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A62463	The soules solace in times of trouble with severall particular remedies against despaire, collected out of the Psalmes of Daivd, and some short meditations and ejaculations upon the attributes of God, the Lords Prayer, and the tenne commandments / by F. Thorne ...	Thorne, Francis, 17th cent.	1643 (1643)	Wing T1057A; ESTC R4857	78,097	150

foole this night shall they take away thy soule 4. Hab. 2.5 They cannot give content to the appetite of man much lesse able are they to satisfie the soule Lastly there must be a redde rationem villicationis tuae rich men must answer their receits thy must be called to account how they have used the talent given them In things transitorie and mutable keepe as neere as thou canst a just decorum and temper in thy soule miles Christi non divitiis tumet nec contrabitur paupertate sol non urit per diem neque luna per noctem Ambr. sup beat immaculat winde not up the pinnes of thy affections too high not let them downe too low In secundis nemo confidat in adversis nemo deficiat alterna sunt vices r●rum Sence in Thyeste lib. 30. nat quaest let not peace and prosperity make thee so merry as to forget thy God nor adversity so sorrowfull as to forget thy selfe in seeking power some have lost libertie in obteining power over others many have lost power over themselves prosperity oftentimes slaies adversity somtime saves the soule riches and pleasure cast Dives into hell misery and affliction exalted Lazarus into heaven If thou art in poverty or any other calamity looke as well upon such as want what thou injoyest as on those which have what thou wantest In prosperity flatter not thy selfe with any certaine perpetuitie riches have wings in adversity Psal 27.16 promise not thy selfe a sudden delivery for this is as dangerous to the soule as predigestion is to the body Esay 28.16 sanctus non prafestinabit i. e. ex impatientia infedilitate non ad res praesontes confugiet nec festinatione praepostera Deum antevertet Iuven. God will deliver his people from their troubles and calamities whatsoever in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though not in our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the waters of Mara be never so bitter God hath a tree to sweeten them Exod. 15.25 let the rivers of Iericho be never so unsavorie God hath a salt to season them let the sorrows of this life be never so sower God both can and will in his good time sweeten them When thou entrest into the way of christianity promise not thy selfe too much ease and securitie worldly honour and heavenly wisedome like the oake and the olive delight not to grow together and to seeke ease and tranquilitie in this world is to seeke Christ in Golgatha the living among the dead mandere qui panem jubet in sudore diurnum Non dabit aeternas absque labore dapes we must worke out our salvation with feare and trembling If Ionathan will surprise the garisons of the Philistines he must climbe up with hand and foot betweene two rocks if David will be sonne in law to King Saul 2 Sam. 14. hee must bring a hundred foreskins of the Philistines for a dowrie 1 Sam. 18. if Iacob wil have Rachel he must serve fourteene yeares if any man will be the Disciple of Christ hee must deny himselfe take up his crosse and follow him there must be no cyphers in Gods Arithmeticke no mures in his Grammer no dumbe shews on his Stage no loiterers in his Vineyard there is alwaies in Christianity a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a furthermore and the motto of Charles the fifth plus ultra our life must not bee like Nero his five first yeares full of peace and hope For we must worke out our salvation with feare and trembling Regard not the malicious oppositions of wicked men it was the case and condition of thy Saviour and therefore it may well be thine The disciple is not above his Master Secondly it is a signe that thou art of another world simile simili gaudet if ye were of the world saith Christ the world would love you Contraria se mutuo expellunt light and darknesse Christ and Beliall cannot agree together Non bene conveniunt nec in una sede morantur Sheep and Wolves cannot feed quietly together Lastly feare not the tyranny of men nor divells it is the advice of thy Saviour Be not afraid of him that can kill the body this is the worst they can doe nay they cannot doe this without divine permission Wild. 3.1 2 3 4. Quis ei de saeculo metus est cui in saeculo Deus tutor est non labefaciat mentem humana infestatio sed corroboret fidem divina protectio Cyp. de orat Dom. the Divell is chained up cannot reach thee the power and policy of his agents is limited and cannot hurt thee 1 Chron. 29 11 12 13. Balaam cannot curse the fire cannot burne the Lions cannot prey the Divells cannot enter into filthy swine without leave and permission Omne sub regno graviore regnum est Senec. Wicked instruments may happly being the nearer and soorner to thy Saviour but they shall never separate thee from him I am perswaded saith Saint Paul Rom. 8 38. that neither principalities nor powers c. All creatures both in heaven and earth are at the command of God Psal 97 9. the Stars shall fight against Sisera the Sun shall stand still in Gideon and the Moon in the valley of Ailon Iudg. 5.20 Iosh 10.13 if Ioshua fight against the Amorites 2 K ng 19. If Zenacherib come with an innumerable host against the people of Israel the Angels in heaven shall fight against them the red sea shall overwhelme Pharaoh and all his Host the sea and the fish in the sea fought against the superstitious Spaniard Anno 1588. enemie to God and his true Religion the winde and the water I say overcame that unvincible army prepared for our destruction the earth at the command of God opened her mouth and swallowed Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16 30. an army of frogs or lice sent from God is able to dismay Pharaoh and his host God is omnipotent and hath a liberty in the use of his creatures praeter naturam for of him and through him and for him are all things inferiour Magistrates have their authority from superiours God hath being primo quod primum est suo genere causa reliquorum all things are of him as maker or efficient cause all things are through him through his care providence power and goodnesse all things are maintained governed and ordered all things are for him for his use and service for the effecting of his good will and pleasure Rom. 11 35. and to him who is Lord over all God blessed for ever be glory and praise world without end Amen Amen To the inquisitive Reader Saepe sub agresti latitat sapientia veste INquire not what I am Gods gifts are free With able parts mean men adorn'd may be Sound braines may be within a rugged felt An honest heart within a leather belt Alwaies faire birds have not the sweetest noates Arts are not alwais deckt in velvet coates From highest trees

Lord are not grievous Psal 119.40 and that his commandements are not burthensome for frst The regenerate are partakers of the divine nature of Christ whereby they are inabled to doe and suffer all things Credenti omnia sunt possibilia Iohn 1.5 all things are posible to them that beleeve Secondly they have spirits well qualified humble and meek minds loving and tractable dispositions towards Christ and love takes away difficulty leve fit quod bene fertur onus love makes a heavie burthen light Thirdly they have Christ the head of all the faithfull as fellow-members to sympathize with them in their sufferings solamen miseris socios h●buisse doloris they have the God of hosts within them the hosts of the Lord without them the God of hosts and all the hosts of God for them if men dare offend God will and can defend What need Mattheus care if an angry Peter cut off his eare if Christ be by to cure it againe What need Iob feare the roaving Sabbeans and robbing Chaldeans if Gods protection uphold him What need Lot feare to bee carried away captive if Abraham follow to redeem him What need a Christian feare to sustaine trouble sorrow need sicknesse or any other adversity since Christ the Son of God will make his yoake easie and God our tender Father will in his due time both ease release us Yea God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost are ever ready to apply their helping hands and wee commonly say multorum manibus grande levatur onus many hands make light worke Yet in the holy Scriptures we finde that many godly and Religious men through the imbecility of the flesh the extremity of paine and strong assaults of the Divell thereupon have been for a time so possessed with a spirit of heavinesse th●t they have appeared to themselves and others for a time as men utterly lost and forsaken and by this means have beene made unfit to serve God and scandalized their Religion to prevent this and such like evills which might hence arise I have in this small Treatise proposed to your serious consideration First the brevity of affliction or difference between the Crosse and the Crowne Secondly the benefit that comes to the soule by affliction Thirdly what Christ hath suffered for us Fourthly the ends why God afflicts his people Fifthly the author of affliction And these five thoughts as Davids five smooth stones being rightly placed in the sling of the heart and levelled by the steady hand of faith will be sufficiently able to beat down the great Goliah of our soules despaire first consider the difference between the Crosse and the Crowne the brevity of suffering the perpetuity of reigning afflictions are but for a short time during the time of this present life I count Rom. 8.18 2 Cor. 12. saith the Apostle c. Therefore the time of affliction is sometime termed a day of triall sometimes a night of sorrow Heavinesse may endure for a night saith the Psalmist but joy comes in the morning sometimes to an houre of watching as Christ said to his three Disciples Matth 26.40 Can you not watch with me one houre Besides this the burthen of afflictions 2. Tim. 2 12. 2 Cor. 1.2 3 4 5. hath consolations qualifying As the sufferings of Christ doe abound so his consolations much more Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake Let Stephen have his eyes in prayer to see the heaven opened and Jesus standing at the right hand of God and he shall nor be moved with the stones which the Jewes violently throw at him Let Moses see him which is invisible and he shall not feare Pharaoh but rejoyce rather to suffer with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Let Paul and Silas consider for whose sake they are imprisoned and they will sing and rejoyce in the midst of their sufferings Secondly the power of the oppressor is limited his daies are numbred I have said you are Gods but ye shall dye like men the rod of the wicked shall not alwaies rest on the backe of the godly God will either cut off the oppressor in his fury or take the oppressed to his mercy Statutum est omnibus semel mori It is appointed for all men once to dye Quicquid generatur corrumpitur omne ortum interit Here is our comfort then if we dye we shall live like Angells if we live we shall see our enemies dye like men post hac ve●it judicium and then commeth judgement Christ our blessed Saviour God and Man will one day come to exercise a judiciall course against them otherwise God should be unjust in rewarding and the godly of all men most miserable Secondly Rom. 5.4 Luke 24 26. Rom. 8.17 Acts 14.21 Heb. 12.6 7. consider the benefit that comes by affliction Via crucis est via lucis the crosse is the high way to the Crowne we must goe through Rethshemesh to Betheden through many tribulations into the Kingdome of heaven Affliction to the soule is as physicke to the body more wholesome then toothsome for although simply in it selfe it be not good yet being prescribed directed and ordered by the wise hand of God it oftentimes proves very usefull and advantagious to the soul David speakes upon his owne experience Psal 119.71 that it was good for him and Paul affirmes the same There is no affliction for the present joyous but it brings forth the quiet fruits of righteousnesse Adam in the garden of pleasure was overcome by the Serpent when Iob upon the dunghill of misery was more then a conquerer Affliction makes men mourne for their sins beati sunt qui l●gent Blessed are they which mourn Affliction makes men humble and humility makes the soule happy Deus resistit superbis dat gratiam h●nilibus God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble Afflictions make men meek beati sunt mites Blessed are the meek Psal 3.25 for they shal inherit the earth Dirigit mansuetes injudicio docebit mites in vias suas Affliction makes men hunger and thirst after righteousnesse Beati qui ●surium Blessed are they which hunger c. Affliction doth purge and purifie the soule beati mundo corde Blessed are the pure in heart c. Heb. 12.1 2 4. Thirdly Inspice vulnera pendentis Christi sanguinem morientis pretium redimentis cicatrices resurgentis cap●t habet inclinatum ad osculandum cor aptum ad diligendum brachia extenta ad amplexandum totum denique corpus expositum ad redimendum Aug. de pas Christi Consider what Christ hath done and suffered for thee Multa dixit mira fecit durapassus est verba durlora verbera how he was incarned and assumeth the nature not of pure and immortall Angels but of sinfull mortall men how he came from Galilee to Nazaret from a Region to a hamlet from