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glory_n	affliction_n	eternal_a	weight_n	10,184	5	9.3838	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64984	The death of ministers improved. Or, an exhortation to the inhabitants of Horsley on Glocester-shire, and others, on the much lamented death of that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Henry Stubbs By Tho. Vincent, John Turner, Rob. Perrott, M. Pemberton. To which is added a sermon upon that occasion, by Richard Baxter.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.; Turner, Robert, b. 1649 or 50, 4aut.; R. P. (Robert Perrot) aut.; Pemberton, Matthew, d. 1691. aut.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing V430; ESTC R221906	43,418	108

body themselves as the Sun and Prince as the Moon and Stars abusing Tibi da●● claves and the disciple is not above his master to the mastering of Kings and States as their sheep and disciples a great part of the Church History had been unwritten or otherwise written than it is Secondly Yea far be it from any Minister of Christ to expect their joy from humane applause and the multitude of followers or disciples to be accounted a Learned or a holy man an excellent Preacher and so to have the respect and love of many A good name and love are not to be despised when they follow fidelity as its shadow and as they signifie the good of those that profit by the word The Galatians would once have even pulled out their eyes for Paul But alas what is the thought and breath of man that is hasting to the dust and to the impartial Judge How small a matter should it be to us to be judged of many that are so near the final Judgment And what a terrible sentence is it to the hypocrites Mat. 11.6 Verily they have their reward O poor and miserable reward And yet what age hath not seen that verified Act. 20.30 Of your own selves shall men arise that shall speak perverse things to draw away disciples after them And Rom. 16.17 Such still have been as have caused divisions and offences contrary to Apostolical Doctrine not serving the Lord Jesus but their own bellies being ever fleshly worldly men and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple And men that have had the form of Godliness or the lifeless Image but deny the power of it by wicked lives are those from whom we must turn away Thirdly Yea and far be it from any faithful Minister or Christian to take up his Ioy from a conceit that he hath commutatively merited of God by the excellency of his faith or labours Alas who is sufficient for these things And what have we that we have not received Or who hath given to God that it may be repaid him or what faithful Minister of Christ did ever come out of the Pulpit or from his private duty without grief and shame that his faith and love his skill and zeal have been so vastly unsuitable to such great and excellent things that he was about And yet the Conscience of simplicity and godly sincerity and Gods forgiveness assistance and acceptance may set our Ioy above that shame and grief Fourthly And now it is easie to see the reason why Paul accounted not his life dear nor was moved by the foresight of any sufferings so he might but finish his course with Ioy. For first he well knew that the end would pay for all and no man shall ever lose by God nor shall the most abundant labour be in vain 1 Cor. 15.48 Is there any Repentance in Heaven for their labours or sufferings for Christ on Earth Do they think that God is in their debt Faith ever reckoneth that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 For which cause we faeint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen which are temporal but at the unseen things which are eternal 2 Cor. 4.16 17 18. Secondly And Paul well knew that he and all the World were in the hands of God and that he served such a Master as could easily perserve him as far as he saw meet from all his enemies and sufferings And that sufferings chosen for us by God are better than if w● had the Kingdoms of the World by the gif● of Satan Mat. 4. Balaaks words to Balaa●● methinks were words of Honour and Joy t●e Lord hath kept thee from Honour O● who would not be ambitious of being so kep● from Honour The poverty and shame tha● is by and for God is better than the Prefer●ment and Honour of men And the reproac● of Christ is greater Riches than the treasure● of Egypt And if God see it best he knowet● how to save the Righteous from trouble and if not to give them suffering strength and Joy And it is a wonder of providence how God preserveth their names and honour that despise Honour and life for him so that ever they that killed the present Prophets and jus● men yet build the Sepulchres of those that were killed by their Fathers and say if w● had lived in the days of our Fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets Mat. 23.27 28. The wonder of that Foreigner in H. 8's days Deus bon● quomodo hic vivunt gentes that saw men kill'd for being Protestants and for being Papists was not so contradictory a subject as the Papists usage of the Saints a stupendious instance of mans madness and Satans methods that at the same time can rack and burn and murder Saints and yet Honour the relicks names and memories of the dead that were before them That while they zealously cast away mens lives and treasure to recover the Holy Land where Saints had lived at the same time murdered those by thousands that did most nearly imitate them and to this day kill the living Saints under the name of Schismaticks or Heriticks for not obeying the King of Rome before God and keep holy days for the dead and reverence their shrines and relicks What contempt did poor St. Martin undergo from his neighbour Bishops as suspected of Priscilleanisme and as an unlearned Hypocrite that was for liberty for Hereticks so that he separated from their Synods and Communion And yet what a name hath he left behind him even in that Church whose Prelates thus dispised him Thirdly Moreover Paul had now tryed both the ways of being against Christ and being for him and was so fully convinced by experience and revelation of the evil of the one and the goodness of the other that he had great reason to be resolved and unmoved as knowing that no suffering can make the servants of Christ as miserable as his Enemies nor any preferment or prosperity make any one of the worldlings as happy as the poorest Saint Because he had rather be Lazarus than Dives hereafter and had rather stand on the right hand of Christ than on the left therefore he accordingly made his choice For he well knew how bad a bargain it would prove to win all the World and lose his Soul and to lay up a treasure on Earth so as also to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath and to prepare for such an even-song as Luk. 12. Thou fool this night shall they require thy Soul and then whose are the things that thou hast provided Alas what gain is it to save