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A02693 Dauids comfort at Ziklag A plaine sermon made in time of dearth and scarcitie of corne and worke. By Robert Harris. Harris, Robert, 1581-1658. 1628 (1628) STC 12825; ESTC S103794 12,068 29

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is a spectator she layes about her in the getting and exercising of grace others deepe sorrowes makes all see how needfull it is to get much saith patience Scriptures in a readinesse 2. these stirre vp to prayers mercies c. as when Peter is in Prison one beheaded another imprisoned they thought t was time to pray therefore Acts 12. they set about it earnestly So for mercie when they saw the Church distressed famine comming towards her they saue and lay vp as Ioseph for Egypt 2. when themselues be afflicted they helpe themselues by the afflictions of others Such went before mee in this affliction and God loued them why not mee Such cryed and sped well why not I Psal 34. They follow the cloud and doe not miscarry Heb. 12. Thirdly Reas 3. God aymes at the parties good in great distresses hereby they are tried humbled haue experience of their frailties and graces A Christian knowes little of himselfe till much distressed neither what his weakenesse not what his strength in Christ is hee neither sees how poore himselfe is nor how great his God is 2. hereby they are brought to receiue often sentence of miserie death h●ll in themselues and t is good to taste these things before we fecle them t will empty a man of himselfe and make him trust in the liuing God t will learne him those three Lessons of Christianitie that S. Paul hath clapt vp in one verse Phil. 3.3 i. to worship God spiritually to make Christ his iov to lay down all confidence in the flesh and 3ly hereby they are made helpefull to others There is little to bee expected from man till deepely plunged 1. Hee cannot pity others till experience hath taught him 2. he will not be seruiceable till afflictions haue humbled and broken him 3. hee knowes not how to comfort others till himselfe hath beene wounded and healed But when hee hath learned by experience he can make his own plaister serue another man and comfort him in the same affliction with the same consolation And those bee the sweetest and surest comforts when a man can say my case was iust the same here is the scripture the medicine that wrought the cure in me 2 Cor. 1. First for the wicked Vse leaue them but these Scriptures to thinke vpon If this bee done to the greene Tree what shall bee done to the dry If God beginne with the people that call vpon his Name what shall the end of the enemies be Are there not strong plagues for the workers of Iniquitie Iob 31 shall not they be distressed 2 The chief Vse is to Saints Let not them question their sonneship because of afflictions In this nonage the Heire differs little from a seruant You can make no certaine Conclusion from outward things doe not offer it vnlesse you will wrong God Christ the Generation of the Iust your owne soules all at once Ob. But what shall bee said to extraordinary afflictions Ans 1. If such God hath determined the case in Iob against those disputants They are no good proofes of a bad person or condition Ans 2. But ours be not extraordinary nothing hath befallen vs but what is humane Ob. No when did you heare of such a dearth as is now vpon vs Ans When why when an Asses head was worth foure pound 2 King 6. Therefore infer nothing against the truth of our Church from thence Ob. Oh but would the lining God so affict me if his Child An. So how Ob. O I am crossed in a childe as no man was so vngratefull so vnnaturall Ans Yes except David Ely and yet those beloued Ob. Oh but I haue such a beast to my husband as no woman euer had Ans Yes Abigaell Ob. Oh but my estate is broken all to pieces I am nothing worth Ans So was Dauid at Ziklag so Naomie and yet beloued Ob. Oh but I haue sold all and now want bread Ans So the Widow of Sarepta 2 King 4. Neh. 5. Lam. 4. and yet beloued Ob. Oh but my bodie is smitten too Ans So Dauids Iobs yet beloued of God Ob. Oh but my spirit is wounded I am scorcht with the flames of hell and feele it in my conscience Ans So Iob and Dauid Ob. But I am disabled from all seruice I can neither pray nor read nor heare nor liue not dye Ans So the Saints Psal 102. the Church in Esay and yet beloued Ob. Oh but I am torne to pieces with hellish blasphemous Temptations Ans Christ had such offered outwardly yet beloued Ob. But I am haled with lusts now impure lusts now couetous lusts reuengefull lusts and they make me weary of my life So Paul Rom. 7. Gal. 5. yet beloued What then is to be resolued vpon Surely that neither things present nor things to come shal euer separate vs from the loue of God for no afflictions forfeit our Title Ob. Oh but mine be fins passions temptations Ans Let them bee what they will be if they be afflictions to vs if they tire vs wound vs make vs cry to God as Ichosaphat did when they pursue vs they weaken not our Title Oh but that the smart of them may do without the hatred of sin they may weary men because painefull not because sinfull They may but marke 1. these two be not well opposed often the painefulness comes from the sinfulnesse were they not sinful wee could brooke them well enough for their pleasure and profit 2. if opposed paine in hypocrites only followes sins committed Thou art distressed before hand and in great feare lest thou shouldst commit it as Paul Who shall deliuer me from the bodie of death 2. great sinnes are painefull onely if nothing but paine bee heeded Thou art troubled with the first motions a whole bodie of sinne 3. sinne is only painefull to the vnsanctified Thou art troubled as much for want of faith loue humilitie thankefulnesse as for the ouerflowing of sinne 4. paine makes one howle but not to God at least in the first place But sinne driues a Dauid first to God then to men ends in prayer not in chasing despaire And is it thus with thee either condemne Dauid or say a man may be crossed in wife childe house goods friends kinsmen all at once nay hazzarded in his life tempted in his soule troubled in his conscience plunged into a sea of miseries and yet be deare to God a blessed man a glorious Christian witnesse Dauid In the next place Doct. they thinke and speake of stoning Dauid See our nature In crosses wee are apt to flye vpon men rather than to fall down and humble our selues before God Thus were the Israelites crossed they murmure at Moses and they will stone him Want they water stone Moses Want they meate stone Moses And thus the King of Israel at Samaria Abab for Eliah c. Nay wee see this disease too strong in Saints Sarah in the 16. of Genesis Asa c. Reas 1.