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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	abraham_n	faith_n	parent_n	1,906	5	8.2195	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57640	Balaams better wish delivered in a sermon / by William Rose.	Rose, William, fl. 1647-1648.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1940; ESTC R25527	34,950	42

of an asse Jer. 22.19 which implies that the civill interment of the body and committing of it to earth was honourable And as the old Law was full of types and ceremonies so they whose soules wereseparated to severall mansions as if they would expresse this truth in a type the faithfull were buryed by themselves from whence was that phrase to be gathered to their Fathers Gen. 25.8 As Jacob gave commandement concerning his bones that he would not be buryed in Egypt k Gen. 47.29 Gather me not with the wicked prayes the Prophet Psal 26.9 not to take notice of the solemnities used at their funerals and to passe the customes from hence derived to other Nations looke we onely to our own They who deny the common faith or whose more vileactions have been a scandall to their profession we eyther bury them not at all or dishonourably but they who live and dye in the faith of Christ and their good conversation hath given us to hope that their bodies shall one day be partakers with their souls in bliffe we give them a more decent buriall in places set a part for that use the Church yard which the Germanes call l Godw. ant Gods Acre or his field where the bodies of his Saints are sown corruptible to spring and arise again incorruptible and immortall 2 The resurrection though our bodies doe moulder and resolve into yet they doe not lose themselves in the dust they onely leave their weaknesse and corruption which adheares unto them by the contagion of sin from which being purged the substance of the body returns again to prove that there is a resurrection were too large a digression and a needlesse labour it being so cleere a constat among Christians that we hold it an article of our faith We are baptized not onely for the remission of sins but also into the resurrection of the flesh 1 Cor. 15. from whence I conceive the Greeks call baptisme 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the clothing or putting on of immortality and again we lay down out bodies in the dust in the sure and certain hope thereof It was an ill reading of that Text the wicked shall not arise in judgement Psal 1.5 which strained that glosse m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyr. Hier. cat 18. Theoph. in Joh. 3. not to judgement but to condemnation the true reading is they sholl not stand in judgement according to the * Stare in judicio Latine phrase they shall not be acquitted but fall when they are judged For as Aquinas rightly argues n Suppl 3. partis qu. 75. art 2. that which is taken from the nature of the species is alike found in every individuall of the same species the resurrection is such and therefore it belongs to every particular Every one must arise the most wretched liver and the false beleever but here is the difference o Resurrectio incredulis parata est gloria autem resurrection is sola credentibus repromissa est Eus Em. hom 1. de Symb. though all arise yet the glory of the resurrection is onely promised unto the faithfull Which was that Saint Paul so earnestly endevoured after if I may by any meanes obteine the resurrection of the dead Phil. 3.11 that of the wicked not deserving the title being but an upstanding to everlasting death Here the body being raysed by the power of GOD out of the dust meets it soul again and are conjoyned together to the righteous a joyfull meeting one of them being happy in the other and both of them in a full expectation of a never ending felicity Sad to the wicked soul being fettered again to the body like malefactors accessories in the same guilt to receive together a just but fearfull recompence of reward 3 Judgement is an act of justice terminated upon man A sentence given by GOD upon his actions There is a twofold judgment assigned by Divines a Session and a grand Assize a particular and a generall For every man is to be considered as he is a singular person in himself and as his sins have had influence into others And as he is a member of mankind 1 As he is an individuall and particular person so is he adjudged by God presently after his death when he is doomed according to what he hath done in the body although not fully because not in the body but onely in the soule that onely appearing and having its sentence the body lying asleepe in its dust 2 As he is a part of mankind so he is called at the great and generall day when there shall be a full summons and an universall appearance of all the living that ever were and as generall a sentence neither yet does God judge twice for the same thing and inflict double punishment for one sin but that which before was not compleatly inflicted then shall the wicked be given up to be tormented and the good glorified in soule and body both and thereseems to be in this equity that the body which hath been a fellow worker with the soul either of holinesse unto life or unrighteousnesse unto death should have her part proportionable in the reward by which generall judgement the righteousnesse of God shall be acquitted and vindicated from all slander not onely from the testimony of every guilty conscience but also by the cleere acknowledgement of every one summoned to appeare at the barre Righteous O God art thou and just are thy judgements The secrets of all hearts being then revealed and the full number of each mans sins being then made up for wicked men finish not their sins with their dayes some mens sins following after judgement 1 Tim. 5.24 they give while they live bad examples which are drawn into practice they leave behinde them the memory of unrighteous deeds which multiply to posterity and acknowledge them their first and proper parent So the vertuous lives of good men lead others by the hand unto holinesse and their faith is filed for posterity Abraham is long since in blisse yet is his faith impressed in the hearts of his children who walke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the steps of the faith of that holy Father Rom. 4.12 how will it adde to the crown of rejoycing as glory of that blessed Saint to see so many trails after him in that tread of faith and righteousnesse which he hath before trodden out how will it blisse those faithfull dispensers of the word and other holy men who by their devout faith and religious practice have converted many unto righteousnesse to appeare with those they have brought to fight under Christ his banner might I rather in the rerelead up but one convert then to march in the van of all the worlds happinesse or triumphant glory The Son of man being mounted on the throne of his Majesty then follows disquisition of actions Heavens records shall be brought forth the books shall be opened the book of life and according to their