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A21041	Tvvo treatises. The one, a most fruitfull exposition vpon Philemon: the other, the schoole of affliction. Both penned, by the late faithfull minister of Gods Word, Daniel Dyke, Bachelor in Diuinitie: published since his death by his brother, I.D. minister of Gods Word	Dyke, Daniel, d. 1614.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1618 (1618)	STC 7410; ESTC S100162	203,709	388

into this Sea of affliction oh they see feele many wonderful and glorious works of the Lord many heauenly and vnspeakeable comforts ioyes in the holy Ghost that they neuer knew before in the day of their prosperity For God by his promise hath tyed his presence to vs at that time Esay 43. 2. When thou passest thorow the vvaters I will be with thee c. But especially this priuiledge belongeth to such afflictions which we suffer for righteousnes sake as the example of the Apostles singing in prison and the Martyrs skipping for ioy in the midst of the fiery flames doe manifestly declare 3. Good in respect whereof afflictions make vs happy is the good confirmed vnto vs by them This good is either present or future 1. The present good is our Adoption whereof they are assured pledges and badges vnto vs. Heb. 12. If you suffer affliction God offers himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes When two children fight together in the street and one comes and takes the one and whips him and leaues the other who will not say that the child taken and corrected is that mans sonne or pupill and the other left is none of his but a strangers Againe afflictions are the high beaten way to heauen Acts 14. 22. in which onely the sonnes of God walke Neither doe afflictions onely assure vs that we are the sonnes of God but sonnes growne to some strength and ripenesse for young babes and infants are not able to beare affliction This priuiledge also more specially belongs to such affliction as wee suffer for the truths sake and is a speciall point of their blessednesse 1. Pet. 4. 11. If yee bee railed on for the Name of Christ blessed are ye for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth on you which on their part is euill spoken of but on your part is glorified Phil. 1. 28. And in nothing feare your aduersaries which to them is a token of perdition but vnto you of saluation and that of God for vnto you it is giuen not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer Marke how sufferings are made speciall gifts of God and aboue the gifts of beleeuing He that beleeueth setteth to his hand and seale that God is true Ioh. 3. 33. but when we suffer wee come with a second and that a farre stronger seale Therefore such are called Martyrs that is witnesses by way of excellency 2. Good which afflictions confirme vnto vs is future And that two-fold 1. In this life an enlargement of comforts both inward and outward euen answerable to the measure of afflictions And in this regard are the afflicted pronounced blessed Mat. 5. Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted They that sowe in teares shall reape in ioy Affliction is the very seed of comfort And therefore as seed cast into the ground promiseth an haruest so do our afflictions promise comfort both bodily and spirituall Yea the longer and stronger our afflictions be the longer and stronger comforts are thereby promised For herein also is the Prouerbe true He that sowes liberally shall reape liberally Hence Moses prayes Psalm 90. 15. Comfort vs O Lord according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs and according to the yeeres wherein we haue seene euill But afflictions doe not onely promise comforts euen and answerable to themselues but farre exceeding as the encrease of good seede is oftentimes an hundred-fold Thus was it with Iob Iob 42. He had twice so much giuen him as he lost and his last daies were better then his first And the aduantage of an hundred-fold is promised by our Sauiour euen in this life Math. 19. 29. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in vs so our consolation also abounds by Christ 2. Cor. 1. 5. 2. In the life to come The afflictions of this life confirme vnto vs the hope of eternall life For if we suffer with him we shall also raigne with him 2. Tim. 2. 12. The afflictions and troubles of this life are happy assurances of the rest of a better See 2. Thessal 1. 4. 5. 6. 7. And not onely so but the Apostle goes yet further 2. Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for vs a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory What makes a man more blessed then to haue that massy and weighty crowne of glory vpon his head Blessed is the man that is afflicted for blessed is the man that shall be crowned This is also more specially the priuiledge of such afflictions which we suffer for the truths sake Math. 5. 11. Blessed are yee when men shall persecute you for my sake Reioyce and bee exceeding glad for great is your reward in heauen Thus were the Martyrs blessed in their afflictions blessed in their Martyrdome God honouring them like Elias sending for them as M. Bradford speakes to heauen in a fiery chariot Thus we see how in euery respect the afflicted are to bee accounted blessed Why then should wee feare afflictions before they come or faint vnder them after they Vse become or be impatient till they be gone If they were curses to vs or wee cursed in them then no wonder at our feare and fainting But sith wee may be blessed in them why should we so start at them Who would not willingly goe where a blessing goes And goe to that Schoole where hee shall learne that which will make him blessed Goe wee then cheerefully to the Schoole of afflictions and not like loytring trewants when in that Schoole ply wee our busines with that diligence that when we are come thence we may be able in our owne experience and out of our owne learning to say with Dauid here Blessed is the man whom thou afflictest O Lord and teachest in thy Law FINIS