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death_n	apostle_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,685	5	10.8916	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08481	Gods rebuke in taking from vs that worthy and honourable gentleman Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, the first day of May this present yeere 1618, he being at that time high Sheriffe of Suffolke whose Christian life and comfortable end are here faithfully recorded. Together with diuers profitable and necessarie instructions; deliuered first in a discourse at his funerall, and now inlarged, and published, for the benefit of others not then present. By T.O. aliàs P. minister of the word of God at Denham in Suffolke.	Oldmayne, Timothy.	1619 (1619)	STC 18805; ESTC S113488	40,569	121

whole Church in generall when as manifold afflictions like a darke cloud wrapt her in on euery side Lament 2.17 The Lord hath done saith she that which he purposed he hath fulfilled that which hee determined A truth most necessarie to be knowne in these two respects The first is to comfort and incourage the seruants of God and vs especially to beare and vndergo all crosses and calamities how bitter so euer with the greater patience and cheerefulnesse considering they come from him who as a Father to all so is he principally to the elect Math. 6.9 Isa 63.16 An earthly father wee know may at his pleasure and as he seeth iust cause chastice and correct his childe neither ought the childe to take it otherwise then well in no cause either murmuring or resisting and if an earthly then much more saith the Apostle Heb. 12.9 may the Father of Spirits our heauenly and we in the meane while receiuing the same most patiently and contentedly Isaackes burthen Genes 12.6 was both heauie and vncomfortable heauie for the matter vncomfortable for the end And yet as farre as we can read he bare it willingly the reason I take it is expressed in the same verse Pater imposuit His Father laid it on him Whose example my desire is may be ours What God will haue let vs imbrace if hee will impose it let vs indure it remembring the counsell of Salomon to his sonne Pro. 3.11 My son refuse not the chasticing of the Lord for whom hee loueth hee correcteth Who knoweth not that the Argument that Absolom vsed to perswade his Sister Tamar to patience 2. Sam. 13.20 bearing as she might the hard dealing of her brother with her was but onely this Frater est He is thy Brother doubtlesse if this were reason as he thought sufficient to still her voice that then cried and wept so bitterly and pacifie her wrath and furie against him that so iustly had deserued it Then Brethren I beseech you how much more ought the consideration of the person from whom this calamitie is thus sodainely come he indeed our gratious Father to perswade and put vs on to indure the same with contented mindes knowing withall First that as he neuer offended vs so haue we infinitely him And secondly that it is come from that sweet hand from whom we haue all our liues long euen to this instant receiued such a world of blessings receiuing then so many good things is it not reason that wee should receiue some euill Secondly this doth afford vnto vs a most necessarie direction to whom to resort in this and all other our greatest miseries surely to him onely and to no other Intimating herein the poore Prodigall who being in that misery wherein he was would trie the curtesie of no more Citizens but went straight way to his Father I will saith he go to my Father so let vs to ours Thus doe the seruants of God hearten on and incourage each other in their greatest trialls Hos 6.1 Come say they let vs returne to the Lord he hath spoiled and will heale vs he hath wounded and hee will binde vs vp Neither ought we to bee discouraged in so doing seeing this is he whose name Pro. 18.10 is a strong Tower to which the righteous flie flying doubtlesse vpon the wings of their faith and are exalted Ier. 31.20 This is our mercifull Father who whilst he is striking hath his bowels sore troubled and his Repentance rolled vpon him Hos 11.8 For a little space I confesse he hath beene angrie but if we seeke him in due time he will yet be found of vs Isa 54.7.9 yea he will returne with abundance of compassion Psal 31.6 Let the Lacedemonians therefore in the time of danger tie and binde their Mars amongst them with gyues and fetters of gold And let vs onely hold and tie God with teares and praiers Imitating Iacob who although the principall sinnewes were shrunke in his thigh yet would he not suffer Gen. 32.26 the Angell to depart without a blessing The third and last thing that we are to consider in the precedent is the reason why man is rebuked conteined as we heard in this word Iniquitie when thou with rebuke doest chastice man for iniquitie Now iniquity we are to know is taken diuersly in the holy Scripture two waies especially either for some great and hainous sinne and accordingly doe the brethren of Ioseph speake to him Gen. 44.6 God hath found out the iniquitie of his seruants that is their great and heinous sinne and is now ready to punish them Or secondly for sinne in generall agreeable to that Rom. 1.18 The wrath of God is reuealed from heauen against all iniquity And so in this place for iniquitie that is for the sinne Now sinne is tearmed by the name of Iniquity Quia peccatum est ab aequitate alienum according to the Apostles owne expression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Iohn 3.4 For sin is the transgression of Law Shewing that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or sinne is nothing else but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a transgression or crossing of the Law of God And indeed hinc lachrymae hence it is saith our Prophet that man is rebuked suteable to that Lament 3.39 Wherefore then is the liuing man sorrowfull man suffereth for his sinne With which agreeth the saying of the Apostle Rom. 6.23 Stipendia peccati mors The wages of sinne is death that is not onely the reason why soule and body be separated and nature destroied but the cause likewise of all that labour and trauell to which man is daily subiect as the sparkes to mount vpwards Iob. 15.7 Iob. 15.7 Iniquitie I know right well is not alwaies the chiefe cause of Gods rebukes and chasticements yet is it vsually found in such as are rebuked and corrected Let Iob I pray you be our example neither indeed doe I remember any one more pregnant whose trialls as all know were exceeding great take his owne word heauier then the sand of the sea Iob 6.3 and yet the end that the Lord propounded as the euent shewed was not simply to rebuke him for his sinne but rather in so doing to trie his faith and patience and accordingly to leaue him a Mirror of both to succeeding ages Iames 5.11 notwithstanding consider but the passage of things betweene God and him and him and his friends and you shall finde matter sufficient as for that so a farre greater humiliation as he freely acknowledgeth vnto God crying peccaui Chap. 42. 5. 6. Neither are wee indeed to haue the least thought of iniustice or cruelty in God in thus punishing man for his iniquitie For shall not the Iudge of the world doe right Gen. 28.14 No brethren sinne is another matter and of farre greater consequent then the ignorant person and prophane imagineth For first of all iniquity or sinne is a crossing as we heard before and thwarting of the Law of God