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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A14583	An epistle sent by Monsievr de Vrillac, advocate in the Parliament of Paris; to Monsievr de Vrillac his father, vpon the occasion of his conuersion. Faithfully translated into English, accoriding to the French copie; By C.C.	Vrillac, Monsieur de.; C. C., fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 24893; ESTC S101817	11,766	24

it for vs his members to desire the enioying of all our liberties heere below in this corruptible world or to lie sucking at the breasts of the poysonful sweets ther of yea for as much as Iesus Christ hath suffered so much for our saluation is it not iust equall that wee prepare our selues to suffer for his glory according to that exhortation of the Apostle let vs Heb. 13. 13. goe forth out of the campe bearing his reproach For I also thought that to escape a theefe in the way I ought not to cast my self headlong into infinite and ineuitable miseries For what corzie is more sencible and intollerable then that of an euill conscience yea all the tortures in this life are but light flea-bitings in respect of those eternal punishments wherewith God will punish those who worship the beast his Image and whosoeuer they Reu. 14. 9. 10. be that receiue the marke of the beast in their foreheads But that which did yet fortifie mee most of all was the consolation which the Apostle giues vs saying in his Epistle to the Romanes That all Rom. 8. 28. thinges worke together for good to those that loue God That by afflictions we are made conformable to the Image Ver. 29. of the Sonne of God and that all our sufferings Rom. 8. 18. of this present life being well weighed are not worthie of the glory which is to come and shall in due time bee reuealed vnto vs For our light affliction which is but 2 Cor. 4. 17. for a moment works in vs a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory whilst wee looke vpon not the things which are seene but on the things which are not seene which are eternall For those who are come out of Reu. 7. 14. great tribulation and haue washed their long robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe that stand Verse 15. before the throne of God and serue him day and night in his Temple shall haue no more hunger nor thirst 16. the sunne shall not light vpon them nor any heat for the Lambe which is in the midst of the throne shall feede 17. them and leade them to the fountaines of liuing waters and God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes That was it which caused me to change my note and to thinke nothing sweeter then the waters of Mara when Christ our true Moses casts into them the wood of his Crosse assuring vs of the m●rit of his death and passion yea I dare say that afflictions for the name of Christ doe bring with them more true ioy and comfort to the faithfull soule then the whole world furnished with all her contentments to a prophane wretch And therefore Christ saith Blessed are they who are persecuted for Mat. 5. 10. righteousnesse sake for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Blessed are ye when men reuile you and persecute Verse 11. you and shall say all manner of euill saying against you falsely for my names sake reioyce and be glad for great 12. is your reward in heauen for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you That is it which Saint Iames also saith in his Epistle My brethren Iam. 1. 2. thinke it perfect ioy when you fall into diuers temptations And that likewise of S. Peter reioyce in as 1 Pet. 4. 13. much as yee are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall appeare yee may be glad and reioyce If ye be railed vpon for the name of Christ blessed are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth vpon you Thence it is that the Apostles in the Acts went away reioycing that they Act. 5. 41. were counted worthie to suffer rebuke for the name of Iesus Christ And that the Apostle Saint Paul who had been rapt vp into the third heauen and had heard words which are vnexpressable which is not possible for man to vtter chose yet rather to reioyce in his sufferings The ioy which he for a time possessed among the Angels being no let vnto him to reioyce in the middest of the Martyrs I take pleasure saith he in reproches in 2 Cor. 12. 10. necessities in persecutions in anguishes for Christ for when I am weake then I am strong From thence it came that out of the middest of his most inward passions he cries out I am filled with consolation 2 Cor. 7. 4. I am full with ioy more and more in all our affliction for full well he knew that it is freely giuen vs for Phil. 1. 29. Christ not onely to bel●eue in him but also to suffer for his sake And therefore according to Christ his exhortation I beleeued that I ought not to feare those Mat. 10. 28. who hauing killed the bodie can doe no more but to feare him rather who can destroy both bodie and soule in hell fire and that if the sufferings 2 Cor. 1. 5. of Christ abound in vs the consolations of Christ shall abound in vs also If we die with Christ that 2 Tim. 2. 12. we shall also liue with him That if we suffer with him we shall also raigne with him And that if Mar. 8. 35. any will saue his life he shall lose it and whosoeuer shall lose his life for Christs sake and the Gospels he shall saue it And no maruaile if neither the threats nor promises of the world preuailed with me to hinder me from giuing glory to God seeing the world can promise nothing which is more excellent then the kingdome of heauen nor threaten any thing more terrible then the paines of hell But as with a stedsast eye I looked vpon the world which I now forsake and the crosse which I embrace soon the other side when I come to cast mine eyes vpon you most honoured Father and Mother and to set before me your tender affections and paternall loues whilst I call to minde with what mildnesse you brought me vp what care you had of my education sparing no cost to instruct me in the knowledge of good letters framing my mind to the loue of vertue and then againe when I thought how much affliction and discomfort my departing would bring vnto you in following a Religion the excellencie whereof you yet discerne not All these things I say well weighed so wrought vpon mine affections that it hath caused floods of teares to fall from mine eyes and to be brought as it were to nothing for the truth is my loue towardes you is so ardent and respectiue that if it were but to endure any temporall punishments I had rather suffer a thousand torments and tortures then to breed you the lest discontentment yea I ingenuously confesse that this consideration so farre preuailed with me that it had in a manner stayed me from proceeding on in this faire path wherein I now walke if God hauing compassion of mine infirmitie had not drawne me