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A21197 The churches glory shewed forth in a sermon preached at the Haghe before Their Majesties the King & Queene [brace] of Bohemia / by J.E. ... Elborough, Jeremiah. 1625 (1625) STC 7550.5; ESTC S120080 16,073 56

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sanctification are evident signes fruits of our adoption If a man gloryes he hath the Philosophers stone yet goes in raggs wee will not easily beleeve him neyther him that sayes he is the child of God lives in sinne for hee that ſ 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. is borne of God sinneth not not willingly going on in a sinfull course without repentance in this the children of God are manifest the children of the divel who soever doth not righteousnesse is not of God Use 2 And from hence also we may Fax mentis honestae gloria S. Ital. Phil. 3. bee exhorted to seeke for this the truest glory Some glory in their sinnes whose glory is in their shame some glory in their riches worldly honours but this world passeth away the glory of it some glory in their fine cloathes but all this is vayne glory too often keepes man from attayning true glory how can ye beleeve sayth Christ t Ioh. 5. 44. that receive honour one of another seeke not the honour that cometh from God only whose hearts time is taken up wholy in an ambitious affecting honour from men can spare no time to seeke after the true honour from God they that too much love the prayse of men too little care for the prayse of God Bad people Nullarū fere pretiosior cultus est quam quarū pudor vilis est Cyp. de hab virg may weare good cloathes base minded men step up to worldly honour glory but the Kings daughter only is truly glorious in being gratious Let that argument moove us which comonly preveyles every where that is the fashion Let your u 1. Pet. 3. 4. adorning then be in the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of an humble meeke quiet spirit which is in the sight of God great of price put on by the hand of fayth the fine w Rev. 19. 8. linnen which is the righteousnesse of the saints cover your heads with the feare of God hang at your eares wind about your wrests I meane your hearts the precious jewell of Gods word more x Psa 19. 10. worth then thousands of gold silver choisest pearles girt about your loynes the y Eph. 6. 14. girdle of truth shoo your z v. 15. feet with the preparation of the Gospell of peace wash hands face I meane your soules in the blood of Christ for be they never so high coloured were your sinnes as a Isai 1. 18. red as scarlet they shal be as white as snow For this is the Kings daughters cloathing of wrought gold this her rayment of needle worke this is the Queenes fashion she will never change it but live dye in it I pray God give us all grace to follow it then shall the King have pleasure in our beauty And when the glory of al earthly Kings kingdomes shall cease be brought to nothing then shall the Kings daughter appeare in her glory for we are b 1. Ioh. 1. 18. now the sonnes of God but it doeth not yet appeare what we shal be but we know that when the King our husband Jesus Christ our saviour shall appeare with all the glory of heaven earth that we shal be like him c Col. 3. 4. Rev. 21. 2. appeare with him in glory thus prepared as a bride adorned for her husband cloathed with the glory of God in a kingdom of glory crowned with an incorruptible crowne of glory to which let us d Rom. 8. 18. account all the momentary light afflictions of this world not worthy to be compared but go on from grace to grace from glory to glory e 5. 2. rejoycing in the hope of the glory of God Allglorious THe third thinge to be considered is the amplification of this glory First by the universalitie of it all glorious First by the grace of justification for Christs blood cleanseth her from f 1. Ioh. 1. 7. all her sinnes so God seeth no iniquitye because he does not g Psa 32. impute it to her her iniquities are forgiven her sinnes covered the absolute perfect righteousnesse of Jesus Christ is h Rom. 4. to her in this respect Christ sayes of her thou art i Cant. 4. 7. all faire my Love there is no spot in thee Secondly by the graces of sanctification wherewith her whole person in all the faculties of her soule members of her body is adorned her understanding enlightned with saving knowledge so that with open k 2. Cor. 3. 18 face she beholds the glory of God is changed into the same image from glory to glory her will being conformed to Gods will her affections rightly ordered her love feare joy hope set on other objects contayned within the limits of due moderation her outward senses members of her body l Rom. 6. 13 instruments of righteousnesse unto God in this respect also all glorious For as by sinne the whole person is corrupted so by grace the whole person even in m 1. Th. 5. 23. soule spirit body is sanctified the old man is cast of with his workes beggerly rags the new man is put on which after God is created in righteousnesse true holynesse he hath respect to n Ps 119. 6. 3. all Gods commandements does no iniquitye though in this life the Kings daughter be not so glorious as to bee perfectly sanctified in full measure through the reliques of sinne in her though forgiven yet is she in some measure sanctified in perfectio graduum partium all the faculties of soule members of her body so perfectly sanctified in this sense I dare affirme universalitie of grace for where the flesh is there is the spirit also this spirit of sanctification striveth against corruption thus though she bee black yet is she o Cant. 1. 5. comely but heere after when the body of sinne shal be destroyed all teares wiped from her eyes she shal be all p Eph. 5. 27. glorious without any spot or wrinckle holy without blemish Vse 1 By the consideration whereof we may discerne true grace from counterfeit Herod will heare John gladly doe many glorious good things but he will not part with Herodias this blemishes ye rest discovers him to be of base Idumaeā birth no true Israelite many glory of their good intentions that they meane as wel as the best yet their mouths are full of rotten cōmunication so we may know the tree by the fruit to be of no good kind others glory of their good deeds but their thoughts are free their hearts full of uncleanesse malice covet ousnesse It is ordinary with many in much vehemency to inveigh against to handle roughly the sinne they are not subject to but their beloved
without glorious all glorious within goes forth comes home Cato like eodem vultu with the same countenance the same in all places like her selfe glorious Vse 1 Which condemnes the hypocrisy of many making a great shew of outward devotion having only the outside of religion but no true inward affection to goodnesse nor private practice of pietie z Matt. 7. 5. face-takers as the Syriack termes them taking only the face of goodnesse that abroad but put it off in private The Pharisee is more carefull to wash his hands before meat then his heart the outside then the inside of the cup he will give a Matt. 6. almes fast pray one would think him right bred borne of God but in giving almes he sounds a trumpet in his fasts he disfigures his face he prayes but in the Temple corners of the streets to be seene of men there is neyther pietie in his prayers humility in his fasts or charitie in his almes but all done for his owne vayne glory nothing to Gods glory all done out of love to humane prayses not of any love to those heavenly graces this you may perceive if you follow him home in private hee is another man does none of these nor thincks of these but abroad like some women too carefull curious to trimme up them selves when they goe forth but none more carelesse sluttish when they are at home or like some men that regard not what course foule linnen they weare next their shinne so they have over it a halfe shirt of fine linnen to bee seene or to use our Saviours comparison like b Mat. 23. 27 painted sepulchres faire without rotten within Vse 2 But beloved I am perswaded better thinges of you such as accompany salvation It is our duty to be good abroad to shew our fayth by our good workes we have no cause to be ashamed of goodnesse it is the Queenes glory lest Christ be ashamed of us our good workes must shine before men that they may glorifie our father in heaven but let us take heed we doe not good only to bee seene of men Pray fast give almes with other duties of pietie to God charitie to man in publique with the whole Church but forget not to doe these at home for remember the Kings daughter is all glorious within not excluding her glory without including her glory within for shee is both as I shewed before universaly glorious in all parts so sincerely glorious in all places at all times but indeed more glorious within then without When she is abroad she sometimes forbeares to shew forth her glory to avoyd suspicion of vayne glory hypocrisy but when she comes home enters into her chamber where none but God sees her she unmaskes her face layes open her beauty casts abroad all the brightnesse of her glory in powring out her soule with more freedome zeale in her prayers other glorious good duties to make amēds for that restraynt in publique Psa 39. 1. 2. The King her father the King her husband sees her in secret beholds her carriage heares her prayers putts her teares in a bottle will reward her openly bring forth her righteousnesse as the c Ps 37. 6. light And when all vayne glorious hypocrites relying on their outward devotions shal be cast out into outward darknesse where is weeping gnashing of teeth then shall the Kings daughter who is all glorious within be received within the kingdome of glory d Mat. 13. 43 shine forth as the Sunne in the Kingdome of her father Consider what hath bin sayd the Lord give you understanding in all thinges