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A64253	A treatise of contentment leading a Christian with much patience through all afflicted conditions by sundry rules of heavenly wisedome : whereunto is annexed first, A treatise of the improvement of time, secondly, The holy warre, in a visitation sermon / by T.T.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Treatise of the improvement of time.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Holy warre.	1641 (1641)	Wing T571; ESTC R26964	82,319	242

A TREATISE OF CONTENTMENT Leading a Christian with much patience through all afflicted Conditions By sundry Rules of heavenly wisedome Whereunto is annexed First a Treatise of the Improvement of Time Secondly The Holy Warre in a Visitation Sermon Greg. Moral. l. 5. Si mens forti intentione in Deum dirigiter quicquid in hac vitâ sibi amarum sit dulce aestimat omne quod affligit requiem putat By T. T. D. D. c. LONDON Printed by R. H. for Iohn Bartlet and are to be sold at the Signe of the Gilt Cup neere S. Austins Gate in Pauls Church-yard 1641. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir FRANCIS DARCY Knight my much honoured friend All happinesse in Christ IESUS SIR not having of mine owne wherewith I might tell the world of your great and continuall favours unto me by such a pub●ke testimony I thought good to doe it by publishing this worke of another whose Person and Doctrine you well knew and respected Which I doe the more willingly because it is sutable to the Contentment here treated of I am well contented with that mediocrity of gifts and abilities which God hath bestowed on me I hold it better in this life to be faithfull in a little then ruler over much No doubt but some are Masters of great parts and estates and faithfull too rich in this world and rich in good workes too high in place and respect among men and high in the favour of God too But both such have their hazzards and temptations against which they need to be watchfull and the brother of low degree hath cause in God and his love to rejoyce and be contented And oh how happy were it with godly Christians if they had taken forth this lesson of Contentment How comfortlesse would their lives then be How blessedly free from those torturing passions of emulation envie murmuring impatience and the like wherewith the spirit is too often and too much disquieted Godlinesse with Contentment is great gaine saith the Apostle as if the purchase were small where Contentment is wanting And indeed much of the benefit and advantage is taken away where this lesson of Contentation is not taken forth perfectly And how unbeseeming is it to an heire of the promises to be Malecontent for worldly wants or afflictions How thwarting to the wisedome of God as if he knew not best to make allowance to his children How terrible to lie disconsolate in death or any deadly trouble moaning as that great Emperour when he lay dying at Yorke In my life time I have been all things and now nothing doth me good I w●sh to your Worship all the comforts and mercies of God in Christ both in life and death and therunto at this time I commend to your reading this little Treatise of Contentment resting ever Your Worships much obliged W. JEMMAT A Table Alphabeticall of the chiefe things in this Booke A ADa●s sin had many sinnes in it pag 35 Afflictions foyled by Contentment 3. the necessity of them in three respects 6 disposed of God for time measure and end 4 Age the incommodities of it 114 priviledges of it 115 comforts of it 116 Aged people called on to prove time well 179 B Barrennesse to bee quietly endured how 105 Bernards discription of worldly pleasure 92 C Callings crosses in them to be borne contentedly how 77 Common-wealth evills in it how to be borne 24 Comparisons two fold use of them 192. Contempt of the world how to be born contentedly 52 Contentation the daughter of godlinesse Praef. meanes and motives to work it 131 power of godlines to breed it whence 139 Countrey and friends left comfort in it 62 D Death terrible 118 comforts in it 119 necessity of dying 121 utility 123 Death of friends comfort in it 73 Deformity of body to be borne quietly how 100 E Estates we live in yeelds discontents yet be comforted in them how 85 Examples of holy men perswading Contentment 136 Experience without grace availeth not 107 F Friends unkindnesse comfort in it 70 and in their death 73 G Glory obtained by afflictions how 14 Godlinesse what it doth to breed Contentment 145 Goods lost comfort in it 64 Graces bred beautified and exercised by afflictions 8 Grave terrible comfort in it 127 Great sins should not overtrouble the soule 38 H Happinesse of Saints raised by certaine staires 127 Heavenly happinesse attained in death 125 Honor from above how to be getten 98 Honor due to Ministers threefold 210 Honors of the world lost or not had comfort in it 94 I Iudgement at the last day not dreadfull to beleevers why 129 all imperfections and blemishes then done away 101 Iustification the ground of Contentment 143 L Liberty lost comfort in it 61 Life lost comfort in it 66 Lingring sicknesse how to be borne contentedly 111 why suffered by God 113 M Martyrs very forward to suffer 69 Ministers calling most crost comfort for them 83 they are Christs souldiers in two respects 197 their weapons 198 204 their enemies 199 cause of warre 200 Ministery no easie calling but dangerous 201 Misery all ended in death foure wayes 123 Molestation Satanicall how to be borne quietly 28 Multitude of sinnes should not too much trouble 32 Mystery in godlinesse and in Contentment 152 N Nature content with little Grace with lesse 136 Nature teacheth not the price of time 168 O Opportunities of good nine Instances 156 Orbity uncomfortable comforts in it 105 P Persecution to be endured contentedly how 57 Pleasures lost or lacking comfort therein 90 Poore men how profitable in their times 184 Preparation to death what and how 121 R Redeeming of time what 161 Relapses comfort in case of them 44 Repentance two effects of it furthered by afflictions 10 Rich men should be specially carefull of spending their time 182 S Scandals and Schismes foretold turned to good c. 18 Sicknes to be born cōtentedly how 107 Sinnes merit afflictions and are purged by them 6 Sinnes multitude greatnesse relapse how answered 32 T Temporals mercifully withholden 137 Time to be wholly improoved for good 155. Motives 185 preciousnesse of time in six things 162. 165 skill to prize it comes of God 168 be sparing of time 7 Motives 172 Theeves that steale time away 174 V Vnion with Christ not dissolved in the grave 128 Unite forces against the common enemy 208 Uses of sicknesse sanctified six 108 W Warre of Christians especially of Ministers 193 Wealth lost or not had comfort in it 85 Works good mentioned to the Saints in the last judgement not bad 131 Worlds hatred contentment in it 47 Y. Yong people admonished to spend their time well 177 FINIS THE AVTHORS PREFACE AFter we have shewed the gaine of godlinesse out of 1 Tim. 6. 6. now we come to speake of the priviledge of it that it brings Contentment with it whereby the heart of a godly man is stayed and resteth in God well apaid with that estate and measure of goods which the Lord

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Shall Christ so willingly buckle under his crosse and shall wee be as Simon of Cyrene who wi●● not beare it unlesse it be forced upon us The whole life of Christ was a continuall sorrow we read hee wept thrise over Lazarus over Ierusalem and in the garden but never that he laughed 2 The pleasures worthy a Christian are the pleasures of Gods house standing in remission of sinne peace with God peace of conscience joy in the holy Ghost and these are so proper and peculiar to the godly as they agree to no other These are the pleasures of an high and excellent straine which we are to reserve our hearts and affections for and the other in comparison of these heavenly and spirituall joyes to bee loathed and contemned Delight thy selfe in the Lord of all other delight say as Salomon It is madnesse 3 Solomon who tryed his heart with all worldly delights pronounced of them all that they are vanity and vexation of spirit And the Apostle affirmeth of widowes living in pleasure that they are dead while they live And what other is the profit of the lives of Epicures and b●lly-gods who seeke nothing more then to live in ease and pleasure They choake all holy cogitations unfit them as enemies to all godly studies refuse as uncapable all good admonitions and degenerate men from men into filthy beasts How do they infect the mind oppresse the soule dull the wit waste the body and bring harmes on a man a thousand more This made one of the fathers describe worldly pleasures thus It is an harlot fitting in her chariot whose foure wheeles are Gluttony Lust Pride in apparell Idlenesse the two horses are Prosperity and Abundance the two drivers are Idlenesse and Security and if he had added the retinue or attendants that follow and wait upon her as griefe too late repentance pale-faced sicknesse leane consumption beggery and death hee had made a most absolute description But who cannot by the quality of the Mistresse gather the nature of her handmaids Now this being the troup of earthly and unsanctified pleasures they are not onely to be contemned but hated of all Christians 4 Consider this present life as a warfare a pilgrimage a moment on which eternity dependeth a day of grace a space of repentance and of strife to enter in at the strait gate the time of our absence from home and from the Lord And how can we sing so merrily in a strange land What a number of enemies besiege us and watch for our security What a bad constitution is my heart of How labours it of the poison of sin How is it with me other then a seafaring man When he is safest there is but an inch between him and death and how can I in all these miseries set my selfe on a merry pin as the rich glutton did who heard that sentence Son remember thou hadst thy pleasure here and Lazarus paine but now hee is comforted and thou art tormented Or how shall God wipe away my teares in heaven if I shed none in earth And how shall I reap in joy if I sow not in teares I was borne with teares and shall die with teares why should I live without them in this valley of teares 5 Since our sinne cast us out of Paradise that place was shut up that we should looke for no Paradise on earth any more but toward that heavenly Paradise whereof the other was a type Wee must therefore use the world as not using it rejoyce as not rejoycing and not suffer any worldly joyes to be as the Devils birdlime to hinder us from mounting aloft in heavenly meditations here and much lesse to dimme our sight from beholding those admirable joyes and pleasures at Gods right hand prepared for the Saints How easie a thing were it to be a lover of pleasure more then of God but withall how dreadfull and unhappy Therefore I have them I must be watchfull if not I must be thankfull and contented 6 All the world cannot take my joy from me if I rejoyce in these things That my name is written in Heaven That Christ is mine as when Si●●on had him in his armes and Zacheus in his house And in the testimony of a good conscience and a life purely led according to the Word So of earthly pleasures In the want or losse of worldly honours and preferments godlinesse inforceth on the heart contentment upon these grounds 1 It teacheth to lay the foundati on of true Christianity in humility and in the knowledge of our selves Our selves are in our best mettall but dust and clay and ashes Our estate is to be borne to misery as the sparkes to fly upward Ioh. 5. 7. And by sin we are the children of death which by sin entred into the world This sinne of ours dishonouring God hath layd all our honour in the dust And the way to come to true honour againe is by humility which can neither greedily desire worldly advancements nor too impatiently bewaile their losse For this purpose Christ proposeth to us the example of a little child to whom we must be like Luk. 9. 47. 2 It lets a man see the truth of that our Saviour answering the woman who desired that one of her sōs might sit at his right hand and the other at his left in his Kingdome Yee aske ye know not what Mat. 20. 20. It is the blindnesse of ambitious men that excessively love and prize their honors to seeke to be aloft Little doe they know or thinke that they are climbing up to a greater and sudden fall as our Saviour saith He that exalieth himselfe shall be brought low Mat. 23. 12. Haman that was lifted up above all the Princes of Ahashuerus within one twelve moneths space was hanged on a paire of gallowes fifty cubits high of his own making Trees which stand in higher hils are subject to more vehement and blustering winds Little doe these see the temptations which their high estates expose them unto If smaller cares in a lower place distract a man from prayer and other spirituall exercises how should a man give himselfe to God when hee is burthened with more change and cares Little see they how little soundnesse and stability is in that honour which they raise themselves unto by dishonouring God by Machiavilian policies by supplanting others by playing the hypocrites and making shew of good parts which were never in them yea and which is supported and maintained by the same means doubled and repeated A building so weakely or rather wickedly founded threateneth a great ruine 3 Earthly honors are so far from furthering heavenly as they rather hinder the same In the history of Christs temptation may be observed what Chrysost noteth that the Devill caries men up aloft that he may throw them down headlong What an headlong fall had we all in Adam when not content with his estate he would be liker God thē he

frighted with the name of terrible things and at the sight of some disguised person but when they come to riper age and yeares of discretion contemne them Wee are frighted as the Midianites with the sound of broken pitchers voyces and lamps and cowardly fly before we see any apparent danger 2 It seeth the death of Beleevers not onely altered but sanctified by Christs death that it becomes of a curse a blessing and as a stage whereon a Christian manifesteth his faith fortitude love patience and constancy and openly triumpheth over death as his Head hath done before him 3 It seeth Christ in Heaven in glory who is our Head and Husband from whom while wee live here we are strangers and pilgrims separate from that happy society which wee shall enjoy with Him and all our fellow members in the Kingdome of Heaven Whereupon it doth desire his presence and is not onely contented but willing to bee dissolved and bee with Christ Paul considered that he was now absent from the Lord and desired to bee present Simeon having Christ in his armes said Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Steven in the middest of the stones saw the Heavens open and the Son of man standing at Gods right hand and so slept quietly A sweet death if Christ be in sight Let him feare death that would not goe to Christ So of the second ground 3 It looketh upon death it selfe and seeth in it First the necessity of it It is appointed for all men once to dye a statute-law of Heaven inevitable Heb. 9. 27. And seeing it knowes it to be so it rather fits it selfe cheerefully to beare it then fearefully to decline it Quest How may that bee done Answ. 1 We must deal with this Giant and mighty Sampson who slayes heapes upon heapes as the Philistims did with him 1 Sift out where his strength lyes and finding it lye in his lockes cut them off The strength of thy death is thy sinne these are his strong lockes cut them off by repentance and death shall be too weak to hurt thee 2 Labour to dye in faith as the Saints Heb. 11. 13. all these dyed in faith Let thy faith fasten upon Christ as himselfe did in his extreme agony fixe his confidence upon his Father saying My God my God and Father into thy hands I commend my spirit Another necessity of death is because without it wee can never attaine immortality and eternall life The seed is not quickened unlesse it dye first neither can eternall life be had but by the passage of this wicket Wee have here no abiding City our houses are rather Innes in which wee sojourne our bodies Tabernacles ready for removall and shifting And the condition is that when this earthly house shall bee dissolved wee shall have a building eternall in the heavens Secondly godlinesse seeth the advantage and gaine by death that it is no detriment to the faithfull but a gaine as saith the Apostle Christ is my life and death is to mee advantage Phil. 1. 21. And it is a great gaine in two respects 1 Because it is an end of all evils and wretchednesse 2 Because it is a beginning of heaven and happinesse For the former 1 It is an end of misery sorrowes cares feares teares an end of sicknesse paine poverty shame persecution and the like for in death attended with teares God wipeth away all teares from the eyes of his children and then shall bee no more death neither sorrow nor wecping nor paine Rev. 21. 4. 2 It is an end of temptations by Satan The soule in this world is in the bonds and snares of temptations and the law of sinne in the members ministreth strength to Satan against our selves But in death the soul is loosed from that bondage and the body ceaseth to be an instrument either active or passive in sin What a gaine is it never to sin more against God yea to be wholly out of danger of sinning 3 It is an end of wicked mens molestation for death delivers the godly out of this evill world 〈◊〉 Lot out of Sodome whose righteous soule was vexed amongst them day by day They are safe from seducers and deceivers who in these last ages come so armed as if it were possible they would deceive the very Elect. They are got without the reach of Persecutors and those enemies their eyes shall never see more 4 It is an end of our owne pilgrimage and absence from the Lord wherein wee stand in so doubtfull and dangerous a battell not onely with enemies without us but within our owne bosome our owne covetousnesse wrath ambition voluptuousnesse lust envy and not a head can bee cut off from this Hydra but another riseth in the roome and no watch can be sufficient against them Now what man being absent from his owne house doth not long to dispatch his businesse so to returne home And thus the Saints 2 Cor. 5. 2. Wee sigh desiring to bee clothed with our house which is from heaven It is our haven and an end of our dangerous voyage upon the troubled sea of this world a passage from corruption and mortality to immortality and incorruption a sweet sleepe after our travell and labours and an end of all the toyles of our lives Ioh. 11. 11. our friend Lazarus sleepeth But more then this It is a beginning of happinesse the entrance to Heaven the Evening wherein the Labourers receive the penny of perpetuall joy and glory a repossessing of Paradise lost by the first Adam won againe by the second By it wee come to the company of Saints and the first borne written in heaven Wee come into the bosome of Abraham even to our deare friends who are gone before us to Heaven But above all wee come to Iesus Christ the Mediator into the house of our heavenly Father wherein he●e hath prepared us mansions whither the forerunner is for us entred in Even Iesus Heb. 6. 20. And wee have boldnesse to enter into the holy place by the new and living way which hee hath prepared for us through the vayle that is his flesh cap. 10. 20. And by Iesus Christ wee come to behold the face of God being made like unto Christ in holinesse and honour and shall for ever with him inherite the Kingdome prepared from the beginning of the World CHAP. XIX Of Grave and Iudg●ment and Contentment therein THe last personall evill which is horrible to nature is the grave and last judgement But godlinesse quieteth the heart against all such terrors thus First that by these two wee are raised as by two stayres to the fruition of full happinesse For whereas there be three degrees of life eternall The first when wee begin to repent and beleeve which is the beginning of it The second at the day of death which entreth the soule into eternall happinesse and prepareth the body to be partaker also of it The