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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	earth_n	soul_n	6,637	5	5.0980	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62525	The duty and comfort of suffering subiects. Represented by Peter Talbot in a letter to the Roman-Catholiks of Ireland, particulary those of the city and diocese of Dublin	Talbot, Peter, 1620-1680.	1674 (1674)	Wing T115; ESTC R219689	8,394	12

THE DVTY AND COMFORT OF SVFFERING SVBIECTS Represented by PETER TALBOT in a letter to the Roman-Catholiks of Ireland particulary those of the City and Diocese of DVBLIN Dearly Beloued in Christ I Should be very sorry there were any iust reason to beleeue that since my departure from that Kingdom any endeauors haue bin used to instruct you otherwise than I haue don as to the inviolable Duty and Obedience you ow to His Maiesty's Gouernment and the Laws you liue under And though your former unanimous and humble acquiescence to my constant Doctrin in this particular will not permit mee to haue the least doubt of your loyalty and peaceable behauiour yet because Aduersity is a strong Temptation and temporall necessities the most forcible of all motiues to our corrupt nature I thought fit to arm your soul against all such assaults by summing up in this Epistle the substance of what I haue so often inculcated unto you by word of mouth in my Exhortations I hope you remember that I alwayes endeauor'd to print this Great Truth liuely in your Minds that the Happines of Man in this present state consists more in possessing the riches of a good Conscience than the conveniencies of this world Good and Bad Fortune as they call them are but improper Nick-names and foolish Notions if by that language bee meant Riches and temporall Prosperity T is the depraued condition of human nature which makes us affectionately couet and unresignedly resent the loss of such paltry trash whose very Nature tells us ' t is of too base an alloy and of too mean and low a pitch of worth for a soul sprung from Heauen and wing'd by Christianity to fly at The apprehensions wee frame of our greatest and most important concerns of Eternity and of the proper Means for it's attainment are so dim for want of rendering our Faith liuely by attentiue consideration that wee are apt to miscall that Persecution which is indeed a sweet Prouidence of our Heauenly Father and to imagin that Pouerty and other Marks of Predestination are so many Misfortunes which make us miserable Neuer considering from how good a hand they com or indeauoring by Patience to make that excellent use of them for which they were intended to wit the Salvation of our Souls To confirm you there fore in these Truths and to settle you steadily in the submission you owe to the Laws of the Land as well as in the Charity you are by Christs sweet law obliged to bear towards your Protestant Neighbours and fellow-subiects I will state your case worse than really it is and suppose you were all driuen to that utmost and worst extremity of begging your bread I say though you were reduc'd euen to that staruing condition yet ought you not endeauour to better it by plotting or conspiring against His M. ty ' s Gouernment Person or Subiects or by disturbing the peace of the Kingdom You ought not I say once more do this and the reason why you ought not is as euident as it is that you ought not to sin to deny which Truth is to deny not some one point or some few single truths as do Hereticks but the whole intire Doctrin of Christianity and the Common Light of Reason to boot Rom. 13. Read the Holy Scriptures and you will find S. Paul tells us that Christians are bound in conscience to obey their Heathen Emperours and that vvho euer resisteth them resisteth the ordinance of God also that by so doing they purchasse to themselues Damnation Matt 22. Does not Christ himself command us to pay Tribute unto Cesar 〈◊〉 21. the badge and token of our Temporall vassallage and Obedience ● Pet. 2. Does not S. Peter bid us be subiect to the King as hauing Preeminences their attainment of Eternall Happines Did Mortalls make sober and attentiue Reflexions upon the surviuency of their Soul and that the future condition which finally attends it stretches its duration to an endles Eternity their Reason which Custom and Passion hoodwink would readily discouer how iust it is to conform them selues to Gods holy will in this particular and euen to take content in their afflictions For tell mee I beseech you what is this world Truth makes answer for you and assures us all yt. t is onely â Theatre of foolish and false shows A short Comedy or rather indeed a short Prologue of euerlastlng sadnes to such as take most delight in it A perpetuall Conflict between life and Death Sicknes and Health Fear and Hope Ioy and discontent Again what is an Inheritance A parcell of land whereof our Ancestors were Masters as long as they liu'd which term of Life the onely interest any of them could pretend to is valu'd but at seauen years purchase Is it reasonable then think you to fix your hearts so unremouably and passionately upon that earth as if your Souls were to turn into it aswell as your Bodies Poor Souls After â mans death hee has no expectation of any good for his Temporall Estate being quite out of all circumstances of enioying the least conueniency from it Nor has any separated Soul the least Concern for any worldly Inheritance but those vahappy ones who hauing ouer-loud ' it here feel the fond affection to such â perishable and fleeting Good racking their wills with a bitter torment for the eternall loss of it Nor lastly do they concern themselues so highly for the Temporall Prosperity of their Children or Relations No no the blinding veil is then taken from their eyes and they see plainly nay feel experimentally that nothing is at all valuable but as it conduces to attain Heauen and that neither Riches nos Pouerty but onely virtue are the proper Means to compass that happy End both of them indifferent and unconcerning and onely good or bad as they are well or ill made use of but yet with this difference that Riches are by far a more dangerous incitement to lull our souls with the loue of this world and deturn us from virtue Nay euen the damned Souls are wiser than to concern themselues with wislshing those Friends whom they retain a naturall affection for such trifling aduantages That rich man who so much enuyd ' the Happines of Lazarus in Abrahams bosome was not sollicitons for his Brethrens worldly Interest but for their instruction which passage though it be a Parable yet t is a most sure proof of the Folly of such as lament the loss of their Fortunes more than the loss of Gods Grace and are more concernd ' for acquiring or conseruing an Inheritance in this world for themselues or their Relations than for that of Heauen what doth it profit a man to gain the whole Vniuerse if his Soul in the mean time suffers any Detriment And that soul suffers not onely Detriment but Eternall Damnation that will attempt to possess an Estate by so unlawfull means as Rebellion against Superior Powers and the Laws by them