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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43179	The Christians dayly solace in experimentall observations; or, cordials for crosses in thse sad and calamitous times of affliction. By R.H.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1277A; ESTC R222583	65,001	166

to him no doubt to hear of the slaughter of 85. of the Lords Priests occasioned by his comming to Nob and all the Citty put to the edge of the sword 1 Sum. 22.17 18. Again into what distress was he and his company driven to when he was forst to become an eloquent begger and that to such a Churl as Nabal that in stead of an Almes or a good answer he term'd him no better then a Runnagate 1 Sam. 25.10 How many times was he in jeopardy of his life what hard shifts was he driven too he fained himselfe mad before Achish King of Gath. 1 Sam. 21.13 being in great feare there But never was he more neer it then when his own people and companions spake of stoning him his griefe was so great for the burning of his Citty Ziklag and the carrying away his Wives and Friends that he wept so much he could weep no more and yet in stead of comforting him they cause him to be deeply distressed when they spake of stoning him 1 Sam. 30.6 Now these were his sufferings before he was crowned King all which were but as a Praeludium to his after sorrowes his first may be termed as it were forraigne the latter domestical The first more on the body the latter more on the Spirit and both againe had a sufficient share What saddest disasters befell himselfe and family into what a notion of sorrows had he plung'd himselfe into by his committing adultery and hiding it with murder what a heavy doome did he bring upon his house what perplexity upon his Spirit and though God had pardoned him upon his true repentance yet the Sword did never depart from his house What a cutting Corasive was it to him when his beloved wife Michal shall scornfully jeere him and that in the service of God what griping griefes did even tare his tender heart in sunder to hear that his Daughter Tamar shall be abused and that by her own Brother 2 Sam. 13.14 and that afterward this incestious Son shall be slain by his Brother Absalom and at that time too when he was in his Cups that Absalom shall requite his Fathers pardon and indulgence with the worst ingratitude the greatest rebellion was ever heard off which we may read at large in 2 Sam. 15.16 17 18. That another of his darlings Adonijah will be so bould to step into his Fathers Throne and say hee 'l be King before his Father hath surrendred it up to nature And doubtlesse all those sorrowes were not to be compared to the sadnesse of his soule for sin which we may abundantly read in many of his mournfull Psalmes there he casts up the accounts of his sorrowes when and where and how they were inflicted his being slighted and forsaken by his friends abused and scorned by his enemies was not the least of his miseries yet for as much as sin became so heavy a burden to him he bore all the better for where sin is felt heavy there sorrowes will seem light he was conscious he had deserv'd that and worse and this made him in a sweet submission to kisse the rod which this Shimei whipt him withall suffer him God hath bidden him David being a man after Gods own heart knew the order of Gods proceedings so well that he must smart soundly for his sins of adultery and murder that God would be just in making good what he had threatned and not a sillable of it fall to the ground and therefore he meekneth his spirit to a quiet and humble submission to bear the anger of the Lord because he had finned against him and therefore he professeth Psal 39.9 that he was dumb and opened not his mouth because the Lord had done it In the 2 Sam. 12.10 Nathan from the Lord fearfully threatens a heavy judgement upon David for his sins Thus saith the Lord because thou hast despised me and done thus and thus the sword shall never depart from thy house but I will raise up evill against thee out of thine own house and I will take thy Wives and give them to thy neighbour and he shall lye with them for thou didst it secretly but I will do this thing before all Israel and this Sun Now God goes roundly to work with David himselfe now every word must be fulfilled David had dealt treacherously with Vriah David shall be dealt withall in as treacherous a manner by his subject his bosome friend yea by his beloved Son He abused his neighbours wife he shall have the same measure redoubled into his own bosome He had caused the enemies of God to blaspheame his name he shall have his own name so spit upon that he shall become a scorn and a by-word to his enemies a stranger to his friends and a song to the very drunkards In these nine verses we may observe these four particulars 1 David's coming to Bahurim 2 Shimei's meeting and abusing David aggravated by four remarkable circumstancies 1 By his railing at David saying come out come out thou bloody man and thou man of Beliall charging him with all the blood of the house of Saul vers 7. 2 His cursing him all along as he went v. 5. 13. 3 By his throwing stones and casting dust at him 4 He pretends a sufficient warrant for what he did and would make him believe God had now found him out and would reckon with him vers 8. The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead thou hast reigned and the Lord hath delivered thy Kingdome into the hand of Absalom thy Son and behold thou art taken to thy mischiefe because thou art a bloody man 3 Here is Abishai's perswading David to avenge himselfe vers 9. Why should this dead Dog curse my Lord the King let me goe I pray thee and take off his head 4 We have David's humility under Shimei's inhumanity exprest in five circumstances 1 His indignation at the thoughts of revenge vers 10. what have I to do with you ye Sons of Zeruiah as if he should have said I will have nothing to do with those that cannot bear an injury 2 His looking off the stone to God that threw it vers 10 11. The Lord hath bidden him 3 His patient submitting under the hand of God vers 10. So let him curse because the Lord hath said curse David who shall then say wherefore hast thou done so 4 His justifying of God in his way of proceeding vers 11. Behold my Son which came forth of my bowels seeketh my life how much more may this Benjamite do it as if he should have said if it be good enough for me that my sin hath procured my Son to become a Rebell and Traytor to me his Father and lay my life in the d●st it is no wonder if a stranger take this advantage and trample upon me too seeing me so low 5 His comforting himselfe with hopes of being benefited by this affliction vers 12. It may be

he fell foulest because he was most prosperous And therefore an afflicted estate is most safest yea and often most sweetest There is a fruite in the least crosse we should therefore looke more at the fruite then deliverance from the crosse the longer it continues the more we may get by it 1 If we consider the good which comes to us through the Malice of man we re●d of Jacob when he sent Joseph to Dothan to visit his brethren they cast him into a pit Reuben more pittifull then the rest relieves him but sells him to the Midianites they sell him againe to Potiphar his Mistresse accuseth him his Master condemneth him imprisons him the Baker after long forgetfullnesse commends him to Pharaob on the occasion of his dreame and thus is he exalted How many instruments were here not one looking to God or to one another Onely the Lord of Ezechiels wheeles turnes all about for the good of his children So David goes on in Battell against Israell with Achish King of Gath with whom for a while he sojourned in the time of his banishment The Princes of the Philistimes command him to go back and this they did only to disgrace him because they did distrust him But 't was for his good for had he gone on he had been guilty of the bloud of Israel especially of Saul who was slaine in that Battell whereas now he is free both from the blood of Israel and from the censure of the Philistimes they cannot blame him for going back because it 't was in obedience to their command Thus we see the Church in Q●eene Hester's time what was plotted for their ruine turned for their farther deliverance and Hamans malice to Mordecay shall be the first step to his preferment Many a Saint whose names doe now breath forth a fresh perfume in the Church of God would have lived and died obscurely had not the malice of others pounded them in the morter of afflictions The wicked saith one are as it were Gods Phisitions by the poyson of their malice they purge out the poyson of sin from out of the soules of his servants They are the Lords scullions and their office is to make cleane the vessels of honour They serve as an antidote to keep us from the contagious infection of sin and truely this may be one reason why the Lord thinketh it fitter to serve his owne providence of wicked men that he may bring good out of evill then not permit any evill at all Thus were all the ends of the King of Affiria and the outrages of his army directed by God to that maine end inchastifeing his people I hough as the Lordplainly affirmeth he never so much as thought so or ever aimed at this end Isa 10.7 And this many times the cruelty and oppression of proude insolency that can not looke but with disdaine conttempt make the Lord to pitty the distressed the sooner and to arise and set hi● own in safety from them that poff●ah at them Psal 12. Another out of malice to our persons and a desire to revenge misconceived wrongs and supposed injuries seekes our utter ruine indeavouring to make our names odio●s to countenance their owne cause thinking they have laid a sound foundation of their own glory upon the ruines of our reputation and estates But this oft turns to our greater advantage when God shall at length m●nifest our inn●c●ncy mauger all their plo●s and projects so that whosoever blowes out the candle of our reputation with too strong a breath doth but make a stink to blowe it in againe and it were well thought o● it is their malicious breath that makes so i●a savour not our snuffe O hers cannot love us because they cannot or they will not because they will not and so force themselves to an Antipathy looking upon all our actions with the greene spectacles of prejudice c●nstraing or rather misconstruing all actions or intensions according to their owne opinion put●ing false glosses on all plaine tex●s these are very ready to fide with a depraving multitude whereby they become accessary of injury if the injury be great they will proceed to hate those whom they have m●l gned hatred in time will turne to implacable malice so that their houses are too hot for our neighbourhood nay may be a whole Towne will in time ●steeme us as Nauseous to their quaesy st●macks and therefore we must out as the frith of the stree●s These are like t●e m●n of Ephesus who cried and made a lo●de noise some for one thing and some for another but the most part knew not wherefore they were come together Acts. 19.32 So these cry out that such are people want not any fault though they cannot make manifest any one thus may times one barking dog sets all the curs in a Towne a bauling at nothing sometimes or at the moone But this likewise workes for the best to a more circumspect walking among so many Criticall enemies and truly we never walk so warily as when we have many enemies to watch us But if their cruelty will not indure our company any longer but that we must be constrained to secke a new habitation which many of Gods deare children are forced in those saddest times having lost their old but this may by the blessing of God turn to a great advantage Their malice doth but transplant us into a better soil where we may thrive more bear our fruit with more safty comfort without such fear of being nipt in the bud O● else they drive us to a more narrow search and greater longings for that City above whose foundations are so stable and sure that no enemy can deprive us off where is no plundering or oppressions when all the malice of man or devill shall never be able to drive us thence Another sort there are which sometimes were very hot and eager in the pursuite of their love professing their love shall hold out when others tire their 's shall live and flow when all others are dead and dry like Peters boasting which will sight valliantly for a spurt and doe it may be more then is required but when they see their friends over powered by insolent authority then they 'le deny their acquaintance and neither owne them nor their cause This have been the case of many and therefore the lesse to be wondred at David complaines pittifully thou hast put my lovers and friends far from me and my acquaintance into darknesse and this may comfort us the more when we consider God hath a hand in their estrangement and therefore cannot chuse but be for good we shall ever after be more wise then rest and lean upon such slender props that at the best will bend if not breake and looke upon the choicest friends to be subject to mutability as mortality and to be wary of that love which is ripe so suddainly those rath-ripes as we may call them will soone rot all violent things in nature cannot