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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74767	Gods gracious thoughts tovvards great sinners.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1647 (1647)	Thomason E385_22; ESTC R201472	32,054	44

of bowels doth import that as a father is not a naturall father if he loose his bowels so God must keep his bowells of mercie as he will keep his relation of Father to his And as a fathers bowells of mercies descend to the children of his Naturall bowells so Gods compassion is to his You see by how many titles our tenure of mercies hold good One while as we are servants to God or Christ our master Truly I am thy servant saith David I am thine save me Another while as a Wife to Christ Hos 2. Another while as Children to God and brethren to Christ and so this Text And adde to all that if we should faile so as to undeserve that God should be called the Father of us as his children yet this must stand firme God is the Father of mercies Namely to pitty us as a Father doth the childe as it is Psal 103. And to spare us and beare with us as a Father doth a weak childe that serveth him as he can though as a weak childe as Malachy speaks chap. 3. vers 18. And he is the Father of Mercies in the plurall Numerosa proles Store of mercies As God cannot be the Father of Christ as Christ alone All beleevers are included in him and so is well pleased It is not said with but in him Matth. 3. So he cannot be the Father of one mercy only but of many to have some for all yea many for every One yet he that is rich in mercies cannot leave his children poor 4. Engagement It is his stile title description that hee is The God of all comfort It is here spoken as the definition of what hee is to us therefore as essentiall to him And the like is said of him Exod 34. by way of a Royall Title or Kingly stile The Lord the Lord God Iehovah mercifull gracious long suffering aboundant in goodnesse c. So that this of Gods comforting us is one of the flowers in his crowne and God must maintaine his soveraigne stile How shall he be said to be God that is as we shewed afore infinite good if not full with comfort abounding towards us And how a God of all comfort if his people shall have none 2. For the method of these engagements in a word The God of this comfort 1. removes impediments that might hinder us their minds from God are not contented with glory And the Saints beleeving in Christ whiles they have sought what was in the creature and not God through the creature have found nothing in any thing or all things conjunctim or divisim severally or conjunctively Eccles 2.1 to the 12. verse King Solomon the great in making the utmost of all creature comforts could find nothing but vanitie and vexation Reading is an high and intellectuall delight is a while a pleasure to the mind but unlesse God comes in it furfets the understanding and is a wearinesse to the flesh Eccles 12.12 Musick is pleasant to the eare but unlesse God comes in to cheere the heart it is nauseous to a man Psal 137. And as experience tels us being too long in the hearing may surfet the phantasie with too oft playing the same lesson Odours are pleasant to the smell and some say the food of the Spirits of the Braine but unlesse God come in with health they suffocate that sence and cause faintings and swownings Food is pleasant to the tast but unlesse God give in his blessing it surfeits the stomacke In the midst of laughter in all creature injoyments saith Solomon the heart is sad Yea creature-joyes with out God are mischiefes Apparrel makes more proud then warme Authority brings forth more tyrannicalnesse than reformation Honour becomes more arrogant then usefull Wine more making mad than merry The table is become a snare As it is said of wisdome that all the creatures were inquired of a generall counsell of all the world was called the creation met in consultation to give in their answer every creature for himselfe whither wisdome was in this or that or the other they all answered no. Job 28.12 c. And so it may be said of comfort if all the world be called to its Answer it cannot say conjunctively or divisively that comfort is there without God The Sea answers that it is not in mee I am a devourer and doe make many a Merchant sad The heavens answer it is not in mee For unlesse God helpe mee I cause barrennesse Hos 2. And the sonnes of men confesse if they will speake the truth that they are as Jobs friends without God miserable comforters They can see one miserable and say this and that but without the incomes of God cannot comfort One man is contented with a little why God is there Another is not contented with much Why God is not there A little that a righteous man hath saith Solomon is better than great revenues of the wicked For God is the comfort in every creature comfort and God makes every creature to give down his comfort 1. God is the comfort in every creature It is the word command or institution of God that makes bread to be meanes of life to us Mat. 4. 2. Hee makes the creature to give downe his comfort that is in him Hos 2.21 c. I will saith the Lord in that day heare the heavens and they shall heare the earth and earth shall heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they shall hear Jezreel And all this God will do for his because hee will make a covenant with them and betreth them to himselfe ver 18. All shall be paid downe as part of their dowrie as part of that all which is theirs in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 3.21 Therefore why doe we travell over creature comforts without God our convoy Yea why do wee travell to creature comforts to find them without God Can the Bee finde any thing in the flower without beames and drops of heaven first fall upon them So vaine is our endeavour to presse out and distill any spirits of comfort out of creatures without Gods influence or impressions first falling upon them We thinke because God comming in with creatures they sometime comfort that therefore the creatures themselves do comfort But if a divine ordinance doth not alwayes quicken but onely when God comes in as experience tells us much lesse can earthly creatures comfort without God giving in himselfe in and through them Againe we lament the losse of such and such a creature as conceiving that we have much losse of comfort thereby But I should rather thinke that God taking them away that if they were present they should not comfort nor would God come in through them to make them comfort but that God is now upon another designe namely to give in more comfort some other way as either by and in providentiall dispensations of afflictions or in instituted ordinances of Word and Sacraments or immediately by himselfe in communication of