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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16529	A treatise ful of consolation for all that are afflicted in minde, or bodie, or otherwise Which armeth vs against impatiencie vnder any crosse. By Nicolas Bovvnde Doctor of Divinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1608 (1608)	STC 3441; ESTC S114772	58,110	182

for in due season we shall reape if we faint not Where to perswade the Galatians and vs to go on cōstantly in all good courses vnto the end he makes a promise of great reward which God will bestow vpon all them that shall so doe not so much in this life as the life to come when euery man shal receiue the things that are done in his bodie 2. Cor. 5.10 according to that he hath done whether it be good or euill and this he doth by a familiar and plaine comparison That as the husbandman though the seede-time be very painefull and costly vnto him so that both he buies his corne at a great price and hath many an hard iourney at the plow and meetes with many a boisterous storme yet he giues not ouer in the midst but comforts himselfe with the hope of haruest which in due time will come though long after and is perswaded that that will fully quite all his cost and recōpence all his labour to the full and when he hath gathered his corne into his barne he repents himselfe not one whit of his cost or trauell but rather is glad that by neither of them he was discouraged from following of that good course which now he seeeth to be so gainfull vnto himselfe So we in all afflictions and in all difficulties continuing in well doing must comfort our selues with the hope of that reward that God hath promised in the kingdom of heauen according to that that is said in the Psalme they that sow in teares Psal 126.5 shall reape in ioy they went out weeping and caried pretious seede but they shal returne with ioy and bring their sheaues Where the time of affliction is compared vnto a seede-time in a deare yeare when poore men because of the scarsitie and price of corne sow it with teares but the reward in heauen is likened vnto the haruest when the increase is so great that they reape carie in their corne with great ioy This is that then which we must set before our eyes that we might patiently vndergo the hardnes of affliction it beeing the readie way to bring vs to glorie And this Paul applieth vnto seruants whose condition of life especially of bondseruants and vnder heathen and vnchristian masters in those daies was very hard and willeth thē to doe their duties conscionably as seruing the Lord knowing that of him they shall receiue their reward when he saith Coloss 3.23 Seruants be obedient vnto them that are your masters according to the flesh in all things not with eye seruice as men pleasers but in singlenes of heart pleasing God whatsoeuer ye doe doe it heartily as to the Lord and not to men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receiue the reward of the inheritance for ye serue the Lord Christ Thus he would haue them to go on in their callings chearefully though they were very base and painfull in hope of that inheritance that was prepared for thē in the kingdome of heauen And truly if not onely seruants but all other men did beleeue that in all things they had to deale with God and that he would reward them if they did well though all other should neglect them the hope of that might comfort them in all difficulties And this made Moses the man of God to refuse all the riches and pleasures that he might haue inioyed in Egypt as beeing the reputed sonne of Pharaohs daughter and to choose rather to ioyne himselfe with the people of God though in great affliction Heb. 11.26 because he had respect vnto the recompence of the reward Which reward could not then be seene and therefore the Apostle saith that he did it by faith and truly if we did beleeue that great reward that is laid vp in heauen for them that serue God and is offered vnto vs in his word if all the pleasures of the world were laid before vs on the one hand and all the afflictions of the same on the other hand we should be of Moses his minde to choose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God then to indure the pleasures of sinne for a season esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then all the treasures of the world because by faith we haue respect vnto the recōpence of that reward And so I may conclude with that most excellent exhortation of the Apostle in the chapter following Wherefore let vs also chap. 12.1 seeing that we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses cast away euery thing that presseth downe and the sinne that hangeth so fast on let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs looking vnto Iesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him indured the crosse and despised the shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God Where he sets before our eyes the example of our Sauiour Christ who in those grieuous agonies he was in to sweeten the bitternes of his crosse did earnestly consider of the ioy and glorie which a little after he was to enter into that we might also in our sufferings hold our thoughts seriously vnto the meditation of the ioyes of heauen and for them indure them and treade vnder our feete for them all the shame reproach and contempt of the world that shall be cast vpon vs. Where also that we might not faint vnder the burden we are to consider of the circumstance of time when we shall reape the fruit of our labours Gal. 6. ● that is In due season if we faint not Which is partly in this life for godlinesse hath the promises of this life 2. Tim. 4. ● as well as of the life to come and the Lord as he doth in this life giue to his children the first fruits of his Spirit Rom. 8.23 so he doth giue them the first fruits of their labours as a tast of their happines which they shall enioy more fully hereafter and therefore Christ saith in the Gospel Mark 10. ●0 that he will reward those that are his an hundred fold in this life But this due time is meant principally of the life to come when they shall receiue their reward fully not onely in the houre of death when the soule entreth into happines as it is saide of Lazarus that when he died the Angels caried his soule into Abrahams bosome Luk. 16.22 but especially at the day of iudgement when soule and bodie beeing ioyned together they shall be in full possession of eternal glorie and felicitie for euer And seeing the Lord hath of his wisdome and goodnes set downe the time when we shall be comforted receiue our reward we must in faith and patience waite vpon him for it And as the husbandman that hath sowne his field doth not looke for his croppe the next day or the next weeke but tarieth till the haruest come so must we sow the seede of obedience vnto God euen vnder the crosse though with teares and looke for the fruit of it at the great day of haruest when we shall reape it with ioy euē with that ioy that is vnspeakable and most glorious when he shal separate the sheepe from the goates and giue them their reward saying Come ye blessed of my father Math. ● take the inheritance of the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world And seeing the Lord hath beene patient in waiting for our amendement from day to day let vs patiently expect the accomplishment of this his gratious promise from day to day and from yeare to yeare Setting before our eyes the example of the dumbe creatures which expect with a feruent desire to be deliuered from that bondage and corruption ●●m 8.19 that now they are in into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God and this they doe with stretching forth their heads as the Apostle saith like vnto the poore prisoner that is condemned and puts out his head at the prison window looking for the gratious pardon of the Prince And if we can thus doe as we shall not be frustrate of our hope 〈◊〉 6 1● so it shall maruelously vphold vs as an ankor fixed in heauen and not in earth in all the waues and tempests of this troublesome world till we ariue happily at the hauen of heauen we shall find the ioyes so to exceede all the miseries that we haue indured here that we shall not be grieued one whit that we are come to such a place of rest by so long and tedious a iourney Which grace God graunt vnto vs for his sonne Iesus Christs sake Amen FINIS