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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	2,561	5	5.4411	4	false

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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. ● 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