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A16479	The saints solace: or, The condition, and consolation of the saints in the earth Deliuered in certaine sermons at Eatonbridge in Kent. By the minister there.; Saints solace	Bostock, Peter.	1630 (1630)	STC 3395; ESTC S117350	48,100	246

that all cry out as the Magitians in Aegypt This is the finger of God ſ Exod. 8.19 Exod. 8.19 3. By their faith proued and found vnto praise and honour t Deut. 8.2 knowen in the tentation what is in the heart viz. vprightnesse and readinesse to draw neere vnto God u Psal 73. vlt. and to cleaue vnto the Lord with full purpose of heart x Psa 42.8 prayer made to the God of their life c. Christ followed the crosse taken vp themselues denied yea y 2. Cor. 1.8 9. pressed out of measure and aboue strength the sentence of death receiued in themselues that they might not trust in themselues but in God which after two dayes z Hos 6.2 although he kill raiseth the dead magnified and glorified in their bodie their Lord and their God whether by life as in Dauid a Psal 18.17 18. or by death as in Peter b Ioh. 21.19 In the end of their faith is the end of the Lord his owne glorie in their saluation c Psal 50.23 corporall and spirituall temporall and eternall according to his word Psal 50.15 * Saepè hic innocintes pereunt recti sunditùs delentur sed tamen ad aeternam glo●iam percundo seruantur Greg. lib. 5. Mor. cap. 14. 4. By their obedience honoured as a father of his sonnes d Mal. 1.6 submisse in their affliction and a master of his seruants corrected obsequious and not answering againe e Tit. 2.9 Had not Satan considered Iob the seruant of God f Iob. 1.8 in his prosperitie Enough he did to his owne shame and the glorie of the Lord in his aduersitie for as Iesus Christ though he were a sonne learned obedience by the things which he suffered g Heb. 5.9 so Iob and all the sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus h Gal. 3.26 learne of him to be lowly in heart i Matt. 11.29 and by the things which they suffer obedience to their father which is in heaven Better this than sacrifice k 1 Sam. 15.22 Bullocks with hornes and hoofes not required but obedience from the heart to the forme of doctrine which is deliuered l Gal. 5.17 strange flesh not to be offered but a mans owne flesh to bee sacrificed which in euerie act of obedience is done * Per victimas aliena caro per obedientiam jam verò propria caro mactatur c. Gr. sup 1 Reg. c. 15. Obedire est contra audire scilicet contra proprium sensum propriam voluntatem Vt. Perald Sum. Tom. 1. par 10. c. 2. in fin crucified the flesh which lusteth against the Spirit m Rom. 6.17 in which it is performed obeyed the word which commeth and the Lord therein riding prosperously n Psal 45.4 This causeth honour to God in his Maiestie yea many yet without to glorifie him in the day of visitation o 1 Pet. 2.12 The causes of afflictions efficient and finall thus discouered I proceed to the Vses which shall be For 1. Reproofe 2. Correction 3. Information 4. Admonition 5. Instruction 6. Instauration Vnto which shall be added a word of Exhortation 1. For reproofe to the vile Barbarians which seeing a viper on a Pauls hand or a crosse laid on a Simons shoulder cry out they arc murtherers or malefactors and vengeance will not suffer them to liue at ease or to prosper as other men but these the brutish amongst the people fooles alas when will ye vnderstand p Psal 94.8 The time is come that iudgement must begin at the house of God and if it first begin with them that professe and obey what shall the end be of them that obey not nor professe the Gospell of God q 1 Pet. 4.17 18. If the righteous scarcely be saued where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare If this be done vnto the green trees which bring forth fruit according as God hath dealt the measure of the spirit what shall bee done vnto the dry which digd about and dressed yeare after yeare continue yet fruitlesse as the cursed fig-tree If the way vnto Heaven bee strewed with crosses bee full of tentations and tribulations what shall be found in the way vnto hell or in the end thereof r Pro. 14.12 There is a way which seemeth right vnto a man as the wi●l of the Gentiles vnto themselues ſ 1 Pet. 4.3 lasciuiousnesse lusts excesse of wine reuellings banquettings and abominable idolatries but the end thereof are the wayes of death Remember ye not the words of the Lord Iesus how he said Luk. 6.25 Woe vnto you that now laugh for ye shall weepe weep when the righteous at whose troubles they laugh shall be deliuered out of all and they come in their stead Doe yee thinke that the Scripture saith in vaine The righteous is deliuered out of trouble and the wicked commeth in his stead u Pro. 11.8 Againe The wicked shall bee a ransome for the righteous x Pro. 21.18 Dan. 6.24 and the transgressor for the vpright Instances before experience had the oracles had of God Haman and Mordecai y Esth 7.10 Hezekiah and the Aethiopians z Isai 43.3 Daniel and his accusers Peter and his keepers * Act. 12.19 But Barbarians are blinde and cannot see afarre off The iudgements of God are far aboue out of their sight a Psal 10.5 on other seene not ouer themselues themselues in the condemnation vnto which before they were ordained of old they finde not not made to suffer euill with the Saints in the earth but for the euill day b Pro. 16.4 Vse 2 2. For correction to them that refuse correction c Isa 1.3 4. Such was the sinfull nation the people laden with iniquitie the seed of euill doers the children that were corrupters That had forsaken the Lord and prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger not only by going away backward but by refusing to returne The one knoweth his owner and what the pricke of the g●ad meaneth but Israel did not know neither did they consider therefore the Prophet to them d Ver. 5. Why should yee bee stricken any more yee will reuolt more and more Ieremiah e Ier. 5.3 hath the like complaint O Lord thou hast smitten them but they haue not grieued thou hast consumed them but they haue refused to receiue correction they haue made them faces harder than a rocke they haue refused to returne It is so with many Many there bee that being afflicted know it not As Ephraim had gray haires here and there vpon him yet knew it not f Hos 7.9 nor that his strength was deuoured of strangers so wrath is on some from before the Lord yet they feele it not or if they feele it they are humbled no more than the King of Israel by the famine in Samaria Behold hee cryed g 2 Reg. 6.33 This euill

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was made flesh q Io. 1.14 and hee the God r Rom. 15.5 of all consolation but of him the Prophet speaketh not here the sure word of prophecie there is also which was vnto Ieremie hauing found and eaten it the verie ioy and reioycing of his heart ſ Ier. 15.16 Dauid made his heart an hiding place for it t Psal 119 11. so became it a Sanctuarie for him yea a fortresse against the assaults of Satan and during the obsession Ammunition for his soule u Coloss 3.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle of Christ All and in all Therefore stiled Sermo Inscriptus Insititius Many good words and comfortable words in the little Booke which we hold in our hand but the word which comforteth is The Inscribed Word The Ingrafted Word 1. Sermo inscriptus Sermo consolatorius inscriptus sermo The word inscribed and written not with inke but with the spirit of the the liuing God x 2 Cor. 3.3 not in Tables of stone or books like this but in the fleshie Tables of the heart the heart mollified the spirit sent into it which writeth therein the comforting word euen the word of grace in the New Couenant i. worketh within the heart a disposition correspondent to the word which commeth y Io. 10.35 and the grace which appeareth x Tit. 2.11 As face to face in a glasse or in the waters as Tally to Tally as Indenture to Indenture as the Impression in the Wax to the Seale that made the same so the holy disposition which is The Consolation answereth to the word which is in the heart written yea grauen by the spirit of God as letters in marble neuer wearing out Let a man therefore examine himselfe and brethren proue your owne selues whether such a disposition and correspondence to the Word be in you yea or no If your heart and the word meet as friends euen as mercie and truth and kisse each other as righteousnesse peace a Psal 85.10 If your heart close with the word as the clay with the mold and the inke to the paper fixt and faire without any blurre or foule fault quarrell or difference It is inscribed it is the word which comforteth in affliction but if enmitie be put betweene or if your heart and the word looke as enemies the one vpon the other no comfort is therein nor in the affliction 2. Sermo insititius Sermo consolatorius The word of consolation S. Iames calleth the ingrafted word b Iam. 1.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which when Paul planteth c 1 Cor. 3.6 he cleanseth 1. the stocke 2. maketh insition 3. inserteth the impe 4. closeth it about 5. fenceth it finally expecteth fruit Suffer me to reuiew and open these vnto you that your eyes opened by the euidence produced yee may see the things that pertaine to your peace in your warfare on the earth 1. The stocke which is the heart is to bee cleansed foule it is in all all filthinesse and superfluitie of naughtinesse about it which is to be laid aside d Iam. 1.21 with all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and enuies and euill speakings e 1 Pet. 2.2 or else the sincere word will bee turned aside If the stomack rise the soule bee lifted vp f Hab. 2.4 when the heauenly husbandman about to plant the word is about to purge the stocke If any rancor or excrescencie of malice bitternesse and wrath and anger and clamour be g Ephes 4.31 Now hee striketh mee he intendeth mee hee cutteth mee who can heare him who can endure him Aërem coedit Hee beateth the aire hee washeth the Aethiopian his labour is in vaine Cut to the heart ye know who were with the words of Stephen and to what effect h Act. 7.54 who were pricked and healed by the same Word receiued with meeknesse ye also know i Act. 2 37. verily as the Apostle of him that praying wauereth like a waue of the sea driuen with the wind and tossed k Iam. 1.6 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let not that man thinke that hee shall receiue any thing of the Lord So may we of the man that hearing the word and hauing it nigh him paring or pricking or cutting or cleauing him to bee ingrafted in him is like the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast vp mire and dirt l Isa 57.20 is moued wexeth angrie flingeth it off in furie and kicketh against pricks Non existimet homo ille Let not that man think that the word shall bee or possiblie can be in him doing thus effectually ingrafted Qui aurem audiendi habet He that hath an eare to heare let him heare and heare yee it my beloued brethren if yee would receiue the ingrafted word for your comfort in that day sanctifie your selues and cleanse your selues from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit m 2 Cor. 7.1 prepare your heart or as Ieremie phraseth it n Ier. 4.14 wash your heart from the desperate wickednesse and deceitfulnesse thereof or keepe your feet o Eccles 5.1 when yee enter into the house of God and bee more readie to heare the hardest word than to cast it off as a burthen too heauie for you to beare Hard as iron is the heart of man therefore is the word first as fire and an hammer for it p Ier. 23.29 full of knots and wilde stems which must bee cut off therefore is the word sharper at the first than any two-edged sword q Heb. 4.12 yet to bee suffered without any preiudicate or preuaricate opinion of malitious personating or enuious particularizing your soules deare Brethren must if ye would bee numbred with the elect of God and reckoned of his peculiar people be dealt with in particular and your particular sinnes reproued yea hewed and hewed as Agag by Samuel in peeces before yee can feele any comfort by the word Many things wee speake in loue to warne you r 1 Cor. 4.14 not in malice to shame you but the more wee loue you thus ſ 2 Cor. 12.15 the lesse we are loued of you wee loue your persons wee tender your soules but as our owne wee hate your sinnes and would if wee could strike them dead because they worke by their passions t Rom. 7. ● and motions in your members as in ours to bring forth fruit to death vnto death But how can a Preacher smite a mans sinne really and not touch his person intentionally Our controuersie writers in that great dispute about iustifying faith D. Abbot against Bishop pag. 481. Whether faith iustifieth alone without charitie and good workes distinguish thus Separation of things one frō another is either real in the subiect or mentall in the vnderstanding that denied this subdistinguished negatiue or priuatiue that when in the vnderstanding there is an affirming of one thing and denying of another this