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A42893	Miscellanea, or, Serious, useful considerations, moral, historical, theological together with The characters of a true believer, in paradoxes and seeming contradictions, an essay : also, a little box of safe, purgative, and restorative pils, to be constantly taken by Tho. Goddard, Gent.	Goddard, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing G916; ESTC R7852	164,553	225

thinks I hear as it were some sweet instrument of Musick sounding in my ears Job 34. 29. Thus when God gives quietnesse who then can make troubles when he comforts speaks peace and gives Joy to his people who or what can make them sad unhappy or disconsolate It 's true Gods jewells may yea often do lye in a black Cabinet in a mournful condition for a time yet like diamonds in a dark night they do then sparkle and give a resplendent lustre for their graces like Sun-beams dart and shine through the thickest clouds of grief and misery Like Ball● they rise the higher by being stricken down with the hand of Correction And although they be loaden or pressed with a laden a very ponderous burden of inward or outward troubles yet they make good that impresse which the noble family of the Columni gave when they were banished by Pope Alexander the 6th A bending branch with this inscription Flecti potest frangi non potest They are Oaks proud stubborn obdurate sinners not Osiers meek humble penitent Saints that are torn blasted and consumed by Thunder and lightning by judgments vengeance and fiery wrath from Heaven The worst evills that befall them cannot hurt them n Marsil Ficin Epistolar lib. 4. Mala non patitur nisi malus And which is more they do them good for God takes the venome out of them and so makes them not only safe but healthfull also and necessary for them Christians therefore should yea must be Not only patient submissive and contented under chastisements saying with him ut fiat voluntas Domini quotidie oramus cum facta est voluntas Domini feramus But Joyfull also as the blessed Apostles and those that were spoyled for the name of Christ were when for a good cause a good conscience a good God and a gracious Saviour they were both scourged and plundered saying with another Placent mihi dolores per quos nihil in mundo placet They should be thankfull and say with Iob when all the beautifull and pleasant plumes of riches honour prosperity health and and his dearest creature-comforts were pluckt away from him by the just yet mercyfull hand of God but violent and unjust hands of cruell enemies who stript and left him naked and distressed * Job 1. 28. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Christians should labour to be soundly humbled for the * Lamen 3. 2● 30. provoking procuring cause of all their sorrows and sufferings their transgressions They should seriously consider that there are two Oceans to drown those Egyptians their sins in Gods wonderfull mercy and the infinite merits of Jesus Christ and so by a lively faith keep their souls both from despairing and mourning They should by servent prayer seek to get the afflicting hand of God sanctified unto them that so his Rod as well as his Staffe may comfort them They must not only clear and justifie God in his severest dispensations towards them bat also acknowledge his mercy in that he doth but whip them with a rod whereas they have deserved to be scourged with Scorpions and because he doth lay but the little finger of his displeasure upon them whereas he might justly have smitten them with the hand of his wrath Christians must resolve to swallow that poyson no more to run into that fire no more that is to commit those crimes and iniquities no more which did so much indanger the lives of their Souls and whereby they did so much both dishonour and displease the Lord. They must be sure when they come safe to land * Psalm 76. 11 10. to perform those vows and promises which they made to God when they were tossed and distressed in the Sea of adversity Lastly Gods people must adore and admire the wisedome and goodnesse of that God who both can and doth make the Lyon of affliction to afford and give the honey of spirituall consolation and the sweet meat of saving grace to the souls of his people it being a most sadly experimented truth that if man should enjoy a Paradise all his dayes in this World he would then seek no further but sit down contented and say of it as Peter once did of Mount Tabor It 's good for me to be here Because that if our lives be not made bitter and sowr by tribulations neither Holynesse Christ nor Heaven will be either dear or desirable to our souls And though the Lord do afflict his Children yet the sharpest the longest calamities and sorrows which they can possibly endure on this side their graves are but a drop a moment of pain distresse trouble misery and griefe to that Ocean of Joy and eternity of Blisse which they shall surely enjoy after their death 2 Corinth 4. 17. * Our light afflictions which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory ● ●ips Epist 63. saith blessed Paul O felices inter omnes miserias hoc uno Christiani quod via nobis per haec ad aliam vitam in qua nec gaudiorum nec modum ullum esse scimus nec finem Adversity sanctyfied is a sharp but a sure way to felicity and glory Like honey it both purgeth and heales a Christian And as affliction hath a sting wherewith it pains and wounds so like that Serpent the Scorpion such is the compassionate goodnesse of the Lord it hath also in its own Bowels an antidote wherewith it doth both ease preserve and cure a Child of God and so becomes his Balsam not his Bane The Prayer O LORD thou art both Wisdome Love and Goodnesse it self 'T is pity therefore as well as anger compassion as well as indignation that moves thee to strike chasten frown upon and afflict thy people Thou knowest that even the best and most dutifull of all thy children are apt to become wilde wanton forgetfull stubborn unthankfull sickly and diseased if thou lay up thy rod and feed them fat with Mercies And thou seest that prosperity makes them to gather dust and to grow both mouldy and rusty but that Adversity makes and keeps them faire bright and clean O let the consideration therefore of thine infinite Wisdome make us quietly willingly contentedly silently to submit unto all thine angry dispensations to bear thine indignation and to kisse thy correcting Hand And let O Lord the serious meditation of thy wonderfull Love and Goodnesse make us both joyful and thankfull for those sharp but safe yea necessary Corrosiv●s the soundest hearts having some proud flesh in them and for those painfull but purgative healing comfortable potions and pledges of thy fatherly care and tender compassions towards us Let us all when we are afflicted consider and remember that it 's for sinne we suffer and that our transgressions are the source of our punishments that so when we are chastised for our faults we may not murmur but mourn repine but repent nor be peevish but patient submissive

Loyall and impenitent truly sorrowfull for all our transgressions 3. It quickens and breatheth Life into us that were by nature dead and buried in trespasses and sins 4. It both inspires and stirreth up good motions in our soules 5. It helps our infirmities makes c Rom. 8. 26. intercession for us indites our prayers inables us to pray fervently faithfully prevailingly to God for Grace pardon and salvation 6. It comforts quiets and supports mourning doubting drooping hearts 7. It leads and keepeth Christians into and in the way of holinesse till they come to heaven and enjoy eternall happinesse 8. It sanctifieth and maketh Gods ordinances effectuall for the conviction and conversion of sinners Lastly to name no more it dwelleth and abideth in all those that truly repent believe love obey fear and serve God The Holy Ghost is compared and resembled in Scripture to divers things First it 's compared to d Jere. 23 29. Acts 2. 3. fire and that in these respects Fire first heats 2. shines 3. ascends 4. softens and 5. refines drossy and hard things so the Holy Ghost 1. inflames our frozen hearts with love to God and zeale for God 2 It makes Christians shine in works of piety justice charity mercy and in holinesse of life 3. It raiseth their naturally low-flying or rather crawling affections from earthly things and maketh them to mount and fix them upon God Christ and heavenly things 4. It turneth a heart of Adamant into a soft and tender heart of flesh 5. It purgeth away a Christians drosse it purifies him from his corruptions and filth Secondly the Holy Ghost is compared to e Ezech. 36. 25. water for as water 1. refreshes 2. quenches 3 cleanses 4. fructifies So the Spirit of God comforts cheares and reviveth troubled weary languishing hearts 2. It quencheth Gods fiery wrath kindled and flaming out against transgressors in their terrors spiritual desertion trouble anguish of soul and conscience for their sins 3 It cleanseth them from all filthiness both of flesh spirit 4. It makes them fruitful in every good work Thirdly the Holy Ghost is compared to a * John 3. 32. Dove As Doves are 1. meek for they have no gall 2. innocent and harmlesse creatures 3. Lovers of and delighted with white houses to sit and roost in Amant alba tecta Columbae So those Christians that have the spirit of God are 1. free from malice hatred sinfull anger envy or however they mourn and are exceedingly displeased with themselves for being otherwise 2. The Holy Ghost makes them not only carefull to do no hurt or wrong to any but also willing and desirous to do good unto others especially spiritually that is to their soules 3. It makes their hearts pure and white by sprinkling the bloud of Christ upon them and working godly sorrow in them without which it will neither delight nor dwell in them because sin unrepented of makes the soul black ugly and filthy Fourthly the holy Ghost is compared to * Acts 2. 3. cloven fiery tongu●s to teach us that our tongues must be cloven with Charity and fervency in our prayers for 1. we must not only beg earnestly for mercy but we must also praise the Lord most heartily for his mercies petition and thanksgiving must cleave them 2. We must pray for both spirituall and temporall mercies these must again divide our tongues 3. We must pray and ●ry mightily not only for pardon of sin for the removal or sanctification of afflictions for grace and prosperity to and for our selves but for all others also 4. We must pray not only that God would give us and others glory hereafter but also that we and they may honour and glorifie God here And certainly all those that have this glorious Spirit have also not only their tongues but their hearts too thus cloven with zeal I mean for God and love to their own and others souls Fifthly the Holy Ghost is compared to a * Ephes 1. 13. Seal because as Deeds and Conveyances are unable and ineffectual to settle and assure those things conteined in them being null and voyd in Law till they be fealed So we can have no sound good or clear Evidences that our sins are forgiven us that God is reconciled to us that the Lord Jesus is our Jesus and that our souls shall be saved till we be sealed by the Spirit of God Sixthly the Holy Ghost is compared to * 2 Cor. 1 22 and ch 4. v. 5. Earnest for as Earnest is an argument and proof of an agreement betwixt man and man for something to be delivered and given by one to another and also an assurance that some other and greater thing shall be made good and received when that is given and taken So by having the Earnest of the Spirit Christians are assured that now the Lord and they are agreed and reconciled that they shall undoubtedly have his favour blessing grace here and that they shall hereafter injoy eternall joy and blisse with him for ever Seventhly the Holy Ghost is compared to † John 16. 13. a Guide because as Guides do 1. Comfort 2. direct 3 defend 4. keep those they travail with from wandring 5. accompany them and bring them to their Journeys end So the spirit of God doth 1. wonderfully solace and rejoyce the hearts of tru Christians in their pilgrimage on earth 2. It directs and sheweth them which is the sure good and best way for them to go in 3. It secures and delivers them from those enemies and dangers that lye in Ambush to surprize them and are ready to seize upon them 4. It keeps them from erring and straying in the broad dangerous yea deadly ways of sin and leads them forward in the narrow but safe and happy path of life And lastly the Holy Ghost never leaves them finally but conducts them with safety joy and comfort to their earnestly longed for and desired home Heaven These and such like are the bright beautiful and refreshing Beams that ray from his glorious Sun and dart consolation exultation peace and felicity into the hearts of Gods people These are the pure reviving and pleasant streams that flow from this Fountain or rather Ocean into the fouls of true Christians These are the radiant rich yea precious and inestimable Jewels that embellish and adorn the Holy Spirits Mansion a truely Gracious heart Let us then sincerely desire fervently beg highly prize this Holy Spirit and when ever it knocks at the door of our hearts by any holy motions say as † Genes 24. 31. Laban did to Abrahams Servant Come in thou blessed of the Lord wherefore standest thou without for I have prepared a room for thee The Prayer O Eternall infinite and incomprehensible Lord God who art Three in One and One in Three most glorious Persons distinguished but not divided grant I humbly beseech thee that the Holy Ghost the Spirit of Light Truth and Life may illuminate all

peace of Sion and the prospe●ity of Jerusalem but is grieved for the afflictions of Joseph and above all for the dishonour done to his God for his own worldly interest relations or life are not so dear to him as the glory of his Maker and Redeemer He accounts Gods ordinances the rarest dainties the sweetest delicates and with Job esteems Gods holy word and them more then his necessary food He stumbles often seldome falls but never lies down in sin so as not to rise up out of it He like a laboriqus Bee doth industriously daily delightfully suck not only the sweet and beautifull flowers of Gods precious promises heavenly counsells and holy commands but also the bitter yet wholesome hearbs of Gods just and terrible threatnings growing in that rare garden or rather Paradise the sacred Scriptures that so he may fill the hive of his Soul with the honey and wax of holinesse and honesty He 's a good Theodosius who had rather be a living member of that true Church whereof Christ is the glorious head then an Emperour in the World And saith with holy Ignatius who perswaded his friends not to disswade him from suffering Martyrdome It is better for me to die in Jesus Christ then to reign in the ends of the earth because Jesus Christ is the life of the faithful and life without Christ is death And because as blessed Bradford h Fox B. of Martyrs vol. 3. p. 283. said when the Queens mercy was offered him if he would recant and forsake his Religion Life in Gods displeasure is worse then death and death with his true favour is true life He is one in whom the house of David prevails against the house of Saul And is not † gilt but Gold He hath no sweet sin nor secret lust lapped close up within the folds of guile or hypocrisie in his heart He like * Qualis animus talis oratio qualis oratio talis vita His life as well as his lips his works as well as his words do praise God for he doth not flatter but truly fear the Lord. Enoch walke with God Like Caleb and Josuah his heart follows the Lordsfully while he is travailing through the wildernesse of this world towards Canaan Heaven And he is an * Genes 5. 22. Abraham a friend of God Sincerity 't is the highest round and pitch of Grace and goodnesse that the Soul can fly or climb to while it 's pinioned and loaden with the flesh * Esay 41 8. 2 Chron. 26. 7. 'T is the Souls cordial when fainting its bladder when sinking its leg when stumbling staffe when falling comfort while living Joy when dying and its Crown after death But without sincerity we are but light without heat mudwals pargetted Rotten posts gilded ugly wrinkled creatures painted professors blanched without it we are odious and loathsome both to God and Man God hates us for not being * Quid tibi prodest nomen usurpare alienum et vocari quod non es It wil be no real profit advantage or comfort unto us either to be called Saint or to be accounted the children of God by men if we be but whited Tombs but carnal rotten dissembling Christians and professors in the sight and esteem of God nay we are much more odious to the Lord for being pious only in shew and appearance really and man for being seemingly religious so that we are too bad for Heaven too good for earth and therefore only fit for Hell An Hypocrite is like an Aegyptian Temple which was very curious glorious and beautifull without but had nothing within except a Serpent or an Ape Though he professeth himself to be a Temple of the Holy Ghost yet his heart hath nothing in it but either filthy or foolish venemous or vain lusts and desires He is like that tree in Pliny whose leaf is as broad as a hat but its fruit no bigger then a Bean. Like that Oxe slain and sacrificed in Rome the same day that Caesar was murdered in the Senat without an Heart at least without a good one for * Prov. 10. 20. the heart of the wicked is little worth Like that shield which had God painted on the one side and the Devill on the other Hee hangs like Mahomets Tomb or as the Papists picture Erasmus betwixt Heaven and Hell Like Janus he hath two faces being intus Nero foris Cato Loquitu● ut Ps●● vivitur ut Gallonius audi nemo melius specta nemo pejus He is like a man with corrupted Lungs a bad Liver rotten teeth and an artificiall perfumed breath Like a stinking carcasse stuck with lillies violets and roses like a rotten dunghill covered with snow like one cloathed in white with a plague-sore upon him and like a thiefs coat plush or scarlet without and cloth within of another colour He 's like Nebuchadnezzars Image whose feet were clay for his affections though his words be gilt with golden 1 Camden Annal Of Queen Elizabeth lib. 4. p. 489. holy expressions and his outward behaviour with a silver civill specious religious profession are carnal earthly vile and sinfull i Squire when he anointed the Pummel of Queen Elizabeths Saddle with poyson to destroy her cried with a loud voice God save the Queen An Hypocrite when he seems most zealous to honour Christ even then murders him he cries Hosanna with his tongue but his heart sayes Crucifie him for it loves and preferreth some Dalilah more then him and before him He hath certainly a Diana in the Temple a Dagon in the Ark of his heart like those * 2 Kings 17. 35. that feared the Lord and served other Gods And like k Speed Chro. p. 297 Redwald the 7th Monarch of the English men who in the same Temple erected an Altar for Christ and another little altar for burnt sacrifices to his Idols He is like those leones Syriaci l Aristotle Solinus qui primo quinque foetus pariunt deinceps quatuor post ad singulos partus uno pauciores donec ad extremum omnino steriles nullum foetum pariunt He is like the Cypresse tree beautiful but barren m Fox B. of Martyrs vol. 3. p. 967. 'T is reported of Castellanus an Apostate professor who persecuted the Christians at Orleans that he was stricken by the hand of God with this most strange judgment the one half of his body burned as hot as fire and the other part of it was as cold as Ice and thus crying and lamenting he continued till his death The fire of piety kindles in the mouth burns upon the tongue and blazes out in the verball expression of an Hypocrite but his heart is frozen and cold as snow for all that because there is not so much as one spark of true grace therein to thaw or heat it while he lives here nor to prevent his sufferings hereafter in that place where through Gods just judgment upon him he shall both freeze and fry