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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	apostle_n	faith_n	true_a	2,829	5	4.8699	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29110	The eye of faith, looking at eterntty [sic] being the sum and substance of a sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church of York, the sixth Sunday after Trinity, July the second, 1665 / by Christopher Bradley ...	Bradley, Christopher, d. 1678.	1666 (1666)	Wing B4124; ESTC R20241	13,160	32

Affliction in it self is often heavy and no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous Heb. 12. ●● yet in these respects it is light affliction 1. In regard of the demerit of sin which deserves the heavy wrath of God to all eternity 2. In regard of the shortness of it it is but for a moment 3. In regard of the operation of it it worketh an eternal weight of Glory the consideration of which made the Apostle say Rom. 8.18 I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us 4. In regard of that Patience and Support Levius fit patientia quicquid c●r●●g●re es● n●s●s which God is pleased to give his People under their afflictions and in his good time a happy issue and deliverance out of them ● This affliction is but for a moment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very little time and presently past as the Greek word imports so that though our affliction be long in it self yet it is but for a moment compared to eternal sufferings seeing there is no proportion between the longest time and eternity The third thing to be opened is the Operation of it though Affliction be bitter yet here is the comfort of it ●●●is da● medus anabil●tatem it worketh Glory The end gives amability and sweetness unto the means we take a bitter Potion willingly for healths sake it worketh Glory Glory is the excellency or eminency of any thing resulting and arising from its Perfection Glory in the Greek signifies that high opinion or estimation of anothers Worth or Excellency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For example Glory in God is the Excellency of his Divine nature and Attributes above the Creatures Glory in the Creatures is the Excellency God puts upon them so that to glorifie God is not to make him more glorious than he is for God is infinite in all Perfection not capable of addition or diminution To glorifie God is to give him the praise of his Glory according to that of the Psalmist Ps 50. ult Who so offereth Praise glorifieth me so that to glorifie God is to divulge and publish abroad to others what eminent Attributes and what transcendent excellencies there are in God Gloriosum dicere to glorifie God is to declare him to be Glorious to glorifie the Creature is to make him glorious Gloriosum ●●cere But why is it called a weight of Glory The Apostle as Interpreters agree alludes to the Hebrew word which signifies both weight and glory Glory is a grave and weighty thing whom we honour are of great weight with us and highly esteemed in our minds and Glory as it were loads the beholder with admiration and this is also amplified by being an eternal weight of Glory As for the Apostles addition a far more exceeding weight of Glory I shall not trouble you with the various expositions of Interpreters they are very Rhetorical and sublime 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apostle heaps one Hyperbole upon another so that neither Cicero nor Demosthenes had ever so elegant a strain of Rhetorick And therefore I shall acquiesce in the judgment of a learned Doctor of our Church who tells us that no words devised by the best wit and uttered by the most eloquent tongue of man are able to express that surpassing weight of Glory and well may it be so when both the Prophet Esa 61.4 1 Cor. ● 9 and Apostle tell us that Eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him But for whom will Affliction thus work even for such as by the eye of Faith look at eternity for such as consider the redundancy of retribution and compare present things with future things as Oecumenius well observes And so you see the connexion of the Text with the Context while we look not c. Now for the opening and applying of the words because method is the Mother of memory I shall propound this method unto your Christian consideration 1. Explication 2. Observation 3. Application 1. I shall give you a brief Exposition of the words and that according to the Original The parts of the Text are two 1. An intimation of a Duty 2. The Reasons to enforce that Duty 1. Of the Duty While we look not c In the Greek it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we not looking the participle signifying the continuation of the Action that is we look not with a transient eye a glance and away but with a constant steddy eye that is we must make it our main business to look at Eternity the Greek word contains in it an elegant Metaphor taken from one that shoots at a Mark to teach us that things of a spiritual and eternal nature must be the mark and scope at which we do collime and aim 2. Observe the eye with which we look else that will seem a Paradox which indeed i● a Divine Truth how can we look at the things which are not seen this is to be understood not of a natural or carnal eye but of the spiritual eye of Faith else there will be a disproportion between the faculty and the object And that this Exposition is true the Apostle testifies in that Definition or rather Description of Faith Heb. 11.1 Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen and in the 27. verse of that Chapter Moses is said by Faith to have seen him who is invisible Now to illustrate this a little the natural eye is like the sight of the Owl she cannot look upon the Sun Excellen● s●● sibil● struis s●●sum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 2.14 the weakness is in the faculty of sight so the natural man or as it is in the Greek the Animal man for he is a meer Animal in spiritual things receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned But the spiritual eye is like the sight of an Eagle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she is said to be sun-proof looking intently upon the Sun without being dazled and by that property makes proof of her young ones so Believers by the eye of Faith can look upon the Sun of Righteousness Jesus Christ Mal. 4.2 and at spiritual and eternal things And so I come to the second part of the Text the Reasons to enforce the Duty and they are two 1. The things that are seen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are temporall the Greek word signifies for a season a very little time The second Reason is but the things which are not seen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are eternal the Greek word signifies that which is alwaies in existence in being and the Hebrew word gned being added to