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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67778	A sovereign antidote against all grief extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and modern both holy and humane : necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1654 (1654)	Wing Y190; ESTC R483498	105,217	98

takes them from troubles by receiving them into his heavenly rest where they shall acknowledge that God hath rewarded them as far beyond their expectation as hee had formerly punished them less than they did deserve Objection Oh! but my condition is so desperate and irrecoverable that it 's impossible I should ever get out of it Answ. There is no impossibility saith Ambrose where God is pleased to give a dispensation But bethink thy self is it worse with thee than it was with those before-mentioned and yet they were delivered Or is thy case worse than that of Jonas in the Sea yea in the Whales belly and yet hee was delivered Worse than Nebuchadnezzars grazing in the Forrest among beasts even untill his hairs were grown to bee like Eagles feathers ●…nd his nails like birds claws Dan. 4. 31. to 36. and yet hee again reigned in Babell Worse than Josephs when hee was thrown into a Pit and left hopeless or when sold to the Ishmaelitish Merchants and then cast into prison yet after all this his said brethren were fain to become petitioners to him Worse than Job when hee sate scraping his soars on the dunghill had all his houses burnt all his cattell stollen and his children slain yet hee was far richer afterwards than before How rashly then hast thou judged of thy Makers dealing with thee It were more agreeable to reason and religion to conclude the contrary for both experience and reason teacheth that violent pressures like violent motions are weakest at the furthest When the morning is darkest then coms day yea usually after the lowest ebbe follows the highest ●…ingtyde And religion teaches that if wee love God all things even the worst of afflictions shall so concurre and co-operate to our good that we would not have wanted them for any good Wherefore hold but fast to God and my soul sor thine neither affliction nor ought else shall hurt thee You know while Adam was at peace with God all things were at peace with Adam Now this doctrine well digested will breed good blood in our souls and is especially usefull to bound our desires of release for though wee may bee importunate impatient wee may not bee stay hee never so long patience must not bee an inch shorter than affliction If the bridge reach but halfe way over the brook wee shall have but an ill favoured passage Wee are taught in Scripture to praise patience as wee do a fair day at night Hee that indureth to the end shall bee saved Matth. 24 13. Whereas coming but a foot short may make us miss the prize and loose the wager wee runsor and then as good never have set foot out of doors Much the better for that light which will not bring us to bed perseverance is a kind of all in all continuance is the Crown of all other graces and heaven shall bee the Crown of continuance But not ●…ldom doth the Lord only release his children out of extreme adversity here but withall makes their latter end so much the more prosperous by how much the more their former time hath been miserable and adverse Wee have experience in Job You have heard saith Saint James of the patience of Job and what end the Lord made with him What end is that the holy Ghost tells you That the Lo●…d blessed his latter end more th●…n his beginning and gave him twice as much as hee had before for whereas at first hee had 7000 Sheep 3000 Camels 500 yoak of ●…xen and 5●…0 shee Asses after his reparation he had 14000 Sheep 6000 Camels 1000 yoak of Oxen and 1000 shee Asses every one double and whereas the number of his children remained the same they were before namely seven Sons and three Daughters the number of them were also doubled as the learned observ for whereas his Beasts according to the condition of Beasts utterly perished the souls of his Children were saved so that hee had twice so many children also whereof ten were wit●… him on earth and the other ten with God in heaven Job 42. 10 to 14. And in Joseph who was bred up in the school of affliction from his infancy yet when his turn was come one hour changes his setters of Iron into chains of Gold his rags into Robes his stocks into a Chariot his prison into a Palace the noyse of his Gyves into a brooch and whereas he was thirty years kept under hee ruled in the height and lustre of all honour and glory the space of eighty years And one minute made in Lazarus a far greater chang●… and preferment And in David who for a long time was in such fear of Saul that hee was forc'd to flie for his life first to Samuel where Saul pursued him then to Ionathan where his grief is doubled then to Ahimele●…k where is Doeg to betray him after that hee flieth to Achish King of Gath where being discovered hee is in greatest fear of all lest the King should take away his life and lastly when hee returns to his own Ziklag hee finds it smitten and burnt with fire and his wives take●… prisoners and in the mid'st of all his grief when hee had wept untill hee could weep no more the people being vexed intend to stone him so that as hee had long before complained there was but a s●…ep between him and death but mark the issue though his heart were now not onely brimfull but ran over with grief yet within two days the Cr●…n of Israel is brought unto him and hee is anointed King 2 Sam. 1. and for the present hee was able to comfort himself in the Lord his God 1 Sam. 30. 6. Yea after th●…s when by that foul sin of Adultery and Murther hee had brought more enemies about his ea●…s God and men and Devills having once repented his fault hee was able to say with confidence O God! thou hast shewed mee great troubles and adversities but thou wilt take mee up from the depth of the earth and increase my honour Psal. 71. 20 21. He kn●…w well enough that it is Gods use to bring comfort out of sorrow as hee brought water out of the rock and that cherishing was wont to follow stripes And indeed how oft hath a Tragick entrance had a happy end Like that wee read of Michael who was condemned to death by the Emperour Leo upon a false accusation but before the execution the Emperour died and Michael was chosen in his stead And of Mordecay who being in the fore-noon appointed to the Gibbet was in the after-noon advanced next of all to the throne And Queen Elisabeth of blessed memory who reigned at the same time that shee expected to suffer and was Crowned when shee looked to bee beheaded God loves to do by his children as Ioseph did by his Father first wee must have our beloved Ioseph a long time derained from us then hee robbes us of Simeon after that sends for our best beloved Benjamin and makes us beleeve hee will rob