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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01750	Architectonice consolationis: or, The art of building comfort occasioned by the death of that religious gentlewoman, Iane Gilbert; to be studied: and with all a platforme of comfort to be raised up by her husband William Gilbert Doctor in Divinity.	Gilbert, William, 1597?-1640.	1640 (1640)	STC 11882; ESTC S103154	35,866	70

look to the strength of the out-works let us consider seriously the Contignation within which requires no lesse then five Attributes of God each of them will Minister strength of Comfort then surely their union will prove a blessed Communion of Comfort 1. Gods Wisdome is absolute and transcendently matchlesse in prescribing us convenient congruent and fitting comforts God knowes what is better for us then the best of us can for himselfe because God is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} wise of himselfe wisedome it selfe for his wisdome is not by infusion or gift or instruction or experience or observation but of himselfe from himselfe without any counsell taking all wise Now this was the way the Prophets were commanded to take in comforting the People of God Comfort yee comfort yee my people Isai. 40. 1. But how must they doe it they must goe this way to work vers. 13 14. they must teach the people that their God is a God of such infinite incommunicable Wisedome he needs no Director no Counseller no Instructer no Teacher I use not so many Synonymies as the Prophet doth there but by this we collect that the all-wise Disposer of all things good or evill secret or manifest universall or singular necessary or contingent must needs by the forceable influences of his Wisdome dart warmth and comfort into his people who are called the children of wisedome because they are able both by reason and experience to justifie all the wayes of wisedome as that the Reproach of Christ is better then the pleasure of sinne for a season witnesse Moses and one day in the Courts of God better then a thousand elsewhere witnesse David The ground they build upon is this that God knowes what is best for every one of his so saith David Psal. 1. The Lord knowes the way of the Righteous that is the beames of Gods Wisdome in acknowledging their miseries are so settled upon them that they are wonderfully comforted and refreshed in all their wayes This is the first contignation giving strength to the Building of Comfort Gods Wisedome The second needs little Probation for all strength is from Gods Power it being the Principle of active strength in every thing as God is purissimus Actus so by his power God is principium activum primitive power in himself derivative from him to all things created this omnipotency doth knit and unite the whole Building of Comfort because nothing can resist the Power of God there is more strength of power with us then against us this is that other comfortable Argument urged by the Prophet Isaiah 40. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out Heaven with the spanne and comprehended the Dust of the Earth in a measure and weighed the mountaines in scales and the hils in a ballance therefore for our infinite comfort God maugre all the adverse power can doe whatsoever he will as having his Name the mighty God Isaiah 9. 6. The third Contignation of the building of comfort Gods Justice is so absolute He can doe us no wrong that 's our comfort doe what he please the sorest chastisement that ever childe of God stood under was but his just Anger against him even the way of his displeasure was not unequall to punish our sinnes so severely in his own Sonne What more comfortable then this that all affliction is but Gods just pursuit of sinne in us to drive sinne out of us and us out of ourselves to flye wholly to our God Davids meate may be ashes and his teares mingled with his drink yet this proves a comfortable repast a sweet refreshing by reason that out of the Eater comes meat out of the strong comes hony out of Gods Justice against sinne issues true Comfort Fourth Contignation Gods Mercy God hath not more power then willingnesse to comfort us his Sonne being flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone in our Saviours desertion in the Garden and on the crosse he was content to want that unspeakable comfort in the presence of his Father both to beare the wrath of the Lord for a time for us and likewise to know the better how to comfort us in our greatest extremities 't is the Mercy of God that we are not consumed but tryed not for his pleasure but for our profit as a Father scourgeth his sonne yet pities his sonne so there is mercy with God that he may be feared as a Father and that we may be comforted as his children Thus the Father of mercies cannot but shew himselfe a God of all Consolation as St Paul joynes them together so the childe of God findes by Experience the Father of mercies is alwayes the God of all Comfort that is the fourth knitting and uniting of the Building of Comfort 5. Contignation Gods Truth it is no small Comfort that we are sure saith the Apostle Rom. 2. that the Judgement of God is according to Truth Truth it selfe must needs according to Truth in the inward parts judge all things but the height of Comfort is that Truth it self cannot but keep promise all the promises of Comfort in the Gospell the Word of truth ye may take Gods Word were it for a thousand Comforts why the world proposeth a thousand counterfait Comforts but our God in his Word doth furnish us with tenne thousand true reall Comforts Shortly all this knitting uniting faculty of comforting is by one joynt-view apprehended in Christ our Saviour thus 1. The Wisdome of his Father to know how and when to comfort us 2. From the Father all power is given him and authority of comforting us 3. His Fathers Justice is satisfied in him by becoming a man of sorrowes to comfort us a curse that we should not be accursed cursed be that man who accounts not this the greatest Comfort 4. and 5. for I finde them joyned together Heb. 2. 17. Christ made like to his brethren that he might be a mercifull and faithfull high Priest the words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} are comfortable words not only to compassionate us but to be true and Faithfull to us not to faile Christ will never faile us in the knitting and uniting of our Comfort within if we doe not faile our selves in setting up the Butteresses from without Christ is faithfull if we be not faithlesse There are three speciall Butteresses of the Building of Comfort 1. Submission to Gods Will a resignation of our selves to doe what he will with us is the main Fulciment Butteresse or spirituall shoare of true Comfort For in all crosses and losses of wife children friends c. the whole businesse is not to expresse sorrow but a submissive subjection to Gods good pleasure and will Eli failed much in the education of his sonnes yet he himself was a most dutifull childe to God his heavenly Father even when he heard that heavy judgement able to make both the eares of