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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96920	A word of comfort: shewing, that the providence of God excellently appeareth in the afflictions of the just.		1646 (1646)	Wing W3559; Thomason E340_22; ESTC R200883	13,577	15

Solomō sed bladientibus nimis secundis rebus alter de parte alter ex toto desipuit Magnus qui incidens ●in adversa non excidit vel parùm à sapientia n● minor cui praesens faelicitas s● arrisit non irrisit Prosperity is in weake and inconsiderate soules as fire to waxe and the sunnes rayes to snow David was very wise and Solomon much more yet both charmed by the great successe of affaires lost understanding the one at least in part the other wholy We must affirme there is need of a strong spirit to subsist in adversity without change of reason or constancy but it is much more hard to tast very pleasing prosperities and not be deceived This is the cause why wise Providence ever to keep vertue in breath ceaseth not to exercise it in this honourable list of great souls and we behold that following these proceedings it thence deriveth great advantages and many beauties The Scripture noteth that Iob a Job 42. Merser in Job returned into the luster of his former state gave titles to his three daughters much observed for hee called one by the name of Day the other Cassia or as some Interpreters say Amber and the third Amaltaeas Horne so the Septuagint translate it We must not think so holy a man would herein doe any slight thing or not to some purpose But if we believe ancient Fathers upon it he meant by these 3. names to signify the three conditions of fortune The first which was before his great adversities is compared to the day rejoycing us with the naturall sweetnesse of it's serenity The second which was that of his calamity to amber because it is properly in tribulation where vertue diffuseth her good odours It resembleth aromatike spices which more shew their vertue when they are pounded and brought into powder in a morter or incense which never lets it so much appeare what it is as when it is cast on coales so that this Motto of the Wiseman may be attributed to it b Quasi ignis refulgens thus ardens in igne Eccles 50.10 A resplendent fire and incense burning in the fire In the end issuing forth of tedious tribulations and having been hardned and fortifyed under stormes it openeth it's bosome and unfoldeth admirable fruits which fitly make it to be called the Horne of abundance Wherefore we say with S. Ambrose c Est ergo beatitudo in doloribus quos pl●na suavitatis virtus comprimit coercet ipsa sibi domesticis opibus abundans vel ad conscientia vel ad gloriam Ambr. offic l. 2. c. 4. there is a certaine beatitude in dolours which virtue of sweetnesse and delight represseth from whence it acquireth palmes and inestimable riches as wel for satisfaction of it's conscience as the condition of glory 3. For we affirme for a third reason that God hath not a more glorious spectacle on earth then a Just man afflicted and patient Is it not that which God himselfe meant in the booke of Iob where the Prince of darknesse telling he had gone round about the world he said not to him Hast thou seen the Monarchies and Empires which bow under my scepter and circumvolve under my laws Hast thou seen Palaces of Kings and Princes whose turrets penetrate the clouds Hast thou seen armyes all enclosed with swords making the earth tremble under the clashing of their armes Hast thou beheld the theaters beauties and triumph of greatnesse Hast thou considered all the wealth which nature reserveth for me in magazins He sayes nothing of all that What then d Numquid considerasti servum meum Job quod non sit ei similis in terra Job 8. Hast thou looked on my servant Iob who hath not his like on earth And what maketh him more admirable then that which Cassianus e Ex locuplete pauperrimus nudus ex divite ex valido tabidus ex inclyto glorioso ignobilis sterquilinii factus ●abitator velut quidē corporis sui saevissimus carnifex testa radebat saniem membro●… glebas vermium mersis in profunda vulneribus manibus detra●ebat Cassia Cola. 5. de nece Sanctorum mentioneth A man was seen abounding in all sorts of blessings become very poore having not so much as wherewith to cover his nakednesse fallen from a most perfect health into a prodigious malady which disfigured his whole body and having lost so many goodly farms reduced to the extremity of being the inhabitant of a wretched dunghill But he out-braving his miseries and shewing himselfe to be nothing curious tooke a rough stone to wipe his wounds and putting his hand farre into the bottome of his ulcers drew thence the corruption and wormes which made him honourable by the lights of his patience Have we not cause to cry out with Tertullian f Quale in illo viro feretrii Deus de diabolo extruit quale vexillū de mimico suae gloriae extulit Tert. de pat c. 13. Oh what a trophey hath God erected in this holy man O what a standard hath he advanced in the sight of all his enemies I dare freely pronounce it there is not any approacheth more neere to God then a man laden with afflictions and become invincible in the armes of patience And I ask of you what made Toby to be called the Good God g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. Paedag. 2. but this amirable vertue I say although many have been honoured with marks of the Divinity by reason of their favours and benignities towards men there being nothing which so charmeth people as the profusion of benefits yet interest was the cause great men were flattered with such titles above their deserts whereas quite otherwise Praise rendred to Patience is much more sincere as being expressed by a certaine veneration afforded to a vertue absolutely heroick which makes me conclude that men ravished with the sight of this notable patience which shined in Toby when having done well evill was retributed surnamed him the Good God not for any other reason but his admirable constancy having this Maxime well engraven in their hearts that God hath not on earth a more perfect Image of his greatnesse then a patient man Denis h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion ep 8. likewise plainly calleth Patience the imitation of the Divinity and addeth Moses was honoured with the rayes of divine vision for his singular mansuetude 4. Lastly I say tribulation confirmeth us in the faith of future things as being a manifest proofe of Beatitude For reasoning though never so little by the light of nature we judge if there be any justice in men it is in God as in its source with an incomparable eminency and therefore we cannot imagine a Divinity without the inheritance of goodnesse and equity which perpetually accompany it Now when we see innocent men continually afflicted who goe out of this life by bloody and horrible wayes many times oppressed by the tyranny