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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40078	A discourse of the great disingenuity & unreasonableness of repining at afflicting providences and of the influence which they ought to have upon us, on Job 2, 10, publish'd upon occasion of the death of our gracious sovereign Queen Mary of most blessed memory : with a preface containing some observations, touching her excellent endowments, and exemplary life.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing F1703; ESTC R7038	47,822	152

he hath Afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen Evil some unthought of Calamity may Suddenly Seize us as we have again and again found by Experience For how often have we seen cause to say with the Prophet We looked for Peace but no good came and for a time of Health but behold Trouble Ier. 8. 15. And to allude to that in the 18 th V. Many a time when we have been Comforting our selves against more Sorrow there hath presently happ●ned one Cross thing or other which hath Caused our Hearts to Faint in us And so no doubt it will be for the future with us if we continue as Unreformed as Ever Except our Good God should give us Over for an Obdurate and incorrigible People and no farther concern Himself for our Amendment But as hath been intimated this is the Saddest of all Judgments and it speaks Eternal Destruction to be Sealed upon those People upon whom it lighteth But to return to the Matter in hand We seeing so great Reason while we remain in this World to look for New Afflictions it greatly Concerns us to be still preparing our selves for them that they may not come upon us before we are Aware For whensoever they do so we shall find them so much the Heavier and more ●ntolerable and that it requires much the longer time for the so subduing our Passions to our Reason as to be able to demean our selves decently and as becomes Men and much more as becomes Christians under them As the Son of Sirach saith Eccles. 41. 1. O Death how bitter is the Remembrance of thee to a Man that liveth at Rest in his Possessions unto the Man who hath nothing to Vex him and that hath Prosperity in all things So may it be said How bitter how unsupportable is a great Affliction to a Man when it falleth upon him all of a Suddain when he thought of nothing less than Afflictions How Weak doth a Sad Providence find a Man when at the time of its comming he had Put far from him the Evil day and did not in the least dream of any Alteration of his Condition What a Horrible Surprize must it have been to the Rich man in the Gospel had it been no Parable but a real History to hear those words Thou Foool this night shall thy Soul be required of thee then whose shall those Things be which thou hast Provided at that very instant when he was saying to himself Thou hast Goods laid up for many Years Take thine Ease Eat Drink and be Merry Fourthly I infer from the Text what a Wonderfully Powerful Motive the Hopes we have of Receiving such Glorious Things in the Future life must needs be To Receive Evil things at the Hand of God in this life If our Receiving the Good things of this Present State be such a Motive thereto as hath been shewed then What a Motive is that of the Hope of infinitely better Things in that to come I Confess that the Motive in the Text hath the Advantage as the Matter there of is Things present and the Matter of the other Things to come But considering all the other differences between these two sorts of Good things and that there is the greatest assurance imaginable given to good People of their hereafter Receiving those Good things there is no Comparison to be made between this and that Motive It is impossible that he should think God a Severe Master let him meet with never so many Evil things in this World who hath a Sure and Certain Hope of Ere long Receiving such Good things as Pass all Vnderstanding As the Eye of Man never saw nor his Ear ever heard nor his Heart is able to Conceive any like unto them It must needs make this Vale of Tears not only a Tolerable but a Pleasant Place to Consider that at the End thereof is the Mount of Ioy Of Ioy Vnspeakable and full of Glory And that these comparatively speaking Light Afflictions which are but for a Moment will work out for us if we are not inexcusably wanting to our selves a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory Fifthly I infer How unreasonable it is to have the lower and more undervaluing thoughts of the Divine Goodness and Beneficence and the less Sense of our Obligations to God in regard of the Evils wherewith our Good things are mixed and our Earthly Comforts are allayed The great unreasonableness hereof will appear by the following Considerations over and above those we have been presented with from the words of the Text. I. Very many and perhaps the incomparably greater part of the Evils we suffer are not from the mere or immediate Providence of God It is Certain that innumerable are of Mens own inflicting upon themselves And not only deserved by them but also the necessary Effects of their Sinning or of their Inadvertency We will take Poverty for one Instance For the most part we may well adventure to say Men fall into it from Plentiful Fortunes through their wicked or foolish wasting their Estates by either Spending them upon their Lusts or their rash Engaging for Non-Solvent Persons or their Improvidence Idleness and Mindlesness of their Business Where one is brought to great Want by the mere Providence of God our observation I believe will tell us of Many who ought to impute it to themselves immediately Let Sickness be another Instance Men for Certain do ordinarily fall into Diseases by doing what they ought not to do or neglecting what they ought to do and for want of due Care and Caution From whence do too Commonly the Tormenting Diseases of the Gout and Stone and the Dropsy and Consumption come but from mens offending as to the Quantity or Quality of their Liquors or from such other Causes as by a greater Care of themselves might have been Prevented Feavers are some of the most common Diseases but are they not ordinarily Occasioned either by some intemperance in Meats or Drinks or Exercise or unseasonable Drinking when Over hot or not taking care to cool by degrees and the like And I am per●waded that in reflecting upon the Causes of our Sicknesses of most kinds there are few of us who are not sensible that they were the natural Consequents of some Sin or Imprudence or other much more frequently than of that which was wholly unavoidable Except in the Case of the Airs being infected with Pestilential or Malignant Vapours we have great reason to think that the much greater Number are laid upon Sick Beds by the Ordinary Maladies through some Neglect of their Health and therefore that there may be no more than the Permissive Hand of God in their being deprived thereof When we suffer in our Reputation or otherways from the Ill will of others ought we not too often to thank our selves for not being so Cautious as we should have been of giving them Offence and to impute it at least to Inconsideration and Rashness as to some Actions