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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	death_n	life_n	time_n	3,791	5	3.4595	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65767	The reward of Christian patience as it was discover'd in a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Badland, a nonconforming minister at Kedderminster / by R. White ...	White, Richard, b. 1636.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1803; ESTC R38599	12,178	32

more than 't is possible for Death to become Life Hence 't is suitably called an Inheritance Incorruptible Vndefiled that Fadeth not away 1. Pet. 1.4 Those that shall possess this Crown are Immortal in their Souls and shall be made Immortal in their Bodies that God whose enjoyment makes Heaven is the God who is yesterday and to day and the same for ever who only hath Immortality and there shall be an everlasting Union between God who is to be enjoyed and the Souls that are once admitted to the enjoyment of him in Heaven from whence it must needs follow that the Happiness to be enjoyed by the Saints in Heaven is indeed a Crown of Life an Everlasting Crown an Inheritance that never fadeth away But 2. We have in these Words further the reason the Apostle gives why so it is That they that endure Temptation shall enjoy the Crown of Life and that consists in the last words 't is no other then what God hath promised to them that Love Him If they that Love God above all and take him for their Portion and Everlasting Resting Place shall enjoy this Crown of Life if God who is true to his Word and faithful to his Promise hath promised this Crown to all such then certainly it will follow that they who endure Temptation shall enjoy this Crown for they that endure Temptation that is that choose Suffering and Persecution yea Death it self rather then wilful Sin and that do eye God by Faith and Patience and quietly submit to the Divine Will in all their Sufferings these must needs be Persons who do truly Love God above all and have chosen him for their everlasting Portion and Blessedness and therefore they must needs be the Persons that shall enjoy the Crown of Life But 3. And lastly We have further in these Words the limitation of Time when such Persons shall come to the enjoyment of this Crown of Life after they are tried for when he is tried he shall receive the Crown of Life After that his Faithfulness hath been tried and approved by Afflictions and Persecutions and Temptations after it hath been made appear that his Trials and Temptations could not prevail with him to forsake God and Apostatize from him then he shall receive the Crown of Life This is the usual way and method of God even that way which he appointed for his own Son to make the Cross to be the way to the Crown to try his Servants first by Afflictions and Sufferings and then to receive them to Glory and give them the Crown of Life but when this is done when he hath sufficiently tried and exercised his Servants and he alone knows when this is sufficiently done then they shall receive the Crown of Life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him which is the last Consideration whence it doth appear that such Persons as do thus endure Afflictions and Temptations are happy and blessed Persons Now lastly For the Use and Improvement of what hath been spoken 1. It teacheth us how to behave our selves with relation to Afflictions and Persecutions which we may meet with in the course of our Lives on the one hand we should not court them or run our selves wilfully into them that 's unwarrantable because at best they are Trials and Temptations apt to shake our Constancy and to hurry us into some measure of Sin against God On the other hand we should not be over much prejudic'd against them but rather choose Afflictions and Persecutions then a course of known and wilful Sin and when we are under Afflictions behave ourselves with that Patience and quiet Submission to the Will of God which becomes Persons that live by Faith and not by Sense meerly the reason of all this is plain because that Afflictions when thus chosen and endured do but prepare and fit the Soul for eternal Happiness and Blessedness he is the blessed Man that thus endureth Temptation for when he hath been tried he shall receive the Crown of Life We may hence comfort our selves with relation to the death and departure of such Friends who having it may be been exercised with great Afflictions and Temptations yet have endured them have submitted with any good measure of Patience to the Will of God in them and this from a Principle of Repentance and Faith in the Mercy of God thro' Christ concerning such we have much reason to comfort our selves with hopes that by their death they are entred into a State of Blessedness that God having sufficiently tried them and purified them in the Furnace of Affliction hath suitably by Death received them to that Place and State wherein they enjoy the Crown of Life which the Lord hath promised to them that Love Him More particularly there seems to be in the Words a clear representation of the Case of our deceased Friend as will appear more fully in these following particulars 1. He was one that hath for many Years been Tutored by God in the School of Affliction it hath been his Portion to be exercised with many Trials and Temptations besides several Afflictions that are more ordinary he hath for several Years been exercised and of late more frequently than in former times by those two severe Diseases the Stone and the Gout of which we may say that whereas Diseases are wont to be distinguisht ordinarily into such as are Acute such as are Sharp in the pains that attend them but not of any long continuance and such as are Cronical of long continuance but not attended with such Sharp pains yet these Diseases may be esteemed to be both Acute and Cronical too Sharp in their pains and long in their duration and continuance His last Fit of the Stone that which brought on that weakness which ended in Death was such as had both the forementioned Circumstances in it being long even extended to the length of about Eleven days together and very Acute too being full of Sharp Pains and Dolours and at least as some have thought his other Disease the Gout did at last take its turn as it was usual formerly and as 't is supposed by peircing into his Bowels put an end to all his Pains and Dolours by putting an end to his Life But 2. Let us consider for our own Edification as well as for his Honour his Behaviour under all those Afflictions which he laboured under 1. As for his Behaviour under those great pains which he was frequently visited with besides the known and exemplary Holiness and regularity of his Life for many Years in this place of which all of you are sufficient Witnesses and his constant attendance upon his Ministry when at any time free from those forementioned Distempers yea and sometimes even when under the sense and feeling of those pains in some lesser degree That which I would especially recommend to your consideration and imitation is his signal Patience under all his great dolours and his biting them in as it were