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glory_n	affliction_n	eternal_a	moment_n	4,141	5	9.1958	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10514	A faire vvarning Declaring the comfortable vse both of sicknesse and health. Deliuered in seuerall sermons at Saint Maries in Douer, by Iohn Reading minister and preacher of Gods words.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1621 (1621)	STC 20789; ESTC S115682	47,243	64

this infected Nurse the World which we onely enioy in health without which all earthly ioyes are but as Messes of Meat set vpon a Graue Secondly it bringeth vs more acquainted with death and maketh him lesse feared by how much more familiar how bitter is the remembrance of death to the alwayes healthie health and prosperitie make vs desirous to liue Antigonus souldier healed of a long-felt infirmitie proued a very Coward for which being reproued hee replyed Thou O King hast made me so who by giuing me health hast taken away the contempt I had of life Discontents haue strange power to make vs loue death so through a darke and false Medium the vgly may seeme fairer 〈◊〉 desireth the death from which hee fled a little heat made Ionah wish to die short p●…nes haue so ouercome the wicked that they haue changed them for death eternall and so much discouered the Saints infirmities that they haue loathed not onely their present being but what they haue beene Death seemeth better then a bitter life such force haue short paines but who was euer so fearefull that he had not rather once fall then euer hang by the hands once dye then euer feare death and liue in paine Thirdly it maketh Gods mercy in health better vnderstood if all were day the light if all Summer euen that season would be vnpleasing to vs the good wee haue is commended by some annexed contrary the paine of the disease knowne the pleasure of health is sweeter Wee neuer rightly account what wee owe to God for health saue when we begge it in sicknesse Fourthly it bringeth vs to God in amendment of a mis-spent life wee haue instance in many of whom I may fay their extremities amended them their prosperitie corrupted them As Ambrose saith of Peter and Ionah he confessed Christ on the waues but denyed him on the land and Ionah fled Gods presence seeming safe but found a Chappell to pray and prayse God in the belly of the Whale Many being in health endeuour to flie from God but in some desperate sicknesse they learne to sing their De profundis sicknesse mendeth that good man whom health marred When I afflict them they will seeke me early Ephraim bemoaned himselfe Thou hast chastened me surely after that I was instructed I repented God cureth a dissolute heart as the Prophet did Ierico Waters by ●…asting in salt sharpe biting remedies The fift is Patience which as one said of Learning is an Ornament in prosperitie and a Refuge in aduersitie It is good for a man saith the weeping Prophet to beare the yoke in his youth he putteth his mouth to the dust if there may be hope he giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him It seemeth a strange saying Is it good to be afflicted that I may learne patience see the reason It is a rare thing to see a man externally prosperous patient I grant he may haue a disposition to patience he may discourse like some bookish souldier of the warres which neuer saw fight but patience is the child of aduersitie and considering the manifold calamities to which euery man in this life is subiect no wayes to be auoided but by patient bearing them it seemeth to me no paradox that without outward or in ward aduersitie it is not easie for a man to be happie They iudge amisse who thinke a man can be patient without tryals or happie without patience that such a man may seeme happie wee know that hee is generally vnhappie we may learne Chrysostome sayth well of prospe●…tie It hath brought in grieuous Masters and Tyrants to the 〈◊〉 To omit the multitude and speake of this one Impatience is a very Tyrant worse then 〈◊〉 and his Taske-masters for it suffereth not a man to ●…nioy any thing he hath Hath the impatient man riches hee enioyeth them not who is impatient for that 〈◊〉 hath no more hath he friends eyther he loseth them by his impatience or else enioyeth them not with whom he is displeased 〈◊〉 hath hee a faire and prosperous estate what is that to him who is not pleased with it hath hee health his mindes distemper robbeth him of the vse of it In a word the impatient man possesseth nothing except he possesseth other things which possesseth not himselfe Christ sayth By your patience 〈◊〉 your soules without patience you cannot enioy your selues such is the impatient mans case Marke the man neyther vnderstanding will memorie neyther hand nor tongue serue him all are slaues to passion and whilest hee thinketh hee hath all things in hauing his froward humor indeed Impatience hath him but hee hath nothing not so much as himselfe Now tryalls bring forth patience and the quiet fruits of righteousnesse which follow in the next place Sixtly it worketh to the children of God a peace passing all vnderstanding of a naturall man that is a calmenesse and quietnesse of mind in the experience of Gods mercies Where the seditious Gra●…us was s●…aine at Rome the Temple of Concord was built so there God foundeth in our hearts the Temple of Peace where our peacelesse sinnes are buried with Christ and our impatience in our sufferings Seuenthly the last is the reward whereof this life tasteth only first fruits a cluster from Eshcol the assurance of a better life in this liues decaying Our light afflictions for a moment causing vnto vs a greater weight of eternall glory As Samson said of his Lyon of Timnah Out of the eater came meate and out of the strong came sweetnesse So will I conclude this point What stronger then Sicknesse or more deuouring then Death or so sweete as Heauen Behold Happie is the man whom God correcteth therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almightie for he maketh sore and bindeth vp he woundeth and his hands make whole Hee maketh whole by wounding It is for children and fooles to imagine Frosts Stormes and Raine eyther the off-spring of Chance or vselesse effects of Nature the wiser know that milder Winters are the vndoubted Parents of sterilitie and contagion Stormes which seeme the Diseases of a distempered Skie doe purge the Ayre and the dewie Clouds are Gods Clepsydra his Bottles to water the Earth so is it in man And the Saints weeping eyes are Gods Clouds to make fruitfull a penitent heart Faint not at thy tryalls but be zealous and amend Sinne no more THE FOVRTH SERMON Sinne no more WE haue considered in the last place the cause of Sicknesses and the reasons why God afflicteth with them as also what effects they worke in them to whome they are sanctified It remayneth that I also shew the end why God deliuereth and bestoweth health vpon vs. God deliuereth from Sicknesse that being thereby warned we might sinne no more There are many reasons disswading from sinne let vs consider a few of many Let the