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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43179	The Christians dayly solace in experimentall observations; or, cordials for crosses in thse sad and calamitous times of affliction. By R.H.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1277A; ESTC R222583	65,001	166

sore and brings them so low that they are almost pined with want before a spring of better blood can be procured If we have ventured on noysome meates and hurtfull poysons If we will feed on grosse sins and drink in the very pudle of iniquity what shall our Father do with us but give us such Phisick as will thorowly work If David will lie and commit adultery and fall to murder Innocents what can God do lesse for David unlesse he would have him lost but lash him soundly make the rod cling to his skin yea to his conscience make his very bones to ake and shake too and when he will be walking so neer Hells mouth 't is just for God to take him by the heeles and make him believe he will throw him in vvhat if he be crost of his vvill and crie it s better he should crie here then in Hell and receive his payment here then his judgment there and truly many times the whip prevents the halter and thus if we will venture after David in those dangerous pathes we shall be sure to passe under the red as he did if we be Gods children as he was Oh how should David's practise and case affright us alas how did he gather mud when he did but stand still a while and how would his corruptions again have grown to some head had not Absalom been raised up to breath him to disperse them If David were so foggie after so many breathings a man of so good a diet how resty should we be if never walkt how grounded on our lees with Moab if never turned forth from Vessell to Vessell It stands the Lord therefore upon if he will provide for his harvest and our good to take some paines with us least otherwise he faile of his vintage while we want dressing Now God is gratiously pleased to give us a reason for what he doth I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy time Isai 1.25 and again by this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Isai 27.9 So likewise Dan. 11.35 Zach. 13.9.1 Pet. 1.6 7. Job 33.16 17. Hos 2.6 7. And this was it that made St. Augustine to comfort himselfe in the middest of his tribulation for saith he it is but my purge to free me from the drosse of sin We seldome know strong diseases cured with gentle meanes for 't is a rule in Phisick the medicine must exceed the maladie and therefore we can take nothing that commonly workes so kindly as afflictions when we are in prosperity how apt are we to fall into a dropsie pride makes us to magnifie our selves and to have a great opinion of our own worth and being joyned with the applause of others we are so pust up we hardly see our selves but when our purge workes to purpose we grow as little in our own conceite as in the opinion of others what are all earthly endowments severed from grace alas they are but the deceiving shaddow of a lying complexion there is nothing that will last nothing but will change and when we come to look in the glass of the Law those outward helps will flee and faile us and we shall be left in our own foulnesse and deformity Hear what Job says when throughly humbled I abhor my selfe and repent in dust and ashes Job 42.6 Again afflictions purge out the love of the World now this Worldly love is such a dangerous disease that if we are not cured of it it would bring us at last to a desperate consumption in all grace and goodnesse and to everlasting death both of body and soul for faith in God and confidence in earthly things will not stand together we cannot serve God and mammon we cannot love the Lord and love the World and this the Apostle St. John saith 2 Epistle chap. 2.15 If any man love the World the love of the Father is not in him And therefore God in mercy weanes us from those breasts we have so long laine at he is faine to put bitternesse on it that we may loath it and yet such as it is we exceedingly affect it ah what would we do if it were sweet If we defire to dwell in earthen tottering ruinous habitations how loath would we be to leave them if they were strong Stately and permanent If we take content in our pilgrimage and make no hast unto our Heavenly Country when as our way is so foule and full of thornes our journey so painfull and dangerous and our entertainment among those worldly Cannibals so bad and barbarous what a Paradice would we esteem it and what little account would we make of our everlasting Mansions if we had a pleasant passage an easie journey and kind usage in this strange Country ah how full is this World of troubles wars contentions secret Traytors open enemies and false friends and yet we greeve when we think of leaving it how would we even surfeit of sorrow if injoying perfect peace sweet concord and faithfull friendship we should be forced to foregoe it most graciously therefore doth our good God deale with us when seeing us so besotted with this pernicious love he cause the World to deal roughly with us and even to thrust us away from her and when we hardly will let goe our hold God will make our riches to take unto them as it were the wings of an Eagle and flee away our credit shall be crakt and our honour laid in the dust yea our neerest and dearest friends shall deceive us as a brook and many times God is fain to make all helps and hopes to faile us and we to be left destitute and desolate stark naked and bestript of all then this will make us if any thing to deny all other things by faith to catch hold on God hovering and covering our selves under his wing only Now as God doth this in much love and mercy to beat us for and from our fins and to weane us from the World so doth he it in measure and moderation and this he professeth Jer. 46.28 Feare not oh Jacob my Servant for I am with thee I will make a full end of all Nations whither I have driven thee but I will not make a full end of thee but correct thee in measure yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished 1 For the measure of our afflictions and there moderation we may plainly see both in respect of their quantity which is but small and in their time which is but short for either they are light or they are long and if they be great in quantity they are but momentany in their continuance or if they be tedious in time they are easie in weight It is but a little Cup in comparison of what the Lord Jesus drank for us so that our afflictions and griefes are but shaddowes and resemblances rather then substanciall evils Hear

that the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day 1 David came to Bahurim in his flight from Absalom we may seriously observe to what afflictions and streights the Saints of God may be brought they may be brought to flee for their lives this was Davids case and this is the lot and portion of all the faithfull to endure affliction in one kinde or other Abraham the Father of the faithfull had his peculiar afflictions his great fears and his unparalel'd tryals Gen. 20.11 22. Isaac had his continual griefe of minde in the marriage of one of his Sons and of his being deprived of the other for 20. yeares together Gen. 26.35.36.27 See what afflictions Jacob had persecuted by his own Brother and driven from his Fathers house into a strange Land there he suffered many an injury and indignity from his Unkle with sorrowes he sustained from and in his children Surely if we would seriously read the whole story of his life we shall finde his troubles come tumbling one on the others back Like the waves of the Sea commonly the ending of one was but the beginning of another Moses whom God so dearly loved and entertain'd into the necrest familiarity talking with him face to face was notwithstanding exercised with grievous afflictions not to speak of his hardships and streights which he sustained before he could understand it being in danger of death every hour for 3. months space To omit many things what an affliction had he in carrying such an untoward people 40. yeares together in the wildernesse and what wordly comfort had he to cheer him in suffering all these afflictions but the remembrance of the Land of promise the fruition whereof he long expected But at last he is cut off from this hope and heareth Gods definitive sentence passe upon him that he must ascend Mount Nebo and dye there Deut. 32.50 And thus Job though he were the justest man that lived upon the Earth by the Lords own testimony yet did he endure manifold and grievous afflictions as we may read in the History of his life the spoyling of his goods the slaughter of his servants the untimely death of ten children all at once the outward torment of botches and boyles and the inward terrors of an afflicted minde the scornes of the wicked the strange behaviour of his Wife the unkinde usage and hard censures of his friends that in these respects he was thought to be the fittest man to be propounded by the holy Ghost as a pattern of patience James 5.11 And thus did all the Apostles suffer afflictions yea and cruel deaths except St. John Here with a Catalogue St. Paul makes of his sufferings 2 Cor. 11.44 unto which outward vexation of body and inward cares and distractions of minde we may add his spiritual afflictions as the fight between the flesh and spirit and the buffitings of Satan which were incomparably greater then all the rest for whereas out of the strength of his faith and patience he rejoyced yea even boasted himselfe in his other afflictions by these he is much humbled and cast down in the fight of his corruptions and forced to crye out in perplexity of spirit oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Now the causes which doth move the Lord to lay upon his children those great afflictions is because of sin Sin then is the meritorious cause why the Lord punisheth a place or Person Judgments never come down from God till provocations first go up from man and this the Church plainly affi●meth Lam. 3.39 man suffereth for his sin and this the Lord tels Israel Jer. 30.14 15. I have stricken thee with the wound of an enemy and with a sharp chastisement for the multitude of thine iniquities because thy Sons were increased why cryest thou for thine affliction thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquities I have done those things unto thee Object But doth God alwayes correct for sin are there not other ends which move the Lord to lay crosses upon his own children Ans It s very true God doth by afflictions as well make tryall of his graces in us as chastize us for our sins and that besides our transgressions there are in Gods secret counsels other causes of our crosses and calamities but seeing the Lord hath in his word denounced these miseries and afflictions against us as punishments and chastisements for our iniquities and doth not reveale unto us when he tryeth us and when he correcteth us Therefore leaving Gods secrets unto himselfe we are not to look unto his hidden counsels but to his revealed will and according thereunto we are alwayes to make this use of our afflictions that when we are judged we are chastned of the Lord and justly corrected and punished for our sins and thus the Saints in all ages have done still have they insisted on their sins which have primarily been the cause of their sorrowes So David complained Psal 38.3 there is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there rest in my bones by reason of my sins And thus the Prophet Isaiah chap. 64.5 cryeth out in his prayer for the people behold thou art angry for we have sinned Yea Job himselfe who was chiefly afflicted for the try all of his graces though he desires to defend his innocency against his three friends to maintain the integrity of his heart from their false aspertions yet having to deal with God he acknowledgeth and sayes I have finned what shall I do unto thee oh thou preserver of men and why doest thou not parden and take away mine iniquity Job 7.20 Again 't is good to make a holy use of every affliction Is there an insufficiency and impotency in creatures that they cannot help us or infidelity and treachery whereby they will not afford unto us that help which we expect from them we may very well conclude we rested too much on those earthen propts and when contempt and scorn waite upon our heeles pride and loftinesse was our Gentleman Usher before and so of the rest God is one that will do nothing wherein his word shall not justifie his deed what befalls us from him must needes be just though we conceive not our desert because he smothers our offences his justice is in no way detected and surely if we would seriously take notice of it we may oft times read our fin in our punishment for God usually retaliates and dealeth with men according to the manner and way of their wickednesse the sin and suffering oft meet in some remarkable circumstance Now as afflictions are punishments for sins past so are they preventions against sin in time to come Phisit●ans when they purge their Patients aime most at the cause of the disease for when that is taken away the effects will follow thus doth God with his own dearest children he purges them so