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A10734	The benefite of affliction. A sermon, first preached, and afterwards enlarged, by Charles Richardson preacher at Saint Katharines neare to the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 21013; ESTC S119812	42,110	112

c. And then by a particular effect which was wrought in him thereby That I may learne thy Statutes And thus we see the coherence that these words haue with the former together with the sum and resolution of them Let vs now come to the seuerall instructions contained in them It is good for me In the example of Dauid we learne that euen the Godly themselues are subiect to many afflictions The dearest of Gods children may and oftentimes doe suffer affliction with varietie Psal 34 19 extremitie and continuance Many saith Dauid or great are the troubles of the righteous Psal 80 5. Yea God doth many times feede his owne children with the bread of teares and giueth them teares to drinke in great measure And hee threatneth euen those with whom he hath made a sure couenant and from whom hee will neuer take his mercie and louing kindnesse Psal 89 30 31 32.33 that if they forsake his lawe and walke not in his iudgements If they breake his statutes and keepe not his commaundements hee will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquitie with strokes And to this purpose is that saying of Solomon that euen a iust man Pro 24 16 falleth seuen times that is is afflicted oft and many times And the Apostle Iames exhorteth the faithfull Iam. 1 2 to count it exceeding ioy when they fall into tentations or afflictions And hereof the Prophet Dauid himselfe is a most pregnant example Hee was a man that God had set vp on high 2. Sam. 23 1 the Annointed of the God of Iacob 1. Sam. 13.14 Yea by the Lords owne testimony he was a man after his owne heart and yet he affirmeth of himselfe that daily hee had beene punished Psal 73 14 and chastened euery morning Euery day that wēt ouer his head brough with it some affliction or other He was persecuted by Saul who pursued him from place to place 1. Sam. 26 20 as one would hunt a partridge in the mountaines and 22 9 and 23 19 20 He was falsely accused by Doeg that cursed Edomite betrayed and discouered by the false hearted Ziphims He was discomforted and derided by his wife that lay in his bosom He had many heartbreakings with his children Ziglag 1. Sam. 30 1 5. the towne which Achish king of Gath had giuen him for his habitation was sacked burnt by the Amalekites his wiues that were the comfort of his life were taken prisoners Yea it may appeare to all that shall read his story in both the bookes of Samuel that as if hee had beene a man borne to misery hee scarce had one good day in all his life Neit er was this the case of Dauid alone but euen all the children of God mentioned in the Scripture haue also beene partakers of the same condition Rom. 9.13 Iacob that holy Patriarke on whom God had set his loue before he was borne was many waies afflicted in the greatest part of his life He was hated of his brother and for feare of his fury forced to leaue his owne cuntry and his fathers house and to liue as a seruant in a strange land for the space of twentie yeares Gen. 31.41 He was vexed with the vnkindnesse of his churlish Vncle who notwithstanding his faithfull seruice changed his wages ten times He was vpbraided and slaundered by his Cosins the sonnes of Laban He was grieued with the peeuish behauiour of his wiues and much discomforted by his children Iob likewise though a godly man one of whom the Lord himselfe testified that he was an vpright and a iust man Iob. 1.8 one that feared God and eschewed euill Yet his life for a long time was euen a Mappe of misery It was no small affliction to loose such a deale of substance all in a day to haue his children so pittifully dismembred to haue his wife and his friends that should haue asswaged his sorrow Iob. 16.2 and 6.4 to play the miserable comforters and to adde affliction vnto his misery and which was worst of all to haue the terrours of God to fight against him Solomon also of whom the Lord said before euer hee were bone He shall bee my Sonne 1. Chr. 22 10 and I will bee his Father and concerning whom he promised that his mercie should neuer depart from him as he tooke it from Saul 2. Sam. 7.15 though he enioyed great prosperitie for many yeares yet when he turned his he art from the Lord God of Israell keept not that which he had commaunded him 1. King 11 9.10 the Lord raised him vp aduersa ies one after another which molested him with warres al the dayes of his life 1. Kin. 11 14 23.26 As first Hadad then Rezon and after him Ieroboam and when he was dead ten tribes of the kingdome were rent away from his sonne And Hezekiah a man so vpright in the sight of the Lord 2. Kin. 18 5 5 as after him there was none like him among all the Kings of Iudah neither were there any such before him was notwithstanding exercised with grieuous and continuall afflictions Verse 13 14 15 16 First of all Sanecherib king of Assyria came vp against all the strong cities of Iudah and tooke them and hee to make his peace was constrained to giue him three hundreth talents of siluer and thirtie talents of gold For raising of which summe hee was forced to take all the siluer that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasures of the kings house yea he pulled off the plates of the doore of the temple and the pillars which himselfe had couered ouer and gaue them to the making vp of the tribute And yet notwithstanding all this 17. Sanecherib presently after sent a great arny against Ierusalem to destroy it and 19 10 11. and caused Rabshakeh with a blacke mouth to the breaking of Hezekiahs heart to blaspheme the name of the liuing God And he was no sooner by Gods mercie deliuered out of this danger and 20 1 but straightway he was visited with a sore sicknesse and as some thinke with the plague which in all appearance was vnto death So Lazarus Luk 16.20 21 22 at whose death the Angels of heauen were imployed to carry his soule into Abrahams bosome was in his lifetime poore impotent harbourlesse distressed and vnpittied In a word these famous worthies of the world that the Apostle speaketh off of whom the world was not worthy were tryed Heb. 11 36.37.38 some by mockings and scourgings some by bonds and imprisonment They were stoned they were hewen asunder they were tempted they were slaine by the sword they wandered vp and downe in sheepes skins goates skins being destitut afflicted tormented And as this is true in the generall that Gods children are subiect to many great afflictions so it is true also in the particuler that there is

but a wounded spirit who can bear Iob was not only afflicted in his body and outward estate but also troubled and wounded in his cōscience with the fearful apprehension of Gods wrath And therefore hee complaineth Iob. 6.4 that the arrowes of the Almightie were in him the venime or poyson whereof did drinke vp his spirit and the terrours of God did fight or set themselues in array against him And Dauid cryeth out Psal 22 1. My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee and art so farre from my health and from the words of my roaring And in another place he saith and 32.3.4 When I held my tongue my bones consumed when I roared all the day long For thy hand was heauie vpon me day and night and my moysture is turned into the drought of summer And in another place he maketh such a lamentable complaint as if hee had beene brought to the very pit of desperation and 38.2.3.4.5 6.7.8 Thine arrowes saith hee sticke fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore There is nothing sound in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head and as a mightie burden they are too heauie for mee My wounds stincke aad are corrupt because of my foolishnesse I am bowed and crooged very sore I goe mourning all the day For my reines are full of burning and there is nothing sound in my flesh I am weakened and sore broken I roare for the very griefe of my heart c. And againe and 130.1 Out of the deepe places haue I called vnto thee O Lord as if hee had beene euen in the bottome of hell In a word Hezekiah that good King complaineth that besides the sicknesse which God laid vpon his bodie that brought him euen to deathes dore the Lord had broken al his bones like a lyon Isa 38.13.14 and from day to night he made an end of him and that he chattered like a crane or swallow and mourned as a doue By this we see that euen the children of God doe many times wrastle with desperation it selfe and the Lord doth so long hide his face from them as they seeme vtterly to be forsaken and beginne to thinke that his mercie is cleane gone for euer as Dauid saith and that hee will bee fauourable no more And therefore the Church of God is compared to a lillie among thornes to giue vs to vnderstand that though it be very louely beautifull in the sight of God yet it is subiect to many miseries and accombred with many molestations But here it may be some will obiect if the case bee so that the children of God be subiect to so many great afflictions then it seemeth that either their sins are not fully forgiuen them or else that God is not iust in inflicting such punishments vpon them To this I answer Psal 103.3 Col. 2 13 1 Iohn 1 7 that first for the sins of Gods children they are all absolutely forgiuen The hlood of Christ as the Apostle saith Isa 1 8 doth clense vs from al sin So that though they be as scarlet yet the Lord maketh them as white as snow thogh they be red like crimson hee maketh them as woll and 44 22. Yea the Lord putteth away our transgressions like a cloud and our sinnes like a mist Mich. 7.19 he subdueth our iniquities and casteth them into the bottome of the Sea So as they shall neuer rise vp in iudgement against vs to accuse or condemne vs. Againe the Lord is righteous in all his waies Psal 145.17 holy in all his workes and being Iudge of all the world as Abraham said he must needs do right Gen. 18 25 And forasmuch as our Sauiour Christ hath satisfied Gods iustice for our sins 1. Pet. 2.24 hath borne them in his bodie on the crosse feing the Lord hauing punished them once in Christ Non his punitur in idem cannot iustly punish thē again in vs therfore it must needs follow that the miseries wherunto the children of God are subiect are not punishments of their sins but the Lord hath other ends for which he afflicteth them Now the ends are many but for order sake we will refer thē to three heads Some of them are in respect of Gad some in respect of vs some in respect of others The end that God aimeth at in respect of himselfe is twofold First therby to manifest set forth his owne glory As our Sauiour said cōcerning the man that was borne blind Iohn 9 2 3 that that affliction was laid vpon him neither for his owne sinnes nor for his fathers sinnes but that the workes of God might be shewed on him And indeed no small glory redoundeth vnto God by the afflictions of his children As the power of God is more magnified and declared in aduersitie then euer it could be in prosperitie For that which the Lord said to the Apostle Paul concerning outward afflictions 2. Cor. 12.9 My power is made perfite through weakenesse For when we are in prosperitie see no euill we seeme not to stand need of Gods helpe But when God deliuereth vs out of troble then is his power manifested and then haue we occasion offered to glorifiie him Psal 50.15 As it is said in the Psalme Call vpon me in the day of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Yea though the Lord for causes best knowne to himselfe doe not deliuer his children out of their miseries and tribulations yet this is no small matter of glory vnto him 2. Cor. 1 4. 1. Pet. 1.8 that in the middest of them all he ministreth comfort vnto them and maketh them cheerful and causeth them to reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious Secondly to declare his anger and indignation against sinne that when the wicked shall see that Gods dearest children if they take libertie to sinne doe not escape the rod they may know what themselues are to looke for at his hands according to that speech of the Apostle Peter If Iudgement first begin at the house of God 1. Pet. 4 17. what shall bee the end of them that obey not the Gospell of God The ends that God aimeth at in respect of vs are diuerse First to correct and chasten vs for our faults As the Apostle saith When we are iudged we are chastened of the Lord. 1. Cor. 11.32 As a father that hath care of his childe if he see him take euill courses will correct him to bring him to amendment so our most mercifull father will not suffer his children to continue in sinne Heb. 12 6. but vseth corrections to reclame them Secondly to try and exercise the graces that are in them and to make them more conspicuous Not as though the Lord were ignorant of them For he that made them