Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	2,324	5	11.8389	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67780	A sovereign antidote to drive out discontent in all that any way suffer affliction As also the benefit of affliction; and how to husband it so, that the weakest Christian (with blessing from above) may be able to support himself in his most miserable exigents. Together with the wit, generosity, magnanimity and invincible strength of a patient Christian rightly so stiled, and as is herein characterized extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and modern, both holy and humane. Necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation. The second part. By R. Younge, of Roxwell in Essex, Florilegus. Licensed and entered according to order.; Soverign antidote to drive out discontent in all that any way suffer affliction. Part 2.	Younge, Richard.	1668 (1668)	Wing Y192A; ESTC R218099	37,680	36

their Coronation and what Princely heir does not long for the day of his inst●lm●●t and rejoyce when it comes Certainly it was the sweetest voit● that ever the Thief heard in this life when Christ said unto him This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Luk. 23.43 In a word as death to the wicked puts an end to their short joyes and begins their everlasting sorrowes so to the Elect it is the end of all sorrow and the beginning of their everlasting joyes The end of their sorrow for whereas complaint of evils past sense of 〈◊〉 and fear of future have shared our lives amongst them death is 1. A Supersedeas for all diseases the Resurrection knows no imper●●ction 2 It is a Writ of ease to free us from labour and servitude like Moses 〈◊〉 delivered Gods people out of bondage and from brick making i● ●egypt 3. Whereas our ingresse into the world our progresse in it our egress● ●ut of it is nothing but sorrow for we are born crying live grumbling ●nd die sighing death is a medicine which drives away all these for we ●hall rise triumphing 4. It shall revive our reputation● and cleer our Names from all ignomi ●y and reproach yea the more contemptible here the more glorious here 〈◊〉 Now a very Duellist will go into the field to seek death and finde ●onour 5. Death to the godly is as a Goal delivery to let the Soul out of the ●rison of the body and set it free 6. Death frees us from sinne an Inmate that spite of our teeth will ●●oust with us so long as life affords it ho●se room for what is it to the ●●ithfull but the funerall of their vices and the resurrection of their vertues CHAP. VII BEcause Patience in suffering brings a reward wi●h it In reason a man would forgive his enemy ev●n for his own ●ake were there no ●ther motive ●o perswade him for to let passe many things of no smal● moment as that if we forgive not we can do no part of ●ods worship ●hat is pleasing to him for we cannot pray aright 1 Tim. 2.8 We ●annot communicate in the Sacrament but we make our selves guilty of Christs blood 1 Cor. 11.27 Matth. ● 24 We cannot be good hearers ●f the Word Iames 1.21 and that it makes a man captive to Satan Ephes 4.26 27. and many the like If ye forigve men their trespasses saith our Saviour your heavenly Father also will forgive you but if you for●ive not men their trespasses neither will your heavenly Father forgive you ●our trespasses Mat. 6.14 15. So he that will not be in Charity shall never be in Heaven And why should I do my self a shrewd turn because ●nother would Yea we desire pardon as we give pardon and we would ●e loath to have our own lips condemn us When we pray to God to forgive us our trespasses as we also forgive them that trespasse against us ●nd do not resolve to forgive our brethren we do ineffect say Lord condemn us for we will be condemned whereas he that doth good to his enemy e●en in that act doth better to himself Again Blessed is the man saith St. Iames that endureth temptation viz. with patience for when he is tried he shall receive the Crown of life James 1.12 And this made Moses not only patient in his sufferings but joyfull esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches than all the measures of Aegypt For saith the Text he had respect unto the recompence of the reward Heb. 11.26 And well it might for whereas the highest degree of suffering is not worthy of he least and lowest degree of this glory Rom. 2.18 St. Paul witnesseth that our light affliction which is but for a moment if it be borne with patience causeth unto us a far most excellent and eternall weight of glory while we look not on the things that are seen but on the things which are not seen 2 Cor. 4.17 18. Where note the incomparablenesse and infinite difference between the work and the wages light affliction receiving a weight of glory and momentary afflictions eternall glory answerable to the reward of the wicked whose empty delights live and die in a moment but their insufferable punishment is interminable and endless As it fared with Pope Sixtus the fifth who sold his soul to the Devill to enjoy the glory and pleasure of the Popedom for seven years their pleasure is short their pain everlasting our pain is short our joy eternall What will not men undergo so their pay may be answerable The old experienced Souldier fears not the rain and storms above him nor the numbers falling before him nor the troops of enemies against him nor the shot of thundring Ordinance about him but looks to the honourable reward promised him When Philip asked Democritus if he die not fear to lose his head he answered No for quoth he if I die the Athenians will give me a life immortall meaning he should be s●●●ued in the treasury of eternall fame if the immortality as they thought of their names was such a strong reason to perswade them to patience and all kind of worthinesse what should the immortality of the soul be to us Alas vertue were a poor thing if fam● only should be all the Garland that did crown her but the Christian knowes that if every pain he suffers were a death and very crosse an hell he shall have amends enough Which made the Martyrs such Lambs in suffering that their persecutors were more weary with striking than they with suffering and many of them as willing to die as dine When Modestus the Emperours Lieutenant told Basil what he should suffer as confiscation of goods cruell tortures death c. He answered If this be all I fear not yea had I as many lives as I have hairs on my head I would lay them all down for Christ nor can your master more benefit me than in sending me to my Heavenly Father to whom I now live and to whom I desire to hasten And another time being threatned in like manner by the Emperour he bad him fright Babies with such Bugbares His life might be taken away but not his comforte his head but not his crown Yea persecutors are but our Fathers Goldsmiths sayes Bernard working to adde Pearles to the Crowns of the Saints Whence Gordius could say to his tormentors it is to my great loss if you bate me any part of my sufferings I could abound with ●●amples of this nature No matter quoth one of them what I suffer on earth so I may be crowned in Heaven I care not quoth another what becometh of this frail Bark my flesh so I have the passenger my soul safely conducted And another If Lord at night thou grant'st me Lazarus boon Let Dives dogs lick all my sores at noon And a valiant Souldier going about a Christian atchievement My comfort is though I lose my life for Christs sake yet I shall not lose my