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A75616	Armilla catechetica. A chain of principles; or, An orderly concatenation of theological aphorismes and exercitations; wherein, the chief heads of Christian religion are asserted and improved: by John Arrowsmith, D.D. late master both of St Johns and Trinity-Colledge successively, and Regius professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Published since his death according to his own manuscript allowed by himself in his life time under his own hand.	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3772; Thomason E1007_1; ESTC R207935	193,137	525

his being swallowed up with overmuch sorrow lest Satan saith he should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices 2 Cor. 2. 7 11. V. Because if we look to our selves cheerfulness is advantageous both to our bodies therefore compared to the best food such as men use to have at feasts He that is of a merry heart hath a Prov. 15. 15. continual feast and the best physick too A merry heart doth good like a medicine Prov. 17. 22. but a broken spirit drieth the bones And also our spirits Uncheerfulness maketh the soul of a man drive heavily as the chariots of Pharaoh did in the red sea but the joy of the Lord oyleth the wheels Cheerfulness supples the joynts of our hearts and so rendereth them nimble and active in holy performances See Nehemiah 8. 10. VI. Because if we cast our eyes upon others the uncheerfulness of professours often bringeth a bad report upon the profession and maketh the world ready to beleeve that Christians serve a bad master or have but an hard service of it whereas their rejoycing in the ways of the Lord would help to bring others in love with religion See Acts 9. 31. and Esther 8. the two last verses § 7. Fifthly Endure afflictions so as in the day of adversity duly to consider the Nature Authour and Ends of Crosses I. The Nature of those afflictions that befall men in Christ They are not Inter vincula carnisicis Chirurgi Chamier Panstrat from vindicative justice which is wholly removed from such by the mediation of him in whom they have beleeved and so not formally punishments but from fatherly discipline whereby it cometh to pass that although the matter be the same there is as much difference between the sufferings of beleevers and of ungodly persons out of Christ as there is between the cords wherewith an executioner pinioneth his condemned malefactour and those wherewith the indulgent Chirurgion bindeth his patient the ones design being to kill the others to cure They are crosses indeed which beleevers undergo but no curses and have no such malignity in them as the world imagineth II. The Authour Well might Eliphaz Job 5 6. say Trouble springs not out of the ground for it cometh from heaven and that out of love As many as I love Rev. 3. 19. saith Christ I rebuke and chasten How bitter soever the cup be which I am to drink and by whomsoever it is handed to me the comfort is it was of my heavenly fathers mixing who I am sure would not put any poysonfull although he do put some displeasing ingredients into it I will therefore say Christ enabling as Christ himself did The cup which my father hath given me shall John 18. 11. I not drink it III. The Ends Which are specially three 1. The mortifying of our corruptions By this shall the iniquity of Jacob Isa 27. 9. be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin All the harm which the fiery furnace did the young men in Daniel was to burn off their cords our lusts are cords cords of vanity in Scripture-phrase the fiery tryal is sent on purpose to burn and consume them Afflictions help to scour off this kinde of rust Adversity like winter-weather is of use to kill the vermine which the the summer of prosperity is wont to breed 2. For the enlivening and quickning of our graces I spake unto Jerem. 22. 21. unto thee in thy prosperity and thou saidst I will not hear But elsewhere Lord in Isa 26. 16. trouble have they visited thee they poured out a prayer when they chastening was upon them These two places compared shew how apt prosperity is to make men Gallio's adversity to render them Zelots As bruising maketh aromatical spices to send out their savour and collision fetcheth fire out of the flint which was hid before so pressures excite devotion The cold water of persecution is often cast in the Churches face to fetch her again when she is in a swoon 3. For the furthering of our glory Christ went from the Cross to Paradise so do Christians He was made perfect through Heb. 2. 10. sufferings so are they It became him to Luke 24. 26. suffer and to enter into his glory It becomes them to tread in their masters steps When the founder hath cast his bell he doth not presently hang it up in the steeple but first try it with his hammer and beat upon it on every side to see if any flaw be in it Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man convey him to heaven but suffers him first to be beaten upon by manifold temptations and after advanceth him to the crown spoken of Jam. 1. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptations for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him this crown the cross makes way for although no cross can merit it but that of Christ Yet as law is said to work wrath occasionally So Our light afflictions which are but for a moment work 2 Cor. 1. 17. for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory APHORISME VI. Aph. 6. Providence extends it self not onely to all created beings and to all humane affairs especially those that concern the Church but even to the sins of Angels and men EXERCITATION 1. Introduction concerning the contents of this Aphorisme Providence over all created beings Preservation of men to be ascribed to God himself not to good men yea not to good Angels in whom heart-searching and patience wanting Providence reaching to humane affairs Oeconomical Civil Military Moral and Ecclesiastical Anastasius his design frustrate Rome and our nation instanced in I. G. castigated § 1. THis Aporisme requireth a clear demonstration of these propositions 1. That divine providence extends it self to all created beings 2. That it reacheth to Exerc. 1. all humane affairs 3. That it is especially seen in such affairs as concern the Church And 4. That although God be not the authour of sin yet his providence is an actour in it Unto these when I shall have added an answer to objections and from each proposition an inference the whole will be completely handled The first proposition which I am to begin with is Divine providence extends it self to all created Beings Well may we strike in with the Levites in that form of acknowledging God wherein they went before the people saying Thou even thou art Lord alone Nehem. 9. 6. Thou hast made heaven the heaven of heavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all David bringeth it down a little lower Thy judgements are a great deep O Lord Psal 36. 6. thou preservest man and beast Job lower yet What shall I do unto thee O thou preserver Job 7.