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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30676	The husbandmans companion containing one hundred occasional meditations reflections and ejaculations : especially suited to men of that employment : directing them how they may be heavenly-minded while about their ordinary calling / by Edward Bury.	Bury, Edward, 1616-1700.	1677 (1677)	Wing B6207; ESTC R23865	229,720	483

temptations physick sometimes is as necessary as food and conduceth more to our health the soul hath as much need of threshing and winnowing as the corn Solomon tels us Pro. 22.15 foolishness is bound up in the heart of a childe but the rod of correction will fetch it away old Ely for want of this brought up his sons to bring down his house a lesson set on with whipping is best remembred now this is true of men as well as children for corruption and folly remains in them also till God fetch it out sanctified affliction is the way to consume it It was good for me saith David that I was afflicted before I was afflicted I went astray but now I learn to keep thy Commandments Gods rod as well as his staff comforted him Psal 23.4 as corn must be threshed winnowed ground and baked before it is fit for use or good for food so by affliction men are fitted for Gods service here and for glory hereafter yet as some corn requires not so much threshing as others doth yet all must have some so some men need not so much affliction as others though some be necessary but he that gives man understanding in the one best knows what is necessary for the other Isay 28.24 doth the plowman plow all day to sow doth he open and break the clods of his ground when he hath made plain the face thereof doth he not cast abroad the fetches and scatter the cummin and the appointed barly and rye in their place for his God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him for the fetches are not threshed with a threshing-instrument neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin but the fetches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod bread-corn is bruised c. he that gives man wisdom shall not he understand the great husbandman that instructs others will not lay on more stroaks or heavier then needs must the goldsmith suffers not his gold to lie in the furnace one hour longer then is requisite God observes when his work is done upon Mount-Zion and then will punish the stout heart of the King of Assiria Esay 10.12 we are apt to be playing in the dust and minde not our fathers house and till we are frightned or beaten we shall not return home but minde our sport the prodigal mindes not his father while he had any thing left to eat oh death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that lives at ease in his possession and hath nothing to vex him but hath prosperity in all things Ecclus 41.1 physick as I said is sometimes as necessary as food and sickness as health and poverty as plenty we are apt to surfet on sweet-meats our heavenly father who is the best physitian knows best what is best for us were we to choose our food and our physick we should kill our selves sometimes he prepares a diet-drink for us and mixeth it with our tears Psal 42.3 my tears have been my meat day and night Psal 80.4 5. O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them tears to drink in great measure he also seasoneth it with their groans to many he prescribes also a spare diet for every man cannot bear a prosperous estate no more then every mans head can bear much wine oh my soul matter not though thou be thresht and winnowed and ground and bak't so thou maist be made bread for thy Masters table all Gods people have tasted of the cup of affliction and canst thou expect to go free Abel began the round and drank a health to all his followers which hitherto they have all pledged and some of them have drunk very deep and Christ himself drunk up the very dregs If God preserve thee no matter whether it be in salt or sugar If thou suffer for him thou shalt reign with him and these light afflictions which are but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17 it is but winking said the Martyr and we shall be in heaven presently though thou maist lose something for Christ thou wilt lose nothing by him for every handful of muck thou partest with for his sake thou shalt have a handful of angels afflictions when once past are soon forgotten as a womans pangs in childe-bearing when a man-childe is born into the world John 16.21 to which a Christians sufferings are oft resembled Esay 26.17 Jer. 6.24 but many Christians mourn and overmourn for their losses and become like Mary Magdalen blear-eyed and cannot see Christ for their tears and think God cannot love them because he beats them see how these are mistaken Heb. 12.6 7 8. whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son that he receiveth if you endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he that the father chasteneth not but if you be without chastizements whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons he hath learned little in Christianity that hath not learnt to suffer corrections are pledges of our adoption and badges of our sonship one son God had without sin but none without sorrow Luther thought the Pope was not Gods son quod sine cruce regnat oh my God whatever affliction lies upon me never let me have a revolting heart and if I suffer let it be for thee and not as an evil-doer if thou hast appointed suffering times for me Lord fit me for them with suffering graces and a suffering spirit fit the back before thou lay on the burthen Lord give me strength to bear it and then lay on what thou wilt and while thou wilt Upon the winnowing of the seed 41. Med. WHen the seed was thus thresht or beat out the next work was winnowing it whereby the chaff and refuse and lightest emptiest part was blown away with the winde but the solid substantiall weighty grain was not hurt by it but benefitted it was refined and purified I saw what the furnace was to mettle such is the fan to the corn that which seperateth purgeth and purifyeth it this made me compare temporal with spirituals and to consider that God hath many ways to purge and try his people sometimes he casts them into the furnace of affliction and trys them this way others had trials of cruell mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonments c. Heb. 11.36 and sometimes he trys them with the fan to see what solidity is in them the messenger of the Covenant shall come but who may abide the day of his comming or who shall stand when he appeareth for he is like a refiners fire and like fullers soap and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver c. then many a guilded piece will be found counterfeit and many a glittering professor found to be but a

hell these things are not lasting thou seest the flowers ripe at noon and withered by night like Jonah's gourd grow up in a night and wither in a night and have a worm breed in them which will eat out their heart they are like the bee they have honey in the mouth and a sting in the tail and not only vanity but vexation of spirit is writ upon them will a handful of flowers revive a dying man or comfort a languishing soul when the earth and all the works therein are burnt up where will be thy happiness then why then wilt thou moil and toil and cark and care for such vanities that never will make thee satisfaction why wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not if thou wilt take pains let it be in a more fruitful soil where thou maist expect a better crop spend not thy money for that which is not bread nor thy labour for that which satisfies not these cannot satisfy and if they did cannot last long these are but swallow-comforts they hide their heads in the winter the grass will soon wither the flowers will soon fade and thy own life is no more certain and what good will these do the soul some poor vanishing delights they yield for an hour or two and then it is over but there are more satisfying pleasures more durable delights to be had then these why are they then neglected these like swallow-friends forsake when winter comes when there is most need or like Physitians leave a man when he is dying or like the devil with the witch tempt a while and then forsake her when she is in the most danger If a small spot of earth seem so delightful what is heaven and those mansions of glory provided for glorified Saints if the creature be so glorious what is the Creator who infused such a beauty and vertue in it if a flower be so sweet what is the rose of sharon and the lilly of the valley these things delight us for a moment but one day will make us weary of them especially if there be not the addition of meat and drink and sleep and lodging of health and strength and other necessaries but in heaven is nothing wanting that is necessary delightful or desirable no creature-comforts there are needful but God is better a thousand times then all the comforts the whole earth affords oh my soul labour after the substance not the shadow after Christ and a title to glory there are reall pleasures to be had rivers of pleasure at his right hand for evermore scorn then to be put off with such poor things or to let out thy affections upon such vanities or to let them grovel upon the ground wilt thou suffer thy eyes to be dazled with a few flowers when thou maist behold the sun the moon and stars those glorious lamps and beauty-spots of heaven these are greater beauties those beautify only the porch how beautiful then is the palace the throne nay the king himself These flowers thou now admirest may for ought thou knowest be cropt and made use of for thy funeral for thy body is as fading and thy life as uncertain as they are a few days will ●●ther make them uncapable of pleasing thee or thee uncapable of praising them this use thou maist make of this pleasing object be as careful of thy soul as the gardiner is of this plot of ground let neither thorn nor thistle briar nor weed of sin thrive there supply what is wanting root out what is superfluous order what is disordered and then it is a happy time thou madest this Observation oh my God what a poor pitiful foolish wretch am I thus to doat upon vanities Lord wean my affections from the world and keep them close to thy self Upon an adder lurking in the grass 44. Med. WAlking in the garden I had like to have trod upon an adder lurking in the grass and so was in unexpected danger where I least dreaded it the apprehensions of it at present put me into amaze which when it was something abated it made me consider what daily need we have of divine protection and how dangerous it is to be from under the protecting hand of God It made me also to consider that thus it is in all our earthly enjoyments there is no security in any much danger in all anguis in herba latet there is a little honey and many stings a little pleasure and much pain there is no age no calling no condition of life free riches are held by many to be the greatest happiness and most men rather desire gold then grace and to be great rather then good yet these are not without their snares neither set men out of the reach of danger they are called deceitfull riches such as choak the word when it was sown Mat. 22.13 and well they may be so called for they promise that they never pay and always deceive those that trust them they promise content satisfaction and happiness when oftentimes like strong drink in a feaver they do but inrage the disease he that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver Eccles. 5.10 a man may as soon fill a chest with grace an empty stomach with air as a covetous heart with grace pauperis est numerare pecus saith the coveteous man he had never enow cattle while they might be numbred a ship may sink under the burthen that is not half full and men may have riches enough to sink them when not half enough to satisfy them non plus satiatur cor auro quam corpus aura But this is not all their vanity neither for as they are unsatisfying so they are uncertain they take themselves wings and fly away Pro. 23.5 they are never true to those that trust them they are oft as transitory as a head-long torrent but this is not all they are golden fetters to chain the souls faster in the devils clutches and faster in his service and many times the devil buys mens souls yea their very profession out of their hands for money pleasures have honey in the mouth but a sting in the tail they oft perish in the budding in the midst of laughter the heart is sorrowfull and the end of that mirth is heaviness favour is deceitful and beauty is vain Pro. 31.30 and those that trust to them shall be deceived favour will fail and beauty will wither and how will they deceive mens expectation some men marry saith one by the eye and some by their fingers ends viz. for money dos non Deus makes such matches Absolom and his sister found there was danger trusting to their beauty and many more besides them to whom it hath proved a temptation honour is the emptiest of all bubbles courted by many attained by few and there is but a little distance between the highest round of the ladder and the lowest step let Haman and Achitophel prove the point Beauty many times is like a