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A20802	The Christian armorie wherein is contained all manner of spirituall munition, fit for secure Christians to arme themselues withall against Satans assaults, and all other kind of crosses, temptations, troubles, and afflictions : contrived in two bookes, and handled pithily and plainly by way of questions and answers / by Thomas Draxe ... ; hereunto is adioined a table of all the principall heads and branches comprised in each chapter of the whole treatise.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1611 (1611)	STC 7182; ESTC S782	133,281	384

cause our consolations to abound much more 2. Cor. 1. A second Obiection Q. But what if our sicknesse and disease be of long durance or of many yeeres continuance how then shall wee stay and comfort our selues A. First our sinnes whereof wee must seriously repent haue perhaps long time preuailed against vs and therefore the medicine must a long time be applied to it Secondly our sinnes haue deserued euerlasting paine and therefore we must patiently endure this which is temporary and tollerable Thirdly the blessed saints and seruants of God in all generations haue had experience of this temptation and haue béen our companions and copartners herein For example sake Iob in the old Testament was very long no doubt sicke pained and vlcerous Aza long diseased in his séete and in the new Testament a poore woman was twelue yéeres long troubled with a bloudy issue A daughter of Abraham i. a godly and religious woman bowed by Satan eightéen yéeres and a créeple whereof we reade in Iohns Gospell was lame thirty eight yéeres Fourthly the longer that our afflictions are the more easie they will be for God in his compassion will either mitigate our paine or adde vnto our strength Fifthly if our outward man decay yet shall the inward or regenerate man be renewed daily so that corruptio vnius is by Gods mercy generatio alterius Sixthly the temporary though long and tedious afflictions of this world are nothing to the eternity and vnmeasurablenesse of glory in the world to come Seuenthly God will heare and helpe vs after that we haue béen long humbled and diligently sought him Lastly the longer that the deliuerance is delaied the greater will the comfort be when it commeth Prou 13.12 The third Obiection Q. But what if either the violence or the long continuance of our sicknes bereaue vs of naturall sleep whereby our life and strength is prolonged and maintained how shall we in this case comfort our selues A. By these rules and directions following First sléepe is a resemblance of death and the image of it for they differ only in time sléep being but a short death and death a long sleepe and therefore the lesse that we sléepe the longer doe wee liue Secondly we may must conceiue good hope of procuring naturall sléepe and rest for if sicknes take it away health may restore it and if feare depriue vs of it hearts ease and quietnes of mind will make vs againe partakers of it Thirdly we are by our wakefulnesse and want of sléepe freed from the terrour of dreames and from many illusions doubts feares wherewith men in their sléepe are assaulted Lastly God will haue vs to estéeme more highly of the blessing of sleep when we obtaine and enioy it and to shew our selues more thankefull for it Q. What course are wee to take that we may procure rest and sleepe A. Wée must first of all and most earnestly pray vnto God that giueth his beloued sleepe in peace and that gaue S. Peter that was bound with two chains and betweene two souldiers sleepe to bestow this gift vpon vs which is many times denied to great Monarches Secondly we must striue to disburden vnlade our selues of cares thoughts and to shake off sicknes what in vs lieth and then sléepe will come vpon vs vnlooked for Thirdly in our non rest wee must read the holy Scriptures and good books especially of Diuinity and haue them about vs with whom we may talke and confer and we shall find much ease and refreshment Psal. 77. v. 11.3.4 ad 12. Lastly we must in the day time especially if our sicknes will suffer vs diligently honestly and conscionably walke in our lawfull callings and wee shall haue experience of Gods gratious blessing euen this way The 4. Obiection Q. I am as it were a close prisoner in my earthly house and I am not able to goe to Gods house that I may behold the beauty of it and visite his temple how then shall J comfort my selfe A. First though thy body be bound yet thy soule is at liberty and kept vnpolluted of sinne and errour Secondly Dauid Ezechias Aeneas many others haue against their will by sicknes béene kept from Gods house Thirdly God in this case accepteth the will for the déede and requireth the heart and the affection onely Lastly in this estate thou must reade the scriptures and godly treatises and muse and meditate vpon that thou hast heard read learned The fift Obiection Q. Alas we want friends kinsfolks and good neighbours to relieue direct and comfort vs what instructions can you yeeld vs A. First our case is not singular and without example for Iob Dauid c. yea and our blessed Sauiour in this case were neglected misiudged forsaken Secondly we must learne to beare our friends death and therefore much more their absence for this absence will not appall them whom death doth notdismay Thirdly it may be that we in our health made small account of and were offended at them and therefore now wee are iustly depriued of them For as in all things so in friendship too much aboundance doth dull the appetite whereas want doth sharpen it and hunger is the best sauce Fourthly though they bee absent in place when that their eyes eares hands and féet performe not their office yet they may be with vs in their mind and affection and thus Paul was present with the Colossians and with the Corinthians 1. Cor. 5.4 Lastly let vs not be discouraged nor faint harted but trust in the liuing God and bee content with those thinges that we haue for hee will neuer faile nor forsake vs. Q. What duties are wee to performe in this distresse A. First we must not trust in men who are lighter then vanity it selfe they are like a brokē staffe that wil faile them that leane on it and like a réede that will breake in a mans hand but wee must trust in the liuing God thogh he should kill vs and liue by faith and then wee shall haue the recompence of reward Secondly when God raiseth vp friends and kind neighbours vnto vs let vs be more thankefull vnto God for them and haue them in more request and estimation Q. What if the violence and continuance of sicknes want of friends and good neighbours lacke of sleepe concurre or at least we faint vnder some one or more of them how then shal we practise patience A. By obseruing and practising those instructions and conclusions following First that many of Gods Saints as Iob Dauid c. haue encountred with all these temptations and yet haue by faith and patience ouercome them and though these men may seeme vnto vs Phoenices and rare birds yet we must the rather take notice of them and endeauour to imitate them Secondly if our minds bee armed with faith in God our bodies shall be the better enabled to