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A86883	A Brief receipt moral & Christian, against the passion of the heart, or sore of the mind, incident to most, and very grievous to many, in the trouble of enemies. / Being one single sermon by I. H. Minister of Froome. Published at this rate by itself, that any who need it, and have it. For the ease and benefit especially of the more tender, weak and melancholy; who feel these arrows stick in their spirits, but know not the way of plucking them out, or aswaging the pain of them.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3672; Thomason E1895_1; ESTC R209916	24,345	123

Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe Duty indeed is mans the successe is Gods See Psal 55.22 Mat. 6.31 32. 1 Pet. 5.7 To this purpose it is most observeable of Iacob Gen. 32. when Esau is comming out against him it is said there appeared one he wrestled with till break of day compare it with Hos. 12.4 One would have thought now Iacob should have gone about to wrestle with Esau but he wrestles with God and having power with him Esau comes and falls down conquered at his feet And thus likewise did Ioseph David Daniel and the three Children in their troubles If it be so say they our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace and will deliver us Dan. 3.17 It is true we look not now for such miracles nor God be blessed for such burning tryals as these were yet is there something like which still abides the Children of God in that furnace of reproach and obloquy which wicked men do heat with the popular breath and then cast in their names and honour of whom neverthelesse while they keep up close with God I may even say as we read here they come out again in their Coats their Hosen and their Hats and not a Hair of their good names are sindged or the smell of the fire passes on them I mean as the fire had no power over these here no more shall the malice of men have power over the good names peace or Spirits of those that fear God Psal 37.76 Psal 62.1 2 3. This is a kind of mistery of Religion that a man must have his recourse to the Lord and deal with him to prevail with our Enemies FOr the Gronnds or Reasons There are these four and they are firm 1. From the Soveraignty of God who is the disposer of all things and so hath the hearts of our En enemies in his hands to turn them as the Rivers of waters Pro. 21.1 A man hath to do with ones Servant and he ruffles with him and wo'nt do this or that but is crosse well sayes he I 'le tell your Master with whom happily he is great and he shall make you The Children of God many times they have many a brunt and ruffling with the World In these brunts now they go unto him who is the great Lord of all of whom the whole Family of Heaven and Earth is named and he takes an order he takes a course for them Troubles upon the mind many times like Mastiffs on the body while we struggle with them in our own strength are but enraged and get more hold-fast on us but let the Master of the house once rate the curre let the Lord of all but speak a word to call them in our troubles all come off presently let go their hold and lye down before us O God sayes David the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men Psal 86.17 and then closes his Psalm sweetly v. 17. Shew me a token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me 2. From the Covenant As there is a right of dominion or power which God hath over all for our relief which is the first and great foundation of our applications to him So is there a second like to that A right of Will too which we have for our trust to him herein This is a part of the Covenant an expresse branch of it By my self have I sworn Gen. 22.16 17. I will blesse thee and multiply thee and thy seed shall possesse the gates of thy Enemies The gates of Cities are their strength and the meaning is that God will protect defend his people and give them victory when it is fit Hence is he said to be not only a Sun but a Shield Psal 84.11 and a buckler as well as an exceeding great reward Gen. 15.1 See more Psal 89.23 24. Luke 1.71 72. It were well that many a good Christian did know or consider this when they have need of it I am sure David who understood the nature of the Covenant better I think than most of us hath no expressions more frequent than such as these which are not for nothing doubtlesse that God was his Rock his habitation his fortresse his strong Tower in reference to his Enemies From the nature of those wayes that please the Lord which are such as are winning attractive and reconciling even of Enemies The fruits of the Spirit sayes the Apostle Gal. 5.22 23. are love gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse temperance who is not won by such wayes as these Her wayes saies Solomon are wayes of pleasantnesse that is not only pleasant to those that walk in them but pleasant even to those that behold them for so it follows and all her paths peace Pro. 3.17 4. From the advantage of Faith which is the chief part of those wayes or without which our wayes cannot please God Heb. 11.5 It was the opinion of the Stoicks as Seneca and Cicero in his Paradoxes That he that was truly wise is not capable to suffer injury for in regard say they that such a one places all his goods or happinesse in the mind in virtue se contentum esse omnia sua secum portare whereof they being not lyable to suffer diminution from any thing without nothing can disturb hurt or injure them If Philosophy now will teach us thus much sure Divinity will teach us yet more and that not only to retire within a mans self against the blows of misfortunes and Enemies but to remove our selves again yet father out of our selves unto God and so to hide and lay up our selves in him Faith is a grace that doeth this and so secures and safe-guards the Christian against all evills We must enter into our selves saies Albert to ascend up into God It is a famous Text therefore in Habakuck when the people are carried away in captivity and surrounded with the greatest misery that could befall them by Enemies it is said there that the just man shall live by his Faith Hab. 2.4 This outward life or life of sense may many times doubtlesle be troublesome enough when yet there is another kind of inward life a life of Faith in our retiring and rouling the Soul upon God wherein this same just man here lyes hush and safe even in the ruines of the world sifractus illabatur orbis impavidum ferient ruinae The Heavenly soul though it may sometimes as it were descend to the body and ask what ails it should have such apprehensions for the most part of these outward things as it will have when it is separated from it And hence as some think is Love said to be as strong as death because the love of God draws forth the Soul as it were out of us to live with him And hence happily is it likewise St. Iohn tells us that Faith overcomes the World 1 Io. 5.4

A BRIEF RECEIPT MORAL CHRISTIAN AGAINST The Passion of the Heart or Sore of the Mind incident to most and very grievous to many in the troubles of Enemies BEING One single Sermon by I. H. Minister of Froome Published at this rate by it self that any who need it may have it For the ease and benefit especially of the more tender weak and melancholy who feel these arrows stick in their spirits but know not the way of plucking them out or asswaging the pain of them Have mercy on me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed Psal 6 2. London Printed for E. Blackmore and are to be sold at the Angel in Pauls Church-Yard 1658. Christian Reader AS there are diseases infirmities and hurts in the body so are there in the mind where we feel them too as sensibly I wish I could say we did not And as we seek out to those who have skill or experience for remedies and do use many in the one it is pitty if we be quite defective in the other It is true every Physician will not fit every disease A man may be good for one that is good for nothing in another Nor will every word administred to the weary by the tongue of the Learned or the prudent which is better reach his wound and bring oyl to it VVhat is said but gives not refreshment It is not words that heal a soar a Medicine A man must have felt studied tryed and passed what he speaks that speaks to the heart in the anguish of another There are two wayes and let me tell you but two I think whereby the Soul when it ailes any thing is helped The one is when it comes to be perswaded that that thing which troubled or vexed it is not evill or so evill but well for it This cure is perfect The other way when it cannot but take the thing to be evill and grievous is by diversion or with-drawing the mind or thoughts from it to other things that are pleasing and so wear it away Veneranda malorum oblivio quantum sapis The later of these may serve where the spirit is more airy or the grief light but when the impression hath sunk deep and the temper is melancholy these thoughts will return and the first way only is left for us Now there is none thing in the World which is a Catholicon or Universall means let the malady be whatsoever it will so far as it lies in the mind for the accomplishing this but it is a certain thing that is hard to come by very hard to be had and that is Faith to wit when a man that hath sincerely and unreservedly given up himself to the service of Christ does beleeve most stedfastly according to that promise Ro 8.28 that all things shall work together for his good Let such a man be vexed or troubled grieved or afflicted his ease is at hand and that too compleat For then I say are all our vexations perfectly cured when the mind comes to see that to be good which it thought to be evill Now faith makes the man see this that all these things shall certainly work for the best to him Let Faith come the Mountain is removed when before the Grassehopper was a burden and a hair a weight But alas as our Saviour foretels us Luke 18.8 where shall we find such a Faith constant and uniform as this is even almost in the Earth There is another thing then must be forced to help us here to supply Faith's office as that is wanting in this work and that is our Reason which as it makes various efforts upon the affections so hath it a various successe For I find that although in some passions that do rise from more considerable causes as to be moved at the death of Friends some huge losses and the like which Reason judges to be equal and at first sides with them It bears a great stroak in the Soul so that as soon as the brunt is a litle over the affections hearken to it and are allayed by it Yet in some others that meet happily more closely with our complexions and so are not lesse pungent when there is lesse cause of them the matter is not so great but the mind is more engaged and Reason thereupon opposing the same and checking our selves from the beginning for the very rising the affections here come not so soon to be ordered but mutinying rather look upon Reason as it were a party against them which the more it chides and upbraids them the more are they but exasperated and fling away from it so that they will not and cannot be perswaded and wrought upon by it but those things which do vex them comming hereby more to be pondered do peirce and stick the deeper in them If this lays us not bare I do mean the more we come to see it unreasonable for us to be moved so much as we are moved in many cases so impotent is passion so touchy infirmi●y the more it moves us to be thus moved that we ought not and are and cannot help it Nay indeed while reason goes contrary our passions appear weaknesse and what is weaknesse we are willing to hide and then the passion which vent should let out concealment keeps in and foments to its height Mens intus agitat vulnera et semet dolor accendit And here it is true the evill it self lyes in the fancy more than the things yet does not the telling this presently cure us though at the first glance this may sometimes do somthing but the very knowing that it is but our fancy when we poar more upon it afflicts us more desperately seeing the smart is not the lesse and the cure we find but the harder for this For when we might get the things to be changed yet how shall we get off the evil in the mind The matter may be gon passed away yet the impression remains in our own imaginations Not that we are lest though without all remedy while it is good to know the worst for God hath made every thing that is in this life subject to change Time is an herb of Soveraign virtue And as our joys and comforts are mutable so are our griefs our vexations Blessed be his goodness for his If our Faith then do fail us our reason cannot serve us yet God can help us The Lord can offer advantages both and give the occasion how they shall work For I perceive though our passions indeed be irregular they have some guide and way of their own and to arm at least neer as the thing is when our Reasons reason will not prevail our passions own reason will get the hearing and if we can tell then how to wind in with them it will yeeld satisfaction The subject of the ensuing penfull of Notes written out by me at t he request of a reverend neighbour at first but importuned to the