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A54840	An effectual prescription against the anguish of all diseases and against all other afflictions to which the nature of man is subject. Penn'd, and publish'd, and approv'd, from the author's experience of it: but more especially from the experience of very many much greater and better men, the latchet of whose shoes he is not worthy to untie.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing P2181A; ESTC R218982	12,546	28

all other distresses of every kind and in all degrees his Inward Joy did not forsake him his Peace of Conscience stuck closer to him than his Skin to his Flesh or his Flesh to his Bones for these his several Lictors had the power to take from him Five times was he scourged by the Lictors of the Iews and that without Mercy or Mitigation and with a Rod of three branches whereof each was of twisted whip-cord as Maimonides has informed us and so inflicted three stripes at every stroke He was thrice beaten with Rods that is with switches or wands by the Lictors of the Gentiles once he was stone without a Process by a tumultuous Rabble of Zealots and tho not unto Death yet which is worse he was left for dead Acts 14. 19. Three times at least he suffered Shipwrack A night and a day he was in the Deep that is in a Prison of the Propontis which was a most noisom and filthy pit which for its depth under ground was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the bottom of the Sea like that at Athens called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or that at Syracuse called The Mineral In every one of these cases the Joy of St. Paul never forsook him but he pray'd without ceasing he rejoyced evermore and in every thing gave thanks Nor is it a wonder that he rejoyced in the things wherein he said he took pleasure For that he did so is plain 2 Cor. 12. 10. where when he said that he took pleasure in Infirmities he explain'd what he meant in the very next words by Reproches by Necessities by Persecutions by Distresses for Christ's sake These expresly were the things in which he said he took pleasure yea these were the things in which he boasted and in which he gloried v. 9. most gladly saith he will I glory in mine infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me 'T was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and delight to bear about in his body the dying of the Lord Iesus In comparison with whom he reckoned all things but Dung and rejoyced to be reckoned himself as Dung as the Off-scowrings of the Earth for the sake of CHRIST He was glad to be thought worthy to suffer Shame for CHRIST'S sake §. XIII This is call'd with great Fitness The Rejoycing of a Man's hope Heb. 3. 6. because the Hope we have in God and our Relyance upon Him for the performance of his Promises in the most unlikely Times when all things round about us are most improsperous and adverse is the Ground and Foundation of all a Christian Man's Rejoycing and that as at all times so above all in Times of Tryal To which St. Paul does give witness in the fifth Chap. to the Romans from the second to the sixth Verse We rejoyce saith he in Hope of the Glory of God v. 2. and not only so But we glory in Tribulations v. 3. we are infinitely pleas'd with our present sufferings tho' not reduplicative for sufferings sake but as knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience Experience and Experience Hope v. 4. and Hope maketh not ashamed v. 5. But on the contrary thus hoping for the glory of God to be revealed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we boast we glory we rejoyce with exceeding Ioy and that because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the same Holy Ghost which is given unto us v. 5. Which is as if he should have said That however our afflictions are in their own nature tedious yet they exercise many Vertues as Faith and Patience and Perseverance which are all required of us and are deservedly to be shewn in the Cause of CHRIST Besides that Patience under Afflictions is absolutely necessary for the Tryal of our Sincerity of which we cannot well judge without a Tryal nor can we by Consequence without it have a safe Ground of Hope which being rightly grounded upon a Tryal and Proof of our Sincerity in our adherence to JESUS CHRIST and rightly objected on his Promises revealed to us in the Gospel can never prove a false or deceitful Hope nor can we possibly miscarry in our Dependance upon CHRIST for a full Performance For 't is not without sufficient Reason that God is called The God of Hope and that he is said to fill the Hearts of True Believers with all Ioy and peace in their Believing and that by the power of God the Holy Ghost Rom. 15. 13. §. XIV This I take to be the meaning of that seeming Paradox as 't is a Paradox more than seeming to the Natural Man as Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we boast we glory we exceedingly rejoyce in our Tribulations and are wonderfully pleas'd with our present Sufferings as Dr. Hammond words it expresly and that for the Reason before recited in the Fifth to the Romans at the third fourth and fifth Verses §. XV. There is a parallel place in the 12 th Chapter to the Romans at the 12 th Verse both with That I now cited and with This of my Text to the Thessalonians where Rejoycing in hope is immediately followed with being Patient in Tribulation and continuing instant in Prayer Implying that That Religious Hope which makes us purifie our selves as St. Iohn describes it and is the Second of the Third Theological Graces which is inseparably connected with Faith and Charity is not only the Ground of Patience and Prayer to God with Perseverance but even of Ioy and Exultation in all the Crosses and Afflictions which can befall us and so is a Proof of our Ability whilst this Divine Hope is in us to obey the Exhortation and to perform the Christian Duty incumbent on us in my Text which is to Rejoyce evermore and in every thing to be thankfull §. XVI This is briefly That Ioy which takes up its Residence in a Man's Heart and there is established by his Conscience a Conscience as quiet as it is clean a Conscience void of Offence towards God and Man And this is that Peace of Conscience which Solomon calls A continual Feast Vicious Men may abound in a transient Iollity but are capable of no true Ioy their Laughing and Quaffing is in good earnest but their Disease which has a sting in the tail when there is Honey in the Mouth They may have Intervals and Truces but no true Peace They may indeed have a Callousness or a Searedness of Conscience but Peace of Conscience they have not they cannot have There is no Peace saith my God to the wicked Esaiah 57. 20. §. XVII He who is bless'd with this Ability to Rejoyce evermore will by consequence obey the two Exhortatives annext He will pray without ceasing and will in every thing give thanks He will not only give thanks for his State of Grace and his being Gods Servant or the Servant of Righteousness but also for his having been the Servant of Sin For so he is taught by St. Paul to say as he