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A08273 An eye to heauen in earth A necessarie watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the husbands christian counsell to his wife and children, left poore after his death. Norden, John, 1548-1625? 1619 (1619) STC 18606; ESTC S119831 107,859 476

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God on your side and his Minister the Magistrate in his stead to defend you Troubles and aduersities of themselues as they are sent of God are to be borne with more then patience euen with ioy they shall cause your mindes to bee set on things profitable and will make you wise in learning good things Therefore saith Dauid It is good for mee that I haue beene in trouble that I might learne thy Statutes PART IIII. The benefit of aduersities ADuersities bring those that are much exercised with them to the contempt of earthly and desire of heauenly things Paul that sanctified Vessell of God had many afflictions imprisonments whippings scourgings stonings reproches which hee yet imbraced for the loue of Christ and they wrought in him a hatred of worldly things and desired only to be disselued to be with Christ his Master in Glorie acknowledging that Christ was his as he is our life and death was to him as it shall bee to vs if wee liue here in him aduantage The light affliction which yee shall here indure but for a moment shall cause vnto you a farre most excellent and eternall weight of Glorie Therefore looke not on with a longing desire for the things of this life which are seene but for the things that are not seene for The things that are seene are temporall but the things that are not seene are eternall Who then would not rather long to bee clothed with that House which is from Heauen then to remaine here in a base Cottage full of troubles and most vncertaine whatsoeuer yee indure here yee cannot merit by it for it is only either in way of a punishment for sinne or sent of God to preuent sinne I account not saith Saint Paul that the afflictions of this present time are worthy of the glorie which shall bee futurely shewed me If Pauls afflictions could not merit the glorie to come how much lesse shall yours or mine Wee must make our account before-hand not to goe to Heauen by eating and drinking by getting and hoording by pleasure and profit but through hunger nakednesse Pouertie Enemies and many troubles and afflictions Therefore saith the Wiseman Refuse not the chastening of the Lord neither be grieued with his correction for whom the Lord loueth him hee correcteth euen as the father doth the childe in whom he delighteth So that afflictions approue you the Children of God if with patience yee endure chastening for by correction God offereth himselfe vnto vs as vnto sonnes and if yee bee without correction whereof all the Children of God are partakers then are yee bastards and no sonnes PART V. Great difference betweene the Children of GOD and Worldlings THere is in deede great difference betweene the children of God and the men of this World in this life for Uerily verily saith CHRIST I say vnto you vnto his owne yee shall weepe and lament but the World Worldlings shall reioyce and yee shall sorrow but your sorrow shall be turned into ioy and your ioy shall no man take from you Seeing the God of Truth affirmeth this good from the seeming euill of affliction I hold correction which comprehendeth all aduersities to be good for that it maketh prosperitie the sweeter whē it comes and to learn vs how to behaue our selues in both as to be patiēt in the one and not to waxe proud in the other but in what estate soeuer ye bee to bee therewith content as was Saint Paul Who had learned not of the World though in the World to know how to bee abased and how to abound Euery where and in all things hee was instructed both to be full and to be hungrie hee was able to doe all things through Christ that strengthened him It is not then in our power to beare afflictions and to endure all things with patience namely troubles and to be thankfull in prosperitie it is the gift of GOD in Christ wherefore seeing yee suffer according to the will of God commit your soules to him in well-doing as vnto a most faithfull Creator Yee see then that it is necessarie for you sometimes to suffer afflictions that ye may call to minde your sinnes the cause of your afflictions and then the remedie of your sinnes The whole need not the Phisician but they that are sicke The rich need not to seeke God they haue enough but the poore that want Therefore doe the poore and needie and men afflicted yeeld him more honour then the ●ich and prosperous and are euer more occupied in spirituall exercises then they to whom all things doe so prosperously succeed as they scarcely haue leisure to thinke on the calling vpon God Trouble no doubt is irke some to a carnal mind but to them that feare God acceptable keeping them from securitie For as long and as often as the Israelites enioyed peace and prosperitie they became secure carelesse of seruing of God and to forget his blessings But when troubles came vpon them and Enemies beset them then they sought the Lord and he deliuered them out of their distresse Seeke the Lord alwayes and ye shal find rest for your soules Among all other afflictions Pouertie is one of the greatest and by diuers meanes seizeth vpon a man Some actiue some passiue the actiue are inordinate expendings gaming and a riotous and lasciuious life The passiue are either Gods visitations as were Iobs or Selfeidlenesse the Mother of Pouertie the Step-mother of Wisdome and Godlinesse flye therefore these Ryoting and Idlenesse as two dangerous Vipers that deuoure a man ere hee bee aware vse therefore lawfull meanes commanded honest and vertuous endeuours in some necessarie and praise-worthy Profession or calling The Bee and the Ant little Creatures teach you to bee industrious who cannot abide an idle drone or sluggard in their societies Therefore haue they euer sufficient PART VI. The idle presume to haue that they deserue not IDlenesse presupposeth Presumption for how idle soeuer the slothfull person is yet hee presumeth to craue and haue what hee deserueth not neuer comes good successe to him that so presumeth though it succeed sometimes to satisfie his euill desire yet it brings with it an vnsauourie reward such as commonly befalleth him that feareth not God To liue without labour cannot be held libertie for while the bodie is idle the minde is sowing the seeds of sinne and within few dayes he reapes the fruites of sorrow Without good care and diligence no estate can prosper and by industrie the meanest estate is made competent and what is labour It is not as some idle drones account it a burden to the bodie no it is light and easie if the mind be willing to which nothing is more irkesome then idlenesse and corporall ease yet some thinke nothing so consonant and agreeable to their greatnesse as idlenesse or which is as ill euill and forbidden imployments and therefore is not labour simply
his Psal. 73. in 〈◊〉 We ought not to fret our selues at the prosperitie of the wicked Ver. 27. Ver. 18. Ver. 24. Rom. 13. 4. Troubles of the righteous to be born with gladnesse Greatest afflictions cannot deserue the glorie to come Rather to long for then to lothe death Rom. 8. 18. Pleasure nor profit can bring vs to Heauen Heb. 12. 6. Reuel 3. 19. Correction comprehendeth all afflictions Phil 4. 11. It is not in our power to bee patient or thankeful Afflictions more necessarie then prosperitie Trouble is irkesome yet profitable Pouertie not the least affliction Little creatures teach vs industrie Idlenesse is not libertie Labour is light to a willing minde The poore are rich hauing Gods blessing Labour with the feare of God is blessed Psal. 128. Psal. 127. To take seruants fearing God Gen. 30. 27. Gen. 39. 3. 5 Deut. 28. 38. to 58. Psal. 1. 3. Psal. 9. 18. God a refuge for the poore Psal. 10. 17. God needeth not our seruice Psal. 12. 5. Psal 16. 8. Pouertie nor riches of them-selues good or euill Ier. 17. 7. Psal. 119. 2. Pouertie and riches do neither helpe nor hinder but according to the vse or abuse Respect of persons I am 2. 1. 1. Pet. 1. 17 Rom. 10. 12 Trust in God makes pouertie and reproches easie to ●e borne Psal. 9. 18. Psal. 14. 6. Psal. 17. 14. Psal. 18. 16. God chooseth godly men and blesseth them God makes disobedient Princes contemptible They that lay snares for others fall into the same Ester 7. 10. Dan. 6. 24. Experiēce of Gods deliueries an incouragement to the godly Exo. 14. 28. Gen. 31. 24 and 32. 4. Gen. 22. 9. and 39. God is God of the godly for euer God knoweth whereof wee haue neede 1. King 21. 2. 14. Flatterie dāgerous 2. Sam. 15. 1. to 6. Act 24. 2 3. Pro. 29. 5. Matth. 22. 16 17. Counterfait kindnesse deceiuesmany Pro. 27. 6. Eccles. 7. 7. Good neither to flatter nor bee flattered Iudg. 14. Psal. 78. 36 Iob 34. 9. Psal. 36. 2. A dissembling friēd worse then an open enemie Pro. 27. 5. Act. 12. 22. Euill companie dangerous Wisdome a defence against euill and flatterie 2. Sam. 17. 23. Matt. 5. 5. Many things which worldlings seek after are but shaddowes The godly rich account their wealth not their owne Miserable riches that make the possessors ignorant of better things The defence of the poore and of the rich Psal. Aesops Wolfe To giue place vnto the wrath of the wicked 1. Ioh. 3. 19. Men apparantly hurtfull to them-selues and others To beare all euils with patience that men offer vs. 2. Sam. 16. 〈◊〉 6. Mat. 26. 47 Gen. 4. 8. Dan. 13. 1 2 1. King 21. 14. We ought to be circumspect in our wayes All men know not why God sends them enemies Psal. 103. 8. Rom. 8. 31. Prayer obtayneth knowledge how to liue godly All Gods Children haue suffered afflictions Iob. 1. 21. Banishment Comfort in whatsoeuer cala mitie Gods goodnesse and mercy Psal. 85. 2. To turne vnto God Mark 16. 9. Ioh. 18. 17 2. Sam. 11. 4. 7. Act. 26. 9 10. We may not imitate sinners but their Repentance Rom. 6. 1. As God is mercifull he is iust We may not sinne after pardon obtayned Wilfull sinners Phil. 3. 18. Not to assume selferighteousnesse Not one of our godliest Fore-fathers were with-out sinne much le●e wee Iusticiaries to be auoided Though we cannot be yet we ought to striue to be perfect We must goe on in goodnesse The ppoperties of the humble man The Pharise and Publican Meeknesse makes men likest vnto Christ. We must be humble whatsoeuer befall vs. We ought to prayse God Harty not verball praises are acceptable to God Wife and children are to bee recommended to God Iob 7. 3. Gen. 49. 7. 2. Tim. 4. 8. Iob 14. 14. Phil. 1. 2. Cor. 5. Rom. 14. 8. Phil. 3. 21.