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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04506	A godly exhortation made vnto the people of Antioch, by Iohn Chrysostome, sometime arch bishop of Constantinople: touching the patience and suffering affliction, by the examples of Iob, and the three children: and of refraining from swearing. Translated out of Latin into English, by Robert Rowse minister of the word of God	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Rowse, Robert.	1597 (1597)	STC 14633; ESTC S107986	15,074	56

continuall rest nor yet in long tribulation doing both these thinges according to his heauenly wisedome for hee suffereth vs not to enioy continuall ease least wee shoulde become more slouthfull and againe he suffereth vs not to bee in continuall trouble least we should vtterlie fall or dispaire Therefore let vs leaue the time of releasing our griefs vnto him and let vs onely liue in holinesse For the work that we haue to do is to be changed vnto vertue but it is the worke of God to dissolue aduersities for he hath a more ready will to quench this burning flame then thou thy selfe hast but he expecteth thy saluation Therefore as tribulation commeth of ease so also it is expedient after trouble to look for ease and mittigation of our griefes For neither is it alway winter nor alway sommer nor alway stormes nor alway calme weather nor alway night nor alway day so neither shall wee alway haue tribulation but there shall bee a mittigation if we alway giue thankes vnto God in trouble Dan. 3 For the three children were cast into the burning Ouen and yet for all that they forgat not to stand in their Religion neither did the fire make them afrayed but sitting in the Fornace as in a Chamber and feeling no greefe being circumspectly compassed bout with fire they powred out those holye prayers which they made Therfore the fire became vnto them as a wall the flame a garment and the ouen a fountane and the fire receiuing them bound made them loose It receiued their bodies which were mortall and abstained from them as if they had beene immortall the fire knewe not his owne nature but shewed reuerence vnto godlinesse The tyraunt bounde their feete and their feete did ouercome the force of the fire O wonderfull thing the flame loosed them that were bound and againe the flame was ouercome of them that were bound For the religion of the yong men did change the nature of things Yea verilie it chaunged not nature it selfe but that which was more wonderfull it restrained the force of nature which is permanent and durable It quēched not the fire but made it to bee without force while it burned And that which is wonderfull and may make vs astonied this was not done only in their bodies which were holy but also in their garments Act 9.11 12 Act. 5.15.16 and shooes And as in the Apostles the raiment of Paul did expel sicknesses and diuels and the shadow of Peter did driue away death so likewise here the shooes of the childrē quenched the power of the fire I know not in what maner I should declare it The miracle exceedeth all declaration that can be by wordes For the force of the fire was quenched and it was not quenched for when it was occupied about the bodies of those saints it was quenched and when it shuld breake their bonds in sunder it was not quenched therefore it brake their fetters and yet it touched not so much as their Ancles Thou seest what a neare connection there was neither was the fire chaunged and depriued of his power neither durst it proceede to execute his power beeing kept as it were within bondes The tyrant bound them and the flame loosed them that thou maist learne both what was the crueltie of that barbarous man and also the obedience of the Element But for what cause did he bind them to cast them into the fire That the miracle might be the greater that the signe might bee the more wonderful that thou shouldest not thincke that the thinges which were seene were a deceyuing of the eyes for except that that fire had beene fire it had not taken awaye their bondes and that which is a farre greater thing it had not deuoured those Souldiours which sate without But nowe the fire shewed his violence to those that were without and obedience to those who were within But consider thou with me in all respects howe the diuell by what things he striueth against the seruants of God by the same things hee destroyeth his owne power not willingly indeede but the wisdome and prouidence of God vsing his owne weapons and crafts vpon his owne head Which thing also here came to passe For the diuell then insinuating himselfe into that Tyrant did neither permit that the heades of those Saints should be cut off with the sworde nor that they should be giuen vnto beastes nor that they should be punished by any other such meanes but he counselled him that they should bee cast into the fire to the ende that not so much as the reliques of those Saints might remaine their bodies being cōsumed the ashes of thē mixed with the ashes of sticks and fuell But God vsed this meane to the destruction of the diuels wickednesse And after the same maner as I shall presently declare among the Persians the fire is supposed to bee God the barbarous people also which do now inhabite that countrey do worship the same with much honor God therfore willing vtterly to roote out this matter of vngodlinesse graunted a moderation to this torment to the end that hee might giue victorie vnto his seruants before the eyes of all them that truely worshipped him willing to perswade them by those his works that the Gods of the Gentiles doo not onely stand in feare of God but also they feare the seruants of God And consider the Crowne of victorie formed by contraries and the enemies themselues which were made witnesses of the victorie For saith the Prophet Nabuchodonosor the king sent foorth to gather togither the nobles the rulers dukes the iudges the Princes the counsellers and officers and all the gouernours of the prouinces that they should come to the dedication of the new image they were all assembled together The enemie compelleth the beholders and gathereth thē together to the sight he bestoweth diligence a Theater not of common persons not of certaine priuate men but of all the honourable and of all the Magistrates that there might also bee witnesse woorthie of credit among many They that were called came to see one sight and when they behelde other sights they went all away They came to worship the Image and when they saw what had happened they scorned the Image and departed wondering at the power of God by the miracle shewed in these childrē And behold where he had set this stage not in the citie nor in any seuerall coast but the plaine and bare fields do receiue this Theater of the world for he set vp the Image in the field of Dura without the Citie And an Herald passed by and cryed aloude Be it knowne to you O ye people nations and languages that when ye heare the sound of the trumpet pipe harpe the dulcimer the psaltery and simphonie and al kind of instruments of musicke ye fall downe and worshippe the golden Image for to worship the Image was to fall indeede and whosoeuer falleth not downe and worshippeth