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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	work_n	world_n	worst_a	51	3	7.8454	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67778	A sovereign antidote against all grief extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and modern both holy and humane : necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1654 (1654)	Wing Y190; ESTC R483498	105,217	98

bee raised up by the Gospell that wee must dye unto sin before wee can live unto righteousness and become fools before wee can bee truly wise In the work of Redemption hee gives life not by life but by death and that a most cursed death making that the best instrument of life which was the worst kind of death Optimum fecit instrumentum vitae quod erat pessimum mortis genus In our effectuall vocation hee calls us by the Gospell unto the Jews a stumbling-block and unto the world meer foolishness And when it is his pleasure that any should depend upon his goodness and providence hee makes them feel his anger and to bee nothing in themselvs that they may rely altogether upon him Thus God works joy out of fear light out of darkness and brings us to the Kingdom of heaven by the Gates of hell according to that 1 Sam. 2. ver 6. 7. And wherein does thy case differ Hee sends his Serjeant 〈◊〉 arrest thee for thy debt commands thee and all thou hast to bee 〈◊〉 But why onely to shew thee thy misery without Christ that so 〈◊〉 maist seek to him for merby for although hee hides his fatherly 〈◊〉 as Joseph onoe did his brotherly his meaning is in conclusion to forgive thee every farthing Matth. 18. 26 27. And dost thou make thy slight sufferings an argument of his displeasure for shame mutter not at the matter but bee silent It is not said God will not suffer us to bee tempted at all but that wee shall not bee tempted above that wee are able to bear 1 Cor. 10. 13. And assure thy self what ever thy sufferings bee thy saith shall not fail to get the victory as oil over-swims the greatest quantity of water you can powr upon it True let none presume no not the most righteous for hee shall scarcely bee saved 1 Pet. 4. 18. yet let him not despair for hee shall bee saved Rom. 8. 35. Onely accept with all thankfulness the mercy offered and apply the promises to thine own soul for the benefit of a good thing is in the use wisdom is good but not to us if it bee not exercised cloth is good but not to us except it be worn the light is comfortable but not to him that will live in darkness a preservative in our pocket never taken cannot yield us health nor baggs of money being ever sealed up do us any pleasure no more will the promises no nor Christ himself that onely summum bonum except they are applied Yea better there were no promises than not applied The Physician is more offended at the contempt of his Physick in the Patient than with the loathsomness of the disease And this I can assure thee if the blood of Christ bee applied to thy soul it will soon stanch the blood of thy conscience and keep thee from bleeding to death 1 Joh. 1. 7. But secondly instead of mourning continually as the tempter bids thee rather rejoice continually as the Apostle bids thee 1 Thes. 5. 16. Neither think it an indifferent thing to rejoice or not to rejoice but know that we are commanded to rejoice to shew that wee break a commandement if wee rejoice not Yea wee cannot beleeve if wee rejoice not for faith in the commandements breeds obedience in the threatnings fear in the promises comfort True thou thinkest thou dost well to mourn continually yea it is the common disease of the innocentest souls but thou dost very ill in it for when you forget to rejoice in the Lord then you begin to must and after to fear and after to distrust and at last to despair and then every thought seems to be a sin against the holy Ghost Yea howmany sins doth the afflicted conscience record against it selfe repenting for breaking this commandement and that commandement and never repenteth for breaking this commandement rejoice evermore But what 's the reason Ignorance thou thinkest thy self poor and miserable and onely therefore thinkest so because thou knowest not thy riches and happiness in Christ for else thou wouldest say with the Prophet Habbakuck in the want of all other things I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation Habbak 3. 17 18. Thou wouldest rejoice that thy name is written in the book of life as our Saviour injoines Luk. 10. 20. though thou hadst nothing else to rejoice in But it is nothing to be blessed untill we understand ourselvs to be so wherefore Thirdly wait Gods leisure with patience and hold fast to him in all pressures Time saith Seneca is the best Physick for most diseases for the body and so likewise for the soul if it bee an afflicted conscience waiting Gods leisure for the assurance of his love is the best remedy and so in all other cases Section 10. Ob. But when will there bee an end of this long disease this tedious affliction this heavie yoake of bondage c. Answ. It is a signe of cold love scarce to have begun to suffer for Christ and presently to gape for an end It was a far better speech of one Lord give mee what thou wilt as much as thou wilt when thou wilt Thou art Gods Patient prescribe not thy Physi●…ian It is the Gold-Smiths skill to know how long his gold must bee in the Crusible neither takes hee it out of that hot bath till it bee sufficiently purified What if the Lord for a time forbear coming as Samuel did to Saul that hee may try what is in thee and what thou wilt do or suffer for him that hath done and suffered so much for thee as why did God set Noah about building the Ark an hundred and twenty years when a small time might have finished it It was for the triall of his patience Thus hee led the Israelites in the desarts of Arabia forty years whereas a man may travell from Ramesis in Egypt to any part of Canaan in forty days this God did to prove them that hee might know what was in their hearts Deu. 8. 2. Hee promised Abraham a son in whom hee should bee blessed this hee performed not in thirty years after Hee gave David the Kingdom and anointed him by Samuel yet was hee not possessed of it in many years in so much that hee said Mine eyes fail for thy Word Psal. 119. 123. Joseph hath a promise that the Sun and Moon should do him reverence but first hee must bee bound in the Dungeon This God doth to try us for in these exigents we shew our selvs and our dispositions What saith God to his people in their misery Psal. 75. When I see convenient time I will execute judgment ver 2. hee doth not say when you think the time convenient Let us tarry a little the Lords leisure deliverance will come peace will come joy will com in mean while to 〈◊〉 ●…nt in misery makes misery no misery Again secondly hee may delay his coming for other ends of greater consequence Martha and