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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

as difficult to restrain them from glorying boasting when riches doe increase See this in good Hezekiah Isa 39.1 who was not happie enough to enjoy his gold silver spices oyntments unlesse also he might shew it to the servants of Merodachbaladan So vaine are our natures that we never know we have enough till others know it so also Such hath also been the abundance of many among us in times of peace that their wealth delectable things have served onely to satiate their own eyes with reviewing and others with viewing Vaine men would not onely be rich but be esteemed so Now as in a Plethora of body so of the soule something must be taken from the whole left the whole perish Hezekiahs goods are shewed to the Babylonish Messengers and therefore God threatens that they shall be taken away by the Babylonians When we cannot be content with much without shewing it to others we must be content with lesse for shewing it to others 'T is not onely justice but wisdome in God to have that stollen from us which otherwise would steale our hearts from God If therefore the Lord hath dealt with thee as with Hezekiah get his patience saying Good is the Word of the Lord. Know that that is of most worth which is not worth shewing We cannot shew our fulnesse to others without discovering our emptinesse to God Let not him that is rich glory in his riches for his glorying in them may be the onely meanes to deprive him of them XLI VVHen the pride of Israel did testifie against it selfe Isa 3. the Lord tooke from her her delectable pleasant things Of all sinnes God doth and will resist pride for that doth most resist him That being followed will depose him and therefore he will follow to depose that The mother of pride is usually plentie now this daughter would in time devoure the mother did not God bring her downe As Israels so Englands pride doth testifie against her and therefore as he dealt with the daughters of Israel he will deale with the daughters of England Because the daughters of Sion are haughtie therefore he will smite with a scab the crown of their head he will take away their bravery and tinkling ornaments Thus shall our sorrow for the losse be more then the comfort in the injoying That which was the pride of many is now become their shame Those things which in possessing yeeld most comfort at parting produce most sorrow Falst objects of love yeeld false comforts and true fears XLII AS nature is content with little for food so would it be with as little for rayment But the excesse in one is as great as the excesse in the other Dives did not onely fare sumptuously every day but was also clothed in purple and fine linnen Leaves and skins were our first parents array rayment was to them a shame though it be to us a glory Man had not knowne himselfe naked had he not sinned Garments then are onely a covert for that which sin laid open If clothing therefore followed mans misery I see not how its excellency should truly further mans happinesse Such adorned bodies may have naked soules If ever I am ambitious of cloathing it shall be of those garments of salvation which will alone make me glorious within I scorn such array wherein I shall seem admirable to men and abominable to my God XLIII TO all things there is an appointed time Eccles 3.6.8 says Solomon A time to lose and a time to keep a time for warre and a time for peace God is the Lord of times and seasons and these times through his disposing have a successive intercourse in this life Yet spiritually all times are one to a true beleever for in times of warre he finds peace when the Assyrian is in the land Christ is their peace and in times of losing they are gainers for as the outward man like the house of Saul decreaseth the inner man like that of David waxeth greater But then in the next life when time shall be no more there will bee nothing but gaining and keeping no losing nor warres and discord there but peace and concord XLIV IN the history of Joseph we read Gen. 45. that hee sent Waggons and provision for his father Jacob and his family having procured and reserved the land of Goshen for him till his comming Now lest Jacob might hardly be perswaded to leave behinde him his houshould goods the King of Aegypt bids him not regard that stuffe for the Land of Aegypt was before him Joseph was a type of Christ as well in his low estate when he was sold as in his high estate when hee was able to give Now Christ hath invited me to forsake all and come unto him having provided and promised me a Goshen a mansion hee also will send me enough to maintain me by the way Why then should I regard such stuffe as will cumber me by the way and be no comfort to me at the end I will be content with ordinary provision in the way when I am sure to finde extraordinary entertainment at home XLV THe Church is described Rev. 12. to bee clothed with the Sunne and to have the Moon under her feet By the Sun is meant Christ by the Moon all earthly things by being under feet notes subjection shame disesteeme Those new converts therefore in the Acts did not cast their mony into the Apostles laps or put it into their hands but threw it down at their feet as so much dung fitter for trampling on then handling But as the Church doth so the wicked doe the contrary putting Christ the Sunne under feet and the Moon on their heads Though for the present use I may have the Moon in my hands yet in opposition to the Sun it shall be at my feet I will esteeme all these sublunary things as losse for Christ For all things are so farre under us as we are above our selves He that is clothed after this womans fashion shall surpasse others as farre as the Sunne doth the Moone in glory XLVI VVHere onely temporall things are enjoyed by a man that man is in danger of being enjoyed by them such objects are likely to engross his affections and desires But when by losses a divorce is made from the first love another is sought for The heart will more easily bee brought to affect a more abiding object Prosperity dilates the affections and makes a man lose himselfe in the creature but adversity unites and gathers in all the powers of the soule and settles them on God more fervently and lastingly Either we must leave earthly things or they leave us before we affect or possesse spirituall The children of Israel had spent their Garlick and Onions before they tasted any Manna XLVII ALL things are yours 1 Cor. 3.21 saith the Apostle all things present and and to come yea having nothing to see they possesse all things by faith Beleevers have a

also himself bids them forsake all that would follow him and this his precept was seconded by the practice of many in those times However what they did doe in effect wee must doe in affection depart with all for Christ Hab. 2.6 That person who lades himselfe with thick clay makes himselfe too heavie to ascend up to Christ The Emblematist describes him fitly having one hand winged for heaven the other deprest w th agreat weight As then it is dangerous to possesse all and want Christ so it is most safe to lose all thereby to win Christ or keep him In this case then as I am not bound to cast away my estate yet I wil suffer it either to be taken away from me as a snare or offered up to Christ as a sacrifice for the further I am parted from earth the neerer I am to heaven The more empty I am the fitter I am for contemplation though unfit for action IV. THough poverty and want be the portion of some of the godly yet it is not the condition of all some are not onely heires of a crowne hereafter but have also large pledges of Gods love in the things of this life and that not onely to saciety but to superfluity This the abundant estates of Abraham Job Jacob Joseph David and Solomon doe abundantly testifie who were all good men in Gods eye and great men in the world The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof The Lord is their God and thus are they made heires of the promises and the promises are not onely of the life to come but of this present Yet seeing these things are subject to moth theef rust if this were all their portion they would esteeme themselves no wayes happier then others God then though he gives them this for their maintenance hee reserves the inheritance for them The Lord though he laies out much for his people here yet he lays up more for them hereafter Thus though they have much in possession they have more in reversion If then God be mine though I am not rich both wayes I am the latter What I have not in feeling I have in faith V. THe book of the creatures is a large volume such as very few do learne throughly Now as in some bookes there are many guilded and red Letters but more black so though in the creature there seem much beauty and glory yet the black dismall discontents sorrows and vanitie that ariseth are more The front of every leafe is not fuller of content then the backfide is of vexation Solomon though he were blessed with a confluence of all outward things yet his tongue nor penne could be bribed so as to speake nothing of the evill of them He wrote other bookes of the creatures vertue varietie glory yet the Lord would have those concealed and that onely reserved for us which speaks of its vanitie and vexation it being the fittest lesson for us to learne We should all desire to have some insight in the whole volume and the best School-master to teach us herein is affliction VI. AS the creatures glory declare much of God so its vanitie declareth much to us For when the creature becomes a vexing creature to us it is the rod of God and this rod is a speaking rod Mic. 6.9 He are yee the rod and he that appointed it It speakes to us of Gods justice in punishing of us of his mercy in moderating the punishment of his power and glory in bringing us out of tentation Every blow is a legible character of Gods hand where ever it falls in body estate good name and like Jonathans arrowes are sent to warne and direct us what to avoyd and what to doe Unprofitable and unfit Schollers they are for the School of Christ that can learne nothing out of his Crosse that are taken up with the joy of outward things as Peter James at the glory of Christs transfiguration saying Mat. 17.4 It is good to be here but when the Crosse doth come doe either deny Christ with Peter or forsake him with the other Apostles Happy therefore is the man whose eare is opened to both these kinds of Instructions As we ought to observe how the creatures declare the glory of God so also when the Lord by them declareth our sin and his wrath for sinne then let every one that hath eares heare VII THat God is the Author of every good and perfect gift is a Tenent that none but an Atheist in opinion can expresly deny yet which all that are Atheists in practise doe not truly know This appears when most sacrifice to their own nets others prophanely say with him in the Prophet By my own hand have I procured me this others more blinde ascribe all to the blinde goddesse Fortune crying her up as strongly as the Ephesians did their Diana Though this be the practise of the children of this world yet a childe of God knows that what he hath he hath received he seeeth God in every thing apprehendeth God above all receiveth all as proceeding from him saying still with Jacob Gen. 27.20 The Lord brought it unto me and with Job The Lord giveth Whatsoever I have then or shall receive I will labour to see God in it thus will the gift draw me neerer to the giver and the plentifull showres of his favours powred downe upon me shall make me more fruitfull and abundant in the work of the Lord. VIII GOd the giver hath gifts of a two-fold nature 1. Gifts of his right hand Prov. 3.16 as graces here and glory hereafter these are peculiar to his people onely the childrens meate 2. Gifts of his left hand as riches honours All sorts of men partake of this sort of gifts Esau Laban Nabal Belshazzar had as large a portion in them as any Thus all things fall alike to all neither can good or evill love or hatred be known by them For if there were no other disting uishing evidence of Gods love then these fading tokens then were the men of this world yea those Americans and Indians who abound in wealth of all men most happy They whose portion is onely in this life have it larger then others whereas the portion of Gods people is not like Benjamins messe larger then their brethren but lesser Yet here 's their qomfort that what they receive from God is extended to them by Gods right hand whereas others receive what they have from Gods left hand Laeva porrigere was among the Latines an unwelcome kinde of giving Whatsoever gift the Lord bestowes upon me if I might have my choice it should be that of his right hand Let his right hand fall on my head his left on others So though my portion be not the greater it will be the better IX GOD is my portion says David Psa 119.57 Deut. 32 9. Yee are my portion and inheritance says God How happie and rich doth the Lord think himself in us as