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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40658	Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2420; Wing F2476; ESTC R210330	100,765	342

there was a Royall Ship called the Revenge which having maintained a long fight against a Fleet of Spaniards wherein eight hundred great Shot were discharged against her was at last faine to yeeld but no sooner were her men gone out of her and two hundred fresh Spaniards come into her but she suddenly sunke them and her selfe and so the Revenge was revenged Shall livelesse pieces of Wood answer the Names which men impose upon them and shall not reasonable soules doe the same But of all Names I pray God that never just occasion be given that we be Christened Icca●od but that the glory may remaine in our Israel so long as the faithfull Witnesse endureth in Heaven And so much of those words Call me not Naomi but c. For the Lord hath dealt bitterly with me Afflictions rellish soure and bitter even to the pallats of the best Saints Observation Now bitter things are observed in Physick to have a double operation first to strengthen and corroborate the Liver and secondly to cleanse and wipe away Choler which cloggeth the stomack both these effects afflictions by their bitternesse produce they strengthen the inward Vitals of a Christian his Faith and Patience and cleanse Gods Saints from those superfluous excrements which the surfeit of Prosperitie hath caused in them It may therefore serve to comfort such as groane under Gods afflicting hand Hebrews 12. 11. The Book which S. Iohn eat Rev. 10. 10. was sweet in his mouth but bitter in his belly cleane contrarie afflictions are bitter in the mouth but sweet in the belly God by sanctifying them extracting Honey out of Gall and Sugar out of Wormewood And let it teach us also not t● wonder if the Children of God winch and shrug and make soure faces when afflicted Wonder not at David if he cryeth out in the anguish of his heart at Iob if he complaineth in the bitternesse of his soule at Ieremiah if he lamenteth in the ●xtremitie of his griefe For even then they are swallowing of a Potion which is bitter unto flesh and blood I went out full and the Lord hath caused me to returne emptie Here may we see the uncertaintie of all outward wealth Observation How quickly may a Crassus or Crosu● be turned into a Codrus the richest into the poorest of men Whom the Sunne-rising seeth in wealth him the Sunne-setting may see in want Set not up then your hornes so high neither speake presumptuous words ye wealthie men for God it it pleaseth him can in a moment dispossesse you of all your Riches And let us all not lay up Treasures here on Earth where Rust and Mothes doe corrupt and Theeves breake through and steale but lay up your Treasure in Heaven where Rust and Moth doe not corrupt and Theeves doe not breake through and steale Why call you me Naomi sithence the Lord c. The mention of their former Wealth is grievous to the godly when they are in p●esent Povertie Observation When the Children of Israel are Captives in Babylon it cuts them to the heart to be twitted with the Songs of Sion And it may teach this point of wisdome to such as repaire to give comfort to men in affliction not to mention that tedious and ingratefull subject what happinesse that partie formerly enjoyed Summe not up to Iob in distresse the number of his Camels tell not his Sheepe reckon not his Oxen reade not unto him an Inventorie of those Goods whereof he before was possessed for this will but adde to his vexation rather descend to apply solid and substantial comfort unto him ●ithence the Lord hath testified against me and the Almightie hath afflicted me● Every affliction is a witnesse that God is angry with us for our sinnes Observation Who then is able to hold out Suit ●ith God in the Court of Heaven For God himselfe is both Judge and Witnesse and also the executor and inflicter of punishments It is therefore impossible for sinfull man to plead with him and it is our most advised course as soone as may be to come to te●mes of composition with him and to make meanes unto him through the mediation of our Saviour Now that all afflictions are immediately inflicted by God we have shewed formerly And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of Early Harvest The Iewes had two distinct Harvests of Wheat and Barly and Barly was the first 2 Sam. 21. 9. So here we see the providence of God in ordering and disposing the Journey of Naomi to end it in the most convenient time Had she come before Harvest she would have been straitned for meanes to maintaine her selfe if after Harvest Ruth had lost all those occasions which paved the way to her future advancement God therefore who ordered her going concludes her Journey in the beginning of Harvest And thus have we gone over this Chapter Now as Samuel in the first Booke chap. 7. vers 12. erected an Altar and called it Eben-ezer for said he Hitherto the Lord hath helped us so here may I rayse an Altar of Gratitude unto God with the same inscription Eben-ezer Hitherto the Lord of his goodnesse hath assisted us CHAP. II. Vers. 1. 2. And Naomi had a kinsman of her Husbands a mighty man of wealth of the Family of Elimelech and his name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitesse said unto Naomi I pray thee let me go into the field and gather ears of Corne after him in whose sight I find favour and she said unto her goe my Daughter THis first Verse presents us with two remarkable things 1. Poore Naomi was allied to powerful Boaz. 2. Boaz was both a powerful man and a Godly man Of the first Poore people may be allied and of great kindred to those that are wealthy and those that be wealthy to suuh as are poor Ioseph though Governour of Egypt had poor Iacob to his Father and plain shepheards to his brethren ●sther though Queene to Ahashuerus hath poore Mordecai for her Uncle Vse 1. Let this confute such as having gotten a little more thick clay then the rest of their Family the getting of new wealth and honour makes them to lose their old eyes so that they cannot see and discern their poor kindred afterwards When Ioseph was Governour of Egypt it is said that he knew his brethren but his brethren knew not him b●t now adayes it happeneth cleane contrary If one of a Family be advanced to great honour it is likely that his kindred will know him but he oftentimes comes to forget them Few there be of the noble nature of the Lord Cromwel who sitting at Dinner with the Lords of the Council and chancing to see a poor man afar off which used to sweep the Cells and the Cloisters called for the man and told the Lords This mans Father hath given me many a good meale and he shall not lack so long as I live Fox Page 1188. Vse 2. Let it teach those who are the top of their kindred the