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lord_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	20,024	5	9.8526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64835	Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences, and sentences &c. never published till now : and now are as an addition to them which were formerly made publick: together with a sermon entituled The beauty of holines / by Ralph Venning ...	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing V227; ESTC R38004	77,776	241

Lord of Hosts the whole Earth is full of his glory which is repeated Revel 4.8 Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come This then that is the glory of God must needs be the perfection of the creatures beauty and so it will be found to be for 't is more to the glory of Angels that they are holy than that they are wise and mighty Zion was called the Perfection of beauty but 't was because of her being holiness to the Lord the Spouse the fairest among Women because she was undefiled and the Church is called glorious because holy and without blemish 'T is the glory of Gods Sabbath that 't is an holy Day and of his Commandments that they are all holy and so of all his Judgements too What wants holiness cannot be what is holy cannot but be glorious according to it's degree Among all the things that have been or are famous for any perfection Holiness bears the bell and though many have been justly celebrated and their renown hath been spread abroad for their beauty yet this of Holiness excells them all You will find many high sounding words joyn'd with beauty as Glory and Beauty Exod. 28.2 and 40. Job 40.10 Joy attends it but to see it Psal 48.2 Praise attends it as 't is said of Absalom 2 Sam. 14.25 Excellency Isa 13.19 Ornament Ezek. 7.20 Renown Ezek. 16.14 c. But the Beauty of Holiness exceeds them all and the rest is as a thing of naught where this is not That which may seem strange is you may hear a Woman and a Queen calling it Vanity Prov. 31.30 Favour is deceitful and Beauty vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be prais'd For what For a Beauty Her own works such as the Apostle speaks of 1 Tim. 2.10 in the language of my Text becoming Women professing Godliness Her good Works shall praise her in the Gate All the other glorious beauty is but a fading flower Isa 28.14 but this is the lasting and abiding beauty even for ever as in the Text as in 1 Pet. 1.24 with Isa 40.6 7. One rebuke of God if he do but blow upon it makes the most glaring beauty to consume like a moth Psal 39.11 yea of its self 't is in a consumption and dying daily But wickedness makes not only the person but the beauty to be abhorred Ezek. 16.25 There is more ugliness in the sin than there can be beauty in or on the person of a sinner though an Absalom among men a very None-Such or a Bathsheba among Women who was very beautiful 2 Sam. 11.2 The glory of young men is their strength Prov. 20.29 What to do wickedly no but when such young men as St. John speaks of 1 John 2.14 who were strong by the Word of God abiding in them and overcame the evil and wicked one so that this strength of Holiness is the true glory of young men And they that pride themselves and glory in their being mighty to drink woe unto them for they glory in their shame As for old men the same Text Prov. 20.29 tells us that the gray head is their beauty but when for it seems to need an interpretation why then 't is a crown of glory viz. the hoary head when 't is found in a way of righteousness Prov. 16.31 So that we see there is no glory allowed to any beauty but that of Holiness We may conclude as holy King David I have seen an end of all perfection but the perfection of beauty that is the beauty of Holiness which is as exceeding broad as all the Holy Commandments of God Holy David was so taken with and inamoured of this beauty which is the glory of God himself that he begs nothing but this or nothing like this of God in prayer Psal 27.4 One thing have I desired of the Lord and that will I seek after his heart is fully set and resolved that I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the dayes of my life what to do to behold the beauty of the Lord a sight that passeth all sights And Moses the man of God prayes to see this glory Psal 90.16 17. Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children and let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us c. The truth of it is to see the glory and beauty of the Lord is a sight not only worth praying but worth dying for it being no less than the Beatifical Vision I perceive I have been engaged sooner than I was aware of in the second thing the comparative consideration of holiness and yet I must proceed and make further progress to evidence this that nothing is worthy to be compared with her but that her beauty is incomparable There are many pretenders and competitors who are brought in by too many in this blinded world to vie with holiness But if we will believe so clear so great and so just a judgement as that of Gods The beauty of holiness is beyond comparison and competition 1. There have been and I am afraid there are with a sigh be it spoken to their shame that prefer sin before the holy Jesus and say as Isa 53.2 3. There is no beauty that we should desire him they despise and reject him they hide their faces from him and have no esteem for him but say as Isa 30.11 Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us and as the Devils Let us alone or away what have we to do with thee art thou come to torment us thou Holy One Luke 4.34 Woe and alas that the altogether lovely Jesus should be thus undervalued and that by them whom he had infinitely obliged to serve and honour him He had for us a love that passeth knowledge such as never was the like known unexampled and never to be parallelled by any great it was like that of his Fathers who sent him into the World from and in the strength of this love he came not only to make or give a Visit but to save us with a great Salvation from sin and wrath and shall not this man rule over us and be our Prince who is our Saviour Oh dis-ingenious ingrateful foolish people and unwise thus to requite the Lord with contempt scorn and hatred for his Good-will what alles this degenerate wicked World that they see not his glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of all Graces and Truth of Beauty I must confess that the Son of God did appear with many seeming disadvantages to sensual and sinful eyes for he being to take a journey into this World where he was to taste of death dis-robed himself of his Majesty and Glory becoming for a time not only little lower than the Angels but was pleased to put on our Countrey Cloths and came habited into the World like one of us yea in the form of a servant and in the likeness of sinful