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A19716	The care of a Christian conscience Ten sermons on the 25 psalme, preached in Tewkesburie in the countie of Gloucester, By Richard Curtis.	Curteys, Richard, 1532?-1582.	1600 (1600)	STC 6134; ESTC S111010	79,468	216

them but theirs which are their neighbours but forasmuch as the Lord in one body hath bound vs we ought to be carefull to benefite our brethren and profite our neighbours to maintaine brotherly communion and equitie not to doe that to others which wee would not to bee done vnto our selues Doct. 2 2. Doct. In all our troubles and tribulations when the sorrowes of our hearts are enlarged let vs come to God by prayer humbly beséeching him to draw vs and deliuer vs from them all then shall our troubles when it séemeth méete to his heauenly wisedome haue an end The Reason is first it is his propertie for hee is a gratious and louing father Psalm 130. As a father hath pittie vpon his children so is the Lord mercifull to them that feare him Secondly he hath promised to heare the prayers of his Church and of euerie particular member thereof Psal 50.15 Call vpon mee in the day of trouble and I will heare thee and thou shalt glorifie mee Vse The vse is that wee exercise prayer at all times but especially in aduersitie séeing that it is the greatest meanes to attaine to comfort in affliction Dauid did vnfainedly powre foorth his complaints and sorrowes vnto God Hée was not benummed as infidels and incredulous which among the Christians like an huge streame lamentable it is to consider thereof do ouerflow Christendome this Land yea this Towne are If God handle them any thing roughly they thinke yea many times they say Sée this misfortune that is happened vnto me they looke no further Dauid did not so But he knew and was fully resolued that it behooued him to impute these thinges vnto God Had we learned this lesson we had profited well for one day I meane if we had practised it throughly as we ought to do For most can well enough confesse that diseases deaths and other miseries as warres plagues famines and all such things come of God but if it come to the proofe wée are amazed and not able to make this sound conclusion within our selues Well seeing that God visiteth and commeth home vnto vs it behoueth vs now to returne vnto him Hitherto wée haue like loose colts as it were flung into the aire wée haue wilfully runne astray from him and nowe with a rough bitte hee rayneth vs he shaketh his rodde at vs yea hée maketh vs to feele it therefore we must learne to stoope vnder his hand But contrariwise how deale wée in that behalfe If a man be afflicted any way either in the losse of his goods of his libertie of his life or be gréeued in spirite what will hée else doe but chafe and grind his téeth in grudging against God Wherefore no doubt if a man tell him he hath offended GOD he will easily grant it to bee true but hee hath no true remorse to restraine himselfe Wherefore Because wee haue but a confused conceite thereof Hereby it is euedent that few they are and smal is the number of persons that haue this lesson well printed in their hearts That all afflictions are Gods Archers and that hée is garded with them to shew himselfe to be our Iudge As much is to be said of the ordinary aduersities that GOD commonly inflicteth If people or a whole countrie bee touched with warre when pollings extortions and other outrages are there done how many people are there that thinke vpon the Lord Wee sée that all is out of order to our séeming yet wee consider not that God guideth the sterne When we sée such turmoylings we are admonished to marke and not so much the more the sacred Scriptures wherein GOD sheweth vs as in a looking glasse or rather as in a liuely picture that on what side soeuer man be afflicted it becommeth him to acknowledge the same to be the hand of GOD and especially if an whole country be plagued it must be acknowledged to be Gods visitation Wherefore when any such thing commeth let vs follow the example of Dauid to desire our good and gracious GOD to extende his holy hand and powre forth his bowels of compassion vpon vs. When we are scourged that we can to our thinking beare no more his heauie hand in afflicting vs let vs flie to our good God for succour And if we wéepe before him so it be with true lowlinesse surely there shall not one teare droppe from our eyes which shall not come to be accompted of in his presence For euery one of them are sacrifices according as it is said in the Psal 51.11 That a sorrowfull heart or an heart cast downe is a pleasant sacrifice to God If our teares sighes pantings and gronings tend to this ende and be as witnesses of our flying vnto God with all lowlinesse acknowledging that for as much as his hand is against vs and that our onely remedie is to beseech him to be mercifull vnto vs it is certeine he will greatly account of them Whosoeuer is wise wil ponder these things and he shall vnderstand the louing kindnesse of the Lord. The sorrowes of my heart are enlarged Text. Doct. 3 3. Doct. As our sinnes euen so shall our sorrowes increase 1. Reason New sinnes must haue new afflictions Examples are many in the sacred Scriptures Pharaoh and the Egyptians as they hardened their hearts in not suffering the Israelites to go into the wildernes to sacrifice to the Lord Exo. 7.8 9.10 so GOD sent plagues vpon plagues vpon them The ten Tribes Amos 4.6 And therefore haue I for your peruerting of Iustice and your idolatrie sent vnto you cleannesse of teeth in all your cities and scarcenesse of bread in all your places yet haue you not returned vnto me saith the Lord. vers 7. Also I haue withholden the raine from you when there was 3. moneths to the haruest I caused it to raine vpon one citie haue not caused it to raine vpon another citie c. Thus did the Lord by Moses presage Leuiticus 26. from the 14. verse to the 40. Deut. 28.15 to the ende The vse is that as we desire our sorrowes to be mitigated euen so we cease increasing heaping vp sinne vpon sin When we shall sée the whole world corrupted so that we are as it were among bryars and can sée nothing but euill examples let vs resist all such things Wherefore If wee be so lazie as to make excuse that because the world is wicked and froward wee may wel doe as others doe that is fond and foolish for Lot Iob and Ioshua are set before vs to condemne vs. For if Lot were so iust that hée not onely abstained from the grosse sinnes excepting drunkennesse and incest which hee committed as pride fulnesse of bread aboundance of Idlenesse and vnmercifulnesse and that namelesse sinne which they committed but that for their sinnes his soule was vexed from day to day in séeing their abominations If iust Ioseph abstained from that sinne of whoredome whereunto his mistresse not without promise of great