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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08282	A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1626 (1626)	STC 18615; ESTC S119966	125,732	476

wheresoeuer thou shalt be pleased to dispose of mee meanes to sustaine mee Thou art euery where Lord and raignest and rulest ouer all people thou possessest and disposest all things for all men The whole earth is thine the whole masse of gold and siluer is thine the Cattell vpon all the mountaines and in all the valleyes vpon the earth are thine and thine to giue Thou gauest Abraham and Lot portions of lands and Heards of Cattell in aboundance in a land wherein they were strangers Thou blessedst Iacob constrained to flee a poore man only with a Scrip and a Staffe and thou broughtest him againe to the place from whence he was constrained to flee with mighty Droues Lord how mercifully diddest thou worke for Ioseph abandoned from father mother and friends solde as a Slaue falsly accused guiltlesse imprisoned yet at last made the chiefe vnder a strange King of a mighty people When Eliah was enforced to flee from Ahab the King such was thy fatherly care of him that rather then hee should want his necessary foode thou appointedst the very Rauens to bring him foode morning and euening And cōmandedst a poore Widow to feede him in Sareptha And because she was poore thou through thy power and loue of thy seruant vouchsafedst to encrease her little oyle and meale neere totally consumed into so great a quantity as shee had not onely sufficient aboundantly to releeue her selfe and her family in the extreame dearth and famine But to pay her debts with the remainder When Dauid was enforced to flee from the fearefull fury malice of Saul thou diddest not leaue him destitute of necessaries euen in the very mountaines and desert places O my God how can I but assure my selfe of thy like power ouer mee thy loue towards me and thy prouidence for me hauing receiued so many sweet testimonies of thy helping so many whom in their banishments thou hast sustained and relieued in former times Thou art the same God and of the same power and prouidence therfore Lord forsake not mee in this place where I am a stranger where I haue no friend no meanes of any constant assurance to be relieued Lord let not my sinnes hinder the worke of thy mercies towards me but pardon all my sinnes and blot out all mine offences through the bloud of my Sauiour Iesus Christ whose merites extendeth to the saluation of all beleeuers through the whole earth O embrace mee Lord with the armes of thy mercies euen here where I am a stranger keepe me vnder the shadowe of thy winges teach mee wisedome that euen here I may seeke thee and finde thee and may receiue here such reliefe and comfort as I here giue glory to thy holy name for thine vndeserued fauor towards me Amen Lord encrease my faith Comfort and encouragement for Parents that are crossed and grieued at the vngodlines and disobedience of their children fit for all Parents to reade AMong the Iewes it was a reproach and a kinde of shame for a woman to be barren and now in this our age many men and women that haue begotten and borne children become grieued and ashamed that euer they begat or bare them by reason of their disobedience and vicious liues Children are the gift of God and a great blessing and comfort to godly Parents if they be good and vertuous if they feare God and walke in his wayes and then can they not but obay their Parents A wise and a godly sonne maketh a glad father but a foolish and wicked sonne is a heauines to his mother When children proue wicked disobedient rebellious and refractarie it is the greatest griefe vnto godly and religious Parents that any earthly crosse or affliction can yeeld for as the comfort is great vnto a man to beget sonnes and daughters whom God hath chosen to encrease the Kingdome of Christ So contrarily a greater griefe there cannot be vnto him then to obserue his children enclined to be members of Sathan or Antichrist Especially when a godly Father hath endeuoured through a godly and religious care to educate a sonne in the true feare and knowledge of God yet to see him to proue wicked and vngodly But thou that art thus afflicted through the wicked and irreligious course of a rebellious sonne after all the good meanes thou hast vsed to reduce him to obedience the feare of God Consider with patience that although God haue giuen thee power to be his Father in begetting him and to his Mother to beare him yet neither thou in begetting nor shee though she nourished him in her womb did giue him either forme or life How much lesse canst thon or she forme or frame his minde to vertue and godlinesse thou mayest giue good wholsome counsell vnto his eares but thou canst not infuse grace and goodnesse into his heart yet it is thy duty to doe thy best endeuour to giue him good and godly counsell with faithfull prayer to God that hee will so water the seede as it may bring forth good fruit and more the most godly Parents cannot doe It is with Parents in their desires to make their children fruitfull in godlinesse as it is with the husbandman that couets a fruitfull haruest who manures his ground soyles it ploughes it sowes it harrowes it and as neere as he can keepes and preuents the vermine from deuouring the seede sowne yet it is not his labour skill and diligence that can make it spring vp he cannot forme the blade nor infuse the graine into the eare Nor so preuent the vermine but that they will deuoure some of the seede neither can the most godly Father by his best counsell make good an vngodly Sonne Hee may sowe the good seede of the feare of God vpon the ground of his heart hee may harrow it with sharpest and seuerest threates and may endeuour to preuent venemous vices that offer to choke the good seede that hee hath sowne But if his heart be stonie thornie or neere the high way of the common sinnes of this world All his labour care and diligence will proue in vaine he must leaue the infusion of grace into his heart vnto God and to worke the practice of godlinesse in him to whom a godly Father becomes a daily and faithfull petitioner that he will driue away Sathan and the swarme of his wicked instruments from deuouring the good seede and from sowing the tares of sinne and the weedes of vngodlines in him This corrupt world is so full and fraught with wicked and ly centious youth that as soone as a young man or Mayde hath liberty to enter into the companie and societie of wantons and vngodly youth they become commonly so infected with their manners as they drinke in all kindes of vices as it were wine making them many times so drunken with vanities by examples and lewd enticements as the best counsell of wisest Parents cannot make them truly sober againe And to

a blessing Beware thou seeke not to the reputed cunning men and women who are supposed to heale by their Charmes and Spels who if they preuaile in any cure it is by the permission of God by the deuill The surest remedie is to haue thy recourse to God and not to Baalz●b●b as Ahaziah who dyed the death for running to Witches and Wizards the limbs of the deuill but put thy trust in the all-sufficient God alone vsing such lawfull meanes as hee hath appointed both for the ease of thy soule and health of thy body and then recommend the issue to him with godly patience committing thy will to his will If he restore thee to thy former health be thou thankfull to him and let thy thankfulnes appeare by a new and godly course of life and true obedience If he haue otherwise determined of thee namely to call thee out of this miserable mortall life reioyce and be glad for thy soule now sicke in sin shall suddainly receiue a new and glorious life thy body now oppressed with griefe shall be at rest though it perish and rot in the graue it shall rise againe and meete the soule and be thereunto again vnited with farre greater glory then thy hart can thinke In the meane time seeke or thinke of nothing but of the things that are aboue and endeuour to haue thy heart thine vnderstanding thoughts and affections so qualified and the Lampe of faith in the merits of Christ so liuely enlightned that thou mayest ioyfully meet the Bridegrome Christ in soule and body when hee shall appeare in the cloudes in glory and maiestie to giue euery man according to his works Be not afraide therefore of Death it is but the seperation of the soule now as in a prison from the body which is but a carkasse full of naturall infirmities which the soule possesseth for a little time fraught onely with miseries with griefe and feare which being dissolued shall bring end to all thy cares dangers feares miseries and afflictions and bring thee to the Paradise of God where thou shalt feele no more of these vnsauourie things of the flesh for the Lord will transforme this thy vile base and corrupt body and make it like vnto his most glorious body Then shalt thou be no more subiect to sinne or sicknesse no aduersity nor anguish shall afflict thee no enemies shall trouble thee no slanders disgrace thee And where thou art here mortall subiect to all the former euils thou shalt be there immortall The face of God which is the fountaine of light shall there shine vpon thee and no darknesse shall ouershadow thee all perfection of ioy glory and gladnesse thou shalt finde there and be so plentifully filled with the contemplation of the aboundance of those heauenly pleasures that you will or can delight in nothing but in the beholding of the most glorious face of Iesus Christ and onely delight in the association of that heauenly company which ioyes if thou truly knewest here as thou shalt enioy them there Thou wouldest be content rather to endure a thousand deaths then to be depriued of them Prepare thy selfe therefore with all diuine furniture with faith hope loue and all other holy and heauenly affections to goe the way of all flesh Lay willingly downe thy carnall part in the graue to become dust whereof it was made and commend thy soule into the hands of God that gaue it and of Iesus Christ who redeemed it And according to the counsell that God gaue to Hezekiah set thy house in order And aboue this thy corpora●l habitation set thy soule in order and as much as in thee lyeth haue peace with all men Depart in the loue of and to thine enemies And as farre as the possibilitie of thy earthlie substance will extend owe nothing to any man when thou departest hence but loue and thinke not much neither let it grieue or trouble thy minde to leaue thy worldly wealth which was but lent thee thy father mother wife children lands possessions siluer gold and the things that haue beene or are most deare vnto thee to hasten to this heauenlie habitation where eternall glorie shall bee thy wealth the eternall God thy Father Iesus Christ thy brother all the Saints and Angels and all the holie and most glorious heauenlie companie shall bee far more comfortable vnto thee then all the former who were both mortall and inconstant And in steede of the base and vncertaine possessions in the earth thou shalt possesse a Kingdome for euer In steede of thy gold and siluer and thy most precious Iewels thou here for a moment enioyest thou shalt enhabite a Citie whose walls are gold garnished with all maner of precious stones farre excelling the rarest and richest that euer the earth yeilded whose beauty and excellencie the tongue of man no not of an Angell can truly expresse to our apprehension But shadowed out vnto vs vnder these most precious ornaments incomprehensible Should any carnall consideration therfore hinder thee from a willing minde to change this thy mortall and miserable life as short as euill for a life so glorious and permanent The longer thou continuest here the more cause thou hast to desire to be dissolued for that thou here doest augment daily thy sinnes and euery day brings new griefe Prepare thy selfe therefore without delay make thee readie that when GOD shall call thee thou mayest be willing to goe And for thy better preparation vse prayer often in a liuely faith and if thine infirmitie will permit thee vse this prayer following or any other godly prayer with holy meditation to season thy soule through the holy Ghost commending thy spirit vnto God in Iesus Christ. A Prayer to be often said of a sicke man or woman O Lord my GOD and my most louing and mercifull Father in thy beloued Sonne Iesus Christ I thy most vnworthy creature heauie laden with the burthen of my manifold and grieuous sinnes much oppressed with the infirmity and sicknesse which thou hast iustly inflicted vpon my corrupt and weake body doe humbly pray thee to pardon my sinnes and giue me patience to beare this thy gentle correction in which I doe heartily submit my selfe vnto thy heauenly will whether it be thy pleasure to permit me yet a little while to enioy the health of my body to serue thee or to take my soule out of the lothsome prison of my sinfull carkasse into thine owne hands where I know it shall be safe and not perish And therefore Lord giue me a godly contented minde to suffer my body to returne vnto the earth from whence it was taken there to rest vntill it shall please thee to raise it againe at the last resurrection and to make it of a mortall an immortall and of a corruptible to make it a perfectly glorious body In the meane time O Lord I doe beseech thee to fortifie and strengthen my soule against all

the desire of some foraine Potentate in hope of promised reward and fauour or vnder pretence of being acceptably entertained into some supposed Catholicke Societie What gaine either of these the first condigne suspition of falshood and trecherie against him who put him trust to performe a mischiefe at home for how can helesse thinke but that he that hath sworn to be a faithfull subiect to his Soueraigne and will so capitally violate his fidelitie but he will be false to him and so in steed of reward he receiues most deserued disgrace As touching the second sort that vnder coulour of Religion abandon their Countrie in hope of high aduancement in forraine parts are they not scorned of such as are their antients abroad and are they not enforced to aduenture their liues to seduce their owne natiue countrie-men from their allegeance and as much as in them may lye to betraye their owne Countrie to strangers yet thinke them safe by flying away where the Iudgement of God meetes them in euery Countrie Whether shall I goe from thy presence saith Dauid whether shall I flie from thy Spirit Take the sea for thy refuge as Ionas did thinking to flie from God did he not finde him out in the most secret corner of the ship run from land to land from one Nation to another people God will finde thee out among many millions What then doth a forraine Countrie benefite a fugitiue when wheresoeuer he becomes he carryes a hell in his bosome which will torment him in euery place in company and alone the worme of his guiltie conscience will torment him God whome hee so highly offended will appeare a fearefull Iudge vnto him and where God in his anger pursues a wicked man there is no place in the world that can secure him one mischiefe or another one horrible end or another will follow him at the heeles and at length seize vpon him without vnfained repentance and faith in Iesus Christ. As this is true that capitall malefactors cannot hide themselues from Gods iudgements in any remote Region So true it is that such as are banished or doe voluntarily flee some ineuitable danger of vndeserued enemies as Dauid did from Saul if hee depend vpon God shall finde his fauour loue presence and protection euen amongst Barbarians Turkes and Scithians for hee is vniuersall in his power vniuersall in his prouidence vniuersall in his knowledge He obserueth and seeth his whether so euer they be banished and his mercies follow them and compasse them about If they seeke him they shall finde him as Dauid found him in the Deserts of Ziph among the rockes of Engedie wheresoeuer he fled There is no place where God is not present in his mercie or iustice and whosoeuer seeketh him in faith and faithfull prayer findeth him euery where if they pray vnto him he heareth them If then thou be vniustly banished or lawfully escaped danger by sorsaking thine owne Countrey and art in any forraigne and strange Region Be mindfull of the mercies of God towards thee and acknowledge that it is he that hath deliuered thee and who will giue thee meanes to liue among a strange people Then mayest thou thinke it thy home for where a man is well there is his Countrey And admit thou be enfotced to become a seruant or a slaue in forraigne parts for thy reliefe yet if thou truly feare and sincerely serue God thou art his free man Therefore make thou this thy banishment by thy patience a token and mark of thine integrity And if thou remember any grieuous sinne that thou hast committed in thy natiue Countrey thou mayest as well repent it in thy banishment and more freely if it may be so said then in thine owne Countrey for among strangers there is not such oportunity to sinne as among familiars There is no time nor place wherein a righteous man can be barred or preuented of seruing the Lord as well in the Wildernesse as in a Chamber as well in companie as alone for a faithfull heart is neuer idle it serues God as well in prison as in the Temple Serue God therefore in feare be faithfull in him and thou shalt be comforted as well in the place of thy banishment as in thy Fathers or dearest friends house And if God see it expedient for thee he will call thee home againe to the place from whence thou art abandoned to glorifie him A Prayer for a man banished from his natiue Countrey for some crime committed or enforced to forsake it either for feare of persecution or of some mightie aduersarie that doth vniustly oppresse him O Lord God powerfull and onely omnipotent all-seeing and vniuersally wise knowing all things the beginnings proceedings and ends of all men and their actions Thy prouidence and protection reacheth from the heauens to the earth the Sea and to the ends of the world So that none can runne or be enforced to flie vnto the place where thou canst not finde him out in iustice to punish him for his sinnes or in mercy to comfort him for thine owne names sake Lord I acknowledge that I haue grieuously offended thee by the manifold sins that I haue done not onely against thine owne prescript lawes and commandements but also against the Lawes of my Soueraigne which hath incensed thy heauie displeasure against me and in thy displeasure Man is worthily moued to persecute me enforcing me to abandon euen mine owne natiue Countrey for feare of the punishment I haue deserued And now Lord being come into this place of banishment estranged from and abandoned of all my friends familiars and acquaintance conuersing among vnknowne people whose conditions qualities and professions are as yet hid from me I doe most humbly pray thee to be fauourable and a Father vnto me in yeelding me reliefe euen such as thy faithfull seruant Iacob in his flying from his brother Esau desired bountifully receiued at thy hands foode and rayment and moue the hearts of this people among whom I am enforced to liue that I may finde fauour in their sight Thou hast promised neuer to faile nor to forsake any that faithfully trust in thee and that though father and mother and all friends forsake them thou wilt be a father vnto them giuing them their daily bread which implieth all necessarie blessings for soule and body and that all things shall worke together for the good of those that loue thee As the selling of Ioseph his Mistris false accusation his imprisonment all wrought for his aduancement in a strange Land yea among a prophane people So may this my banishment and liuing among a strange people worke by thy blessing to my comfort Thou art vniuersall in thy wisedome vnsearchable in thy prouidence mighty in all thy workes and to whom all people Nations and tongues are subiect work I pray thee that I may either returne to mine own natiue Countrey in peace and safety or that I may enioy here or