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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00581	Comfort to the afflicted. Deliuered in a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse the xxi. day of May, M. DC. XXVI. Being the last Sunday in Easter terme. By Antony Fawkener, Mast. of Arts, of Iesus Colledge in Oxford	Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2.	1626 (1626)	STC 10718; ESTC S118330	17,791	36

Amos. 9.5 He comforteth by the touch of his mercie when he will forgiue for so Iesus touched the Leper and he was healed S. Math. 8.3 He toucheth by the touch of his mercie and iustice together when he will trie and so the hand of God hath touched Iob. In whose tryall respect the affliction and view Gods Iustice looke vpon the end and behold his mercie He was sinfull therefore might lawfully be punished yet God afflicts him more to proue him than to punish him The Lord will rebuke him yet not in his anger he will chastise him but not in his wrath Because he hath sinned he may I and shall be afflicted and yet by that scourge not so much punished as proued Thus all things proue to the good of the elect If they sinne they shall be punished yet their punishment shall be the witnesse of their triall and that he path-way to their glorie God will not cocker his children but correct them and strike hardest where he loues most The man after his owne heart shall roare for paine and iust Iob complaines The hand of God hath touched Mee Vox clamantis in deserto Mee The voyce of one crying in the Wildernesse That was S. Iohn Baptist Here is another vox clamantis the voyce of a crier 't is in the wildernesse too His soule was desolate and affected vncouth places as much as Dauid who was like a Pellican of the wildernesse and like an Owle of the Deserts He was the Baptist too Psal 102.6 but meerely passiue Baptismosanguinis he was baptized with the baptisme of affliction and that he is a Crier as well as S. Iohn is intimated by his name Iob which signifies a fearefull howling We know the storie of him and the scope of it s the manifestation of Gods triall of mans patience in miserie Each one knowes the afflictions of the man of the East Iob but who takes notice of the woman of the North our Metropolis Here is a third vox clamantis the voyce of one crying I and in the Desert For loe Satan the Dragon hath persecuted her as the woman in the wildernes Nay her whole selfe not long agone was but a wildernesse if you will take a Desert for a place desolate Rev. 12.14 S. Gregories complaint was renewed and the ruines by him deplored truly patterned in that example Habitatores non exparte subtrahuntur sed pariter corruunt Domus vacuae relinquuntur Filiorum funera parētes aspiciunt et sui eos adinteritum haeredes praecedunt The stately towers of Sion were become the habitation of Satyres her people not by degrees plucked vp but mowed downe together in full swathes Lo a lamentable spectacle The Grand-sire by a preposterous priuiledge of suruiuing heire to his intestate Nephew You might haue beheld youth the first borne of death and the gray haires descending latest to the graue The great Temple of Ierusalem that liuing house of God the company of Christians was so vnioyted that there was scarce a stone left vpon a stone a man to conuerse in safetie with his neighbour A pestilent disease disordered nature The graue snatched what nature denied the strongest Net hoc parentes heu sibi superstites effugerit spectaculum Parents were mourners for their children and closed those eyes which should haue wept at their funerals The graues were as full of carkasses as the houses of inhabitants and the poore remnant that were left and reserued from this fatall captiuitie were not so much the parts as the ruines of a City Troynouant was indeed new Troy the wretched daughter of an vnhappie mother Beth-rapha was turned into Bochim The house of health not to an edifice but a bare place of weeping You should not haue mis-called a matron Naomie but called her Mara not a beautifull spouse but a distressed widow Lo gasping Rachel would haue the name for in those fearefull plagues the fathers son of his right hand his darling babe was but Ben-oni the son of sorrow God Almightie had withdrawne the light of his countenance from vs The Arke of our saluation was wel-neare taken and the lamenting mothers bowing themselues for trauell haue brought forth their first-borne abortiues an vntimely fruit of a name distractedly inquisitiue Ichabod where is the glorie Quam penè furnaeregna Proserpinae indicantem vidimus Aeacum one foote was in the graue and O Lord how almost did our soules goe downe into the pit There was no Isaiah to saue the liuing from death no Elias to raise the dead to life The wise perished as the foolish the Priests as the peasants both promiscuously interred together so that each sepulchre was a charnel-house each graue a Golgotha Belshazzar trembled for a light threat The hand of God appeared to vs not writing on a wall but a whole Kingdome grauing the name of desolation in the black characters of the pestilence and each doors fatall common motto Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Graues were scarcer than houses and the earth more streightned to receiue the dead than the habitations the liuing So that necessitie made one pit a common sepulchre and the whole Citie Ezekiels field Yet loe Mal. 3.8 9 10 11 12. those afflictions which should haue corrected haue hardned vs. Will a man spoyle his gods saith the Lord yet yee haue spoyled me but yee say Wherein haue we spoyled thee In tythes and offerings The Priest-hood is become a derision the Ministerie a contempt and the Church robbed by contentious flocks and sacrilegious Patrons Wherefore ye are cursed with a curse for yee haue spoiled me saith the Lord euen this whole nation But bring yee all the tythes into the store-house that there may be meate in mine house and proue me now herewith saith the Lord If I will not open the windowes of heauen vnto you and powre you out a blessing without measure And I will rebuke the deuourer for your sakes And all nations shall call you blessed for yee shall be a pleasant land saith the Lord of hosts Pride fulnesse of bread and deceit in the citie Oppression and barbarous malice in the countrie these are the weapons which we haue whetted against our owne soules and the broken reedes that pierced the hands of those that leaned on them How many townes may we see turned into open fields religion decayed with nature the Church with the parishioners land-lords metamorphosed to wolues seruants into doggs villages into sheep-coates and families into shepheards Curres Because the blessing of God was troublesome and the multitude of men seemed a burthen vnto vs loe the iust Lord hath eased vs in his indignation and in a moment sweptaway by warre and pestilence aboue an hundred thousand He hath recompenced our ingratitude with vengeance and which of vs all haue not lost a kinsman O then Haue pitie vpon vs haue pitie vpon vs O yee our friends for the hand of God hath touched vs. Yet the Lord is mercifull and gracious and in the middest of iudgement hath remembred mercie Our great Citie Nineueh and her King hath repented in sackcloth and ashes sorrow and humilitie and behold the Lord hath beene more mercifull than man Though Ionah hath prophesied iudgements he hath turned them into consolations Behold Syon is againe inhabited and who can number her towers The voice of gladnesse is heard in her Palaces and songs of thanks-giuing in stead of the mourning of Hadad-rimmon Moses is heard and the request of pious gouernours now fully granted The Lord is returned vnto the many thousands of Israel Reioyce therfore O my soule againe I say reioyce O let vs remooue the Leprosie of sinne from our soules as God hath remooued the black spots of the Pestilence from our bodies O be ioyfull in the Lord all ye lands all sorts all persons young men and maidens olde men and children praise yee the Lord. So shall God render vnto Iob seuen fold the wombes of our young women shall be fruitfull and your children shall play by thousands in the streets the strength of our young men shall breake a bowe of steele and the gray hayres of our auncients shall descend with ioy reuerence into the graue O then beloued quickly to day if you will heare cast off the menstruous cloathes of Hypocrisie and wickednesse and present your soules your naked soules as a sacrifice without blemish vnto the God of your saluation Come taste and see how good and gracious the Lord is Take the Cup of saluation and sing with Angels and Arch-angels Glorie to God on high in earth peace and good will towards men Wee praise thee wee blesse thee we glorifie thee c. FINIS