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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40658	Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2420; Wing F2476; ESTC R210330	100,765	342

of Faith and afterwards a joyfull Mother in Israel This is that good Chymick that can distill good out of evill light out of darknesse order out of confusion and make the crooked actions of men tend to his own glory in a straight line and his Childrens good I speak not this to defend any mans folly in doing of evill but to admire Gods wisdome who can bring good out of evil and surely he that will turn evill to good will turn good to the best And they dwelled there about ten years Here we have the term of Naomi's living in Moab and the Families lasting in Israel ten years we read of a Famine for three years 2 Sam. 21. of three years and a half 1 King 17. of seven years Gen. 42. as also 2 King 8. but this ten years Famine longer then any seven yeares which Iacob served for Rachel seemed to him but a short time but surely those ten yeares seemed to the afflicted Israelites and to the banished Naomi as so many millions of years Observ. God doth not presently remove his rod from the back of his Children but sometimes scourgeth them with long-lasting afflictions the reason is because we go on and persist so long in our sinnes and yet herein even mercy exalteth her selfe against judgement for if God should suffer the fire of his fury to burn so long as the fuell of our sinnes do last Lord who were able to abide were the dayes of our suffering appor●ioned to the dayes of our living no flesh would be saved but for the Elect sake those dayes are shortned Vse Beare with patience light afflictions when God afflicteth his Children with long lasting punishments mutter not for a burning F●aver of a fortnight what is this to the woman that had a running Issue for twelve years murmur not for a twelve moneths quartain Ague ' is nothing to the woman that was bowed for eightteen years nor seven years Consumption to the man that lay thirty eight years lame at the Pool of Bethezda And Mahlon and Chilion died also b●th of them It was but even now that old Elimelech was gone to bed see his Sonnes would not sit long up after the Father onely here is the difference He like ripe fruit fell down of his own accord they like green Apples were cudgel'd off the Tree Observ. Even young men in the prime of their age are subject to death the Sons of Iacob when they came to the Table of Ioseph sat down the eldest according to his age and the youngest according to his youth but Death observes not this method she takes not Men in seniority but sometimes sends them first to the buriall that came last from the birth and those that came last from the wombe first to their winding sheet There were as many Lambs and Kids sacrificed in the old Testament as Goats and old Sheep but surely more there be that die in infancy and in youth then of those that attain to old age Vse Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth you whose joynts are knit with sturdy sine ws whose veines are full of blood whose arteries are flush't with spirits whose bones are fraught with Marrow Obediah-like serve God from your y●uth put not the day of death far from you think not your strength to be armour of proof against the darts of Death when you see the Corslet of Mahlon and Chilion shot through in the left so Mahlon and Chilion died both of them And the woman was left of her two Sons and of her Husband Before we had the particular losses of N●omi now we have them all reckoned up in the totall sum a Threefold Cable saith Solomon is not easily broken and yet we see in Naomies threefold cable of comfort twisted of her husband and her two sonnes broken by Death of the two Sex the woman is the weaker of women old women are most feeble of old women widows most wofull of widowes those that are poor their plight most pittifull of poor widows those that want Children their case most dolefull of widows that want Children those that once had them and after lost them their estate most desolate of widows that have had Children those that are strangers in a forraign Country their condition most comfortlesse yet all these met together in Naomi as in the center of sorrow to make the measure of her misery pressed down shaken together running over I conclude therefore many Men have had affliction none like Iob many women have had tribulation none like Naomi Vers. 6. Then she arose with her Daughters in law that she might returne from the Country of Moab for she had heard in the Country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread THese words contain two general parts 1. Gods visiting his people with Plenty 2. Naomies visiting of her people with her person I begin with the first in the Order of the words Then she arose with her Daughters in law c. Observ. We must tarry no longer in an Idolatrous Land when God offereth us an occasion to returne into our own Country for so long as we tarry in an Idolatrous Land on a just cause so long we are in our vocation in Gods protection but when God openeth us a Gap to returne and we will not through it we are neither in our calling nor Gods keeping but must stand on our own adventures and who knows not how slenderly we shall be kept when we are left to our own custody let not therefore Ioseph with his Wife and Son tarry any longer in the Land of Egypt when he is dead that sought the life of the Child Examples we have o● those which in the dayes of Queen Mary fled beyond the Seas though they were not in a Paganish onely in a forraign Country Mr. Scorey Cocks Whitehead Grindall Horne Sandys Elmore Gest Iewel if fear lent them feet to run when they went away joy gave them wings to fly when they came home againe let none therefore pretend in needlesse excuses to linger in the Land of Egypt when they may return into the hony-flowing Land of Canaan For she had heard in the Country of Moab I suppose when any Messenger arrived in M●ab out of the Land of Canaan Naomie did presently repaire unto him and load him with questions concerning the estate of her Country How do the Iews my Country-men How faireth it with the Bethlehemites my Neig●bours with Boaz my Kinsman What is the rate of Corne What the price of Oyle What the value of Wine if there be no performance for the present what promise is there for the future though things be bad now what hope is there but they will be better hereafter Alas he answers little and from his silence and sorrowfull looks Naomi gathers a denial but as Elijah sending his servant towards the Sea to see what ●igns there were of Raine for six severall times together he returned

all outward profits and pleasures yet in very deed they are not with us but against us and so must be accounted of Where thou lodgest I will lodge A good Companion saith the Latin● Proverb is pro viatico I may adde also pro diversorio Ruth so be it she may enjoy Naomies gracious companie will be content with any Lodging though happily it may be no better then Ia●ob had Gen. 28. And yet we see how some have been discouraged even from the company of our Saviour for feare of hard lodging witnesse the Scribe to whom when our Saviour said The Foxes have their holes and the Fowles of the ayre have nests bu● the sonne of man hath not where to lay his head This cold comfort presently quencht his forward zeale and he never appeared afterward whereas he ought to have said to our Saviour as Ruth to Naomi Where thou lodgest will I lodge Thy people shall be my people Haman being offended with Mordecai as if it had been but leane and weak revenge to spit his spight upon one person hated all the Iewes for Mordecai's sake the mad Beare stung with one Bee would needs throw downe the whole Hive But cleane contrarie Niomi had so graciously demeaned her selfe that Ruth for her sake is fallen in love with all the Iewes Farewell Melchom farewell Chemosh farewell Moab welcome Israel welcome Canaan welcome Bethlehem all of a sudden she will tur●e Convert she will turne Proselyte Observation The godly carriage of one particular person may beget a love of that Countrey and People whereof he is even in a stranger and forreiner Doe we then desire to gaine credit to our Countrey prayse to our People honour to our Nation reput● to our Religion Let us dep●rt and behave our selves graciously if we live ●mongst strangers On the other side the base and debauched manners of some one man is able to make his Countrey stink in the nostrils of those forreiners amongst whom he lives Ex uno discite omnes in one faithlesse Sinon one may reade the Trecherie of all the Grecians Thy God shall be my God Iehosaphat when he joyned with Ahab 1 Kings 22. said unto him My people is as thy people and my horses are as thy horses that is he would comply with him in a Politike League but Ruth goes further to an unitie in Religion Thy God shall be my God Yea but one may say How came Ruth to know who was the God of Naomi I answer As God said of Abraham I know that Abraham will instruct his children so may one confidently say of Naomi I know that Naomi had catechised and instructed her daughter in law and often taught her that the God of the Israelites was the onely true God who made Heaven and Earth and that all others were but Idols the workes of mens hands Yet as the Samaritans beleeved our Saviour first upon the relation of the woman that came from the Well Iohn 4. 42. but afterwards said unto her Now we beleeve not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and know th●t this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world So happily Ruth was induced first to the liking of the God of Israel upo● the credit of Naomies words but afterwards her love of him proceeded from a more certaine ground the motions of Gods holy Spirit in her heart Where thou diest will I die Here Ruth supposeth two things first that she and her mother in law should both die It is appointed for all once to die secondly that Naomi as the eldest should die first for according to the ordinarie custome of Nature it is most probable and likely that those that are most stricken in yeares should first depart this Life Yet I know not whether the Rule or the Exceptions be more generall and therefore let both young and old prepare for death the first may die soone but the second cannot live long And there will I be buried Where she supposeth two things more First that those that survived her would doe her the favour to burie her which is a common courtesie not to be denyed to any It was an Epitaph written upon the Grave of a Begger Nudus 〈◊〉 vivus 〈◊〉 ecce tegor Secondly she supposeth that they would burie her according to her instructions neere to her mother Naomi Observation As it is good to enjoy the companie of the godly while they are living so it is not amisse if it will stand with conveniencie to be buried with them after death The old Prophets bones escapt a burning by being buried with the other Prophets and the man who was tumbled into the Grave of E●isha was revived by the vertue of his bones And we reade in the Acts and Monuments that the body of Peter Martyr's Wi●e was buried in a Dunghill but afterward being taken up in the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth it was ho●ourably buried in Oxford in the Grave of one Frideswick a Popish shee-Saint to this end that if Poperie which God forbid should over-spread our Kingdome againe and if the Papists should goe about to un●ombe Peter Martyr's Wives bone● they should be puzzled to distinguish betwi●● this womans body and the Reliqu●s of their Saint So good it is sometimes to be buried with those who some doe account pious though perchance in very deed they be not so The Lord doe so to me and more also To ascertaine Naomi of the seriousness● of her intentions herein Ruth backs what formerly she had said with an Oath lined with an execration Observation Whence we may gather it is lawfull for us to sweare upon a just cause but then these three Rules must be warily observed First that we know that the thing whereto we sweare be true if the Oath be assertorie and if it be promissorie that we be sure that it is in our intent and in our power God blessing us to performe that which we promise Secondly that the occasion whereupon we use it be of moment and consequence not trifling and trivial Thirdly that we sweare by God alone and not by any Creature Sweare then neither by the Heaven nor by the Earth nor by Ierusal●m nor by the Temple nor by the Gold of the Temple nor by the Altar nor by the Sacrifice on the Altar but by God alone for he onely is able to reward thee if that thou affirmest be true he onely is able to punish thee if that thou avouchest be false Yet this doth no wayes favour the practice of many now adayes who make Oathes their language Our Saviour said to the I●mes Many good workes have I shewed you from the Father for which of them goe you about to stone me So may the Lord say to many riotous Gallants now adayes Many good deeds have I done to thee I created thee of nothing I sent my Sonne to die for thee by my providence I continually protect and preserve thee for which of these deeds doest thou g●e about by