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A50157	Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charls-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1147; ESTC R220434	24,043	64

on the Breasts which you have hung too much upon He will cause Creatures to be our Grief that they may not be our God. Tertullian said very true of Idolatry It is praecipuum crimen Humani generis the grand Crime of Mankind Affliction mortifies that Rebellion therefore David are thy Children cut off therefore Iacob is the Wife of thy Bosom snatched out of it therefore Hezekiah is thy Treasure blasted and wasted It is that Idolatrous Affections may be recalled § Once more both your Graces and your Duties will be quickened by your Afflictions Afflictions will prove the Weights by the Hanging whereof upon you you shall more flourish like Palm-trees in the Court-yards of the Lord Afflictions will be the Feet which by treading upon you will make you as the Chamomil to grow the more Afflictions will be the Fires which like Viols you shall make the better Musick by being disposed near unto Afflictions will be the Spurs which shall cause you to mend your pace in Running the Race which is set before you Afflictions But room for enlargement is denyed In short God by Afflictions is as it were pounding or grinding of his rare Spices in your Souls the scent of them will now become very Fragrant very Glorious We have heard in Eccl. 7. 3. By the sadness of the Countenance the Heart is made better God will make that Heart of thine very Serious very Circumspect very Spiritual and very Heavenly by the Afflictions which thou art prone to quarrel at O'then say not All these things are against me the price of these things is above Rubies Well faith the sentence of the Ancient O servum illum Beatum cujus emendationi Deus instat cut dignatur sic Irasci III. The most High designs likewise by the Afflictions to promote your HEAVEN for ever more The Speech of the Apostle to this purpose is very Emphatical 2 Cor. 4. 17. Our light Affliction here which is but for a Moment works for us a far more Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory O surprizing connexion Light Afflictions work a Weight of Glory Afflictions for a Moment work a Glory Eternal and this Glory shall be a far more Exceeding Glory or as the Original intimates a Glory which no Hyperbole upon Hyperbole can give a too Glorious Character of Your Afflictions do prepare you for tho' they do not purchase for you the Glories of the World to come The Hebrew word for Glory signifies the same that your own sense of Affliction feels a Weighty thing Well from the one Weight you shall pass to the other Your Crown of Thorns will shortly be turned into a Crown of Glory a Weighty a Massy a never-fading Crown A Roman Emperour once rewarded one that wore an Iron Chain in a Prison for his sake with a Golden Chain as heavy in a Preferment afterward Such and more than such at last will be thy Felicity Art thou Afflicted Be assured Dolor hic tibi proder it olim After thy Sowing time in Tears thou shalt have a Reaping time in Ioy after thy Bread of Adversity thou shalt come to Eat of the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God after thy Water of Affliction thou shalt come to Drink of the River of Pleasures at Gods right Hand for evermore Let me say to thee as the Martyr to his Friend Thy Affliction will scour and rub thee bright that thou mayst be fit to be set upon an high Shelf in Heaven for ever or let me say to thee as the Martyr to himself Hold out Faith and Patience Heaven will quickly make amends for all Thou shalt have the more of Heaven for all thy past Heaviness thou shalt e're long be received into the place of Rest and there all thy former Difficulties will but sweeten the Times of Refreshing which now come from the Presence of the Lord. Say now O Believer Are all these things Against thee O what things can be for thy Good if these are not so Sit down then and whatever thy Afflictions are let these words of the Lord Jesus al-lay thy Storms Do not now practically say These Consolations of God are small Behold thou art furnished with strong Consolations Counsels But that you may be able to apply these Consolations unto good purpose under Affliction there are some Counsels to be set before you In so many Scriptures you shall therefore have so many Counsels they will be both best Received and best Remembred if they come unto you with a Thus saith the Lord. The First Counsel proper for you is intimated in Eph. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who hath blessed us with all Spiritual blessings in Heavenly matters in Christ. Count Spiritual Blessings the most Desirable Blessings A sufferer should be a Solomon under Affliction be of his temper who in 2 Chron. 1. 5. counted Wisdom preferrable to Riches and Honours and Life it self Count an Acquaintance with God that thing by which Good will come unto you then you will not count Afflictions from God the thing which is Against you On one side be sure to judge so If I lose in Temporals and get in Spirituals I am an abundant Gainer Be sure to judge so on the other side If I lose in Spirituals and get in Temporals it certainly fares very Ill with me Souls let SIN be the only thing of which you will absolutely say It is Against me But of every thing which makes you more conformed unto Jesus Christ say This is for me O say This is all my Salvation and all my Desire The Second Counsel pertaining to you is expressed in Jam. 5. 13. Is any among you Afflicted Let him Pray A time of Affliction should be a time of Supplication It was the Precept of a good God in Psal. 50. 15. Call upon me in the day of Trouble And it was the Purpose of a good Man in Psal. 86. 7. Lord In the day of my Trouble I will call upon thee Has any remarkable Affliction befallen thee I would seriously ask Was not the Spirit of Prayer abated in thee before that Affliction came Let me then a little alter the words of Deborah and say Awake awake O Soul awake awake and utter a Prayer The Title of the Hundred and second Psalm showes the Duty of all Afflicted men there should be A Prayer made by the Afflicted when he is overwhelmed and he should pour out his complaint before the Lord. It was a very wise proposal of Eliphaz in Iob 5. 6 8. Affliction comes not forth of the Dust nor doth Trouble spring out of the Ground It may be thou hast lost a desirable piece of Dust it may be one of thy Delights is put into the Ground O look up look above Chance look beyond all second Causes 't is added I would seek unto God the most advisable thing in the World We are in Affliction prone to make sad complaints unto our Fellow-worms