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A67778	A sovereign antidote against all grief extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and modern both holy and humane : necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1654 (1654)	Wing Y190; ESTC R483498	105,217	98

do good or evill unto any one of thy members thou takest it as done unto thy self Discover unto us all our own fins that wee may not be so forward to censure others as wee have been heretofore Give us patience to beare thy Fatherly chastisements which through thy grace sanctifying them to us become both Medicines to cure us and Antidotes to preserve us from the sicknesse of sin considering that all the afflictions of this life are not worthy those joyes which shall be revealed unto us Finally good Father we beseech thee inable us so to walk in thy fear that in mirth we be not vain in knowledg we be not proud in zeal we be not bitter instruct us by thy Word direct us by thy Spirit mollifie us by thy grace humbleus by thy corrections win us by thy benefits reconcile our nature to thy wil teach us so to make profitofevery thing that we may see thee in althings al things in thee And as we are suiters unto thy Majesty for these thy blessings spirituall so likewise we humbly beg at thy mercifull hands all necessaries appertaining to our temporall welfare beseeching thee to blesse us in our persons with health strength and liberty in our estates with sufficiency and the right use of it cons●…dering that is wee spend what ●…ee And in these our prayers wee are not mindfull of our selves alone but forasmuch as thou hast commanded us to pray one for another as being the members of one and the same mysticall body wee beseech thee to blesse thy whole Church Universall wheresoever dispersed and howsoever   distressed or despised far and wide over the face of the whole earth and vouchsafe unto thy Gospell such a free and effectuall passage that it may sound throughout all Nations Yea wee humbly pray thee let it convert and reclaim the Turks Jews Infidels Indians Atheists Epicures Hereticks and Schismaticks Prevent all plots and projects against the Kingdome of thy Christ let thy Word and Spirit alone bear rule in all places Extend thy tender mercy O Lord to all Protestants beyond the Seas to all Christians under the Turks or other Infidels strengthen all such as suffer for thy cause and let thy presence with them counterpoyse whatsoever is laid upon them and inable them to continue constant in thy faith and truth to the end More Particularly be good unto that part of thy Church planted here amongst us in this sinfull Land and indue us with thy grace as thou hast already with other blessings that they may not rise up hereafter in judgment against us be propitious to the Nobility Gentry and Communalty Blesse the Tribe of Levi all Ministers of thy Word and Sacraments let their lips O God preserve knolewdg and their lives righteousnesse and for ever blesse thou their labours increase the number of those that are saithfull and painfull and reform or remove such as are either scandalous or idle and for a constant and continuall supply of their mortality blesse all Schools of learning and good literature especially the Universities Remember in much mercy all that are afflicted whether in body or in mind or in both whether in conscience have upon our own lusts we may ask but wee shall nor receive in our good names with an 〈◊〉 report and so blesse and sanctifie unto us all the things of thislife that they may be furtherances of us in the way to a better   And seeing that it is in vain for us to labour except thy blessing go along with it neither can our endeavours succeed well except thou prosper them bless every one of us in our several places and callings and so direct us in all we shall take in hand that whatsoever wee do may tend to thy glory the good of others and the comfort of our own soules when wee shall come to make our finall account unto thee sor them groaning under fin or for a good conscience because they will not fin and as thou makest them examples to us so teach us to take example by them and learn wisdome by thy hand upon them   These and all things else which thou knowest we stand in need of we humbly crave at thy mercifull hands and that for the alone worthinesse and satisfaction of thy son and the honour of our onely Redeemer and Advocate Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and thy blessed Spirit be given as is most due all praise glory and dominion the residue of this day and for evermore Amen A Praier for the Evening which would be performed before Supper and not when we are more prone to sleep then to pray O Eternal Almighty and incomprehensible Lord God who art great and terrible of most glorious Majesty and infinite purity Creator and Preserver of all things and Guider and Governour of them being created who fillest Heaven and Earth with thy presence and art every where at hand to receive and hear the praiers of all that repair to thee in thy Christ. Thou hast of thy goodnesse bestowed so many and so great mercies upon us that wee know not how to expresse thy bounty herein Yea we can scarce think of any thing more to pray for but that thou wouldest continue those which thou hast bestowed on us already yet we covet still as though we had nothing and live as if we knew nothing of all this thy beneficence Thy blessings are without number yet our sins strive with them which shall be more if we could count the numberless number of thy Creatures they would not be answerable to the number of thy gifts yet the number of our offences which we return in lieu of them are not much inferiour thereunto Well may we confesse with Judas we have sinned and there stop but we cannot reckon their number nor set forth their nature We are bound to praise thee above any Nation We no sooner lived then we de served to die neither need we any more to condemn us then what we brought into the world with us but thou hast spared us to this hour to try if we would turn unto thee by repentance as our first Parents and wee have turned from thee by sin yet thy mercy seems to have been in vain and thy long-suffering to no end For whereas many have been won by thy Word wee would not suffer it to change us many have been reformed by the Grosse but whatsoever for what Nation under Heaven enjoys so much light or so many blessings as we above any Creature for all the Creatures were ordained for our sakes and yet Heaven Earth and Sea all the Elements all thy Creatures obey thy Word and serve thee as they did at first yea call upon us to serve thee onely men for whom they were all made ingratefully rebell against thee we would not suffer it to purge us many have been moved by thy benefits but we would not suffer them to perswade us yea as if we had contracted with

hast cast off and abhorred us why hast thou forsaken mee c. Yea the onely Son of God came to this My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Yet consider did God forsake either of them hee might bee angry with David more angry with Christ for the fins of all the world and in their present sence that anger might work in them an apprehension of his forsaking them but hee did not forsake them nor will hee forsake thee if thou dost not first forsake him Thou maist think so but God will not do so but in the mean time how can this bee well taken wee see our wretchedness wee do not see our blessedness No talk of his presence of his absence wee complain Our cowardly spirits give him for quite gone yet hee is not far from every one of us Act. 17. 27. Yea this confession could Seneca make but like a Divine God is near unto thee hee is with thee hee is within thee and surely if hee had not been with these Israelites they had not lived if hee had been in them they had not murmured Wee can think him absent in our want and cannot see him absent in our sin yet wickedness not affliction argues him gone yea hee is then most present when hee most chastiseth for as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolations abound through Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. Again God may bee present with us and yet wee not bee pleased as the Israelites repined for a King when the Lord was their King or Christ may bee with us and yet wee want somthing that wee desire Christ was in the Ship and yet say the Apostles wee have no bread Jesus was at the Marriage yet saith his Mother they have no Wine Joh. 2. 3. Wee may want Bread and Wine and yet have Christ's company but if food fail it is because Manna is to come if Wine bee absent yet grace and salvation is present if God takes away flesh and gives Manna deny Sun and Moon and gives himself hee doth us no wrong Now why doth God by his promise tye himself to bee present with us more especially in affliction but that hee may resist our enemies sustain us when wee faint and crown us when wee overcome but that hee may bee exact in taking notice of our particular sufferings and as David saith Count our wandrings put our tears into his bottle and enter all into his Register Psal. 56. 8. 9. All our afflictions are more noted by that God that sends them than of the patient that suffers them every pang and stitch and gird is first felt of him that sends it could wee bee miserable unseen wee had reason to bee heartless but how can it bee but less possible to indure any thing that hee knows not than that hee inflicted not As hee said to Manoah by an Angell Thou art barren Judg. 13. 3. so hee saith to one thou art sick to another thou art poor to a third thou art defamed thou art oppressed to another that all-seeing eye takes notice from heaven of every mans condition no less than if hee should send an Angell to tell us hee knew it and his knowledge compared with his mercy is the just comfort of all our sufferings O God! wee are many times miserable and feel it not thou knowest even those sorrows which we might have thou knowest what thou hast done do what thou pleasest CHAP. 36. That all afflictions from the least to the greatest do come to pass not by accident chance or fortune but by the especiall providence of God Section 1. 2. WEe shall bear the cross with more patience and comfort If wee consider that all afflictions from the least to the greatest do come to pass not by accident chance or fortune but by the speciall providence of God who not onely decreeth and fore-appointeth every particular cross Eccles. 3. 1. Rom. 8. 28. 29. but even effecteth them and brings them into execution as they are crosses corrections trialls and chastisements Isa. 45. 7. Amos 3. 6. and also ordereth and disposeth them that is limiteth and appointeth the beginning the end the measure the quality and the continuance thereof yea hee ordereth them to their right ends namely his own glory the good of his servants and the benefit of his Church Jer. 30. 11. Gen. 50. 19 20. 2 Sam. 16. 10. Psal. 39. 9. God useth them but as instruments wherewith to Work his good pleasure upon us As what are our enemies but God's Axes to cut us down not for the fire but for the God's Masons to ●…ew us here in the Mountain that wee may bee as the pollished corner stones of the Temple Psal. 144. 12. Or admit the Mason pulls down the House it is not with an intent to destroy it but to re-edifie it and raise it up again in better form and fashion Gods scullions to scowre up the vessell of his House that they may bee meet for the Masters use If then they bee but as instruments and tools in the hand of the workman wee must not so much look to the instrument as to the Author Gen. 45. 5. and 50 20. Well may the Priests of the Philistims doubt whether their plague bee from God or by fortune 1 Sam. 6. 2 9. but let a Joseph bee sold into Egypt he will say to his enemies Yee sent not mee hither but God when yee thought evill against mee God disposed it to good that bee might bring to pass as it is this day and save much people alive Or let a David bee railed upon by any cursed Shimei hee will answer Let him alone for hee curseth even because the Lord hath bid him curse David who dare then say wherefore hast thou done so 2 Sam 16. 10. Or let a Micha bee trodden upon and insulted over by his enemie his answer will bee no other than this I will bear the wrath of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my cause and execute judgment for mee Micha 7. 9. The believer that is conversant in God's book knows that his adversaries are in the hands of God as a hammer ax or rod in the hand of a smiter and therefore as the hammer ax or rod of it self can do nothing any further than the force of the hand using it gives strength 〈◊〉 to it so no more can they do any thing at all unto him further than it is given them from above as our Saviour told Pilate Job 19. 11. See this in some examples you have Laban following Jacob with one troop Esau meeting him with another both with hostile intentions both go on till the uttermost point of their execution both are prevented ere the execution for stay but a while and you shall see Laban leave him with a kiss Esau meet him with a kiss of the one hee hath an oath tears of the other peace with both God makes fools of the enemies of his Church hee lets them proceed