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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86883	A Brief receipt moral & Christian, against the passion of the heart, or sore of the mind, incident to most, and very grievous to many, in the trouble of enemies. / Being one single sermon by I. H. Minister of Froome. Published at this rate by itself, that any who need it, and have it. For the ease and benefit especially of the more tender, weak and melancholy; who feel these arrows stick in their spirits, but know not the way of plucking them out, or aswaging the pain of them.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3672; Thomason E1895_1; ESTC R209916	24,345	123

A BRIEF RECEIPT MORAL CHRISTIAN AGAINST The Passion of the Heart or Sore of the Mind incident to most and very grievous to many in the troubles of Enemies BEING One single Sermon by I. H. Minister of Froome Published at this rate by it self that any who need it may have it For the ease and benefit especially of the more tender weak and melancholy who feel these arrows stick in their spirits but know not the way of plucking them out or asswaging the pain of them Have mercy on me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed Psal 6 2. London Printed for E. Blackmore and are to be sold at the Angel in Pauls Church-Yard 1658. Christian Reader AS there are diseases infirmities and hurts in the body so are there in the mind where we feel them too as sensibly I wish I could say we did not And as we seek out to those who have skill or experience for remedies and do use many in the one it is pitty if we be quite defective in the other It is true every Physician will not fit every disease A man may be good for one that is good for nothing in another Nor will every word administred to the weary by the tongue of the Learned or the prudent which is better reach his wound and bring oyl to it VVhat is said but gives not refreshment It is not words that heal a soar a Medicine A man must have felt studied tryed and passed what he speaks that speaks to the heart in the anguish of another There are two wayes and let me tell you but two I think whereby the Soul when it ailes any thing is helped The one is when it comes to be perswaded that that thing which troubled or vexed it is not evill or so evill but well for it This cure is perfect The other way when it cannot but take the thing to be evill and grievous is by diversion or with-drawing the mind or thoughts from it to other things that are pleasing and so wear it away Veneranda malorum oblivio quantum sapis The later of these may serve where the spirit is more airy or the grief light but when the impression hath sunk deep and the temper is melancholy these thoughts will return and the first way only is left for us Now there is none thing in the World which is a Catholicon or Universall means let the malady be whatsoever it will so far as it lies in the mind for the accomplishing this but it is a certain thing that is hard to come by very hard to be had and that is Faith to wit when a man that hath sincerely and unreservedly given up himself to the service of Christ does beleeve most stedfastly according to that promise Ro 8.28 that all things shall work together for his good Let such a man be vexed or troubled grieved or afflicted his ease is at hand and that too compleat For then I say are all our vexations perfectly cured when the mind comes to see that to be good which it thought to be evill Now faith makes the man see this that all these things shall certainly work for the best to him Let Faith come the Mountain is removed when before the Grassehopper was a burden and a hair a weight But alas as our Saviour foretels us Luke 18.8 where shall we find such a Faith constant and uniform as this is even almost in the Earth There is another thing then must be forced to help us here to supply Faith's office as that is wanting in this work and that is our Reason which as it makes various efforts upon the affections so hath it a various successe For I find that although in some passions that do rise from more considerable causes as to be moved at the death of Friends some huge losses and the like which Reason judges to be equal and at first sides with them It bears a great stroak in the Soul so that as soon as the brunt is a litle over the affections hearken to it and are allayed by it Yet in some others that meet happily more closely with our complexions and so are not lesse pungent when there is lesse cause of them the matter is not so great but the mind is more engaged and Reason thereupon opposing the same and checking our selves from the beginning for the very rising the affections here come not so soon to be ordered but mutinying rather look upon Reason as it were a party against them which the more it chides and upbraids them the more are they but exasperated and fling away from it so that they will not and cannot be perswaded and wrought upon by it but those things which do vex them comming hereby more to be pondered do peirce and stick the deeper in them If this lays us not bare I do mean the more we come to see it unreasonable for us to be moved so much as we are moved in many cases so impotent is passion so touchy infirmi●y the more it moves us to be thus moved that we ought not and are and cannot help it Nay indeed while reason goes contrary our passions appear weaknesse and what is weaknesse we are willing to hide and then the passion which vent should let out concealment keeps in and foments to its height Mens intus agitat vulnera et semet dolor accendit And here it is true the evill it self lyes in the fancy more than the things yet does not the telling this presently cure us though at the first glance this may sometimes do somthing but the very knowing that it is but our fancy when we poar more upon it afflicts us more desperately seeing the smart is not the lesse and the cure we find but the harder for this For when we might get the things to be changed yet how shall we get off the evil in the mind The matter may be gon passed away yet the impression remains in our own imaginations Not that we are lest though without all remedy while it is good to know the worst for God hath made every thing that is in this life subject to change Time is an herb of Soveraign virtue And as our joys and comforts are mutable so are our griefs our vexations Blessed be his goodness for his If our Faith then do fail us our reason cannot serve us yet God can help us The Lord can offer advantages both and give the occasion how they shall work For I perceive though our passions indeed be irregular they have some guide and way of their own and to arm at least neer as the thing is when our Reasons reason will not prevail our passions own reason will get the hearing and if we can tell then how to wind in with them it will yeeld satisfaction The subject of the ensuing penfull of Notes written out by me at t he request of a reverend neighbour at first but importuned to the