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A03078	Panacea Christiana, or, A Christians soueraigne salue for euery soare deliuered in two seuerall sermons, and now digested into one treatise : published for the vse of all distressed Christians.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1624 (1624)	STC 13203.5; ESTC S2728	34,209	104

left Reprobate to euery good Worke. As for euill of Punishment Let God forsake them with Saul 1 Sam. 28 6 7.8 1 Samuel 28. verses 6 7 8. they will forsake God and runne from his presence like Cain turne Vagabonds Genesis 4. verse 16. Gen. 4.16 If the Euill of Sinne pursue them and their owne Conscience haue raysed a Heu and Cry against them with Achitophell they flye to a Halter for Remedie and for feare of Hell leape into Hell Outward Crosses do them no good Esay 1.5.7 Esay 1. verses 5 7. I haue smitten them yet they haue not turned vnto me is an olde Complaint nay much hurt Ahaz in his Affliction transgresseth more and more 2 Chro. 28 22. The wicked King cries out This euill comes from the Lord shall I serue him any longer 2 Kings 9 33. 2 Kings chap. 6. verse 33. Iobs Wife will Curse God Iob. 2.6 and Dye Iob 2. 9. Is their Credite crackt They grow as shamelesse now as they were gracelesse before proclayming their sinnes as Sodome and fearing neyther God nor Man Is their state impouerished The stick not to put foorth their handes to vnlawfull shiftes adding Sin to Affliction In the Diseases of their Bodies with Asa they seeke not vnto God 2 Chro. 16.12 but trust to the Physitian In extreamity of paine they soone loose themselues and their patience like the raging Sea they vomit out their owne shame In Death they goe away lumpishly as Nabal or ridiculously with a Sardonicall Laughter or desperately like that Gallant M. Perkins in gouernment of the tongue who spurring his Horsse till hee sprang aside into the water as hee was tumbling ouer the Bridge cryed out Horse Man and all to the Diuell All this is but the beginning of Sorrow Isaiah 66.24 Death giues them vp to the Gnawing of that worme which neuer dyet the burning of that Lake which shall neuer slake and the scorching of those flames that shall neuer cease Death cuts off their Hope which endeth with their Life and giues life to those Torments which shall neuer end Thus is their Life Miserable their Death Lamentable their End Damnable The last Grape which I shall plucke from this Goodly Cluster and presse forth is An Exhortation to Patience vnder the Crosse If all things shall worke for thy Good why dooest thou murmure and mutine against God because hee followes thee with a Succession of Crosses Thy Afflictions are many and great tedious and greeuous say not thou with Caine Gen. 4.13 My punishment is Greater then I can beare Genes 4. verse 13. Whateuer euill it bee that lyes so heauie whether on thy Bodie Name or State whether inward Temptation or outward Tribulations is it not for thy Good Wilt thou be such an Enemy to thine owne Soule as to repine at thine owne Good The Cup is bitter I but happily the lesse toothsome the more wholesome Thy teeth are set an edge with eating sowre Grapes this bitter Aloes must set them right Thou canst happily make a shift to turne ouer a draught of Worme-wood Beere euery morning next thy heart Is it not bitter as Gall Is it not distastfull to the Palate Why doest thou drinke it Oh the Phisitian assures me it 's for my good Thou sufferest the Surgeon to launce thy raging vlcer to lay a sharpe Corazine which may eate downe the dead flesh It stings cruelly smarts terribly yet thou endurest it patiently Why The Surgeon tells thee it is good for thee If the Grand Phisitian of thy Soule prescribe a bitter draught next thy heart murmure not if that skilfull Soule-Surgeon clap on a Coraziue murmure not hee assures thee it 's for thy Good Stay not here neither this will teach thee to vndergoe thy trouble not onely patiently but chearefully according to that of the Apostle Reioyce in Tribulation Why Tribulation brings forth Patience Patience Experience Rom. 4.3.4 5. Experience Hope that maketh not ashamed Oh the sweete Fruite that growes from this bitter roote S. Iames. 1.23 Iames seconds Paul My Brethren count it great ioy when you fall into diuers tentations knowing that the trying of your faith bringeth foorth Patience and let Patience haue her perfect worke Set before your eyes that Mirrour of patience remember Iob when crosses came thronging thick and threefold one vpon the necke of another like a showre of haile-shot Luke 21.19 yet the Holy man possesses his soule by his patience Set before you that Mirrour of Mirrours the Sauiour of the vvorld how willingly did hee drinke of that bitter Potion Mat. 26.39 Iames. 1.13 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for vvhen he is tryed hee shall receiue the Crowne if life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him Thou art now in the furnace waite till the drosse bee consumed thou art now in the Scouring-house stay till the soile be wiped off then shalt thou bee translated from this valley of teares to that Region of ioy where all sinne shall bee wiped from thy soule all sorrow from thy heart all teares from thine eyes that ioy shall no man take from thee FINIS Gentle Reader I thought good to fill vp this vacant Page with this Table All things worke for the best to the Godly whether Good Supreme God consider'd in his Nature Atributes Workes Either of Mercy Iudgement Or By meanes without means Against means Subordinate Persons Angels Men in their ordinances Ciuill Magistrates Ecclesiasticall Ministers Things Gifts of Minde Ornaments of Body Gifts of Fortune so termed Euill Sinne whether That of our first Parents That which flows thence Originall Actuall Smaller in the Vnderstanding Errours Will. Passions grosser Punishment Inward Spirituall Dissertion Horror of Conscience Generall All Affliction Outward Priuat euill of State Pouerty Name Ignomy Persons Diseases Death National Plagues Publike A Post-script Gentle Reader if I seeme to breake off abruptly and to doe my worke by halues the truth is my desire was to present this my first and imperfect essay to the world for a tast onely If it may finde fauour acceptation I shall be encouraged to perfect what is left vnfinished if not little said soone amended Errata For bee read is Pag. 1. line 4. for his read this p 3. l. 6. read to p. 4. l. 3. read the crowne p. 7. l. 10. read gastred p. 27. line last read make p. 44. l. 1. read lockes p. 51. l. 26. read him p. 56. l. 18. them l. 19. read Lo-ammi p. 64.13

righteous are exalted the City shall flourish If their Cup ouerflow their Brests bee full of Milke and their Bones full of Marrow there wordly Wealth makes them rich in good Workes 1. Tim. 6.18 to doe good and to distribute they forget not Now they are Eies to the blind Clothes to the naked Iob 31 17 18 19 20. c. Feete to the lame their Morsels are neuer eaten alone the loines of the poore shall blesse them My promise was not to dwel on this branch which requires not confirmation but onely illustration Why should I waste the time in prouing what none denies Here 's the maine Scruple a Quaere not easily assoyl'd What do all euil things turne to their good I All euill too by accident whether of Sin or Punishment of Sinne whether that of our first Parents or what flowes from thence That of our first Parents Our Apostacie from God in the first Adam made way for the incarnation of the Second Had wee not fallen in Adam wee could neuer haue stood in Christ Our Happinesse at the first was put into our owne hands but how easily were we beguiled by that wily Serpent like little Children that will part with Gold for a Nut-shelle to let goe God Heauen our Soules and all for an Apple Whereas now this Iewell is kept vnder looke and key in the Bosome of God conueighed to vs by our Head Christ Iesus and as soone may Satan pull Christ their Head out of Heauen as snatch a rib a member a limbe from his body Loe how we haue gayned by our lossel our Happinesse is enlarged confirmed we may triumphingly conclude with the Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wee had perished if we had not perished That which flowes from our first Parents whether Originall Corruption or Actuall Transgression Originall Corruption howeuer it sticke close to all the sonnes of Adam as an Hereditary Leprosie bred in the flesh wil not our of the bone Wel may it bee subdued rooted out it cannot be If it doe not Regnare it will Inhabitare So hath it fretted into our Nature as the Leprosie eate into the walles that it cannot be scraped out till the house be pulled downe like that poysoned Vestiment which the Poets faine was giuen to Hercules that would not off till it had torne the skinne from the flesh and the flesh from the bone This tainture sieges on the wholeman in the vnion of the Soule to the Body and therefore cannot be extirpated eradicated till the finall separation of the Body from the Soule This Fomes Malorum workes for their Good many waies It serues to humble them it lets them see that they carry in them the Spawne of all Sinne the sourse of all Impiety lurkes in their vile Nature that by Nature they are Slaues to sinne Vassals to Satan Daenen eti priusquam nati Aug. Firebrands of Hell heyres of Condemnation that they are naught starke naught worse then naught Now the first step to Christianity is Selfe-Deniall If any man will be my Disciple he must deny himselfe and follow me If the recognition of this poyson and venom which lurketh in the Nature of Man and renders him more odious in the sight of God then a Toade Snake or Serpent can be hateful to vs doe not make him out of loue with himselfe I know not what will Certainly Paul was not enamored with his owne worth when he cryeth out In me that is in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing Rom. 7. ver 18. It driues them to Christ with lamentable sighes and groanes O miserable man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of Death Thankes bee to God thorough Iesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7 24 25. verses These diseased creatures sicke as life can hold how eagerly doe they run vnto the Physitian accounting it a most singular Happinesse if they may with the poore Woman in the Gospell but steale a touche of the Hemme of our Sauiours Garment Luk. 8 43 44 that so this Issue of blood may bee stanched and this Spring of Corruption dryed vppe which of it selfe like a seething pot Ezech. 16 16. Ezech. 24 6 7 is euer sending vp a filthy Scumme and like the raging Sea is euer foaming out myre and dirt Esa 57 20 21 Actual transgressions the cursed fruit sprowting from that roote of Bitternesse whether Lesser or Greater are made vsefull to the Elect. Smaller in the Vnderstanding Errours and doubting occasions them to get a surer resolution a scrupulous mind I meane not of such as are more nice then wise which makes doubts where none is and seeke knots in a Bulrush Like those trees which are shaken of the Northerne windes take deeper root and stands firmer The doubting of some few make for the satisfaction of many The Corinthians staggering in that high point of the Resurrection 1. Cor. 15. gaue a hint to Paule for the wiping out of all scruples both in themselues and others No truths more cleare now then those which haue beene heretofore most controuersall In the Affections Their proanenesse to anger wrath dissention Aemulation secret heart-burning open distaste These humaine frailties make them more wary more watchfull Acts. 15.39 Paule and Barnabas fall at variance their discord breakes into a rent or separation this separation tended much to the spreading of the Gospell Howsoeuer these slips let them see their owne weaknesse now they know they are but men now they learne to curbe their exorbitant passions and will not be not so foolish as to lay the reines on the neckes of those vnruly horses which if they once get head will indanger their owne necke and their Masters too I but what shall we thinke of the greater euills Grosse sinnes howsoeuer they seeme to make Hauocke of the graces of the Spirit like a Thiefe in the Candle wasting all or like some blazing Comets prodigiously portending ruine and desolation to that Soule which is so fouly ouer-taken yet out of this Ranke poison the Grand Physitian fetches a Soueraigne Treacle vsing the blood of the Scorpion to cure the sting of the Scorpion This turnes to their owne good the good of their Brethren To their owne Good many wayes making them more humble more meeke more wise more cautelous more wary and more Zealous These foule Enormities whereby they become Publike scandals to God and Man are those stinging Coraziues which eate downe that Pride of heart and selfe-conceitednesse to too much ouerweening their owne worth A sinne which though it make little noise in the eares of the world yet appeares farre more odious and abominable in the sight of God then those Carnall fleshly sins which the world censures so deepely Secondly as it make them more humble in themselues Gal. 6.1 so it renders them more gentle to their Brethren If any man be fallen by occasion into any fault restore such a one with the Spirit of meeknesse is the Iniunction of