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A14849	The lot or portion of the righteous A comfortable sermon, preached at the Cathedrall Church of Glocester, vpon the fift day of August: Anno Domini. 1615. By Richard Web, preacher of Gods word at Rodborough in Glocestershyre.	Webb, Richard, preacher of God's word.	1616 (1616)	STC 25151; ESTC S102699	41,510	50

wherein troubles doe come are many and diuerse For sometimes they come in the morning sometimes at noone sometimes in the euening and sometimes in the night Sometimes in our infancie somtimes in our childhood sometimes in our youth sometimes in our middle-age sometimes in our olde-age sometimes in our dotage The sorts by which troubles do come are many and diuerse For some are the diseases of the bodie as the goute the stone the collicke the ague the feauer the toothach and the like Some are wants of outward things as of houses Cattell money Apparell Dyet Friends libertie and the like Some are losses of goods as when a man is robbed of his money of his plate of his clothes of his beasts of his seruants of his children and the like Some lastly to passe ouer other sorts are the cōmon plagues of the world as burnings by the fire as drownings by the water as infectings by the aire as deuourings by the Sword as destroyings by the pestilence as slanderings by the tongue and the like The parts to which troubles doe come are many and diuerse For somtimes they come vnto the soule somtimes to the bodie and sometimes both to the soule and body together Likewise in the bodie they come now and then vnto the head now and then to the bellie now and then to the backe now and then to the stomack now then to the arms now and then to the thighs now and then to the legs now then to the feete now then to the hands and now then in a word to all the ioynts and members of the body together The effects which troubles do bring forth at their comming are many and diuerse For somtimes they make men mery and sometimes againe they make them sad sometimes they make them pray sometimes againe they make them curse sometimes they make them quiet and somtimes againe they make them rage somtimes in a word they make them the worse somtimes again they make them the better Thus the troubles of the righteous are many Innumerable troubles saith Dauid haue cōpassed me i Psalm 40.12 The Church doth thus complain They haue oftentimes afflicted mee from my youth may Israel now say they haue oftentimes afflicted mee from my youth but they could not preuaile against mee The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made long surrowes k Psalm 129.1.2.3 And wee must saith Paul and Barnabas through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of God l Acts 14.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through many compressions or twistings together of the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth import For this cause afflictions are compared to waters because as one waue falleth vpon another so one trouble commeth after another m Psalm 42.7 I might make this more manifest vnto you by manifolde examples out of Gods word as by the example of Iacob of Ioseph of Iob others but at this instant I will giue you instance only in two namely in Dauid and Paul wherof the one is in the old Testament and the other in the new n 1. Sam. 17.34 A lyon you know came to Dauid to deuoure him a beare to teare him o 1. Sam. 17.41 a giant to kill him p 1. Sam. 20. 21. a king to behead him q 2. sam 15.12 a sonne to vnthroan him r 2. sam 20.10 a subiect to reiect him many s 2. sam 8.10 out-lādish princes to captiue or conquer him These were troubles yea many troubles but yet they were not all For besides these you may reade how his wiues were taken by the enemies like prisoners t 1. sam 30.5 how his concubines were defloured openly like whores v 2. sam 16.22 how his children were defiled with incest and murder like pagans w 2. sam 13.14.32 how his subiects were destroyed with pestilence and famine like beasts x 2. sam 21.1.24.15 how his souldiers were vp in a mutinie for to stone him like rebells y 1. sam 30. how his friends were in a confederacie against him like traitors z Psalm 41.9 55.12 lastly how hee himselfe was strangely handled both in body and soule by God himselfe like a cast-away a Psal 38.2 and 32.4 But to leaue him and to come to Paul in the 2. Epistle to the Corinthians and 11. chapter you may plainely see how manie his troubles were by his owne report who knew them best He had many labors many stripes He was often in prison he was neere vnto death many times Of the Iews he receiued 5. times 40. stripes sauing one He suffered shipwrack 3. times Night and day was he in the deepe Sea In iournying he was often in perill of waters in perill of robbers in perill of his owne nation in perill among the Gentiles in perils in the citie in perils in the wildernes in perill in the sea in perils among false brethren In wearines and painfulnes in warchings often in hunger thirst in fastings often in cold and nakednes Besides the things which are outward he was cumbred daily and had the care of all churches So that this is a cleere doctrine that the troubles wherevnto the children of God are subiect are many and diuerse Reas Now the reasons thereof are these First because they haue many sinnes For sinne is the generall and vniuersall cause of all troubles Man suffereth for his sinne saith Ieremy in the Lamentations b Lam. 39.3 And fooles saith Dauid by reason of their transgressions and because of their iniquities are afflicted c Psal 107.17 You may see more of this at your leisure in Psalm 40.12 in Esai 57.17 in Lament 1.22 and Iohn 5.14 God doth knowe that we are like dogges who so long as they are hungry they fasten their eyes vpon their maister but he no sooner casteth downe a crust or a bone but they looke downward run after it little regarding him who feedeth them So is it with vs so long as wee are kept vnder wee looke vnto the Lord our maister and haue a respect to his commandements but when we are full and laden with fatnesse we spurne with the heele and regard not the strong GOD of our saluation d Deut. 32.15 For this cause doth the Lord oftentimes send a deluge vpon the face of our earthly pleasures and throwe vs downe into the floods of teares that so thereby hee might extinguish the heate of vnlawfull desires within vs clense the corruptions of our sinfull liues and all to this ende that wee might not be condemned with the world but might be saued at the day of iudgement as the Apostle doth well obserue in his epistle to the Corinthians according to that which was quoted before the first Epistle the 11. chapter and the latter ende of the same Secondly because they haue many enemies For all the world doth hate them and the diuell and his power is

martyrem It is not the punishment but the cause that doth make a martyr Some are like to Ismaell of whom it is saide He shall be a wilde man his hand shall be against euery man euery mans hand against him x Gene● 16.12 Because they trouble others therfore they haue many troubles themselues But if any be railed vpon for the Name of Christ they are blessed and all those who suffer not as a murtherer nor as a thiefe nor as an euill dooer nor as a busie-body in other mens matters but as a Christian they are happy need not to be ashamed but may glotifie God in that behalfe y 1. Pet. 4.14.15.16 The second is the manner of bearing their troubles For righteous persons doe quietly vndergoe the same and blesse the Lord their God in the midst thereof saying with olde Ely It is the Lord let him doe what seemeth him good z 1. sam 3.18 With valiant Dauid carry the Arke of GOD againe into the Citie if I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me againe and shew mee both it and the tabernacle thereof But if he thus say I haue no delight in thee behold here am I Let him do to me as seemeth good in his eyes a 2. sam 15.25.26 And with patient Iob Naked came I out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I returne againe the Lord hath giuen and the Lord hath taken it blessed bee the Name of the LORD b Iob. 1.21 But vngodly persons doe breake out exceedingly and not onely seeke vnlawfull meanes to helpe themselues in their troubles as Saul resorted to the witch of Endor c 1. Cor. 10.13 and many enquire at them that haue a spirit of diuination and at the Sooth-sayers which whisper end murmure forsaking the liuing to goe to the dead and the Creator to goe to the creature d Esay 8.19 But they also storme and rage now and then like mad-men and withdrawe all their trust from the Lord the fountaine of all happinesse not praying vnto his Maiestie for succour and helpe but rather blaspheming his glorious name with their leaud wicked tongues as was obserued a little before out of the Reuelations The third and last is the ende what fruit doth follow vpon their troubles For the godly are bettered by them but the wicked are not Dauid other righteous men receiued goodnes from them as was proued before but Saul and other vngodly wretches remaine still in their sinfulnes notwithstanding them yea by them they grow worse and worse according to Pauls words when he saith Yea and all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution But the euill men and deceiuers shall waxe worse and worse deceiuing and being deceiued e Mi. 27.3.12.13 Whereunto agreeth that which the prophet Esay hath in these words they haue forsaken the Lord they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel to anger they are gone backward Wherefore should you be smitten any more for you fall away more and more the whole head is sicke and the whole heart is heauy f Esay 1.4.5 Now to conclude this point if the cause be holy for which you suffer if it be for God and a good conscience and not for your owne defaults or foolishnes if secondly you take your troubles quietly and possesse your soules with patience in the midst thereof relying onely vpon God and vsing no vnlawfull meanes for your helpe therein if lastly you be amended and made better by such chastisements as are laid vpon you so that now you doe become more deuout and religious in the whole course of your liues then euer you were before you may assure your soules that your case is good and thinke the better of your selues for these your troubles and not the worse They must be so many pledges and seales to you of your euerlasting happines Secondly seeing the troubles of the righteous are many righteous persons haue neede of great patience a little part or portion therof will not serue their turnes And therefore let all those who intend to be righteous indeede endeuour to the vttermost of their power to attaine to a good measure of patience which is like a priuy coate vpon the soule to saue it a marble pillar in the house to vphold it a strong post vnder the tree to stay it a pretious balme about the head to heale it and a two edged sword in the hand to defend it Doubtles Sampson neuer gained so much by his haire vpon his head and yet when his haire was on his head he did alwaies ouercome and was neuer ouercome as we shall gaine by patience to helpe vs in all our troubles For this will be a generall salue to vs for all our sores and as the lid about the eye is made to shut and open to saue the eye so this is placed in our soules by the Lord to guard and keepe our soules For as a light burden borne at the armes end weigheth heauier by much then a burden of treble weight if it be borne vpon the shoulders which are made to beare So if a man set impatience to beare his crosse which is not fit to beare it will start and shrinke and let the burden fall on his head like a broken staffe which promiseth to helpe him ouer the water and leaueth him in the ditch But if you put it to patience and set her to beare it which is appointed to beare she will vndergoe it and carry it away as nothing For she is like the harty spies that came from Canaan and saide Surely the Lord hath deliuered into our hands all the land for euen all the inhabitants of the countrey faint because of vs. g Ioshua 2 2● Or like to Caleb that stilled the people before Moses and said Let vs goe vp at once possesse it For vndoubtedly we shall ouercome it h Numb 13.31 So patience doth euermore hart vs on against all troubles that may bee and perswade our hearts that wee shall ouercome them well enough in the end She doth tell vs that it is nothing to fast nothing to watch nothing to read nothing to labour nothing to be enuied nothing to be slandered nothing to be buffeted nothing to bee imprisoned nothing in a word to be racked or to be put to death for the Lords cause Shee doth assure vs that we shal be more then conquerorstherin according to Pauls words in his epistle to the Romanes i Rom. 8.37 Labour then I beseech you for patience and follow the Apostles counsell in this repect when he saith Be patient therefore brethren vnto the comming of the Lord Behold the husbandman waiteth for the pretious fruites of the earth and hath long patience for it vntill hee receiue the former and latter raine Be yee also patient therefore settle your harts for the comming of the Lord draws neere k Iam. 5.7.8 And