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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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 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