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A60177 Diverse select sermons upon severall texts of holy scripture preached by that reverend and faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, D. James Sibald ... Sibbald, James, 1590?-1650? 1658 (1658) Wing S3718; ESTC R33841 162,247 196

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are s● fraile and vaine We trouble our selve● about many things which are needles and worthles but there is one thing only necessarie even to provide for that good part which shall never be taken away Secondly The consideration of Eternity and of that Kingdome wherein God shall reigne in us and we with him for ever should encourage us against travailes and comfort us against all troubles wherewith wee encounter here First it should encourage us against all our travailes Our flesh is ready to faint under the burden of pains and travailes that must be endured in the service of God but all that wee endure this way should seeme light if righty compared with the reward of this eternal Kingdome In it is eternall rest And Eternall rest saieth holy AUGUST is worthie of eternall traveles Yee see what travailes Souldiours are content to undergo for the hope of a small gaine They go to warre in their youth they continue it may be almost al their dayes that they may gaine some little thing to sustaine them in their old age which both is short and uncertaine yet what are they not content to suffer for this What hunger what thirst What heat what cold To how many dangers necess●ties and wounds do they expose themselves Alace should not we be content to suffer much more for this glorious and eternal Kingdom A Kingdome wherein we shall be equal with the angels wherin wee shall be joynt heirs with Christ yea wherein wee shall bee made one spirit with God enjoying his in●inite Essence and entered into the fulnes of his joy wherein we shall continue not an hundreth or a thousand years or ages but unto all eternitie What travaile or pains can we take in serving God which may be compared with this glory and the eternitie of it Secondly This should also comfort us against our troubles afflictions that we meere with in the service of this great King Heare what S. PAUL saieth Rom. 8. I reckon that the afflictions of this present life are not worthie to be compared with that glory that shall be revealed in us And againe The light afflictio●s that endure but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory Blessed are these sufferings which draw after them this great eternall Reward Blessed is that hunger and thrist which bringeth us to be satisfied with the fat●es of Gods house and to drink of the rivers of his pleasure for ever Blessed is that contempt which is followed with eternal honour Blessed is that povertie which is followed with eternal treasures Blessed is that sorrow which is followed with eternal joy we ought not therfore to faint for the miseries distresses that we mee●e with here for God and his righteousnesse We may not think that he forgetteth or forsaketh us because we are exposed to them he looketh to this eternitie for which by these sufferings he prepareth us Who could be more mi●erable then Lazarns who was full of sores could not haue so much as the crumes that fell from the rich mans table who seemed more happie then the rich man who swimmed in wealth and pleasure yet now experience teacheth that farre more blessed were the sufferings of the one then the pleasures of the other Now Lazarus findeth being in Abrahams bosome where he shall bee to all eternitie The trueth of our Saviours sayings Blessed are they that hunger and thrist for they shall be satisfied Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted So They that wandred in sheep-skins and goat skins in dens and mountains and caves of the earth afflicted desture tormēted Heb. 11. 37. 38. Would haue seemed to haue been men forsaken of God But indeed were deare unto him and Now find by experience That blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousnes for great is their reward in heaven Thirdly The consideration of this eternitie should make all men to tremble and feare to offend God the effects of whose wrath are everlasting If thou be the enemie of God thou shall be deprived of his Eternall Kingdom there can be no greater losse for it is the losse of an infinite and eternall good Thou shall be subjected to most grievous and eternall pains To the fire that never shall be quenched to the worme that never shall die In a prison eternall and in darknes eternall Who would for all the joyes and honours and riches of this world be content to burne a hundreth year in fire and yet take a thousand and ten thousand millions of ages from eternitie and it is as fresh to begin as it was before O dreadfull eternitie who is able to conceive the greatnes of it what strength of man or angell is able to endure the burden of it Alace we are afraied of nakednes povertie and contempt here These seeme to us so terrible monsters that to eschew them we care not what we do even against God and against conscience but what are these to eternall fire and to eternall darknes and to the eternall companie of the Devill his Angels Would God this eternitie were alwayes before our eyes and deeply settled in our hearts It alone were enough to beat down all our pride to breake the hardest heart and daunt the stoutest courage of bold impenitent sinners It alone were enough to make us detaste all wickednes frō which this eternall evil springeth Who would delight in the fulfiling of his Lust if he considered deeply that his Lust will kindle a fire which will burn both the soul the body for ever that it will breed a worme which shall ever live to torment him who would delight in the inordinate desire of riches if he considered that this is the roote of all evill which whill men follow after pierceth them through with everlasting sorrowes and maketh them to fall into a temptation and snare and in many foolish and noysome Lusts which drowne men in everlasting Perdition Lastly The consideration of this eternitie should make us carefull of the right use of this present time Since though it be but a moment yet from the use of it our eternall well or wo dependeth in particular First this should make us carefull not to mispend our time in things unnecessare unprofitable The time is short and precious in respect of the use of it thou are still hasting to the Tribunall of the great Iudge who is to passe an eternall sentence of thy Bodie and Soul what folly then is it to spend the short time upon things which will availl us nothing then Hee might be justly accounted a foole who having occasion of a market wherein he might gaine as much as might make him rich all his life time would go and spend all his money and time in buying of trif●es of no worth Even so is it with us who waste our time by sport or idle cōference things not only unprofitable but
friendship a sincere Peace so it is betwixt God and us when we desire absolutely nothing but that which pleaseth him fully resting upō his holy will that out of a unfained love to his Glory When we are thus affected nothing can trouble us Not the fear of the want of any good For if we have God we can lacke nothing since in him is all Good If we seek his Kingdome that is himself his will all other things shall be casten to us It costeth us much travail and time to find that pleasure and rest in the creature which we desire and often times we faile of that also wheras if we would imploy so much time and pains in seeking God we should undoubtedly find both solid joy and rest I may compare them who go a whoring from God to the creatures to a man who being a thirst and having a cleare fountaine neare him will needs go in by-wayes to a puddle so that when all his travell is spent he must needs retu●ne and go to the fountaine which he left or else his thirst shall remaine unquenched So is it with thee who leavest God The fountaine of living waters and followest the broken cisternes of the creatures Thou weariest thy self in difficult by-wayes Thou seekest joy and Peace where it is not to be found whereas thou might easily have it in God who is the Ocean of goodnes Come unto me saieth our Saviour and ye shall find rest unto your soules Ho every on that thirsteth let him come unto the waters why spend ye your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Isai 55. In like manner if our love be fixed upon God and our will subjected to his and consequently one with his neither grief for by past evils nor fear of evils to come can trouble us We shall not be grieved for that which is by-past because nothing hath befallen but that which it pleased God to permitt whose blessed Will we adore and preferre unto our own For the same reason the fear of evils to come shall not disturbe us since we know nothing can befall hereafter but according to the will of God decreeing or permitting to which we have conformed our wils consequently nothing cā simplie come against out own will which is one with the will of God Hence an ancient truly said That the will of him is ever done and never crossed who hath resigned his own will and hath submitted it only to the will of God If any man shall think this a hard task Let him consider that it is most reasonable whither we looke to God his excellencie or to our own profite For the first God is the supream Lord of al and hath made all things for himself his infinite dignitie excellencie requireth that all things should be referred to his Glory and to the obedience of his will in respect whereof all other things are of no worth or moment what then art thou being but a miserable worme that thou will have thy own will and thy own desires as if thou thy self were the last end of thy actions what else is this but to equall thy self to God to put thy self as it were in his stead Secondly Our own utilitie and advantage requireth this resignation of our selves ful acquiescing to the will of God He from eternitie hath disposed all things according to the counsell of his will and according to the eternall Idea of his mind Conforme to this he made all things and now ordereth and governeth all things Nothing escapeth his providēce which reacheth from the beginning to the end and ordereth all things sweetly and wisely powerfully The tree losseth not a leafe the ayre losseth not a bird thy head losseth not a haire without his heavenly Will He alone knoweth both his own particular ends the fittest way to obtain them Is it not then more profitable for thee to be guided by his will then by thy owne Thy will is blind thou often thinkest that to be harmfull which is most advantagious and that to be most advātagious which is pernicious Thy will is often perverse and set upon the things that are evill But the Will of God is guided by his undeceiveable Wisedome is ever holy most profitable to thee for he loveth thee better then thou doest thy self Who would not think that he were a mad man who will stand up and say to God O Lord albeit thou know the way infinitely better then I although thou be the shepheard of my soul and my most loving Father yet will I not yeeld to thee the conduct of me but will be lead by my self To say so were madnes and blasphemie and yet in effect thou saiest as much When thou repinest against the Will of God To conclude this point we may easily perceive from that which we have said that the only and undoubted way to tranquillitie and peace of minde is to settle our hearts upon God the true center of our soules and absolutlie to seek nothing but him and his Will We may indeed desire that which in reason seemeth good may use our best endevoures for obtaining of it but this ought still to be with a submission of our will unto the Will of God which should be so dear to us as that we should wish nothing to come to us against it Thus the servants of God have ever calmed their minds amidst their greatest troubles When God had loosed the hand of Sathan upon IOB upon his bodie upon his goods upon his children he found tranquillitie in this He sat down and worshiped and said Naked I came into the world and naked shall I go out of it againe the LORD hath given the LORD hath taken Blessed be the Name of the LORD So whē it was told ELI of the vengance decreed by God against his house he calmed himself with this It is the LORD let him do what secmeth good to him 1. Sam. 3. When DAVID was flying from Absol●m he pacified his minde with the same consideration 1. Sam. 15. Take back the ark againe said he to Zadok if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD he will bring me again and shew me both it his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him So in like manner Acts 21. When the disciples could not perswade S. PAUL to forebeare his journey to Jerusalem where he was to meete with bonds they said The Will of the LORD be done This ought to be the disposition of every good Christian and if it were in us as it ought to be it would dry up all our tears stay our sighs silence all our murmurings complaints Make your use of this Ye have been afflicted ye have already seen and felt many evils and are yet in feare of greater Where