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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

how shall we be able to entertaine the Lord and Master when he commeth Wherefore as Iehoram said to Iehu when he marched furiously commest thou peaceably As if he should say if thou commest peaceably march as furiously as tho● wil● so let us say unto God provided thy afflictions and chastisements be directed to us as messengers of peace and love let them march towards us as furiously as thou pleasest but in any case let us not be without correction for as Mariners at Sea finde that of all stormes a Calme is the greatest so we that to bee exempt from miserie is the most miserable condition of all other Object But thou fearest that God hath not pardoned thy sinnes and this makes him so severe against thee Answ. Many times after the remission of the sinne his very chastisements are deadly as is cleare by Davids example no repentance can assure us that we shall not smart with outward afflictions that can prevent the eternall displeasure of God but stil it may be necessary and good we should be corrected our care and suit must be that the evils which shall not be averted may be sanctified CHAP. 38. That Christ and all the Saints are our Partners and partakers with us in the Crosse yea our suff●rings are nothing in comparison of theirs 4. WEE shall beare the crosse with more patience and comfort if we consider that Christ and all the Saints are our partners and partakers therein yea thy sufferings are nothing in comparison of what others have suffered before thee Looke upon Abel thou shalt see his elder brother Cain had dominion and rule over him by Gods appointment Gen. 4.7 Yea in the next Verse thou shalt see him slaine by his brother Looke upon Iob thou shalt see that miseries do not stay for a mannerly succession to each other but in a rude importunity throng in at once to take away his children substance friends credite health peace of conscience c. leaving him nothing but his Wife whom the Devill spared on purpose to vex him as the Fathers thinke so that in his owne apprehension God was his mortall enemy as heare how in the bitternesse of his soule he complaines of his Maker saying He teareth me in his wrath hee hateth mee and gnasheth upon me with his teeth he hath broken me a sunder taken me by the necke and shaken ●e to peeces and set me up for his marke his Archers compasse me round about he cleaveth my raines a sunder and doth not spare to powre out my gall upon the ground hee breaketh mee with breach upon breach and runneth upon me like a Gyant Iob 16. Now when so much was uttered even by a none-such for his patience what may we thinke he did feele and indure Looke upon Abraham thou shal● see him forced to forsake his Countrey Fathers House to goe to a place hee knew not to men that knew not him and after his many removes h● meets with a famine and so is forced into Aegypt which indeed gave reliefe to him when Canaa● could not shewing that in outward things Gods enemies may fare better than his friends yet he goes not without great feare of his life which made it but a deare purchase then he is forced to part from his brother Lot by reason of strife debate among their Heard●men after that Lot is taken prisoner and he is constrained to ●age warre with foure Kings at once to rescue his Brother then Sarah his wife is barren and he must go childlesse untill in reason he is past hope when he hath a son it must not only dye but himselfe must slay him look upon Iacob you shall see Esau strive with him in the wombe that no time might be lost after that you shall see him flye for his life from a cruell Brother to a cruell Vncle with a staffe goes he over Iordan alone doubtfull and comfortlesse not like the son of Isaac In the way he hath no bed but the cold earth no pillow but the hard stones no sheet but the moist aire no Canopie but th● wide Heaven at last he is come far to finde out an hard friend and of a Nephe● becomes a servant after the service of an hard Apprentiship hath earned her whom he loved his wife is changed and he is not only disappointed of his hopes but forced to marry another against his will and now he must begin another Apprentiship and a new hope where he made account of fruition all which fourteene yeeres he was consumed with heat in the day with frost in the night when he hath her whom he loves she in barren at last being growne rich chiefly in wi●es and children accounting his charge his wealth he returnes to his fathers house but with what comfort Behold Laban followes him with one troope Esau meets him with another both with hostile intentions not long after Rachel the comfort of his life dyeth his children the staffe of his age wound his soule to death Reuben proves incestuous Iudah adulterous Dina is ravished Simeon and Levi are murtherous Er and Onan are stricken dead Ioseph is lost Simeon imprisoned Beniamin his right-hand endangered himselfe driven by famine in his old age to dye among the Aegyptians a people that held it abomination to eat with him Now what sonne of Israel can hope for any good dayes when hee heares his fathers were so evill It is enough for us if when we are dead we can rest with him in the Land of promise It were easie to shew the like of Ioseph Ieremie David Daniel Iohn Baptist Peter Paul and all the generation of Gods children and servants For as the Apostle giveth a generall testimony of all the Saints in the old Testament saying That some endured the violence of the fire some were rackt others were tried by mockings and scourgings bonds and imprisonments some stoned some h●●ne in sunder some slaine with the sword some wandred up and downe in Sheeps skins and Goats skins being destitute afflicted and tormented some forced to wander in wildernesses and mountaines and hide themselves in dens and caves of the earth being such as the world was not worthy of Heb. 11. So Ecclesiasticall History gives the like generall testimony of all the Saints in the New Testament and succeeding ages and it is well knowne that our Saviour Christs whole life even from his cradle to his grave was nothing else but a continued act of suffering he that had all possessed nothing except the punishment due to our sins which lay so heavie upon him for satisfaction that it pressed his soule as it were to the nethermost hell and made him cry out in the anguish of his spirit My God my God why hast thou forsaken me So that to be free from crosses and afflictions is the priviledge onely of the Church triumphant Now the way not to repine at those above us is to looke at those below us we seldome or never see any man