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A29118 Elijah's nunc dimittis, or, The authors own funerall sermons in his meditations upon I Kings 19:4 ... / by Thomas Bradley ... Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670. 1669 (1669) Wing B4132; ESTC R7187 60,180 133

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are exercised under them 2. Think not strange of those fiery tryalls and that the best men are so often under them it were strange if it were not so Christianus Crucianus the Crosse is the Christians badge the Cognisance of a Disciple our Lord himself the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through sufferings he carried the Cross upon his own shoulders up Mount Calvary upon which himself was Crucified and we may not think much that come after him with Symon the Cyrenian to carry one end of it Shew me the man of any standing in the profession of Christianity that hath been constantly free from sufferings and I will say He is either a Miracle or a Monster in Religion 3. Think not the worse neither of your selves nor others in this case Crosses are not Curses nor the greatest Sufferers therefore the greatest Sinners The sufferings of the Saints are so farr from being Arguments of Gods displeasure towards them that clean contrary they are rather evidences of his love and favour So St. Paul Argues Heb. 12.6 Whom he loveth he chasteneth and correcteth every sonne whom he receiveth St. Jerom never feared his estate worse then when for three years together he lived in peace and was free from all trouble and adversity If thou faint in the time of adversity thy strength is small Remember all promises of blessings and good things made to Gods Children are made with exception of the Cross against which even grace and goodness piety and obedience holiness it self is no protection Sanctity and suffering may stand together They were holy ones of whom God spake Ps 89.32.33 Their iniquity will I visit with the rod and their sins with scourges but my loving kindness will I never take from them nor suffer my truth to faile 4. Beware of murmuring by no means suffer your hearts to break out in any evill thoughts against God and his Providence even in his most severe proceedings against you as if he dealt too hardly with you this were to charge God foolishly But let him be ever justified in his sayings and doings and clear when he is judged and to silence all clamour murmurings and mutinous thoughts In this case take with you these two considerations First See sin in all let the means by which you suffer be what it will and the Instruments of it what they can doe but look well into it and you shall finde Sinne lyes at the bottome David saw this Psal 25.18 Look upon my adversity and my trouble and forgive me all my Sinne. Jeremy saw it in his Lamentations cap. 3.39 Why doth living man complaine man suffering for his Sinnes as if he should say There is no reason for it let him consider well of it and he shall find his Sinnes are greater then his sufferings his sufferings less then his deservings Secondly See God in all though sin be the cause of all 't is God that is the Judge of all Is there any evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it And if it be the Lord let him doe what he will he neither can nor will doe unjustly When Moses told Aaron in a grievous Affliction that befell him Levit. 10. That it was from the Lord The Text sayes Aaron held his peace ver 3. he had no more to say If it be the Lords doing let him doe what is good in his eyes his will be done at well upon us as by us and as well in taking away as giving Ever say with holy Job in the like case Blessed be the Name of the Lord Job 1.22 5. In the sufferings of the Saints and servan●s of God here in this world let wicked and ungodly men reade their own doome and certainly conclude That they have a heavy reckoning to make to God in the day of account that great is the wrath of the Allmighty against them and fearefull the Judgements that doe await them Behold saith the Lord I visit the City upon which my name is called and doe you think to escape you shall not escape And if the righteous be scarely saved where shall the ungodly and the Sinner appeare Surely if he doe so severely scourge his own Children with Scourges he will torment them with Scorpions Solomon observed in his time Eccles 8.11 That because Judgement was not speedily executed upon evill doers therefore the hearts of the sonnes of men were wholly set upon wickedness But there is no reason for it if they knew all alas they see not that their day is comming they may make a Covenant with the Grave and with Hell be at agreement but that Covenant will not stand they may cry ●●ace peace unto themselves where there is no peace and so sleep a while in their security but their damnation sleepeth not they may sing Requiems to their souls Ede bibe lude Eat drink and be merry but they see not the hand-writing on the Wall Mene Mene c. Thou art weighed in the ballance and art found too light they heare not the dreadfull noyse Stulte hac nocte This night shall they fetch away thy soule With what derision doth the wisedom of God speak to such Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the sight of thine eyes and the wayes of thine heart but remember that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement But the Lord speaks terror to them by his royall Prophet David Psal 50.21 Thus and thus hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest me such a one as thy selfe but I will reprove thee and set thy sinnes in order before thee Beloved take this for a most certaine observation 'T is the most dangerous state in the world for a man to goe on in sinne and prosper to live in sinne and to live at ease free from adversity and affliction Ephraim is given unto Idols let him alone saith the Lord by the Prophet Hosea c. 4.17 Nolo istam misericordiam saith St. Jerom Lord let me have none of that mercy to be let alone in my sinne Scinde ure seca ut in aeternum parcas Let me suffer any thing in this life that thou shalt please to lay upon me that I may be spared in the life to come and have nothing to suffer in the other world Let all secure sinners know There is a Pit digging up for them a very significant expression of the Prophet Psal 94.13 Vntill the Pit be digged for the ungodly Now the longer the Pit is in digging the deeper it will be and the deeper it is the greater will be the fall into it and the more impossible the recovery out of it and so deep it may be that it may let the sinner down into Hell it self I conclude this Point with that Advertisement of Saint Paul which he gives to all such secure sinners Rom. 2.4 Know ye not that the patience and long