Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	bring_v	fruit_n	hear_v	1,814	5	5.7887	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02744	A cordiall for the afflicted Touching the necessitie and utilitie of afflictions. Proving unto us the happinesse of those that thankfully receive them: and the misery of all that want them, or profit not by them. By A. Harsnet, B.D. and Minister of Gods word at Cranham in Essex.	Harsnett, Adam, 1579 or 80-1639.	1638 (1638)	STC 12874; ESTC S114895	154,371	676

forth the daughter but as a tradesman bringeth forth his wares and shewes them to others what they are or rather as the Sun in the spring bringeth forth hearbs and fruits by its working influence For first of all faith perswades the heart that the cause of all evill that befalls us lieth in our owne bosomes our sins as you have heard are the ground of all and therefore if wee will be angry with any body it should be with our sinnes Secondly faith perswades us as you shall heare anon that God in afflicting of us loves us and deales with us as a father with that child in whom he delights Nay a father may somtime bee transported with passion and correct his childe above measure laying on that in his heat which in his cool blood he doth heartily wish were off againe Whereas our heavenly Father is so wise as he puts not in one dramme of any ingredient more then shall serve the turne and need requireth A third and last helpe unto patience is Heavenly-mindednesse or the setting our affection on things that are above and not on things which are on the earth Col. 3.2 For he that immoderately and inordinately loves the world and earthly things will bee impatient at the losse of them How waspish and impatient was Ionah for the withering of his Gourd even so much that hee durst tell the Lord to his face that he did well to be angry unto the death Ion. 4.9 Our blinde judgements making a false report unto our affections of these outward things wee come to set them at too high a rate and so grow impatient at the losse of them Whereas if wee did esteem them as the wise man reports them to be and as they are in truth that is nothing Pro. 23.5 wee would be lesse moved with the losse of them There is a kind of venom in worldly things to puffe up and swell the heart of a man By thy wisdome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches Ezek. 28.5 Now when trouble and affliction comes to encounter with a proud heart every veine swells and the heart rebells and breaks out into impatience and they can not beare it And the greater their tryalls are the more do they fret and fume as a running water the greater the flood and stream is the more doth it foame and roare where there be any arches to withstand it And now that wee may be willing to take the more paines to be furnished with patience I will lay down a few priviledges which wee shall partake of through patience every one of them a strong motive to stirre us up to labour for patience First by the helpe of patience wee shall be the better able to manage those gifts and graces which God shall endow us withall Patience keeps the mind in such a stayed and setled temper that wee shall be able to manage and direct our selves in all our straights and advise and counsell others in their doubts and difficulties By our patience wee possesse our soules Luk. 21.19 Wee enjoy and command our selves for impatience puts a man out and makes to be beside himselfe By faith wee possesse Christ by love wee possesse our neighbor yea our enemie and by patience wee possesse our selves He hath but a weak hold of Christ or of his neighbor that hath no hold or command of himselfe An impatient person is as one out of the way or as a bone dislocated and out of joynt What stabilitie can be where Patience sits not at the stern to direct and govern A ship that rides at sea well ballanced is steddy and so proves comfortable unto the Passengers that bee abord her whereas an unballanced vessell reels like a drunken man and tumbles too and fro with every little gale and blast of wind and so make those weary if not sick that be in her How sick must that soul needs be whom troubles and afflictions the waves and billows of this world a raging and tempestuous sea through the want of patience the stearsman do tumble up and down and are disquiet Where patience is there is quietnesse because patience brings a Christians minde unto his estate when his estate and condition cannot suite with his minde Secondly Patience will conforme thee unto Christ and make thee a compleat Christian Let patience have her perfect worke that ye may be perfect and entire lacking nothing Jam. 1.4 That soul which wants no patience wants nothing for patience is able to supply all wants and make up all defects A patient and contented mind is rich and hee that is rich cannot want unlesse he will Thirdly patience will make thee to be a profitable entertainer of Gods Word it will make thee fruitfull in Christianitie the honest and good heart brings forth fruit with patience Luk. 8.15 So many evills there bee to encounter goodnesse so many oppositions and reproaches to nip if not blas● good beginnings so many troubles to attend Pietie and godlinesse so many principalities and powers and spirituall wickednesse in high places to stop our course and to interrupt us in our holy profession that without patience little or no fruit will appeare in our lives and conversations Fourthly patience wil make thy life comfortable whatsoever thy afflictions be Thou art armed with mettall of proof no dart of Satan no malice of the world can wound thy soul if patience have got the keeping of it Outward calamities and afflictions may make a great noise about thine eares as hailstones falling thick upon the tyles over thy head keep a great ratling but cannot come neere to hurt thee So afflictions may rattle about thine eares but patience shelters thee from receiving any hurt by them Let thy afflictions be never so mischievous and noxious in themselves they shall not prove so to thee If patience possesse thy soul so many afflictions as befall thee will fall out to be so many arguments of Gods love so many consolations unto thee especially if they be such as wee undergoe for Christ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation aboundeth through Christ 2. Cor. 1.5 Misery it selfe shall not be able to make thee miserable for patience is a most soveraigne antidote and preservative against the venom of any affliction which can betide thee Vse 4 Fourthly is it so that all our afflictions come from God then here is a ground of comfort and matter of rejoycing in affliction not that we have ministred matter and occasion unto the Lord to chastise us but in that having sinned against the Lord hee will take the rod into his hand and have the ordering of that affliction which befalls us For nothing as hath been said can bee in which our heavenly Father hath not a chiefe stroke before it can be brought to passe The consideration whereof as it should settle and quiet us so should it minister much comfort unto us