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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08364	The haven of the afflicted A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Gloucester Aug. 10. 1613. By Sebastian Benefield Doctor of Divinity and fellow of C.C.C. in Oxford.	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1613 (1613)	STC 1869; ESTC S114173	12,952	28

serious and religious meditations is Whatsoeuer affliction befalleth any one any where in this world it is from the LORD By affliction in this proposition I vnderstand the suffering of any thing the sense or cogitation whereof our nature shunneth Whatsoever is any way grievous or offensiue to our humane nature I call Afflictiō The temptations of the flesh the world the Devil the diseases of the body an infortunate husband or wife rebellious children vnthankfull friends losse of goods reproaches sclaunders war pestilence famine imprisonment death every crosse and passion bodily or ghostly proper to our selues or appertaining to such as are of our blood private or publike secret or manifest either by our owne deserts gotten or otherwise imposed vpon vs I call Afflictions In a word all manner of miseries calamities vexations or molestations in this life from the least to the greatest from the paine of the little finger to the very pangs of death I call Afflictions There are two sorts of men shall I say in this city I say in the city of this world there are two sorts of men visited with afflictions the one the Scriptures cal the reprobate the other the elect they are the wicked these the godly Whatsoever Affliction befalleth the first sort the Reprobate the wicked it is as Divines call it τιμωία a punishment wherewith God as a fearefull iudge avengeth himselfe vpon the wicked for their sins properly a punishment a punishment inflicted on men sinning that the iustice of God may thereby bee satisfied With the other sort with the Elect with the Godly it is not so Whatsoever afflictions befall them they are not properly punishments for their sinnes they are more rightly called Crosses Punishments they cannot properly be called because whatsoever punishment is due to any of the Elect for their sinnes it 's fully answered by Christ in his actiue and passiue obedience in his life and death He is become our λύτρον hee hath paid the price of our redemption he hath fully satisfied for all our sinnes our sinnes past present and to come And therefore if any afflictions be vpon vs we are not to call them properly punishments for our sinnes the name of crosses will befit them better These crosses of the godly are either παιδιεῖαι or δοχιμα●αι they are either chastisements for our sinnes already perpetrated to make vs the more wary for the time to come that we fall not againe into the same or the like sinnes or they are trials and exercises of our faith hope charitie patience and other like Christian vertues Now all these fore-mentioned afflictions either properly punishments for sinne such as are the afflictions of the wicked or chastisements or trials such as are the afflictions of the Godly they are all from the LORD according to the truth of my doctrine Whatsoever affliction befalleth any one any where in this world it is from the LORD The LORD he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the primary cause of all afflictions and of many the immediate cause Of the vniversall deluge and floud of waters in the daies of Noah Gen. 6.17 Of the burning of Sodom Gomorah and their sister Cities Gen. 19.24 Of the overthrow of Pharaohs host in the midst of the sea Exod. 14.27 Of the smiting of Nabal to death 1. Sam. 25.38 of all these was God the immediate cause Some afflictions it pleaseth God to effect mediatè by secundary and instrumentall causes by Angels by mē by other creatures First God afflicteth by Angels By an Angel he smote Davids people so that there died of the pestilence frō Dan to Beersheba seauenty thousand men 2. Sam. 24.15 By an Angel he smote in the campe of the Assyrians one hundred fourescore and fiue thousand 2. King 19.35 By an Angel he smote K. Herod so that he died Act. 12.23 Secondly God afflicteth by men Here might I tell you of the afflictions wherewith God exercised his people Israel by Cushan-Rishathaim K. of Mesopotamia for eight yeares Iudg. 3.8 By the Midianites for seaven yeares Iudg. 6.1 By the Philistines and the Ammonites for eighteene yeares Iudg. 10.8 By the Philistines againe for forty years Iudg. 13.1 Here might I relate vnto you the many afflictions wherewith God proved his people the people of Iudah by sending against them the Egyptians Assyrians and Chaldeans The bookes of the Kings and Chronicles are copious in describing them I need not remember you of Ashur Esai 10.5 how there he is stiled the rod the staffe of the wrath of God to signifie that he was organum siue instrumentum Dei the executioner of Gods vengeance vpō Hypocrites I will not hold you with any long narration of Attila King of the Hunnes Medes Gotthes and Danes how in his title or inscription he called himselfe metum orbis flagellúmque Dei the terrour of the world the scourge of God I passe over the great Turke whom you know now to bee the hammer of the world and the rod of Christendome Come we home vnto our selues Here shal we find it made good that by men God afflicteth men Else why is it come to passe according to Ieremies words chap. 9.4 that a neighbour deceiueth his neighbour that a brother supplanteth his brother Why is it now according to Micah's words chap. 7 6. that the sonne dishonoureth his father that the daughter riseth vp against her mother Why are a f Micah 7 6. Matth 10.36 mans enimies now the men of his owne house Why doth the corrupt Magistrate g Amos 2.6 sel the righteous for siluer and the poore for a paire of shooes Why doth the cruell Landlord h Amos 2.7 pant after the dust of the earth on the head of his poore tenant Why behold we in our cities biting vsurie i Hab. 1.2 3. violence oppression false dealing Certainely God is even now pleased to afflict men by men Thirdly God afflicteth by other creatures also This the story of Gods visitation vpon Pharaoh and the Egyptians Exod. chap. 8 9 10. maketh plaine vnto vs. There we finde that frogges lice flies grashoppers thunder haile lightning murraine botches and sores did instrumentally avenge God vpon man beast in Egypt Not in Egypt only but every where else those other like creatures as fire and snow and vapours and stormy windes doe fulfill what God commandeth So saith the Spirit Ps 148.8 Infinite might I be in the prosecution of this point yet keepe my selfe within the limits of Sacred writ But I may not dwell hereon Only in summe I say Iehovah the Lord our God the Agent in my text is Deus exercituum a God of hosts All creatures Celestial Terrestrial Infernal the rest that are either in the aire or in water they are all of Gods armie and are ready to doe his Holy will By these God afflicteth vs. These are the instruments but God is the author of our afflictions Thus is my doctrine established Whatsoever affliction befalleth any one any