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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	affliction_n	light_a	moment_n	3,869	5	9.1253	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70694	A narrative of the proceedings and tryal of Mr. Francis Johnson, a Franciscan, at Worcester last summer-assizes Anno Dom. 1679 written with his own hand as followeth.	Wall, John, Saint, 1620-1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing N205; ESTC R1380	36,113	26

hath promised we shall and have our lot among the Saints why should we now fear to be reviled of men or be reputed ignominious as our Saviour and his Apostles were If they have so will they do you also the Scholar is not above the Master nor the Servant above his Lord. If they call'd the Master of the Family Beelzebub so will they do his Servants therefore we must with the Apostles rejoice as you read in the Acts they did because they were accounted worthy to suffer contumely and reproaches If contumely and reproach seem so hard for us to undergo now for a good Cause as is our Conscience before a few Enemies what contumely must those undergo who for now acting against their Conscience shall undergo at the great judgment before God Angels Saints Devils and all the Damn'd in Hell if for our reproach now we hope that after a short sorrow God will honour us so as to wipe away with his own hand every tear from our eyes as he promiseth in the Revelations he will and that henceforth there shall be neither grief nor Labour nor pain or the like why should any now grieve either to see himself or others suffer It will not last this Tempest will soon be over and if now in this Storm the small vessel of my Body suffer shipwrack or some others the like vessels if our Souls can but carry off our goods of Faith Hope and Charity all is very well For as soon as the vessels of our Bodies sink our Souls will come to shore at the Land of Promise and we shall be secured in the Rock which is Christ and ever remain safe in the eternal Hills where neither winds nor waves of Persecution can ever reach to assault us then welcome shipwrack that sinks the vessel of the Body to bring the Passengers and their Goods so happily to the Haven the Heaven of Bliss Let us therefore weigh these things in a prudential Balance and see which Scale is the heaviest of present Fears or future Hopes of present Sufferings or future Glories Let us remember our Saviours words to his Apostles You are those that remained with me in my temptations or tryals for which said he their reward was he disposed the Kingdom of Heaven to them Partners in Sufferings Partners in Glovles which if well considered we shall say with St. Paul The sufferings of this present time are not condign or of equality to the future glory which shall be revealed in us and we shall with his joyful Spirit say 2 Cor. 4 17. Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh in us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 'T is a happy weight that lifts both Sufferings and Sufferers up as high as Heaven to eternal Crowns of which we are all assured of as a reward for our Faith if we will make good use of our Christian hope which that we may the better do let us endeavor to help our selves by the third and greatest Virtue that follows our Faith and Hope which is Charity This is that greatest Virtue of which all sorts of Christians speak much understand little and practise less though without the practice of it 't is in vain for any to pretend to have a saving Faith or Hope for as St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 13. Though he speak with the tongues of Men and Angels and have not Charity he is but as sounding brass and although he should know all Mysteries and have Faith to remove Mountains and though he should have such hope understand for reward that he should give all to the Poor and deliver his body to burn and yet not have charity it profiteth nothing Charity as he saith ver 7. suffereth all things believeth all things hopeth all things beareth all things Do all that pretend to Charity do thus If to speak with the tongues of Angels without Charity be nothing but vanity what Charity is there in those that speak with the tongues of Detraction Scandal Slander False-witness and Perjuries against their Neighbors If those that give all to the Poor may want Charity so that all which they give profits them nothing what Charity is there in those that take all from their Neighbors to force them to forsake their Faith If Alms profit nothing without Charity can such Injuries profit Persecutors that take all away-against Charity If a man may give his own Body to burn and yet be cold in Charity what Charity is there to kill others Bodies take away their Lives with ignominy and violence because they will not kill their own Souls by acting against God and their Conscience If Charity consists only in those that suffer all things believe all things hope all things what Charity is there in those who will make their Neighbor suffer all things of Persecution because they believe and hope according to their Conscience and profess their Faith and Hope as they are bound before God upon their salvation so to do 'T is certain that though men may pretend persecution of others for Gods sake to reduce others to him yet 't is evident that for any Kingdom to persecute any meerly for Conscience-sake is against the Law of God and therefore whil'st they would seem so zealously to keep the first Command of loving God above all and force others to conform to their opinions they break the second Command because they do not love their Neighbor as themselves because they persecute them and so they dash one Commandment against the other and so crack both Commandments together For wheresoever the second Command is broke by not loving our Neighbor as our selves the first is broke with it because did they love God above all they would do better by their Neighbor But I do not come here to beat down others pretence to Charity but endeavour to advance Charity in my self and others and the way to do this is not to reckon what others have not done according to Charity but to call to mind what others have done to raise Charity towards God and their Neighbors We read in Holy Writ that Moses love was so to God and his Neighbor that to repurchase a Peace and Charity 'twixt God and the People after they had offended he desired that his own name should rather be blotted out of the Book of life than that the Peoples names should not be put in by obtaining Forgiveness and therefore he saith to God Either spare the People or blot me out of the Book which thou hast writ How superlative a Motive is this to move Christians to a perfect Charity towards their Neighbors well may a Christian be willing to lay down his temporal life for good example sake rather than offend God and scandalize others by deserting his Faith since others could be willing to hazard their eternal lives to reduce their Neighbors to God by Charity The like examples of love to God and his Neighbors we have in St. Paul in