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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mind_n	law_n	member_n	wretched_a	1,364	5	10.8021	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51266	The grand inquiry who is the righteous man: or, The character of a true beleever in his approaches towards heaven. Whereunto is added The resolution of a case of separation betwixt man and wife, propounded to the author by a party much concerned. By William Moore rector at Whalley in Lancashire.	Moore, William, rector of Whalley, Lancashire.	1658 (1658)	Wing M2612; ESTC R214225	54,012	181

them as love-tokens This beyond all saith David In the multitude of my thoughts thy comforts they delight my soul 3. Because they have right in these injoyments Others indeed injoy them by a common providence I will not say as some that they are usurpers God gives them their portion in this life The eyes of all wait upon him and he gives them their meat in due season But these have a more special interest Christ hath purchased a more speciall title and right for them And surely that man lives more comfortably that lives purely on his own Saith Paul Let no man glory in man for all things are yours 4. Because they have the right use of these injoyments whilest others are worse for them Eccles 5.13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun namely riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt As a sword in a mad mans hand so they endanger themselves with them or at the best they do but gather for themselves they live to themselves till they lose both themselves and that which they have gathered Thou fool this night shall thy soul be taken from thee and then whose shall these things be But the righteous they make themselves friends of that unrighteous Mammon they lay up for themselves treasures in heaven If rich in this world they are rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come that they may lay hold upon eternall life What a world of difference there is between that man who hath the right use of his estate and him that wants it How comfortable is the life of the one beyond the other 5. Because their happinesse doth not depend upon these outward blessings They may take pleasure in them for a time as the scholar takes pleasure in his meat but findes a better relish at his book so they have fixed their affections upon higher matters If they be crost in these injoyments yet there is no interruption of their joy because it doth not depend upon them Rev. 12.1 They have the Moon under their feet By the Moon understand things sublunary all things under the Moon they are above these things As using the world saith Paul but not abusing it and I would have you without carefulnesse Therefore they injoy it with more comfort because they injoy it with lesse care Look upon a man whose happinesse depends upon it whose heart is set upon the world how he frets and grieves and when crost in his pursuits as Micah Ye have taken away my Gods how is it then that ye say unto me What aileth thee Whilest those whose hearts are centred upon God they sing sweetly with that holy Job The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the name of the Lord. Lastly Because they look upon these things but as the Israelites on those clusters of grapes brought by the spies out of the land of Canaan so to put them in minde of the wealth and fertility of the Countrey to raise up their hearts to the meditation of those heavenly joyes Every mercy we receive it is as another step to mount up our thoughts upon Jacobs Ladder to celestiall glories These are but the Viaticum a refreshment by the way we look for another Countrey a City which hath foundations a building of God and hourly expect the call Come ye blessed children of my Father inherit ye the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world And if we finde this comfort in our Inne how much more then when we come at our own home Thus whilest others receive but the single comforts of these earthly blessings the godly have a double comfort whilest thus from these things below they are carried up unto the things above If others therefore can rejoyce in these things how much more cause have you to rejoyce with joy above other men Rejoyce ye Righteous 6. Whilest we look upon the left hand Many are the troubles of the righteous What crosses and afflictions what poverty and disgraces what reproaches and persecutions what bonds and imprisonments besides inward troubles that law in our member warring against the law of our minde that when we would do good evill is present with us Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death And then God himself drawing the black curtain between him and us withdrawing the light of his countenance from us Thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled Be not discouraged Psal 112.4 Unto the righteous there ariseth light in darknesse So a joy in sorrowing Nay let me tell you further you have more matter of rejoycing in the very depth of your adversity then others in the greatest height of their prosperity Therefore was it Moses his choice Heb. 11.24 He chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season He chose rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God then to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me Look upon thy Saviour 1 Pet. 2.22 Christ hath suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow his steps And shall we not rejoyce to be made like unto Christ This is that in comparison of which the Apostle accounts all things as nothing and worse then nothing as losse and dung Phil. 3.10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death Thus we have a fellowship with Christ Nay further we bear a part of his sufferings And then saith St. Paul Col. 1.22 I rejoyce in my sufferings for you to fill up that which is behinde of the afflictions of Christ in my fl●sh for his bodies sake which is the Church As Christ suffered in his natural so he must suffer in his mysticall body Our afflictions therefore they are Christs afflictions a filling up of that which is behinde of his afflictions Et quis non hic superbit saith Luther in his Consolatory to the Duke of Saxony who would not rejoyce to bear part with Christ So is it the Apostles triumph Rom. 8 35. Who shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ shall tribulation or distresse or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or the sword As it is written For thy sake are we killed all the day long and are counted as sheep for the slaughter nay in all these things we are more then conquerors Conquerors and more then conquerors How 's that Not only bearing them with patience but with joy Act. 5.41 They went away rejoycing that they were count à worthy to suffer reproach for the Name of Christ Or if all this be not sufficient yet take notice of the benefit