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A77614	Precious remedies against Satans devices or, salve for believers and unbelievers sores. Being a companion for those that are in Christ, or out of Christ; that are high, or low, learned, or illiterate, staggering, or wandering; that slight, or neglect ordinances, under a pretence of living above them; that are growing (in spiritualls) or decaying; that are tempted, or deserted, afflicted, or opposed; that have assurance, or that want assurance; that are self-seekers, or the common-wealths caterpillars; that are in love sweetly united, or that yet have their spirits too much imbittered, &c. By Thomas Brookes, a willing servant unto God, and the faith of his people, in the glorious gospel of Christ, at Margarets fish-street hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4954; Thomason E1426_1	231,671	413

when something is parted with to gain more he applyeth it to their sufferings wherin though the flesh lost something yet the spirit got much more the comfort the rest that Saints meet with in the wayes and service of God they find that Religious services are not empty things but things in which God is pleased to discover his beautie and glory to their soules My soul thirsts for God saith David that I might see thy beauty and thy glory as I have seen thee in thy Sanctuary Oh! the sweet looks the sweet words the sweet hints the sweet joggings the sweet influences the sweet love-letters that gracious soules have from Heaven when they waite upon God in holy and heavenly services the least of which will darken and outweigh all the bravery and glory of this world and richly recompence the soul for all the troubles afflictions and dangers that have attended it in the service of God oh the Saints can say under all their troubles and afflictions that they have meate to eate and drinke to When the Moble Generall Ze●slaus had lost his hand in the Wars of the K. of Poland the King sent him a golden hand for it what we lose in Christs service he will make up by giving in some golden mercies drinke that the world knows not of that they have such incomes such refreshments such warmings c. that they would not exchange for all the honours riches and dainties of this world Ah! let but a Christian compare his externall losses with his spirituall internall and eternall gain and he shall find that for every penny that he loses in the service of God he gaines a pound and for every pound that he looses hee gains a hundred for every hundred lost he gains a thousand wee loose pins in his service and find pearls we loose the favour of the creature and peace with the creature and happily the comforts and contents of the creature and we gain the favour of God peace with conscience and the comforts and contents of a better life Ah! did the men of this world know the sweet that Saints injoy in afflictions they would rather chuse Manasses iron chaine then his golden Crown They would rather be Paul a prisoner then Paul rap't up in the third Heaven for light afflictions they shall have a Though the Crosse be bitter yet 't is but short a little storm as one said of Julians persecution and an e●e●nall calm follows weight of glory for a few afflictions they shall have those joyes pleasures and contents that are as the stars of heaven or as the sands of the sea that cannot be numbred for momentany afflictions they shall have an eternall Crown of glory 't is but winking and thou shalt be in heaven presently said the Martyr oh therefore let no afflictions nor troubles work thee to shun the wayes of God or to quit that service that should be dearer to thee then a world yea then thy very life c. The third Device that Satan 3. Device hath to hinder soules from holy and heavenly services from gracious and religious performances is BY presenting to the soule the difficulty of performing them saith Satan 't is so hard and difficult a thing to pray as thou shouldst and to wait on God as thou shouldst and to walke with God as thou shouldst and to be lively warm and active in the communion of Saints as thou shouldst that you were better ten thousand times to neglect them then to meddle with them and doubtlesse by this Device Satan hath and doth keep off thousands from waiting on God and from giving to him that service that is due to his name c. Now the remedies against this Device are these that follow THe first Remedie against this device 1. Remedy of Satan is to dwell more upon the necessity of the service and duty then on the difficulty that doth attend the duty you should reason thus with your soules oh our soules though such and such duties and services be hard and difficult yet are they not exceeding necessarie for the honour of God and the keeping up of his name in The necessity of doing your duty appears by this that you are his servants by a three-fold right you are his servants jure creationis jure sustentationis jure redemptionis by right of creation and by right of sustentation and by right of redemption the world and the keeping under of sin and the keeping under of weak graces and for the reviving of languishing comforts and for the keeping clear and bright your blessed evidences and for the scattering of your fears and for the raising of your hopes and for the gladding the hearts of the righteous and stopping the mouths of unrighteous souls who are ready to take all advantages to blaspheme the name of God and throw dirt and contempt upon his people and wayes oh never leave thinking on the necessity of this and that duty till your souls be lifted up far above all the difficulties that doe attend religious duties The second Remedie against this device 2 Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that the Lord Jesus will make his services easie to you by the sweet discovery of himselfe to your soules whilst you are in his service Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousnesse those that remember thee in thy wayes as the Prophet Isaiah saith if meeting with Isa 64. v. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paganta is diversly taken but most take the word here to meet a soule with those bowells of love and tendernesse as the Father of the Prodigall met the Prodigall with God is pater miserationum hee is all bowels he is as swift to shew mercy as he is slow to anger God who is goodnesse it selfe sweetnesse it selfe beauty it selfe strength it selfe glory it self will not sweeten his service to thy soule nothing in Heaven or Earth will Jacob's meeting with Rachel and enjoying of Rachell made his hard service to be easie and delightfull to him and will not the soules enjoying of God and meeting with God render his service to be much more easie and delightfull doubtlesse it will The Lord will give that sweet assistance by his Spirit and grace as shall make his service joyous and not grievous a delight not a burden a Heaven and not a Hel to believing souls the confidence of this divine assistance raised up Nehemiah's spirit far above all those difficulties and discouragements that did attend him in the work and service of the Lord as you may see in that 2 Nehemiah vers 19 20. But when Sanballat Luther spake excellently to Melancthon who was apt to be disconraged with doubts and difficulties feares from foes and so ●ease the service they had undertaken if the work be not good why did we ever own it if it be good why should wee ever decline it why saith he should we feare the conquered world that

Heaven-wards and Holinesse-wards in the midnight of adversity Againe afflictions serve to keep the hearts of the Saints humble and tender Lam. 3. 19 20. Remembring my affliction and my misery the wormwood and the gall My soule hath them still in remembrance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and is humbled in me or bowed downe in me as the Originall hath it So David when he was under the rod could say I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou diddest it I have read of one who when any thing fell out prosperously would read over the Lamentations of Jeremiah Gregory Nazianzen and that kept his heart tender humble and low prosperity doth not contribute more to the puffing up of the soul then adversity doth to the bowing down of the soule this the Saints by experience find and therefore they can kisse and imbrace the Crosse as others doe the worlds Crowne Againe they serve to bring the Saints nearer to God and to make them more importunate and earnest in prayer with God Before I was afflicted I went astray Psal 119. 67. 71. Hos 5. 14 15. Ch. 6. 1. 2. but now have I kept thy word It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learne thy statutes I will be to Ephraim as a Lion and as a young Lion to the house of The more precious odours and the purest spices are beaten and bruised the sweeter sent and savour they send abroad so doe Saints when they a●● afflicted Judah I even I will teare and goe away I will take away and none shall rescue him I will goe and returne to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early and so they did Come say they and let us returne unto the Lord for he hath torne and he will heale us he hath smitten and he will bind us up After two dayes he will revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight So when God had hedg'd up their way with thorns then they say I will goe and returne Hes 2. 6 7. to my first husband for then was it with me better then now Ah the joy the peace the comfort the delight and content that did attend us when we kept close communion with God doth bespeak our return to God We will returne to our first Husband for then was it with us better then now When Tiribazus a noble Persian was arrested he drew out his sword and defended himselfe but when they told Most men are like atop that will not goe unlesse you whip it and the more you whip it the better it goes you know how to apply it They tha● are in advers●●y saith Luther doe better understand Scripture but those that are in prosperity read them as a vers in Ovid. Bees are kill'd with hon●y but quickned with vineger The honey of prosperity kills our graces but the vineger of adversity quickens our graces him that they came to carry him to the King he willingly yielded so though a Saint may at first stand a little out yet when he remembers that afflictions are to carry him nearer God he yields and kisses the rod. Afflictions are like the prick at the Nightingales breast that awakes her and puts her upon her sweet and delightfull singings Again afflictions they serve to revive and recover decayed graces they infame that love that 's cold and they quicken that faith that is decaying and they put life into those hopes that are withering and spirits into those joyes and comforts that are languishing Musk saith one when it hath lost its sweetnesse if it be put into the sink amongst filth it recovers it so doe afflictions recover and revive decayed graces The more Saints be beaten with the hammer of afflictions the more they are made the Trumpets of Gods praises and the more are their graces revived and quickned Adversity abases the lovelinesse of the world that might intice us it abates the Iustinesse of the flesh within that might incite us to folly and vanity and it abets the spirit in his quarrell to the two former which tends much to the reviving and recovering decayed graces Now suppose afflictions and troubles doe attend the wayes of holinesse yet seeing that they all work for the great profit and singular advantage of the Saints let no soul be so mad as to leave an afflicted way of holinesse to walk in a smooth path of wickednesse The second Remedy against this Device 2 Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that all the afflictions that doe befall The Christian souldier shall ever be master of the day Mori posse vinci non posse said Cyprian to Cornelius he may suffer death but never conquest the Saints doe onely reach their worser part they reach not they hurt not their noble part their best part all the arrowes stick in the Target they reach not the Conscience And who shall harme you if you be followers of that which is good saith the Apostle that is none shall harm you they may thus and thus afflict you but they shall never harm you It was the speech of a Heathen when as by the Tyrant he was commanded to be put into a morter and be beaten to pieces with an iron pestell he cries out to his persecutors you doe but beat the vessell the case the ●usk of Anaxarchus you doe not beat me his body was to him but as a case a husk he counted his soul himself which they could not reach you are wise and know how to apply it Socrates said of his enemies they may kill me but they cannot hurt me so afflictions may kill us but they cannot hurt us they may take away my life but they cannot take away my God my Christ my Crown The ●●ird Remedy against this Devi●● 3 Remedy of Satan is seriously to consider that the afflictions that doe attend the Saints in the wayes of holinesse are but short and momentary Sorrow may abide for a night but joy comes in the morning There are none of Gods afflicted ones that have not their lucida intervalla intermissions respits and breathing whiles under their short a●d momen●●●● afflictio●s Wh●n Gods hand is on thy back let thy hand be on thy mouth for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short this short storm will end in an everlasting calm this short night will end in a glorious day that shall never have end 'T is but a very short time betweene grace and glory between our title to the Crown and our wearing the Crown between our right to the heavenly inheritance and our possessing of the heavenly inheritance Fourteen thousand years to the Lord is but as one day what is our life but a shadow a bubble a flower a post a span a dream c. yea so small a while doth the

hand of the Lord rest upon us that Luther cannot get diminutives enough to extenuate it for he calls it a very little little crosse that we beare The Prophet in Isaiah 26. 20. to pikron mikron saith the indignation doth not transire passe but pertransire overpasse The sharpnesse shortnesse and suddennesse of it is set forth by the travell of a woman John 16. 21. And that is a John 16. 21. Heb. 10. 36 37. sweet Scripture For yee have need of patience that after yee have done the will of God yee might receive the promise For yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Tantillum tantillum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adhuc pusillum A little little little while When Athanasius friends came to bewaile him because of his misery and banishment he said It is but a little cloud and will quickly be gone 'T will be but as a day before God will give his Nebecula est cito transibit Athanasius afflicted ones beauty for ashes the oyle of gladnesse for the spirit of heavinesse before he will turne all your sighing into singing all your lamentations to consolations your sackcloath into silks ashes into oyntments and your fasts into 4 Remedy ●verlasting feasts c. The fourth Remedy against this Device of Satan is seriously to confider that the afflictions that doe befall the Saints are such as proceed from Gods dearest love As many as I love I rebuke Austine asketh Si amatur quomedo infirmatur if he were belov'd how came he to be sick So are wicked men apt to say because they know not that corrections are pledges of our adoption and badges of our Son ship God had one Son without sin but none without sorrow and chasten be zealous therefore and repent Saints saith God think not that I hate you because I thus chide you he that escapes reprehension may suspect his adoption God had one Son without corruption but no Son without correction A gracious soule may look through the darkest cloud and see a God smiling on him We must look through the anger of his correction to the sweetnesse of his countenance and as by a Rain-bow we see the beautifull image of the Suns light in the midst of a dark and waterish cloud When Munster lay sick and his friends asked him how he did and how he felt himselfe he pointed to his sores and ulcers whereof he was full and said these are Gods Gems and Jewells wherewith he decketh his best friends and to me they are more precious then all the gold and silver in the world A soul at first conversion is but ruf cast but God by afflictions doth square and fit and fashion it for that glory above which doth speak them out to flow from precious love therefore the afflictions that doe attend the people of God should be no bar to holinesse nor no motive to draw the soul to wayes of wickednesse The fift Remedy against this Device 5 Remedy of Satan is solemnly to consider that 't is our duty and glory not to measure afflictions by the smart but by the end When Israel was dismisled out of Exod. 11. Aegypt 't was with gold and ear-rings So the Jewes were dismissed out of Babylon with gifts jewels and all necessary utensils Look more at the latter end of a Ezra 1. Christian then the beginning of his affliction consider the patience of Job and what end the Lord made with him Look not upon Lazarus lying at Dives Afflictions they are but our fathers Gold Smiths who are working to adde pearls to our Crownes door but lying in Abrahams bosome look not to the beginning of Joseph who was so far from his dream that the Sun and Moon should reverence him that for two years he was cast where he could see neither Sun Moon nor Stars but behold him at the last made Ruler over Aegypt Look not upon David as there was but a step between him and Tiburtius saw paradise when he walked upon hot burning coals Heredotus said of the Assyrians let them drink nothing but wormwood all their life long when they dye they shall swimme in honey you are wise and know how to apply it 6. Remedy death nor as he was envied by some and slighted and despised by others but behold him seated in his Royal Throne and dying in his bed of honour and his Son Solomon and all his glistering Nobles about him Afflictions they are but as a dark entry into your Fathers house they are but as a dirty lane to a Royall Palace Now tell me soules whether it be not very great madnesse to shun the wayes of holinesse and to walke in the wayes of wickednesse because of those afflictions that doe attend the wayes of holinesse The sixt Remedy against this device of Satan is seriously to consider that the designe of God in all the afflictions that do befall them is only to try them 't is not to wrong them nor to ruine them as ignorant soules are apt to think He knoweth the way that I take and when he hath tryed me I shall come forth as gold saith patient Job So in that 8. Dan. 2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God l●d thee these fourty yeares in the willdernesse to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thy heart whether thou The King of Aracum in Scaliger tries her whom he meanes to marry by sweating if they be sweet then he marries them if not he rejects them you may easily make the application wouldest keep his Commandements or no. God afflicted them thus that he might make known to themselves and others what was in their hearts When fire is put to green wood there comes out abundance of watery stuffe that afore appeared not when the pond is empty the mud filth and toads come to light The snow covers many a dunghill so doth prosperity many a rotten heart It is easie to wade in a warme-bath and every bird can sing in a sun-shine-day c. Hard weather tries what health we have afflictions trie what sap we have what grace we have Weathered leaves soon fall off in windy weather Rotten boughes quickly break with heavy weights c. you are wise and know how to apply it Afflictions are like pinching frosts Dunghills raked send out a filthy steame oyntment a sweet persume this is applicable to sinners and Saints under the rod. that will search us where we are most unsound we shall soonest complaine and where most corruptions lie wee shall most shrinke We try mettall by knocking if it sound well then we like it so God ●●ies his by knocking and if under knocks they yeeld a pleasant sound God will turne their night into day and their bitter into sweet and their Crosse into a Crown and they shall hear that voice arise and shine for the glory of the Lord is risen

bed Is it honours riches or friends c. that can comfort thee when thou comest to die or is it not rather faith in the blood of Christ the witnesse of the Gregory the great used to say he is poor whose soule is void of grace not whose cofers are empty of money spirit of Christ the sense and feeling of the love and favour of Christ and the hopes of eternall reigning with Christ Can happinesse lie in those things that cannot give us health or strength or ease or a good nights rest or an hours sleep or a good stomack why all the honours riches and delights of this world cannot give these poor things to us therefore certainly happinesse lies not in the injoyment of them c. And surely happinesse is not to be found in those things that cannot satisfie the soules of men now none of these things can satisfie the soul of man He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver nor he that loveth abundance Anima rationalis caeteris omnibus occupari potest impleri non potest The reasonable soule may be busied about other things but it cannot be filled with them with increase this is also vanity saith the wise man The barren womb the Horse-leeches daughter the grave and Hell will as soon be satisfied as the soule of man will by the injoyment of any worldly good Some one thing or other will be for ever wanting to that soule that hath none but outward good to live vpon You may as soone fill a bag with wisdome a chest with vertue or a circle with a triangle as the heart of man with any thing here below A man may have enough of the world to sinke him but he can never have enough to satisfie him c. The eighth Remedie against this device 8. Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider of the dignity of the soule oh the soul of man is more wotrh then a thousand worlds 't is the greatest abasing of it Plutarch tells of Themistocles that he accounted it not to stand with his state to stoop down to take up the spoiles the enemies had scattered in flight but saith to one of his followers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you may for you are not Themistocles Oh what a sad thing is it that a Heathen should set his feet upon those very things that most Professors set their hearts and for the gain of which with Balaam many run the hazard of sing their immortall souls for ever that can be to let it dote upon a little shining earth upon a little painted beauty and fading glory when it 's capable of union with Christ of communion with God and of enjoying the eternall vision of God Seneca could say I am too great and born to greater things then that I should be a slave to my body oh do you say my soule is too great and born to greater things then that I should confine it to a heap of white and yellow clay I have been the longer upon the Remedies that may help us against this dangerous device of Satan because hee doth usually more hurt to the soules of men by this device then he doth by all other devices for a close I wish as once Chrysostome did that that sentence Eccles 2. v. 11. Then I looked on all the workes that my hands had wrought and on the labour that I had laboured to do and behold all was vanity and vexation of Spirit and there was no profit under the Sun were engraven on the door posts into which you enter on the tables where you sit on the dishes out of which you eate on the cups out of which you drinke on the bedsteads where you lie on the walls of the houses where you dwell on the garments which you weare on the heads of the horses on which you ride and on the foreheads of all them whom you meet that your soules may not by the beautie and braverie of the world be kept off from those holy and heavenly services that may render you blessed while you live and happy when you die that you may breath out your last into his bosome who lives for ever and who will make them happy for ever that prefers Christs spiritualls and eternals above all temporall transitory things The second Device that Satan hath to draw soules from holy duties and to keepe them off from religious services is BY presenting to them the danger 2 Device the losses and the sufferings that do attend the performance of such and such religious services by this device Satan kept close those that beleeved on Christ from confessing of Christ in that 12. John 42. Neverthelesse among the chief Rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confesse him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue I would walke in all the wayes of God I would give up my selfe to the strictest wayes of holinesse but I am afraid dangers will attend me on the one hand and losses and happily such and such sufferings on the other hand saith many a man Oh! how should we helpe our selves against this temptation and device of Satan Now the Remedies against this device of Satan are these that follow THe first Remedy against this Device 1 Remedie of Satan is to consider that all the troubles and afflictions that you meet with in a way of righteousnesse shall never hurt you they shall never harm you And who is he that shall harme Nemo proprie l●d●ur nisi● a seipso No body is properly hurt but by himselfe and his own fault you if you be followers of that which is good saith the Apostle i. e. none shall harme you naturall conscience cannot but doe homage to the image of God stamped upon the natures words workes and lives of the godly as we may see in the carriage of Nebuchadnezzar and Gordius that blessed Martyr accounted it a losse to him not to suffer many kinds of tortures he saith tortures are but tradings with God for glory The greater the combate is the greater is the following reward Darius towards Daniel All the afflictions and troubles that do attend men in a way of righteousnesse can never rob them of their treasure of their jewels they may rob them of some light slight things as the sword that is by their side or the stick that is in their hand or of the flowers or ribbons that be in their hats The treasures of a Saint is the presence of God the favour of God union and communion with God the pardon of sin the joy of the spirit the peace of Conscience which are Jewels that none can give but Christ nor none can take away but Christ Now why should a gracious soule keep off from a way of holinesse because of afflictions c. when no afflictions can strip a man of his heavenly jewels which are his ornaments and his safety here and will be

his happinesse and glory hereafter Why should that man be afraid or troubled for That was a notable speech of Luther let him that dyed for my soule see to the salvation of it stormes at Sea whose treasures are sure in a friends hand upon land why a believers treasure is always safe in the hands of Christ his life is safe his soule is safe his grace is safe his comfort is safe and his Crown is safe in the hand of Christ I know him in 2 Tim. 1. 12. whom I have beleeved and that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him untill that day saith the Apostle The childes most precious things are most secure in his Fathers hands so are our soules our graces and our comforts in the hand of Christ The second Remedie against this device 2. Remedy of Satan is to consider that other precious Saints that were shining Will Flower Martyr said that heaven should assoon fall as I will forsake my profession or budge in the least degree from it So Santus being under as great torment as you have read of cries out Christianus sum I am a Christian no torment could worke him to decline the service of his God I might produce a cloud of witnesses but if these do not work you to be noble and brave I am afraid more will not lights on earth and are now triumphing in Heaven have held on in religious services notwithstanding all the troubles and dangers that have surrounded them Nehemiah and Ezra were surrounded with dangers on the left hand and on the right and yet in the face of all they hold on building the Temple and the wall of Jerusalem so Daniel and those precious worthies in the 44 Psal under want of outward incouragements and in the face of a world of very great discouragements their souls clave to God and his wayes Though they were sore broken in the place of dragons and covered with the shadow of death yea though they were all the day long counted as sheep for the slaughter yet their hearts were not turned back neither did their steps decline from his wayes Though bonds and imprisonment did attend Paul and the rest of the Apostles in every place yet they held on in the work and service of the Lord and why then should you degenerate from their worthy examples which is your duty and your glory to follow The third Remedie against this device 3. Remedie of Satan is solemnly to consider that all the troubles and dangers that doe attend the performance of holy duties and heavenly services are but temporall and momentary but the neglect of them may lay thee open to all temporall spirituall and eternall dangers How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation He saith not if we reject or renounce so great salvation but if wee neglect or shift off as the word is so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dis-regard not care for it great salvation he doth not say how shall we escape if we oppose or persecute so great salvation no but if we let slip or neglect so great salvation how shall we escape that is we cannot by any way or meanes or device in the world escape divine Justice will be above us in spight of our very souls The doing of such and such heavenly services may lay you open to the frowns of men but the neglect of them will lay you open to the frowns of God the doing of them may render you contemptible in the eyes of men Francis Xaverius counselled John the third King of Portugal to meditate every day a quarter of an hour upon that Text What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world loose his soule but the neglect of them may render you contemptible in the eyes of God the doing of them may be the losse of thy estate but the neglect of them may be the losse of God Christ Heaven and thy soule for ever the doing of them may shut thee out from some outward temporal contents the neglect of them may shut thee out from that excellent matchlesse glory that eye hath not seene nor eare heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive Remember this there is no man that breaths but shall suffer more by neglecting those holy and heavenly services that God commands commends and rewards then possibly he can suffer by doing of them c. The fourth Remedie against this device 4 Remedie of Satan is to consider this that God knows how to deliver from troubles by troubles from afflictions by afflictions from dangers by dangers God by lesser troubles and afflictions doth oftentimes deliver his people from greater So that they shall say we had perished if wee had not perished we had been undone if we had not been P●riissem nisi periissem undone we had been in danger if wee had not been in danger God will so order all the afflictions that befall you in the way of righteousnesse that your Non essem ego salvus nisi istae periissent Anaxagoras had not these things perished I could not have been safe said this Philosopher when he saw great possessions that he had lost soules shall say we would not for all the world but that wee had met with such and such troubles and afflictions for surely had not these befallen us it would have been worse and worse with us Oh! the carnal security pride formality dead-heartednesse lukewarmnesse censoriousnesse and earthlinesse that God hath cured us of by the troubles and dangers that we have met with in the wayes and services of the Lord. I remember a story of a godly man that as hee was going to take shipping for France he broke his leg and it pleased Providence so to order it that the ship that he should have gone in at that very time was cast away and not a man saved so by breaking a bone his life was saved So the Lord many times breaks our bones but 't is in order to the saving of our lives and our soules for ever he gives us a potion that makes us heart-sick but 't is in order to the making us perfectly well and to the purging of us from those ill humours that have made our heads ake and Gods heart ake and our souls sick and heavy to the death c. Oh! therefore let no danger or misery hinder thee from thy duty The fifth Remedie against this device of Satan is solemnly to consider that you shall gaine more in the service of God and by walking in righteous and holy wayes though troubles and afflictions should attend you then you can possibly suffer or loose by your being found in the service of God Godlinesse is great gaine Oh the joy the peace Tertullian in in his book to the Martyrs hath an apt saying Negotiatio est aliquid amittere ut majora lucreris i. e. that 's right good merchandize