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A08488	Sions teares leading to ioy: or The vvaters of Marah sweetned First preached at Clonenagh in the Queenes County in seuerall sermons, and now published for the benefite of the Church. By Ri: Olmstead, minister of Gods word, and Master of Arts.	Olmstead, Richard.	1630 (1630)	STC 18811; ESTC S120808	86,010	266

there greater losses befall a man then losse of wife children c Answ The world thinkes no but it is sure many haue and the dearest childe of God may and to turne the edge of our griefe and sorrow a taste whereof I will giue you in these few particular instances A man is neuer worse spoyled then when his soule suffers spirituall losses Iob his losses by the Sabeans and Shabeans was great but theirs are infinitely greater 1. That lose the good seede sowen in their hearts as the most do l Mat. 13.19 whensoeuer a man heareth the word of the kingdome and vnderstandeth it not the euill one commeth and catcheth away that which was sowen in his heart and so hee betrayeth the seede of Gods Word into the hands of the deuill Oh how many lose the benefite of many a Sermon and bewaile it not 2. That lose the Kingdome of God in losing the meanes of the Kingdome the ministery of the Word by which an entrace is made into the Kingdome of Grace and by which they are built vp and stablished in that Kingdome m Mal. 21.43 The Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and giuen to a Nation that shall bring forth the fruit thereof How many weepe and wring their handes for the losse of these earthly things this Mammon but can liue without meanes to saue their soules and neuer shedde a teare for the want thereof Oh those blessed times of Hierome when his mouth was stopped the people cryed out It had beene better the Sun had beene plucked out of the firmament 3. That lose their first loue which sometimes they had so threatned by our Sauiour n Apoc. 2.4 I haue somewhat against thee because thou hast lost thy first loue 4. That lose what they haue wrought euen all that they haue done throughout their life because they haue not been done of faith and therefore Iohn giues this caution o 2 Iohn 8. Looke to your selues that wee lose not the things we haue done but that wee may receiue a full reward c. that is some take paines about the way to a better life but labour not aright therefore lose all and themselues 5. That lose the presence of God not the presence of his effence wherein Moses was singular but the presence of his grace and signes of his fauour mercy which the Lord himselfe threatens to take from Ephraim p Nos 5.15 I will goe and returne to my place till they acknowledge their sinnes and seeke me in their affliction they will seeke me diligently 6. That lose the taste of the life to come q Hab. 6.2 as the Aurhour to the Hebrewes sayth and all those seeming graces which sometimes they had 7. That lose the joyes of their saluation r Hs 51.13 which Dauid did as in his dolefull prayer hee expresseth Restore me to the ioy of thy saluation c. questionles it is so to many a childe of God for a time to their great sorrow and heauinesse 8. That lose the stability and stedfastnesse of their faith ſ Ps 51.12 as Dauid for howsoeuer it is a truth that faith cannot bee totally and finally lost yet the stedfastnes thereof hath beene and may be in the best of Gods seruants 9. That haue lost those things they had sometimes in spiritual things t Mat. 13.12 Let this be no wonder for as touching degree it may be and is true in sundry of Gods seruants though it is not true of the graces themselues 10. Most of all that lose their crowne which is either in the hypocrite leauing his perseuerance u Apoc. 3.11 or in Gods Childe growing colde and carelesse But alas this is not the true sorrow for of this worldly sorrow the Apostle sayth it w 2 Cos. 7.10 brings death both temporal and eternall so far is it from bringing life or grace 2. The second state of natural sorrowes far enough from this blessed sorrow which will bring consolation is the sorrow of the scandalized or melancholie which the Apostle Paul speaketh of in the whole fourteenth Chapter and beginning of the fifteenth of his Epistle to the Romanes calling him by the name of the weake Christiau but indeede because many are deceiued in this sorrow and lose their soules and many also thinke the godly sorrow to bee but sicknes passion conceit or melancholy and because it changeth the body often they thinke it ariseth from the body but there is no disease like to this for symptomes and torments and therefore here I will consider two things 1. The difference betwixt godly sorrow fits of melancholy 2. How it comes to passe that this sicknesse being in the soule yet often it infeebleth the body Touching the first there are foure differences 1 They all are naturall whether it proceede from the corruption of the bloud vniversally or the bloud in the braine onely ingendred through inflammation and euill affect about the stomacke and sides which are all distinguished by Physitians by their causes and symptomes which in some are almost incredible and strange but this is supernaturall a plant of Gods owne planting that it is so needes no other reason to proue it then that God commands it for naturall things neede no commandement is a ruled ax●ome in divinity 2. They from the constitution of the body but this is from the constitution of the soule 3. In melancholy the humors first and then the imagination but in this sorrow the conscience first and the hu●ors after are affected to the weakning wasting of the body 4. They euen all kindes may be cured by naturall remedies medicines bringing nature to his right temper all naturall medicines vnder Heauen cannot cure this sicknes yet I confesse that sometimes these are mixed together sicknesse of the body and the minde and then is it hard to cure the one without the other but the cure must be indeauoured by spirituall bodily helpes continually 2 That the body is oft infeebled by the sicknesse of the minde is because of the neere conjunction sympathy and vnion of them both being vnited in one person for the soule possessed with feare sorrow languishing and heauinesse it is not possible that the body can take any delight in naturall and bodily comfort the sleepe will be short not so briefe as troublesome and tempestuous meates and drinkes shall bee tastelesse or loathsome or mingled with teares as Dauid sayth x Psal 102.4 I forgate to eate my bread the vse of wife children house lands c. shal be vncōfortable to him for the naturall vitall and animall spirits being all distempered by the soule which as Salomon sayth y Prov 18.14 the spirits of a man will sustaine his infirmities that is all naturall infirmities sicknesses losses molestations but when these fayle in the want of the consolations of God what shall vp-hold him 2. It comes to passe by the righteous

both graces of Gods Spirit and are not like sire and water exhalations and vapours but they conserue and preserue each other yea increase one another Griefe euen for sin must not swallow vs vp ouerwhelme vs the Apostle would haue the incestuous Corinth comforted ● Cor. 2.7 when humbled lest hee should be swallowed vp of ouermuch heauinesse It must not cause vs to forget the consolation which speakes to vs m Neh. 12.5 as Children nor cause vs breake or violate the charge which GOD giues n Phil. 4 4. Reioyce alwayes againe I say reioyce so that howsoeuer it is true that earnall sorrow and ioy can not be in the heart at one ●nne yet spiritual joy and sorrow may and must though in diuerse respects this made the Apostles Paul and o Acts 16.25 Doctor Ridly Iohn Baynam M. Glouer Sylas sing in prison and the Martyrs to goe to the stake as to a feast and accompt it as their marriage to sing in the flames as in a bed of downe clap their hands with joy in the sence of Christs presence and euen in their sorrow for speciall sinnes there is cause of joy for Faith perswades the heart of the remission and pardon of them the pacification of Gods wrath and so appeaseth and quieteth the cry and blustering of the conscience If this be true what shall wee say of the sorrow of such as will not heare of any consolation to whom I may say with Iob Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee or though they seeme not little in their eyes yet they refuse all comfort and turne off the promises as if they pertained not to them I am tenderly affected in my judgment as also in my affections towards such as are in sits of temptation desertion and melancholy yet this I say their griefe is not right and therefore let them be aduised looke that the object bee true which is God offended and 〈◊〉 ued for himselfe without which they torment and vexe themselues all their liues and finde little comfort for whom my daily prayers shall bee that our most louing and gracious Father euen the God of all comfort will vouchsafe vnto them the Spirit of illumination of saith and consolation Thus of the third signe 4. Vbi 〈◊〉 detor desici● p●ni●●tia August de vera p●●it cap. 13. Symptome of this godly sorrow is the continuance of it it s neuer dryed vp or is totally extinct in the heart so saith Augustine Where sorrow ceaseth repentance ceaseth to the which also the speach of Paul is pregnant q 2 Cor. 7.10 Godly sorrow causeth repentance neuer to be repented of and this wil appeare euidently by these reasons 1. Reason The examples of Gods servants in the sacred history as of of Iob r Iob 4.6 Therefore I abhorre my selfe in dust and ashes ſ Psal 6.2.3.32 3.51.1 c. Dauid is oft and wonderfull in this as appeares in all his penitentials Iosiah when he heard the Booke of the Law t 2 King ●● 11.12.13 Rent his clothes his heart also wept sent to Huldah the prophetesse to inquire of the Lord for himselfe his people u Mar. 1● 7● Peter when his Master looked vpon him with the eye of his blessed compastion went out saith the text and vvept bitterly And Paul all these were persons truely conuerted and yet this grace of godly sorrow was neuer extinct or abolished in thē 2. This true spirituall gracious godly sorrow is neuer wanting wholly because the cause thereof which is sin neuer ceaseth but so long as we carry about vs these earthly tabernacles and bodies of flesh wee also must of necessitie carry with it a bodie of sinne and corrupt on which will cause vs also cry out with the Apostle w Rom. 7 1● O wretched man that I am 3. Because the roote and branch of which it immediatly springs is faith and loue neyther of which is euer deficient in this life therefore the fruite also is indeficient and reneweth oft yea euen vpon all occasions and therefore such persons as flatter themselues in their first sorrow at their seeming conuersion and neuer feele any operation thereof afterward but giue themselues to securitie yea though they fall into horrible grosse sins that iustly occasion a large measure of renewed humiliation and yet can beare it out and be pleasant are to consider that temporary faith hath legall sorrow and deepe wounding of the heart by the law but after they once receiue some seeming comfort by the promises they grow jocund and merry and put off all with a conceite of that first humiliation but let all flesh know and tremble before God when they bring their hearts vpō the anuill of through examination and finde not this blessed grace of humiliation continue it was neuer sound nor had they euer that true joy which is the blessed immediate fruite thereof To these I might adde that repentance is a continued act all a mans life and without it no hope of remission of sins and this repentance springs x 2. Cor. 7.9 from godly sorrow and lastly God hath in his wisedome appointed that the true beleeuers should not onely as y 2. King 5 3● Naaman the Assyrian wash in Iordan seauen times for the cleansing of his Ieprosie but sinne is such a renewing leprosie that requires washing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all a mans life and this is one of those duties of mortification euen those chrystaline streames and fountaines that the eternal hath in his wisedome appointed vs to wash in for our cleansing and there is not a man vpon earth hath euer had or shall haue any true comfort in the assurance of remission and pardon of any one knowne sinne which hee doth not bewayle with godly sorrow confesse particularly and priuatly to God and pray yea begge importune and cry vnto God for remission as for life death let the blind world doteing hypocrite or carnall Protestant think or speake what they will to the contrary 5. True godly sorrow as it begins in God and hath his blessed Maiestie the Author of it being a plant of his sacred planting and a supernaturall grace gift of his spirit I may say of it as Salomon of the waters z Eccles they all come from the Sea by the influence operation of the Sun so they all goe to the sea againe So this godly sorrow wheeles about and ends in God and not onely leads to God as the sorrow of the a Luk. 15.17 Prodigall when hee came to himselfe for he was mad and out of his wits before as euery vnregenerate man is forced him to goe to his Father with teares in his eyes repentance in his heart confession in his mouth I vvill goe to my father say Father I haue sinned against heauen before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne c. but also ends in God and