Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	affliction_n	lord_n	sin_n	1,503	5	4.9511	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12529	Noahs doue, or Tydings of peace to the godly A comfortable sermon preached at a funerall. By Samuel Smith minister of Gods word at Prittlewel in Essex.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1619 (1619)	STC 22851; ESTC S110828	14,797	60

to warne me and to teach mee that if I commit the same sinne God is iust still I shall bee sure to partake of the same punishment and so to breake off their sinnes by repentance But alas though wee see and heare daily of neuer so many fearefull examples of Gods iudgements against sinne and sinners where is the man that saith alas What haue I done for farre are many from marking Gods dealing with others Secondly this ministers matter Vse 2 of instructioÌ„ vnto all that we marke well the vpright It is the counsell the Holy Ghost giues vnto vs heere followe them as they haue followed God bee carefull to imitate their vertues so shalt thou bee sure to pertake of their praise Heb. 11. Our labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord He is a plentifull rewarder of them that seeke him And euer remember that God is vnchangeable true hee that stood by them and carried them out through all their miseries and afflictions will bee as strong in thee if thou be carefull to walke with him as they haue done Marke the vpright man and behold the iust The next thing wee are here to take notice of is the description of a godly man or that man that especially is to be marked hee is an vpright man and a iust man These titles wee see are frequent often vsed in the Scriptures and the Lord doth honor his seruants with them whence we are taught this instruction Doct. 2 That Gods seruants in this life may attaine vnto that measure of grace and sanctication Gods seruants may be called vpright men and iust here Iob. 1.1 Luk. 1. Act. 10. Heb. 11.38 as that they may truely be called vpright and iust men Thus doth the Lord commend Iob to bee an vpright and iust man It was the coÌ„mendations of Zacherie Cornelius diuerse others mentioned in the Scripture Which Doctrine indeed deserues to bee vrged and pressed to stop the mouthes of those that are euer disgracing Gods people with their taunts Oh you are holy you are an vpright man you are a iust man but herein they despise not man but God who hath holinesse in his seruants Heb. 4. without which no man shall see God But if I should stand vpon this point I should bereaue you of some other instruction more fitter for this present occasion which I would willingly impart vnto you And so I come to the second part of the verse The later end of that man shall be peace These words containe in theÌ„ the reason why we shold so dilligently obserue the vpright man The later end of that man shall be peace Out of this Reason I obserue two things First the speciall time of refreshing God will take care of the godly at all times yea thogh the Lord doe suffer them to lie vnder affliction for a time hee is not then vnmindfull of them But their later end shall haue a double rewarde Secondly I note the blessing it selfe which shal be conferred vpon them 2. Cor. 13.13 it is peace the greatest blessing and that which goeth beyond all other blessings for it passeth all vnderstanding The Latter end of that man shall be peace The Prophet hauing before exhorted vs to marke and behold the life of the vpright man and iust man comes now to shewe wherein hee is happy aboue others hee shall haue peace Peace is promised vnto him froÌ„ God as a iust recompence of his vprightnesse and fastnesse this he shall bee sure of Sathan the world nor his owne corruption shall neuer be able to take it froÌ„ him it is an inseparable companion of grace and vertue haue thou grace thou shalt be sure of peace But marke heere it is at their latter end they are not sure of it at all times no no Gods seruants are heere in a warfare they are to fight against the Diuell and a world of wicked men and as our Sauiour teacheth Ioh. 16.33 In the world you must haue tribulation but The latter end shall be peace The Doctrine is Doct. 3 The godly in this life haue many troubles That good men yea the dearest of Gods Saints and seruants in this life shall haue troubles sore affl ctions which they bear so much the more grieuous when on euery side the wicked shall abound in pleasure This was it that so troubled Dauid at this time and before hee wondered at the prosperity of the wicked and on the contrary part was much cast down to see what a loade of afflictions lay vpon the godly but now he recouers himselfe with the comfort of this that howsoeuer Gods people suffer much for a time it is but for a time yea a short they shall bee sure to haue peace at last And now hee hath learned this lesson and can teach it others That looke how many will truely feare the Lord that carefully will endeauour to walke in Gods commandements to the end of their dayes they shall haue crosses and troubles Act. 14.22 so true is that of the Apostle That all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus must suffer persecution Innumerable troubles saith Dauid haue compassed mee from my youth may Israel now say they haue oftentimes afflicted mee from my youth Psal 40.12 but they could not preuaile against mee I might instance this Doctrine by infinite examples Abraham in exile Iob on the dunghil Ioseph innocent Ioseph in the prison as a malefactor in an high degree Ieremy in the stocks Daniel in the denne the people of Israel euen the Israel of God in miserable bondage vnder the Egyptitians So that I conclude that look how many of vs as inteÌ„d to be righteous we must looke for afflictions and troubles yea and prepare our hearts thereunto not to bee dismayed at them when they fall vpon vs had though some strange thing had happened vnto vs according to that of the Apostle 1. Pet. 4.12.13 Dearely beloued think it not strange concerning the fiery tryall which is amongst you to prooue you as though some strange things were come vnto you But reioyce in as much as ye are pertakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall appeare ye may be glad and reiocye I shall not neede I hope in so euident a truth to search vp more Scriptures to proue it The Reasons that follow will cleare the same vnto vs. Reas 1 First because the godly haue in them many sinnes for sinne is the generall and vniuersall cause of all troubles for so testifieth the Prophet saying Lam. 39.3 Man suffereth for his sinne let vs search try our waies and turne vnto the Lord. So then in as much as all haue sinned all are lyable to chastisements afflictions the iust punishment of sinne and if wee breake his Satutes and keep not his Commandements no maruaile though the Lord doe visit our iniquities with his rod and our sinnes with scourges Secondly because the godly Reas 2 haue many graces

for as God doth bestowe vpon his seruants more gifts graces then vpon all the worlde besides so will the Lord haue the same to appeare in his seruants to the praise of his grace They must be beat like spice in a motter that they may sauour the better and euer according to our strength the Lord doth euer proportion our tryals On Hos 6.1 but I haue handled this elsewhere Vse 1 The consideration of this is for excellent vse vnto the godly to comfort them in the midst of all their troubles and afflictions here that they doe not thereby iudge of Gods fauour or displeasure for as Salomon teacheth All things happen alike to all It is the condition of the godly as wel as the wicked yea it is more insident to the professors and profession of the Gospell then to others Such must not thinke the worse of themselues but the better onely they are to labour to make their calling and election sure that hauing assurance of Gods fauour in Iesus Christ they may thereby haue their afflictions sanctified vnto them Secondly this may serue to Vse 2 comfort the faint-hearted that are tossed with the waues of many troubles heere if searching their hearts they can finde their vprightnesse and trying their owne waies they prooue to bee righteous there is not that cause of sorrow or discontent to that man to thinke his state eyther desperate or irrecouerable If troubles were alwaies an argument of Gods displeasure who then were sure of Gods fauour The Lord doth as sure prouide his children correction as food and hee that is without chastisement is a bastard not a sonne Let no man then say in prosperity I shall neuer bee remooued God hath his quiuer full of arrowes to shoot abroad Neither let any in aduersity say I shall neuer bee restored For the Lord taketh no pleasure in afflicting his seruants whensoeuer the Lord chastiseth his he sees there is great necessity of the rod yet in the middest of iudgement the Lord remembreth mercy howsoeuer sorrow may indure for a night ioy commeth in the morning Their latter end shall be peace The latter end of that man shall be peace The Second thing wee are to take notice of Peace the greatest blessing of God is the blessing it selfe which shall bee conferred vpon them it is peace the greatest blessing Obiect Ob. But shal not the later end of all men be alike doth not SalomoÌ„ say Eccl. 9.1 There is one end to the righteous and the wicked to the cleane and vncleane to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not the end is all alike why then shall the later end of the vpright be marked more theÌ„ other mens Ans I answere that their later end is all alike for the matter of their death that is Ans all doe die But it is not all one for the manner of their death for all shall not die in peace but as my Text saith Marke the vpright man and beholde the iust for the later end of that man shal be peace So then the instruction we are to take notice of hence is That the godly onely at their Doct. 4 later end haue peace Onely the godly haue peace at last so that wee haue heere to consider what is the condition of all men in death all die but all haue not peace in their deathes The later end of the iust shall bee peace But as for the wicked Esa 48.22 There is no peace to the wicked saith my God I desire briefly to speake of both of these And first concerning the godly the Holy Ghost doth heere assure them of peace that presently vpon their going hence they are happy Reu. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from thenceforth they rest from their labours This appeares in Abraham to whom it was promised that hee should goe vnto his fathers in peace Gen. 15.15 And of Isaac his sonne it is sayd Gen. 35.29 That he gaue vp the ghost and died peaceably being old full of dayes The like may bee sayd of Iacob of Ioseph of Iosuah Moses Dauid and it is true of all Gods seruants that their latter end is peace An exellent place of Scripture wee haue to this purpose by the Prophet Esay Esa 57.2 Hee shall enter into peace and they shall rest in their beds Euery one that walketh before him in his rightousnes It was Simeons dying song Luk. 2.29 Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to thy word This wee haue confirmed by that we read of Lazarus Luk. 16.22 who was carried immediately after his death into Abrahams bosom in his life time a man little regarded at his end the Angels are his seruants Yea the wicked themselues haue confessed shall acknowledge that the godly are blessed in their deaths witnes that speech of cursed Balaam who desired to die the death of the godly Num. 23.10 Let mee die the death of the righteous and let my last end bee like his That wretch could not but acknowledge that the condition of the godly was happy and blessed howsoeuer their liues are full of misery and they are tossed from post to pillar as the Israelites in the wildernesse yet in their deaths they had peace I will not spend much time herein I hope our iudgements are sufficiently conuinced concerning the truth of the Doctrine I will briefly set downe the Reasons Reas 1 First the godly are sure of peace at last in regard of the accomplishment of Gods promise who hath sayd that peace shall come Esa 57.2 that They shall rest in their beds euery one that walketh before the Lord which promise of his the Lord hath euer made good from time to time vnto all the faithfull after all their labour and trauailes giuing them rest and from their troubles and afflictions in the ende to giue them peace his promise requireth it Secondly the godly haue Reas 2 peace with God with whom they are reconciled by Christ which is their peace This peace the godly haue in this life in the midst of their greatest miseries heere which serues to sweeten the Crosse and to support them vnder the burthen of their afflictions And therefore the Lord giuing them the earnest of their inheritance and the first fruits of the Spirit here they must needs haue peace with God going out of the worlde who goe to enioy God who haue such peace in the worlde where they are absent from the Lord in their bodies The vses follow to bee considered First of all seeing Gods seruants Vse 1 doe die in peace and that this shall bee the portion they shall receiue from the Lord after all their labours trauailes peace at last This may serue to reprooue those that flatter their owâ—e soules and secure themselues that they shall die happily though they haue neither care nor conscience to liue holily faine would they

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