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A03078	Panacea Christiana, or, A Christians soueraigne salue for euery soare deliuered in two seuerall sermons, and now digested into one treatise : published for the vse of all distressed Christians.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1624 (1624)	STC 13203.5; ESTC S2728	34,209	104

the other herbes and makes thē that tasts cry Mors in Olla 2. Kings ● 40 Death is the pot Against both these Paul addresses his discourse in this chapter wherein like a valiant champion expert in the Lords battailes hauing mustred vp his forces and marshalled them in battaile array in the Fore-front he affronts sinne the head of this Serpent in the Rereward he encounters with Affliction the taile of this Serpent the after a long skirmish wins the field and sounds the Triumph Neither life nor death things present nor things to come shall separate vs from the loue of God in Christ More plainely here is an Antidote a Cordiall proposed an Antidote against the poyson of sin a Cordiall against the anguish of the crosse The Antidote against sin is propounded verse 1. confirmed verse 2. prosecuted applyed in the sequel to verse 17. The Cordials to mittigate the anguish of the crosse are threefold The first is drawne from the end of it our conformity to Christ verse 17. The second from the guide we haue in it the Spirite helpeth 〈◊〉 infirmities verse 26. The third is taken from the good issue wee shall haue out of it verse 28. So that these words carry in them a soueraigne Cordial against all miseries crosses calamities whatsoeuer wheresoeuer how many how great soeuer which may or shall vex the Israel of God while they soiourne in this valley of teares and vale of misery In treating heereof that I may acquaint you with my method we with consider the connexion first then the proposition In the proposition the Circumstance the substance is obserueable The Circumstances will lead vs into the consideration of the persons to whom this Cordiall is intended restrained We of the manner how it is deliuered euidently confidently Wee know for the substance in it you haue first the generality all things then the Harmony worke together thirdly the scope or drift of their working for good lastly the description of the parties whom this concerns from their inward affection they that loue God from their effectual vocation that they are called of God from their eternall election that they are called according to his purpose These be the rude lineaments of our present discourse which wee intend by the Diuine Assistance to prosecute and pollish ouer with a second more accurate draught That which first offers it selfe to our Meditation is the Connexion which shall bee dispatched in a word Also this copulatiue particle like some corner stone in a curious structure knits this verse to the verses immediately preceding as if the Apostle had deliuered himselfe more plainely and fully If this be not sufficient to strengthen your feeble knees to erect your deiected spirits that suffering is the way to glory that by the Crosse you doe but climbe to this Crowne that Mount Caluary lies onely in the rhode to Mount Tabor that heerein stands your conformitie to him vvho vvas consecrated your High-Priest by Affliction If the sweete meditation of the glorie to come cannot digest the present bitternesse of the Crosse if the presence the assistance of that Spirit of Consolation that Comforter who is Comfort it selfe cannot cheare your disconsolated spirits nor asswage your sorrow adde to the former heape a serious meditation of the power ouer-ruling Prouidence of your heauenly Father whereby all things are so wisely disposed so sweetly carried so cunningly contriued that what-euer happens in the world all worke together for the best of them that loue God c. All things and among the rest your afflictions which are so far frō preiudicing your fatuation that they aduance it so farre from being as your deeme in your weake distempers clogges to wedge you to the earth that they proue after a sort as wings whereby you soare aloft to heauen so farre from being Scala inferni a p●acipice from whence your soules should bee tumbled headlong into the infernall Lake that indeed they proue to be a Scala coeli a Iaakobs ladder vpon whose staires the Angels of God are continually ascending and descending by which steps the Elect mount into Abrams bosome These tall Anakims serue not to tread you as mire vnder their feete but to lift you vp as Kings and Princes vpon their shoulders neerer heauen He that hath but halfe an eye may now see the drift of the Apostle which is to reach foorth a strong Cable of Consolation vnto those poore Saints and seruants of God who sayling in the troublesome Sea of this tumultuous world hauing encountred with great storms and now almost ouer-whelmed with the succession of many hideous waues one pressing on another are labouring for life ready to be plunged into the gulfe of despaire A strong Cable it is composed of many threds so twisted together that all the Diuels in hell shall neuer be able to breake it Eccle. 4.9.12 Two sayth Salomon are better then one a threefold cord cannot easily be broken In that our Apostle contents not himselfe with one Argument of Consolation but to the first addes a second and strengthens the second with a third the obseruation is plaine and euident As many are the Crosses of the Righteous so their Comforts are many the Afflictions of the iust goe not single but by throngs troopes one following on the neck one treading vpon the heele of another Velus vnda vndam as waues seconds waue in the Sea neither are their consolations single Loe here is a double nay a trebble ground of solid comfort Psal 34 19. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord will deliuer them out of all Many troubles many deliuerances so many troubles so many deliuerances euery seuerall trouble hath a seuerall rescue till he be deliuered not from some or from few or from many but from al. Euery proper temptation hath it owne proper issue 1. Cor. 10 15. So Zach. 1.21 Looke how many hornes were raised to push at the Israel of God so many Carpenters were appointed so many hammers lifted vp to breake those hornes in pieces Iohn 16 33. In the world you shall haue trouble there 's the crosse In me you shall haue peace there 's the comfort Act. 14 22 Through many tribulations you must enter into the kingdome of heauen Tribulations many Tribulations there 's many crosses these tribulations minister a passage by which we get heauen there 's many comforts if with Paul wee haue terrors without and terrors within we shal finde comforts without and comforts within if we be distressed on all sides with him with him wee shall be comforted on all sides Notable to this purpose is that of the same Apostle 2 Cor. 4.8 9. We are afflicted on euery side there 's crosse vpon crosse yet not in distresse there 's comfort Hee goes on wee are in doubt but despaire not we are persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but wee perish not c. It is very remarkable to obserue how the crosses comforts

new sinne is as it were a new Snake euery renewed act of sinne giues a new stab euery stab more mortall then the biting of a Serpent or sting of an Adder Prou. 23.32 Yet euen those teares are the foode of Angels those sighes sweet musicke in the eares of God that griefe the ioy of heauen By this rough tract thorny path their feete are guided into the way of Peace those Agonies make way for the Prince of Peace who came not to Call the righteous Mat. 2.17 but sinners to Repentance Sinners Mar. 11.28 that labour and are laden with the weight of their sinnes to them he giues that peace which passeth all vnderstanding Philip. 4.7 Both these put together carry an Image of Hell Spirituall disertion is that poena Damni punishment of losse Anguish of minde is that poena sensus punishment of sense an estate little differing from that of the Damned saue onely in Degree and Continuance By these Gates of Hell many times the deerest Saints of God saile to Heauen If these inward Euils which doe pierce thorough our very soules become thus profitable much more those outward miseries which though great enough in themselues are but Flea-bitings in comparison of the other May it please you to see this fulfilled in the Generals in the Particulars Generally all outward affliction works to their good whoeuer plowes not with the Heifer of the Spirit shall neuer vnfold this Riddle How meate comes out of the Eater Sweet out of the Sowre Iudg. 14 18. Hony out of the Lyon Rom. 5 3 4. Tribulation brings forth Patience Patience Experience Experience 1 Cor. 4 17. Hope that maketh not ashamed The light momentarie affliction of this life cause to vs a far more excellent an eternal weight of Glory This Lesson the Holy ones learne in the Schoole of Experience that howeuer no affliction but is greeuous for the time not ioyous Hebr. 12 11. yet after it brings the quiet fruit of peace to them that are thereby exercised They finde more solid ioy in suffering for Christ Hebr. 11 25. then in all the pleasures of sin which last but for a season Gods Sheepe thriue best in Salt marshes his Corne is parest from Chaffe when it is vnder the Flaile his Gold freest from drosse when cast into the fiery furnace these stars shine brightest in the darkest night their feete tread surest in the roughest way The Prodigall spend-thrift thinks not of Home till hee was pinched with Famine Luke 15 17. brought to a morsell of bread Hagar was proude and pierke in the house of Abram but gentle and tractable in the wildernesse Ionah lyes snoring and snorting in the ship watching and praying in the Whales belly Those noble Vines planted with Gods owne hand would run wilde into Luxuriant branches and bee ouergrowne with many noisome lustes were they not euer and anone pruned with some sanctified trouble In their affliction they will seeke mee early Hosea 5.15 While the Sunne-shine of Peace and Prosperity lasted God sent his Prophets rising vp early and lying downe late stretching out their hands and throats al the day long but these deafe Adders stoppe theyr eares at the voice of the Charmer till the Aule of Afflictions come then their eares are boared then they seeke them as eagerly as he sought him earely Let mee then for the Generall conclude with Ieremy Lamen 3 27. It is good for a man to beare the yoake from his youth Psal 119.71 with Dauid It is good for vs that we are afflicted with Paul All things worke together for the good of them that loue God For the Particulars Priuate Publike Calamities make all for the best too Priuate whether in their Estate or in their Name or on theyr Persons In their Estate Are they pinched with want and penurie Dan. 1 12. fed with pulse and water as Daniel this lets them see Prou. 15 16. a little vvith the feare of the Lord is better to the righteous then great riches to the vngodly Howeuer poore in this world yet they are rich in God and this corporall pouerty fittes them for the Kingdome of God They haue a Feast which the world knows not of Besides whether I beseech you hath better experience of the Loue Goodnesse and Care of his Heauenly Father he that wallowes in his wealth and sacrifices to his owne Net or he who is fedde from hand to mouth as it were from heauen Who will not preferre the course fare brought to Elijas by those straunge Catorers the Rauens before all the dainties which were serued vp to Ababs Table 1 Kings 17.6 In their Good Names If their reputation be blacke with infamy if some stinking Fly be falne into that sweete Oyntment which makes it putrifie either this staine is drawne vpon themselues deseruedly or some dirt is cast in their faces by the hand of Malice or Enuy. What comes through their owne default they beare it patiently improue it profitably These are the thoughts wherewith they entertaine themselues What is it such a hell to bee in disgrace with Men that a man had as good be halfe hanged as haue his credit cracke oh what a hell is it to be out of fauour with God to be shamed discarded before Men and Angels at the Generall Assise of the whole World What Malice or Envy casts vpon them if for a good cause 1 Peter 4.14 they glory in that shame counting it the greatest grace in all the world to suffer disgrace for vvell-doing Euils on their persons vvhether Diseases or Death For Corporal deformities God often recompences outward defects with a supply of inward Grace If Naaman the Syrian had not beene a Leaper in his body the Leprosie of his soule I feare had neuer beene cured How many flocking to Christ for the cure of their bodies obtained the saluation of their Soules like Saul who seeking for Asses stumbled on a Crowne 2 Cor. 4 16. As the outward man decayes so the inward is strengthened Could we performe in our health what we promise on our sicke-bed wee should liue more like Angelles then Men. Death it selfe that King of Terrors to a natural man Iob. 14 18. as the Philosopher obserues of all fearfull things the most fearefull to them is but the Gate to Life The Sting of this Serpent is pulled out and they dare lay it in their bosome It vvas first threatned as a Curse The soule that sinnes shall Dye Gen. 2.17 it is now turned to a Blessing If wee had our hope in this life onely 1 Cor. 15 19. We were of all men the most miserable Blessed are they that dye in the Lord Reuel 14.13 for they rest from their labours and theyr Workes follow them Their whole life is a continuall Combate with the world the flesh and the diuell euery day they bring home new Spoyles new Trophees but are neuer