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A67780	A sovereign antidote to drive out discontent in all that any way suffer affliction As also the benefit of affliction; and how to husband it so, that the weakest Christian (with blessing from above) may be able to support himself in his most miserable exigents. Together with the wit, generosity, magnanimity and invincible strength of a patient Christian rightly so stiled, and as is herein characterized extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and modern, both holy and humane. Necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation. The second part. By R. Younge, of Roxwell in Essex, Florilegus. Licensed and entered according to order.; Soverign antidote to drive out discontent in all that any way suffer affliction. Part 2.	Younge, Richard.	1668 (1668)	Wing Y192A; ESTC R218099	37,680	36

their Coronation and what Princely heir does not long for the day of his inst●lm●●t and rejoyce when it comes Certainly it was the sweetest voit● that ever the Thief heard in this life when Christ said unto him This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Luk. 23.43 In a word as death to the wicked puts an end to their short joyes and begins their everlasting sorrowes so to the Elect it is the end of all sorrow and the beginning of their everlasting joyes The end of their sorrow for whereas complaint of evils past sense of 〈◊〉 and fear of future have shared our lives amongst them death is 1. A Supersedeas for all diseases the Resurrection knows no imper●●ction 2 It is a Writ of ease to free us from labour and servitude like Moses 〈◊〉 delivered Gods people out of bondage and from brick making i● ●egypt 3. Whereas our ingresse into the world our progresse in it our egress● ●ut of it is nothing but sorrow for we are born crying live grumbling ●nd die sighing death is a medicine which drives away all these for we ●hall rise triumphing 4. It shall revive our reputation● and cleer our Names from all ignomi ●y and reproach yea the more contemptible here the more glorious here 〈◊〉 Now a very Duellist will go into the field to seek death and finde ●onour 5. Death to the godly is as a Goal delivery to let the Soul out of the ●rison of the body and set it free 6. Death frees us from sinne an Inmate that spite of our teeth will ●●oust with us so long as life affords it ho●se room for what is it to the ●●ithfull but the funerall of their vices and the resurrection of their vertues CHAP. VII BEcause Patience in suffering brings a reward wi●h it In reason a man would forgive his enemy ev●n for his own ●ake were there no ●ther motive ●o perswade him for to let passe many things of no smal● moment as that if we forgive not we can do no part of ●ods worship ●hat is pleasing to him for we cannot pray aright 1 Tim. 2.8 We ●annot communicate in the Sacrament but we make our selves guilty of Christs blood 1 Cor. 11.27 Matth. ● 24 We cannot be good hearers ●f the Word Iames 1.21 and that it makes a man captive to Satan Ephes 4.26 27. and many the like If ye forigve men their trespasses saith our Saviour your heavenly Father also will forgive you but if you for●ive not men their trespasses neither will your heavenly Father forgive you ●our trespasses Mat. 6.14 15. So he that will not be in Charity shall never be in Heaven And why should I do my self a shrewd turn because ●nother would Yea we desire pardon as we give pardon and we would ●e loath to have our own lips condemn us When we pray to God to forgive us our trespasses as we also forgive them that trespasse against us ●nd do not resolve to forgive our brethren we do ineffect say Lord condemn us for we will be condemned whereas he that doth good to his enemy e●en in that act doth better to himself Again Blessed is the man saith St. Iames that endureth temptation viz. with patience for when he is tried he shall receive the Crown of life James 1.12 And this made Moses not only patient in his sufferings but joyfull esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches than all the measures of Aegypt For saith the Text he had respect unto the recompence of the reward Heb. 11.26 And well it might for whereas the highest degree of suffering is not worthy of he least and lowest degree of this glory Rom. 2.18 St. Paul witnesseth that our light affliction which is but for a moment if it be borne with patience causeth unto us a far most excellent and eternall weight of glory while we look not on the things that are seen but on the things which are not seen 2 Cor. 4.17 18. Where note the incomparablenesse and infinite difference between the work and the wages light affliction receiving a weight of glory and momentary afflictions eternall glory answerable to the reward of the wicked whose empty delights live and die in a moment but their insufferable punishment is interminable and endless As it fared with Pope Sixtus the fifth who sold his soul to the Devill to enjoy the glory and pleasure of the Popedom for seven years their pleasure is short their pain everlasting our pain is short our joy eternall What will not men undergo so their pay may be answerable The old experienced Souldier fears not the rain and storms above him nor the numbers falling before him nor the troops of enemies against him nor the shot of thundring Ordinance about him but looks to the honourable reward promised him When Philip asked Democritus if he die not fear to lose his head he answered No for quoth he if I die the Athenians will give me a life immortall meaning he should be s●●●ued in the treasury of eternall fame if the immortality as they thought of their names was such a strong reason to perswade them to patience and all kind of worthinesse what should the immortality of the soul be to us Alas vertue were a poor thing if fam● only should be all the Garland that did crown her but the Christian knowes that if every pain he suffers were a death and very crosse an hell he shall have amends enough Which made the Martyrs such Lambs in suffering that their persecutors were more weary with striking than they with suffering and many of them as willing to die as dine When Modestus the Emperours Lieutenant told Basil what he should suffer as confiscation of goods cruell tortures death c. He answered If this be all I fear not yea had I as many lives as I have hairs on my head I would lay them all down for Christ nor can your master more benefit me than in sending me to my Heavenly Father to whom I now live and to whom I desire to hasten And another time being threatned in like manner by the Emperour he bad him fright Babies with such Bugbares His life might be taken away but not his comforte his head but not his crown Yea persecutors are but our Fathers Goldsmiths sayes Bernard working to adde Pearles to the Crowns of the Saints Whence Gordius could say to his tormentors it is to my great loss if you bate me any part of my sufferings I could abound with ●●amples of this nature No matter quoth one of them what I suffer on earth so I may be crowned in Heaven I care not quoth another what becometh of this frail Bark my flesh so I have the passenger my soul safely conducted And another If Lord at night thou grant'st me Lazarus boon Let Dives dogs lick all my sores at noon And a valiant Souldier going about a Christian atchievement My comfort is though I lose my life for Christs sake yet I shall not lose my

thy taking revenge what mayest thou not expect to suffer and in thy suffering what comfort canst thou have Whereas if God bring us into crosses he will be with us in those crosses and at length bring us out of them more refined You may observe there is no such coward none so valiant as the believer without Gods warrant he dares do nothing with it any thing Nothing without it Those saith Basil to a great man that perswaded him to yeeld who are trained up in the Scriptures will rather die in an holy quarrell than abate one syllable of divine truth Nor would any solicite them to do ill did they rightly know them for what Cicero speaks of Cato viz. O gentle Cato how happy art thou to have been such an one that never man durst yet presume to solicite thee in any dishonest cause or contrary to duty may be applied to every Believer rightly so stiled When the Tormentors of Marcus Arethusius who laid to his charge the pulling down of an idolatrous Temple offered him his pardon in case he would give so much as would build it up again he refused it and being further urged to give but half he refused it at last being told that if he would give but a little towards it they would release him he refused to give them so much as an half penny saying No not an half penny for it is as great wickedness said he to confer one half penny in case of impiety as if a man should bestow the whole A good conscience being in the greatest torture will not give one half penny to be released with hurt to his conscience he scans not the weight of the thing but the authority of the Commander and such have no good consciences that dare gratifie Satan in committing the least sinne or neglect God in the smallest precept The conscionable Nazarite Numb 6. did not only make scruple of guzling and quaffing whole Flagons of wine but of eating only a husk or an kernell of the grape knowing the one was as well forbidden as the other Will any man eat poyson because there is but a little of it A small bullet may kill a man as well as a great one Goliah was as much hurt by Davids little stone as Sampson by the weight of a whole house And Ely died as well by falling back in his chair as Iezabel by being thrown down from an high window And what saith our Saviour to the unjust Steward He that is faithfull in that which is least is faithfull also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much Luk. 16.10 He that will corrupt his conscience for a pound what would he do for a thousand If Iudas will fell his Master for thirty pence what would he not have done for the Treasury Alas there are no sins small but comparatively These things speaking of Mint and Cummin ought ye to have done sayes our Saviour and not have left the other undone Luk. 11.42 Wherefore it is with a good and tender conscience as it is with the apple of the eye for as the least hair or dust grieves and offends that which the skin of the eye-lid could not once complain of so a good and tender conscience is disquieted not only with beams but moats even such as the world accounts trifles it strains not only at Cammels but Gnats also A sincere heart is like ● neat spruce man that no sooner spies the least speck or spot on his garment but he gets it washt or scrap't off the common Christian like a nasty sloven who though he be all foul and besmeared can indure it well enough yea it offends him that another should be more neat than himself But such men should consider that though they have large consciences that can swallow down any thing yet the sincere and tender conscience is not so wide A strait shooe cannot indure the least pibble stone which will hardly be felt in a wider neither will God allow those things in his Children which he permits in his enemies no man but will permit that in another mans Wife or Child which he would abhor in his own A box of precious oyntment may not have the least fly in it nor a delicate Garden the least weed though the Wildernesse be overgrown with them I know the blind world so blames the Religious and their Religion also for this nicenesse that they think them Hypocrites for it but this was Iobs comfort in the aspersion of Hypocrisie My wi●ness is in Heaven and my record on high And as touching others that are offended their answer is Take thou O God who needest not ●ur sinne to further thy work of Grace the charge of thy Glory give us grace to take charge of thy Precepts For sure we are that what is absolutely evill can by no circumstance be made good poys●n may be qualified and become medicinall there is use to be m●de of an enemy sicknesse may turn to our bette● health and death it self to the faithful is but a door to life but sinne be it never so small can never be made good Thus you have seen their fear but look also upon their courage for they more fear the least sinne t●an the greatest torment All the fear of Satan and his instruments ariseth from the want of the true fear of God but the more a man fears God the lesse he fears everything else Fear God honour the King 1 Pet. 2.14 17. He that fears God doth but honour the King he need not fear him Rom. 13.3 the Law hath not power to smite the vertuous True many have an opinion not wise That Piety and Religion abates fortitude and makes valour Feminine but it is a foundationlesse conceit The true beleever fear● nothing but the displeasure of the highest and runs away from nothing but sinne Indeed he is not like our hot spurs that will fight in no cause but a bad that fear where they should not fear and fear not where they should fear that fear the blasts of mens breath and not the fire of God● wrath that fear more to have the world call them Cowards for refusing then God to judg them rebels for undertaking that tremble at the thought of a Prison and yet not fear Hell fire That can govern Towns and Cities and let ● silly woman over-rule them at home it may be a servant or a Child as Themistocle● Sonne did in Greece What I will said he my Mother will have done and wh●t my Mother will have my Father doeth That will undertake a long journey by Sea in a W●erry as the desperate Marriner hoysteth sayl in a storm and sayes None of this Ancestors were drowned That will rush fearlesly into infected houses and say The Plague never ceizeth on valiant blood it kills none but Cowards That languishing of some sicknesse will strive to drink it away and so make hast to dispatch both body and soul at once that

will run on high battlements gallop down steep hils ride over narrow bridges walk on weak Ice and never think what if I fall but what if I passe over and fall not No he is not thus fearlesse for this is presumption and desperate madnesse not that courage and fortitude which ariseth from faith and the true fear of God but from blindnesse and invincible ignorance of their own estate As what think you Would any man put his life to a venture if he knew that when he died he should presently drop into hell I think not But let the beleeving Christian who knowes he hath a place reserved for him in Heaven have a warrant from Gods word you cannot name the service or danger that he will stick at Nor can he lightly fail of successe It is observed that Trajan was never vanquished because he never undertook warre without just cause In fine at he is most fearfull to offend so he is most couragious in a good cause as abundance of examples witnesse whereof I 'le but instance two for the time would be too short to ●ell of Abraham and Moses and Caleb and David and Gideon and Baruck and Sampson and Ieptha and many others of whom the holy Ghost gives this generall testimony that by faith of weak they are made strong waxed valiant in battel turned to flight the Armies of the Aliants subdued Kingdoms stopt the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of the fire c. Heb. 11.22 to 35. Nor will I pitch upon Ioshua whom neither Caesar nor Pompey nor Alexander the Great nor William the Conquerour nor any other ever came near either for valour or victories but even Ionathan before and the Martyrs after Christ shall make it good As what think you of Ionathan whom neither steepness of Rocks nor multitude of enemies could discourage or diswade from so unlikely an assault Is it possible if the divine power of Faith did not add spirit and courage making men more then men that two should dare to think of encountering so many thousands and yet behold Ionathan and his Armour bearer put to flight and ●●rified the hearts of all the Philistins being thirty thousand Chariots six thousand Horse-men and Foot-men like the sand of the Sea-sh●re 1 Sam. 14.15 O divine power of faith that in all attemps and difficulties makes us more then men and regards no more Armies of adversaries than swarms 〈◊〉 A natural man in a project so unlikely would have had many thoughts of discouragment and strong reasons to diswade him but his faith dissolves impediments as the Sunne doth dews yea he contemns all fears over-looks all impossibilities breaks through all difficulties with a resolute courage and flies over all carnall objections with celestiall wings because the strength of his God was the ground of his strength in God But secondly To shew that their courage is no less passive than active look upon that Noble Army of Martyrs mentioned in Ecclesiastical History who went as willingly and cheerfully to the stake as our Gallants to a Play and leapt into their beds of flames as if they had been beds of down yea even weak women and young striplings when with one dash of a pen they might have been released If any shall yet doubt which of the two the Religious or Prophane are most valiant and couragious let them look upon the demeanour of the twelve Spies Numb the 13th and 14th Chapters and observe the difference between the two faithfull and true hearted and the other ten then will they conclude that Piety and Religion doth not make men Cowards or if it do that as there is no feast to the Churles so there is no fight to the Cowards True they are not soon not easily provoked but all the better the longer the could fit in an Ague the stronger the hot fit I know men of the Sword will deem those the greatest Cowards that are least apt to fight But as when it was objected to a Martyr that his Christ was but a Carpenters sonne he aswered yea but such a Carpenter as built Heaven and Earth so we grant we are Cowards as they tearm us but such cowards as are a●le to prevail with God Gen. 32.26 28. Exod. 32.10 And overcome the World the Flesh and the Devil 1 Ioh. 5.4 Gal. 5.24 1 ●oh 2.14 which is as much valour and victory as we care for Tru●● is truth as well when it is not acknowledged as when it is and experience tell us that he who fears not to do evill is alwayes afraid to suffer evill Yea the Word of God is expresse That none can be truly valarous but such as are truly religious The wicked fly when none pursueth but the righeous are as bold as a Lyon Prov. 28.1 The reason whereof i● If they live they know by whom they stand if they die they know for whose sake they fall But what speak I of their not fearing death when they shall not fear even the day of Iudgment 1 Joh. 4.17 Hast not thou O Saviour bidde● us when the Elements shall be dissolved and the Heavens shall be flaming about our ears to lift up our heads with joy because our redemption draweth nigh Luk. 21.25 to 29 Wherefore saith the valiant Believer come death come fire come whirlewinde they are worthy to be welcome that shall carry us to immortality Let Pagans and Infidels fear death saith St. Cyprian who never feared God in their life but let Christians go to it as travellers unto their native home as Children unto their loving Father willingly joyfully Let such fear to die as have no hope to live a better life well may the brute beasts fear death whose end of life is the conclusion of their being well may the Epicure tremble at it who with his life looketh to lose his felicity well may ignorant and unrepentant sinners quake at it whose death begins their damnation well may all those make much of this life who are not sure of a better because they are conscious to themselves that this dying life will but bring them to a living death they have all sown in sinne and what ●an they look to reap but misery and vanity sinne was their traffique and grief will be their gain detestable was their life and damnable will be their decease But it is otherwise with the Godly they may be killed but cannot be hurt for even death that fiend is to them a friend like the Read Sea to the Israelites which put them over to the Land of Promise while it drowned their enemies It is to the faithful as the Angels were to Lot who snatcht him out of Sodome while the rest were consumed with fire and Brimstone Every believer is Christs betrothed Spouse and death is but a messenger to bring her ●ome to her Husband and what chaste or loving Spouse will not earnestly desire the presence of her Bridegroom as St. Austin speaks Yea the day of death to them is the day of