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A67005	A sons patrimony and daughters portion payable to them at all times but best received in their first times when they are young and tender : laid-out without expence of money only in the improving time and words with them contained (in an answerablenesse to their ages) in two volumes ...	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3506	409,533	506

and humble us to the dust that from thence we may present this great request To the Hearer of prayers Lord that we might receive our sight ſ Mark 10. 51. Lord that thou wouldest give unto us the spirit of wisdome and revelation in the knowledge of Him the eyes of our understanding being enlightned that we may know what is the hope of His calling and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the Saints c. Ephes 1. 17 18 c. 4. It is considerable how small a thing doth make the place about us light supplying the want of that great body which is now with the other side of our globe What the Sun cannot do saith Chrysostome a little candle can t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ad Ephes Hom. 12. for not to speake of the starres those great lights which then shew clearest when the night is darkest a rush-candle a Glow-worm the bones of a fish a rotten piece of wood will dart you out a light which though the faintest all the power of that darknesse we properly call night cannot withstand But here we must remember a darknesse which we reade of so thick and palpable that it over-powered the fire and candle it put both out neither could burne the while As Philo Iudeus tells us as well as the Apocrypha u Wisd 17. 5. This tells us first that He who is the God not of some but of all consolations can take away some comforts and supply us with other-some which may not be so full in our eye but yet as satisfying more contentfull He can put our acquaintance farre from us He can suffer the divell to cast some into prisons and into dungeons where the enemy thinks there is no light to be expected so wise they are in their generation and so prudently they have contrived But the enemy is mistaken for He who formeth light and createth darknesse He that made the light to shine out of the wombe of darknesse He that makes a candle supply the want of the Sun He that turneth the shadow of death into the morning He that doth these great and wonderfull things He it is that gives His children light in darknesse and songs in their night As Peter found it for behold to him a light shined in the prison x Act. 12. 7. so shall it be with all that truely feare the Lord A light shall arise to them in darknesse * Isa 58. 10. Psal 112. There is some cranny left whereby to let in light and a way open with the Lord for deliverance from all the expectation of the enemy though all the wayes be blocked up to man both in respect of the prison and the Iron-gate y Act. 12. 11. The children of Israel children of the day and of the light ever had in despight of the enemy and ever shall have light in their dwellings z Exod. 10. 23 though these dwelling are prisons caves and dungeons which the enemy calleth and indeed seeme to be like the shadow of death This meditation may be more enlarged for if nature be so solicitous as was said * Preface p. 19. in recompensing what is wanting much more then so will the God of nature do He takes from Moses a distinct and treatable voice He Himself will be a mouth to Moses He takes away Iohn a great light to His Church He gives the Lord Christ The Light of that Light He takes away Christ His bodily presence He leaves them not orphans comfortlesse He gives His Church a fuller measure of His Spirit He takes away strength of body He gives strength of faith establishment of heart He takes away a deare childe by that sorrow as by a sanctified meanes He formeth Christ in the heart It is of high use to consider how God doth supply in one kinde what He takes away in another as He doth make the little candle to supply the absence of the great Sun Lastly when we lye down we are to be taught as to recount the mercies of the day so to call to minde the dangers of the night Houses are marked out in the day-time and broke open in the night houses also are fired in the night And how helplesse is man amidst these casualties and dangers If a sleep the theefe findes him bound to his hand and if fire take his chamber he is fewell for it such sad examples we have known our eyes have seene The destroying angel but one of Gods guard hath set forth in the night and before the morning hath executed his commission our adversary wil do that to us sleeping which he cannot waking many have gone to bed well and before morning have made their appearance before the Iudge of the whole world and then as they lay down so they rise up and so provided or so destitute there is no time for provision then when we are summoned to appeare Naturally all things seeme black unto us in the night and if we see no danger nor see any reason of danger yet our fancy can create dangers unto us The Lords second comming is often mentioned in the sacred Scripture and as often in the night which defines not the time but shews the manner of His coming As a thiefe in the night as a snare suddenly when by the most least expected All these considerations should teach us to watch over our hearts and to take a strict account of our wayes at our lying down and to lift up our eyes to the Keeper of Israel that His eyes may be upon us for good appointing a sure Guard about us in the night As we cannot tell what a day may bring forth so nor can we know how our feares may increase before the next morning we cannot no not the wisest of men look forward a few houres to tell what may happen before the day-dawn a Imminentium nescius Tac. de Paeto 15. 2. which should engage ●ur heart to Him who changeth not And that it may be so we must remember our prayers and our praises these being performed in a right manner do secure us touching protection in the night prayer will help us against carefulnesse notwithstanding our dangers are so many as we have heard it will suck out the heart of our feares and sorrows b Preces hirudo curarum Melanch so as they shall not hurt us nor dismay us but that we may lye down in peace But then we must remember what prayer is It is saith Luther The unutterable groaning of those who despaire of any strength in themselves c Precatio est gemitus inenarrabilis desperantium de se Luther in Gen. It is not every prayer which secureth us there is a prayer which more provoketh uttered only from the lips in such a manner as would not be accepted before our Governour d Melac 1. 8. We must remember our tribute of praise too great reason That we should praise

The surface thereof it is as the windes and weather is if calme the sea is very pleasing and in some places like a table if stormy then troubled and raging casting up mire and dirt It sheweth us the common errour and mistake we have when we commend a person for we say he is a very good man unlesse he be stirred or e Multi nonnullam mansuetudinem prae se ferunt quamdiu blanda omnia amabilia experiuntur at verò qui eundem s●rvat modestiae tenorem ubi pungitur irritatur quotusquisque Cal. Iust lib. 3. cap. 7. § 4. moved Vnlesse he ●e stirred So is the sea also a comely pleasing creature in her calmes but rough and dreadfull in her stormes If the winde stirre the sea mounts if they bluster it roares I know not a consideration that may sooner calme a man if in a commotion as winde enough he shall finde to cause it But surely a good man findes a calme or makes it even then when there is much stirring about him The windes and stormes properly taken tell us what the sea is and metaphorically taken they tell us what the man is Our passions are elegantly called tortures f Et vino tortus ira Her Tortures upon the body many times make the minde more secret or opens the mouth against judgement as said a Lawyer honest and learned for rackings stood not with his law g Fortescue chap. 22. But tortures upon the minde tell us what the man is they discover a man If passion hath put the minde upon the rack and the person now suffer no wrack in the storm of his passion he is a man of a sound constitution we cannot doubt of it For our h Poeta perturbationes non inscitè appellat torturas quod ab iis secreta c. Augment l. 8. p. 252. passions try what a man is indeed as the stormes and windes what wood the ship is made of how firme and sound it is how well compact and set together and so forth for the use hereof is large 2. The surface of the waters shews us how the Lord deales with His ransomed ones conducting them to their haven For with those travellers prisoners sick-men we see sea-men joyned Psal 107. All those conditions fitly resembling the condition of those that seek the Lord but none of all more fitly then the latter He findes stormes as well as calmes doubts and feares as well as refreshments He seeth the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep According to this resemblance or sea-faring condition the Lord deales with His servants they are like that ship tossed with windes and almost covered with waves and they may continue so high till the fourth watch but the end shall be a calme for out of these great waters they shall be delivered and through those barres they shall break though they seem as strong as iron and brasse and over the wall they shall leap in His strength through whom they do all things for the sea and the winde obey Him so do all temptations and feares at His rebuke they flie if He say Be still The stormes and waves of temptation are calme and still also which leades me to the second enquiry that is 2. What their bounds and barres Hereunto the Lord Himself Jer. 5. 22. answers Feare ye not me saith the Lord Will ye not tremble at my presence which have planted the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetuall decree that it cannot passe it and though the waves thereof tosse themselves yet can they not prevaile though they roare yet can they not passe over it There we reade what boundeth the raging sea and sets unto it its limits The Lord hath saith the Father walled k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in Cor. Hom. 4. about the sea with the sand He hath bridled and held in the strong raging hereof with a very weak thing it is the sand thereof and that a worme can creep over But yet when the Lord hath decreed it so That thitherto the water shall come and no further l Job 38 10. 11. 12. and here shall thy proud waves be stayed then shall those sands be to the sea as barres and doores m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Hex Hom. 4. for there is the decreed bound It had carried a greater shew of possibility to nature if the Lord had said I have set the rocks a bound to the sea and the land clifts as doores to the same but then it had not so magnified His power nor so exalted His Name that strong Tower as now that the sand is the bound thereof which wonderfully establisheth the hope of the Righteous and secureth them when the flouds of great waters are at the neck and even running over the head that yet there is a decreed bound so farre and no further As in the case of Ieremy the three Children all the faithfull of God who may be delivered up even into their enemies hands That they who hate them may be Lords over them and execute upon them the pleasure of their own will which is the utmost extent of their chaine or bound and yet they shall not do what they think they can do and is in their power to do they shall do them no hurt The Lord sits upon the flouds and orders them though they rise high yet He is above them n Psal 93. 3 4. As the promise was of old for that question is a strong affirmation yron shall not break the Northern yron and the steele o Jer. 15. 12. though the enemy be hard as yron the Lord will be too hard for them so though the waves roare yet they shall not passe those little sands the decreed place I remember now the holy confidence securitie rather of Luther News was brought him that the enemies banded themselves against the Church and were resolved to swallow up Saxony and to eate Gods people as bread We will not be dismayed said Luther He that sits in the heavens laughs at their rage and shall we cry p Melc Ad. vità Luth. No we will sing and our song shall be the 46 Psalme God is our refuge c. Though the waters of the Sea roare that is though the enemy threaten to swallow us up quick yet he shall do us no hurt none at all Our God sits upon the water flouds He is above them Wickednesse is cast into the midest of an Ephah a Bushell q Zech. 5. 7. That is saith Mr. Calvin it hath its measure it s bound which it shall not passe The righteous know That the Lord is greater then all Gods and as once it was it will ever be In the thing wherein the enemies deale proudly He will be above them r Exod. 18. 11. The Lord rules in the middest of His enemies ſ Psal 110 2. And will deliver if not from all as He did Peter