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A15848	The victory of patience and benefit of affliction, with how to husband it so, that the weakest Christian (with blessing from above) may bee able to support himselfe in his most miserable exigents. Together with a counterpoyson or antipoyson against all griefe, being a tenth of the doves innocency, and the serpents subtilty. Extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and moderne, necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation. By R.Y.	Younge, Richard.	1636 (1636)	STC 26113; ESTC S102226	124,655	323

because they are good or because they are deerely beloved of God If a mans person and wayes please God the world will be displeased with both If God be a mans friend that will be his enemy if they exercise their malice it is where he shewes mercy and indeed he refuseth to be an Abel whom the malice of Cain doth not exercise as Gregory speaks for it is an everlasting rule of the Apostles He that is borne after the flesh will persecute him that is borne after the Spirit Gal. 4.29 not because he is evill but because he is so much better than himselfe 1 Iohn 3.12 Because his life is not like other mens his wayes are of another fashion Wisd. 2.15 I have also shewed the Originall continuance properties causes ends and what will be the issue of this enmity and therein made it plaine that as for the present they suit like the Harpe and the Harrow agree like two poisons in one stomack the one being ever sick of the other so to reconcile them together were to reconcile Fire and Water the Wolfe and the Lambe the Windes and the Sea together yea that once to expect it were an effect of frenzie not of hope It remaines in the last place that I declare the Reasons why God permits his dearest children so to be afflicted The godly are so patient in their sufferings With other Grounds of comfort and Vses And first of the first The Reasons why God suffers the same are chiefly sixteene all tending to his glory and their spirituall and everlasting good benefit and advantage for the malignity of envie if it be well answered is made the evill cause of a good effect to us God and our soules are made gainers by anothers sin The Reasons and Ends which tend to Gods glory are three 1 It makes for the glory of his Power 2 It makes for the glory of his Wisdome 3 It makes much for his glory when those graces which he hath bestowed upon his children do the more shine through imployment It maketh for the glory of his Power Moses having declared in what manner the Lord permitted Pharaoh to oppresse the children of Israel more and more still hardning his heart shewes the reason of it in these words That I may multiply my miracles and wonders in the Land of Aegypt That I may lay my hand upon Pharaoh and bring out mine Armies even my people by great judgements that my power may be knowne and that I may declare my Name throughout all the world Exod. 7.3.4 9.16 When that multitude of Amonites and Moabites came to war against Iehosaphat and the Children of Israel intending to cast them out of the Lords inheritance and utterly destroy them to the dishonour of God the Lord by delivering them from that sore affliction gained to himselfe such honour and glory That as the Text saith the feare of God was upon all the Kingdomes of the Earth when they heard that the Lord had fought so against the enemies of Israel 2 Chron. 20.29 The judgement was upon some the feare came upon all it was but a few mens losse but it was all mens warning 1 Cor. 10.11 When the Lord brought againe the Captivity of Sion saith the Psalmist Then said they among the Heathen the Lord hath done great things for them Psal. 126.1 2. God provides on purpose mighty adversaries for his Church that their humiliation may be the greater in sustaining and his glory may be greater in deliverance yea though there bee Legions of devils and every one stronger than many Legions of men and more malicious than strong yet Christs little Flock lives and prospers and makes not this exceedingly for our Makers for our Gardians glory Gods power is best made knowne in our weaknesse 2 Cor. 12.9 Impossibilities are the best advancers of his glory who not seldome hangs the greatest waits upon the smallest wyars as he doth the earth upon nothing For what wee least beleeve can bee done we most admire being done the lesser the meanes and the greater the opposition the more is the glory of him who by little meanes doth overcome a great opposition yea it is greater glory to God to turne evils into good by overmastering them then wholly to take them away Now if ●hy very enemies thus honour thee how should thy friends bought with thy precious bloud glorifie thee But the sweetest of honey lieth in the bottome I passe therefore from the first to the second Reason CHAP. 2. That it makes for the glory of his Wisdome 2 SEcondly it maketh for the glory of his marvellous and singular wisdome when he turneth the malice of his enemies to the advantage of his Church I would saith Paul yee understood brethren that the things which have come unto me are turned rather to the furthering of the Gospell So that my bonds in Christ are famous throughout all the judgement Hall and in all other places Insomuch that many of the brethren in the Lord are imboldned through my bonds and dare more frankely speake the word Phil. 1.12 13 14. In all other cases a gentle resistance heightens the desire of the seeker in this the strength of opposition meeting with as strong a faith hath the same effect Againe how admirably did the Lord turne the malice of Iosephs brethren when they sold him into Aegypt And that devilish plot of Haman against Mordecay and his people ●o the good of his Church in generall and of Ioseph and Mordecay in particular Gen. 45.8.11 Hester 9.1 2 3. Their plots to overthrow Ioseph and Mordecay were turned by a Divine Providence to the onely meanes of advantaging them And herein was that of the Psalmist verified Surely the rage of man shall turne to thy praise Psal. 76.10 It is not so much glory to God to take away wicked men as to use their evill to his owne holy purposes how soone could the Commander of Heaven and Earth rid the world of bad members But so should hee lose the praise of working good by evill instruments it suffiseth that the Angels of God resist their actions while their persons continue God many times workes by contrary meanes as Christ restored the Blind-man to his sight with clay and spittle he caused the Israelites to grow with depression with persecution to multiply Exod. 1.12 The bloud of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church Persecution enlargeth the bounds of it like as Palmes oppressed and Camomile trod upon mount the more grow the faster T is as easiy for God to work without meanes as with them and against them as by either but assuredly it makes more for the Makers glory that such an admirable harmony should be produced out of such an infinite discord The World is composed of foure Elements and those be contraries the Yeare is quartered into different seasons the minde of man is a mixture of disparities as joy sorrow hope feare love hate and the like the body doth consist and is nourished

served with simple favours It is a great word that Zozomen speaks of Apollonius That he never asked any thing of God in all his life that he obtained not Yea we thinke he speeds well that lives as it were under a perpetuall Equinoctiall having night and day equall good and ill fortune in the same measure for these compositions make both our crosses tolerable and our blessings wholesome We that know not the afflictions of others call our owne the heaviest every small current is a torrent every Brooke a River every River a Sea we make our selves more miserable than we need than we should by looking upon our miseries in a multiplying glasse we measure the length of time by the sharpnesse of our afflictions and so make minutes seeme howers and dayes moneths If wee be sicke and the Physitian promises to visit us to morrow with his best reliefe with what a tedious longing doe we expect his presence Our imagination makes every day of our sorrow appeare like Iosuahs day when the Sun stood still in Gibeon The summer of our delights is too short but the winter of our affliction goes slowly of we are so sensible of a present distresse and so ingratefull for favours past that wee remember not many yeares health so much as one daies sicknesse 't is true former meales doe not relieve our present hunger but this cottage of ours ruines straight if it be not new daubed every day new repaired What then shall to dayes Ague make us forget yesterdayes health and all Gods former favours if he doe not answer us in every thing sha'l wee take pleasure in nothing Shall we slight all his blessings because in one thing he crosseth us whereas his least mercy is beyond our best merit but if we thinke of our deliverance from the fire of hell this is cause enough to make us both patient and thankefull though the trifles wee delight in bee taken from us Lord take away what thou pleasest for thy glory and my good so long as thou savest me from the fire of hel and thy everlasting wrath Neither is there a better remedy for impatience then to cast up our receipts and to compare them with our deservings If thou look upon thy sufferings thou shalt find them farre easier than thy sinnes have deserved nothing to what thy fellow Saints and Christ thy elder brother hath suffered before thee at a Lions den or a firy furnace not to turne taile were a commendations worthy a Crowne doe but compare thy owne estate with theirs and thou shall finde cause to be thankefull that thou art above any rather than of envy or malice that any is above thee to domineere and insult over thee yea compare thine owne estate with thine enemies thou shalt see yet greater cause to be thankfull for if these temporary dolors which God afflicts his people with are so grievous to thee how shall thine and Gods enemies endure that devouring fire that everlasting burning Isaiah 33. ver 14. CHAP. 39. That the more wee suffer here so it be for righteousnesse sake the greater our reward shall be hereafter FIfthly We shall beare the Crosse with more patience and comfort if with Moses we shall have respect unto the recompense of reward which is promised to all that notwithstanding what they shall suffer persevere in well doing Great are our tryalls but salvation will one day make amends when we shall have all teares wiped from our eyes when God shall turne all the water of our teares into the wine of endlesse comfort Yea when our reward shall be so much the more Ioyous by how much more the course of our life hath beene grievous First see what promises are made to suffering Blessed are they which mourne saith our Saviour for they shall be comforted Mat. 5.4 Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnesse for theirs is the Kingdome of Heaven Verse 10. Blessed shall yee bee when men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evill against you for my sake falsely Rejoyce and be glad for great is your reward in Heaven Vers. 11.12 Behold saith God it shall come to passe that the Devill shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation tenne dayes yet feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer For be but thou faithfull unto death and I will give thee the crowne of life Revel 2.10 A Crowne without cares without rivals without envie without end And againe Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crowne of life Iames 1.12 And lastly Whosoever shall forsake Houses or Brethren or Sisters or Father or Mother or Wife or Children or Lands for my names sake hee shall receive an hundred fold more and shall inherit everlasting life Mat. 19.29 This is a treasure worthy our hearts a purchase worth our lives Now who is there that shall heare these promises and compare the seed-time with the Harvest looke up from the root to the fruit consider the recompence of the reward and will not choose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Hebrewes 11.25 Who will not be willing to suffer with Christ that hee may also raigne with him 2 Tim. 2.12 Who will not suffer these light afflictions which are but for a moment when they cause unto us a far more excellent and eternall w●ight of glory 2 Cor. 4.16 17. Was Lazarus for a time extreame miserable he is now in Abrahams bosome Yea blessed Lazarus thy soares and sorrowes soone ceased but thy joyes are everlasting Now me thinks if thou but considerest that thy paines will shortly passe but thy joy shall never passe away it should prove a notable soveraigne Cordiall to strengthen thee not only against reproches which attend thy profession but even against fire and fagot Who would not be a Philpot for a moneth or a Lazarus for a day or a Stephen for an houre that he might be in Abrahams bosome for ever nothing can be too much to endure for those pleasures which endure for ever It s true If in this life only we had hope in Christ we were of all men the most miserable as the Apostle speakes 1 Cor. 15.19 But thou must consider that as this life is our hell and the wickeds heaven Iohn 16.20 So the next life shall be their hell and our Heaven Vers. 21.33 As Dives was in Abrahams bosome when Lazarus was in torments so Lazarus was in Abrahams bosome when Dives was in torments Luke 16.23 25. And herein we fare no worse than Christ did not his spirit passe from the crosse into Paradise Did not he first descend into hell and then had his ascention suppose thy sufferings be great what then Assure thy selfe that every pang is a prevention of the paines of hell and every respite an earnest of Heavens rest and how many stripes dost