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A52387	The cross crowned: or, Short affliction making way for eternal glory Opened in a sermon preached at the funeral of Daniel Waldoe Esq; in the Parish-Church of Alhallows Honey-lane, May 9. 1661. By James Nalton, minister of the gospel, and pastor of Leonards Foster-lane London.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing N121A; ESTC R219314	34,657	97

souldiers and servants enter the same way yea we shall never be freed from the body of death that we carry about us but only by the death of the body that look as sin brought death into the world so death shall help to carry sin out of the world God will have such a cursed Dam to perish by such a Daughter Ye see the outward troubles to which the Saints on earth are exposed Ignominy poverty c. I might add to these they are often exercised with crosses and disappointments in their children and this is a very sharp affliction that those children which God hath drawn out of our loins should miscarry to all eternity and rush upon the rock of their own ruine yet thus it often falls out that God punisheth a good father in a bad son and then it is a cure to the father and a curse to the son thus he punished David a good father in Absalon a rebellious son that was taken away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the very act of his rebellion Thus faithful Abraham had a scoffing Ishmael upright Jehosaphat had a wicked Jehoram zealous Josiah that was anon-such for piety had not one good son to succeed him in the throne In brief that I may dispatch the first Querie the godly here on earth meet with sufferings from God and sufferings from men and sufferings from Satan and sufferings from their own hearts which usually work them more mischief then all the Devils in Hell can do sufferings for sin and sufferings for righteousness some are exercised in one kind some in another some more and some lesse but all have their portion in affliction Deus unicum habuit filium sine flagitio nullum sine flagello God had one only Son viz. the Lord Jesus without sin but he hath never a Son without sorrow and affliction 2. Querie for Explication is this Why God will have his children exercised with these afflictions Answ Many Reasons may be rendred but I will reduce them to three heads In reference to their Sins In reference to their Graces In reference to their Duties For the first God is pleased to exercise them with afflictions in reference to their sins either To Prevent sin To Discover sin To Purge out sin 1 God does it to prevent sin He hedgeth up their wayes with thorns that they may not find their crooked paths Hos 2.6 He lets them blood that he may prevent the Plurifie of Pride and self-confidence and creature dependance He never administers this spiritual Physick but when there is need 1 Pet. 1.6 Ye are in heaviness if need be through manifold temptations and God sees we have need of preventing physick as well as refreshing cordials yea it is a great mercy that God layes stumbling blocks in the broad way to hell that if we set foot in that way we may break our shins to correct us rather then break our necks to destroy us 2. God does it to discover sin as appears by that Text Deut. 8.2 The Lord thy God led thee these forty yeers in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thy heart to know that is to let thee know they had never known so much of the baseness and sinfulness of their own hearts if God had not brought them into a wilderness every rod ye must know hath a voice Micah 6.9 The Lords voice cryes to the City Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it this voice bids us search our hearts and say as Job did when the rod was upon his back Job 13.23 24. How many are mine iniquities and my sins make me to know my transgression and my sin h. e the particular bosome-sin to which by nature I am most inclined Wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine enemy Put a quart of Ale in a skillet and ye see not the scum or dross that is in it but when you have set the Ale on the fire then the scum appears which did not before so here there is a great deal of scum and dross and filth of corruption that lies hid in our hearts but the fire of affliction does discover it and makes us more sensible of it then ever we were before It was the speech of Gasper Olevian a German Divine I never knew so much of God and his purity nor of my own heart and its impurity as I did in a long sickness 3 God does it to purge out sin Isai 27.9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin There are three desperate diseases that would destroy the soul which can be purged out no other way then by this sharp physick of affliction viz. Pride Security and Earthly-mindedness But now by affliction God hides pride from man Job 33.17 By the Rod God awakens the sinner that he sleep not the Sleep of Death When David was so fast asleep that he said in his prosperity I shall never be moved Psal 30.6 God by hiding his face from him ver 7. did so trouble him that he was awakened out of his Security And lastly By the bitter potion of affliction he weans us from the world and the love of it My soul is even as a weaned child Psal 131.2 By laying mustard on the Teat he keeps us from sucking too deep a draught of earthly contentments It was a savoury speech of worthy Dr. Sibbs God embitters all other things to us that himself only may be sweet For the second Head God is pleased to exercise his children with affliction in reference to their Graces that they may be tryed exercised and increased Our Saviour counsels the Laodiceans to buy of him gold tryed in the fire Revel 3.18 By Gold is meant the golden Graces of his Spirit and those graces are best tryed in the fire of affliction If our Graces be such as will abide the fiery Tryal then are they true graces indeed and not counterfeit That faith doubtless is a true saith that is a Furnace Faith such as was the faith of those three Worthies Dan. 3.17 18 Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King but if not be it known to thee that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the golden Image which thou hast set up Fiery Tryals make golden Christians And as affliction tryes the truth of our Graces so does it also try the strength of our Graces Some Graces are like stars quae interdiu latent noctu lucent They shine not in the day time of prosperity but in the night time of adversity The strength of a Fort or Castle is not known but in the time of a siege when it is assaulted with batteries and onsets So here the strength of faith and fervency of love and constancy of patience should never be known were it not for the batteries of hell

easie the glory of beleever in the life to come is a weighty glory Weighty did I say Yea It is an hyperbolical or transcendent glory The Apostle useth such a high-flown expression here in the Text as is not to be found in any other Author sacred or prophane 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an exceeding excessive weight He could not find a word high enough to express the greatnesse of it Deus coe●um non patiuntur hyperbolen God is so ●nfinitely great and heaven is so unconceiveably glorious that we cannot either think or speak too highly of them for eye hath not seen nor ear heard nei●her have entred into the heart of man then things which God hath prepared for them that love him 1 Cor. 2.9 Thirdly The Afflictions of a Beleever in this life are but for a moment the glory wherewith he shall be invested in the life to come is an everlasting glory The words being thus opened and cut out there are three points of Doctrine especially observable in them which will draw out the strength of the Text Viz. Doctr. 1 1. The Afflictions which the godly meet with here on earth make way for that glory and happiness which is laid up for them in heaven Doctr. 2 2. The Afflictions of this life are but light and eafie The glory of the life to come is a weighty and transcendent glory Doctr. 3 3. The Afflictions of this life are but for a momenty The glory prepared in the life to come is an everlasting glory To begin with the first Doctrine which is this The Afflictions which the godly meet with here on earth make way for that happinesse which is laid up for them in heaven For the explication and confirmation of this truth there are three Queries would be satisfied 1. What those afflictions are which the godly meet with here on earth 2. Why God will have his children exercised with those afflictions 3. How or in what respect these afslictions make way for that glory and ●appiness that is laid up for them in ●eaven For the first Querie What those af●lictions are Ans The godly meet with afflictions of all sorts both inward and outward ●roubles 1. They are exercised often with inward troubles viz. temptations and spi●●ual desertions the tumblings tos●ings and disquietments of their own pirits which lye as a heavy burden up●n the soul far more afflictive and in●upportable then any outward crosse or ●ffliction on the body or estate can be for a wounded spirit who can bear Prov. 18.14 Thus ye hear Heman that godly wise man complaining Psal 88.3 My soul is full of troubles and David crying out Psal 42.5 Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquteted within me yea it sometimes falls out that the terrors of the Almighty do set themselves in battel array against them Job 6.4 and come upon them with that violence that they are distracted under them Psal 88.15 While I suffer thy terrors saith Heman I am distracted so that a godly man ye see may be brought to the condition of distraction and a child of light may for a time walk in darkness without the least sense or apprehension of peace or comfort Isa 50.10 Secondly The godly are exercised with outward troubles such as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the five terrible things that Aristotle speaks on Viz. Ignominy poverty persecution sickness and death For the first of these viz. Ignominy the best of Gods children have been reproached and reviled counted troublers of Israel as Elijah was 1 Kings 18.17 and men of contention is Jeremy was Jer. 15.10 and pestilent fellows and movers of sedition as Paul was Acts 24.5 Yea they are counted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the scum and off-scouring of all things to this day 1 Cor. 4.13 Was not the lord Jesus reviled to his very face John 8.48 Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil Yea accounted an Impostor or deceiver Matth. 27.63 a blasphemer Matth. 26. 65. he hath spoken blasphemy and a sad-man John 10.20 He is mad and ●ath a devil why do ye hear him For the second of these Viz. Pover●y it hath been the condition of the Saints here on earth God hath kept them very low that by the poverty of their condition they might be brought to poverty of spirit God usually keeps his soundest sheep on the shortest Commons Ye read of poor Saints 〈◊〉 Jerusalem Acts 15.26 They were precious Saints yet very poor yea some of whom the world was not worthy yet wandred about in sheep-skins and goat-skins being destitute wanting some necessaries for a time afflicted and tormented Heb. 11.37 For the third particular viz. Persecution it hath been the portion of Gods most eminent servants as our Saviour has foretold Matth. 10.23 They shall persecute you from one City to another yea all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 Christ himself was no sooner born then banished Matth. 2.13 It was the Motto of famous Mr. Rothwel who was called the Apostle of the North Persecutio est pignus futurae gloria Persecution is the pledge of that eternal glory which we expect For the fourth viz. Sickness the best of Cods servants are exercised with it Timothy was a rare yong man eminent for piety nourished or nursed up in the words of faith and of good doctrine 1 Tim. 4.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if he had sucked piety with his mothers milk yet he was much acquainted with bodily sickness and distempers as appears by Pauls counsel to him 1 Tim. 5.23 Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomacks sake and thine often infirmities He had not onlyone infirmity but divers infirmities and those not once but often disturbing his health yea God will have it so that the sickness of the body may conduce to the health of the soul A very Heathen could say Tunde Anaxarchi manticam nam Anaxarchi minime teris Beat my sack saith he meaning his body but thou canst not hurt my soul So here God will have the body which is but the sack for the soul is the treasure in the sack beaten and bruised with sickness aches and infirmities that the soul may be preserved and kept without hurt till the day of the Lord Jesus For the fifth particular viz. Death The best of Gods servants are not exexempted from it for what man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul h. e. his life from the hand of the grave Psal 89.48 It is true the Lord Christ has delivered his members from the sting of death but he hath not exempted them from the storke of death and the reason may be this because he will have his members conformable to their head that as the Captain of our salvation was made perfect by sufferings Hebr. 2.10 and by the gates of death entred into glory so must all his