Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.

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Title: Miscellanea philo-theologica, or, God, & man A treatise compendiously describing the nature of God in his attributes, with a lively pourtraiture of his wisedome in ordering, and disposing of the celestiall, and terrestriall bodies. Containing much variety of matter ... and apt applications singular for brevity, and perspicuity. By Henry Church.
Author: Church, Hen. (Henry), fl. 1636-1638.
Publication: London :: Printed [by J. Norton and J. Okes] for John Rothwell, and are to be sold at the Sunne, in Pauls Church-yard,; M.DC.XXXVII. [1637]
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Subject terms: God -- Early works to 1800.; Nature -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.
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[Sect. 1] First, What glory is.

GLory is excellency, dignity, honour, splendor; as the Crowne on the head, as the light to the world: we may see it by contraries and comparisons.

1. By contraries: so darknesse is opposed to glory, for light is glorious: Weaknesse is contrary to glory, it is strength is glorious and honourable: Also shame and death are contrary to glory; but nothing more than sinne, for that deprives of glory, of endowments and ex∣cellencies, which we had originally. Rom. 3.23. or thus we are by sinne deprived of the glory of Communion with God, of acceptance, and by desert deprived of the glory of heaven: sinne brings on us that which is con∣trary to glory; as weaknesse, sicknesse, shame, death, and darknesse.

2. We perceive glory by degrees: there is the glory of the Morning, the glory of the Moone, the glory of the Sunne: The Starres differ in glory, men differ in digni∣ty and glory. So much what glory is.