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glory_n	affliction_n	see_v	weight_n	2,658	5	9.2701	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67106	The doctrines of the resurrection and the reward to come, considered as the grand motives to an holy life. Discoursed of, from 1. Cor. XV. 58. / By the late pious and learned John Worthington, D.D..	Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1690 (1690)	Wing W3621; ESTC R21563	58,484	157

them unto Goodness It was not out of Ambition or Love to the World but out of a serious regard to the good of others and that he might be in a capacity and have the fairer advantages to promote the Interest of Christianity among Jews and Gentiles that he denyed himself the use of his Christian Liberty and framed himself to the observance of certain Mosaical and Jewish Rites as on the contrary he behaved himself otherwise among the Gentiles 2 Cor. 9. 20. PROPOSITION II. Christians must be unmoveable particularly in the Profession of the Faith of the Resurrection and a Life to come BE NOT MOVED 1. By any hardships and troubles from the World The Apostle that here exhorts Christians to be unmoveable was so himself as he speaks of himself Acts 20. he knew that bonds and afflictions did abide and wait for him But none of these things move me saith he Vers. 24. Neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my Course with joy And having thus bravely quitted himself he could say with Triumph a little before his Death I am now ready to be offered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am already poured out I am as it were Wine for a Libamen or Drink-offering poured out upon the Sacrifice The time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my Course I have kept the Faith and therefore he had a Holy confidence that God the Righteous Judge as the Judge or Rewarder in the Graecian Games did adjudge the Crown or Prize which hung over the Goal to the Conquerour would give to him the Crown of Righteousness as the reward for behaving himself well in his Christian Combate 2 Tim. 4. 6 7 8. The same Apostle in Rom. 8. fortifies and encourages believers against afflictions and hardships upon this score that they should reckon and make account that the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory which should be revealed bear no proportion with the Glory to come For if sufferings be laid in one Ballance and the Glory or Reward in the other the Glory will far outweigh them For 1. The sufferings or afflictions are but Momentary for a Moment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 4. 17. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the time now of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the Glory is Eternal an Eternal weight of Glory And Vers. 18. The things which are seen are Temporal or Temporary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the things which are not seen the things of the other World are Eternal 2. The sufferings and difficulties here are but light our light affliction but the Reward to come is a weight of Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore it is far beyond and beyond compare doth exceed the sufferings yea a far more exceeding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a super superlative weight of Glory Such forms of Speech use not to be met with in other Authors either Philosophers Poets or Orators for they never had such great things such high and excellent objects to think and speak of as the Holy and Heavenly Apostle who had another perception of things Heavenly and Divine and who was caught up into the Third Heaven or Paradice and there heard words unspeakable Nay further The sufferings and hardships which the better sort of Men meet with in this World should rather fortifie in them the belief and hope of a Resurrection and Glorious Reward then any way abate it for Verily there is a Reward to the Righteous If Lazarus has evil things here he shall have his good things hereafter and infinitely better then those good things which Dives had here as the evil things Lazarus had here were nothing to the evil those worse things that Dives was to feel hereafter 'T is not possible that the better sort of God's Creation his best Servants his friends and faithful ones should always be in a Calamitous condition that there never should be a difference between them that fear God and them that fear him not What Shall it never be better with those that Love God and whofe serious care is to please him and obey him who endeavour to be like him purifying themselves as he is pure Shall it never be better with them then commonly it is in the World where they suffer for Righteousness sake Shall it never be worse with the wicked who live in Enmity against God and Disobedience who live after their own Lusts and own Will who make no Conscience of their ways but respect themselves wholly their profit pleasure interest c. and love not God nor their Neighbour but are onely lovers of themselves not caring how they Rebel against God and Oppress Men Certainly it is easie to infer hence There is a God who will Judge the Earth and a time coming when it shall be well with the Righteous 2. Be not moved by the Allurements of the World the Blandishments of this present Life the Tentations of Pleasure or Profit any Worldy or Fleshly Lusts whatsoever The Glory and Lusters of the World Honours and Greatness the Pleasures of the Sensual Life Softness and Ease these and the like have a very bad influence upon the Minds and Hearts of Men upon their apprehensions and affections they are apt to enfeeble and darken the Notions of a future State and Life Prosperitas effaeminat virtutem fidei saith Tertullian The good Seed of Truth as also good Principles and Purposes is stifled and made unfruitful by the Thorns which in the Parable of the Seed and Sower are said to be the cares of this World the deceitfulness of Riches and the Lusts of other things Mark 4. 19. Luke adds the pleasures of this Life These Worldly and Fleshly Lusts call Men off from what is Spiritual and the things above fasten and nail them down to the Earth unqualifie Men for either apprehending or relishing what is Heavenly and Spiritual Sensual Men that provide for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof are very untoward and unfit to frame an Idea a right Notion of what is Spiritual The more a Christian lives Godly Soberly and Righteously in this present World the more easily will he apprehend the things of the World to come To such a one the things which are Eternal and concern the Life to come are more clear The more thou art purged from all inordinate desire to the things of this World and the less Earthly and Sensual thou art the better thou wilt conceive what is Heavenly the better thou wilt apprehend the State of the Life to come The more thou art Spiritualiz'd Spiritually-minded and to be so is Life Rom. 8. the more thou livest a Life worthy of thy Soul and art not enslaved to thy Body the Sense to this outward World the more thou livest a Lise of Purity Temperance Humility and Sobriety the better thou wilt conceive of what is Spiritual and Immaterial