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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43179	The Christians dayly solace in experimentall observations; or, cordials for crosses in thse sad and calamitous times of affliction. By R.H.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1277A; ESTC R222583	65,001	166

a garison of holy reasons against the assaults of strong passions We may hope for the best but feare the worst and prepare to beare whatsoever God shall please to lay on us In this world of changes we cannot resolve upon alteration the minde is out of frame we cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall Yet we may in the strength of God say nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unbeseeming a Christian Where the spirit of God hath taken up his firme abode in the soule it will little set by any outward change he will little est●eme to be accounted little in the eies of others when he is so little in his owne Let us therefore walke in such a heavenly disdaine amidst the scornes of an insulting generation That the world may know we can live above every condition and that all our afflictions are far beneath our hopes And let it be our joy to beare contentedly the unjust aspersions of malicious censure Who was there ever among the Saints that was not slandered though our accusers may be believed a while Yet let our actions out-weigh their words and the disgrace at last will rest with the intender of the ill that stone that injury casts ever in the end lights on its own head 2 David lookes off from Shimei to God that set him a worke Suffer him God hath bidden him Let him curse because the Lord hath said curse David Let this teach us that Gods hand hath a speciall stroke in all our afflictions is there any evill in the City saith God and I have not done it Amos. 3.6 Heare what Joseph says to his brethren I am Joseph your brother whom yee sold But God sent me hither Gen. 45.5 And thus did Joh from the Sab●eans and Cald●eans which had robbed him and slaine his Servants to God The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken and blessed be his name Joh. 1.21 And indeed the President and patterne of all humility lookt neither at Hered nor the Jewes or Pilate but to his father shall I not drinke of the cup that my father hath given me And this was it which made David so sweetly silent Psal 39 9. I was dumbe and opened not my mouth because the Lord did it To flye upon instruments as the maine cause of our crosses is to declare our selves voyde of reason So the dog bites the stone which would never have hit him if it had not been thrown It was a sweet meditation a holy man of God hath set down for his own support and ours He strikes me that made me that moderates the world Why struggle I with him why with my selfe am I a foole or a rebell A foole if I am ignorant whence my afflictions come a rebell if I know and be impatient And therefore when ought falls out contrary to our expectation let us not run to second causes but say God hath purposed it as it is fallen out He will make use of what instrument he pleaseth It is enough and his will be done though ours be crossed So promiscuous and inconstant is the administration of things here below that they seeme to run upon wheeles so doth Ezechiel phrase it Chap. 1. But these wheeles have eyes From which Metaphoricall and Metonymicall expression we may see that there is something in their events shewing the reason of their turnings which we see not Yea and those wheeles move as the beasts stir them To teach us that there is nothing done on earth but by the Lord in his instruments the wheeles move as they are guided by those Angells move as they are guided by the spirit And thus all is from the Lord. And least the saith of any be overthrowne from the change of things The Lord tels us that the wheeles are one within another and so are the winges of the Angells There is an agreeablenesse between them and thus is it in the changes of a thousand yeares Now to looke upon Gods providence in some particular only as upon a wheele or two and not upon all as once as they are one within another this deceiveth us When we looke upon honest Joseph in his disgracefull imprisonment onely On innocent David in his scorne and contempt in the Court and under the reproach of cursing Shemei on just Naboth condemned to death by false witnesses and accordingly stoned who say we shall rise againe to shew his innocencie on Paul held the worst man of his time on the Church as in the daies of Queene Hester but if we looke upon all these passages all at once we shall see that they have eics that they have Angells and these a spirit to guide them On these wheeles is Joseph brought by the sale of his brethren to Phara●'s Steward by the false accusation of his Mistris he is cast into prison By the interpretation of the prisoners dreams he is brought to Pharaoh's knowledge and so to greatnesse in his Court. Thus whil'st David sits still Doth the Lord vex Saul by the Philistins and ends his dayes And first setleth David in the Kingdome of Juda then Ish bosbeth falling out with Abner about a word forsakes him Ish-hosheth shall be slain by two wicked men And thus is David fairly brought to the Crowne even by those wheeles Thus in the dayes of Queene Hester when the Church was upon the point of destruction that the King could not sleep that night That he should call for the booke of the Chronicles before another And that in this booke that place which contained Mordeccyes revealing the treason against the King should revoke his decree and so the Church injoy deliverance this plainly proves that in all those various and strange administrations of accidents that doe befall us that God not onely made but wisely disposes of all Surely these wheeles have eyes and a spirit to guide them And therefore in all our wrongs and injuries let us looke up to the first mover and discharge the meanes 'T is true the instruments may be unjust nay cruell in their wronges but the cause is just from him that did inflict them wicked men are rods in the hand of God and at them must looke never but as they are in the hand of an Almighty power wherewith when he hath sufficiently corrected us he will cast them into the fire Gen. 28.12 Jacob wondring at the descent and ascent of Angells on the ladder in the vision looketh up to the top and there sees God sending them with their errands so one Angell smites us and another delivers us but if we look up we should see God in both 3 As David acknowledgeth God to be the principle cause of his afflictions so he quietly and patiently submitteth himselfe to bear them A patient submission unto Gods will and a faithfull exercise under his visiting hand is an unfallible demonstration that we are children and not bastards Saith David the Lord hath said curse David who then shall say wherefore