Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	glory_n	grace_n	heaven_n	5,746	5	5.4244	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02407	Counsel for sufferers, or Helps under sufferings from [sic]		1683 (1683)	Wing C6514B; ESTC R227098	28,641	57

against reproaches Consid 1 First Remember you are blessed and honoured of Christ while reproached jeered and mocked by the world and no matter though the dogs barke so the Master gives good entertainment Blessed are ye when men shal revile you and speak all manner of evil of you falsly for my sake yea blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for their's is the Kingdome of God It is a cursed thing to reproach another but a blessed thing to be reproached by another Consid 2 Secondly Christs name is a greater glory then all your reproaches can be dishonourable to you that beleive Christ is an honour you carry the Cross of Christ as a Banner displayed and there is greater honour in that then the world can reflect dishonour upon your for so doing Consid 3 Thirdly 1 Pet. 4.14 consider the spirit of glory rests upon you not the spirit of grace onely but of glory also not for a little tyme but to rest yea and that for ever Consid 4 Fourthly consider you have assurance of a name in heaven and therefore may willingly goe through dishonour on earth Your reproaches are Christs reproaches Remember your names are written in heaven and Christs raggs are better then the worlds Robes and seeing you have a name in the court what matter though you have none in the country Consid 5 Fifthly 1 Pet. 1.7 your Tryalls will be found for praise and honour and glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ The wicked shall leave their names for a curse unto my chosen for the Lord God shal slay thee and call his servants by another name Isa 65.15 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royall Diadem in the hand of the God Isa 62.3 The Lord hath promised to wipe away the rebuke of his people and there shall be never a blott to blurr their faces The day is shortly comming in which wicked men shall answer for all their hard usages of and speeches to the people of God Dan. 12. â— 3 Math. 2.34 The wicked that are in the highest state in the world shall rise at the last day to everlasting shame and you to everlasting honour Ye shall shine as the Sun in the Kingdome of your father The shouldier is not ashamed of his marks and scarrs he receives in the wars but looks upon them as so many badges of honour so the reproaches you meet with are but as so many badges of honour all the scarrs yee meet with in the way of holyness are as so many marks of honour put upon you and if you confess Christ before men he will confess you before his father and before the holy Angels And O Christians here is a good target against reproaches do but maintaine your innocency and then you can never be made miserable by the Judgments of others Third proposition is this That the name of Christ is the cause and great occasion of all the sufferings that befall the Children of God Doct. 3 The name of Christ they rejoyced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name You shall saith our Saviour be hated for my name sake Math. 24.9 All these things will they doe unto you for my names sake John 15.21 There 's the ground of wicked mens malice against the saints the profession of Christ is the butt of persecution for that is thee imply'd some suffer the loss of Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters houses and lands for my names sake saith Christ It 's not for their sin that Gods people suffer from the world but for their grace could they conforme to the world could they drink and be drunk swear and blaspheme live riotously and loosly the world would hug them in their Armes and embrace them with their dearest affection They think it a strange thing 1 Pet. 4.3 you run not with them to the same excess of ryot This expression for his name sake may have a double reference Refer 1 First As it is the reason of the tolerableness of the Saints sufferings Christs name being in their sufferings that bears them up under them their love to Christs name puts them upon accepting of sufferings so joyfully 2 Cor. 12.10 Therefore I take pleasure in reproaches in necessities in infirmities in distresses for Christs That is that which ingages a Christian in and encourages him under sufferings and as sufferings for righteousness distinguish a Saint from the wicked so will respect to Christs Name distiguish a Saint from a Hypocrite for although I should give all my goods to the poor a universall almes and my body to be burned yet if I had not charity al were nothing therefore for thy sake saith the Church we are killed all the day long wee are accounted as sheep for the slaughter But Refer 2 Secondly I will understand it as the reason of the worlds infliction of reproaches and persecutions upon the people of God what ever the world pretend it is for Christs sake for some thing of Christ with in them that they hold forth that they hate them for Therefore the afflictions that befall them are called the afflictions of the Ghospel Tim. 2.1 It is a great ground of comfort to the saints that it is for Christ's and his Gospel's sake that they suffer Doe not they blaspheme James 2.7 that worthy name by the which ye are called It was the name of Christ that worthy name they delt with them for It was upon that account they measured out this measure unto them The world can't come up to the pitch of holyness the Saints doe and they going beyond the common pace of Civility Morality and Hypocrisie the Dogs barke at them Noah condemned the old world by his righteousness the world praise and cannonize the dead saints but can't endure to see them that are living but hunt after their precious lives If one child in the Family have the Fathers indulgence all the rest will hate him So Josephs brethren hated him Gen 49.27 He that is the object of Gods love commonly is the but of the worlds envy therefore the wicked take all the occasions they can against the saints and watch for their haltings they dayly blaspheme the name of God because of his peoples failings Isa 52. v. 5 6. And the most of them are like Tyggers that cannot endure a fragrant scent but will fall upon them that carry it and kill them And if it be so Use 1 First then learn wee a good warrant and just ground of our sufferings Christs name Many are not satisfyed to suffer because they think their sufferings are not for Christs sake be sure your sufferings by for Christs sake else you cannot suffer confortably Use 2 Secondly hence learn the bitter hatred the world have against Christ and his people Religion hath alwayes brought forth the greatest quarrels though it least deserves it I ame

belike Christ not onely in the end and forme but in the means Sin resembles a man to the Devil but sufferings resembles a man to Christ From hence Con âˆ£ sidera âˆ£ tion 1 First consider ye had need look you be right in the way of your profession least while ye suffer for God ye also suffer from God It will be a sad thing to be cast out of earth for making a profession and to be cast out of heaven for making no more then a profession to suffer for Christ here on earth and to suffer from Christ hereafter in Hell to eternity Look that ye be right in your profession and ye will finde comfort in your affliction Con âˆ£ sid 2 Secondly if the saints must suffer from the world then let them not suffer from one another if the beasts of the forrest Psal 22.12 the bulls of Bashan push at them let not the Lambs push one at another Doe they suffer from the world That is no great matter but to suffer from familiar friends is too much If it had been mine enemy saith David I could have born it Psal 55.12 13. and 41.9 v. but it was thou my familiar friend who took sweet councel together c. It is said in a prophesie of Christ Zech. 13.6 v. He was wounded in the house of his friends that augmented the grief Con âˆ£ sid 3 Thirdly let every man then enter the lists of profession but with an expectation of sufferings and afflictions Object The bullet may miss you it 's an ill Battel were none ' scapes Ans But it may hit you as well it 's strange if a man will live godly in Christ Jesus if he don't suffer persecution either by the tongues or by the hands of wicked men It was an excellent speech of the Lord Brook that he that undertakes in the way of Christianity it is a vain thing for him to think of saving any thing but his soul ye may be call'd out to resist unto Blood striveing against sin and as Gods mercy towards the end of the Churches troubles will be sweetest so the Devil's rage will be greatest and though ye have had halcyon dayes of peace and have but the prick of a pin insteed of the point of a sword yee may yet meet with the tail of the storme the worst may be behinde Second proposition is this That reproach and shame is part of Gods peoples sufferings here in the world Doct. 2 It is their portion a peculiarity of the saints to suffer shame for Christs sake They that are highly esteemed with God are commonly cast out with men They lie here oft-tymes among the pots whom God intends for the fairest Cup-board of heavenly glory in the world to come They manifested open indignity to the Apostles two severall wayes by words and by blows reproach before Magistrats is a shame in the worlds Calender Those whom God doe honour one way or another the wicked will dishonour The wickeds spight is against god but Panther-like if they can't reach the person they 'l tear the picture though the consciences of Gods people compurgats them yet the world maks no conscience of condemning Psal 44.13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us A reproach to men on every side hedged in and compassed about with reproaches scandals and slanders Psal 79.4 so Psal 79. v. 4. wee are become a reproach to our neighbours ascorn and a derision to them that are round about us You see the church of God where-ever at one tyme or other were under reproaches Isaac the Son of the promise was scoffed at by Ishmael Gal. 4.29 this is called persecution But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit so it is now Thus it was with holy Job when he was made an out cast by his friends Job 16.8 9. that made of him no more then a Hypocrite He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me he gnasheth upon me with his teeth mine enemy sharpneth his eyes upon me They gaped upon me with their mouth they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully they have gathered themselves together againse me And will ye step a little farther and see David In my adversity they rejoyced c. this was the measure this holy man of God met with in his tyme and the Prophet Isa saith Isa 8.18 that the professers of his tyme were signs and wonders in Israelâ— Zion is an out cast whom no man seeks after an out cast that no man seeks after Jer. 30.17 Lam. 1.7 21. So Jerusalem what she came to be in her distresses They have heard that I sight there is none to comfort me all mine enemies have heard of my trouble they are glad that thou hast done it And this Is common with all the saints for such as are guilty of oppression Lam. 2 15 16. are guilty likewise of Columnies so chap. 2. is this the city of solemnities All that pass by clap their hands at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty the joy of the whole earth All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee they hiss and gnash the teeth they say wee have swallow'd her up certainly this is the day that wee looked for wee have found wee have seen it Thus they please themselves with scoffing at the poor Church and people of God Psal 69.20 Lam. 3.30 Reproaches have broken my heart saith the Psalmist in the person of Christ so Lam The church there saith she gave her cheeks to him that smot her she was filled full i th reproaches Thus both the worship and worshippers of God have been made a reproach in the world The word of the Lord in the prophesie of Jer. 6.10 was a reproach unto that wicked generation Jer. 6.10 to whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear behold the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach they have no delight in it Jer. 20. v. 18. and so chap. 20.18 he speaks again of the reproaches he met withall there he saith he came forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow that his dayes should be consumed with shame The spirit of God tells the Prophet Ezekiel Ezek. 33.30 concerning the children of the people not enemies onely but the children of the people are taking against thee by the wall 's and in the doors of the houses they snarld at the word of the Lord. Thus all the Prophets under the old and Christ and his Apostles under the New Testament have been accounted vilely off Paull call'd a seditious fellow Christ called the Carpenters Son no better title could they afford him And they thought they had hit the bird on the eye when they said have any of the Rulers beleived

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