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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04251	The good mans refuge in affliction. Or A most profitable and comfortable sermon, preached by Iohn Barlovv. And now published especially for the good of them that bee, or haue been afflicted inwardly in minde, or outwardly in body	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1618 (1618)	STC 1437; ESTC S114145	26,781	52

Creator Cain will curse and cry to Gen. 4.5 when he cannot expect and rest in a cheerfull acceptation from the Lord but let all the creatures in the earth and the whole hoast of Heauen band themselues against vs If God be with vs Rom. 8.31 who can be against vs to hurt vs trouble vs And what may bee the reason of this Reason 1 Why the Lord is the onely obiect of their loue and he in whom their soule principally delighteth wherefore enioying him they haue all they would Gen. 45.28 Let Iacob heare that Ioseph his sonne is yet aliue he hath enough If the King come home safe Ziba may keepe the land 2 Sam. 19.30 for Mephibosheth is satisfied Could but the sonne of Hamor match with Dinah Gen. 34.19 his Circumcision will bee endured and though the daughters in the countrey bee denied him yet shall he be well contented Giue but Rahel children Gen. 30.1 Luk 1.29 and she will not die And let Simeon see his Sauiour and he will die And how are these contrary effects produced Why loue is the cause thereof so let Gods children enioy the subiect of their affection they will rest in it with full contentation in all affliction Reason 2 Because they beleeue then and know that all shall worke together for good at their latter end Rom. 8.18 For being assured of the one they neuer need to doubt of the other and grant but the first and the second will ensue of necessity Will it not reioyce the poore patient that his Physition doth affect him for then he is assured that if he can hee will and God can cure him If we haue the Iudge for our friend and father what need wee to feare the many inditements preferred against vs Let Moses haue the Lord to looke vpon him Pharaohs frownes cannot feare him and let God but thinke on vs and we thinke on him he by affection wee by faith we need not to shake or shadder but walke on cheerfully and resolutely in the valleyes of teares Psal 23.4 and the very shadow of death Dauid in his greatest troubles speaketh thus to the Lord Thou hast giuen ioy in my heart more then of the time when their corne and their new wine were multiplied Psal 4.7.8 In peace together will I lye downe and sleepe for thou Iehouah alone wilt seate me in confidence preserue my soule in safetie Now from this point thus proued we learne these things Vse 1 And first what 's the true cause why so many are shaken with euery blast and flie like chaffe before the least wind of affliction Alas they haue not made the Lord their portion neither bee assured of his affection their loue leanes on some other subiect and that once failing they fall for euer He that affecteth the earth if it grow barren hee will still be bawling and he that expects treasures from a farre let the wind but rise and the water swell his body will sweat and his soule be troubled within him the sea is not so much tossed but he is as much terrified the one casts not vp more mire and mud then the other feare and despaire Mat. 27.5 1. Sam. 3● 4 2. Sam. 17.23 Shall wee thinke that Iudas would haue hanged himselfe Saul fallen on his owne speare or so wise a wight as Achitophel proued his owne executioner if God had been the obiect of their affection and they put confidence in him in their affliction No it had been a thing impossible And therefore we may hence safely conclude that the want of the assurance of Gods sauour is the true cause why men in discontent and crosses become their owne executioners For that which they affect most wanting power to content and preserue them or being remoued from them they hauing no other God in their present apprehension often become their owne bloudy Butchers to drowne hang or murther themselues And doe but obserue it and what I haue spoken you shall find verified by experience Vse 2 And in the second place we may hence learne the true ground why Gods children haue so reioyced in affliction and it is this and no other namely their assurance of Gods fauour and affection He that beleeueth in the Lord by faith is linked to him in loue and perswaded that God thinkes on him will embrace death desire iudgement and neuer tremble at the most terrible tidings Heb. 11.8 Abraham will goe hee knowes not whither Daniel into the Denne Daniel 6. Gen. 28. Ruth 1.6 and Paul to prison hauing this confidence of the Lords fauour Iacob will leaue his fathers house Ruth runne into a strange Countrie Hebr. 12.23 and Christ embrace the Crosse endure the shame when God thinkes on them How should Iob haue endured the stealth of his cattel Job 1. 2. burning of his corne and the sudden death of all his children when their bones were bruised and broken their bloud and braines sprinkled and spread on the posts and timber his VViues bitter words Curse God and dye for so the place is to bee vnderstood for it 's probable Satan spared her life to that purpose to tempt him and it was the end he aimed at He will curse thee to thy face why should wee then imagine that hee put not that tart and cruell phrase into her mouth for he is wise in his proceedings if the certaintie of the Lords loue had not supported him Had it once been possible for fraile men Heb. 11. and weake women to haue endured burning hewing asunder and to be rent on the Racke but vpon this ground VVhy then see the true cause of ioy in sorrow and giue the Lord his deserued praise whose power is the most made manifest in our weakenesse wofulnesse wretchednesse 2. Cor. 12.9 Vse 3 Finally wouldest thou be able to stand in the euill day and the sad times of tentation and persecution then striue more and more to be assured of the Lords affection endeauour to possesse Dauids darling get Gods affection once shed abroad in thy heart be sure of this and thou shalt endure the greatest storme cut the strongest streames of the raging tide and land safe at the hauen of Heauen VVe in pollicy prepare cloakes for wet prouision for winter and a staffe against the time of decrepit old age and shall wee not prouide for death and iudgement VVhat can support thee in the times of trouble the hower of thy departure but some perswasion of Gods fauor Could Pharaohs Horses the Rich Mans purple the Fooles great barnes or Iesabel her painting if thou hadst them No no these are but a vaine thing a sandy foundation and a staffe of Reed that will either stocke thee fast or breake in shiuers piercing thy hands through with many sorrowes Therefore in the feare of God thinke on this one thing for death will come and will not tarry and if thou haue not this fixed fast in the