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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62392	The faithful souldier's reward, or, A glimpse of the saints happiness discovered in two sermons, occasioned by the death of that truly vertuous and religious gentle woman, Mrs. Katherine Disney : the former preached at Kirkstead, the place of her last abode here upon the earth, on the 18th day of May, 1690, being the Lord's Day, and the latter at Swinderly, near Lincoln, where she was interr'd the Tuesday following / by William Scoffin.	Scoffin, William, 1655?-1732.	1692 (1692)	Wing S933; ESTC R11432	41,514	126

to care for us here 1 Pet. 5.7 and provides so well for us hereafter Psal 17.14 15.1 Pet. 1.3 5. We have not yet received our Portion but it is laid up and in safe keeping for us and within a while we shall come to enjoy it Fear not little Flock saith Christ it is your Father's good Pleasure to give you the Kingdom Luke 12.32 Sure you that are adopted the Children of God Joh. 1.12 13. Rom. 8.17 Gal. 4.4 -7 and have thereby a Right to the Heavenly Inheritance may well be content with your Condition in this World you being so much better provided for in the World to come What if your Earthly Estate be sequestred or any ways taken from you Joh. 14.2 so long as you have a better Estate in Heaven that none can deprive you of even Eternal Mansions of Bliss and Glory Let the Foresight by Faith of this Glorious Estate wean you from all inordinate Affections to Humane and Earthly Things 1 Joh. 2.15 16 17. What are all the Pleasures and Riches and Honours in the World in comparison of those that are Spiritual and Heavenly These will not satisfy but increase our Desires but those will afford us the fullest Satisfaction These are Temporal and but for a Moment but those are Eternal and shall last us for ever The greatest Things that are here upon the Earth will appear to be what they are indeed but very small and trivial Things to those that can look beyond them with an Eye of Faith and take a view of the Heavenly Blessedness What is Earthly Majesty and all Earthly Glories if put together to the beholding the Lord Jesus Christ in all his Majesty and Glory Joh. 17.24 What are costly Garments and the most rich Attire to those Robes of Righteousness and Garments of Salvation Isa 61.10 Rev. 19.7 8. wherewith the Saints shall be clothed in the great Day of the Marriage of the Lamb What are the most stately Palaces here on Earth compared with Heaven the Palace of God Joh. 14.2 and the Mansions of Blessed Spirits And what are all the Pleasures in the World Psal 36.8 16.11 to those Rivers of Pleasures which are at God's Right Hand Or all the Riches and Inheritances in the World Col. 1.12 to that Glorious Inheritance of the Saints in Light Whatsoever we want as to outward Enjoyments we may comfort our selves in the Hopes of Heaven where all our Wants will be abundantly supplied with Spiritual Celestial and much better Enjoyments 2. It administers Comfort to Believers against all their Afflictions and Troubles It may be now you lie groaning under Bodily Weaknesses as pining Sickness or racking Pains rouling your self to and fro on your Bed as a Door rouleth upon its Hinges getting but very little Rest or Refreshment through the anguish of your Pains and the weariness of your Flesh But in Heaven there will assuredly be perfect Ease and perfect Health and Rest and Refreshment and that for evermore We are very apprehensive of present Pain and present Grievances but not of the Ease Refreshment and Glory that shall succeed But remember and consider well with your selves that though the Pains be sharp the Sickness lingring and hangeth long upon you yet present Time is quickly past but Eternity will have no end For which cause we faint not 2 Cor. 4.16 17 18. saith the Apostle but though our outward Man perish yet the inward Man is renewed Day by Day For our light Afflictions which are but for a Moment work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory While we look not at the Things which are seen but at Things which are not seen for the things which are seen are Temporal but the Things which are not seen are Eternal We pitch too much alas upon a carnal Hope but do not enough look after the Glory of the everlasting State and this makes our Afflictions seem heavy and grievous Whereas a well-grounded and lively Hope of the Heavenly Happiness and Glory would make our greatest Afflictions to become light and turn our Pains into Pleasure yea and Death it self into Life But now let me apply it to those especially that suffer for Righteousness Sake Shall any of us shrink at Sufferings for Christ Rom. 8.17 who shall be in Glory with him for ever How short is the Suffering how long the Reward How light the Affliction how weighty the Glory If we had but Wisdom to reckon aright and would weigh these Things in the Ballance of the Sanctuary we should quickly see whether present Sufferings or the future Glory would turn the Scales Rom. 8.18 For I reckon that the Sufferings of this present Time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which shall be revealed in us There are few that have met with greater Sufferings than this great Apostle was exercised with 2 Cor. 11.23 33. and yet he looks upon them as next to nothing when compared with the future Glory I reckon saith he And most surely he had learned to reckon aright and this much refresh'd him under all his Trials So 't is said of the believing Hebrews also Heb. 10.32 36. that they took joyfully the spoiling of their Goods as knowing in themselves that they had in Heaven a better and an enduring Substance And Moses esteemed Reproaches for Christ Heb. 11.25 26 27. greater Riches than the Treasures in Egypt for he had respect 't is said to the recompence of the Reward He did not only bear his Sufferings with Patience but did also esteem very highly of them as knowing that Heaven would make amends for all This is it that chears the Hearts of God's Faithful People in all their Troubles I had fainted Psal 27.13 saith David unless I had believed to see the Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living Having Hopes of enjoying so great a Good beyond all Time 2 Cor. 4.17 to Eternity we may well endure a far lesser Evil when so short even but for a Moment If we be reproached for the Name of Christ we have reason to rejoice 1 Pet. 4.12 19. Chap. 3.14 17. 2.20 25. and not to be ashamed For on our Enemies part God is evil spoken of but on our part he is glorified And if we glorify God here by our patient continuance in well-doing Joh. 12.26 Rev. 3.21 he will also glorify us hereafter with Christ in Eternal Glory If we suffer we shall also reign with him but if we deny him he will also deny us 2 Tim. 2.12 Have any of us lost the love of Men Isa 66.5 for our Sincerity and Faithfulness Why what is this to the Love of God Rom. 8.33 39. which we shall enjoy for ever Are we by our Enemies cast into Prison We shall shortly be in our Father's House Joh. 14.2 where there are Mansions of Bliss and Glory The worst that our