Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	job_n	lord_n	patience_n	2,472	5	9.2343	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39690	A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1674 (1674)	Wing F1197; ESTC R26707	66,956	170

in a civil notion So your sorrowing may sooner break your hearts than the yoak God hath laid on you Alas what is all this but as the fluttering of a bird in the net which instead of freeing doth but the more entangle it self It was therefore a wise resolve of David in this very case when the will of God was signified in the death of his child 2 Sam. 12. 23. But now he is dead wherefore should I fast Can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return to me Can I bring him back again No I can no more alter the purpose and work of God than I can change the seasons of of the year or alter the course of Sun Moon and Stars or disturb the order of day and night which are all unalterably established by a firm constitution and ordinance of heaven As these seasons cannot be changed by man so neither can this course and way of his providences be changed Job 23. 13. He is of one mind and who can turn him And what his soul desireth even that he doth Indeed whilst his pleasure and purpose are unknown to us there is room for fasting and prayer to prevent the thing we fear but when the purpose of God is manifested in the Issue and the stroke is given then it is the vainest thing in the world to fret and vex our selves as Davids servants thought he would do as soon as he should hear the child was dead but he was wiser than so his tears and cries to God before had the nature and use of means to prevent the affliction but when it was come and could not be prevented then they were of no use to no purpose in the world Wherefore should I fast q. d. To what end use or purpose will it be now Well then cast not away your strength and spirits to no advantage reserve them for future exercises and tryals Time may come that you may need all the strength you have and much more to support greater burthens than this 12. Consid. The Lord is able to restore all your lost comforts in Relations double to you if you meekly submit to him and patiently wait upon him under the rod. When Esau had lost his blessing he said Hast thou but one blessing my Father Gen. 27. 38. But your Father hath more blessings for you than one his name is The Father of mercies 2 Cor. 1. 3. He can beget and create as many mercies for you as he pleaseth Relations and the comforts of them are at his command It is but a few months or years past and these comforts whose loss you now lament were not in being nor did you know whence they should arise to you yet the Lord gave the word and commandèd them for you and if he please he can make the death of these but like a sythe to the Meadow that is mown down or a razor to the head that is shaved bare which though it lay you under the present trouble and reproach of barrenness yet doth but make way for a double increase a second spring with advantage So that as it was with the Captive Church in respect of her spiritual Children in the day of her Captivity and reproach the Lord made up all with advantage to her even to her own astonishment Isa. 49. 20. The children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other shall say again in thine ears the place is too straight for me give place to me that I may dwell Thus may he deal with you as to your natural children and Relations So that what the man of God said to Amaziah 2 Chron. 25. 9. may be applyed to the case in hand Amaziah said to the man of God but what shall we do for the hundred Talents And the man of God answered the Lord is able to give thee much more than this O say not what shall I do for friends and Relations Death hath rob'd me of all comfort in them Why the Lord is able to give you much more But then as ever you expect to see your future blessings multiplyed look to it and be careful that you neither dishonour God or grieve him by your unsubmissive and impatient carriage under the present Rod. God took away all Jobs children and that at one stroke and the stroke immediate and extraordinary and that when they were grown up and planted at least some of them in distinct families Yea whilst they were endearing each other by the mutual expressions of affection This must be yeilded to be an extraordinary tryal yet he meekly receives and patiently bears it from the hand of the Lord. You have heard of the patience of Job saith the Apostle Jam. 5. 11. and seen the end of the Lord. Not only the gracious end or intention of the Lord in all his afflictions but the happy end and Issue the Lord gave to all his afflictions of which you have the account Job 42. 10. The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before The number of his children was not double to what he had as all his other comforts were but though the Lord only restored the same number to him again that he took away yet it 's like the comfort he had in these latter children was double to what he had in the former There 's nothing lost by waiting patiently and submitting willingly to the Lords dispose It is as easie with the Lord to revive as it is to remove your comforts in Relations There is a sweet expression to this purpose in Psal. 18. 28. For thou Lord wilt light my candle the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness Every comfortable enjoyment whether it be in Relations Estates Health or Friends is a candle lighted by Providence for our comfort in this world and they are but candles which will not alwaies last and those that last longest will be consumed and wasted at last but often times it falls out with them as with candles they are blown out before they are half consumed yea almost as soon as lighted up and then we are in darkness for the present It 's a dark hour with us when these comforts are put out but Davids faith did and ours may comfort us with this That he that blew out one candle can light up another Thou Lord shalt light my candle the Lord my God shall enlighten my darkness that is the Lord will renew my comforts alter the present sad estate I am in and chase away that trouble and darkness which at present lies upon me Only beware of offending him at whose beck your lights and comforts come and go Michall displeased the Lord and therefore had no child unto the day of her death 2 Sam. 6. 23. Hanah waited humbly upon the Lord for the blessing of children and the Lord remembred her he enlightened her condition with that comfort when she was as a Lamp despised There 's no comfort you have lost but God