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glory_n	affliction_n	light_a	weight_n	7,836	5	9.3268	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67782	The whole duty of a Christian, or, The character of a true beleever, that walks in some measure answerable to the Gospel, his Christian profession, and the millions of mercies he hath received ... by R.Y. of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1653 (1653)	Wing Y195; ESTC R6055	69,319	64

witty jest but to hear of an Inheritance of an hundred pounds a year that is fallen to a man will make him more solli●ly merry within Light is sown to the righteous and joy for the upright Psal. 97. 11. My servants saith God shall sing and rejoyce but they shall weep c. Isa. 65. 14. 8. Indeed we are not merry enough because we are not Christians enough because sin is a cooler of our joy as water is of fire And like the worm of Ionah his Gourd bites the very root of our joy and makes it wither Yea sin like a damp puts out all the lights of our pleasure and deprives us of the light of Gods countenance as it did David Psal. 51. 12. 4. 6. So that the fault is either First in the too much sensuality of a Christian that will not forge● the pleasures of sin or the more muddy joyes and pleasures of this world which are poysons to the soul and drown our joyes as Bees are drowned in hon●y but live in vineger Men would have spiritual joy but withal they would not part with their carnal joy Yet this is an infallible Conclusion there is no enjoying a wordly Paradise here and another hereafter 9. Or secondly the fault is in the ta●te not in the meat in the folly of the judgment not in the pearl when a grain of corn is preferred before it To taste spiritual joyes a man must be spiritual for the Spirit relisheth onely the things of the Spirit and like loveth his like Between a spiritual man and spiritual joyes there is as mighty an appetite and enjoying as between fleshly meat and a carnal stomack Therefore the want of this taste and apprehension condemneth the world to be carnal but magnifies the joyes spiritual as being above her carnal apprehension Or 10. Thirdly herein lyes the fault few feel these joyes in this life because they will not crack the shell to get the kernel th●y will not pare the fruit to eat the pulpe not till the ground to reap the harvest They flye the Wars and thereby lose the glory of the victory They will not dig the craggy Mountain to find the mine of gold Not prune the vine therefore enjoy not the fruit They flye moritification and therefore attain not the sweet spiritual consolation which ever attends the same And so much for the Reasons The Use may be four fold 11. First are the joyes of Heaven so unspeakable and glorious how then should we admire the love and bounty of God and blesse his name who for the performance of so small a work hath proposed so great a reward And for the obtaining of such an happy state hath imposed such an easie task 12. Secondly who would not serve a short apprentiship in Gods service here to be made for ever free in glory Yea who would not be a Philpot for a moneth or a Lazarus for a day or a Stephen for an hour that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever Yea what pain can we think too much to suffer what little enough to do to obtain eternity for this incorruptible Crown of glory in Heaven 1 Pet. 5. 4. where we shall have all teares wiped from our eyes Where we shall cease to sorrow cease to suffer cease to sin Where God shall turn all the water of our afflictions into the pure wine of endlesse and unexpressible comfort Yea had Queen Eliz●●eth but foreknown whiles she was in Prison what a glorious reign she should have had for fourty and four years aft●r it she would never have wisht her self a Milk-Maid as she was often heard to do But certainly nothing ●an be too much to endure for those pleasures which shall endure for ever 13. You shall sometimes see an hired servant venture his life for his new Master that will scarce pay him his wages at the years end and can we suffer too much for our Lord and Master who gives every one that serveth him not fields and vineyards as Saul pretended 1 Sam. 22. 7 c. nor Towns and Cities as Cicero is pleased to boast of Caesar but even an hundred fold more then we part withall here in this life and eternal Mansions in Heaven hereafter Joh. 14. 2. S. Paul saith Our light affliction which is but for a moment causeth us a far most excellent and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. where note the incomparable and infinite difference between the work and the wages light affliction receiving a weight of glory and momentary affliction eternal glory Suitable to the reward of the wicked whose empty delights live and dye in a moment but their unsufferable punishment is interminable and endlesse Their pleasure is short their pain everlasting our pain is short our joy eternal Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the Crown of life James 1. 12. a Crown without cares without rivals without envy without end And nothing we suffer here can be compared either to those woes we have deserved in Hell or those joyes we are reserved to in Heaven Think we then but upon those two places and the remembrance there of is enough to raise up our soules from our selves and make us even contemn and slight what ever our Enemies are able to do as our Forefathers did the flames And what though thy sufferings be never so sad The gain with hardnesse makes it far lesse hard The danger is great but so is the reward The sight of glory future mitigates the sense of misery present As Iacobs service seemed the lighter by having his beloved Rachel alwayes in his eye The poor Traveller thinking on his Inne goes on more cheerfully And the Bondman by calling to mind his year of Iubilee So that if we droop at present it is for want of considering the future Wherefore eye not the stream thou wadest through But the firm land thou tendest too Compare the seed time with the Harvest look up from the root to the fruit Lazarus was for a time extream miserable what then his sores and sorrowes soon ceased but his joyes shall never cease his pain did soon passe his joy shall never passe away Again 14. Thirdly How is it possible he should dote upon these transitory things below that but seriously thinks upon what is reserved for us in Heaven As O the folly and madnesse of those that prefer Earth yea Hell to Heaven time to eternity the Body before the Soul yea the outward estate before either soul or body These are the worlds Fooles who care not what their end is so their way may be pleasant Mere Children that prefer an Apple before their Inheritance Besotted sensualists that see not how their present pleasures soon vanish like smoke That consider not how this life of ours if it were not short yet it is miserable and if it were not miserable yet it is short That suffer themselves to be so bewitcht with the love