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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10033	The patriarchs portion or, the saints best day Deliuered in a sermon at the funerall of Sir Thomas Reynell of Ogwell in Deuon. Knight, Aprill. 16. 1618. Wherein may be seene, 1 The shortnesse of mans life. 2 A Christians combat against 1 Sathan. 2 The world. 3 The flesh. 4 Sinne. 3 A preparation to die well. 4 The reward of glory after warfare. By Iohn Preston, preacher of Gods word at East-Ogwell, in Deuon.	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1619 (1619)	STC 20282.3; ESTC S114305	28,466	80

can neuer conquer he that doth not conquer shal neuer be crowned he that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hidde and will giue him a white stone and in that stone a new name written which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it He that ouercommeth and keepeth my words to the end to him will I giue power ouer Nations To him that ouercommeth will I giue to eate of the Tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God And so often in the same Chapter you may see it to be the posee of all the Epistles to him that ouercommeth will I giue either grace or glory or both not to him that steppeth forth into the battel and starts backe againe nor to him that draweth his Sword or giue a blow or looseth some blood but to him that ouercommeth that fights it out till hee haue foiled his enemy and wonne the field So if wee suffer with Christ we shall raigne with him suffer here raigne in heauen suffer misery raigne in glory for from the crosse wee must come to the Crowne A Souldier must fight before he can winne the victory he must be a Souldier before he can bee a Captaine There is a Crowne of righteousnesse laid vp But for whom for such as haue fought a good fight and it is not a good fight vnlesse we ●uercome The penny of eternall life is promised to labourers not to loiterers to workers not to idle ●wanderers to those that are in the Vineyard not to such as stand staring in the market place Suffer affliction saith the Apostle as the good Souldier of Iesus Christ No man that warreth entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life because hee would please him that hath chosen him to be a Souldier and if any man striue for a mastery hee is not crowned vnlesse he striue as he ought to doe and can wee then hope to bee crowned if we striue not at all Worldlings wrastle for a corruptible Crowne as vncertaine whether they shall obtaine it or no but it is not so with the true Christian he runneth not as vncertainly he fighteih not as one that beateth the ayre Some will say that afflictions and troubles doe hinder many Souldiers that they cannot fight as they would but the Apostle puts them both together Suffer thou affliction as the good Souldier of Iesus Christ looking to the reward that Christ is ready to giue thee as soone as the battell is ended Thy fighting is but for a moment thy triumph is for euer thy fighting is light thy reward heauy A waight and excellent waight a more excellent a farre more excellent and eternal wayght of glory Where God purposeth to heale he spareth not to launce he ministreth bitter pils to purge corrupt humours and sendeth Embasies of death and renenge where he meanes to preserue and where he purposeth to bestow eternall life and felicitie Ioseph accused his brethren as spies when he meant them least hurt and restrained little Beniamin as guilty of that whom he knew full well to bee a guiltlesse innocent but these accusatious were like water in a Smiths Forge which serueth to kindle not to quench it was a rough entrance to a most kinde vsage an outward shew of suspition the more plainly to vtter his entire affection so dealeth God with his children for they haue gone through fire and water but he hath brought them out into a wealthy place Many goe out of prison and chaines but their iourneyes end is to a Kingdome many in few things are vexed but in more they are well considered Though the godly are tryed like gold in the furnace yet God loues them neuer the lesse for it but makes them the purer by it If afflictions be grieuous yet at the least the godly gaine this by it that it makes the soule more sober If God beginne with I haue afflicted thee he will doubtlesse end with I wil afflict thee no more And as we are partakers of Christs suf●erings so wee shall be also of his consolation If we die with him with him shal we liue And if we bear his Crosse we shall weare his Crowne God woundeth vs sometimes but his wounds are the wounds of a friend for whether hee denounce iudgement or inflict it all is for our good in the end He sent Ionah to Ni●●neh to threaten and ouerthrowe but his intent was to bring them to repentance that hee might manifest his greater mercies He sent Esay to Hezekiah to tel him of his dying day but his meaning was to mooue him to amendment that he might adiourne his life yet longer Hee suffered Daniel to bee throwne into the Denne of Lions but it was to aduance him to greater credite Hee that had seene Ioseph in prison vniustly Mordacay with a gibet before his eyes would haue bewayled there case but had hee knowne that Iosephs prison would haue ended in a Princedome and Mordecay his perill with royall preferment hee would rather thinke them much beholding to God for the ensuing felicitie then greatly to be pitied for their present misery The Musitian straineth not his strings to high for feare of breaking neither doth let them to low for feare of discord so God will keepe a meane neither suffering vs to bee carelesly secure nor driuing vs for want of comfort to dispaire Who then wil not warre when hee shall be sure to triumph hereafter If wee ouercome we shall goe home to our fathers house To the Citie of the liuing God the heauenly Ierusalem Heb. 12. 22. Lastly we must fight for feare wee be ouercome for then what mercy can bee expected at the hauds of our spirituall Pharaoh what delight in the prison where there is nothing but howling for griese gnawing of the tongue for sorrow gnashing of the teeth for feare paine There is neither hope nor helpe nor ease for the fire is vnquenchable the worme shall not die there is no end for the paine is euerlasting there is no light but darknesse nay a land of darkenesse more palpable then that of Egypt It is violent fire which shall deuoure the adnersary A lake of fire burning with brimstone In which Lake the men that are ouercome are cast and shall lie burning day and night for euermore where insteed of order there shall bee confusion insteed of Halaluiah there shall be cursing insteed of mirth mourning insteed of ioy vnspeakeable vnconceiueable and which is worst of all eternall torments In that place the sweetest harmony shall be howling and the greatest cōfort confusion of faces When Adeni-zedeck was taken the men of I●da Simeon cut off the thumbes of his hands of his feet So our spirituall enemies will deal with vs if they ouercome vs and farre more cruelly They will put out our eyes that wee shall not lift them vp to the heauens from whence our