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glory_n	affliction_n	eternal_a	moment_n	4,141	5	9.1958	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02266	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle on Munday in Easter weeke the fourteenth day of Aprill, anno Dom. 1623. By Walter Bancanqual ...	Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 1240; ESTC S100541	40,503	108

God in teares nay and perhaps in blood both broken-hearted and broken-boned despaire not for all this but that one day you may see them shine in Ioy like the bright Starres of the Firmament When you see one in the streets from euery dunghill gather old pieces of rags clouts little would you thinke that of these rotten rags beaten together in the Mill should bee made such pure fine Paper as afterwards we see and so from teares we doe not expect pure Ioy which notwithstanding is the pure Corne wee are promised heere from this seede of Teares I haue done with the Corne Ioy now I come to the manner of gathering it which is reaping IF we haue not scattered but sowed wee shall not gather or gleane but reape that is to say Looke how farre the corne which Husbandmen receiue in Haruest doth exceede the seede which they did sowe in seede-time so farre shall the Ioy which we shall reape exceede the teares which wee did sowe When God suffereth vs to sorrow he euer keepeth in his hand and suffereth teares perhaps to enter into our soules but not to goe ouer our soules but in bestowing his mercies and ioyes hee euer stretcheth forth his hand semper say Diuines praemiat vltracondignum He filleth our cup full and maketh it to runne ouer Isai. 40. 12. God is said to measure the waters pugno with his fist and to mete out the Heauens palmo with his spanne By the Waters you know in Scripture is often meant sorrow and afflictions and by the Heauens the Ioyes and rewards due to the righteous When therefore he measureth out our teares and sorrowes he doth it pugno with his fist that is to say his hand closed and contracted but when hee measureth our Ioyes and consolations hee doth it palmo explicata manu with his span and open hands saith our Master A little while and yee shall not see me and againe a little while yee shall see me for J goe vnto my Father The Apostles were to mourne and fast for the absence of the Bridegroome and their Master to wit all the time of his being dead and buried in the Graue and then afterward they were to see him from his resurrection vntill his ascension or going to his Father So there was modicum absentiae modicum praesentiae a little while of his absence and a little while of his presence but now which of these littles was the greater that of his absence while hee was in the graue was fortie houres that of his presence or conuersing with them betweene his resurrection and ascension fortie dayes so that for euery houre of his absence there was a whole day of his presence nay Jsaiah maketh the one a yeere annum placabilem and the other but a day diem vltionis Isai. 61. 2. To preach the acceptable yeere of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God but the Apostle 2. Cor. 4. 7. hath cut the one so short and so lengthened and loaded the other as he will not haue them come within the compasse of any comparison Our light afflictions which are but for a moment cause vnto vs a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory Let any man shew mee a richer or fuller expression in all Tully or Demosthenes then this our teares but light our ioy not onely weightie but a weight our teares but momentarie past as soone as come our Ioy eternall euer comming and neuer to bee gone What proportion betweene these two our Ioy then shall be as farre aboue our teares as reaping aboue sowing they shall reape THirdly wee must take notice of the reapers they shall reape Which they They that did sowe they shall and none but they shall they shall and good reason they should because it was they that did sowe And though some that haue sowne in teares doe complaine of the latenesse or thinnesse of the Haruest that they haue not reaped in Ioy as is here promised know that some grounds are later then others and some yeeres the Haruest falleth later then others and that God who is the Lord of the Haruest in his good time will ripen thy Ioy and thou shalt reape it and in the meane time if we trie it narrowly we shall find the cause in our selues both of the latenesse of our Ioy because wee were too late of sowing our teares and of the thinnesse of our Ioy because we did sowe our teares too thin And if after our sowing of teares we find no haruest of ioy at all we may be well assured that either our seede was not good that is to say our teares none of them which are heere meant or else some of the mischances is come vpon them which came vpon the seede that came to no good in the thirteenth of Matthew either they haue falne by the way side that is to say they haue been shed for false causes not vpon true grounds of godly sorrow or they haue falne vpon stony ground that is to say onely falne from our eyes but neuer sunke into our stonie and hard hearts and so could take no roote or else they haue falne among the Thornes which choaked them that is to say the griefe and cares of this present World which drowne many times our godly teares or else the enuious man hath sowne Tares among our teares that is to say false worldly ioyes which wee as they sprung vp did not weede out till they ouergrew this seed but let vs sowe this precious seede of teares in a good ground that is to say in a contrite and broken heart and haue a care that the enuious man sowe no Tares among them and they shall bring forth a hundred fold for all they that thus sowe in teares shall reape in ioy And as all they so none but they Psal. 84. 6. Such onely come to appeare before God in Sion who passe through the valley of Baca that is to say teares And indeed there is no other way to enter into Heauen but by affliction violence griefe and teares There are in the new Testament twelue names especially giuen to the Kingdome of Heauen and the celestial ioy which we hope to reape but looke to them narrowly and you shall find that quantum honoris is in euery one of them tantum etiam oneris that as there is pleasure in them so there is toyle and teares likewise before you can come thither Matth. 11. It is called the Kingdome of Heauen but the Text telleth vs that it cannot bee taken but by violence It is called a Heauenly Citie the Spirituall Ierusalem But the Apostle 2. Eph. teacheth vs that those who are Citizens of this world cannot be fellow Citizens with the Saints there is a changing of the Copie which to flesh and blood is grieuous The fourteenth of John it is called the House of God in which there are many dwelling places but the Gospell