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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06779	A grand-fathers legacy; or Maltbey's morsels for mourners Diuided into seuerall meditations for euery day in the weeke. Being a comfort to all wounded and oppressed consciences, which seeke for comfort by the word of truth. By Iohn Maltbey late minister of Gods word at Buckland in Glocester-shire.	Maltbey, John.; Maltbey, Margaret.	1633 (1633)	STC 17216; ESTC S103470	82,802	256

euill wayes to remembrance and turne our feete to Gods Testimonies It is the Promise of God 2. Samu. 7.14.15 To Dauid and his Posterity 2. Sam. 7.14.15 that hee will be his Father and the Father of his Seede and sinning he will chasten vs with the rod of men and with the plagues of the Children of men That is gently as Fathers chastise their Children but neuer take his mercies from vs. Why are wee often scourged of our heauenly Father but because we are frozen in the dregs of corruptions wee spend our dayes in carelesse security without an holy feare of his Name Therefore commeth his holy hand to change our estates to awaken vs from wickednesse to chasten vs with his rods and to purge vs with fire Turne wee our hearts towards our heauenly home cease wee neuer vntill wee get fast hold of his most holy hand that can powerfully draw vs thorough Hell to Heauen It is Gods fauour to call vs from Hell by afflictions and thereby to breake in vs the power of sinne and to let out such corrupt blood as else would much hinder the thriuing of the best graces of our most mercifull Father more soules and this is oftentimes one cause why wee are eftsoones held long in the Cabin of Care and bedd of Afflictions and woes by reason that through wilfull wantonnesse wee abuse our strength and to the great dishonour of God and ruine of our soules Did not the sufferings of our Sauiour shield vs from damnation Seeke yee euer to bee bettered in Obedience reformed in the whole man humbled vnder Gods hands examining your hearts what sinnefull actions haue passed from you that the Lord should thus strike and visite you After sight of your sinnes bee sorrowfull in soule and humbled in heart marking well what God doth still aime at Not by sorrowfull sicknesse to destroy you or to confound you but to enforce you to call your owne soule to sigh and your very heart so to see your owne sinnes as in a sanctified course you may come home to your selfe and say from your soule this surely resteth the correcting hand of God which now striketh me for my sinnes I will now therefore returne vnto my heauenly Father by true repentance for hee that now striketh mee will both heale mee and helpe mee or perceiuing of Gods anger and feeling of his Iudgements vpon vs should cause vs to sigh and sobbe and goe softly yea to seeke the Lord earely who in Iudgement remembreth Mercy and howsoeuer God whip and scourge vs that are his Children yet his mercies will he neuer take from vs. Be you sure that God humbleth you no otherwise in the world then hee handled his onely Sonne who hath begun to drinke to you this bitter potion not onely assaying it but drinking to you a full draught It 's not onely a comfort but a glory to bee partner and fellow-sufferer with CHRIST who delighteth to see in vs some representation of himselfe Wee are no members of Christ if wee participate not with him of the persecutions and iniuries of this life Our heauenly Father will neuer hold backe his mercies from those whom our Sauiour entreateth mercies wee can not bee ouercharged who are charged with Christ who from euery crosse hath now taken away both the Infamy and the Curse and hath made it a Tribunall and a Throne of Iudgement for for all the World Christ hath now made the action of bearing the Crosse both inblameable and honourable Are you afflicted in Conscience get you vnto Christ that good Samaritane who will powre Wine and Oyle into our wounds Christ suffered all had all against him for vs and will wee contentedly suffer nothing for him did euer any trust in God and was not deliuered Or did God euer finally forsake those whom hee fauoured Or is deliuerance from temporall calamities an assured signe of Gods fauors Surely no for the Iudgements of God are both secret and vnsearchable nothing making vs miserable or happy but that which is eternall Cry wee therefore Lord so sanctifie our griefes as thou communicate therewith thy Graces vnto vs. Let euery calamity and crosse admonish vs of our Disobedience that first brought into this world sicknesses and sorrowes molestations and miseries diseases and death O let vs be glad to suffer troubles and trauels in this world esteeming our whole time of life as the forty yeares trauell into the Land of promise or as the sixe dayes of labour which goe before the Sabbath of rest O Lord we are all but as Lamps of Clay and as vnpolished peeces of Wood yet doe wee humbly present our selues vnto thee make of vs what it pleaseth thee Wee offer our selues wholy vnto thee desiring to depend altogether vppon thee This World Iere. 30.7 is a time of Iacobs trauell yet shall hee be defrom it The Lord of Hostes will breake the enemies yoake from off his owne peoples necke so that Strangers shal no more serue thēselues of Iacob This is the comfort of Gods people that howsoeuer God punisheth yet it is to saue them though hee correcteth vs by his Iudgements yet wil he not vtterly cut vs off in his anger If our bruisings were incurable then were our wounds dolourous if no Plaister or Medicine could helpe vs then were our case most desperate But wee haue a Sauiour and most kinde Samaritane restoring our soules both from death and danger yet as the Iron must bee well heated in the fire ere it can be wrought with the Hammer and driuen out on the Anvile So may wee not passe to the Pallace of Paradise till first wee suffer many stroakes of holy temptations and passe thorough the fire of piercing tryals The holy Saints and blessed Martyrs haue thus passed through this world of woe and come to the Crowne of glory God is eftsoones sending troubles and afflictions to such as hee best loueth because they should not busie their thoughts with worldly occasions but still be labouring and hasting on their Iourney towards Heauen It is the wisedome of God to deale roughly with his chosen Children making their liues both painefull and labourious to them to cause them to make the more haste to finish their Iourney without loytering in the shadow of this world and so to loose the day-light and goe on stumbling in the darke Nothing is more honourable for any Knight or Souldier then to beare the Armes of his King and Captaine neyther to any true Christian then for to suffer trauell and persecution as his forgiuer and keeper Iesus Christ hath done Learne wee all to wade thorough calamities after our Captaine looking for that Day which may enrich vs with eternall happinesse I beseech you make benefit of your present tribulation Gods people must remember that it is safer sayling through the bitter stormy seas of afflictions then dancing at pleasure vppon the calme streames of Vanities But who flyes from Prosperity as from the Pestilence Or thinke themselues safest when

Christ Iesus For a time the Father hid his face from him but with euerlasting Compassion did hee most graciously looke vpon him at last God resteth our Father hauing a care ouer his Church and Children preseruing vs from fire and water and each other eminent danger God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted aboue that you are not able but will euen giue you the issue with the temptation that you may bee able to beare it You are the Lords workemanship and hee will vndoubtedly prouide for you both sheltering and comforting you and that euen then when you finde the heate of afflictions to shine most hottest vpon you Forget not to goe and come vnto the Lord in the time of your trouble and deepest distresses knowing Christ to be our Shepheard and preseruer in each danger Wee cannot honour God more then to depend on him in our dangers and fly vnto him in our extremities as our onely helper hope and fortresse This rests a matter of endlesse comfort that our Lord Iesus Christ will bee a place of comfort and refreshing vnto vs and as a shadow at noone-day in the greatest heate of bloody persecutions You are now cast downe as the Children of God to the disquieting of your soule within you yet for all that waite you still vpon God Let no feare or danger make you deny Christ and his Gospell who comforteth vs in his Church refresheth vs in our troubles and freeeth vs from the dread and dangers of Hells horrours if wee faithfully call vpon him for pardon of our sinnes as once did Manasses Bee you still thirsting for life and panting for Paradise powre out your hearts before him that keepeth Heauen for your house assure your selfe of Gods helpe bee you neuer so grieuously tormented the Saints of God haue still waited vpon him to teach vs all to be constant and to waite still for our seuerall deliuerances We knowing the Lord God to be the Author of each calamity may not murmure but seeke remedy at his hands who woundeth vs lift we vp our hands in hope not boasting of our vertues but declaring that wee still rest vpon God in the middest of all our afflictions It is a bad seruant that will not waite on his Master God doth not alwayes punish our sinnes but by hard afflictions calleth vs to the consideration of the heauenly Ioyes Wee doe not honour our God aright vntill wee trust in him alone taking his Maiesty to witnesse that wee hunger in heart to bee vpright towards God still crying when wee are grieued This God is my God for euer and euer and hee shal be my guide euen vnto death Psa 48.14 Psal 48.14 Life and death are in Gods hands and no man can liue for euer howsoeuer therefore you dreame of Immortality it is not to bee founded vpon earth although your disease is grieuous and dangerous yet know you this that God hath infinite wayes to deliuer you Did not God deliuer his people from Og King of Basan and other Tyrants and his owne people from the the Red sea when they were in great extremity and danger Let not your present crosses rest an occasion of your falling from God but rather a Cause of cleauing faster vnto him Howsoeuer you doe yet suffer troubles yet hath God his time wherein hee hath appointed your deliuerance A liuely faith assureth the soule that God is fauourable vnto him when hee seemeth to bee angry and then at hand when hee seemeth to be farre off Feare you not but God will heare you though Care make you thinke that the Lord long deferreth you What though to day you seeme as a Sheepe beset with many Wolues yet put your trust in God and depend still on his prouidence and you shall assuredly bee comforted at the last Vnder the temporall punishment of the Land of Canaan is comprehended the promise of life euerlasting to all the faithfull and their posterity In the time of our distresse wee must learne to pray earnestly and although God stay as if hee heard vs not yet is then our deliuerance neerest when wee seeme voide of reliefe and succour Are you in distresse God hath millions of meanes to free you from miseries and preserue you from troubles Acknowledge our heauenly Father to bee the onely Authour of all your deliuerances from dangers and death and that by his prouidence you are still enfranchised from troubles God will recompence his long tarrying with double and vndoubted comfort to your soules There rests no true praysing of God except it come from the heart Promise therefore to delight in nothing if henceforth God send you life and health but onely that wherein God may bee glorified Remember that sicknesse is Deaths messenger teaching vs to reioyce in nothing but in the Lord. The faithfull must learne to depend vpon Gods hand in the time of their miseries knowing that when things are euer at worst then will God come and set them in order and so bridle the rage of the enemy as hee shall become mightlesse were he neuer so strong before Wee may not looke to bee deliuered at our first cry our eyes may bee kept waiting for our comming with our deceitfull hearts and searching out of our owne spirits crying vnto GOD to know the Causes why wee are chastened and when our sorrowes shall haue an end Desire you to know the way from Earth to Heauen wee must ascend by Faith vp thither if wee will know the waies of the LORD or the secrets of his diuine Word and Will Then must wee learne what extremities God will suffer vs now and then to fall into and why to exercise our faith before hee set to his hands to deliuer vs. God for a time will exercise vs with his rods yet vnder the Kingdome of Christ shall wee rest assured both of our peace ioy and comfort I beseech you learne so to call and cry vpon God as you neuer become weary though GOD grant not forthwith your requests but learne rather to be more earnest with God and to call the more o●t●er vpon him Though your state rest not so glorious as you wish yet waite with patience and GOD will accomplish his most comfortable promises Acknowledge and confesse God himselfe to be the author of our saluation who very oft in loue calleth vs by his rods to consider the shortnesse of our liues and how that for our sinnes sake hee abridgeth our dayes lest that his wrathfull Iudgements should fall the more heauily vpon vs. Let this be the comfort of your heart that as God is all sufficient to defend you from dangers so resteth hee most willing to comfort you in your most perillous agonies Content your selfe with that life which God giueth you for by Death the shortnesse of this Life is recompenced with Immortality Know should wee all that God hath care ouer his and oft chastiseth them for their wealth that they should not perish for euer with the