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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	hate_v	know_v	persecute_v	2,062	5	9.5855	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89195	The churches troubles and deliverance, or, Certaine sermons tending to shew the reasons why the Lord doth sometimes bring his people into extremities, with the blessed issue and fruits thereof, on Gen. 22. 14. Also divers arguments giving good hope that yet God will be gracious to England, and not deliver us into our enemies hands. Also some things briefly on Rev. 11. 7. to 14. Bby Tho. Mocket, Mr. of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Holt in Denbigh-shire.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?	1642 (1642)	Wing M2305; Thomason E110_18; ESTC R19617	74,158	93

Joh 15.18.19.20 If the world hate you said our Saviour you know it hated me before it hated you If yee were of the world the world would love it's owne Remember the word that I said unto you The Servant is not greater then the Lord If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you And therfore seeing it is common that the very best most faithfull and renowned servants of God and the Lord Christ himselfe have su●fered much bin sometimes brought to great exigents we should chearfully undergoe whatsoever evils we meet with A common lot no man shrugs at who quarrels Summer for heat or Winter for cold though it be sometimes more then ordinary seeing it is a common lot who is angry because he hath as many fingers and toes and other members as other men have seeing there is use of all the members an● they serve to make the perfection of the whole man so afflictions and troubles wisely managed do helpe to make a man a compleat Christian That yee may be perfect sayes the Apostle James entire and wanting nothing Jam 1.3 4. entire for parts not for degrees of obedience why then should any shrinke much lesse murmurre at them 2. Consider that afflictions and troubles come not out of the dust but from God what or whosoever be the instruments yet God a good wise and gracious Father is the authour of them Is there any evill viz. of punishment in the City and the Lord hath not done it Amos 3 6 De●t 32 3● 2 Ch. 〈…〉 .13 14. saith the Prophet I kill and I make alive I wound and I heale saith God therfore this should make us not onely patient but chearfull also under afflictions as it did Job when God had by the Sabeans and others taken away all his Cattle a mighty Estate Servants and Children saith he N●ked came I out of my mothers wombe J●b 〈…〉 and naked shall I returne thither The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. He did not cry out of misfortune or ill luck curse the Divell rayle at the Chaldeans or others but patiently receives it as from God himselfe and willingly submits to his will The Lord gave c. So did David Psal 39 9. I was dumbe and held my peace because thou Lord did dest it And the Lord doth justly and in mercy to his 1. Justly though evill men doe what they doe against the godly most unjustly against all right and reason yet God doth it most justly Righteous art thou ô Lord sayes David and righteous are thy iudgements Psal 1●9 117 45 17. Rom. 2.6 11. The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workes For with God is no respect of person Therefore we should patiently beare all afflictions and troubles whatsoever because we suffer justly and most deservedly the Lord is righteous in afflicting us 2. God afflicts his people in mercy out of love to them and for their good though their adversaries doe it out of malice and rage against them yet God doth it out of love and in mercy to them that they may not perish Heare what Paul saith When we are iudged we are chastened of the Lord 1 Cor. 11.32 Heh 12.5 c. that we should not be condemnea with the world Againe My sonne despise not thou the chastening of the Lord ver 10. nor faint when thou art rebuked of him for he chasteneth us for our profit that we might be partakers of his holinesse The Lord useth afflictions and all troubles that befall his children as the wise Physitian doth physick to cure diseases and as the Chyrurgian doth lancing scarifying and plaisters to let out corrupt matter and heale his Patient 3. Consider the necessity of suffering and tryals it cannot well be otherwise in respect of our condition in respect of our enemies and the place where we live First in respect of our condition both present and future in Heaven 1. In respect of our present condition The faithfull the godly are Souldiers Labourers Sowers c. Now consider all these and see if there be not a kind of necessity in respect of their condition of meeting with troubles 1. The true Christian is a Souldier and a Souldier must meet with straits hard services sometimes fight hard before he gets the victory endure blowes and dangerous wounds sometimes runne through the pikes as we say before he gets the victory so must a Christian A Christians life is a warfare and you know it is no new thing for Souldiers to heare the Drum beat Trumpets sound the Cannons roare and Bullets fly about their Ears and Heads and somtimes dangerously pierce their bodies so it is not to be wondred at much lesse murmur'd at If Satan and evill men let fly at us if afflictions and troubles come Therefore if we be Christs Souldiers let us looke for such things make a sure account of them yea and sometimes to have them thick and three-fold like Jobs Messengers 2. A true Christian is a Labourer A Labourer must work early and late labour hard undergoe much paine and travell So the husband-man must not onely worke hard but endure many a cold blast many a storme before he gets the crop into the Barne so the godly must looke to undergoe many a hard service indure many a storme of affliction before he comes to the harvest to triumph in Heaven This in respect of our present condition 2. In respect of our future condition Heaven is a time of rest of triumph and reaping a harvest Now rest is after motion and there can be no triumph before victory and no victory with sitting still Quies est finis motus without blowes Before a man can reape he must endure a great deale of labour wet and dry heat and cold hunger and thirst a husbandmans life is a laborious and painfull life and so it must be with the true Christian before he comes to tryumph and reape the fruits of a sound profession and a wel-led life in Heaven Thus in respect of our condition both present and future Secondly in respect of our enemies it cannot bee otherwise 1. The Divell a most implacable enemy who continually goeth about like a roaring Lyon 1 Pet. 5.8 seeking whom he may devoure by all wayes and meanes and at all times seeking to marre our peace imbitter our lives yea to destroy our soules 2. Wicked men have a most invenomed nature all of them against godlinesse and an inveterate enmity against the righteous though they doe not alwayes equally shew it God restraines them all more or lesse for the good of his people there should otherwise be no living for the righteous upon the earth among evill men and of all Sects and Religions none are more cruell and blood-thirsty then the Papists are especially the Priests and Jesuites and therefore it cannot be expected but that the godly should