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duty_n	lord_n	master_n	servant_n	3,754	5	6.8479	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95722	The saints expectation and reward a sermon at the funerall of that learned and faithfull minister of Christ Mr. Tho: Wiborow June 10th 1652. / Preached at Enfeild in Staffordshire, by Michael Thomas minister of Gods word at Stockden in Shropshire.	Thomas, Michael, rector of Stockton.	1655 (1655)	Wing T969; Thomason E835_11; ESTC R207408	15,800	16

father and they are as so many wounds pleading and making intercession for penitent sinners So that these words that God will remember his people more tenderly then a mother can her child that the names of his Elect are written in the palmes of his hands in such bloody characters that no time can deface how strong an argument may this be to every Christian that Christ will be a friend and stick to him when the whole world shall fail him Saint Ambrose observing those many names and relations by which the Lord is pleased to own his people breaks forth into this meditation Omnia Christus est nobis Christ is all in all to us Is thy conscience wounded Christ is a Physician are thy sins many and grievous Christ is righteousnesse dost thou walk in darknesser Christ is light wouldst thou go to heaven he is the way dost thou fear death Christ is the life Vide quot titulorum generibus tui gratia Christus insignitur saies that father See how many names and titles Christ takes upon him for thy sake who in his own Essence is but one God that in all the changes and chances that may befall us in this life we may have some name and notion of God to lay hold upon and to sustain us in the day of adversity But some carnal heart perchance may say if the Lord be the help the hope of his people how is it that they are oftentimes brought into such straits that they know not which way to turn themselvs we might satisfie this and the like objections if we would but consider of these things First it is very meet that every child should honour his Father that every servant should glorifie his Master In the afflictions of his holy ones the Lord lets the wicked see how much they will suffer for his sake and not forsake him that they will not leave their integritie though they lose all the world beside Dost thou still retain thine integritie saies Jobs wife to him Dost thou fear such a God as hath stripped thee of all thy earthly comforts Oh saies Job shall we receive good from the hand of the Lord and shall we not receive evil The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. Again it is not meet that children and servants should receive correction from their Parents and Masters to remember them of and to obtain them in their duty Secundi successus abducunt a Deo sanctimonia saies Hyperius prosperitie and happinesse do estrange or hearts from Godlinesse and slacken us in all duties of devotion this corruption David acknowledged in his own nature Man being honour hath no understanding And further Before I was afflicted I went wrong but now I will keep thy testimonies The Vine will grow empty and wild except it be pruned and so will the best man except the Lord somtime shake his rod over him Irascitur Divina Benitas in hoc soeculo ne irascatur in altero Almighty God will be angry with us in this world that he may favour us in the next and in mercy corrects us here that he may not consume us in vengeance hereafter And thirdly It is not meet that every one should wear the badge and cognizance of his profession Luther was wont to say Qui non est crucianus non est Christianus He that is not crucified to the world the world to him is no Christian and some stories tell us that the primitive Christians had an Hieroglyphick Crucem coronatam a Cross with a Crown upon it it had this inscription Tolle crucem 〈◊〉 ●●bere coronam you must bear the Cross if ye would wear the Crown● if we be the members of Christ we must conform to our head partake with our fellow members wee must not expect that God should strew carpets for our nice feet to walk into Heaven and make that way smooth for us which all the Patriarchs and Prophets and Apostles and Martyrs yea and Christ himselfe found so rugged and bloody the gate of Heaven is streight and we must strive to enter into it we must be disposed and prepared in mind cherfully to part with any thing we enjoy when it shall please the Lord to call for it This is the race we must run this is the course we must finish and yet we may not say within our selves this is an hard saying are these the helpes and hopes that a righteous man hath to depend upon whent he world failes him surely wee mistake our selves if we look for any other for the estate of a Christian is an inheritance his happinesse is not in possession but in reversion which is the first of those particulars I propounnded to consider when I had handled the generall observation Expectamus saies the Apostle there are some better things we look for then we possesse here I am perswaded a great part of that trouble that befalls the children of God in this life ariseth from a mistake because our Saviour saies that the meek shall inherit the Earth therefore when meek and holy persons are driven from their house and home when their earthly possessions are taken from them by violence hereupon they are cast down and troubled as if they were at once oppressed by men and forsaken of God but this I say is a mistake Righteous men look upon the world as if it were their own when they have a good title to it yet they have the least share in it the wealth of a Christian is not in possession 't is true what Solomon saies Wisdom is good with an inheritance that man that is Dives and Lazarus too He to whom God hath given both riches and religion wealth and grace to manage it goodly and fair is that mans lot God hath done so to some but hee doth not promise to do so to all when the Sons of Zebedee were presented by their mother to our Saviours favour to sit one on his right hand the other on his left in his Kingdom they received no other answer but this can ye drink of my Cup that is can ye suffer with me can ye powre out your blood for the profession of my Gospel The Crown of of Martyrdom was all the honour which our Saviour offered to those ambitious Disciples Our Saviour told Pilate that his Kingdom was not of this world our estates then lie not on this old earth but in those new Heavens that we look for Neither do we find in Scripture that the Saints held by any other tenure Saint Paul saies of Abraham that he did but so●ourn in Canaan as in a strange Country he and his Children dwelling in Tents for he looked for a City that had foundations whose builder and maker was God So Jacob describes his own life and calls it but a Pilgrimage So David confesses that he was but a stranger and sojourner as all his Fathers were from whence proceeded these humble acknowledgements