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A57573	A discourse concerning trouble of mind and the disease of melancholly in three parts : written for the use of such as are, or have been exercised by the same / by Timothy Rogers ... ; to which are annexed, some letters from several divines, relating to the same subject.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1691 (1691)	Wing R1848; ESTC R21503	284,310	522

Edinburgh was Twenty years in terrors of Conscience and yet delivered afterwards You may also direct them to the Lives of Mrs. Brettergh Mrs. Drake Mr. Peacock and Mrs. Wight where they will see a very chearful day returning after a black and stormy night and that the Issue from their Afflictions was more glorious than their Conflict was troublesom They went forth weeping they sowed in Tears but they reaped an Harvest of wonderful Joys afterwards You have in the Book of Martyrs written by Mr. Fox an instance of Mr. Glover who was worn and consumed with inward trouble for the space of Five years that he neither had any comfort in his Meat nor any quietness of Sleep nor any pleasure of Life he was so perplexed as if he had been in the deepest Pit of Hell yet at last this good Servant of God after so sharp temptations and the strong buffetings of Satan was freed from all his trouble and was thereby framed to great Mortification and was like one already placed in Heaven and led a Life altogether Celestial abhorring in his mind all prophane things and you have a remarkable instance of mighty joy in Mr. Holland a Minister who having the day before he died meditated upon the 8th of the Romans he cried on a sudden Stay your Reading What brightness is it that I see They told him it was the Sun-shine Nay saith he my Saviour's shine Now farewell World and welcome Heaven the day-star from an high hath visited my heart O speak it when I am gone and let it be Preached at my Funeral God dealeth familiarly with Man I feel his Mercy I see his Majesty whether in the Body or out of the Body God he knoweth but I see things unutterable And in the Morning following he shut up his blessed Life with these blessed words O! what an happy change shall I make from Night to Day from Darkness to Light from Death to Life from Sorrow to Solace from a factious World to an Heavenly Being O! my dear Friends it pitieth me to leave you behind yet remember what I now feel I hope you shall find ere you dye That God doth and will deal familiarly with Men. And now thou fiery Chariot that came down to fetch up Eliah carry me to my happy hold and all the blessed Angels who attended the soul of Lazarus to bring it up to Heaven bear me O bear me into the bosome of my best Beloved Amen Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly And so he fell asleep See this and several other instances in Mr. Robert Bolton's Instructions for afflicted Consciences p. 87. and 235 c. Eleventhly The next kindness you are to shew to your Melancholly Friends is heartily to pray for them Let your eyes weep for them in secret and there let your souls melt in fervent holy Prayers they are not able in a composed or a lively manner to recommend their own Case to God you may use many arguments in your Prayers their forlorn state and the greatness of their miseries may be a very powerful motive to your Supplications You know that none but God himself can help them For as Mr. Greenham says If our assistance were as an Host of Armed Soldiers if our Friends were the Princes and Governors of the Earth if our Possessions were as large as between the East and the West if our Meat were as Mannah from Heaven if our Apparel were as costly as the Ephod of Aaron if every day were as glorious as the day of Christ's Resurrection yet if our Minds are appalled with the Judgments of God all these things would not yield us any help or consolation * See Mr. Greenham's Comfort for an Afflicted Conscience p. ●27 And you must wrestle with him on their behalf you may plead with him That his Power and Goodness will be more illustrious if he save those whom none but he himself can save and that his Grace will be more remarkable if he please to create Peace for those troubled Souls in which none but he can make a Calm and you know not but that his Light on your request may begin to shine on those who have bewailed his absence with many dreadful groans And tho your eyes be even weary with looking upwards yet continue still to wait and pray for it shall not be in vain Thus you will do them a great kindness and perform your own Duty tho perhaps they may be ready to say to you as Mr. Peacock to his Friends Take not the Name of God in vain by praying for a Reprobate And as Mr. Dod said to him when he said he could not pray Tho saith he most sicknesses hinder Prayer and therefore the Apostle James says If any Man be sick let him send for the Elders c. Yet if God stir up your Friends to pray for you he will stir up himself to hear their Prayers And do you consider that nothing but Prayer can do them good It is an obstinate disease that nothing else will overcome for it is a very slight Melancholly and which is not deeply rooted that can be drowned in Wine or chased away with sociable divertisements Some indeed tell us When they find themselves troubled their way is to bid their thoughts Battel and to oppose Thoughts against Thoughts and with the dint of Reason to subdue this peevish Humour But such must give me leave to say That they are not under the disease of Melancholly for that will neither hear Faith nor Reason till God himself by his Almighty Power work Salvation for us XII Not only pray for them but get other serious Christians to pray for them also When many good people join their requests together the cry is more acceptable and prevalent When those in the Acts joined to remember Peter in his Chains he was after that very soon delivered and in the very time of their Prayers All believers have through Jesus Christ a great interest in Heaven and the Father is willing to grant what they beg in the Name of his dear Son I my self have been greatly helped by the prayers of others and I heartily thank all those that kept any particular days wherein more solemnly to remember my distressed condition blessed be God that has not cast off their prayer nor turned away his mercy from me Every day gives us several experiences of many that have been rescued from their diseases their temptations and their fears by the Prayers of others And I might also add you have very great cause to pray for your selves that God may give you strength to bear so heavy a Cross as you are afflicted with in the afflictions of your friends Their doleful complaints their repeated groans and their long and sore trials are enough to sink you too if God do not give you wonderful support You have need to beg strong faith and great patience that you may not be unhinged with their passionate or hasty speeches XIII Put your poor

they have also let loose the bridle before me Do not censure these Mysterious Dispensations of God and of his Providence stay till you see the beautiful structure that he will cause to rise from these Ruins When they are tempted by the Devil do not you with Job's Friends play the Devils to and insult over them or encrease their misery It was a very great sin in those good men to aggravate his trouble by their rash discourses and their sinister interpretations of it God himself decided the case for his Servant and told them that they had not spoken of him the things that were right Be not hasty to judge of persons who are weeping nay even despairing for their sins They are in bitterness but such as God may speedily remove He may change their Wilderness into a Paradise He will perfect his Power in their Weakness turn their Evils into Good and their Darkness into a marvellous Light and stay till you see the end of the Lord. He has taken their Comforts from them to improve them and to restore them to them upon better terms He has removed their Pots of Water but will it may be send them back full of Wine For as one observes God is wont to bring most of his greatest ends about by seeming to look quite another way from what he hath a special purpose to bring to pass He seldom proceeds in a direct way to his Ends or in such a way as the Creature would think stood most with Reason to take but when his business lies in the East he takes his Journey as it were full West and when he has a mind to build he batters down when his design is for Light his method and his way is through the greatest darkness Let the Great Instance of Job for ever repress our bold Censures of afflicted and miserable people Who would have thought that a Man so distressed should ever have been delivered That one that had so many pains should be cured one so poor so derided so scorned by Drunkards and Boys and the meanest of the people should be honoured and esteemed again And yet all this happened to him his latter end was better than his beginning he lived to see the Funeral of his Griefs and the Resurrection of his Comforts the Lord that had afflicted him took off his heavy hand and turned again his Captivity He re-established him in all his former splendor and made him for his short darkness to shine with a double glory and gave him twice as much as he had before and for a year or two of trouble gave him many pleasant long years of Joy till he was old and full of days till he was satisfied with living and calmly desired to dye And the scope of the Book of Job is as Dr. Patrick quotes it from Maimonides to establish the great Article of Providence and thereby to preserve us from Error in thinking that God's Knowledg is like our Knowledg or his Intention Providence and Government like our Intention Providence and Government which foundation being laid nothing will seem hard to a Man whatsoever happens nor will he fall into dubious thoughts concerning God whether he knows what is befallen us or no and whether he takes any care of us but rather he will be inflamed the more vehemently in the Love of God as is said in the end of this Prophecy Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes So say our Wise men They that act out of Love will rejoyce in Chastisements see James 5.11 As to you with whom it is yet night I shall only add this Though I am my self come as to the quiet shore yet I sympathize with you that are yet labouring in the deep You are afflicted and tost with tempests but as in Isa 54. from 9. to 11. The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace be romoved saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee Oh thou afflicted tossed with tempests and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours and lay thy foundations with Saphirs I know you think it is a long night and so it is but it is not Eternal the day will break and the shadows flee away your wise Physician is preparing Cordials for your Hearts and Balsom for your Wounds Let him have your desires to him address your Prayers with your weaker Arms be still reaching after him you are scorched with wrath but he will be a refreshment to your heat you are in darkness but he is the Sun of Righteousness that will chase all the Clouds away Fly to this City of Refuge part for this Fountain of Living Waters and while you are condemned in your own thoughts look to this Advocate and Mediator and he will plead your Cause the wrath that burns you may be hot as Hell but his Blood will extinguish the tormenting flame the Devil may be too strong for you beg therefore help of this Jesus who has overcome him and who will teach you to get the victory He takes pleasure in helping such as have no helper and when there is none to deliver you his own Arm will bring Salvation He hath horn our grief and with his stripes we are healed And trusting in his satisfaction you may freely implore the Mercy of his Father nay even appeal to his Justice for he will not have two payments for the same debt You may say Thou hast promised to pardon sin for the sake of thy well-beloved Son Let it be unto me according to thy word You may in vain complain of your troubles to those that have never felt the like they may grieve you more by their harsh expressions but remember that when you go to Christ for help you go to one that is experienced to one that has tasted of the same bitter Cup to one that was himself forsaken of God for a season and knows how sad it is with you in the like Case And those that come to him he will in no wise cast out CHAP. VII Of the great joy that fills a Soul when the favour of God returns to it after having been long in darkness And the joy is great in several respects As it was unexpected As it discovers God to be reconciled and gives the mourner a possession of Christ by faith through the influence of the Holy Spirit It revives his Graces delivers him from the insulting of the Devil shews the soul its interest in the Promises JOy cometh in the morning Psal 30.5 Having in several Chapters shewed what a mournful night it is to a deserted soul when God is withdrawn and what passes then it is now time to hasten to what is more pleasant and reviving according to the order of Divine Providence which appointeth that where there has been weeping in the night in the morning there should be joy Hence we may observe The return of