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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03792	The troubled mans medicine verye profitable to be redde of al men wherein they may learne pacyently to suffer all kyndes of aduersitie made [and] wrytten by wyllyam Hughe to a frende of his.	Hugh, William, d. 1549.	1546 (1546)	STC 13910; ESTC S109482	59,726	236

bene safe yf they hadde be diligentlye obserued Or whan we fall into diseases whereof we myghte haue bene cleare if that vnholesome meates and diet infected places or persons had ben auoided Or when we be robbed or suffer other losses by neglygēce of our seruaūtes or euil wil of our neighbours Or wher we se that we myghte haue ben in good case yf this chaunce o that chaunce had be escaped yf this thinge or that thynge had not ben done Fynally whan we se oure selues by suche or lyke chaunces as I haue spoken of comme to myserye we thinke it rather to be imputed to euyll fortune then to the hand of god by the same meane sekynge or workynge oure wealth Truelye who soeuer is of this opynyon in my iudgemente semeth to be ignoraunte that God is prouidente and carefull for men Also to lacke the knoweledge of his mooste holy and holesome scryptures Math. 10. writeth that a sparowe which is a byrde of small estimacion can not fall to the grounde withoute oure heauenly father neyther a heere of a mans heade And shall we whiche be the shepe of his pasture his people and his sōnes whom he regardeth a thowsand tymes more then the sparowes thinke that the losse of those thinges whiche we haue enioyed be it riches helth or any other worldlye thinge eyther the misse of them whiche we haue desyred can chaunce withoute his wyll and godlye prouydence Who is so folysh to thinke that god regarding the heere 's of our heades which be neither greatly profitable nor necessary wyll contemne and neglecte thinges which pertayne to the susteining and necessitie of the whole bodies Who knoweth not that Iobs substāce decaied by diuerse chaūces as by tempestes thonders by theues robbers his frendes destroyed by the fallynge of an house which thinges to the infidele shulde haue semed bare chaunce and not inflicted by any godly power yet in dede as it is manifest in the history these were nothing els but meanes or instrumentes which the lorde vsed to the perfourmaunce of his wyll The holy Iob of all christen men muche to be folowed after that he hadde lost all and brought in maner to extreme miserye dyd not accuse his carpenters for buyldyng of a ruynous house neyther he cryed oute of fortune as the vnfaithful do nor yet founde faute at his herdemen in that they droue not his cattell diligentlye into the safe stables but considering the true cause of his calamitie and wretchidnes sayd these wordes Naked I came frome my mothers wombe and naked I shall go hence The lorde dydde gyue me welth and the lord hath taken it awaye As it pleased the lorde so it is done his name be blessed The blindnes of the elder Toby happening by swalowes donge that fell into his eyes as he laye slepinge and the pouertie which dyd succede semed to be ascribed onelye to chaunce But the aungel declared at the last that god dyd make hym both blynde and beggerly and that for a purpose Dauyd in his Psalmes doth euidently shew that our calamities come none otherwise but by the wyll and permission of god whiche tryeth vs as the golde is tryed in the fyry fornace beynge neuer the worse therfore but better purer Thou sayth he O lorde hast proued vs and as siluer is wont with fier hast examined vs thou hast brought vs into snares and layde tribulations vpon our backes Thou hast made men our enemies and set them in our neckes we haue passed by fyer and water Hieremye in the. 3. of his lamentations confirmeth this pronouncynge suche wordes Who sayth that it shulde be done the lorde not commaundynge Do not good and euill procede from the mouth of the highest The gentyles as blynde as they were of this thinge were not al together ignoraunte The Greake poete Hesiode in the begynnynge of his worke asketh what is the cause that some mē be vyle some noble some ryche other some poore he maketh aunswere hym selfe and sayth The wyll of the ●nyghty god The which sayeng I worde wisshe to be so well be●eued of Christen men as it was truely spoken of a blynde ethnyke Seyng therfore that misfortunes lacke or losse of ryches health and such other come not rashly but by the prouydence of our Celestrall father why shuld we not take them well in worth and after the example of Iob blessynge his name gyue hym thankes for them specialy consideringe that aduersities chaunsynge to them whiche loue the lord be not tokens of his yre neither argumentes that he casteth vs of but of a fatherly loue rather frendly care Thou shalte perceiue if thou reade diligētly the holy histories that the more parte of them whom god hath chosen to be of his lytle flocke haue ben wretchyd in the respecte of the worlde and myserable tos●e and tormoyled with manyfolde mysfortunes distracte and vnquieted with continuall sorowes Let Hely the prophet be for an example whome God loued so well that he wolde vouchsafe to communicate his counsel and misteries vnto him What quietnes I praye you or welth what riches or surety had he for al the frendeshyp that was betwyxte God and hym Trulye so much welth that he had neuer a house to put his head in Such plenty of meate and drynke that if the rauen and the aungell had not fedde hym he hadde perysshed ●w hunger Such quietnes that he coulde not tell whiche waye to turne him nor whyther to flee from the persecution of Achab Baales preistes and cruel Iesa bell Suche Ioye in this world that he desired oft to dye before he dyed What shuld I speake of Helise Hieremy and Hieu to be short of the greatest part of gods prophets which were euer wrapped in wo and deadly anguishe the worlde seldome or neuer ministringe any cause of gladnes comforte or solace I wyll not speake of the Apostels which be sides that they were poore and beggerlye all the dayes of their lyfe for gods worde were troubled threatned mocked scourged and at the laste to the syght of men myserablye dyed Oure mayster Christ the sonne of god wolde be an abiecte amonge the people and subiecte to afflictions innumerable shewyng the● by that his kyngdome neyther the kyngedome of them whiche be of his houshould is in this worlde He saith to his apostels Bycause ye be not of the worlde the world doth hate you Ihon. 15. which douteles loueth cheifly fauoureth them that be hyr naturall chyldren and chyldren of darknes regardinge more this temporal lyfe then the lyfe whiche is promysed to them whiche cieue wholy to the lord our god Scripture not dyssemblynge with vs but tellynge playnlye whereto we shal sticke teacheth that they whiche be of god shall as in the stead of a recognisaūce suffer afflictions aduersities troubles All they that wyll line vertuouslye in Christ shall be afflicted 2. Timoth. 3. Hieremye speakyng in the person of god Hieremy 25. sayeth In the citie wherein my name is inuocate I

consydre the ly●lye● of the felde howe they growe they labour not neyther spynne yet for al the I say vnto you that euen Salamon in al his royalty was not arayed like vnto one of these Wherfore if god so cloth grasse which is to daye in the felde to morowe shall be caste into fornace shall he not muche 〈◊〉 do the same vnto you D ye of lyttell faith Therefore take 〈◊〉 thought sayenge What shall we eate or what shall we drinke 〈◊〉 wherewith shall we be clothed After all these thynges seke the gentyles For your heuenly father knoweth that ye haue nede of all these thynges But rather seke fyrst the kyngdome of god the ryghtuousnes therof and all these shall be ministred vnto you Thus by promyse made by the mouth of Christe wherein was neuer founde disceyte nor gyle we shall lacke nothyng yf we be faithful that is necessary for vs. I haue bene yonge sayth the prohet and I haue waxed olde yet I neuer sawe the ●uste lefte nor ●s sede beggynge breade Psal 〈◊〉 Calte thy cogitations on the lord and he shall nourishe the. 〈◊〉 4. be you carefull for no worldely thynge but with prayer and obsecration lette your petitions 〈◊〉 knowen of god Philip. 4. He that geueth seede to the sower shal giue vs both meat drinke 〈◊〉 Cor. 9. Comforte we our selues therefore beleuynge these promises neuer despairinge vttetly But bicause we beleue those thinges the better whereof we haue profe I wyll bringe examples whereby ye shal se that go● both wil is able to perfourm so muche for his faythful as he hath promised Daniell cast into the lyons denne many a mile from all such frendes as wolde ministre meate or drinke to hym ha●● meat sodenly sent of god by th● prophet Abacuck Sampson almost lost for thirst after the conflict that he had with the Phili●ans praied to god foūd drink in an asses Iawes Agar on the wildernes dispairing of hir o●● life and hir childe 's for lacke 〈◊〉 vittles with many a salte tealaieng the childe farre from her lest hir motherly eyes shuld sed dye was fedde of god cōforted beiond hir expectaciō The poore woman of Sarepta lokyuge to dye with hir chylde the day after the prophet came to hir house had hir oyle meale so augmented the she lacked not tyl the time of plentye returned Therefore whā so euer any lacke happeneth be it of corne or such other necessaries dispaire we not calling to ●emēbraūce this example let vs thinke with out selfes that god is able at al times to encrease out corue ●yenge in the barne growyng in the fylde beynge breade in the ●uen yea or in thy mouth at his pleasure as well as he dyd the oyle or meale of the woman of Sa●epta or the oyle of the dettours wife by his prophet Helise But 〈◊〉 it so chaunce that no hope be left of our temporall norysshmet yet haue 〈◊〉 no iuste cause to dispayre Remembryng that scrypture saith mā doth not onely liue in bread but in euery worde that procedeth frō the mouth of god The omnipotent god dyd vse at mour and weapons yet not necessarily as instrumentes by the which he dyd gyue to his people Israel many victories yet his power was onely the chiefest an● for of the same So though he vse meates drinkes as meanes wherby he nourissheth vs yet the principall cause of our sustentation is his vertue and godly power and as he dydde often gy● victories to the Israelites their handes and weapons not moued at all So hath he also fedde and cā do agayn his faithful though worldly meate and drinke be not vtterly ministred A better proftnedes not than the example of 〈◊〉 oyfes and Hely whom he susteyned with his heuenly power the spaee of fourtye daycs without the ministratiō of any worldly fedynge Therfore as Dauyd sayed my sworde shall not saue me neither yet wyl I trust in my bowe So saye we our meates drynkes shall not saue vs neyther wyl we trust in worldly thin ges for the power of god susteyneth vs and in hym wyl we trust by whome all thynges doo consiste Col. 1. Which susteyneth all thinges with the word of his power Heb. 1. whiche openeth his hand filleth euery beast with his blessinge Psa 145. whose hand being open all thynges are fylled with goodnesse whose face turned awaye all thynges are troubled whose spirit withdrawen al thiu ges shall sayle be brought into dust 103. Which saueth man and beast 36. Which couereth the heauens with clowdes prepareth rayne for the grounde and bryngeth forth grasse in the mountaynes whiche geueth to beastes their meate and to the chykēs of the rauens callynge vpon hym 36. in hym to whome all these thinges be iustlye asscribed do we lyue moue and be Act. 17. In whom of whom and by whome all thinges are to whom be glorye for euer Roma 11. Yf ye haue respect to the afore going examples ye shal perceiue that the lorde after he hath brought vs euen to the extremytye as the Psalmyste sayeth can and wyll yf it be expediente delyuer vs. Not onelye from hunger and thyrste but frome all other miseries harmes and aduersities frome persecution and drowenynge frome fyre and oure enemyes frome syckenesse sclaunders and deathe Who delyuered Dauid so ofte vniustlye persecuted from the bloudye handes of Saule The three chyldren thruste into the whote fornace from burnynge Noe from drowenynge Lot frome the vengeance that light on So dome and Gomor Danyel from the hungry mouthes of the liōs the Israelites from the Egiptians their ennemyes from seruitute and intollerable bondage Ioseph from sclaunders Susanna from the cruell death the sclauderoūs Iudges wold haue put hyrto Peter from his bandes and Imprisonment Who restored so many lepres to clennes amōges the Iewes Peters mother in lawe frome hir ague to helth so many lame to their lymmes so many blind to their sight was it not the myghty hande of god which is not yet abbrcuiate neyther weakened but as strōge as euer it was And thoughe it please hym to deferre oure delyueraunce as it chaunced te Ioseph to Israell oppressed with the Egiptians whereby his glory may be more illustrate yet let vs thinke no other but he hathe bothe power and wyll to helpe saue vs from all miseries what so euer they be if it stande with our soules health and his glory If it do not he wyll not yf he loue vs if he will not let vs take in goodworth and conforme our willes to his Playenge the part of a wyse pacient whiche wolde be glad to haue his disease and the cause thereof expelled by kepynge a harde diete and receyuynge of bitter medycynes one moneth and no legar if it might be But in case his syckenes can not be healed except he vse those bytter medicines and hard dyet an hole yere He wyl rather so do in hope of healthe afterwarde than by