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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	death_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,853	5	11.4614	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28186	A cordiall for a heart-qualme, or, Severall heavenly comforts for all those who suffer any worldly crosse or calamity by Simon Birckbek ...	Birckbek, Simon, 1584-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing B2944; ESTC R22613	48,952	202

be discouraged or faint under the weight of the Crosse hath sampled out the sufferings of his Saints men of our owne mould and subject to the like infirmities that wee are that have gone before us in the hardest duties of affliction What duty so harsh to flesh and bloud as to take up the Crosse and follow Christ What Crosse can be named which they have not borne and comfortably endured to the end It is hard you will say to part with our goods yet there have beene they that have taken joyfully the spoiling of their goods e not that the losse of their goods ●… was of it selfe and its owne nature joyfull to them but they were so farre from being dejected and disheartned with the afflictions they suffered for Christ as they accounted them matter or occasion of joy and why Both because they were counted worthy to suffer for the name of Christ f as also because of the blessed fruit g and issue of their affliction Tribulation as the Apostle saith h worketh patience Tribulation accustometh us to patience and patience assures us by experience of Gods mercifull sustentation and ayde and this experience of Gods goodnesse puts us in hope of his further mercy and seasonable●… deliverance besides this experience under the Crosse it confirmes and fastens this our Anchor-hope and this hope deceiveth us not it disappointeth us not it being grounded on the love of Christ shed abroad in our hearts Tribulation then worketh patience not that of it selfe and its owne nature it worketh so for it often produceth contrary * effects both in the wicked and the godly as in Job David and Jeremie but it doth so when God gives us a sanctified use of Crosses conforming i us thereby to our Head Christ Jesus It goes had to exchange hoped of advancement for rebukes k and reproches ●… and yet Moses chused it willingly and counted it an honour to him Moses was jeered for marrying the Aethiopian woman Joseph was nick-named a Dreamer in scorne This is the manner of ill minded men to set termes of reproach upon the religious so Christ was called a Galilean by Julian the Apostle Paul a babler l by prophane Phylosophers This Age abounds with such abusive appellations cast upon the best Christians by such as are of an Hereticall Religion or of no Religion at all the practice of this kinde of contumelie is ancient and the patience under it as ancient which may make us both to looke for it ●… and make light of it 'T is too much to leave Countrey and kindred and Fathers house and yet Abraham did so 'T is hardest of all to leave our sweet life especially by violent torments what death can wee thinke so full of shame and torture but it hath beene endured m by the Saints of God by the Prophets Apostles and Martyres some of them have beene put on gridirons others in boyling Cauldrons some on the spits others under the sawes some in the flames others crushed with the teeth of wilde Beasts some on the racks others in fiery furnaces most of them in such torments as in comparison whereof our●… paines are but flea-bitings We doe but taste and sip of that cup of affliction which Christ and his Saints dra●…ke sheere off as appeares by the Churches story the Martyrologies the Acts and Monuments of the Saints Why then doe wee grudge to wet our fee●…e where they waded over the foord even a red Sea of blood Wee should looke to others as good as our selves as well as to our selves and then wee shal see it is not our own case only who are we that wee should looke for an exempted condition from those troubles which God's dearest children are addicted unto Comparison to this end is●… very availeable Compare we our sufferings for Christ with his sufferings n ●…or us Compare we our momentany afflictions of this life with the endlesse torments of hell endured by others and deserved by our sinnes from which by those as meanes we are freed for we are chastened of the Lord o that wee should not be condemned with the world Wee are mercifully chastened by the Lord on purpose that we may escape that eternall condemnation which befals the wicked of the world and we shall finde that there is no proportion betwixt our sufferings and our deserts Alas the wages of every sinne is Death a double death of the●… body and of the soule both temporall and eternall Any thing the Lord sends belowe this is mercy We must not ●…ke so much at what wee ●…ele 〈◊〉 what we have deserved to seele What ever our crosses are or may be justly we are in them our sinnes have deserved that more so that we are to beaer Gods chastisement willingly si●…h wee have so sinned against him I will beare the indignation of the Lord with patience and humility because I have sinned against him saith the Prophet Micah p Compare wee our sufferings with our glory that shall be revealed our suffering is but for a moment our reward shall be great and glorious●… farre aboue the proportion of all our service or suffering for our light affliction q which is but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory The afflictions of the godly are not light in themselves but Comparatively to the infinite and eternall weight of heavenly glory which our affliction worketh for us not by any merit of ours but out of Gods meere grace and mercy for Christ his sake Rom. 8. 17. 18. or they be called Light because God maketh them seeme light unto us by the strong support and comfort of his Spirit Rom. 8.37 I reckon saith Saint Paul r that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall bee revealed in us word for word it is the sufferings of this now season whereby the Apostle intimates that our tribulations and afflictions last but for a 〈◊〉 that is a moment in comparison S●… Paul cal●…s the afflictions of this life light and but for a moment Our sufferings our sorrow shall have an end ●…aec non d●…rabunt atatem as A●…hanasius said of his troubles For his anger endureth but a moment s his corrections last but a while but his favour lasts all out life long our joy shall have no end St. Bernard t computing the time●… of his owne assl●…ction and the Saints reduceth it to an houres space or thereabouts Opus meum vix unius est horae siplus prae amore non sentio my worke and labor is but an houres taske if it be more I am scarce sensible thereof by reason of the love I beare to my Saviour who hath suffered so much for me How gratiously hath the wisdome of our God thought fit to temper our afflictions so contriving them that if they bee sharpe they are not long if