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A16529	A treatise ful of consolation for all that are afflicted in minde, or bodie, or otherwise Which armeth vs against impatiencie vnder any crosse. By Nicolas Bovvnde Doctor of Divinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1608 (1608)	STC 3441; ESTC S114772	58,110	182

Errata Pag. 51. l. 15. for rather read either p. 53. l. 4. for The This. p. 55. l. for note roote p. 65. l. 4. dele not p. 98. l. 10. for vse inioy p. 101. l. 7. for walke wash p. 108. l. 20. dele that p. 109. l. 7. deest to p. 119. l. vlt. for that if p. 120. l. 3. deest to p. 140. l. 11. for turning curing A TREATISE FVL OF CONSOLATION for all that are afflicted in minde or bodie or otherwise Which armeth vs against impatiencie vnder any crosse By NICOLAS BOVVNDE Doctor of Divinitie Lament Ierem. 4.27 It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth Printed by CANTRELL LEGGE Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1608. To the right Worshipfull Sir HENRIE WARNER Knight and to the vertuous Ladie FRANCIS WARNER his Christian and godly wife the daily increase of that true godlines that hath the promises of this life and of the life to come RIght Worshipfull Sir in respect of your place indeede some learned Treatise of Iustice might haue seemed more fitting which if I had attempted I could haue added nothing vnto that which you daily practise and haue done many yeares to the great good of that part of our countrey wherein God hath placed you But yet as you are a Christian and a professor of the Gospel and so euen in the multitude of Gods blessings many waies and plentifully powred out vpon you are subiect with all the rest of Gods children vnto some afflictions and crosses this argument I hope for the time present or to come may seeme not altogether vnseasonable Seeing that the Lord hath saide that if any man will follow him Matth. 16.24 he must take vp his crosse and follow him And therefore that is it which euery one must looke for at one time or an other and in what kind it shall seeme best to his heauenly wisdome For here I haue laboured to shew out of the word of God many reasons of the patient and comfortable bearing of the same But whatsoeuer it be it proceedeth from an heart vnfainedly well wishing vnto you and so I pray you accept of it as an apparant testimonie of the same And for your selfe good Madame though your owne vertues and kindnes deserue much God hauing put vpon you that crowne of glorie Prov. 16.31 that Salomon speaketh of namely that your age is found in the way of righteousnes euen in these most corrupt and dangerous times yet the worthie memorie of M. Robert Foorth sometimes of Butly Esquire Prou. 2 17. heretofore the guide of your youth your selfe beeing ioyned vnto him in the neerest couenant of God had beene sufficient to mooue me among other his friends and allies to shew what testimonie of loue I could vnto any of his Whose zeale to the Gospel of Christ and loue to all that professed it with his sinceritie in executing of iustice heartie affection to all his neighbours great hospitalitie and releefe to the poore euen in the times of greatest scarsitie and want with most excellent orders in his family for daily praier for reading the Scriptures and for singing of Psalmes doe yet speake for him and shall whiles this age remaineth Whose vprightnesse of heart vnto God wherein he was a right Nathanael Ioh. 1.47 euen a true Israelite indeed I pray God that all his right worshipfull children sonnes and daughters may set before their eyes as an example to follow And so praying God to blesse you both with many comfortable daies together in this life and eternall happines after death in the kingdome of heauen neuer to be seuered with the like blessing of God vpon the right worshipfull your children and childrens children on both sides I bid you all most humbly and heartily fare-well in Christ Norton in Suff. Iun. 24. 1608. Your Worships in all vnfained loue for Christs sake Nicolas Bownde Errata Pag 19. l. 5. read that God 25.4 r. mixt thing 27.20 r. distracted 2● 9 r. our selues 33.16 r. infirmities 42.20 deest are 24. r. rich mercie 47.11 r. want 53.7 r. meaning 57.18 r. fauour of God 62 3. r. searing 99. 5. after man put in colon A COMFORTABLE TREATISE for the afflicted Rom. 8.26 c. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what to pray as we ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes which cannot be expressed 27 But he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the meaning of the Spirit for he maketh request for the Saints according to the will of God 28 Also we know that all things worke together for the best vnto them that loue God euen to them that are called of his purpose 29 For those whome he knew before he also predestinate to be made like to the image of his Sonne that he might be the first borne among many brethren c. THe generall intent and purpose of the Apostle here is to intreat of the matter of afflictions to this ende that he might shew that none of them shall be able to hinder vs frō our saluation that so beeing well perswaded of them and of the goodnes of God towards vs in them we might be the better prepared for them and haue more comfort in the bearing of them For he hauing prooued before that we are iustified saued by faith in Christ for the further assurance of all those that relie vpon Christ for their saluation he remooueth out of their minds those things that might seeme to weaken their faith herein And namely first of all the consideration of our naturall corruption cleauing fast vnto vs hindering vs from that which is good and drawing vs to that that is euill euen after such time as we do beleeue of which he hath spoken in the former chapter Rom. 7 15. saying I allow not that which I doe for what I would that doe I not but what I hate that do I. For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good for to will is present with me but I finde no meanes to performe that that is good For I doe not the good that I would but the euill that I would not that doe I. I finde then that when I would doe good I am thus yoaked that euill is present with me For I delight in the law of God in the inner man But I see an other law in my members rebelling against the law of my minde and leading me captiue vnto the law of sinne which is in my members O wretched man that I am who shall deliuer mee from the bodie of this death For answer vnto which he saith that by the imputation of the perfect holinesse of our Sauiour Christ the guiltines of this is taken away and is not imputed vnto vs before the iudgment seat of God and therefore he saith vers 17. it is no more I that doe it but sinne that dwelleth in me for if I doe that I

sinne of man yet he would giue them hope to be restored and therefore he addeth 21. For the creature also shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God For we know that euery creature groaneth with vs also and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present as a woman with child not onely with exceeding sorrowe but with hope of a comfortable deliuerance in time And not onely the creatures but we also which haue the first fruits of the Spirit euen we doe sigh in our selues waiting for the adoption euen the redemption of our owne bodies that is our last restoring when as our adoption shall be fully accomplished in soule and bodie Which condition of ours in affliction though grieuous for a time but most happie in the ende that we might not refuse to vndergoe with the rest of the creatures and our brethren sisters he calleth vs to consider the wise order which God hath appointed in sauing of vs which is by hope vers 24. for he saith We are saued by hope but hope that is seene is not hope for how can a man hope for that he seeth but if we hope for that we see not we doe with patience abide for it Therefore we must not imagine so soone to inioy all happinesse as we beleeue it but be content to want all things for a time that hoping for them with patience long-suffering we might come to them at last vnlesse we will goe about to inuert this excellent order which the Lord hath determined and appointed to be in sauing vs which is by trayning vs vp in the hope and expectation of all things promised for a season But now because the hope that is deferred is the fainting of the heart as Salomon saith that is Prou. 13.12 it maketh a man sick at the very heart to be long deferred of that that we desire and hope for therefore we might feare both in respect of our own weaknes and also the greatnes together with the long continuance of affliction that we should not with patience vnder the crosse continue to hold out happily vnto the ende he further addeth for our singular comfort that the Spirit which we haue receiued whereby we are sanctified and wherby we pray to God as to our Father shall performe this office also vnto vs that it shall helpe to beare the burden of our affliction with vs and so though we be neuer so weake yet being supported by the power of it we shall bee able to endure them well enough Rom. 8 2● for hee saith Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities So that it shall be all one with vs as with a young childe vpon whose shoulder the father laying a heauie burden which of it selfe were able to presse him downe to the ground hee should so put his hand vnder it that hee should beare the whole waight almost and stresse of it himselfe and so he should make him carry it Now if the earthly father wil not of his naturall affection ouerlade the poore childe then wee neede not to feare but that the Lord our spiritual father will so increase our strength according to the measure of our afflictiōs that we shall find this promise to be true by experience That his holy spirit shall helpe our infirmities And thus Dauid commendeth the mercie of God vnto vs Ps 103.13 That as a father hath compassion on his childrē so hath the Lord compassion on thē that feare him he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we be but dust where hee rendreth this one reason of the merciful dealing of God towards vs euen the knowledge that he hath of our weake and fraile estate which thing as it is most comfortable to consider so we shall finde it to be most true by experience because our Sauiour Iesus Christ hath praied for vs as himselfe witnesseth in the Gospel vnto his heauenly father that he would giue vs a comforter that might abide with vs for euer Iob. 14.16 euen the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receiue And the blessed Apostle confesseth of himselfe that he was partaker of the fruit of this praier for beeing in many afflictions that were able to haue ouercom him yet by the power of Gods spirit he did hold out happily in them 2. Cor. 4.5 saying Wee are afflicted on euery side yet are wee not in distresse we are in doubt but we despaire not we are persecuted but not forsaken we are cast downe but wee perish not Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of the lord Iesus that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies for we which liue are alwaies deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake that the life also of Iesus might bee made manifest in our bodies Where he compareth the miserable estate and condition that the faithfull and more specially the Ministers are in vnto a continuall dying and the vertues of the spirit of God in them vnto life which oppresseth that death he rendreth this reason why the Lord doth thus often afflict his seruants namly vers 7. That the excellencie of that power might be of God and not of vs that is that all men might perceiue howe they stood not by mans power but by the singular vertue of God in that they die a thousand deaths but neuer perish and so in many daungers as hee defendeth them so in much weakenes he vpholdeth them and his Spirit helpeth their infirmities And this grace of God also vpholding him in great weaknesse against most dangerous temptations he acknowledgeth in an other place for when he felt himselfe so sore troubled with them to his continuall grief as if he had had a pricke thrust into chap. 12.7 his flesh and the messenger of Satan did so molest him as though he had beene most shamefully buffetted on the face for which he besought the Lord thrise that is very often that it might depart from him he receiued this answer from God vers 9. My grace is sufficient for thee for my power is made perfect through weaknes So in this spirituall combate the Spirit of God did vphold him against the temptations of Satan and of his own corruption and so he concludeth that when he was weake then was he strong that is in his greatest weaknesse he felt the power of God vpholding him and so shall wee if wee waite vpon him For the Apostle sheweth that this which hee found by experience in himselfe by the goodnes and mercie of God belongeth to all the rest of the faithfull when he writeth thus to the Corinthians 1. Cor. 10.13 God is faithful which will not suffer you to bee tempted aboue that you be able but will euen giue the issue with the temptation that you may bee able to beare it where he saith The God that would haue vs tempted for our good wil by