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A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

haue afflicted his church whome albeit for a time he now and then suffer to runne on yet in the end his reuenging hand doth ouertake them they perish Wherefore we may well say with the Prophet Dauid Psal 58. 10. 11. The righteous shall reioyce when hee seeth the vengeance he shall wash his footesteps in the blood of the vngodly So that a man shall say Verely there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth Séeing thē we sée in all times and ages that almightie God auengeth the blood of his saints in whose cies their ●●ath is precious the continuall recording and recounting thereof with our selues shall make vs account it excéeding ioy when afflictions persecutions come vpon vs by Gods appointment For then we shall be assured that all our sorrowes shall be turned into ioyes Verily verily I say vnto you that ye shall weepe and lament and the world shall reioyce and ye shall sorrow but your sorrow shal be turned into ioy The proposition being ended contained in these words Confirmation Your sorrow shall be turned into ioy It followeth that I should speake of the confirmation and reason which is added for the proofe of the proposition Which confirmation is drawne from a similitude and comparison of a woman in child-birth respecting her throes and her ioyes A woman when she trauaileth hath sorrow because her houre is come but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe she remembreth no more the anguish for ioy that a man is borne into the world Wherein first it sée meth good by comparison to set downe the throes of a trauelling woman and secondly the ioyes For first commeth sorrow and then ioy that ioy may be the more accepted Among women the yoongest or at lestwise they that neuer felt the sorrow before are most impatient in their throes and they are as gréeuous vnto them Throes as pangs of death and oftentimes choose and wish for death rather then to endure them Trouble and affliction to them that haue liued in ioy and at ease Oh how bitter is this triall and how intollerable are their passions and griefe for a time So that it séemeth not to bee spoken without cause which the Prophet Ieremy saith Lam. 3. 27. It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth Because we can neuer begin too timely to be exercised vnder the crosse that when our afflictions grow greater and greater our patience also by experience may be stronger stronger Yoong heads want resolution and great matters must not be taken in hand without aduisement The hastie man neuer wants woe and likewise rashnesse hath his fall At the first what alteration what recantations what exclamations How many doubtful matters trouble our heads before we can get vp to the top of the hill and settle our selues to resolution Happie is the man that hath not fallen from his hope in the time of his triall The Apostles were first offended then scattered and long it was before they could throughly frame themselues to the triall Lord what a fight betwixt the spirit and the flesh before we can present our selues in the battell and in the face of the enemy to get a prize and winne the crowne Againe it is not one pangue and one throe and then deliuerance so many are the troubles of the righteous before God deliuer them out of all Some more some lesse according to euery ones abilitie or weakenesse and as God hath giuen the grace strength to beare and to endure them Fuily perswading with our selues that God in mercy will laie no more vppon vs then we are able to endure Some more some lesse and lightly then thickest when the houre of deliuerance is nearest and at hand And let vs comfort our selues for when our troubles are thickest then are they shortest For nothing that is violent is of long continuance Our Sauiour Christ in the greatest extremities throes and pangues and in the infinit number and huge heape of them as the sand of the sea and who can expresse hell torments crieth out My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee But anon after he quietly gaue vp the ghost saying most comfortably in the hearing of all the standers by All is finished Great and extreame are the pangues and throes of women but lightly a day or two endes them Our afflictions and sorrowes are but for a moment and then an enterance into glorie The trauelling woman in respect of her manifold throes sigheth and groneth much before she bee deliuered and heartily wisheth that her time were come so the godly in the trebled sorrowes of their persecutions sigh and grone and that with sighes which cannot be expressed desiring much to bee dissolued and to be with Christ the earth and all the creatures that are therein bearing them company It is now inough saith Elias the Prophet O Lorde take my soule for I am no better then my father And therefore we sigh saith the Apostle 2. ●or 5. 2. desiring to be cloathed with our house which is from heauen knowing that whiles we are at home in the bodie we are absent from the Lord making it our especiall choyce to remooue out of the bodie that wee may dwell with the Lord. The diuers throes which come without intermission procure great feare but it is only in a womanly heart Flesh and blood is alwaies trembling and where courage wanteth there are great feares Feares yea and crying out and skritching most pittiously that it would grieue ones heart to heare it Like as a woman with child saith y● Prophet Esay cap. 26. 17. that draweth neare to the trauel is in sorrow and crieth in her pains so haue we bene in thy sight O Lord. And here the patient minde of the godly passeth in extremitie of persecution who beyond all expectation can reioyce and clap their hands when as the wicked being put to the like tremble and quake at the sight and roare out for paine when they féele the smart The reason is that as God in iustice increaseth the paines of the one so in loue and mercy hee mitigateth and asswageth the sorrowes of the other that although in their owne nature they be bitter and extreme yet in a manner they are not felt Which is sometimes also séene in the trauell of a woman that when matters are thought to be impossible not only to her but to the midwife and the standers by so that all hope of life doth vanish when groning crying is turned to fainting then behold the suddaine helpe of God to relieue her and to bring her againe frō death to life to increase the wonder in the beholders and to giue them all cause to giue God the praise thanks For when we are weakest then is he strongest When shipwracke is made what shift is then vsed to recouer get to the shore for fear of death which is at hand and they that