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A14032	An exposition vpon the canonicall Epistle of Saint Iames with the tables, analysis, and resolution, both of the whole epistle, and euerie chapter thereof: with the particular resolution of euerie singular place. Diuided into 28. lectures or sermons, made by Richard Turnbull, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christie Colledge in Oxford· now preacher and minister of the word of God and the holy Sacraments, in the citie of London.	Turnbull, Richard, d. 1593.	1591 (1591)	STC 24339; ESTC S118931	472,056	683

length of daies from seede time to haruest shall not christians looking for immortall fruite of their patience settle their hearts so that neither multitude of troubles nor waight of miseries nor grieuousnes of oppressions nor number of iniuries shal be able to dawnte and disquiet them be yee therefore patient and settle your hearts saith the Apostle And in the manifold afflictions of this life the harts Mēs minds settled in affections minds of Gods Saints are sundrie waies settled 1. Our hearts are settled in our afflictions by the sweete promises we haue from God of our deliuerance who hath promised to deliuer the righteous out of troubles and such a● put their trust in him Dauid thereof saith Many are Psal 34. the troubles of the righteous but the Lorde deliuereth out of all In another place to like purpose the saluation Psal 37. of the righteous is of the Lorde hee shal be their strength in time of trouble Therefore almighty GOD Psal 5● saith to his people call vpon me in the day of thy trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie mee The Prophete exhorting men to settle themselues to rest Psal 36. 91. 15. and relie vpon God in their miseries yea in all thinges giueth this counsell from the promise of God commit thy cause or thy way vnto the Lord and trust in him and he shall bring it to passe He will bring foorth thy righteousnesse as the light and thy iudgements as the noone day Thus hath God promised to defend our cause to restore vs to our right and in our miseries to deliuer vs therfore ought we therby to settle our mindes God saith 1. Cor. 10. Paul is faithful which wil not suffer vs to be tempted aboue our strength but wil giue the issue with the tētatiō that we may bear it And S. Peter The Lord knoweth how 2. Pet. 2. to deliuer the godly out of tentation Seeing then wee haue such sweete promises of deliueraunce out of troubles therefore therein ought we to be patient and to settle our mindes vpon these promises that the Lorde will deliuer vs in due time from all afflictions and finallie washe away all teares from our eyes as the Scripture teacheth 2. As by the promises of our deliuerance our hearts or settled through patience in our oppression so also ought they to be settled in the experience we haue of the power of God in the deliuerance of the righteous If we looke to others or our selues we shall finde experience triall of this truth whereby our heartes ought in all our miseries to be settled Hath not God deliuered Moses and Exod. 14. Israell his people from the armie of Pharao when the red sea was before them hard sharpe rockes on both sides the enemie at their heeles following so that their state was daungerous What did not God deliuer Dauid from 1. King 18 19. 20. 21. 23. 24. sundry attempts of Saul who sought by many waies his vtter confusion for which cause he so often praiseth God for his deliuerance as the booke of Psalmes therewith is replenished and full Was not Hezechiah the godly king deliuered Psal 18. 23. 27. 86. 144. 4. Kings 19 mightily by God from the powre and armie of Sennacherib into whose iawes God put his bitte bridle and ledde him away into his owne countrie by a rumour of inuision that vvas brought him and by the destruction of his armie by the Angell of God Did he not deliuer the Israelites out of the hands of the Philistines other their enemies which often and long time had them in subiection as the booke of Iudges of Samuell recordeth When the Aramites had besieged Samaria therfore Iudges 1. Samu. 4. Kings 7. the people Prince and countrie in great distresse by famine and perill by reason of the enemie was it not deliuered miraculously by God who caused the Aramites to heare a noyse of horses and charrets vvherewith they terrified fledde and lefte their prouision behind them Was not Iehosaphat by him deliuered both in the battle 3. Kings 22 in Ramoth Gilead and also from the Moabites Amorites and Amalachites which ioyned battle against him hath he not deliuered infinite other his holy Saints from 2. Chron. 22 their oppressions afflictions and troubles they haue suffered if wee seeke experience in our selues vvhich of See Psalm 61. v. 4. 63. v. 7. 91. 4. vs is it vvhom at one time or another God hath not deliuered eyther from peril by lande or by sea at home or abroade eyther from oppression and iniuries of open enemies or daungers of counterfaite friendes either from griefe of minde of sickenesse of bodie eyther from spoyle of goods or perill of life by the wicked Seeing therefore we haue this triall and experience of Gods helpe in our oppressions shall we not therein be patient and settle our hearts 3. Neither thus onely are our hearts settled in our miseries but also when we cast our eies vpō the crowne of glory which we shall receaue the glorious hope whereof we shal be pertakers if we endure with patience we should settle and quiet our mindes in our miseries Thus Paul exhorting the Romanes to settle their hearts and in their Rom. 8. afflictions which by the example of Christ they should suffer comforting them telleth them that the sufferings of this their mortall and temporall life are not to be compared to the glory which should be reuealed to the sonnes of God And in like manner to the Church of Corinth the 2. Cor. 4. momentanie afflictions which are for a season cause vnto vs a far more excellent eternall waight of glory while we look not to things which are seen but to things which are not seene for the things which are seene are temporal but the things which are not seene are eternall Our Sauiour Heb. 12. Christ settled his hart vpō the hope he had of the glorious crowne wherof he should be partaker By whose example S. Paul exhorteth vs also to endure with patience the afflictiōs of this life run with setled minds the race which is set before vs looking vnto Iesus the authour and finisher of the faith Who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse and dispised the shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God This crowne is giuen the Saints after their miseries here be ended and they are made partakers of the promises after the troubles of this life are finished whereunto hauing an earnest regard and casting their eyes continually thereby their hearts and mindes are settled so that these miseries and afflictiōs are mightily borne of them vnder the burden whereof they are not greatly disquieted As in the Apostles the holy martyrs and many other of the chosen Sonnes of God is apparent 4. Finally our hearts in afflictions are settled when we record and recount often the

greatly broken when he roared for very griefe of his heart Daniel the holy Saint and man of God in like manner Dan. 9. afflicted and chastised himselfe with sackcloth fasting and ashes for his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the people Thus haue the Saints of God done thus must all they doe which feare God by true repentance of their heartes and true mortification of their liues chastise themselues which is the suffering of affliction which the Apostle here teacheth Suffer afflictions This place nothing fauoureth their heresie which holde that they ought to beate themselues with scourges Iesuites and Papists for that it did more put away sinne then any confession Which their doating follie they compared with martyrdome Of which sect of heretiques Alphonsus speaketh Who because they scourged themselues were called Flagellarij or Flagellantes se beating themselues Alphonsus de Castro lib. 2. cont heresis Whose heresie hath patronage neither in the olde nor in the newe testament neither of man nor woman in all the whole Scripture commended Neither must it foster the foolish opinion of wicked Iesuites and popish persons who for vaine-glorie for opinion of desert and merite at the hand of God at certaine times scourge and beate themselues in like maner But of that popish practise we haue no example either of holy Patriarch Prince or Prophet either of blessed Apostle Euangelist or Martyr neither of man woman or saint whatsoeuer in Scripture mentioned neither any commaundement counsell or exhortation either in the olde or in the new testament neither from God Christ the Prophets or Apostles of Iesus Christ neither finde we any iote title sillable in all the worde of God therefore is that practise as drawen from heretiques condemned and disallowed Here the chastising of our selues the suffering of affliction by the Apostle specified is the vnfained repentaunce of our hearts for sinnes cōmitted our true humiliation before God for the same which S. Iames here commendeth vnto vs suffer affliction 2. The way whereby this our humbling and chastising of our selues is performed is also here expressed and it is in foure thinges which are as signes and tokens of the true chastening of our selues before God 1 Men shewe their chastising in their sorrowe and heauines of heart which is not the least token of afflicting Signes of this outward affliction our selues and of our suffering affliction prescribed by the Apostle which is the inseperable companion of our true repentance before God This sorrowing and heauines of our heartes is that contrite spirite that humbled and broken heart which Psal 51. 2. Cor. 7. is a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant before God Which sorrowe Saint Paul commendeth euen that sorow which leadeth to repentance not to be repented of I now reioyce saith hee not that you sorrowed but that you 1. Cor. 5. sorrowed to repentance This godly sorrow Saint Paul required in the Corinthians for that they had tollerated the incestuous adulterer ye are puft vp and haue not rather sorrowed that he that hath done this deed might be put from among you This is that inward grife of the Saints which in their hearts they conceiue for their sinnes committed agaynst God and thereby shewe their afflicting and chastising of themselues before him Thus holy Dauid by vnfeyned sorrowe for his sinnes committed shewed himselfe humbled and afflicted before God as both in the storie and in his Psalme of lamentable repentance is affirmed Manasses 2. Kin. 12. Psal 51. 2. Chron. 33. hauing done manie things agaynst God to despite the Lorde withall being caried away into captiuitie humbled himselfe and afflicted himselfe by repentance which in his sorrow and griefe he conceyued appeared Marie Magdalen chastising and afflicting herselfe for sinne by repentance gaue manifest token thereof in the great sorrowe which she shewed herselfe to haue conceyued euen in the presence of Iesus Christ Saint Peter hauing denied his maister shewed himselfe to haue bene Mat. 26. therefore chastened in conceiuing such great griefe and heauines of heart as forced him to go out of the iudgement hall which was the house of the high priest and to weepe bittetly Thus the holy men of god calling to remembrance their iniquities and sinnes againg God committed and therfore afflicting themselues by repentance before the Lord begin their afflicting and chastising them selues with sorow And this sorow bewraieth it selfe partly in hanging downe of the heade in the casting downe of the countenance partly in outwart behauiour and gesture of the bodie partly in our speeches and words which are the witnesses of our affections and giue testimonie of our heartie sorrowe And this is the first thing wherein the chastising and afflicting our selues appeareth 2 As the chastising and afflicting of our selues consisteth in sorow and griefe conceiued for sinne so doth it in like maner appeare in our weeping and lamenting for the same vvhen we povvre out teares before God in token of our vnfeigned repentaunce vnto him VVhich thing must not be counted altogether effeminate and such as becommeth women onely but it is euen in the best men and most holy Saintes of God a thing commendable and highly to be praysed being ioyned with true faith in Iesus Christ For which cause Dauid the princely Prophet and holy man of God vvas not ashamed to confesse that in signe of his chastising of himselfe Psal 6. by true repentaunce hee wette his bedde and watered his couse with teares VVhen the booke of the lawe of God was founde and brought to Iosiah the godly and vertuous prince and he thereby had perceyued howe greatly the people 4. King 22. had offended in signe of his humilitie and chastising of himselfe with true repentaunce he wept before the Lord. The Prophet Ioel calling the people to this afflicting of themselues by true repentaunce therein hee requireth Ioel. 2. weeping Turne saith hee vnto the Lord with weeping fasting and mourning The Prophets calling the people to repentaunce haue exhorted them to mourne weepe before the Lorde Saint Peter for feare of the Iewes hauing denied and for sworne his master Christ at the looking backe of Christ he remembred himselfe he repented Mat. 26. him of his sinne his heart melted and rent in peeces as it were for sorrowe and to testifie his humiliating of himselfe for the sinne committed he went out and vvept bitterly To this purpose therefore this Apostle exhorting the Saints to suffer affliction to chastice themselues by vnfeigned repentaunce shevving the vvay and manner hovve it must be done teacheth that it must bee in sorrovv and vveeping Herehence then vve see vvhat the true vse of vveeping is and for vvhat cause vve may vveepe lavvfully to vtter the sorrovv of our hearts to testifie our true repentance to God to vvitnesse our afflicting of our selues for our sinnes agaynst God committed vve are exhorted Why the sai●● may weepe to vveepe Saint Augustine that graue and reuerend

pacience to beare it send deliuerance to be rid out of it make a way 1. Cor. 10. and giue an issue to escape whatsoeuer might be daungerous vnto vs. Naturall and carnally minded men in whose hearts the spirit of God resteth not being afflicted distrust despaire frette fume mutter and murmure against God Num. 11. 1 16. as the Israelites in the wildernesse did as Moises recordeth In their calamities they relent not they amend not they reforme not themselues they call not vpon God in their hearts they runne not by prayer to the throne of Heb. 4 grace there to find mercie in the time of neede but they blaspheme God as the wicked did in the Reuelation vpon whom when the Angels had powred out the viols of Reuel 16. v. 9. 11. 21. Gods wrath then blasphemed they the God of heauen for their paines and sores they sustained but repented not of the workes which they wickedly had committed The vngodly being perplexed afflicted and tormented curse banne stampe stare flie to valawfull remedies wise men witches sorcerers cunning women enchaunters and such like for riddance therehence and for deliuerance they runne to the wine tanern●s flie to strong drinke hunt after lewde companie seeke and search for such meanes for their solace and comfort they send for instruments of musicke they seeke for melodious harmonies they delight in harpe lute and viole therehence desiring in their afflictions to be recreated refreshed and reuiued but the Saints of God as else where so out of this present place learne a better profession to seeke for a more sound and safe remedie euen by prayer to haue recourse to him who deliuereth our soules from death our eies from tears Psalm 56. Psal and our feete from sliding Thus are we taught by the spirit of God in the Apostle when for our afflictions we bee heauy in hart troubled in mind sad in spirit to flie to god by praier Is any among you afflicted let him pray Which is the thing almightie God taught his saints willing them in their troubles to call vppon him from Psal 50. whom they shall haue deliuerance Call vppon me in the day of thy trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Our blessed Sauiour Christ ordained this Matt. 7. as the onely meane in all our lackes and wantes wherefore to his he sayeth aske and you shall haue seeke and you shall finde knocke and it shall bee opened vnto you It behooueth vs therefore according to this admonition of the Apostle according to the commaundement of God and the precept of his onely sonne our Sauiour Christ in our afflictions to solicite him with vncessant prayer who knoweth howe to deliuer his out of temptations to reserue the wicked to the day of iudgement 2. Pet. 2. to be punished To him in our necessities and miseries must we haue recourse whose eies are ouer the righteous his eares open vnto their praiers and so deliuereth them out of all their troubles Psal 43. Wherefore whensoeuer any of the saints be afflicted whensoeuer they be tried with any temptations when they feele any perill or daunger immenent and at hand whensoeuer they are pressed with any misfortune and cast downe by any aduersitie their onely remedie must bee praier and thereby to drawe neare vnto God of whom they must earnestly desire pacience in trouble constancie in affliction strength in miserie comfort in destresse deliuerance in calamitie riddance out of tribulation as shall seeme best to his diuine maiestie Thus did the renowmed patriarkes thus did the godly princes thus did the holy prophets thus did the blessed apostles thus did the constant martyrs thus did all the holy men of God thus must all the Saints of God in their affliction doe that they may practise the precept of the Apostle Is any among you afflicted let him pray As here we are exhorted in affliction to pray so doe afflictions mightily stirre vppe the Saintes of God to pray so that they which oftentimes greatly forget God in their flourishing wealth in their abounding prosperitie in their plentifull condition in their continued health in their affliction aduersitie and miserie flie to him by praier and seeke him with their whole hearts VVhich is not the least profite redounding vnto the Saintes by affliction For men in prosperitie often forgetfull of GOD colde in zeale slacke in prayer negligent in duetie their loynes weakened and pressed with a heauie weight and burthen of troubles and passing through the fire and water of affliction runne speedily by prayer to God for succour as the Scriptures of God and examples of the Saintes teach vs. VVhen the Prophete had denounced calamitie and miserie agaynst Isai 17. Damascus and Ephraim and tolde the people what affliction shoulde befall them shewing the effect and worke which afflictions cause in the Saintes especially euen to force vs to God and make vs by prayer to humble our selues vnto him sayeth At that day shall a man looke to his maker and his eies shall bee to the holy one of Israel In another place answerable and correspondent is Isai 26. the saying of the same Prophete hereunto Lord sayeth the Prophete in trouble haue they visited thee they powred out their prayers when thy chastisement was vppon them Dauid himselfe a man according to the Psal 120. minde of GOD at other times not vnmindfull of God yet when hee was afflicted by his enemies was more effectually stirred vp to prayer therefore hee sayeth of himselfe when I was in trouble I called vppon God Psal 81. and hee heard me And rehearsing the storie of Israel who in their welfare were rebellious and forgetfull but by aduersitie were drawen vnto God through prayer affirmeth that when God punished them and any wise afflicted them then they returned vnto him by prayer And the bookes of Iosua Iudges and the first of Samuel especially shewe howe effectually their calamities and Iosua Iudges 1. Samuel c. afflictions moued them by prayer to haue recourse to God insomuch as it appeareth when by their prosperitie they were puffed vp yet when they were eyther smitten with the sworde of their enemies or pinched with penurie and want or distressed with famine or persecuted by grieuous pestilence from God or any wise by him afflicted then they by prayer returned vnto the Lorde And this experience in our owne selues aboundantly teacheth vs who in our afflictions if euer haue our recourse by prayer vnto God This is therefore in all afflictions the best remedy to flie vnto God by praier which hath place both in aduersitie and in prosperitie both in mourning and in mirth both in sorovve and in ioye whereof the Apostle in this place assureth vs is any amōg you afflicted let him pray And to teach vs that prayer is profitable also in ioye therefore Saint Iames addeth is any among you merie Let him sing As in our afflictions we must not