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A03078 Panacea Christiana, or, A Christians soueraigne salue for euery soare deliuered in two seuerall sermons, and now digested into one treatise : published for the vse of all distressed Christians. Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645. 1624 (1624) STC 13203.5; ESTC S2728 34,209 104

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left Reprobate to euery good Worke. As for euill of Punishment Let God forsake them with Saul 1 Sam. 28 6 7.8 1 Samuel 28. verses 6 7 8. they will forsake God and runne from his presence like Cain turne Vagabonds Genesis 4. verse 16. Gen. 4.16 If the Euill of Sinne pursue them and their owne Conscience haue raysed a Heu and Cry against them with Achitophell they flye to a Halter for Remedie and for feare of Hell leape into Hell Outward Crosses do them no good Esay 1.5.7 Esay 1. verses 5 7. I haue smitten them yet they haue not turned vnto me is an olde Complaint nay much hurt Ahaz in his Affliction transgresseth more and more 2 Chro. 28 22. The wicked King cries out This euill comes from the Lord shall I serue him any longer 2 Kings 9 33. 2 Kings chap. 6. verse 33. Iobs Wife will Curse God Iob. 2.6 and Dye Iob 2. 9. Is their Credite crackt They grow as shamelesse now as they were gracelesse before proclayming their sinnes as Sodome and fearing neyther God nor Man Is their state impouerished The stick not to put foorth their handes to vnlawfull shiftes adding Sin to Affliction In the Diseases of their Bodies with Asa they seeke not vnto God 2 Chro. 16.12 but trust to the Physitian In extreamity of paine they soone loose themselues and their patience like the raging Sea they vomit out their owne shame In Death they goe away lumpishly as Nabal or ridiculously with a Sardonicall Laughter or desperately like that Gallant M. Perkins in gouernment of the tongue who spurring his Horsse till hee sprang aside into the water as hee was tumbling ouer the Bridge cryed out Horse Man and all to the Diuell All this is but the beginning of Sorrow Isaiah 66.24 Death giues them vp to the Gnawing of that worme which neuer dyet the burning of that Lake which shall neuer slake and the scorching of those flames that shall neuer cease Death cuts off their Hope which endeth with their Life and giues life to those Torments which shall neuer end Thus is their Life Miserable their Death Lamentable their End Damnable The last Grape which I shall plucke from this Goodly Cluster and presse forth is An Exhortation to Patience vnder the Crosse If all things shall worke for thy Good why dooest thou murmure and mutine against God because hee followes thee with a Succession of Crosses Thy Afflictions are many and great tedious and greeuous say not thou with Caine Gen. 4.13 My punishment is Greater then I can beare Genes 4. verse 13. Whateuer euill it bee that lyes so heauie whether on thy Bodie Name or State whether inward Temptation or outward Tribulations is it not for thy Good Wilt thou be such an Enemy to thine owne Soule as to repine at thine owne Good The Cup is bitter I but happily the lesse toothsome the more wholesome Thy teeth are set an edge with eating sowre Grapes this bitter Aloes must set them right Thou canst happily make a shift to turne ouer a draught of Worme-wood Beere euery morning next thy heart Is it not bitter as Gall Is it not distastfull to the Palate Why doest thou drinke it Oh the Phisitian assures me it 's for my good Thou sufferest the Surgeon to launce thy raging vlcer to lay a sharpe Corazine which may eate downe the dead flesh It stings cruelly smarts terribly yet thou endurest it patiently Why The Surgeon tells thee it is good for thee If the Grand Phisitian of thy Soule prescribe a bitter draught next thy heart murmure not if that skilfull Soule-Surgeon clap on a Coraziue murmure not hee assures thee it 's for thy Good Stay not here neither this will teach thee to vndergoe thy trouble not onely patiently but chearefully according to that of the Apostle Reioyce in Tribulation Why Tribulation brings forth Patience Patience Experience Rom. 4.3.4 5. Experience Hope that maketh not ashamed Oh the sweete Fruite that growes from this bitter roote S. Iames. 1.23 Iames seconds Paul My Brethren count it great ioy when you fall into diuers tentations knowing that the trying of your faith bringeth foorth Patience and let Patience haue her perfect worke Set before your eyes that Mirrour of patience remember Iob when crosses came thronging thick and threefold one vpon the necke of another like a showre of haile-shot Luke 21.19 yet the Holy man possesses his soule by his patience Set before you that Mirrour of Mirrours the Sauiour of the vvorld how willingly did hee drinke of that bitter Potion Mat. 26.39 Iames. 1.13 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for vvhen he is tryed hee shall receiue the Crowne if life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him Thou art now in the furnace waite till the drosse bee consumed thou art now in the Scouring-house stay till the soile be wiped off then shalt thou bee translated from this valley of teares to that Region of ioy where all sinne shall bee wiped from thy soule all sorrow from thy heart all teares from thine eyes that ioy shall no man take from thee FINIS Gentle Reader I thought good to fill vp this vacant Page with this Table All things worke for the best to the Godly whether Good Supreme God consider'd in his Nature Atributes Workes Either of Mercy Iudgement Or By meanes without means Against means Subordinate Persons Angels Men in their ordinances Ciuill Magistrates Ecclesiasticall Ministers Things Gifts of Minde Ornaments of Body Gifts of Fortune so termed Euill Sinne whether That of our first Parents That which flows thence Originall Actuall Smaller in the Vnderstanding Errours Will. Passions grosser Punishment Inward Spirituall Dissertion Horror of Conscience Generall All Affliction Outward Priuat euill of State Pouerty Name Ignomy Persons Diseases Death National Plagues Publike A Post-script Gentle Reader if I seeme to breake off abruptly and to doe my worke by halues the truth is my desire was to present this my first and imperfect essay to the world for a tast onely If it may finde fauour acceptation I shall be encouraged to perfect what is left vnfinished if not little said soone amended Errata For bee read is Pag. 1. line 4. for his read this p 3. l. 6. read to p. 4. l. 3. read the crowne p. 7. l. 10. read gastred p. 27. line last read make p. 44. l. 1. read lockes p. 51. l. 26. read him p. 56. l. 18. them l. 19. read Lo-ammi p. 64.13