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A97181	The gayne of losse or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644.	Warner, John, b. 1612 or 13.	1645 (1645)	Wing W904; Thomason E1194_1	48,265	180

will put my trust in the Lord for a horse is a vaine thing vaine is the helpe of man He is onely strong that is strong in the Lord. LXI VVEE alwayes reade that God provides a refuge and hiding place for his people in times of trouble and danger An Arke for Noah flaggs for Moses a little Zoar for Lot a Midian for Moses a Haran for Jacob Caves and rocks in the Citie Keilab for David the Temple his own house for Joash a cave for Obadiahs hundred Prophets an Aegypt for Paul a Pella for the Christians leaving Hierusalem The Lord hides them because they are dear to him they are his jewels his treasure now in times of danger men hide their treasures and jewells have their Cabinets I am thine O Lord and therefore be thou my hiding place cover mee with thy feathers hide me in thy Pavilion keep me secretly in thy Tabernacle from the pride of men strife of tongues Thus as the lame and blind having got into the Tower of Sion derided David so having gotten thee to be my Tower I will laugh at calamities warres dangers LXII The wicked are as a troubled Sea Psa 42.7 Rev. 12.15 Isa 59.19 Psa 32.6 The troubles which they bring on the godly are metaphorically called waters flouds of waters Now water is one of the most mercilesse creatures if it be not contained it will of it selfe keepe no bounds but overflow all carry away all before it The helpe which the godly may expect herein is from the Lord who hath promised that in flouds of great waters they shall not come nigh thee If they doe come nigh their soules yet will the Lord be with them so that they shall not drowne them In such inundations god doth either provide for his an Arke to carry them above as he did for Noah or one to draw us out as he did for Moses or else will cause the floud to be swallowed up and the place made dry ground as he did for the Church Rev. 12. This distracted Kingdome is as a troubled Sea the waters thereof come nigh our soules Our hope is that he who setteth bounds to the Sea that it shall goe no further will limit the rage of these waters and either carry us above them by his power or be with us in them by his presence and make a way for us through them by his providence as he did for Israel that so we may attain to his heavenly Canaan LXIII MAny are the troubles of the righteous Psal 34.15 but the Lord delivereth them out of all Iob 5.19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evill touch thee Where some of the learned say the Spirit of God alludeth unto the dayes of the Lords worke of Creation in the six dayes and cessation on the seventh implying that his servants must labour all the dayes of their lives with griefe and sorrow and shall not be refreshed till that everlasting Sabbath Others conceive that by six and seven are understood many evills Pro. 24.16 an indefinite number for a definite However if all my days must be spent in sorrow I will comfort my selfe with the assured hope of a time of refreshing and rest at last As my troubles are many my deliverances shall be as many though my labour be long and tedious my rest shall be joyous and eternall That Sabbaticall yeare will recompence me for the years wherein I have suffered adversitie LXIV OVr light affliction which is but for a moment 2 Cor. 4.17 worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory saith the Apostle most sweetly Where wee see a very elegant Antithesis or opposition betwixt present afflictions and future glory Wee shall have for affliction glory for light affliction massie substantial glory a weight of glory for momentary affliction eternall glory Yea he addeth degrees of comparison beyond all degrees calling it excellent more excellent farre more excellent an exceeding excessive weight of glory A full and pithy speech sufficient to make one swallow downe the most bitter affliction Eternall glory will answer temporall afflictions A weight of glory will weigh downe light afflictions I will therefore not murmure at my afflictions seeing glory succeeds them I will willingly goe through momentary afflictions when my glory shall be eternall My affliction shall seeme light when I think of that weight of glory LXV PErfection and perpetuitie are the two satisfactory conditions which an enlightened soule requires in any defired object neither is any thing by it esteemed truly perfect unlesse it be accompanied with perpetuitie Now if wee look for perpetuitie in the creature wee may heare every thing say as concerning wisdom The Depth saith Iob 28.14 it is not in me the Sea saith it is not in me To this demand things doe thus subscribe Riches say Yours till a time of warre Honours say Yours till an enemy eclipse your Princes favour Friends say yours as you use him Wives say yours till death God onely says I will never leave thee nor forsake thee In him onely is perfection who is the most perfect perpetuitie onely in him who is the same for ever LXVI IT was a grievous affliction for David to be dispossessed of his Kingdome by his own Son Yet he saith in that condition 2 Sam. 15.20 I the Lord say I have no delight in him loe here am I let him doe unto mee as it seemeth good in his eyes The losse would not be of a small thing but of a Kingdome and the person by whom he might have been dethroned was not a stranger or an enemy nor a familiar friend but a sonne Yet in all this he submits his will to God It is a hard thing to bring the will low when the estate is low stubbornnes and pride may rest there where is no outward thing to foment it In some passion directs their wills in most reason but grace only makes it stoop to gods will Lord though I am driven out of all with David and if my estate be not framed to my will frame my will to my estate as the one is low let the other be low also If I must have Davids sufferings I desire Davids patience and then I will say with David Loe here am I let him doe with me what seemeth good in his eyes or with the son of David Not my will but thy will be done LXVII I Have been young Psa 37.25 says David and now an old yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor then seed begging bread How different then seems the condition of Gods people now in these dayes over it did in Davids Are the righteous more in number now then they were then and so is not their heavenly Father able to provide for all Or else doth he take lesse care of them now then he did then No God forbid The truth is that David in his own observation in his

word Martha's care was to entertain Christ delicately Mary's was to heare him diligently Such a guest as hee was was worthy to be entertained exquisitely and such an Orator as he was that spake as never man spake was worthy to be heard attentively Yet we see that our Saviour had rather bee entertained in us by his Word then by us through our service yet how many are there as farre behinde Martha in the duty of serving as she was behind Mary in the duty of hearing Make me O Lord to know the one thing which is needfull so shall I not be troubled about many things Thus shall Ibe a brother to Mary and a stranger to Martha XX. AMong the evils which Solomon saw under the Sun this was one Eccles 5.19 A man to whom God hath given riches wealth honour so that be wanteth nothing yet God giveth him not a heart and power to eate thereof but a stranger eateth it A disease it is indeed and almost Epidemicall For how many see we whose Barns are full Fat 's overflow yet fare coursly themselves have costly wardrobes yet not power to put it on have silver and gold in abundance yet die to save charges Thus the Lord makes them treasurers for other men hee gives them the creature but reserves the comfort and use of it for others So that such in a manner have no more benefit or comfort by their Corn and Wine then the Barnes and Cellars that hold it nor of their money then the Chests that contain it Thus though they have their goods yet in Jobs words Their good is not in their bands i. e. the use and comfort is not in their power When ever I begge for a temporall blessing I will adde this to my prayer that this blessing may goe along with it even a heart to use it Thus a stranger shall not intermeddle with my joy XXI BUt there is another evill which is this that as many have much but not hearts to use it so many have much yet have hearts to use more As evill a disease it is to have a mind exceeding ones means as means exceeding ones minde The power which many have to abuse the creature is as common as the want of power to use it The Moralists say that prodigalitie comes neerer the mean then covetousnesse how ever it cannot come to the nature of a vertue He then that hath this heart to carry him to a profuse spending of what he hath is as much to be pitied as hee that wants this heart to make use of what hee hath And if either of these drawneere the mean God must give the one a heart and renew it in the other It shall be my endevour so to use what I have as not to abuse it and so to apply to my selfe the comforts of my substance as not to deprive my selfe of the substance it selfe Otherwise I shall at last repent of having both a heart and riches for when all is thus spent the comfort vanisheth the guilt abideth XXII RIches have wings Pro. 23. now what is winged will keep no constant abode unlesse it bee straitned or its wings imped and in shortning the wings of riches wee set them flying neither can they so be caged up but at some time or other they will leave us or be taken from us Some birds being let loose may bee lured back again yet not all birds nor at all times If then my riches will once fly from mein possession my safest way is to flie above them in affection Thus shall I light upon a better object if they light upon another subject XXIII THis earthly globe is that dug and breast which the children of this world lie sucking at and which they will not leave so long as there is any sweetnesse in it God therefore to wean them from it doth with his Marah imbitter this dugge that so the present bitternesse may make them forget all former sweetnesse Lord though since I came into this world nothing could content me but this breast nourish me but its milk quiet me but its sweetnesse yet seeing now I see it imbittered by thee make me to behave my selfe as a weaned child cause me to suck at the breasts of consolation let those breasts satisfie me XXIV COmmonly one affliction to Gods people is the forerunner of another Job and no sooner heard of the losse of his Oxen and Asses but before that sound was out of his eares hee heares of the losse of his sheep and after that of his servants and sonnes The smaller losse doth usually usher in the greater Thus many are the troubles of the righteous many blowes must bee given before we are squared and made fit stones for the spirituall Temple In this troubled Sea wave will follow after wave one depth call for another till we are come to our haven I will then after one affliction look for another prepare for another thus shall I be not onely forewarned but forearmed if God reserve another tryall for me he will renew my strength to overcome or my patience to beare it My comfort is that as my tribulations doe abound my glory shall abound After all these sad messages God will send me some good Ahimaaz that will bring me good tidings of great joy XXV THe Prophet reproveth them that trusted in broken Cisterns Ier. 2.13 that would not hold water and forsooke the fountaine of living water All the comforts of this life are waters yea cistern waters and therefore not so fresh as others being standing neither so continuing as others being in broken cisterns Whatsoever I enjoy then shall be in God the fountaine and in his promises the streames so shall my comfort be ever savoury everlasting when that which others enjoy in cisterns shall be both unsavoury and unconstant Iob. 13 For a Summer will come when such waters shal make them ashamed When their bottles faile with Hagar they shall wish for death and then will the Lord discover unto me a fountaine of living water XXVI WEE see in Cities where space of ground is precious that the buildings are more high and lofty making more bold with the ayre and things above when they are scanted of earth and things beneath This may teach something and edifie us in our spirituall building When our lot falls out in a small portion of land here to seek for a larger inheritance above in heaven where is roome enough for us all and whither wee may boldly goe Lord seeing my portion is slender my estate narrow build me up some stories higher in grace and goodnesse that so the lesse I have in earth the more I may have in heaven thus shall I be brought the neerer to thee and receive more from thee Had I more scope here below I should not tend upwards or mind heavenly things XXVII THe onely Sanctuary in mans extremitie is Gods all-sufficiency Psal 84.11 The Lord is a Sunne and a Sbield