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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	jesus_n	lord_n	see_v	7,565	5	3.6443	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34542	The remains of the reverend and learned Mr. John Corbet, late of Chichester printed from his own manuscripts.; Selections. 1684	Corbet, John, 1620-1680.	1684 (1684)	Wing C6262; ESTC R2134	198,975	272

is established in the external form sincere worshippers are liable to be persecuted by formal worshippers as in those times of the Jewish Church wherein the true prophets were slain for their testimony by a wicked prevailing power Matt. 23.37 Gal. 4.29 L●t this be improved that upon this account trouble in the world may be the less grievous Set a due value upon peace in Christ and you will set less by trouble in the world Indeed if you live in the enjoyment of that peace you will quietly bear the worlds trouble The soul that is lodged in Christs peace is in a strong hold or incompassed with a strong guard and kept safe and sute against all assaults Phil. 4.7 Secure your selves in this peace by considering what it is It is a peace that passeth all understanding that is the worth of it is incomprehensible for the benefits whence it flows pass all understanding There is included in it pardon of sin deliverance from the wrath to come the favour and friendship of God and fellowship with him and an unchangeable good estate a Kingdom that cannot be shaken and everlasting consolation This is enough to quiet the mind and stablish the heart as it is written 2 Thes 2.16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work You see what is included in Christs peace O●●rize it according to the worth of it and secure your selves in it as in a strong hold by delightful meditation Solace your selves in this peace as in a kind of Paradice For it is that Paradice which God lets his people into upon earth and it is some foretaste and pledg of the Celestial Paradice The Worlds trouble cannot drive you out of this strong hold out of this Garden of God but it is well consistent with it Paul sets forth this inward peace in outward trouble 2 Cor. 4 8. We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed The second head of consolation is that there remaineth a rest to the people of God Heb. 4.9 a perfect and everlasting rest This God will bring his suffering-people to in his righteousness and great faithfulness 2 Thes 1.6 7. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you and to you that are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven This Rest is in your Fathers House in the Heavenly Mansions in the Regions of perfect light and joy the habitation of Angels and blessed Spirits and the residence of the Divine Glory where sin and temptation cannot enter where all danger and fears all suffering and sorrow are shut out for ever Where there is no variableness nor shadow of turning in the Saints felicity because they are before the throne of God and see his face And they shall perfectly know love and enjoy God their Father and J sus their glorified Saviour and they shall dwell for ever at the Fountain of Life and Light and Joy Hallelujahs and triumphant praises shall be their constant employment with such other Services or Ministeries as are proper to the Heavenly state Let this be improved By the eye of Faith look to this everlasting Peace and Joy and set you hearts upon it and then you will be above the tribulation of this world Do this in imitation of your blessed Redeemer of whom it is said Heb. 12 2. that for the joy that was set before him he endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God For the joy that was set before him Look unto this future joy by a lively act of faith as it is the evidence of things not seen and as Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season because he had respect to the recompence of reward so let us do and consider with Paul how this light affliction that is but for a moment worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 Wherefore stir up your faith in the promises of Christ that it may act in a lively manner A lively faith hath a reaching sight it can see into the third Heaven And the more you fix upon this object the clearer sight you will have of it A fixed meditation on the heavenly glory strengthens the eye of faith While we look at the things which are not seen 2 Cor. 4.18 The word imports As Shooters look at the mark with a fixed earnestness As we should look to this blessed and everlasting rest by the eve of faith so we should labour to ensure our right and t●tle to it to have such good evidence for it as will not fail and to have it as clear as it can be had This assurance will set our hearts at rest in all the shakings of this world and we shall thereby be quiet from the fear of evil and shall have patience in the greatest trials This will set us above the tormenting fear of death and free us from that bondage Being assured of that blessed state to come we may welcome death in its approaches And in case we be above the slavish fear of death what can we not bear For we know the time is but short and we are waiting for the end Then bodily sickness and pains will signifie to us our approaching blessedness then bloody persecutions and fiery trials do but call us up from earth to heaven then poverty and nakedness bonds and imprisonments banishments and all kinds of distresses and dangers tell us we are thereby hastening to our final state and the nearer it comes the more we may rejoice as knowing that we are the nearer to our salvation The third Head of Consolation follows viz. That the tribulation to which believers are liable is but in the world it is confined to this world and terminated in this life Should we think it hard to suffer in such a world as this In a world all the glory whereof is but as grass and the flower of the field and as a scene or shew that passeth away and all the state of it is at the best but vanity and vexation of spirit In a world which lies in wickedness which for the greater part of it is led by the wisdom that is earthly sensual and devillish which in respect of the malignity prevailing in it is as the suburbs of Hell and in which so many men are as Devils one to another In a world which God hath appointed for a purgatory to the best of men that are in it and to whom at the best it is but a state of trial to humble them and to prove them that they may be fitted for a better world In a world wherein the children of God are maligned and scorned wherein they of whom the world was not worthy were destitute afflicted and tormented and wherein the Prince of Life and Lord of Glory himself was crucified In a world where n hypocrites and false Christians reproach the Name of Christ by their unchristian conversation and open the mouth● of his professed enemies to blaspheme him and wherein sincere Christians through weakness of grace and strength of corruption and by yeilding to temptation too often grieve the Holy Spirit and dishonour the Name of God and lay a stumbling-block before others Should we think it hard usage to have a share of sufferings appointed us in such a world as this Let this be improved Consider we what is the true state of this vain and evil world that we may comfort our selves in that we do not receive our good things in it but undergo hardships and so have the lot of Lazarus and not of Dives to whom it was said Luke 16 25. Remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and Lazarus evil things now he is comforted and thou art tormented Let it comfort us I say that God hath not given us our portion of good in such a wretched world but hath reserved it for us in a better and that here amidst our sorrows he hath given us the first fruits of happiness Let it be considered That if tribulation were not most expedient in this present world he that is infinitely powerful wise and good would not appoint it for his dear children If the present state of things and the condition of this world did not require it as best all things considered it would not be Therefore concerning this appointment look not to your own thoughts but consider as the heaven is high above the Earth so is Gods thoughts herein above your thoughts and his ways above your ways Isa 55.9 His understanding is infinite and his mercy hath no end and his faithfulness reacheth beyond our comprehension Be comforted that in this dark World you are in his hand who wishes better to you than you to your selves and who knows better how to dispose of you than your selves do Tho we are now in darkness He will bring us forth to the light and we shall behold his righteousness Mic. 7.9 We are under afflictive providences but in a dark and dismal World light of perfect joy is reserved for us in the regions of light