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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	2,671	5	4.1800	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93738	The doctrine of the cross, or, The duty of Christian suffering as it is necessary and subservient in order to the obtaining eternal salvation, delivered in a sermon on Matth. 13. 20, 21 / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5118; ESTC R42710	24,789	39

Loins that they might the better speak forth in the Name of the Lord his Truths and Promises concerning it The belief whereof made themselves to be eminent Examples of Patience under it For there is no such Speaking or Preaching of any thing as experimental Speaking or Preaching when what we have seen with our Eyes we have looked upon our Hands have handled yea yet further what we have experienced and felt from within and in our selves we declare unto ye Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of the Patience of Job James 5 11. who for this Cause also seems to have undergone all those Great Sufferings that he might the better hereby speak and declare true Words and right Words concerning those same Sufferings and of that Trust on the invisible God which is proved and exercised therein which he hath accordingly so done Let us hear some of his excellent Words My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Though I die I will not remove mine Integrity from me Though He viz. God slay me yet will I trust on him This again confirms the truth of what was afore spoken concerning what trust on God means And what shall we say more on this Subject Ye have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender Mercy By the Examples of David and Job both whose latter End was more than their Beginning Yea I will add yet furher that by the end of the Prophets who were kill'd 〈…〉 and sawn asunder as they spoke in the Name of the Lord. When we shall see which is yet to come at the very end and distribution of all things how graciously and bountifully God will deal with all those who have suffered or died for his Name Word or Truth when all the great Promises of Scripture shall be turned into Performances and all those things which he hath there spoken of shall be made good verified and fulfilled then it will be found true and returned That the Lord is very Pitiful and of tender Mercy And how little yea no Reason at all they had who heretofore believed not in God and trusted not on his Salvation but when Persecution or Tribulation did arise for the Word they were offended For hath God said and shall he not bring it to pass That whatever Trouble Hardship Inconvenience or Loss any one shall endure for his sake or for his word he will make it up unto them more than an hundred fold in the time of the Restitution of all things Yes most assuredly he shall and blessed are those that believe for there shall be a certain Performance of those things which are told us from the Lord. This will be so clearly seen at the Distribution and Restitution of all things that even the Souls of those very same People who heretofore were offended when Persecution or Tribulation did arise for the Word will wish and exceedingly desire that they had not been offended but that they had cleaved and stuck unto that same Word still and herein followed the Lamb whethersoever he goes although this same Lamb of God was at last brought to the Slaughter Isa 53. 7. For they might have Reasonably yea and gainfully rest in what is called the Foolish Doctrine of suffering according to the will of God 1 Pet. 4. 19. and have trusted on his stay support and invisible Protection therein and for those future good things which God 〈…〉 lie hath promised and reserved for such King Agrippa believest thou the Prophets I know that thou believest Acts 26. 27. So I now put you all to it that shall hear or read these Lines do you believe the Scriptures I know that some of ye do believe them And to such of ye who do believe them I have made known such things from out of the same Scriptures which shall be certainly fulfilled in their Season concerning the exceeding benefit and sweetness of suffering for God and his Word that some of ye may be in love with Suffering and ye could almost wish and desire to experience and be Partakers thereof your selves whilst you are in well-doing as hearing his Word certainly is or any way for the Word and Truths sake But as we are unwilling to trust the issue and main event of a Battel only to raw fresh and newly disciplined Souldiers there should be much teaching and exercise before they come to real Blows and Fighting although perhaps these may seem to shew more Heat and Forwardness more Earnestness and Courage than old Beaten Souldiers yet still there is not so much dependance to be had on the former sort as on the latter So notwithstanding what warm Affections or Willingness to take up and bear the Cross may arise in your Minds yet I freely declare that I should be loth to trust to your standing unto it if once Constables or Officers were coming to dismiss this Assembly For when once the Shepherd is smitten or begun to be smitten the Sheep will be soon scattered I have trodden the Wine-Press alone and of the People there was none with me Isa 63. 3. said the Captain of our Salvation For when once they begin to be broken and the Sparkles of Blood to fly then the People will be sure to keep far enough off According to the Rules and Directions of God's written Word and according to the Examples of the Primitive Christians whose Behaviour was when they were disturbed and interrupted in their Assembling of themselves together they did not for all that refrain or neglect the assembling of themselves together although they did not act by way of Violence or outward Noise or Confusion so ye ought to stand to it still Although after all that can be said to perswade ye unto it yet several Hearers at such a time of Trial are like the Children of Ephraim who being harnessed and carrying Bows turned themselves back in the day of Battel As God saith in Isaiah which is to be understood of Christ and his Ministers Behold I have made thee a Witness and a Leader unto the People So in a day of such kind of Battel or Trial the Ministers and Preachers of the Word are the Captains and Leaders who first stand in the Brunt for commonly the Persecution first begins with and is levelled against them My God who hath trained and exercised me on by little and little hath now at length taught and instructed me how to behave my self even by Preaching in Prison see 1 Pet. 3. 19. which I did not understand so well at first as I have done more lately But by my former Ignorance of this kind I have lost ground and I have not gained so much by Suffering as I might have done and by speaking out and proclaiming the very same Words in Prison for which I have been imprisoned Day after Day and Night after Night and by laying before them and