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A00409	Two sermons The Christians comfort in his crosses, conducting him in the tempests of tribulation, to the happie hauen of heauenly tranquillitie. And the iudges, and iuries instruction. By William Est, Maister of Art, and preacher of Gods word.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.	1614 (1614)	STC 10539; ESTC S118617	33,688	92

couered with waues so that they were so neere vnto death that they might say with Dauid persecuted by Saul There is but a steppe betweene me and death 1. Sam. 20. 1. Sam. 20. But all this was a token of his loue For when the Lord would proue and crowne his best beloued children the way to the crowne and the manner of their probation is affliction and tribulation God can take from vs all things that are grieuous as Chrys wisely sayeth Chrys ad popu Anti. Hom. 4 ad popu Antio but vntill hee seeth vs purged of our sinnes our conuersation vpright he dissolueth not the tribulation Simil. The Goldsmith vntill he seeth his gold purified taketh it not out of the furnace The Musition leaueth not strayning o● his strings vntill he perceiueth a perfect consent of harmonie So God taketh not away the cloude of affliction before he seeth the amendment of our liues Iosephs affliction Haec Chry. Gen. 37.24 Ioseph was most innocent among all the sonnes of Iacob yet all the rest liuing quietly at home in prosperitie he onely was afflicted Hee was cast into a pitte where he was like to perish with famine from thence he was drawne vp and sold for a bondslaue to the Ismaelites Verse 28. which caried him into Egipt where againe hee was solde to Potiphar Gen. 39.1 then greuouslie tempted to adulterie which he resisted keeping most chastly his fidelitie vnto God and his Maister Verse 7.20 yet falsly accused he was condemned and cast into prison where he remayned a long time Hee was deceiued by the vngratefull chiefe Butler Gen. 40. Vers 23. But to what end was all this affliction that by this meanes he might bee exalted by Pharao and bee made ●ord of Egypt and that by him his ●ather Brethren and all the people ●f God might bee relieued in the ex●reame of famine God is a patient rewarder which hee could ne●er haue done except hee had first suf●ered this affliction in Egypt Gods ●akefull prouidence neuer fayled here●n as hee himselfe sayd to his Brethren Now then you sent me not hither but GOD ●ut to what end to preserue your posteri●ie in this land and to saue you aliue Gen. 45. Gen. 4● Iosephs exaltation But see now how bountifullie the Lord rewarded euery one of these afflic●ions which he suffered For the hatred of his Brethren God gaue him fauour with Pharao and his Princes For that his Brethren contemned and mocked him saying Behold this Dreamer commeth Gen. 37. Gen. 43. Vers 26. Gen. 4● Vers 40.42.43.45 he was honored of them bowing downe to the ground before him For his exile he was exalted in a strange land For the labour of his hands in seruing Potiphar he receiued a ring frō the Kings owne hand For his fetters chaines in prisō he was houored with a chaine of gold For his particoloured coat which his brethrē tooke from him the King arrayed him with Princely Roabes For that hee ministered vnto them that were bound in prison in great dignitie he ministered vnto the King For the prison and the dungeon he was carried in a Princely Chariot For that he was despised of all men as a stranger and a seruant hee was honoured of all men with bowing knees 〈◊〉 For contemning the vnlawfull pleasur● of adulterie hee tooke to his wife a Noble woman For the losse of his father● house he was made Ruler ouer all Egipt Who seeth not heere that these afflictions that God sendeth to his faithfull seruant Ioseph were signes of Gods tende● loue towards his children in him wherby he aduanced him To conclude afflictions therefore are signes of Gods fatherlie fauour and not of his hatred to his elect For the Lord correcteth him whom he loueth as the father doth the child● in whom he delighteth Aug. Pro. 3.12 Pro. 3.12 Ideo premuntur vt pressi clament clamantes exaudiantur exauditi deum glorificent They are therefore afflicted that being afflicted they might call vpon God that calling vpon God they might bee heard that being heard they might glorifie God And therefore well sayth Seneca Seneca Miseri sunt qui nunquam miseri fuerunt They are wretched which neuer were ●n miserie 2. This shippe wherein were Christ ●nd his Disciples The Allegoricall sense Allegoricallie represen●eth the Church militant in this life The Church is as a shippe tossed on the most ●urbulent seas of this world the godly elect and faithfull are carryed in this ●hip The boisterous windes stormes ●nd waues are diuers vexations tribu●ations and persecutions wherewith the godly in this life are persecuted and these are raysed vp of Sathan and his band as Tyrants Persecutors Heretikes and wicked men which so rise vp in furie against the Church that sometime it seemeth to bee oppressed and almost extinguished It is to be doubted whether they that commit themselues to the power of the waters be to be reckoned among the liuing so that to the world they seeme as Anacharsis Anacharsis said once of Nauigators Dubitatum fuerit inter viuos ne habendi qui vitam vndarum ventorumque arbitrio committerent In these stormes of afflictions the godly sometime begin to faint especially when they see the shippe euen couered with waues But our Archinauclerus is Christ wh● sometime seemeth to sleepe whe● hee doth not presently deliuer his children but suffereth them awhile to be● afflicted To him in all our miseries tanquam ad asylum as vnto a Sanctuari● we must flie and awake him with our prayers saying Lord saue vs. It is growne into a common prouerbe Qui nescit orare discat nauigare He that knoweth not how to pray let him learne to sayle which our spirituall nauigation Affliction teacheth to pray especially in the seas of affliction teacheth then Christ being stirred vp by prayer calmeth the tempest of tribulation by the power of his word changeth all things into a ioyfull Catastrophe of tranquillitie The vse The vse is that wee be not offended at the smalnesse of Christs number when wee see the greater part to walke the broad way to destruction when we see many to resist the truth and with Liberius obiect vnto vs Quota pars orbis mortalium vos estis What a small parte of the world are yee Christians Christs flocke is a little flocke Luk. 12. Luk. 12. Persecutions saith Nazianzene Nazian Christianismum nobiliorem potius quam debiliorem reddunt Maketh Christianitie rather nobler then weaker And these are the notes of the true Church Ioa. 15.16 3. And as Christ slept in the most dif●icill dangers of the Apostles so in the midst of their afflictions and anguishes Christ seemeth sometime to the godlie ●o sleepe when hee doth not hasten to deliuer them Hence sprang these perplexed cryes of the godlie Lord carest thou not that wee perish Mar. 4. Mar. 4. Lord how ●ong wilt thou delay Psa 6.