their several sorts and shew under each sort how they are to be directed unto it as unto their chief end and Lastly I shall shew what we must do and how we must behave our selves in our present Solemnity that we fall not short of the Apostles Rule who tells us that whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we do we must do it to the Glory of God First I shall endeavour to explain the true Notion of Gods glory In order whereunto I must desire you to take notice that the first Notion of Gods Glory in the Scripture is a Physical Notion for the visible appearance of God or the visible manifestation of himself by Fire Light Clouds Brightness and other Meteorous Symbols of his presence and that the other notions of Gods Glory or Glorifying God which occur in the Scriptures do as I shall hereafter shew generally allude and refer unto this which I say consisted inthe visible appearance or manifestation of God by Fire Light Clouds and such like glorious signs of his Presence of which there are several examples in the Old Testament as of his appearing to Moses in a flame of Fire in the Bush and to all the people upon Mount Sinai which saith the Text was altogether on a smoke because the Lord descended upon it in Fire and the Sight of the Glory of the Lord was like devouring Fire on the top of the Mount So Exod. xl 38. The Cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day and the Fire was on it by night in the sight of all the House of Israel So Numb ix 15. On the day that the Tabernacle was reared up the Cloud covered it namely the Tent of the Testimony and at Even there was upon the Tabernacle the appearance of Fire until the Morning So Exod. xxvi 16. The Cloud covered Mount Sinai six days and the seventh day God called unto Moses out of the Cloud Thus also the Cloud was wont to appear at the door of the Tabernacle as Deut. xxxi 15. The Lord saith the Text appeared in the Tabernacle in the pillar of a cloud and the cloud stood over the door of the Tabernacle And in the Holy of Holys as in Lev. xvi 2. The Lord said unto Moses speak unto Aaron thy brother that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the Mercy-Seat which is upon the Ark that he dye not for I will appear in the cloud upon the Mercy-Seat So I King viii When the Priest had brought the Ark of the Covenant into the Oracle of the new built Temple under the Wings of the Cherubims the Cloud so filled the House of the Lord that the Priests could not stand to minister because of the Cloud And in Ezek. i. you may read of other splendid appearances whereby God manifested his Presence as by appearances like the colour of Amber Chrystal Saphire and the colours of the Rainbow together with appearance of Fire with brightness round it In these splendid and glorious appearances God was wont to manifest his special Presence among the Jews and the manifestation thereof was emphatically called The Glory of the Lord as in Exod. xxix 43. Saith God to Moses At the door of the Tabernacle will I meet you to speak there unto thee and there will I meet the Children of Israel and the Tabernacle shall be Sanctified by my Glory So in Exod. xxxiii after God had told Moses again and again That his Presence should go with him Then saith he I beseech thee shew me thy Glory i. e. I beseech the shew me some Glorious Token of the Presence and the Lord said Behold there is a place by me and thou shalt stand upon the Rock and while my Glory passeth by I will put thee in the cliff of the Rock and I will cover thee with my hand while I pass by So Exod. xvii 10. While Aaron spoke unto the whole Congregation they looked towards the Wilderness and behold the Glory of the Lord appeared in the Cloud And Ch. xxiv 16. The Glory of the Lord abode upon the Mount and the Cloud covered it six days So Ch. xl 34. A Cloud covered the Tent of the Congregation and the Glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle So Levit. ix 23. Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle and came out and blessed the People and

the Glory of the Lord appeared unto all the People So 1 Kings viii 12. The Priests faith the Text could not stand to minister in the Temple because of the Cloud for the Glory of the Lord had filled the House So the Prophet Ezekiel speaking of the visionary sight which he had of Gods Glory saith As the Appearance of the Bow that is in the Cloud in the day of Rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about the firo This was the appearance of the likeness of the Glory of the Lord. I could produce many more Texts out of the Old Testament to shew how the manifestation of Gods Presence by such splendid and glorious Signs was called his Glory but rather proceed to shew how it is alluded and referred unto in the New as in Rom. ix 4. where the Apostle speaking of the Israelites saith To whom pertaineth the Adoption and the Glory or the visible manifestations of the Presence of God So Heb. ix 5. The Cherubims under which God appeared are called the Cherubims of Glory and Rom. i. 23. Speaking of that unworthy manner in which the Gentiles and the followers of Simon and Menander who complyed with them represented the Majesty of God They changed saith he the Glory i. e. the presence or appearance of God which never was exhibited but by fire light and such like things without any manner of similitude into an Image made like unto corruptible Man and to birds and beasts and creeping things So John i. 14. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the onely begotten of the Father i. e. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Eternal Word as St. Ignatius calls him came in our flesh and dwelt in it as God did in the Jewish Tabernacle and we by his Wonders and wonderful Holiness and other Signs perceived his Presence in it the Presence as of the only begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth Here you see the Presence and Manifestation of the Godhead in the Body of Christ is allusively called his Glory and in like manner the appearance of God in the Primitive Christian Church by the gift of the Spirit and the extraordinary sanctity and patience of the Christians is called the Glory of God in Rev. xxi where the Christian Church is mystically called the new Jerusalem and the Tabernacle of God in which he dwelt among Men and this holy City wherein God was so conspicuous in the wonderful Graces which he shed upon the Christians had no need of the Sun nor Moon to shine in it for the Glory i.e. the presence of God did lighten it and the Lamb was the light thereof In like manner the presence of Christ in his Ministers is called his Glory 2 Cor. viii 23. If any do enquire of Titus he is my Partner or if our Brethren be enquired after they are the Messengers of the Churches and the Glory of Christ And accordingly the manifestation of him in their Works Doctrine and eminent Sanctity is also called Glory 2 Pet. i 2. Hath given us all things pertaining unto Life and Godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to Glory and Virtue So 2 Cor. iv 5. The Revelation of God unto the World by the Gospel is called the light of the knowledge of the Glory i. e. of the manifestation of God in the face of Jesus Christ and in 1 Pet. iv 4. Those that suffer'd for Christ are said in allusion to the Shechinah to have the Glory and Spirit of God to rest upon them because as I conceive God appeared as eminently in them in their Confessions and Sufferings as if his Glory had descended upon them in lambent fires and rested upon their heads According to this Explication of the Text when our Saviour foretold the Crucifixion of Peter in these words When thou wast young thou girdest thy self and walkedst whither thou wouldest but when thou shalt be old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldest not this he spake saith the Evangelist signifying by what death he should Glorifie God By this time you may perceive that the Glory of God from signifying the Shechinah as the Jews called his visible Presence comes to signifie his Presence or manifestation any other way more especially in the words and actions of men according to which metaphorical sense to Glorifie signifies in the general to manifest or evidence God In this sense the Father is said to glorifie the Son and the Son to glorifie the Father and in this sense our Saviour said of the Sickness of Lazarus This Sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby And according to this sense also the Gentiles and Gnosticks are charged by the Apostle That altho' they knew God yet they glorified him not as God and because he that praiseth God doth in an eminent manner manifest evidence and set him forth therefore saith he in the Psalmist Whoso offereth me praise glorifieth me and from hence I conceive it came to pass that the Tongue by which we publickly confess and acknowledge God and declare the infinite worth and excellencies of his blessed nature came to be called by the name of Glory as in Psal lvii Awake my Glory and in Psal cviii I WILL sing and give praise with my Glory which in the other Translation is exegetically rendered with the best member that I have But more especially and to come nearer to my purpose in this very sense we are said to glorifie i. e. to confess and acknowledge God or make him appear in our works as in that emphatical place of St. John where our Saviour told his Disciples herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit and that of the Apostle to the Corinthians Ye are bought with a price there glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are God's From hence you may perceive that the Glory of God in the moral signification in which it is proposed for the supream End of all human Actions hath a near alliance and reference unto the phrase in the Physical sense thereof for as in this it signifies the visible manifestation or appearance of God in Fire Light Clouds and other refracted colours so in that it signifies the visible manifestation of him in the course of mens Lives So in that the sense of my Text is plainly this Whether you Eat or Drink or whatsoever you do do all to the manifestation of God let him appear in your Conversation make publick recognition of him in your Lives and so order all your Affairs and behave your selves in all your Actions that the World may see that your Souls are possest with a due sense of him and that he is