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glory_n	eternal_a	exceed_a	weight_n	6,870	5	9.1543	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

warning every man and teaching every man he laboured striving according to the working that wrought in him mightily he laboured more abundantly then all the rest of the Apostles 2. As a private Christian he fought Actively and that against principalities and powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places nay rather then want an enemy he would fight with himself he kept under his body and brought it into subjection lest when he had preached to others himself should be a cast-away And then again he laboured and fought no less in what he suffered then in what he did he had his fears within as well as his fightings without and that again both in respect of his person and office When he was called to be both a Christian and an Apostle they were both comprised under this general notion of suffering I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my names sake sayes our blessed Saviour from Heaven and we finde it verified in him through the whole course of his life He suffered shipwrack thrice he suffered persecution he suffered the loss of all things He suffered much more then I can tell you so much as would almost pose himself to express And yet as though it had been only a sport to him like the crecket he sung in the fire he rejoyced in his sufferings and thereby filled up that which was behinde of the afflictions of Christ in his flesh He knew and made us to know that the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through sufferings and he knew withal that the Disciple is not above his master nor the souldier better then his Captain and therefore he was ready to suffer all things knowing most assuredly that if he suffered with him he should also be glorified together with him and that those light afflictions which were but for a moment would work for him a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory To summe up all in a word he both laboured and suffered and that both as a Christian and as an Apostle he laboured night and day with his hands as a private person that he might labour in the discharge of his Apostolical office without being chargeable to any man 2. All this while I have spoken of this fight as it is taken in it self meerly in relation to the substance of it but however by what I have said you will see in part it was also a good fight for the quality of it 1. It was good in respect of the justice of the cause in which he both laboured and suffered both as a Christian and as an Apostle It must needs be a good fight saith St. Chrysostome when we fight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Christ whatsoever hardship we endure by it whether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prisons or bolts or death it self It must needs be a good fight when we fight for the Gospel against the fiery darts of the Devil the pomps and vanities of the world and the sinful lusts of the flesh but especially when it is managed by such a person as this great Apostle who was set for the defence of the Gospel and that against all opposites whatsoever Jews and Gentiles Hereticks and Schismaticks And such was this fight in my Text he fought the good fight of faith and he suffered persecution for the Cross of Christ he did earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the Saints both by his doings and sufferings He fought with beasts at Ephesus while he planted the Gospel there and he suffered persecution at Lystra while he planted it there Whatsoever he either did or suffered in any place was undertaken and undergone chiefly and principally for the planting and propagating of the Gospel of Christ as he was an Apostle but yet so as still to have a care of his own soul as a Christian that while he preached to others himself should not become a Reprobate This for the justness of his cause 2. His fight was likewise good for the justifiableness of the way and means by which he managed it He gives it as a general rule to all others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to strive lawfully to manage their fight according to the rules of war without which no man ought to be crowned as a conquerour and therefore seeing he speaks of the crown of righteousness as a thing undoubtedly laid up for him we may be sure he would not forfeit his title to it for want of performing this condition Whatsoever good he did he did it well and whatsoever persecution he suffered it was not only in a good cause but with such an excellent mixture of courage and meekness of patience and comfort as might very well become a Christian sufferer and the cause of God wherein he suffered Whatsoever he did in these conflicts was by the power of the spirit of God that strengthened him and by that power he was able to do all things and whatsoever he suffered it was according to the will of God for whom he suffered it and then come life come death all is one to him he was ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus Thus much for the first action I have fought a good fight 2. The second now follows 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have finished my course or rather I have performed the race for there is not a possessive in the sentence and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may as well fignifie to perform as to finish And here I take it for granted though I cannot deny but some are of the contrary opinion that the Apostle in these words alludeth to another kinde of game then he did in the last In the former words he spake of fighting or combating in these of racing or running To this he expresly alludeth when he tells us he had not run in vain to this he earnestly exhorts when he calleth upon us to run with patience the race that is set before us They are clearly distinguished in a parallel text which I formerly alledged and so they ought to be in this place without all question I know very well that by finishing his course some interpreters understand no more then his constancie in the fight till he got the victory but this is doubtless a mistake in the phrase For it is clear enough from several texts that he was not a conquerour in one thing only but in several that he performed the part cursoris agilis as well as boni pugilis not only of a stout fighter but also of a nimble runner and herein he outstript most of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very few in the whole list of the Olympick conquerours got the victorie at more prizes then