Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	job_n	kindle_v	wrath_n	1,892	5	10.0410	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26011	A svpport for the sinking heart in times of distresse, or, A sermon preached in London to uphold hope and allay feare Ianuary 4th which was a day of great trouble and deepe danger in the city / by Simeon Ash.	Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3967; ESTC R15872	23,491	36

miscarriage in this kind be your looking-glasse to shew the foule face of this fault that you may take heed of this deformity When Pharaoh pursued them and the roaring seas threatned to devoure them their deliverance out of Egypt though wrought on by many miraculous providences was accounted a misery rather then a mercy for observe their language Exod. 14.11 wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us 4. By this mistake we reach a wrong to others Psal. 73.15 If I say I will speake thus behold I should offend against the generation of thy children Our carriage in this particular may cast sad discouragements upon the hearts of many deare to God causing them to question their spirituall state because of outward straights Hereby also we seeme to suspect their wisdome who uphold their hopes and maintaine their comforts notwithstanding their manifold heavy afflictions Censure not others to be rejected or abhorred by the Lord because you meet with them in the Mount you see them in straights in extremities Beloved the words of the Psalmist are considerable Blessed is he that considereth the poore the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble the Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sicknesse As you desire favourable dealing from God in the time of your personall calamity learne to judge wisely and charitably of them who are in extremity The Barbarians did censure Paul to be a man under some black note of infamy fastened upon him by the Lord because of his suddaine and unexpected danger Acts 28.4 And when the Barbarians saw the venemous beast hang on his hand they said among themselves no doubt this man is a murderer Marke their confidence as well as their uncharitablenesse no doubt he is a murderer And why no doubt because though he hath escaped the sea yet vengeance suffereth him not to live for a venemous viper a death threatning creature now did hang upon his hand Beloved when we looke upon men arrested by credit-killing accusations and pursued with death-threatning charges and constrained to hide themselves from the bloody hands of violence let us take heed of adding to their sorrow by our censures That practice which was well beseeming Barbarians will be very uncomely for us Christians Two things consider to keep you from this fault which I will propound without much enlargement 1. The sinfullnesse of this censoriousnesse 2. The dangerousnesse of this censoriousnesse The sinfullnesse of it 1. Being forbidden by Christ judge not that you be not judged judge not that is not rashly groundlesly uncharitably 2. Arguing want of love for truth and strength of love maketh faire and canded constructions of all occurrances which concerne them whom we love Charity doth not behave it selfe unseemly is not easily provoked thinketh no evill beareth all things beleeveth all things hopeth all things 3. Weakning love for affection is enfeebled by our looking upon our brethren through the glasse which presents them as unlovely while we think them persons disregarded by God our respect to them is diminished 4. Hindering prayer the Apostle knew this and therfore I pray you consider by what an argument he presseth the Hebrews to pray for him pray for us for we trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly If you be well perswaded of the afflicted in regard of their pious frame you will be the more willing to let out your hearts for them in a way of prayer But when men thus think the Heavens frown and God is angry with such an one and therfore it is a vain thing to bestow time and breath in prayer for him this office of Christian love is interrupted By these particulars you may perceive that this censoriousnesse is very sinfull sinfull in the root and sinfull in the fruits sinfull in the heart and sinfull in the life checking grace and hindering duty 2. Consider the dangerousnesse of it 1. God is much incensed You remember how Eliphas and the other of Jobs friends loaded him with their heavy censures concluding his hypocrisie from his extremity Now when God had done with Job having schooled him out of the whirlwind and had wrought him to his own bent observe what followeth The Lord said to Eliphas the Tewanite my wrath is kindled against thee and against thy two friends for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath Therefore my beloved if you would not suffer under Gods frowns nor smart under the expressions of his displeasure if you would not have the sparks of Gods wrath to kindle upon you take heed of censuring any of Gods worthies that have bin instrumentall for good either in Church or commonwealth because for the present under a black cloud because exposed unto any disgrace or danger by reason of some sad providence 2. Our censoriousnesse may in our suffering times adde much weight to our own heavy pressures If I censure others and thereby adde affliction to their bonds I may expect that God will adde gall to my wormwood when the bitter cup commeth to my hand and I must per force take down a displeasing and distastfull draught Judge not that you be not judged for with what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you againe These meditations made use of may I hope through Gods mercy prevent our sinning against God others and our selves by uncharitable censures cast upon our distressed brethren It concerneth all of us to prepare for a journey into the Mount to make ready for tryalls by extremities Beloved this day the Heavens are black over our heads and our feares are not few for ought we know God will have us into the Mount my meaning is it may be the Lord will thrust us into such extremities as we never yet met with in all our lives There are two things that I will plainly speake to in the enlarging of this use 1. What may quicken us to prepare for straights 2. What course must be taken that we may be prepared for such a condition To perswade our preparation consider two motive 1. That we are all exposed unto perplexities 2. That we are all subject to manifold miscarriages in such a state 1. We are all subject to a distressed condition let him that denieth it bring forth his supersedias and say here I have that from Heaven signed and sealed which doth secure me I shall never come into adversity Beloved beleeve it whatsoever afflictions have seized upon any of Gods worthies formerly may overtake you and me before we dye and we cannot tell how speedily You have heard what befell Israell and why may not the same betide England you have heard what befell Abraham David Daniell Paul and why may not we looke for the like Secondly Subject we are to many miscarriages when God in his providence