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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15815	Soueraigne comforts for a troubled conscience Wherein the subtilties of Satan are discouered, his reasons and obiections fully answered. And further, the truth laid open and manifested, to the great consolation and strengthening of such as are distressed and afflicted in minde. Written by the late faithfull seruant of the Lord Mr. Robert Yarrow. And now published for the benefit of such as groning vnder the burthen of an afflicted conscience desire comfort.	Yarrow, Robert.; Maunsell, John.	1619 (1619)	STC 26077; ESTC S111781	167,803	456

condemnation As in the Elect all things turne to their good So in the other both this and all other things turne to their euill Thus much to shew and proue that which is promised or rather affirmed in my first Position viz. that the originall of affliction laid vpon Gods children is not of hatred in God but of his loue towards those that are afflicted CHAP. XVIII Of the second Position and the Obiections against the doctrine thereof ALthough the Doctrine before deliuered bee in it selfe most certaine true although in the deliuery therof the Serpents subtiltie hath beene laid open not so much as it deserueth or as the case and matter in hand requireth yet I trust so that euery man may haue thereby a taste of his malicious minde so craftily going about to circumuent them and so to compasse and effect their destruction yet will not this our mortall enemy giue ouer but with this new and fresh incounter beginneth againe to make his assault Hath not God saith he promised vnto his seruants prosperitie An assault of Satan peace good and happy successe and hath hee not made his couenant with them to deliuer and saue them out of these extremities Answ Answ No doubt hee hath thus promised and hee hath thus couenanted indeed But yet his promise and couenant are not so made as that afflictions should not touch the seruants of God at all but rather in this sense that they shall not hurt or ouercome them For he wil acquit and free his faithfull seruants from that tyrannous power of sinne and death What is this which you say Doe you thinke then that death and sinne shall neuer befall vnto them This is absurd indeed being so void of truth Wee see the contrary proued by experience Nay rather this is proued euen by experience that neither sinne nor death although they bee enemies of great power shal euer haue the strength to preuaile so farre against them as to subdue and conquer them For the explanation of the vvhich Doctrine 2. Position That afflictions are incident and must befall the children of God you see the consideration of the second Position to be necessary which was that these miseries and afflictions in this life are incident and must befall vnto the children of God that so we may the better see the slender hold and so with the more ease auoid the danger of this temptation This Position as it euidently appeareth standeth on these two branches First that these afflictions doe befall the children of God and secondly that it is of necessitie that it should bee so For proofe of the first I might produce the examples of a great number of the seruants of God as Noah Lot Moses Iob Dauid Daniel the Prophets Apostles and the faithfull Martyrs and witnesses of our Sauiour Christ But forsomuch as the same hath been touched before I will not stay hereupon The second hauing a necessitie ioyned thereunto that of necessitie it must be so doth require a more large discourse further proofes which by Gods assistance shall be done and that I hope in such maner as that the truth shall easily appeare to stand fully and altogether against Satan and his wicked policies In this paines taking I might vrge that excellent saying of the Apostle Paul 2. Tim. 3.12 That whosoeuer will liue godly in Christ Iesus must suffer persecution But I know that the Aduersarie will be very carnest to cauill against me and take exception against this Doctrine and place of Paul saying that it is not to bee vnderstood of any punishment for sinne as those afflictions which are laid vpon him but for well-doing But I insist with this Interrogation Is it not more vnlikely that the seruants of Christ should suffer for well-doing then for euill And if God suffereth them to be euill intreated and persecuted of the world and that euen then when they doe well how much more shall he doe it when they shall sin and off●nd against him Hereunto thou wilt haply answere that this is likely indeed but yet thou findest most commonly the examples of the greatest miseries in Gods seruants to haue come not so much of sinne as in the furtherance of his cause and Gospell as the examples of the Prophets Apostles and Martyrs do proue But thine estate is otherwise For thou seest no such matter of goodnes in thy selfe wherefore these afflictions should be imposed vpon thee To this I againe on the contrary part doe here plainely affirme and say that I stand not to dispute or to make any search and inquiry whether thou findest in thy selfe any such matter of goodnes or not It is farre from my purpose and I leaue that to the iudgement of God first and then to the tryall of thine owne conscience But I come to the principall point which is this That GOD for sinne doth oftentimes in this sort chasten yea and that there is also a necessitie in this included that hee should thus correct and chastise those that are his children either more or lesse as shall seeme good vnto him in his will and pleasure For proofe of this which I haue said viz. that sinne in the Elect of God is cause of corrections and afflictions laid vpon them I thinke not amisse to referre thee to these examples recorded vnto vs in the Booke of God Moses and Aaron for back wardnes in beliefe Numb 20.12 13. were punished with exclusion from the Land of Promise 1. Sam. 3.27 28. Heli for his too much lenitie and remisse cockering of his gracelesse children was plagued with a fearefull visitation The Kingdome was rent from Salomons posterity because he transgressed against the Lord. 2. King 11.11 Dauid in plaine termes confesseth Psal 38. that the cause of his afflictions was in his sinne And therefore it is also that God so oftentimes in the Scriptures threatneth punishments and afflictions not onely to Reprobates but also to his Elect and Chosen Ieremy affirmeth Ier. 25. that God beginneth to plague the City where his name was called vpon And Peter plainly telleth vs 1. Pet. 4.17 that Iudgement must begin euen at the house of God Wherunto may be very wel added that promise of God vnto Dauid in regard of his sonne which should succeed him in his kingdome That if he sinned 2. Sam. 7.14 God would chasten him with the rod of men and with the plagues of the children of men but yet hee would not take his mercy vtterly from him So that heereby it is manifest that a chastening there should be and that for sin but yet such as should be attended with his mercy Heereunto I might adde also the examples of Hezechiah Daniel the godly Kings and Prophets which are all in this very resolute But in so plaine a matter I trust these few testimonies shall suffice Obiect But heere againe it is obiected Why is it necessary that these things should for sinne befall