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friend_n	adversity_n	bear_v	brother_n	812	5	7.0506	4	false

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A00409	Two sermons The Christians comfort in his crosses, conducting him in the tempests of tribulation, to the happie hauen of heauenly tranquillitie. And the iudges, and iuries instruction. By William Est, Maister of Art, and preacher of Gods word.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.	1614 (1614)	STC 10539; ESTC S118617	33,688	92

saue vs we perish 26. And he said vnto them why are ye fearefull ô ye of little faith then he arose and rebuked the windes and the sea and so there was a great calme THis part of scripture is historicall and sheweth the miraculous calming of an horrible tempest Christ and his Disciples being in the ship and therefore pertaineth ad genus demonstra●ium In the discription of this miracle 1. Certaine circumstances are expressed 2. The tēpest it selfe is described 3. The calming of the tempest i● noted 4. The cōsequēt effects are added Analysis or resolution of the first part Mar 4. First the circumstances are set downe whereof the 1. is ab adiuncto tempore taken from the time when it happened when he was entered into the ship which was about the euening the 2. circumstance is a subiecto loco the place namely the sea the 3. ab adiunctis for as S. Marke saith there were also other ships with him where per metonymiam subiecti the hearers of Christ are vnderstood which were caried in other ships Obseruations and Doctrines Ordinarie meanes to be vsed Ex. ver 23. Christs entring into the ship that he might saile ouer vnto the other side of the lake teacheth vs that the ordinarie meanes appointed by God i● they may be vsed Mat 4. Deut 6.16 Eccle 3.27 are not to be neglected For it is written Thou shalt not temp● the Lord thy God Mat. 4. Deut 6.16 qu● amat periculu peribit in eo He that loueth dāger shall perish therin Ecc 3.27 And Aug 〈◊〉 quis periculum in quantum caueri potest ●on caueret ma●is deum tentaret quam in de●m disperaret for nunquam periculum sine ●ericulo vincitur Aug He that auoideth not a dan●er as much as in him lieth rather temoteth God then trusteth in him For danger saith Seneca Seneca is neuer ouercome without danger 2. Againe Like the apples of Sodom which appeare beautifull to the eye but within are full of stink and rottennes he entred not into a stately Marchants ship but into a litle fishers ●oate that he might teach vs to cōtemne ●he pompe glory of the world seeing ●he Lord of al shewed his cōtempt ther●f that we should imbrace humilitie ●nd lowlines of minde which the world holdeth most cōtemptible The glory of ●his world is like a sower grape or vnripe fruit which setteth the teeth on edge the diuell sheweth the greene side but hideth the bitternes vntill it be tasted 3. In that the Disciples followed Christ into the ship where they were in great danger and perill of their liues we are taught what is the nature of true loue The nature of true loue to cleaue fast vnto Christ as well in aduersitie as prosperitie that we suffer not our selues for any worldly respect to be separated from Christ The vse is The vse that we follow Christ in all temptations dangers Among the thornes that is in tribulations crosses and afflictions Christ is soonest found Cant 2.2 which is a Lilie among thorne● rather then in the Meadowes and green pastures of pleasure Similie But many are lik● vnto the lazie hunting hound which w● follow the game vnto the brake thorns but no farther for feare of pricking him selfe when yet the wilde beast is ther● more easily taken So many will follow Christ in the ioyfull and pleasant time o● prosperitie which in the troublesom● times of persecution forsake him Man● follow him on the land securely whe● they feare no danger but fewe in th● troubled seas and stormie waues of aduersitie as the Apostles doe when th● sturdie stormes of aduersitie arise they by and by shrinke away Simile All such I may cōpare vnto those that lend money vnto Marchants vpon condition to be partakers of their gain but not of thei● losses Here againe is represented vnto v● the nature of true friendship which w● should holde with men in the world The ●ature of true friendship an● at all times keepe our faith and fidelitie with our friend after the example of the App which followed Christ as well by sea as land Pro 17. For as that Mirour of wisedome saith wisely A friend loueth at all times and a brother is borne for aduersitie But alas this friendship is too common in the world whereof the wise man speaketh Ecc. 6. Ecc 6. Some man is a friend for his owne occasion and will not abide in time of trouble Againe some friend is but a companion at the table and in the day of affliction continueth not This true friendship cannot be but inter bonos among good men saith Cicero Cicero And when a man in prosperitie is beloued it is vncertaine whether the man or his prosperitie be beloued and who so in aduersitie forsaketh his neighbour sheweth plainly that he was neuer his friend And so as Petrach Petrach saith truly non fides est sublata sed fictio De remedijs vtriusque fortunae His fidelitie which he neuer had is not lost but his dissimulation detected Such kind of friends loue their neighbours as the dogge loueth his bone which is as long as he findeth any flesh or sweetnes about it and when that faileth Like a dog with his bone he forsaketh it I haue read a tale but it hath a true morall of a certaine man that had three especiall friends whom he inuited to dinner and at the end of the dinner set before them three apples euery one in some part corrupt and rotten The first friend would not so much as touch them whom therefore he reiected from the number of his friends The second did take one of the apples and deuoured both the sound part and rotten together whom he reputed as a foole and therefore vnfit for friendship But the third did take one of the apples and did eate the sound part but left that which was rotten and corrupt and him onely of the three he entertained among the number of his friends These three friends signifie sundrie kindes of men whereof some are so obdurate in malice that though a man be neuer so vertuous Non amo te Sabidi nec possum dicere quare Martial Li. 2. Epigram 33. neuer so kinde though he haue neuer so many good parts yet they cannot loue him speake well of him nor patiently indure to heare him commended Such a one was Saul who for the praise that the women gaue Dauid after his victorie against Goliah conceiued deadly displeasure against him 1. Sam 18. 1. Sam 18. There is a second kind of men that are so infatuated through inordinate ●oue of their friend that they approue ●nd defend all the actions of their friend ●ndifferently good or euill and know ●ot how to diuide the corruptions from ●he sound partes There is also a third ●inde which wisely and discreetly loue ●n their neighbours their vertues but ●ate their