Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	bear_v	great_a	john_n	1,605	5	6.2105	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42555	Wisdom justified of her children, or, Two sermons sometime preached in Cockshutt Chappel, in the county of Salop, and lately at Brightling in Sussex, on Matth. XI. XIX. and now at the request of friends enlarged, and published / by William Gearing ...	Gearing, William.	1668 (1668)	Wing G439; ESTC R16127	41,501	72

answered Ego Aeternitati Pingo I paint to Eternity men will judge of my Painting said he an hundred years after I am dead A godly man will give Thee the like answer Thou wonderest at my strictness and frequency in holy duties Oh! I work to Eternity I preach I hear I pray for Eternity I live for Eternity my actions shall be judged many years after my death did you frequently and seriously think that all your actions are to Eternity how strict how holy how zealous how singular would you be CHAP. XV. Use How should this encourage the fearful and put heat and life into our dead frozen spirits to justifie wisdom to be bold for Christ in his cause and not to be dismayed for the threats and revilings of men but justifie wisdom and confess Christ come what will doth the world and do carnal friends suggest a thousand fears a thousand troubles and dangers to thee be not dismayed for all these Tell Souldiers of Pillaging and Plundering of Rich Spoil they regard not the difficulties of war they are not startled at cold hunger thirst nakedness wounds death but slight all for hopes of great spoils Put on O Christians with the like courage in Christs cause you have as ample a reward promised as heart can wish and God is faithful who will surely give it to you Consider this all ye that confess Christ now and justifie wisdom that Christ will confess and own you before men it was an honour to John Baptist when Christ justified him before men Mat. 11.9 10 11. What went ye out to see A Prophet Yea I say unto you and more than a Prophet for this is he of whom it is written Behold I send my Messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee Verily I say unto you among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist What if the world now condemn you for a company of fools Christ will one day justifie you to be the true Children of wisdom and damn the wise generation of Carnal men for meer Ideots yea they that now condemn you shall then justifie you then will they say we fools count them wise we accounted their life madness and their end to be without honour but now they are numbred among the Children of God Sap. 5.4 5 6 7. and their Lot among the Saints therefore have we erred from the way of truth and the light of Righteousness hath not shined unto us and the Sun of Righteousness rose not upon us We wearied our selves in the way of wickedness and destruction c. Moreover Christ will own those that have stood for him as his Members Friends Subjects Servants as they have acknowledged him to be their God Lord King Master and will present them to his Father These are the Children the faithful Servants whom Thou hast given me It were great honour if a Prince should take a man by the hand and before the King and all his people should acknowledge him to be his faithful Servant So it will be a very heaven to be acknowledged by Christ at the last day Christ will testifie before his Father and the holy Angels what they have done for him what they have suffered for him Father behold these men that stand here before thee have suffered reproaches for my Name-sake they were hated reviled persecuted put to death for my sake When many thousands shamefully denied me and cowardly deserted my opposed cause and my persecuted Religion These men stood close to me esteeming the reproaches hatred imprisonments cruelties of the world for my sake greater riches than all the honours preferments treasures of all the Kingdoms of the earth and joyfully suffered all rather than my name should suffer As he will testifie what they have suffered so likewise what they have done for Christ These men fed me when I was hungry gave me drink when I was thirsty clothed me when I was naked visited me when I was sick and in prison O ye my blessed Angels Behold them and rejoyce over them and bid them wellcome into their heavenly Mansions The giving of a cup of cold water to a Disciple shall then be acknowledged how much more the giving away of thy estate thy liberty and the laying down thy life for Christ's sake Christ will also before Angels Saints Devils and wicked men and the whole world declare them the Blessed of his Father and glorifie them with the same glory wherewith he is glorified 1. He will declare them Blessed Come ye Blessed my Father Those that justifie and confess Christ in an evil time are looked upon by an evil and adulterous generation as unhappy lost miserable and undone men as the dross and off-scouring of the world Christ will then declare them to be the only happy and blessed men Come ye blessed blessed of God my Father Blessed of me your Saviour Blessed of all my holy Angels Blessed of all that are blessed yea so highly blessed that all the wicked themselves shall then envy at your blessedness ye were before blessed in the promise but now ye shall be blessed in the fruition you shall see the full accomplishment of the word and promise of God 2. Then will he glorifie them with his own glory Come ye inherit the Kingdom prepared for you heaven was made for you all heavens glory was prepared for you This glory this happiness these Mansions These Everlasting habitations were prepared for you my Throne and Kingdom is yours you shall sit down with me upon my Throne my inheritance is yours ye are joynt heirs with me you and I will divide the heavenly inheritance between us ye are fellow-kings with me you and I shall be happy glorious and rejoyce together as long as eternity lasteth Finally Christ will justifie them before their Enemies who now load them and the way of Christ with all the base calumnies their malitious hearts can imagine and their tongues can vent They condemn the generation of such as justifie wisdom as factious humourists as rebellious and enemies to Caesar though God's faithful Servants and Caesar's loyal Subjects The wicked make the godly unworthy to live so they are to be among a crooked generation they likewise condemn religion in power as hypocrisie and indiscretion Now the Lord will justifie them before their enemies Know ye O mine Enemies ye Children of Belial that these are my faithful Servants they are my dear Children they did but what I commanded them that which you termed hypocrisie in them was the pure religion and what you counted rashness and indiscretion in them was true Zeal and heavenly wisdom Then will Christ avenge them of their Enemies before their faces he will damn the revilers scoffers and opposers of his people before their faces and will cover those with shame and confusion that did put his people to open shame for their justifying of wisdom and for their confessing of his Name and their