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A29117	Elijah's epitaph and the motto of all mortalls in the other reason in the text, perswading him into a willingness to dye, in these words, I am no better then [sic] my fathers, I Kin. 19, 4 / by Thomas Bradley, D.D. one of His Late Majesties chaplains and præbendary of York, and preach't in the minster there, and in his rectory of Ackworth, 1669, Ætatis suæ, 72.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4131; ESTC R34264	17,583	51

as I live Psal 116.1 2. But if God hath not so answered in specie by granting thee just the thing that thou did'st desire mark well if he hath not commuted with thee giving thee something els in the roome of it that may be to thee as good as it as he did to Saint Paul or farr better as here to our Prophet in the Text And then If where thou askest a stone he give thee bread Or Where thou askest a scorpion he give thee a fish Or Where thou askest temporall things he give thee spirituall say thou art no loser by the change though thou have not punctually that which thou didst desire So it is here with our Prophet in the Text He desires the Lord to take away his soule No saith God I will not doe so but I will doe that which is farr better for thee I will preserve thy soule in thy body for a time wherewith thou shalt doe me more service and that honourable service which shall be to thy eternall fame and glory and that done I will take away thy soule and body both and carry them to Heaven in a fiery Charriot Which brings in the second Observation 2. Obs That God oftentimes doth better for his servants then themselves desired he out-grants their own asking Thus he dealt by Solomon 1 Kings 3. That King had a large offer and promise from Almighty God That let him aske what he would it should be given him 1 Kings 3.5 He asked Wisedom that he might be able to govern that mighty people committed to his charge The Lord was so well pleased that he had asked this thing that he tells him That he hath not onely given him that which he ask't but he also gave him that which he had not asked Riches and Honour c. ver 13. and that in such abundance that no King ever had the like nor should have after him Jacob being to take a long Journey through dangerous wayes into a strange Country and being but ill provided with viaticum for such a Journey beggs of God That he would but grant him food and rayment and he should be happy he askes no more Oh if God will but give me Bread to eat and Rayment to put on how thankfull shall I be for it And if you look but a little farther in the Story to the 32. Chapter you shall finde how abundantly God answered his request with measure running over prest down and shaken together He gave him not onely Food and Rayment in his Journey but Wealth and Honour and Riches in abundance as he doth thankfully acknowledge ver 10. O Lord I am less then the least of all thy mercies for with my staffe came I over this bridge and loe thou hast made me two bands so farr doth his bounty exceed our very hopes and expectations As in Jael's entertainment of Sisera Judges 5. He asked Water and she gave him Milke And as Naaman to Gebazi He asked him one change of Rayment and one Talent of silver nay saith he take two Such is the bounty of our Heavenly Father that giveth abundantly above all that we can ask or think Ephes 4. We ask temporall blessings and he gives us spirituall earthly and he gives us heavenly He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life yea even for ever and ever Vses First It serves to admonish us to give unto God the Glory that is due unto his Name in this respect even the Glory of his bounty that delights in giving and is never weary of giving that loads us with his mercies and poureth his benefits upon us an inexhausted treasure a Fountain never drawn dry but continually springing up with new supplies of Grace and good things of all sorts to all them that seek them and to him for them Secondly 'T is much for the consolation of his poor Saints and servants though of themselves they have nothing nor are nothing but with the Laodiceans are poor and miserable and blind and naked yet as long as they have such a Heavenly Father they haue enough what can they want that have such a Magazine to goe unto such a Father to turn themselves unto in all their wants and necessities as willing as able to relieve and to supply them that taketh care for them and is engaged by promise to see they shall want nothing that is good for them All is yours and you are Christs and Christ is Gods What would they more Thirdly Here 's encouragement enough to goe boldly unto the Throne of Grace where the gate of mercy stands open and the Golden Scepter is held forth unto us with full assurance that we shall speed in our suits surely and if we have not it is because we ask not and if we ask and have not it is because we ask amiss Fourthly Let this teach us wisedom and good manners too in all our suits never to put them up but with submission to his will If Christ the Sonne of God did so well may we ever put in or at least tacitly imply Not my will but thy will be done Beware of limiting the holy one of Israel or prescribing what he shall give or in what measure or when or how or in what manner he shall answer our suits he may deny delay commute give less then we ask or more and all in great wisedom too and upon good reason The Disciples seeing Christ now risen from the dead and thereby having such an experiment of his power and glory will needs know Whether now he will restore the Kingdom to Israel which the Romans had lately taken from them Acts 1.6 7. And the two favourites James and John expecting such a Kingdom now to be set up put in betimes and bespake high places under him in it That the one may sit on his right hand and the other on his left in this Kingdom though it was their Mother which they put upon it to preferr the Petition yet that they had a hand in it appeareth by the indignation the rest of the Disciples took against them for this their ambition Christ lik't neither of these suits and therefore answers both accordingly To the former Non est vestrum To the latter Non est meum To the former It is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath kept in his own power To the latter To sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to those for whom it is prepared Mat. 20.23 Again in other cases he is pleased to over-grant the Petitions of his servants and to give them abundantly beyond their own asking as in the instances before given and in the Text The Lord doth not immediately take away the Prophets soule at his request but reserves it in his body for a time till they had done some more work which he had for them to doe And then he takes up both his soule and body in a wonderfull manner into Heaven in a fiery Charriot 2 Kings 2.11 I conclude this Petition of the Prophet and my discourse upon it in the words of the Prayer of the Church set forth and commended to us in our despised Liturgy as the conclusion of the Prayers of the second Service O Lord which knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking we beseech thee have compassion upon our infirmities and those things which for our blindness we cannot ask or for our unworthiness we dare not vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Spirit three Persons and one God blessed for ever he all Honour and Power Prayse and Glory as is most due for evermore Amen FINIS

blessed And those on the left hand the Sentence of Condemnation Ite maledicti Goe ye cursed So they shall goe into eternall life and these into everlasting fire I conclude this Discourse with the words of Saint Peter upon the same subject 2 Epist 3. chap. 11. ver Seeing all these things must come to pass what manner of people ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness And those of Saint Paul to the same purpose 2 Cor. 5.11 Considering the terrors of the Lord we admonish you What to doe To reconcile your selves unto God to goe quickly and make your peace with your adversary while you are in the way that is in this life before you dye and your soule be taken away to break off your sinnes by repentance that they may be blotted out and not be found upon the fyle against you in the day of account to make your accounts streight and ready that when the Master shall call for them you may give them up with joy to get oyle into your Lamps and your lights burning that you may be ready to enter in with the Bridegroome to purge your selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit by the sanctifying vertue of the holy Ghost and get your soules wash't in the blood of the Lambe that so when they shall be separated from the body by death you may with comfort and confidence commend them into the hands of God in the words of the Prophet and of the Text and say Lord take away my soule and he may own it and accept it and take it into the highest Heavens and assigne it a place among the holy soules of the Saints in light where it shall rest in joy happiness and glory for evermore And so we have now put up the Prophets Petition to Almighty God in his own words Lord take away my soule But there is no Petition but referrs to some Answer which leads us to enquire after the Answer to this What Answer did the Lord give to this his request Did he grant his desire by taking away his soule or no No he did not And why so First He had more work for him to doe before he meant to take him away He was to Anoint Huzael King of Syria Jehn King of Israel And Elisha Prophet in his roome It was after this that he had that great bussle with Ahab about Naboth's Vineyard and denounc't a heavy judgement from the Lord upon him for that his oppression and injustice which fell upon him accordingly And as great a controversie with Ahaziah his Sonne whom he sentenc't to death for seeking to the god of Ekron for help in his sickness And many other great things did he before God took him away Therefore the Lord would not grant this his request at this time though it seemed to be reasonable and modest To take away his soule he would not doe it yet he had more work for him to doe first Secondly If God had granted this his request now it had been much to his loss it had prevented his glorious assumption into Heaven in a fiery Charriot which honour he had afterward as we reade 2 Kings 2. Besides the glory that he got upon those two Kings Ahab and Ahaziah in sentencing them to death for their wickedness And upon the two Captains of Ahaziah in calling for fire from Heaven to devoure them and their fifties sent to take him 2 Kings 1. It had been much to his loss if God had granted him his request therefore he would not grant it to take away his life but sent an Angell with Provision to satisfie his hunger and his thirst and to preserve him from famishing in the Wilderness he had no worse Katerer 1 Kings 19.6 and afterwards taken up both body and soule into Heaven in a fiery Charriot From hence I rayse these two Observations The first That God doth not alwayes grant the Suits of his servants but sometimes may and doth for good reason deny them The second this That God doth oftentimes give unto his servants greater things then they aske he out-grants their own asking To the first Moses had a desire to goe into the Land of Canaan God would not suffer him He carried him up to the top of Mount Nebo where he might take a view of it but he would not grant he should goe into it but there he took away his soule Deut. 34.4 5. Saint Paul was a great favourite of Heaven and he Prayed again and again that the Messenger of Satan might depart from him yet was content to sit down without an Answer And when at last with much importunity he obtained an Answer it was not so directly to his request but onely a generall promise of Gods Grace to support him under the conflict My Grace is sufficient for thee For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me and at last he obtained this answer My Grace is sufficient for thee Supplicat primo Grace is denyed Supplicat secundo Grace is denyed again Supplicat tertio Grace is granted yet all this while he doth not gratifie him in granting what he requested in specie but granted him something els that he in his wisedom thought fitter for him My Grace is sufficient for thee Deus non semper dat ad voluntatem sed Deus dat at sanitatem God doth not alwayes give according to our will but God alwayes giveth for our weale as a Father speaks Deus audit misericorditer Deus non audit misericorditer When God heareth us it is in mercy when God heareth us not it is in mercy too Sometimes we in our ignorance ask such things as are not fit for us to receive sometimes such things as 't is not fit for him to give In both these cases it is no wonder if we ask and have not sometimes we ask amiss and then no marvaile if he deny us sometimes unseasonably and then no marvaile if he delay us Yet let not all this discourage from asking but let it make us First wise and prudent in framing our Petitions both for the matter and the manner of them To take to us words and goe to God to consider he is in Heaven and we on Earth and therefore to let those words be few but weighty Secondly To mark well the returns of our Prayers whether God hath answered them or no or how If he hath answered them in specie and directly then ther 's a speciall ground of Faith and farther confidence in God 2ly By speciall matter and occasion of prayse and thanksgiving I will hear thee and thou shalt prayse me Psal 50.15 And thirdly Great encouragement and invitation to Pray again and to goe with boldness to the Throne of Grace not doubting to obtain like help again in the time of need I am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the Voyce of my Prayer that he hath enclined his eare unto me Therefore will I call upon him as long