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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61667	The voice of the rod, or, God's controversie pleaded with man being a plain and brief discourse on Mich. 6, 9 / by Samuel Stodden.	Stoddon, Samuel.	1668 (1668)	Wing S5716; ESTC R26260	166,900	354

bid thy joys farewell for ever O that some such thoughts as these might awaken thee before it be too late 2. If you will thus hear the Rod you may be sure of strength to bear it Encline your ear come unto me hear and your soul shall live Isa 55.3 What death soever threatens you what dangers soever are impendent over you whosoever die be sure you shall live You shall live even in death its self for your Soul shall ●ive There hath no temptation taken you saies the Apostle and there shall no temptation take you but such as is common to man But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able but will with the temptation also make away to escape that ye may be able to bear it 1 Cor. 10.13 When God sees his children willing to obey to their utmost he will never put them upon more than they shall be enabled to wade through with comfort Rejoyce not against me o mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darness the Lord shall be a light unto me Mic. 7.8 What shall I say All the comfort in the God of comfort is ingaged with thee If thou art willing to take up thy Cross and to own thy duty under all its difficulties he that hath called thee will bear thy Cross for thee and if that be too little he will bear both thee and thy Burden too 1 Pet. 5.7 Matth. 11.28 In the next place let this put you on the serious speedy and impartial search and examination Vse 1. Of your Ends in desiring the removal of the Rod. Is not this your joynt-cry and the common request of your Souls to God that his blows may cease and the bloody executioners of his wrath be called in Now what are your Ends Is your personal peace the worldly credit of your own way that which you aim at that you may sit down under your own Vines and Figtrees as you have done heretofore do your ends reach onely to your own enjoyments either spiritual or temporal If so you are yet short of that which is God's and should be your design Christian I cannot tell thee what lies at the bottom of thy heart nor where thy ends are center'd I can but propose these things to thy Conscience and leave it there to be examined between God and thy own Soul The end of all divine actions and providences with relation to God himself is the fuller and more convincing manifestation of the glory of all his Attributes wherein he is wont to make himself known to his creatures with relation to us it is to accomplish his revealed will which is our Sanctification Wherefore th●se designes of God whom we are bound to imitate in all things imitable should be our Rule both to direct and discern our ends by But you may say Why Obj. we are content to ly as low as God would have us to ly to become any thing that God may have glorie by us We hope we aim at nothing more than the advancement of that great End You say Answ You are contented to lye at Gods feeet But let me ask thy heart now Is it not because thou must be there and canst not help it God hath cast thee down but fore against thy will wouldst thou ever have taken up this cross had not God necessitated thee and even forc't it on thee Brethren I would not be mistaken here I have already declar'd my mind in this case before There is nothing in the Cross it self that can render it desireable or eligible for it self but if Christ be there the Case is alter'd If he be lifted up he shall draw all men to him Ioh. 12.32 The Cross is then thy Cross and thy duty lies in it and certainly Duty is desireable on the same account that Idleness is detestable Nay what ever it be that God hath plac't thy duty in it is desireable for thy duties sake A true Souldier had as liev fight the Battel being called to it as to divide the Spoyl and yet is not fool-hardie to rush on dangers without a Commission These are they which follow the Lamb whither soever he goeth Rev. 14.4 They are not dragged at his heels but they follow him A Christians will should hang in Aequilibrio with an indeterminable promptness and readiness to any thing that shall from God be discovered to be his duty Now can you rejoyce in tribulation May I ask you then whence it comes to pass Is it from the Comfort you find in it Can you say you are at hearts content even in the Furnace because you are there with Christ or is it from the Good you get by it can you say that you never wrought merrier than in those golden Mines where you are ever and anon fainting and ready to leave your lives under your Burdens or is it from the Equity you perceive in it do you resolve Mich. 7.9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him If this be the temper of your hearts let him alone to take it off that laid it on and though what ever God doth in the world he is wont to do by means yet take heed of prescribing means to him whose Prerogative it is to elect his owne means and then to commissionate and impower them Examine what good the Rod hath wrought on you either the voice of it or the stroaks of it Have you been humbled and reformed by what you have seen and suffered Have you been instructed resolved and strengthned by what you have read or heard Hath God been at all these pains about you in vain Hath he been knocking on Anvils and I beating the air God hath no● chastized you with dumb Blows but hath reasoned the case with you Oh my Brethren where 's the print of Gods Seal on you have you been softned to receive the impression Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest and teachest him out of thy law Psal 94.12 This is the Blessed course that God hath taken with you oh where 's the Blessed effect it hath wrought on you As sure as your Souls shall rise at the Judgment these things shall rise with you either to your comfort or your condemnation And now that I am about to shut up all and to conclude my important Errand to you O let me not leave it in your Napkins in your Papers in your Heads or in your Mouths onely but in your hearts and lives It grieves my soul to think that I should bestow so much of my time and labour to aggravate the Damnation of any of you O that I knew how or were able to prevent it Dearly beloved in the Lord though my message to you be drawing to a Period yet my heart is ever full towards you I know not how to leave you for fear I should leave any of you short of my end and desire Oh that I could intrust

Pulse and Water Feed thy people with thy rod Mich. 7.14 And in this sense we may call it the Bread of adversity and the Water of affliction Isa 30.20 which are as absolutely necessary though not per se but per accidens and as the case stands unto our spiritual life and growth as bread and water are to our natural Alas Christian I Thou canst not live without sufferings You say 'T is pity that fair weather should ever hurt But it 's certain a continual Summer would wither thee branch and root the Winter must succeed in its course or thou must dye This necessity proceeds not from the Arbitrariness of Gods Sovereign dispose but from thy own temper and constitution God is not like those Physicians that covet to in●ich themselves by their Customers and will physick them right or wrong that they may live upon them though their poor Patients dye under them Oh 't is well for us that we have to do with a God that knows how to chastise us in Judgment and immeasure and will correct the poysonous Ingredients of the Fury and Envy of unreasonable men ●● that will pare his rod lest it should fall too heavy or too many wayes at once Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain Psal 76.10 5. Improving rod. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Joh. 15.2 God doth not onely lopp off the dry boughs but pares●p the green and this is the way to make a fruitful tree more fruitful That tree onely is in good case that is full of fruit let the husbandry be what it will Affliction is the watring of Gods Garden though the drops may fall so heavy and thick that they may beat all flat to the ground as if it should never rise more yet it quickly recovers and with the fresher vigour and beauty What an odour doth there result from every odoriferous herb in its nature and kind after a soaking shower Every Grace thrives under a sanctified Rod. Stellae nocte splendent quae die non videntur Bern. Humility never lookt like its self till now Heavenly-mindedness had never such a face as now that it is washt in its own tears from the filth and polluting scum of this Earth Faith was never so active and clear-sighted Patience never so strong at the Ancles Charity was never so heart-whole as now that God hath dieted them with his rod. The Judgment never so settled The Will never so deliberately resolv'd The Conscience never so tender and clear The Affections never in such a posture and temper The Temple of the heart never so kept as now that God hath made a scourge of small cords and driven out all those Merchants that held their Exchange there Ioh. 2.12 Hitherto for the Doctrinal part Let me apply it now for Information Exhortation Consolation A word to each of these and so I proceed If this be so Then the wicked are sadly deceived Vse 1 and that 1. In themselves Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so For he saith are not my Princes altogether Kings Isa 10.7 8. With our tongues we will prevail Our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal 12.4 Alas Sinner this is thy day and it is but a day Mistake not thou art but a Rod though it hath pleased the Father to set thee on high in his house for the terrour of his children thy use is no longer than while the child is under age when once the Heir is of years this penal Discipline shall cease for ever and then all thine arrows shall return on thine own head tipt with that vengeance that thy Pride and Cruelty hath deserved 2. In the people of God They are not the persons thou takest and accusest them for the Fools the Hypocrites the Troublers of Israel The World knoweth us not Now we are the so● of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him 1 Joh. 3.1 2. Oh Sinners● what will ye say when ye shall see those whom now ye hate and persecute and brand with hypocrisie and sedition coming in the Clouds and in the Glory and Power of their Father to pas● Sentence and Judgment upon you Do ye unknow that the Saints shall judge the World ●● 1 Cor. 6.2 Go on then arraign condemn execute But know thou that for all these thing God will bring thee into Judgment Eccles 11.9 For a good work say they we stone thee not b●● for Blasphemy c. Joh. 10.33 But wilt tho● adventure thy soul on●t that thou art not mistaken Was not Saul once of thy mind before God from Heaven convinc'd him what he was doing He little thought it had been Christ he was persecuting Oh! don't thy Conscience sometimes tell thee when thy Interest and Malice ●s at an Ebb that the Question deserves thy better consideration whether it be Dagon or the Ark thou art fighting against the Fox or the Lamb thou art hunting and smiting Yea the ●ime cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service Joh. 16.2 ●Twere very strange indeed if any one should ●hink to do Christ a service in destroying his Members eo nomine but under other notions ●nd accusations Well Sinner if thou wilt not ●ebate the case now God himself shall shortly ●ebate it with thee and shall judg uprightly between us Now to the people of God Vse 2 Is all that you ●mplain of and groan under but a Rod and ●●ch a rod then be exhorted 1. To bear the rod. Nay you must bear it ●he yoke is pinn'd-on that it cannot be shaken ●● But that you may not lose your labour and ●●pes bear it 1. With Faith the affiance confidence and ●●quiescence of Faith 2. With Patience 3. With Resolution 4. With Joy 5. With Perseverance Matth. 16.24 Then ●●d Jesus unto his Disciples If any man will ●●e after me let him deny himself and take up 〈◊〉 Cross and follow me If you will be Christians you must bear the Cross and for your help and encouragement consider 1. 'T is the Cross of Christ He hath born it before you He hath born it for you He bea●● it in you He layes it on you And in his time He and he alone can and will take it from you 2. 'T is thy Cross The burden that is weighed out for thee The rod appointed thee there is a necessity praecepti medii and thou 〈◊〉 bear it 3. 'T is a gainful though a painful Cross like Aesop's Load the burden that threatens th● death is the bread that maintains thy life 4. 'T is an honourable though a dishonoured Cross The Vexillum Insignia Christi I b●● in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus G●● 6.17 The wounds and scars