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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56635	A consolatory discourse perswading to a chearfull trust in God in these times of trouble and danger. By Symon Patrick rector of St. Paul Covent Garden.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing P777; ESTC R216914	13,373	17

he will not trust his word which hath expressly told us that he who walks uprightly shall be saved but be that is perverse in his waies shall fall at once Prov. 28.18 You must live soberly righteously and godly in the world if you will have any comfort You must walk with God if you will be under his shadow When you run away from him you flee from your shield and lose your confidence of his protection In evil waies you are insecure and there the Angel of death is most like to meet you But let all those that put their trust in God rejoyce let them ever shout for joy For thou Lord wilt bless the righteous with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield Psal 5.11 12. Where the righteous you may observe and they that put their trust in God are the very same men and the only persons that can rejoyce and expect that he will defend them from all that will prove hurtfull to them Thus I have briefly shown you of what this Ancient and Divine Remedy doth consist All that remains is to reflect and consider if there be nor both great cause thus to trust in God and also such great comfort in so doing that a man may shout for joy as you heard the Psalmist just now express it As for the Cause there are so many grounds of our confidence as there are Perfections in God His Goodness is so great that he delights in our happiness His Wisdom is so great that he cannot mistake nor make any choice of that for us which is pernicious His Power is so great that as nothing can come to pass without his leave so nothing can be hindered which his Wisdom and Goodness will have done He is Faithfull and just also and cannot but make good his Word And besides he is so immutable that he alwaies governs the World by the same eternal Rules and gives us thereby the same hopes in him that good men have ever had Why do we not rejoyce in God then as well as they What comfort would you have that is not here to be found Are good hopes in the Immortal only Wise God nothing worth Or can they give but a feeble support to those that are owners of them If they can do any thing you see plainly there is great cause for them and greater then for many other things They are secured so many waies that it is manifest God would not have us want the comfort of them The Power of God for example sake may make you fear him and there is great reason for it but it will not produce love to him On the other side the Goodness of God will make you love him but it doth not so easily produce fear These affections grow as it were on single roots and that which bears the one doth not bear the other But as for Trust in God that grows upon them both The Power of God will make us confide him as well as his Goodness And besides the Wisdom the Justice the Faithfulness and the Eternity of God give strength and force unto our confidence All these are apt to beget in us assurance of good from him so that if that be of any moment to our support and consolation we cannot well be without them And verily it is of exceeding great consequence The comfort that it gives is infinite and cannot be limited It extends it self to all things to every case and condition of life There is no evil which threatens us in this world but it can help and arm us against the assaults of it It cuts off all the matter of our trouble We need not fear any thing We need not be carefull for any thing We need not torment our selves with restless desires And there is no cause that we should be wounded with any grief and sorrow We have nothing left us to do but only to rejoyce alwaies because we are in his hands who exerciseth loving kindness judgement and righteousness in the earth and protests that in these things he delights Ier. 9.24 In this we way glory and make our boast This may justly fill us with joy and gladness which are the only passions that this Trust leaves in possession of the heart We may say continually let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants There is nothing can fall out in which we may not rest exceedingly satisfied We may welcome any thing with a pleasant countenance because it is the appointment of our loving Father to whose care we have lest the ordering of all that belongs to us It is impossible any thing should come to us unless the goodness of God be first consulted No Plague for instance can smite us but Almighty Power must first give way There cannot the least thing which we call evil so much as touch us but infinite Wisdom must content unto it And who would be troubled if these shall bid poverty or sickness or the loss of friends or death it self go to him Where is his wit that would bid them stay away when God comnands them to come Will any man that is advised take it ill that that is done which the infinite Wisdom and Goodness appoints Will he desire any thing should be other waies then as that shall direct What contentment could a man take in a place if it were possible to stay in it against the will and pleasure of heaven Or to what purpose is it to wish to remain any longer here when the Sovereign of the World would remove us to another and a better Country No we should say chearfully The will of the Lord be done It is the Lord let him do as seems good in his sight Now Lord will thy servants depart in peace We will come now that thou callest us Thou art good and thou dost good and therefore we will readily follow thee though thou leadest us to the grave I know indeed that there are many who would be glad if I could say something else unto them And who would rejeyce more then I doubt they will do in this discourse if I could give them ground to believe that they shall certainly be preserved by confidence in God from the infection that is abroad This is the thing which they look for They are much in love with life and so they would think themselves happy if they could be assured they shall not lose it They would fain have us to put this confidence into their minds by putting it into the nature of Trust in God It is worth little they imagine if this perswasion be not intermixed with it And if the 91 Psalm be not thus expounded they can take but small comfort in the reading of it But as I am loath to deceive any body so I would not willingly have men deceive themselves by misunderstanding that and other places of Holy Writ I would not have them be more Bold then truly confident the effect of which