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A34898	A cabinet of spirituall iewells wherein man's misery, God's mercy, Christ's treasury, truth's prevalency, errour's ignominy, grace's excellency, a Christian's duty, the saint's glory, is set forth in eight sermons : with a brief appendix, of the nature, equity, and obligation of tithes under the Gospell, and expediency of marriage to be solemnized onely by a lawfull minister ... / by John Cragge, M.A. ...	Cragge, John, M.A.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6783; ESTC R4552	116,039	199

continuance by reason of our unthankfulnesse all places have become Aceldamaes houses of blood fields of blood ditches of blood towns of blood Churches of blood in this land that was once Insula pacis an Island of peace Lord water our eyes with tears of godly sorrow like Gideon's fleece while others are drie that we may be drie saved from those waters of afflictions wherein others are drowned beget in us fruits of contrition worthy of repentance and then repent that thou hast sent this spirit of division and destroying Angell amongst us Secondly this necessity of afflictions may comfort Gods children in all troubles on this consideration that afflictions are sent of God consecrated by his Son Jesus Christ suffered of all Saints that are now triumphant in Heaven that he that sowes in tears shall reap in joy that he that wears a Crown of thorns with Christ here shall wear a Crown of glory with him in heaven hereafter Seriously meditating in our hearts that God afflicts us not in fury but in mercy and that for these ends 1. That he may draw us from the Love of the world 2. That he may cure our spirituall sicknesses 3. That he may preserve us from fearfull falling into damnable sins 4. That he may deliver us from the wrath to come and the torments of hell 5. To try and examine the sincerity of our faith 6. To make us run unto God the fountain of living waters 7. That God might shew his outstreched arme in delivering us 8. That they may be sanctified to the increase of our glory Now our afflictions are of two sorts either internall in soul or externall these either in our names or in our goods or in our persons here we have comfort against all Is any in prison look upon the Irons entring into Joseph's soul and yet delivered Is any in banishment look upon David restored from thence to a Kingdom Is any hungred starved naked full of soars look upon Lazarus in Abraham's bosome Is any afflicted with losse of goods health children look upon Job's triumph after misery Does any suffer for conscience sake look upon the crowned Martyrs in heaven Is any a man of sorrowes look upon Christ before whose Throne Angells Saints and Cherubims throw down their Crownes and Palms of glory Thirdly the necessity of afflictions may teach us not basely to fear them but rather fear sin that laies us naked to Gods fierce indignation and the malice of our enemies fear indiscretion that creates unto us many needlesse troubles fear superstition and ignorance for that makes a man mistake his cause fear singularity and presumption so as to rest upon our own sufficiency These are worse then affliction as much as the sin is worse then the punishment Fourthly the necessity of them may make us lift up our eyes at Him that rules the wheel of providence No affliction springs out of the dust but comes from God he hath tempered the cup and said Drink this Christ could not escape it though he besought it thrice with tears and then shall we Our sins deserved afflictions to the full God turned them to our good Moses at the first called the Rod his but when he had wrought miracles with it it was God's The rod of affliction is Gods let us therefore kisse it Thy rod and thy staffe saith David hath comforted me Swine feed upon Acorns and look not up at the Tree Doggs snarl at the stone and mind not the hand that threw it But David minded Shimei not so much that cursed him as God that sent that shame upon him A Christian that makes this right use of afflictions is the worlds wonder with the bush in which Jehovah appeared to Moses he burns and yet consumes not Hananiah the false Prophet broke off the timber yoke from Jeremie's neck but had one of iron put upon his own He that burnes God's Rod shall be beatt with Scorpions Fifthly if this life be a passage through the wildernesse of afflictions then here we are not perfect as we would be The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passe through afflictions Every passage is a motion every motion as the Philosopher said is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an imperfect act moving for an end running for a goal this end this goal is the Kingdom of God for We must through much affliction enter into the Kingdom of God So the second Proposition offers it selfe That through these afflictions or waters of Marah we shall at length come to heaven This is somewhat sweeter and sugars the former therefore I beseech you observe it For a storm here we shall have a calm for Christ's crosse an eternall Crown our nights of mourning shall be turned into Halcyon daies for months of affliction we shall have years of jubilee for a rod of correction we shall have a palme of victory our mournfull Elegies of lamentation shall be turned into Hallelujah's of consolation With this Athanasius comforted the Saints under Iulian's persecution that affliction was but nubecula citò transitura a storm that would quickly end in a sunshine or calm So did our Saviour his disciples Matth. 5. 10. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven Nay as if they were already in the suburbs of glory v. 12. Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven Take up the perspective glasse of Faith and look towards Heaven and there you shall see the noble Army of Martyrs Prophets Apostles Evangelists set down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdome of God yet if you look at their journall towards heaven you may trace them by their blood These afflictions are sometimes called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passions but such passions as are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lessons of no lesse than Christ and his kingdome Here they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of straitnesse elsewhere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of narrownesse Matth. 7. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strait is the gate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 narrow is the way But it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leading unto life into a heavenly Canaan that flowes with milk and hony Hony in the Bee is not without the sting neither the Kingdome of God without affliction 2 Cor. 4. 17. we have an unparallel'd parallelism of these two This light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding great and eternall weight of glory Here they are both cast into the scales and their weights duely poysed where first consider the difference between the subjects or things weighed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 worldly affliction is cast into the one scale and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heavenly glory into the other Secondly their quantities and that either durationis of continuance affliction is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 momentary for a day glory is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 everlasting for ever or molis of weight affliction is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 light easie supportable but glory is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heavie weighty beyond all possible Epithite superlatively great a phrase able to challenge all the profane Writers in the world neither Sophocles his high buskin nor Demosthenes his lofty strain is able to come neer it Lastly it 's amplified by the act 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it works forth which is as it were the Trutina or pin to turn the beam of the scales where affliction hath no more proportion to glory than the drop of a bucket to the whole Ocean or the dust of the ballance hath to a mountain This then may serve for a ground of comfort to every soul distressed with the tedious bitternesse of this life for short sorrow here we shall have eternall joy for a little hunger an eternall banquet for light sicknesse and affliction everlasting health and salvation for a little imprisonment endlesse liberty for disgrace glory In stead of the wicked to oppresse and afflict them they shall have the Angells and Saints to comfort and solace them in stead of Satan to torment and tempt them they shall have Christ Jesus to ravish and affect them Joseph's prison shal be turned into a palace Daniel's Lion's den into the presence of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah the three Children's hot fiery furnace into the new Ierusalem of pure gold David's Gath into the Tabernacle of the living God Obj. But shall every affliction bring the patient to the Kingdome of God shall the frenzie of Cain ter●our of Iudas horour of Achitophel trembling of Felix be turned into triumph Ans No afflictions to the wicked are like often baiting to some beasts which grow mad at the stake and makes them worse specially if the cause be bad It was a golden saying of St. Austin and I hope we are all of his minde Non ex passione certa justitia It 's not suffering that makes a cause righteous sed ex justitia gloriosa passio but its righteousnesse that makes sufferings glorious It was well observed by Saint Cyprian that the first Martyrs that suffered for Christ were Innocents and as well said Non supplicium sed causa facit Martyrem Not the punishment but the cause maketh the Martyr Who suffered more then the Cicumcelliones those Donatists in this Father's time and yet no Crown How many are there who when they are punished for their misdemeanours do lift up a hideous noise like Swine and cry out They are persecuted Hujus farinae of this leaven are our Ranters Quakers Levellers their language you know is persecution altogether and when they suffer for their opinions or rather disordered practises they are persecuted they say for their consciences as if every conceit were conscience every groundlesse opinion religion We must not measure the cause by the sufferings but the sufferings by the cause for unlesse a mans cause be good his conscience good and his carriage in some measure good too his sufferings will amount to no more then a condigne punishment unlesse the end crown all which makes St. Cyprian and St. Jero●● say That the Thiefe's suffering on the Crosse was turned to Martyrdom What if then in a good cause thus circumstanc'd our afflictions as in the Text be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many no single appellation but a compound of all cruelty nomen multitud●nis like the possessed that lived amongst the Graves her name is Legion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they are many her Pavilion hung about with trophies of death fetters and whips racks and strapadoes halters and swords stakes and fire What if one affliction still treads on the heel of another and where the old went off new scenes of miseries have taken up their cues here is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Kingdome that will recompense all It pitties me when I read what those Romans Cocles Mutii Curtii Decii what those Graecians the people of Marathonia Salamina Plataea and Thermopol● endured toget them a fading name upon earth that we Christians should not do as much or more for this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingdome of God a Kingdome in regard of the dignity of it of God in regard of the author and giver of it one Kingdome but the estates are two one Militant another Triumphant of Grace of Glory one in substance varying in degrees but not an earthly not a fading Kingdome but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of God Herod was a King so was Ahab Jezabel was daughter wife mother sister to Kings and yet still afflicted Alexander wept when he had all the Crowns and Scepters in the world piled as it were at his gates that there were no more to be subdued Godfrey of Bollene refused to be crowned at Jerusalem with a Crown of Gold where our Saviour was crowned with Thorns 'T is only this Kingdome of God that can wipe all tears from our eyes Go then a pilgrimage to this holy Land Heaven is feisable and more easie to be attained then an earthly Kingdom here we cannot all be Kings there are not Kingdoms enough but lo in Heaven there is none under the degree of a King And in this Kingdome Revel 21. the Metropolis or chiefe City is of pure gold the walls of Jasper having twelve foundations of twelve pretious stones twelve gates made of twelve pearles every gate of severall pearl The streets of the city paved with gold interlaid with pearls and diamonds The light of this city is the splendour of Christ himselfe in the midst thereof from whose throne issues a river of water as clear as crystall to refresh the city and on both sides of the banks there growes a tree of life bearing continually twelve kindes of fruit Into this city no darknesse nor any unclean thing shall enter Now afflicted soul tell me thou that wouldst upon earth have wondered with the Queen of Sheba at Solomon in his royalty at the Grand Sultan going to his Seraglio at the Pope in his Procession tell me how thou wilt wonder and glory to see that wonderfull glory that neither eye hath seen ear hath heard nor hath entered into the heart of man Which glory God of his mercy bring us all unto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A SERMON Preached the fourth day of June 1656. at the Funerall Obsequies of James Parry Gent. The Text 1 Sam. 3. 18. And Samuel told him every whit and hid nothing from him and he said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good HEre we have a divine Oracle sent not from Daphne or Delphos but from the Tabernacle of God at Shilo wherein two things specially remarkable are couchant First Samuel's Revelation And Samuel told him every whit and hid nothing from him Secondly Eli's Acceptation And he said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good It is the Lord there is his humble confession Let him do what seemeth him good there is his patient submission In the former branch is considerable first the Persons

that despised Jove's thunderbolts like Darius that writ a Letter of defiance to the River Xanthus for drowning his Horse like the Cicilians that made war against the mountain Aetna for spoiling their corn fields but were buried under the sands thereof and flakes of fire this is the lot of all that anger God But some Machiavel or State-politician will say we have Riches Artillery strong Towers to defend us So had Jerusalem but when she had anger'd God she could not stand But our enemies are weak O consider he can without means of man overthrow as he did Pharaoh in the red Sea Iericho with the sound of Rams horns with weak means as a thousand with Samson's jaw-bone Goliah with David's sling But the rich cormorant will say What need we fear plague famine hunger we keep alone from all company our tables are full of dainties our granaries are full of corn and mony we have enough to supply Consider He that could slay so many of David's of Senacherib's Army in one night can send the pestilence in thy meat in thy drink in every blast of aire thou drawes He that took away holy Iob's substance in one day may justly confound thee in a moment that if thou like a flie flutter against this flame thou will be forced one day to cry out as did Iulian the Apostat when he was wounded with an arrow from heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou hast conquered O Iesus of Galilee Secondly this reproves those that when God is angry adde flame to flame firebrand to firebrand Does God threaten scarcity and want then be sure at this time drunkennesse and gluttony will most abound Does God smite with diseases of the body as pestilence burning Feavours c then lasciviousnesse wantonnesse uncleannesse of the flesh whordome adultery and the like Does he shut up any in their houses with the seales of his judgments then there will be the most stealing even out of infected houses when his judgments will not come to them they will find them out Is not this to stand in defiance against Gods anger Thirdly this reproves those that murmur against God for sending his rod of anger to correct us when our sins have deserved the sword to kill us If he should send the enemy amongst us and you should see your daughters ravished your sons butchered before your eyes would not this be bitter If we should see our Townes and Cities on fire our streets running with blood all in a skirmage and uproar at once would not this be bitter Should your children fall in the streets for bread die for thirst they ready to eat you up you ready to chop them for the pot would not this be bitter All this we have deserved all this Gods anger threatens all this we shall have unlesse we repent O let 's now prevent this that we may never see nor feel it The Word of God is against us the decree is come out most of those sins that have brought captivity sword famine upon other Nations are amongst us we see the Lord hath begun already and our Brethren have begun to us in this bitter cup. O the bitter lamentations of Germany Fathers Mothers weeping for their Sons that be not O England England look to it that we drink not of the dregs O that you would fast and mourn in publick O that you would each in private pray earnestly and say O Lord spare our Nation our houses our sons and daughters spare them from the sword from famine from pestilence from misery and who knowes but the Lord may yet have mercy turn away his anger that we may not fall but stand in his sight for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A SERMON Preached when the Church seemed in part to be Eclipsed and some eminent Members thereof to be Clouded The Text Act. 14. 22. And that we must through much affliction enter into the Kingdome of God THE subject is Christian sorrow the burden of Paul and Barnabas their first Sermon preached at Antioch where men were first called Christians a burden but like Christs leight affliction fit for Paul to begin the kingdome of God a theam of comfort more suitable for Barnabas to end The substance of the Law was do and live but of the Gospell suffer and believe Faith and affliction are linked together for so saies the Text that they confirmed the soules of the Disciples and exhorted them to continue in faith and that we must through much affliction enter into the kingdome of God The Proposition entire is not pure but modall consisting as all of that kind of two parts First the mo●us or manner of it oportet we must Secondly the d●ctum or matter of it through much affliction enter into the kingdome of God This life is a Race Heaven is the Goal this Text the common Stadium wherein observe these severalls First the terminum à quo whence our afflictions begins and that is here implyed from the wombe nascimur afflicti Secondly the mobile or parties who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we Christians Thirdly the motum or passage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enter through Fourthly the med●um or way through which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through much affliction Fifthly the terminum ad quem the end of this race 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the kingdome of God Thus divided it admits of a two-fold handling First generall in regard of the modus or manner of it Secondly speciall in regard of the dictum or matter of it where as in a Sorites so many Propositions so many implyed Syllogismes so here are so many parts so many propositions We 'l content our selves at the present with the generall where the Propositions are two The first is necessary and armed with an oportet that we must suffer affliction before we can enter upon heaven This is somewhat sharp and harsh The next sweetens and sugars it That through these afflictions and waters of Marah we shall at the length come to Heaven We 'l begin and end like a Comedie and so of them in order Afflictions must be suffered The Crosse of Christ must be born before a Crown of glory be wo●● we must through the Wildernesse and Iordan before we come at Canaan go through the Wine-presse before we drink of the Grape in the Kingdome of Heaven Some have and some still must go through a purgatory of rods swords racks wheeles flames strapadoes in this life before they be carryed in a charriot of triumph into glory We may prosecute this Argument launching in blood of Martyrs to the knees whole clouds of tears of afflicted Prophets Apostles Saints who are now noble and thrice renowned in Heaven who had no other Armes upon the earth but the Crosse no Coat but Sable no Badge but the marks of Christ no Crest but Confidence no Supporters but Patience no Field but Aceldama a field of blood This is the Watchword our Saviour gives his Souldiers and the Motto in his