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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40658	Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2420; Wing F2476; ESTC R210330	100,765	342

Fullers Comment on Ruth with two Sermons on speciall occasions TWO Sermons The first COMFORT IN CALAMITIE teaching to Live well The other THE GRAND ASSIZES minding to Dye well BY THOMAS FULLER B. D. LONDON Printed for G. and H Eversden and are to be sold at the Sign of the Greyhound in Pauls Chur●h-yard 1654. TO The Right Worshipfull and deservedly Honoured the Lady ELIZABETH NEWTON of CHARLETON in KENT MADAME SAint Paul in the first to the Thessalonians chap. 2. vers 18. saith unto them I would have come unto you once and again● but Satan hindred us I may make use of the former part of his Expression applying it to my frequent Intentions to visit the Place of your Abode and bestow some Spirituall paines therein But I must not play Satan with Satan be a false Accuser to charge on him the frustrating of my Design though generally he be a Back-Friend to all good Desires but must justly impute it to my owne manifold avocations May your Ladyship now be pleased to see what you expected to heare and reade what I intended to speake The first of these Sermons was designed for your Fore-Noones the latter for your After-Noones Repast I am confident you will not measure my respect to you to be the lesse because the benefit to others may be the greater by publishing thereof and request you to accept hereof not as intende● a full payment for my many Obligations unto you but as tendered in consideration of your forbearance till I am enabled to expresse my Gratitude in a greater proportion The Lord blesse you in your Selfe dayly sanctifying your rare naturall Endowments with his choisest Graces blesse you in your Sel●e divided your Worthy Husband in your Selfe multiplyed your hopefull Sonne and slowly but surely terminate your Prosperitie here with endlesse happinesse hereafter The heartie desire of Your Ladyships boundant Orator THOMAS FULLER COMFORT IN CALAMITIE A Sermon preached upon a speciall Occasion in S. Clements Church in London neere East-cheap PSAL. 11. 3. If the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe WE may observe that David is much pleased with the Metaphor in frequent comparing himselfe to a Bird and that of severall sorts first to an Eagle Psal. 103. 5. Thy youth is renewed like the Eagles Sometimes to an Owle Psal. 102. 6. I am like an Owle in the Desart Sometimes to a Pelican in the same Verse Like a Pelican in the Wildernesse Sometimes to a Sparrow Psal. 102. 7. I watch and am as a Sparrow Sometimes to a Partridge as when one doth hunt a Partridge I cannot say that he doth compare himselfe to a Dove but he would compare himselfe Psal. 55. 6. Oh that I had the wings of a Dove for then I would flee away and be at rest Some will say How is it possible that Birds of so different a feather should all so flye together as to meet in the Character of David To whom we answer That no two men can more differ one from another then the same servant of God at severall times differeth from himselfe David in Prosperitie when commanding was like an Eagle in Adversitie when contemned like an Owle in Devotion when retired like a Pelican in Solitarinesse when having no companie like a Sp●rrow in Persecution when fearing too much companie of Saul like a Partridge This generall Metaphor of ● Bird which David so often used on himselfe his enemies in the first Verse of this Psalme used on him though not particularizing the kinde thereof Flee as a Bird to your Mountaine that is Speedily betake thy selfe to thy God in whom thou hopest for succour and securitie Quest. Seeing this counsell was both good in it selfe and good at this time why doth David seem so angry and displeased thereat Those his words Why say you to my soule Flee as a Bird to your Mountaine import some passion at leastwise a disgust of the advice It is answered David was not offended with the counsell but with the manner of the propounding thereof His enemies did it Ironically in a gibing jeering way as if his flying thither were to no purpose and he unlikely to finde there the safetie he sought for How-ever David was not hereby put out of conceit with the counsell beginning this Psalme with this his firme resolution In the Lord put I my trust how say ye then to my soule c. Learne we from hence when men give us good counsell in a jeering way let us take the counsell and practise it and leave them the jeere to be punished for it Indeed Corporall Cordials may be invenomed by being wrapt up in poysoned Papers not so good Spirituall Advice where the good matter receives no infection from the ill manner of the deliverie thereof Thus when the chiefe Priests mocked our Saviour Math. 27. 43. He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him Christ trusted in God never a whit the lesse for the fleere and flout which their prophanenesse was pleased to bestow upon him Otherwise if mens mocks should make us to undervalue good counsell we might in this Age be mocked out of our God and Christ and Scripture and Heaven the Apostle Iude verse 18. having ●ore-told that in the last times there should be mockers walking after their owne lusts The next Verse presents an unequall Combat betwixt armed Power advantaged with Policie on the one side and naked Innoc●nce on the other First Armed Power They bend their Bowes and make readie their Arrowes being all the Artillerie of that Age. Secondly Advantaged with Policie That they may privily shoot to surprize them with an ambush unawares probably pretending amitie and friendship unto them Thirdly Naked Innocence If Innocence may be termed Naked which is its owne Armour at the upright in heart And now in due order succeedes my Text which is an Answer to a tacite Objection which some may rayse namely That the Righteous are wanting to themselves and by their owne easinesse and unactivitie not daring and doing so much as they might and ought betray themselves to that bad condition In whose defence David shewes that if God in his wise will and pleasure seeth it fitting for Reasons best known to himselfe to suffer Religion to be reduced to termes of extremitie it is not placed in the power of the best man alive to remedie and redresse the same If the Foundations be destroyed what can the Righteous doe My Text is hung about with Mourning as for a Funerall Sermon and containes First A sad Case supposed If the Foundations be destroyed Secondly A sad Question propounded What can the Righteous doe Thirdly A sad Answer implyed namely They can doe just nothing as to the point of re-establishing the destroyed Foundation Note by the way that in Scripture when a Question is propounded and let fall againe without any Answer returned thereunto that it generally amounts to a Negative Thus saith Thamar 2 Sam. 13. 13. And I whither

this answer There is nothing but at the seventh time he brought him the tydings of a Cloud rising out of the Sea so though for nine years Naomi had no news but of want and scarcity yet the tenth yeare there came a man probably he was a good man that brought these good tydings who brought her word that the valleys began to laugh and sing with plentie and so though the hope that was deferred was the fainting of the heart yet when it came it was the Tree of life Perchance because the coveto●s Jews had made nine parts great for their own profit and the tenth small to cozen God of his portion God quite contrary gave them nine years of scarcity and want and at length made the tenth of store and plenty Observ. The fame of remarkable Accidents will fly into forraign Countries for if it be bad news the wicked will be sure to tell it in the Gates of Gath and publish it in the streets of Askelon if it be good the godly will proclaim it in the Courts of Zion and disperse it within the walls of Ierusalem whether good or bad if it be of moment and importance it will not be covered nor concealed Question Is it lawfull for us to lissen hearken and enquire after matters of forraigne Countries Answer Though I would not have men to be like the Athenians to hear or tell some new thing yet it is both lawful and laudable for them to enquire after forraigne affairs whereby they expresse the desire that they have of the welfare of their distant Brethren the Members of the same mysticall body Example Nehe. 1. 2. And yet would I have men though they lend their ears not to bestow their beliefe on every groundlesse report which is blazed abroad 1. Because Fame is often untrue ●●lating 2 Sam. 13. That all the Kings Sonnes are kil'd when onely Amnon is slain 2. Because many there be which with the Souldiers Mat. 28. do nothing but invent and disperse lyes to gull over-credulous people And as many a benighted Traveller hath wandred out of his way whilst he followed for his lanthorn the Meteor of foolish fire so many a man hath been deceived by embracing of lying relations instead of true news Yet in case that Cushai and Ahimaaz confirm the same thing that variety of Messengers from divers places of sundry sides and severall factions all agree in materiall and substantiall points we ought not to be like unbelieving Thomas to trust no more then our eyes have seen but may rely on the truth of such relations and ought accordingly to be affected with sorrow if the news be bad or joy if the tydings tend to the Churches good and Gods glory That God had visited his People This was the priviledge of the people of the Jews that they were styled Gods people but now Ammi is made Lo-Ammi and Ruchama Lo-ruchama and we the Gentiles are placed in their roome let us therefore remember the words of St. Paul Rom. 11. 21. Be not high minded but fear for if God spared not the naturall branches of the Olive fear that he will not spar● thee also O that he would be pleased to cast his eye of pitty upon the poor Jews which for 1500. yeares and upwards have wandred without Law without Lord without Land and as once they were so once againe to make them his people In giving them bread By Bread is meant all sustenance necessary for the maintaining of our lives whereof bread is the chiefest As the Temple of Dagon principally leaned on two Pillars and fell to the ground when Sampson took them away so the buildings of our bodies chiefly relyes on bread and water for outward sustenance which being taken away cannot but presently decay let others therefore wish those dishes which curiosity hath invented rather to encrease then satisfie hunger which are more delightsome to the eye then pleasing to the pallat yet more pleasing to the pallat then wholsome to the stomack let us pray Give us this day our daily bread Bread is a dish in every Course without this can be no Feast with this can be no Famine Observ. Gods punishments though they last sometimes long yet alwayes they end at last and yet sometimes for the manifestation of his power and tryall of his Childrens patience he suffers them to be brought into great extremities Abra●ams hand shall be heaved up to slay Isacc before the Angell shall catch hold of it Lazarus shall be three dayes dead before Christ will rayse him the Ship readie to ●inke before our Saviour will awake Peter must be drencht in the water before our Saviour will keepe him from drowning S. Paul must be in the Lyons mouth before he shall be delivered out of it the Famine must last ten yeare before God will give them Bread An example hereof wee have in our Neighbouring Churches of Germanie which long have beene afflicted under the Tyrannie of their Oppressors and now at length a Sunne is risen out of the North and after a long Night ●he Morning beginneth the Day And thou Swethland shalt not be counted the meanest amongst the Kingdomes of Europ● for out of thee did a Prince arise who hath delivered the distressed Protestants who at his first Landing seemed to his Enemies an Obect fitter of their scorne then opposition They thought our youthfull David too unequall a Match to coape with their Generall who had bean a Man of Warre from his Youth But as Veritie consisteth not in the pluralitie of Voy●●s so Victorie standeth not in the multitude of Souldiers but God so ordered it that he that had the best Cause had the best succ●sse I dare boldly say that all the Protestant Princes and States of Germanie will be readie truly to say of him what Tertullus spake ●latteringly of Felix Act. 24. 2 Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietnesse and that very worthy deeds are ●one unto this Nation by thy providence we alwayes accept it and in all places most noble Prince with all thankefulnesse But let us turne our prayses of him into prayers for him That he who hath conquered his Foes may subdue himselfe not to be puffed up with his good su●cesse So let all thine enemies perish O Lord but let all them that love thee be as the Sunne when he goeth forth in his might And as ever I have earnestly desired so now doe I stedfastly hope to see the Day when our Naomi our worthy Naomi more fruitfull in Miseries then in Children and in Vertue then in both shall arise to returne out of the Land of Holland with her Prince and Progenie when she shall heare that in the Land of Holland God hath visited the Palatinate and given them rest Vers. 7 8. And she went out of the place where she was and her two daughters in law with her and they went on the way to returne into the Land of Judah And Naomi said to her daughters in law Goe returne