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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

Means doth with the End. And the End must certainly be more excellent and worthy than that which is but a Means and Instrument to bring about that End. Our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory Our Sufferings you see when compared with Glory are but very short and light the Glory is far more exceeding an eternal weight of Glory it is not imaginary as the biggest part of our Sufferings are but real and substantial And these Sufferings do contribute to the fitting of us for and the conducting and bringing of us to this Glory Now here I must acquaint you before I proceed to the other part of the Text that they are not all kind of Sufferings in this Life which will contribute to the conducting of People to that Glory which shall be revealed People may by their Vices Wickednesses and Immoralities contract very much hurt and grievous Sufferings upon themselves And these are so far from administring any Relief upon the consideration of a future Glory that they will rather fill with greater horror and confusion And without particular Repentance for the Facts which have made way for such just and righteous Punishments they will but open a passage for the Sufferers into Torments and Punishments unconceivably greater more insupportable and lasting than those be which they at present endure Therefore if we would have Comfort and Support in the Sufferings which may be inflicted on us in this present Life from the consideration of the future Glory we must take particular care that if we suffer it may be really for Religion the Protestant Religion the Cause of the Lord Jesus Christ And that we bear our Sufferings with a truly Christian Disposition and frame of Spirit Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery Trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you But rejoice in as much as ye are Partakers of Christ's Sufferings that when his Glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of Glory and of God resteth upon you on their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorisied But let none of you suffer as a Murderer or as a Thief or as an Evil doer or as a busy-body in other Mens Matters Yet if any Man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorify God on this behalf c. Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousness-sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your Reward in Heaven More particularly our Sufferings will contribute much to our future Happiness if they be inflicted on us First For the True Faith. Secondly For the Purity of God's Worship Thirdly Because of our strict and faithful ordering of our Lives and Conversations by the Laws and Precepts of the Gospel of Christ First For our firm adhering unto and regular contending for that true Faith which was once delivered unto the Saints Satan hath made it a great part of his Business to put Men of corrupt Minds on the Adulterating of the Christian Faith. He hath sometimes prompted them to endeavour to depreciate and almost annihilate some of the main fundamental Articles of our Religion Sometimes he hath furnished them with new Notions and then put them upon the assuming to themselves an Authority to impose what he and they together have coined as Articles of the Christian Faith. Now those Sufferings which are inflicted on us by the Evil and Potent Adversaries of the Truth because we will not renounce and part with the plain and obvious Doctrines of the Gospel nor own an Authority in the Church directly opposite to Christ's nor espouse and entertain the Traditions of Men for the Doctrines of God have a plain tendency to dispose us for and to give us a just claim by virtue of the Promise of our Blessed Saviour to that Glory which shall be revealed Secondly For our just and zealous Concern for the Purity of God's Worship Satan and his Instruments have endeavoured with all their Cunning and Might to corrupt the Worship of God by rejecting at least some parts of his Institutions strangely altering and defacing some essential Parts of his Service and annexing Idolatrous and Superstitious Observations unto that Worship God hath appointed whereby they have done as much as they could to render his Worship and Service altogether ineffectual to those Blessed Ends and Purposes for which they were intended and have changed the Truth and Substance of Devotion for meer Formality and a number of Ostentations and Pompous though very ludicrous and pernicious Rites Now again if we suffer because we have a just Zeal against Idolatry and Superstition because we will accurately observe all God's Institutions in every one of their Parts and because we will as near as possibly we can perform every part of his Worship in the way and manner he prescribes then our present Sufferings will conduce much to our future Glory and Happiness Thirdly As every Article of the Christian Faith and every part of the Gospel-Worship is admirably adapted to engage us unto and promote us in the leading of a very strict holy and exemplary Conversation so all the Corruptions of Faith and Worship which have been vigorously advanced in the Christian World have had a direct tendency to open a way at long-run to the abounding of Debauchery and Immorality This is very apparent as to all those Instances in the Church of Some whereby she hath corrupted in her Communion the Gospel-Faith and Worship It is real Holiness in our Lives and a strict conforming of our several Practices to the Rules of the Gospel which doth most oppose and weaken Satan's Interest in the World. And it is against this that he principally levels all his Designs Though many of his Artisices seem at the first view to aim more immediately at something else and therefore are ordinarily propounded in very winning Terms and are glossed over with very hypocritical and deceiving Colours yet whenever he succeeds it is demonstrably evident that to supplant the Power of Godliness was his chief Intent as the fatal and ultimate result of all his Wiles It is the malignity and hatred wicked Men have to the Power of Religion which makes them to exert so much Violence and Cruelty against those who dare not allow themselves in the Liberties they take but do conscienciously endeavour to approve themselves unto their God by a constant and diligent attendance to those Laws and Commandments he hath given them If ye were of the World the World would love his own but because ye are not of the World but I have chosen you out of the World therefore the World hateth you They think it strange that you run not with them