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spirit_n	affliction_n	great_a	zion_n	25	3	8.9393	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52375	Godly adversity far better than wicked prosperity, or, The rage of the wicked, should not hinder the race of the Godly being a few comfortable reasons or encouragements against the fear and terrour of man : very seasonable & sutable [sic] for the consideration of God's people in this day of tryal, to fortifie them against all troubles and oppositions whatsoever : together with a heavenly discourse concerning the saints in their kingdom, wherein is discovered the excellency of the kingdom itself, and the wonderful glory and happiness of the saints in their heavenly habitation / by Edward Noble ...	Noble, Edward.	1661 (1661)	Wing N1197; ESTC R4611	58,130	70

Land for Ever that God may be Glorified Isa 60.21 This is one great Priviledge and one Branch of that Happiness which the Saints shall be made partakers of in this HEAVENLY Kingdom But Secondly Another is this 2. They shall be wholly freed from all Sorrow and from all Trouble of what nature soever they shall be wholly freed from all manner of Grief and Anguish from all manner of Distress and Misery and they shall never know what belongs to Sorrow any more Alas now we are subject to much Sorrow and Misery to much Trouble and Distress and many distempers of Body and defects of Nature do dayly attend us and several Afflictions are every day ready to seize upon us as Sickness Lameness Blindness Hunger and Cold and many other Troubles and Miseries are every day ready to fall upon the outward man in this life which many times occasion great grief and sorrow of heart and great trouble and perplexity of spirit and great complainings under the burthen of bitter Afflictions But now it is not so in this Heavenly Kingdom for when the Saints receive their Portion there then all Sorrow and Trouble shall quite be removed and all occasions of Grief and Anguish shall be wholly taken away and there shall be no more cause of Complaint under the burthen of any Affliction nor no more cause of Grief under the sence of any Misery for they shall hunger no more neither shall they thirst any more neither shall the Sun light on them nor any heat for the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them and shall lead them into Fountains of living Waters and God shall wipe away all Tears from their eyes and there shall be no more Death nor no more Sorrow nor no more Crying neither shall there be any more Pain for all such things shall be past'd away and shall never have a Being in this Heavenly Kingdom Revel 7.16 17. 21.4 Here 's another excellent Priviledge that the Saints shall be made partakers of in this glorious Kingdom they shall never any more taste of Sorrow nor never any more be acquainted with Grief they shall never any more be troubled with Afflictions nor never any more fall under Distress though now it may be they may be laden with Afflictions and burthened with Misery yet the time will come when Afflictions shall fly away and Misery shall be no more For all Trouble shall be swallowed up in Victory and the Lord God will wipe away Tears from off all Faces and the rebuke of his People shall be wholly taken away for the Lord hath spoken it Isa 25.8 Oh! what an Eminent Priviledge will this be for poor despised Saints to be made partakers of Oh! what a blessed condition will they be in that are subjects of this Glorious Kingdom There is no condition on Earth so happy nor no State in the World so Excellent nor no enjoyment under the Sun worthy to be compared with the least Priviledge in this Heavenly Kingdom there is no condition on Earth so happy but it 's subject to misery there is no condition on Earth so joyful but its subjects to sorrow there is no condition on Earth so pleasant but it is subject to pain but now the Saints in their Kingdom shall be wholly delivered from all their afflictions and shall never know what belongs to Trouble any more They shall be wholly exempted from all their Infirmities and be crowned with Perfection without any change So that this is another Excellent Priviledge or a second Branch of that Happiness which the Saints shall be made partakers of in this Heavenly Kingdom But Thirdly Another is this 3. They shall dwell with God and Christ and see them Face to Face they shall be received into the presence of God and behold his Glory and they shall sit down in the presence of the Lamb and behold his Beauty they shall be so much honoured by God and promoted by Jesus Christ as to be Companions with them in Glory and dwell in their presence continually Here 's another Excellent Priviledge and Emninent Dignity which the Saints shall be made partakers of in this Glorious Kingdom They shall not onely be freed from shame and reproach but they shall also be Crowned with Honour and Dignity Their eyes shall not onely be freed from vain sights and Terrible objects but they shall also be Blessed with Heavenly Visions and Sights of God and dwell in the presence of the Lamb continually It 's counted a great Honour and an Excellent Priviledge amongst the Men of the World to behold the face of an Earthly King or to be admitted into the presence of a great Person But it 's counted more Honour to be one of the Family and DWELL in his Presence and to be a Companion with Him in his Honour and Dignity But now the Saints in their Kingdom shall have tenfold more Honour and Dignity than all this I mean in Reference to this particular besides all the Rest they shall have more Honour than to behold the face of an Earthly King for they shall behold the face of him that is King of Kings and Lord of Lords they shall have more Honour than to be admitted into the presence of a great Man on Earth for they shall be admitted into the presence of a Great God in Heaven And not onely so but they shall be of his Family and DWELL with him and be Companions with him in his Glorious Kingdom Therefore says the Psalmist Psal 140.13 Surely the Righteous shall give thanks unto thy Name The Upright shall DWELL in thy presence Mark it doth not say onely They shall BE in thy presence for a Little Time But they shall ' DWELL in thy presence They shall continue and abide in thy presence as Persons belonged and related to thy House and Family And they shall sit at the Table with Jesus Christ and see his Face and his Name shall be in their Foreheads and they shall be known to be his servants for Ever Revel 22.4 Luke 22.30 Therefore sayes Christ Joh. 14.3 If I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my Self that where I am THERE Ye may be also So that it seems where the Lord Christ is Exalted there must the Saints be Exalted And where the Lord Christ takes up his habitation there must the Saints be received And they shall dwell in his presence and see him as he is Therefore sayes the Apostle 1 Cor. 13.12 Now we see through a Glass darkly but then we shall see face to face now we know but in part but then we shall know even as also we are known So that this is also another Excellent Priviledge or a third Branch of that Happiness which the Saints shall be made partakers of in this Heavenly Kingdom They shall DWELL in the Presence of the Lord and continually behold the Majesty of God But Fourthly Another is this 4. They

the Truth upon the Earth and take the Tribulations of the Gospel chearfully and joyfully yea we shall make our very Enemies admire at us if we have but a right spirit upon this account when they shall see and take notice how we are troubled on every side and how we are Persecuted and Afflicted and trampled under foot and yet we are chearful and full of Courage and not at all daunted nor terrified at it They must needs think there is more than ordinary in our Profession and so by that means God is exceedingly glorified and his Truth admired by his Enemies though possibly they may still obstinately and willingly oppose it yet notwithstanding they shall by this means be left without excuse and the power of the Truth shall witness against them to the praise and glory of God and to the peace and comfort of our own Souls Therefore saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 4.14 If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of Glory resteth upon you On their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorified There is also a notable passage of our Saviour Christ concerning Peter John 21.18 19. Verily verily saith Christ unto Peter when thou wast young thou girdest thy self and walkest whither thou wouldst but when thou shalt be old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not This spake he signifying by what death he should GLORIFIE God So that it seems those that have so much Courage as to suffer chearfully for the Name of Christ and to lay down their lives for the sake of Christ their Death and Sufferings will tend much to the Glory of God and to the Eternal Blisse and Happiness of their own Souls Therefore when our Enemies shall threaten us and command us to speak nor preach no more in the Name of Jesus nor Meet any more to Worship God in his own way Let us with Peter and John ask them Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye And let us tell them plainly to their faces That we must obey God rather than Men Therefore we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard and we cannot but practise the things which we have learned and received in Command from Jesus Christ There are two notable and very remarkable Examples worthy of our Consideration which I shall briefly urge for our Encouragement in this matter The one is concerning the three Children in Dan. 3.16 17 18. Oh! that there were but such a spirit amongst the People of God now in this day of Sions bleeding Well but let us a little consider how they behaved themselves the King had made a Decree and given forth Command That all People should fall down and Worship the Golden Image which he he had set up and whosoever would not should the same hour be cast into the midst of a Burning fiery Furnace Well but Shadrach Meshach and Abednego they broke his Decree and disobeyed his Command and was not at all afraid of his fury nor terrified at the punishment and when they were called to an account before the King for this their Disobedience to his Decree he proffered them Pardon upon condition of their now complying But if not they must expect to feel the effects of his Rage and Fury in the Fiery Furnace and who is that God that should deliver them out of his hands Well now it is come to this with them they must either Turn or Burn they must either Bow to the Image or be Burnt in the Fire they must either conform with their Bodies to the Kings Command or else expose their Bodies to the Burning Flames Well and how did they behave themselves in this Case See the story and you shall find it at large Shadrach Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the King O Nebuchadnezzar we are not careful to answer thee in this matter If it be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the Burning Fiery Furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King But now Herein consists chiefly the Excellency of their Spirit in the next words therefore mark But if not whether God will deliver us or no Yet be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the Golden Image which thou hast set up Here 's an admirable Spirit for the service of God full of Confidence and Resolution for the Glory of the true and living God As much as if they should say If it be so O King do thy worst we matter it not our God whom we serve is able to deliver us and he will deliver us from thy Rage and Cruelty O King therefore we are not careful to answer thee in the Business And further we testifie unto thee O King that whether he will deliver us or not deliver us whether we Burn or not Burn come Life or come Death yet we would have thee to know O King that we will not serve thy Gods nor we will not worship the Golden Image which thou hast set up Oh therefore now let us endeavour to bear upon our hearts the Example of these three Famous Children or rather Champions of the most High God That we may through their example be provoked and Encouraged to hold fast the Name and Faith of Jesus Christ even in the worst Condition that may befall us that so being Faithfull unto Death we may receive the Crown of Life and sit with Christ in his Throne and Kingdom Another Example that I shall take notice of for our Consideration and Encouragement is concerning Paul in Acts 21.13 which indeed is very Remarkable and worthy of our observation and practise Paul it seems had some Work to do for God at Jerusalem and was much pressed in Spirit to go and bear witness to the Name of Jesus there But it seems before he went he was foretold in a Figure how he should Suffer when he came there and how he should be delivered into the hands of Persecutors for there was a certain Prophet named Agabus came down from Judea and when he was come among the Disciples he took Pauls Girdle and bound his own hands and Feet with it and Prophesied in the Spirit that so the Jews at Jerusalem should bind the Man that owed that Girdle and should deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles And when the Disciples heard that they began to perswade him and earnestly entreat him not to go to Jerusalem and laid before him the Consideration of his Sufferings thinking to prevent him of his Journey Well but what doth Paul do in this Case Doth he neglect the Work of the Lord to avoid his Sufferings Doth he forbear to go because of Danger No it s almost Death to him to think of forbearing and leaving the Work of the Lord undone at