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
A59608	The voice of one crying in a wilderness, or, The business of a Christian, both antecedaneous to, concomitant of, and consequent upon, a sore and heavy visitation represented in several sermons / first preacht to his own family, lying under such visitation, and now made publike as a thank-offering to the Lord his healer by S.S. ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1666 (1666)	Wing S3046; ESTC R33876	103,770	256

skill of our Chirurgion when we do quietly suffer the cor●o●ive plaisters to lie on and do not offer to pluck them off notwithstanding the smart they put us to And surely he that believeth the Infinite Wisdom of God who knows what and what manner and measure of correction we stand in need of will not make haste to be delivered from under his hand but composeth himself quietly as young Samuel layd himself down and when he was called answered chearfully Speak Lord for thy servant heareth A soul sensible of Gods Infinite Wisdom in this particular argues thus Who am I poor worm shallow creature that I should contend with Infinite Wisdom about the time or manner of my being in the world Why did I not also undertake to appoint him the time and place of my being born Shall I say it is too much when Infinite Wisdome thinks it is not enough Cease wrangling soul and be at rest for the Lord deals wisely with thee Such a soul so conversing with the all-wise God dare freely refer all to him venture all with him if he smite him on the one cheek he dare turn to him the other if he take away his Coat he dare offer him his Cloak also if he take away his liberty he dare trust him with his life too if he smite him in some of his comforts he dare turn to him the rest also for he knows that Infinite Wisdom cannot erre in Judgment nor miscarry in his dispensations Secondly God knoweth when and how best to deliver us This necessarily follows upon the former To him all times and all things past present and to come are equally present In one single act of understanding he doth wonderfully comprehend both causes and events sicknesses and cures afflictions and deliverances Let the Atheistical world cry These are they that are forsaken whom no man careth for there is no hope for them in their God as their manner is to blaspheme Still the promise stands unrepealed in both Testaments I will never leave you nor forsake you though the case be never so extreme and desperate still the Apostles word holds good 2 Pet. 2. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temprations If all passages be blockt up he will rather make a gap in the Sea than his people shall not escape Exod. 14. And this way and time of Gods delivering is the most excellent suitable and certain as might abundantly appear in many particulars But that would be a digression In the general be assured that Gods way is the best way of deliverance and his time is also the best time He that sits as a R●finer of Silver knows how and when to take out the metal that it be purified and not hurt Here I might enter into a large discourse and shew you how the judgment of man is ordinarily deceived and his expectations disappointed which he had built upon creature-probabilities when in the mean time the purpose of God takes place in a far better and more comfortable deliverance of his servants But it may suffice to have hinted it only Our duty is to converse with this Instance of Divine Wisdom by the exercises of Patience and Hope If God seem to tarry long yet wait patiently for his appearance for he will appear in the most acceptable time and in the end ye shall consider it and acknowledge it Take heed of limiting the Holy One of Israel as that murmuring generation did Psal 78. 41. Take heed of fixing of your deliverance to such or such a train and series of causes which you have layd in your own heads and of engaging God to act by your Method If God be a wise Agent its fit he should be a free Agent too Bear up Christian soul faint not when thou art rebuked of him Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he will in due time find out a way either of lessening it or removing it You have heard of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord James 5. 11. Be you patient and you shall see it too a better end than ever you could have accomplisht by your own act or industry In the mean time cherish in your hearts a lively hope of an happy issue For your lives and comforts are all hid in him in whom also are bid all the treasures of wildom and knowledge As the consideration of Infinite Wisdom in knowing how and when best to deliver us may settle our hearts that they do not rise up as a soam upon the waters through impatience so it may bear up our hearts that they do not sink within us as a stone in the waters through desperation Thirdly God knoweth how to make the best use of all for our good I say of all both of the affliction the manner and measure of it of his delay and of the season which he chuses to redeem us in He can make Paul's imprisonment turn to his advantage Phil. 1. 19. Job's captivity to redound to his far greater state Job ult Joseph's banishment to make him great and Manasseh's to make him good This is a large Theme and therefore I dare not rifle into it particularly Take all in one word from-the Apostle Rom. 8. 28. All things do work together for good to them that love God Whatever the promises be the only wise God knows how to draw a happy conclusion from them G●t a firm belief of this radica●ed in your hearts and converse with the Wisdom of God in this Instance of it by the great Grace of Self-resignation The Soveraignty of God may well work us into a resignation of our interests and comforts and concernments to him But this Infinite Wisdom of God ought in reason to work us into a resignation even of our very wills unto him Oh this debasing of self-will this self-resignation is a noble and ingenuous act of a pious soul for so I dare call him in whom it is found whereby it honours God greatly in all that comes upon it A godly soul considering it self ignorant of many things burdened with many corruptions and clogg'd with an animal body senses appetite fancy which are alwayes calling for things inconvenient if not unlawful doth conclude it would not be good for it to be at its own finding or caring or carving and duly eying that infinite mind and understanding who in a wonderful unaccountable manner orders all things and all events to the best and certain issue is so mastered by and indeed enamoured with the sense of it that he renounces his own wisdom and throws out his own clamorous w●ll and complyes readily with the all-wise God This is truly to converse with the Wisdom of God when we do out of choice refer our selves to it and rowl our selves upon it Every bare acknowledgment of Divine Wisdom is not a proper conversing with it but when the same is wrought into the soul and the lively sense of it doth so over-power the heart