to m Luc. 16.22 Hell when they died So that as long as yee dy not in your sinnes nor goe to hell but liue and dye in the grace of God and goe to heauen which you shall certainely doe if you liue and dye in Gods feare and in the faith of Christ you must needes dye in Gods loue though yee dye of the plague The third and last point in the doctrine of comfort Rules to know how christians shall dy in Gods fauour though they dy of the plague against the feare to dye of the plague is to giue you some Rules by which you may assure your selues you shall dye in the loue of God and his eternall fauour though you dye of the plague To which I now addresse my selfe That you may assure your selues you shall dye in Gods loue It is requisite that first you bee sure you liue in Gods loue for he cannot dye in any sense that neuer liued in the same And that you may knowe you liue in Gods loue it must appeare vnto you by the effects and motions of this life for n Iam. 2.16 Iob. 27.5 the body without breath is iudged dead Breathing and mouing are signes of life The effects and motions of your life in Gods loue will appeare by the vse and exercise of the graces of the Spirit of God which in his loue hee workes in you to o Ephes 2.5 6. quicken and raise you from the death of sin to the life of righteousnesse For this the Lord doth in his rich mercy Ibid. 4. and for his great loue wherewith he hath loued vs. These graces are of two sorts 1. Such as bring vs into an actual communion of Gods loue and fauour and sets vs in the state of grace 2. Such as keepe preserue in this state vnto the end The first Faith in Christ Of the graces of the first kind namely which bring vs into the state of grace there is but one onely and it is a iustifying Faith called Faith in Christ whereby a sinner with a p Matt. 11.28 weary and heauy laden soule that is a repenting and relenting heart goes and seekes to Christ for saluation rests and trusts in the merites of his death and righteousnes for forgiuenesse of sinnes Ioa 3.16 and eternall life This faith doth not of it selfe but by vertue of the obiect thereof which is Christ to whom by Gods appointment it doth vnite and ingraft vs in whom we are accepted and q Eph. 1.4.6 beloued of God and who dwells in your hearts by it Now if r Eph. 3.17 Christ dwell in your hearts by faith you shall be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length v. 18 and depth and height and to know the loue of Christ which passeth knowledge If you liue and die in this faith of Christ then you may assure your selues you liue and shall dy in the loue of God For if yee beleeue in Christ then this will follow that first you are t 1. Ioh 5.1 born of God 2. yee are the u Gal. 3.26 children of God 3. yee are x Act 13 39. iustified from all your sinnes and shall receiue remission of them Act. 10.43 4. Ye are passed y Iob. 3.36 from death to life 5. Yee shall bee able to z Eph. 6.16 quench all fiery darts of the deuil And sixtly for the certainty of this yee are a Eph. 1.13 sealed with the Spirit of promise The second sort of graces that may assure vs wee shall dy in Gods fauour are they which keepe and continue vs in the state of grace wheÌ„ we are set into it and they are of foure kinds The first Sanctifying The second Comforting The third Contenting The fourth Crowning graces of which in order But first I would not bee mistaken for though I say faith in Christ doth set vs into the state of grace I would not bee vnderstood to speake exclusiuely as if it had no worke in keeping vs also in that state for wee are kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation 1 Pet. 1.5 But I haue therefore assigned vnto it that worke of bringing vs into the state of grace and iustifying vs because the primary and chiefe act of it is this viz. To ingraft vs into Christ and hereby to bring vs into vnion communion with the loue of God in him and into the state of grace to liue by faith Rom. 1.17 The first kind of graces that keepe vs in the state of grace are sanctifying graces so called because they keepe vs from sinne and incite vs to holinesse These sanctifying graces are two The first is the loue of God The 2. is the feare of God of each a litle And first of loue vnto God What the nature of this grace of our loue to God is The second the Loue of God will appeare by the nature of our loue to any person like our selues whom wee loue vnfainedly our loue appeare in two things 1. In delighting in their company and communion 2. In a desire and indeuour to doe them good For so are wee affected to God if wee loue him for we delight to be in his presence and company in his Temple and to haue communion with him in his Ordinances the Word Sacrament Prayer Meditation and Thanksgiuing 2. Wee desire and will endeuour to doe the best wee can to honour and obey him in refraining those things that will displease him which is sinne and in practising all such things as wee know will pleaâ—â— him which are comprehendâ—d vnder faith and obedience If wee haue this loue of God and liue and dy therin wee shall thereby be assured that we shal dy in the loue of God to vs. 1. Because it will assure vs of the loue of God to vs. 1 Ioh. 4.19 For we loue God because hee loued vs first 2. Because it will assure vs wee haue the Spirit of God for loue is the e Gal. 5.22 fruite of the Spirit and they who haue Gods f Rom. 8.9 Spirit are Christs 3. Because it will assure vs our faith is sound For g Gal. 5.6 faith is working and it works by loue 1 Thes 1.3 4. Because it will assure vs that h Ro. 8.28 all things shall worke together to good namely to the good of our saluation for so doe they doe to them that loue God 5. Because it will assure vs we are i 1 Cor. 8.3 knowne of God that is acknowledged of him for his owne for so are they that loue God 6. Because the Loue of God will assure vs of the crowne k Iam. 1.12 2 5. of life and the kingdome of heauen for it is promised to them that loue God 7. Because it will assure vs we l 1 Ioh. 4.7 are borne of God and are his children yea that wee m 1 Ioh. 4.19 dwell in God
to their saluation Make an end of the tryall wee pray thee of other Churches by the sword famine or any other iudgmeÌ„t and continue to ours the peace of the Gospel the Gospel of peace preseruing all Estates and degrees amongst vs in Church and Common-wealth from this other plagues if it be thy blessed will to execute iustice and to shew mercy for the taking away of this and the turning away of other heauy iudgements Be thou exalted Lord in thine owne strength so will we sing and praise thy power Psa 21.16 VI. Professing our amendment vpon our remouall of the Plague For we doe not desire O Lord our God to haue the plague of our sicknes taken away from amongst vs that the plague of our sinnes may remaine within vs nor that thou shouldest turne thy heauie hand from vs that wee might returne to our former wickednes for the time past of our life is sufficient and to much to haue liued therein 1. Pet. 4.3 If thus againe we should breake thy commandements Ezera 9.14 wouldst thou not be angrie with vs till thou hadst consumed vs but wee beg this further favour of thee not to die Psa 118.17 but to liue to declare thy works and to praise thy name Ier. 50.4.5 For this end with mourning and weeping for our former many and greiuous sinnes wee come vnto thee and seeke thee and will ioyne our selues vnto thee in a perpetuall couenant neuer to be forgotten Wee will make a couenant befâ—â—e thee our God to walke after thee to keepe thy coÌ„mandements thy statutes and thy testimonies with all our hearts and with all our soules nnd to performe the words of the couenant 2 Reg. 23.3 and to stand vnto it wee will make a sure couenant write it and seale vnto it Neh. 9.38 yea wee will enter into a curse and into an oath to walee in Gods lawe Neh. 10.29 and to obserue and to do all the commandemnts of the Lord our God that we may ty our loose harts to the obedience of thy holy wil for euer And let our houses which thou hast visited or kept cleare from this contagion and let our bodies which thou hast healed or preserued from infection and let our soules which thou hast humbled comforted in any measure by and vnder this visitation beare witnes to our sincerity in making this holy vow and couenant with thee Let them bee a continuall remembrance to put vs in minde of often renewing it before thee and let them bee as a threefold cord not easily broken faster to binde vs to the keeping of this oath couenant with thee for euer And now O Lord our God since thou hast by thy Spirit put into our hearts this desire to giue thee thanks directed vs to this means of manifesting our thankfulnes we humbly beseech thee keepe it for euer in the thoughts and imaginations of the hearts of thy people 1 Chr. 29 15. and set our hearts vnto thee And giue vs such a heart that wee may feare thee keepe thy commandements alwayes Deu. 5.29 that it may bee well with vs and with our children for euer so wee thy people and sheepe of thy pasture will giue thee praise for euer will alwayes bee setting forth thy praise from generation to generation Amen Now vnto the King immortall inuisible and onely true God most mighty wise faithfull and true patient and pittifull gracious mercifull infinite in all perfection The Father of mercy in The Sonne of peace through The Holy Spirit of coÌ„fort be yeelded and giuen for all our former and later deliuerances in this or any other kind and namely for the present staying of the Plague happily in great measure already begun and continued and hopefully in the end to be perfected accomplished From our beliefe trust our loue and feare our hope and ioy our patience obedience with our bodies and soule by our thoughts words works in our liues and deaths all honour and glory and all praise thanks from this time forth and for euer Ps 106.48 And let all the people say AMEN FINIS
A CORDIALL OF COMFORT To preserue the Heart from fainting with Griefe or Feare for our Friends or our owne Visitation by the Plague Also a Thankes-giuing to Almightie God for staying the Visitation in London and the Subvrbs thereof Both which may be of vse to Christians in other places that are cleere visited or recouered BY WILLIAM CHIBALD Printed at London by W. I. for Nic. Bournâ— and Edw. Brewster and are to be sold at the Royall Exchange and at the Bible in Pauls-Church-yard 1625. TO The Right Worshipfull the Company of the Lether-Sellers The Masters and Wardens The Assistants and Liuery with the rest of the Brethren of that worthy Societie Right Worshipfull and Worthy THE DEdication of bookes vnto persons of place and qualitie is to manifest a seruiceable respect and reuerence vnto them and to supplicate a fauourable aspect and acceptation from them According to these fayre endes I haue aduentured to deuote this my Treatise which doth need the one to your Worships that are worthy of the other You are worthy of my Dedication in two respects namely as Citizens and as Lether-Sellers of London 1. As Citizens because I wrote it in the Visitation of the City and for the comfort of Citizens in the Visitation thereof 2. As Lether-sellers because you are that Company whereof my deare Father was Mr. Iames Chibald of sweet memory I hope among you who about the yeere 1595. was Master head of your Body euen as his eldest Sonne my louing Brother is a liuing member of the same at this day It remaynes that your Worships would be pleased by accepting the seruice of this Dedication to Patronize the Booke The rather seeing the Authors ayme in dedicating it to you is but to honour you that are liuing by my deare Parent that is dead and to honour the memory of him that is absent by you that are present which as Brethren of one Company and Parents of Children you cannot but approue That you may the more freely grant my request I pray you to take vnto your consideration further the subiect matter of the Booke which is Spirituall Physicke For it prescribes you first a Cordiall Secondly a Dyet The Cordiall hath a twofold nature 1. To preserue your bodyes from infection or death by the Plague if the Lord see it good for your soules and as Christians you should not desire it otherwise 2. To keep your soules from fainting with immoderate Griefe or Feare for your Friends or your owne Visitation by the Plague The Dyet is to teach you that suruiue how to liue to GODS glory by learning to bee thankefull to God for your own preseruation and for Gods wonderfull and mercifull staying of the sicknesse amongst vs. Both which as men and Christian men you haue reason to looke after and learne In hope of your free fauor herein I humbly take my leaue with my heartie prayer vnto God to blesse the reading of my Treatise to your Corporall and Spirituall health in Iesus Christ in whom I am Your Worships most bounden in all Christian seruice WILLIAM CHIBALD To the Christian Reader that needs Spirituall Physicke from the Word against Griefe or Feare by reason of the Plague IN the beginning of the Creation Gen. 1.2 when darknesse was vpon the deepe 2 Cor. 4.6 the Lord commaunded the light to shine out of darknesse As vnlikely effect of such a cause as the making one see that was borne blind Ioh. 9.11 by anointing his eyes with clay and spittle which was more likely to put them out if euer hee had any sight Not long since there was darknesse and heauinesse vpon the face of my Family by reason of Gods Visitation and behold out of the darknes of that sorrow Almightie GOD hath brought forth this Light of Spirituall coÌ„fort After a sort I may truly say GOD hath commaunded it to shine forth partly by his speciall assistance when J was in my selfe very vnfyt for study and partly by his prouidence in stirring vp many to bee very inquisitiue to seeke after it and to bee very importunate for the publishing thereof J neuer intended to put this Light vnder a Bushell wholly to couer it Matt. 5.15 for J did set it vpon a Candlesticke to giue light in one roome namely to my Parishioners kindred and friends to whom J gaue some Copies But now at the instance of many J haue put it into a Lanthorne hung it out in the open streets for the benefit of all passengers J confesse the light is but small it giues but J hope it will burne cleere and sweet the Treatise J trust wil be free from errour and offence J acknowledge also that it is hung out somewhat late in the Euening when many are at rest in their graues by the Visitation but the truth is my tynder was wet J could not strike fyer to light it sooner and when it was lighted J could not get it hung vp any sooner My meaning is the heauinesse of my heart for Gods visytation on the Citie my Congregation and my Family was some let to the penning of it and the difficultie of getting Work men to print it was a great hinderance to the publishing thereof any sooner Now that it is fynished and published my request is to the Christian Reader that hee vvould not close his eyes Mat. 13.19 that hee cannot see the light but open them to walke by it to the end hee may not stumble and fal at immoderate Griefe or Feare by reason of his own or his friendes Visytation by the Plague And my humble Prayer is That hee who is the true Light Iob. 1.9 that lighteneth euery one which commeth into â—he world Reuel 1.13 and who walketh in the midst of the â—euen golden Candlesticks That he would be graciously pleased to adde further light life to the â—eading perusing of my Treatise for the glory of God and the good of his Church and let all that read it for their comfort say with me Amen Euen as J will say with all that find comfort by the reading of it The Lord bee praised Yours in the seruice of your Faith W. C. A Table shewing the Contents of this Booke WHen teares for sin proue godly pag 4. How to comfort our selues against greife for the visitation of our families pag. 7. How to comfort our selues against greife for our visitation p. 12. The nature of the affliction of Gods children p. 12. The causes of their afflictions efficient and mouing pa. 13. 14. 15. The Companion of it p. 17. The end of it intent and euent p. 18. c. How to hearten our selues against the feare of the plague pa. 24. How you may lawfully feare the plague pa. 32 c. How you may not feare the plague pa 35. The plague is no signe of Gods eternall anger to the godly p. 43. Sixe meanes to preuent the infestiion of the plague p. 48. The 1. meanes p. 48. the
then vnto their spirituall and eternall good 1. Because it is not likely that death should worke vnto any temporall good for all temporal good things leaue them when they die And secondly because the good which by the text is said to be wrought is good vnto them that loue God and are called of his purpose therefore it is a spirituall and an eternall good in the eternal loue of God to their soules Reason 2 The godly which die of the plague doe dy in Gods loue because nothing can separate them from the loue of God in Christ Iesus The Reason is good because they that are separated from the loue of God in Christ doe die in Gods eternall displeasure because they die in their sinnes and goe to hell For if they that dye in the Lord are x Reu. 14.13 blessed then they that die out of him are accursed And that the godly cannot be separated from the loue of God in Christ is plaine by the Apostle who saith of himselfe and that which is true of one that is truely godly is true of all that partake of the y Iude v. 3. common saluation Neither z Ro. 8.38 life nor death nor any other creature can bee able to separate me from the loue of God which is in Iesus Christ our Lord. Whence I thus reason 1. If death cannot separate the godly from the loue of God then no death can for indefinite propositions are generall if no death can then death of the plague cannot 2. If nothing can separate the godly from his loue then death of the plague cannot for that is something and if death of the plague cannot separate the faithfull from Gods loue in Christ then must they needs dy in his loue thogh they die of the plague For a Ro. 14.8 whether they liue or whether they die they are the Lords therefore the Lord is theirs The state of Lazarus when hee lay full of sores and pouertie was in the eye of the world very wretched yet was hee blessed in his death for hee b was carried to Abrahams bosome Luc 16.22 and therefore died in Gods loue Indeed death of the plague may seeme to separate the godly from the loue of God but it is a separation of them from his loue of them as his creatures onely not as his children because it is not a separation of them from his loue of them c Rom. 8.38.39 in Christ Death of the plague is a signe of Gods displeasure but it is a signe of his temporary displeasure only and not of his eternall For though God in d Isa 58.7 8. a little wrath hide himselfe from his children for a moment yet with euerlasting kindnes will hee haue mercie on them Though God by death of the plague take our life and health from vs e Psal 89.31 32. Yet will he not take his louing kindnes from vs vtterly Though our friends depart from vs and death of this sicknesse part the parents from the children c. Yet f 2. Sa. 7.15 Gods mercy shall not depart from vs. And so much of the first point in the doctrine of comfort touching your feare to die of the plague The second point herein is to shew how it comes to passe that the faithfull dy in Gods fauour though they dy of the plague This is effected by that which hath ben done How it coms to passe that though the godly dy of the plague they dy in Gods fauour and suffered by our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ in whose righteousnesse we g Eph. 1.6 are accepted and by whose h Isa 53.5 stripes we are healed For 1. He hath i Ioh. 16.33 ouercome the world that is the afflictions of it one whereof is death which the meÌ„ of the world lay one them so that the afflictions which his children endure in this world while they liue here cannot hinder their saluation in an other world And therefore in this respect our Saviour wills them to be of good comfort Ibid. notwithstanding them 2 Christ hath giuen k 1. Cor. 15 56.57 vs victory ouer the stinge of death that it cannot now bee vnto vs a passage to eternall death and damnation as by nature through sinne it was and is to them that beleeue not in Christ nor amend their liues 3 Christ hath l Heb. 2.14 ouercome him that had the power of death which is the Deuill by his owne death so that he cannot carrie our soules to hell when we dy Luc. 16.22 as he did the soule of Diues and as he hath power to execute that punishment on all those that are out of Christ 4. Christ hath m Gal. 3.13 redeemed vs from the curse of the law being made a curse for vs. And thereby freed vs from the curse of any kind of death or afflictions bodily whatsoeuer In which respect S. Paule saith that in n Rom. 8.35.36.37 tribulation in death in persecution in famine in nakednes in perill in sword and why not then in o 1. Chron. 11.12 the sword of the Lord euen the pestilence in all these things wee are more then Conquerours through him that hath loued vs the Lord Iesus Christ 1. cor 1.30 vvho is made vnto vs of God wisedome righteousnes Phil. 2.21 sanctification and redemption and both in life and death advantage What makes death blessed or cursed It is not the kind of death in respect of the matter that makes men blessed or accurssed For in this respect a Ezek. 9.2 all things comes a like to all there is one euent to the righteous and to the wicked By this no man knoweth either loue or hatred But it is their graces or their sinnes whâ—ch they carrie with theÌ„ to tâ—eir deathes and the reward or punishment that followes after them when they are dead that makes them happy or miserable The godly carrie their graces vertues with theÌ„ to death Heb. 11.13 for they b dy in faith they c Reuel 14.13 dy in the Lord they d Lu. 2.29 depart in peace But the wicked carry their sins to their death e Iohn 8.21.24 For they dy in their sinnes as Absolon in his treason 2 Sam. 18. Num. 16. Corah in his rebellion and Herod in his pride Act. 12. That which followes after the godly is heauen for f Heb. 4.9 there remaines a rest for them g 1 Pet. 1.5 an inheritance and incorruptible reserued for theÌ„ in heauen Lazarus went to Abrahams bosome and the good Theife on the Crosse was with Christ in Paradise Luk. 23.43 that very day he dyed But that which follows the wicked after their h Heb. 9.27 death is iudgement which is i Reu. 6.8 hell that followes death k Rom. 2.5 wrath against the day of wrath As Iudas that went to l Act. 2.15 his owne place and Diues
O Lord our God thus confesse our sins vnto thee as if thou knewest them not who art greater then our consciences knowest althings 1 Ioh. 3.20 but that by the repetition and remembrance of them we might be drawne more soundly to repent of them and to haue our eyes opened more cleerely to discerne thy iustice in punishing of vs with this thy visitation and thy righteousnes in afflicting vs with many miseries thereby Ps 52.4 that thou mayest bee cleare when thou art iudged Dan. 9.7 For Righteousnes belongeth vnto thee O Lord but vnto us open shame as at this day All this is come vpon us III. Acknowledging Gods Iustice in sending the Plague for our euill deedes and for our great trespasses and thou hast punished vs lesse then our iniquities deserue Ier 9.13 therefore will wee be dumbe and not open our mouthes Psal 39.9 Thou hast not done without cause Ezek. 14.28 all that thou hast done vnto vs Lev. 26.43 and therefore will wee accept the punishment of our iniquitie Though thou hast not punished vs according to the greatnesse of our sinnes as they deserue in measure which is thy mercy yet hast thou punished vs according to the kind manner of our sinnes which is thy iustice for we haue profaned thy house and sanctuarie with our formall and hypocriticall seruing of thee without the inward partes both of our selues and of thy worship and therefore hast thou shut the dores of thy house vpon vs when we were visited and hast by lawfull authoritie and good order shut vs vp in our owne houses Psa 101.2 In our owne houses wee haue not walked before thee with a perfect heart for false weights and measures false lights and bad wares haue been in many of our shops and ware-houses and therefore it is iust with thee to shutt vp our shopps for want of trading and to infect other of our roomes and chambers with a fearefull contagion Many of vs that were wont proudly to let and strutt it out in the streetes in the vanitie and varietie of strange apparell and new fangled habits and attyres hast thou now clad with mourning weeds and giuen vs cause to put sackcloth on our backs and ashes on our heads foâ— we are baased even to the dunghill The members of our bodyes we haue abused as weapons of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne and therefore hast thou O Lord weakened and deformed the bodies of some with blanes and sores boyles and carbuncles and filled the bodies of others with the Tokens of thy displeasure We haue corrupted one another wirh the euill example of our workes and made them sinne and therefore it is iust with thee that we should be a meanes to infect one another to sicknesse and death Many of our Ministers thy faithfull seruants wee regarded not while they liued and therefore hast thou depriued vs of them yea many of vs haue defrauded them of their double honour 1. Ti. 5.17 reuerend respect and plentifull maintenance and therfore hast thou taken from vs the means of our maintenance by commerce and traffique Wee haue been hard-hearted and close-fisted to the necessities of our poore neighbours liuing amongst vs and therefore it is iust in respect of thee that our neighbour countries round about vs did deny to bring vs that abode in the Citie food and victualls and to bury those of vs that did go out of it with comely buriall Wee haue by our bad liuing and vniust dealing caused thy Gospel thy truth so plentifully preached 2. Pet. 2.2 in this Citie to bee euill spoken of abroad and therfore it is iust with thee that wee should bee a mocking and hissing a by-word and a reproach vnto our neighbour countries about vs. Wee doe not O Lord God thus iustifie thy proceeding against vs as if it needed our cleering but to testifie our desire as much as possible wee can to glorifie thy iustice by shaming our selues to the end wee may bee the better prepared to glorifie thy mercy also which is aboue all thy workes in our wonderfull deliuerance Psa 145.9 IV. Thanking Gods goodnes for staying Plague For O Lord our God In that when the sicknesse was so hot and so many had dyed thereof thou shouldest then stay it It was not because the sword of thine Angel was blunted with so many strokes or because there were no more people to dye or no more graues in London or because there was in vs no more desert of punishment Exod. 14.11 or in thee no more power to punish But because thou wert pleased in iudgement to remember mercy Abac. 3.2 and that thou delightest in mercy rather then iudgement Mica 7.18 That wee are aliue when others are dead that wee were in health when others were sicke It was not because wee were not within the compasse of thy stroke or could defend our selues or were able to heale the wound But because thou wouldst haue mercy on whom thou wouldst no goodnesse or power in vs but meerely greatnesse and goodnesse in thee hath made the difrence And therefore as thou art worthy to receiue glory Rev. 4.11 honour and power so saluation and glory and honour and power euen glory and honour for manifesting thy power in our salvation and preseruation 2. Chr. 7.14 bee vnto thee for euer For in this our deliuerance O Lord our God we see and therefore desire to glorifie thy wisedome in putting it into the minde of our Gouernours to appoint thine owne means of healing our Citie by humiliation with Fasting and Prayer and enabling thy Ministers and people vnderstandingly feelingly faithfully and feruently to vse those meanes and also in taking opportunitie in our greatest extremitie to worke this our deliuerance to the end the worke might the more cleerely appeare to be thine owne In this thy deliuerance we discerne thy power and therfore accordingly wee desire to praise thee in that thou art able to countermand all thy creatures euen the very Angels those principalities and powers for thou didst on a sodaine and in a short time worke a great deliuerance notwithstanding the wonderfull increase of the contagion in so many places the heate of the weather the multitude of the people and heynousnesse of our sins all which wrought toward a contrary end In this thy deliuerance wee behold thy truth and faithfulnesse O Lord our God in making good thy promises of healing thy people 2. Chr. 7.15 when they shall seeke thy face with prayers teares humiliation and turning vnto thee in not keeping thine anger for euer in not letting the rod of the wicked rest for euer vpon vs all Psa 103. Psa 105. nor suffering thy people to bee tempted aboue their strength but giuing a good issue of their tryall In this our deliuerance we glorifie thy patience in that thou hast not dealt with vs according to our sins Psa 103.11 nor