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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01750	1. Crosses, 2. comforts, 3. counsels. Needfull to be considered, and carefully to be laid up in the hearts of the godly, in these boysterous broiles, and bloody times. / By M. Zacharie Boyd.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3905; ESTC R170737	26,502	85

parts of this text the Lord forwarneth his disciples both present and to come of very great troubles yee said he shall be betrayed both by parents and kinsefolkes and friends c. Observe heere first in generall The doctrine the great mercy of God towards his own children he sensibly giveth them warning before troubles come he telleth them most plainly that heer is not their rest but that they must look for many troubles even troubles of all sorts The Lord in forwarning his children of troubles hath one of these two ends before him either he doeth so that his servants may escape the danger Gen. 6.13 so Noah was warned by God to make an Arke and to save himself and his familie from the flood Gen. 19.15 so Lot was warned by the Angel to flee from Sodome before fire came down and destroyed it or else God giveth to his servants forewarning of troubles that they may prepare themselves to beare them the more patientlie and couragiously for this end especiallie hee made his Apostles acquainted before hand that very great troubles were to fall upon them The use The use let us all take this warning to our selves wee have had a long peace but let us not look for a perpetuall prosperitie Gods Church below is a militant Church ever in a warfare as long as the divell and wicked men are permitted to goe loose in the world the church shall not want her enemies Psal 30.6 It was a verie foolish word that David said I said in my prosperitie I shall never bee moved but what followed thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled Note God for the sins of this land doeth threaten to hide his face if he do so we all shall be troubled how ever it go we are much beholden to the Lord who these years bypast hath given us so many warnings whereas he might have suffered us with the wicked to returne and be ashamed suddenly Psal 6.11 * Note He hath not at the first said to us as he said to his own people Israel Exo. 33.5 I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment and consume thee these five or six years bypast the Lord hath been still threatning with judgements after judgements to come up into the midst of us for to consume us he hath not spoken of moments but of years and for moments hath given us years to repent in and woe unto us if we make not good use of such a rare and wonderfull mercy Let us now from the generall come to the particulars the Lord in this text giveth his disciples warning of three particular evils first betraying secondly putting to death of some thirdly an universall hatred for his names sake first we have to speak of betraying The first evill he forewarnes them of is betraying the word in the originall signifieth to yeeld to commit to give over or betray these by whom they should bee betrayed are here foure in number 1. their parents 2. their brethren 3. their kinsemen 4. their friends Christ in Mathew maketh mention of the like unnaturall dealing the brother saith he Mat. 10.21 shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the childe and the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death * Note The sense of all these words is as if the Lord had said to his Apostles to all the faithfull your troubles shall be very great for they shall proceed not only from strangers but from your dearest and nearest in nature even from your parents children brethren kinsmen friends from whom in all worldly appearance yee might expect your greatest comforts as being these whose bowels should be full of favour and tender love for to procure your good Observe here that Gods dearest children The doctrine who are Psal 119.38 devoted to Gods fear are subject to great afflictions the trouble is very piercing when we are crossed by these who should be our speciall comfort * Note After that David had spoken of many that had troubled him he melting for heavinesse subjoyned this as more then all Psal 41.9 yet my familiar friend in whom I trusted which did eat of my bread hath lift up his heele against me this was said of Ahitophel in the first place and after of Judas his treachery against Christ of whom Christ said in the new Testament Iohn 13.18 He that eateth bread with me hath lift up his heele against me when a master is betrayed by his servant when a Father or a mother is crossed by their children the affliction is very painfull to bear Jobs friends were a great grief unto him their words wounded him more on the doung hill then the evill he had received by the Sabeans and Caldeans who had robbed him of all his goods The 1. use The 1. use when such things befall us that our nearest friends trouble us let us remember that such hath beene the case of the dearest of Gods children * Note 1 Sam. 14.44 2 Sam. 15.12 Iohn 18.2 Jonathan had a persecuting father and David a persecuting sonne and Christ had a traitour servant and to all the apostles it is said here yee shall be betrayed both by parents and by brethren Psal 116.19 and kinsmen and friends The 2. use * The 2. use Note Let us learn here neither in the cause of God nor yet in things that concerne our selves to trust in any man Job said my friends scorn me Job 16.20 many may say the like behold here how parents and brethren and kinsemen and friends turne all traitours to betray the servants of the Lord * Note There is only one father that cannot betray his children even God our father only one Brother and only one friend only one kinseman Christ that changeth not in his love but as for men all men are lyers Psal 73.26 David said that God failed him never * Note If men in these last dayes had the eyes of Elishah to see within the breasts of men 2 King 8.11 as hee looked into Hazael they would see in many familiar friends things to be done for which they might justly in Hazaels words be called dogges rather then men * Note God hath hid many particulars from our eyes but he hath told us this in generall that many who seeme to be our greatest friends will not faile to betray us A man sitting at the Sermon like a childe sucking his mothers breasts will bee ready to betray the preacher when he finds his time hee will spit out the sincere milk of Gods Word 1 Pet. 2.2 and call it the bitter gall of treason * Note As Jrijah the Captaine of the Ward falsly accused the Prophet Jeremiah saying Thou art a Traitour Jer. 37.13 Thou fallest away to the Caldeans to such many Preachers may say Job 19.2 as