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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	good_a	shipwreck_n	6,868	5	12.4968	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28586	An exhortation to charity (and a word of comfort) to the Irish Protestants being a sermon preached at Steeple in Dorsetshire, upon occasion of the collection for relief of the poor Protestants in this kingdom lately fled from Ireland / by Samuel Bold.	Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737.	1689 (1689)	Wing B3480; ESTC R15353	24,615	37

to the same excess of Riot speaking evil of you Let us therefore take care so to govern our selves that our Conversation may become the Gospel of Christ and that we may walk worthy of that high Vocation whereunto we are called and that in every thing we may adorn the Doctrine of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ Let us see to it that our Lives may in all their Parts bear some proportion with the purity and tendency of our Faith the Doctrines we own and profess the Promises which are laid before us for our incouragement the Example our Blessed Saviour himself hath given us and the great Things we tell the World we expect and hope for that so if we suffer here it may be evident we suffer because we will not be conformed to this World but are transformed by the renewing of our Minds and do approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect Will of God. And then we may expect that as the Sufferings of Christ do abound in us so our Consolation also shall abound by Christ We may then rest assured that our present Sufferings shall be recompensed with a Glory which shall unconceivably exceed all that is troublesome and afflicting in what we sustain at present If we suffer because we will not make shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience because we offer unto God more excellent Sacrifices than others and because it is our Care and Business to walk worthy of our God unto all well-pleasing to be fruitful in every good Work and increase in the Knowledge of God we may certainly attain to be of such a Temper as the Apostle here discovers in the Text. We may arrive to make the same determination with our selves he did and reckon that the Sufferings of this present Time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us Which leads me to the Second Point I took notice of from the words viz. That sincere Christians may at present be throughly assured that the Sufferings of this present Life do not bear any proportion with the Glory they shall be recompensed with hereafter They may upon a due weighing of the Sufferings of this present Time and a future Glory together attain such a full conviction of the huge Advantage the Glory they shall be rewarded with hath above all the Sufferings they can at present endure as will mightily dispose them to bear with great Equanimity and encounter with wonderful Fortitude all the uneasy and frightful Occurrences unto which they can be exposed in this World for the sake of Christ and on the account of their Religion We have in the Text the sedate and deliberate Judgment and Determination of one who was as throughly accomplished to speak to this Point as any meer Man could be He had experienced the Sufferings of this present Time in as abundant Measures and to as high Degrees as any Man He felt all the smart and pain that Sufferings could produce He had taken a view of Cruelty in its most various and terrifying Forms and Shapes and had looked further into the future Glory than any pious Soul can ordinarily see whilst it carries along with it this mortal Clog So that here we have the conclusion of one who experimentally understood both the Nature and Extent of a Believer's Sufferings and Glory better than any other Person upon Earth You may read an account of his Sufferings in 2 Cor. 11. 23 c. And you may guess how sit he was to make a Judgment concerning the future Glory from what he himself had experience of as he reports it himself in 2 Cor. 12. 4. But if we had not so express a Testimony concerning this Business from this Apostle yet if we will but compare the greatest Sufferings which have been inflicted on sincere Christians in any Age of the World or the greatest Sufferings we can imagine possible to be inflicted by Men with those excellent Accounts the Scriptures do give of the future Glory and withal remember how short all intelligible words do fall of expressing and describing this Glory to the full that common Principle of Reason which directs and enables us to judg of and determine the difference there is between inferior Matters when presented to our Consideration must necessarily prompt us to conclude that present Sufferings do not bear a proportion with the promised Glory If we compare these Matters with Sedateness and approve our selves impartial Reason it self as assisted by the Holy Scriptures will as certainly direct us to conclude for the future Glory as it will influence and authorize us to determine that a massy Mountain is more ponderous than a Light and almost imperceptible Feather We hugely wrong our selves and injure the Interest of Piety in that we wave the due comparing of Matters and do not so diligently and with such consideration as becomes us set the Incouragements we have to Virtue and Holiness in a just opposition to whatsoever may be pretended a Discouragement thereunto Did we compare aright eternal Inheritances with temporal Occurrences and the uncertain unsatisfying short-lived Honours Pleasures c. of this World with the certain constant uninterrupted endless Torments and Miseries of the next World we shou'd have more fixed and sound Judgments and Resolutions touching these things than we ordinarily have And if the common Principle of Reason will teach us to make such a Determination on a due comparing of these matters together how much more will our Minds be assured that the future Glory will abundantly transcend our present Sufferings when we shall be enabled to pry further into these matters and see them more distinctly by having them set in a clearer Light through that special Illumination of the holy Spirit God is pleased to bestow on sincere Christians As we have the Promise of God to assure us of a happy and blessed Eternity if notwithstanding all the Sufferings and Difficulties Inconveniencies and Discouragements we may meet with in adhering to the P●●●e●●ion and Practice of the true Religion we patiently continue in well doing so we find Believers have been so throughly assured in their own Minds of the great advantage future Glory hath above all present Sufferings they have both made open Profession of their Satisfaction concerning this matter and have actually rejoyced and triumph'd at the Consideration thereof when they have been treated very discourteously by the Adversaries of their Religion F●●… the which cause saith the Apostle I also suffer these 〈…〉 evertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I 〈…〉 and I am perswaded that he is able to keep in 〈…〉 have committed unto him against that day The Ap 〈…〉 way rejoycing Acts 5. 41. that they were count 〈…〉 suffer Shame for the Name of Christ Yea Believers have had such Pl 〈…〉 ssurance of what the Text doth instruct us in th 〈…〉 been powerfully influenced thereby to renounce an 〈…〉 with all the