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A15580	The saints aduantage or The welfare of the faithfull, in the worst times A sermon, preached at the Hage the 18. of May, 1623. before the most high, and mighty princesse, Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of Bohemia, Countesse Palatine of the Rhene, &c. By Iohn Wing, an vnworthy minister of the gospel and pastor to the English Church at Flishing in Zealand.	Wing, John, of Flushing, Zealand.	1623 (1623)	STC 25847; ESTC S120119	54,386	92

worse because whereas the carkase is consumed in the earth anoye's none their name liue's like carryon aboue ground vnburyed and stinks more and more strongly from one age to another and shall liue to rott through all generations to come for ever till they shal be againe raysed out of rottennes to liue and meete their living loathsome names before the Lords judgments seate who shall then and there put an end to both by throwing both into the bottomlesse pitt of endles perdition they being the men that must rise to fall to everlasting shame and contempt To particulate Cayne Saul Ahitophell Ahab Iudas or the rest of that beaad-role of branded persons whome the living and most glorious God hath marked for remarkeable infamy were not to much purpose and we haue had occasion to note them before it sufficeth to know that their glory is with shame and that all the reputation they haue had with men at the greatest hath but made their reproach greater with God Men haue heaped honourable titles of greatnes vpon them to dignify and renowne them which haue beene but the poore vapours of their ayery words breathed out either for feare or for flattery and haue vanished in the very vtterance and God hath laden them with heavy and most ignominious appellations which his mouth having spoken and his pen having written must remayne to cleaue for ever vnto that most vnworthy miserable memoriall which the world hath of them who knowe's them by no names or titles but only by those that are worse then none at all And touching both in this last difference it may be well and safely observed that the worse words the world hath given Gods saints the better and more glorious titles are given them of God himself and the more men haue renowned the other the more hath the Lord abhorred them and made them abhominable to all eyes and eares His owne son our saviour when in the dayes of his flesh he dwelt among vs had as bad yea and farre worse language given him then any that ever lived he that reades his life knowe's how oft he was abused and most basely vilyfied he was a Samaritane he was mad he had a divell c but the Lord God his father Ioh. 20.17 Phil. 2.9 and our father hath given him a name aboue all names and honor and glory aboue all principalityes and powers and so much the more gloriously exalted him by how much among men he was become the scorne and contempt of the people And in like manner doth he deale with Christians as he did with Christ according to the eminency of their piety for which the greater it is they suffer greater reproach he giue 's them more excellent glory even in the eyes of men as we might shew in many examples And this is our sixt and last Advantage And now beloved and longed for in the Lord what shall we say to these things here we haue had a short and summary survey of those singuler and celestiall advantages that the Lords people haue even at their worst of all vngodly men at their best I say a short and summary survey of them for if we should enlarge our selues in the discovery of them so farre as we might when should we haue done or where should we end or if we could manifest them as they are which mortality cannot doe there could be neither end nor measure of our discourse nay it might be truly sayd of these excellent things as the Evangelist speaketh of the rest of the acts and sayings of Christ which are vnwritten Ioh. 21.25 that the whole world would not contayne the bookes c that must contayne the full declaration of those infinite things wherein the true comfort of the saints doth consist for they are in truth vnvtterable nay indeede vnsearchable as the Apostle doth plainely signify when he saith he heard being wrapt into the third heaven things not to be vttered And if of the mysteryes and secrets of the gospell which elswhere he speaketh of much more may it be most truly sayd of the consolation benefit and reward of the faithfull and persecuted professors of the same that they are such as eye hath not seene 1 Cor. 2.9 eare hath not heard nor haue entred into the hart of man to apprehend the naturall man is meant in the former the spirituall may be vnderstood in the latter For grace is as vnable mixt with infirmity to comprehend heavenly things that are glorious as nature voyd of grace is to conceive aright and reach those that be holy and gracious Why then what shall we say to these heavenly things thus heaped vp together to make vs wholy happy if the Lord haue layd them vp in his booke should not we lay them vp in our bosomes blesse him abundantly who hath soe over abundantly blessed vs with these benedictions which are sent vs soe to sweeten the bitterest cup of our calamity that we might drinke the bottome of it with all cheerfullnes and rejoycing what sayd the good Prophet of God once in a case of this kinde Rejoyce O heaven and be joyfull O earth breake forth into prayses O yee mountaines for the Lord hath comforted his people and shewed mercy vpon his afflicted and even this may and ought all Gods people now to speake considering the pemisses in the particulers that we haue revealed How came the good Christians of the primitiue times when persecution was soe sore and extreame not only as was noted before to rejoyce but even to glory in tribulation Ro. 5.3 Heb. 10.34 Act. 5.40 41. to suffer with joy yea with much joy the spoyling of their goods to goe from the consistory with bloody shoulders yet glad harts rejoycing that were accounted worthy to vndergoe the worst for Christ And the Apostle who was so abundant aboue all the rest not only in the labours but in the suffrings of the gospell 2 Cor. 7.4 also telleth vs playnly Great is my rejoycing I am full of comfort I haue not only abundant joy but joy over-abundant in all my tribulations These are strange words yet true and such as he saith he hath already in posession and not only in some lighter afflictions but in his heavyest distresses even in all his tribulations To haue Great joy To be full of comfort yea To be over-full or to over-abounde is such a strayne of speech as never fell from man by any sence or reason of flesh and blood but only from the spirit of God and the power of his grace which had perswaded his soule of the sweetnes of this saving truth that we teach that a man at his worst should not only be full but overflow with comfort and joy which is more then any wicked man can say of his best for all the happines vnder heaven cannot fill much lesse over-fill the hart of man he cannot be satisfyed much lesse can he be glutted indeede or surfett intruth

THE SAINTS ADVANTAGE OR The welfare of the FAITHFVLL in the worst times A Sermon Preached at the Hage the 18. of May 1623. before the most High and Mighty Princesse ELIZABETH by the Grace of GOD QVEENE of Bohemia Countesse Palatine of the Rhene c. By IOHN WING an vnworthy Minister of the gospel and Pastor to the English Church at FLISHING in ZEALAND 2 Cor. 1.3.4 3. Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the Fathers mercies and God of all consolation 4. Who comforteth vs in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we our selues are comforted of God AT FLISHING Printed by Martin Abraham vander Nolck dwelling at the signe of the Printing-house 1623. TO THE Most High and Mighty Princesse ELIZABETH by the grace of God QVEENE of Bohemia Countesse Palatine of the Rhene c. IOHN WING Pastor of the English Church at Flushing in Zealand wisheth all encrease of grace and peace whatsoever may enlarge all present happines on earth and assure that which is eternall in heaven MOST GRACIOVS PRINCESSE Inasmuch as it pleased your most excellent Majesty to vouchsafe a Gracious eare to the weake vtterance of these meditations I am comfortablely encouraged to present a more compleate discovery of them to your Princely eyes not that I account them worthy as they are myne of the least looke of Majesty but trusting wholy to that clemency favour which I humbly entreate may thyne from you vpon this my poore endeavour it having next to the honour of the most high God her only respect and ayme at your Majesties present and furture condition a true type wherof is here tendered by him whose soule doth daily sue vnto the King of Kings that as he hath measured vnto and you haue shared with Moses and David many tribulations in the entrance of their honour and renowne and after made them so much the more famous admired victorious So it might please the same Lord to alott you the sweete happines of their issue which was most blessed and glorious to alay the distaste of that bitter beginning which vnto nature seemeth somewhat tarte and greivous and together with that peerelesse greatnes which they enjoyed on earth the same glory and joy which they posesse in heaven The Great God of heaven and earth blesse with the richest abundance combination of his rarest and best blessings your Royall Head Husband your Highnes all your hopefull Plants Princely posterity that your Crowne may yet flourish your enemyes may ever perish and you all may be made mirrours of Majesty and Royalty to all generations Your Majesties in all duty to be commanded IOHN WING To my worthy and Right welbeloved Freinds Maister Caleb Cockcroft Treasurer to the famous followship of Merchant Adventurers of England resident at Delft And vnto Maister Iohn Barkelay Maister Arthur Tyndall Maister Iohn Quarlys Maister William Clarke Bretheren of the same Society Iohn Wing wisheth all present welfare and prosperity o● earth which may further their future felicity in heaven HOwsoever I haue hereto-fore saluted your whole society in that vnfayned affection which I beare vnto you all yet n being in some particuler engagements more bound to some in speciall then to all in generall I presume vpon your kinde acceptance of this poore manifestation of my loue to you having had large experience of yours to me A small token is welcome from a true freind and I nothing doubt but this shal be the better entertayned not only because it is sent from such a one but also for that it contayneth matter of Advantage and that as I trust I may boldely say to your selues as vnto those who desyring and endeavouring to be of that number to whome these most worthy preiveledges doe appertayne shall in your due seeking be right sure to enjoy those many most blessed benefitts which are here by vs discovered and by God himself entayled to all his faithfull ones for ever And inasmuch as it is noe good decorum to make a long Epistle to a litle booke I am more breife with you then otherwise my loue would let me be which could much more enlarge it self if it were meete at present soe to doe But what is not convenient now to say to your selues I shall not cease to vtter in my poore requests for you vnto him who is Lord over all and rich vnto all To whose grace loue I leaue you and all that are yours beseeching him to enrich you with all the graces of his good spirit that may giue you a blessed and abundant entrance into his glorious Kingdome by Iesus Christ both your Lord and ours in whome I rest Yours vnfaynedly for any good to my vtmost ability IOHN WING From my house in Flushing March 7. 1623. To the Christian Reader BEloved in the Lord seing promise is debt and performance alone the only discharge that can giue plenary satisfaction I must at present deale as poore debtors oft-times are enforced to pray where they cannot pay and to entreat yet longer time for that which was due long a-goe It is neere foure yeares since I began to engage my self vnto thee for the perfecting of my matrimoniall treatise then in part published To this day I confesse I haue not finished the same for I mett with such cumbrance hynderance and inconvenience in that litle which was but as a praeface to the rest that I durst not adventure to set vpon the remaynder being the farre greater part Yet I am not out of all hope ere long to doe it and in the meane time I thought good to send this Sermon abroad wherein I haue endeavoured the cure of one of the most common sores that hath come to my observation in these evill times to wit the hard conceit that not only the vngodly doe harbour of Gods people but they of themselues especially if outward things goe hard with them the times doe not favour but distaste and frowne vpon them Beholde here a man that was taught of God to know so much of the very meanest estate of the members of Christ that he willingly left to be mighty in the worlde to make one among them in their meanesse misery and by his practise made it manifest that his perswasion was quite contrary to the base opinion of men touching the saints of God And if he were led vnto this excellent estimation by extraordinary inspiration from God is it not extraordinary impiety to thinke or speake otherwise of them Surely soe farre as God did informe the one Satan doth infatuate the other Reade and ponder the particulers but first correct these few errors of the Printer and pray to that God for me to whome I am and shal be a suitor for thee for thy present and future welfare Farewell in the Lord in whome I am thyne IOHN WING ERRATA Pag. 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