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A57573	A discourse concerning trouble of mind and the disease of melancholly in three parts : written for the use of such as are, or have been exercised by the same / by Timothy Rogers ... ; to which are annexed, some letters from several divines, relating to the same subject.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1691 (1691)	Wing R1848; ESTC R21503	284,310	522

sacrifices of joy I will sing yea I will sing praises unto the Lord. Did we ever hope to see the Light of God again Did we ever hope to think of Heaven as our own portion and of Christ as our own Saviour Did we ever hope that we should be thus at ease and thus joyful as we now are God is our helper God is our refuge and our strong hold and blessed be the name of the Lord. 5. Let us call upon our Brethren and our Friends to help us to praise the Lord Psal 145.2 3 8 9 14. as to my self I make these requests Bless the Lord O house of Aaron and Levi Bless him ye Ministers of the Gospel that prayed for me in my trouble and have had your prayers granted Bless the Lord O House of Israel and all ye people every-where that sympathized and also kindly remembred me in my desolate condition Bless him ye Old men that you have got so far towards the haven without being thrown into the waves and so much endangered by the Rocks as I have been Bless him that you have not met with such violent tentations and great sorrows as I have met withal though I set out long after you Bless the Lord ye Young men that you have not been weakned in the way with sore affliction and with the terrors of the Lord which I long groaned under Bless him every one both small and great against whom he does not proceed in such smart and severe Providences and in such long and sharp Afflictions Bless him that you see before your eyes and to help your faith a person lately brought from the borders of the Grave and Hell one for whom you were concerned and for whom you prayed and one that still needs and beg your prayers that he may never come to such a sad and doleful night again It is a common Custom to congratulate our Friends recovery from sickness or when they return from some Foreign Land but nothing does more deserve our common thanks than when a Person is come from under the sense of God's displeasure to a sense of his favour and love again Thus it was with Job ch 42.11 Then came there to him all his brethren and all his sisters and all they that had been of his acquaintance before and did eat bread with him in his house and they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him And with a design of exciting others to praise God with him is that Psal 66.16 Come and hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soul Or as the Father of the Prodigal to his obedient Son that repined at the kind usage that he gave to him that was less dutiful upon his returning home Luke 15.32 It was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found It is the design of God that the great and eminent Deliverances which he gives to some of his Servants should be taken notice of by all the rest that as they usually bring along with them a common Benefit so he should have a common return of praise Ps 66.8 O bless our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard which holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to be moved And the joining with others that have been in great distress and are escaped is to answer the Obligation we are under to that Precept To rejoice with them that do rejoice And an encouragement to those who are yet in trouble Ps 130.7 Let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him there is plenteous redemption And to those that yet are at ease we may say as Paul to Foelix that we wish they were such as we in some respects that is excepting our bonds our anguish and tribulation that they also had such experiences of the goodness and the mercy of God 6. Let us always wait and hope for that eternal Felicity which will at length dawn upon all his people in the great morning of the Resurrection and at their entrance into Heaven there will be joy indeed There is no night there 't is a place that is continually blest with a bright and shining day It is true as one says that as in nature the nights are not equal those of the Winter are much longer than those of the Summer but how long soever they be they are always followed with the light of day so whatsoever diversity there is among the Afflictions of the faithful to one they are much longer than to another yet they shall have an end as Jacob wrastled all night but in the morning got the victory I confess that Sinners in this World have their pleasures but so beset with thorns so attended with fears and pains so short and so vanishing that they deserve not the name But in Heaven the Sun that rises in the morning of our new Glory will never set again those pleasures are not like those of Sin for a season but for evermore There our now imperfect Joy will be compleat and full It will be satisfying and eternal too We shall feel the love of God in so sweet and transporting a manner that we shall never doubt whether he loves us or not We shall always behold our Father's face he will look on us with delight and we shall look on him with praise and joy This world because of its lowness is subject to Inundations and Miseries and innumerable Vicissitudes of Pain and Grief but that high and glorious World is the place of Triumph and of Victory then we shall see our Sin that made us weep to be it self totally defeated then we shall see that Devil that tempted us to be trod under our feet and never to be able to tempt us any more Let us often remember that saying of our Lord John 16.21 22. A woman when she is in travel hath sorrow because her hour is come but as soon as she is delivered of the Child she remembreth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world And ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy shall no man take from you Oh! what a glorious morning will that be that shall have no cloud to obscure its light and never be followed with a sad or gloomy night As our sufferings here did abound our Consolations then will much more abound We shall forget all our Labour and all our trouble when we see to what a glorious Kingdom we are born tho it was by pangs and torment our joy ' will be like the joy of Harvest of an Harvest that will requite us well for all our care and toil Our hopes here are like the first streaks of light in the Sky that shew the coming of the day but our possession of blessedness will be as the Sun in the fulness of his Glory That delight will indeed be the Sabbath of our thoughts and the sweet and perpetual calmness of our minds that will never be in horror and anguish any more Precious and admirable are those Tears that end so well and which prepare us for so good a state who would not chuse thus to weep that he may rejoyce for ever Lift up your eyes to the Jerusalem above the City of the Living God ye Mourners and Prisoners of hope for it is the City of Peace Rev. 21.3 4. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his People and God himself shall be with them and be their God and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away THE END

give forth Light and Joy when his own set time came which tho we did not wait for in a due manner by Faith Patience and Humility yet he passed by all our unbelief impatience and peevishness and visited our sinful Souls in his tender Mercy notwithstanding all whereby we had provoked him to turn his short withdrawing from us into an everlasting departure from us and have left us wholly to the unbelief and frowardness of our own evil hearts Wherefore let us magnify his Name together and let his high praises be in our hearts and mouths as long as we live and unto all Eternity for he is most worthy to be praised And blessed be his Name for ever and ever Amen And let us walk circumspectly and humbly with him all our days that we grieve not his good Spirit any more and provoke him to withdraw from us and to take his blessed influences and comforts from us as he has done He is the life of our souls and the joy of our hearts without him we are but a sink of all filth and a hell of sorrow and confusion ............ I hope you will give me the contentment to let me see you as oft as you can I shall be glad to be a means to help forward your Faith and Joy unto a more full settlement of Spirit and more abundant rejoycing in the Lord Jesus Thus with my constant Prayers for you I commend you to the Grace of God in Christ and Rest London Febr. 8. 1689. Your most Affectionate Friend and Brother in the Lord GEORGE PORTER LETTER IV. To a Relation of the Authors Mrs. Rogers I Have read your doleful Letter wherein you express your distress of mind under which you lately labour'd 't was indeed a very sad misapprehension of God and of your own condition but yet this is no more than what hath befaln many a dear Servant of God who have managed the same Objection against themselves and have labour'd under the same afrightments This you counterballance with the comfortable account you give of God's great Mercy to you in commanding down these waves and storms I rejoice with you in this and pray that God would please to confirm and settle you in the sense of his Love And that you may go forward in your present peaceable Estate I would advise you to take a due care of your Body and to reduce it into order I know well you are naturally melancholly and you may be assured the Devil took no small advantage from thence to raise up your distressing fears and if you take not heed to take away this advantage he may except God wonderfully prevent raise up trouble to you a second time 'T is not possible for me at so great a distance to direct you in this matter Physicians upon the place that see you and can occasionally fit or change their prescriptions are only fit to advise you This being cared for I shall only put you in mind of a few things which I would have you to establish upon your mind and these are such as a review of your apprehensions in your former trouble will help you to understand First then Call to mind that such dreadful Terrors as you have had are not to be understood as certain evidences of God's rejecting those that are so afflicted tho you so concluded against your self yet the present peace which God in great mercy hath given you is enough to tell you that you were mistaken when you thought so Heman's Case and the instances of many others of your own Acquaintance may abundantly satisfy you that these things may befall the precious Servants of God Secondly Note also That a true converted Person may be brought to that pass as to deny all the Evidences of Grace which he formerly had and may condemn himself for an Hypocrite when at the same time these Evidences appear to By-standers and shine through the black Cloud of their terror Thirdly 'T is further to be noted that the sad Speeches such Men utter and the desperate conclusions that such do make are little else than the Discourses of those that are distracted nor will God rigidly press them upon us as sins of that nature which we would take them to be God in Mercy considers our distress and will more gently pass by such extravagancies than we can readily believe 4. You should also call to mind that you and others in this Case boldly venture to determine that which neither you nor no Man else can know as that you were cut off reprobated made to be destroyed no time of Mercy left c. This was a conclusion which you had no warrant to make nor could you prove it If you concluded your present state to be bad you should not have taken upon you to pronounce God's purpose to have been against you for the future Who knows the Mind of God 5. I also think that you might possibly have some disadvantage by some darkness of mind about the nature of Faith some expressions in your Letter where you complain you could not believe look as if you thought Faith must be a believing that our sins are pardoned I will not much insist on this because I may mistake But if you had such a mistake in your mind 't is no wonder to say you could not believe These things you may do well to consider as mistakes which the disordered Reason you had run upon to the increase of your trouble and now while you are in the calm fix the contrary upon your mind and come up as fully as you can to these following conclusions 1. Let the amiable lovely and compassionate Nature of God be deeply impressed upon your mind think often seriously meditate That God is Love That he delights not in the death of sinners That he is willing to save 2. Make much of the probability or even possibility of Salvation even when the assurance of Faith is wanting 't is a great stay to be able to nourish hope concerning this thing 3. Persuade your self for certain That God's Decree is no rule for you to go by and that you must interpret his Decree by his Promises for it 's certain his Decree doth not contradict his Promise 4. Assure your self that if God sincerely incline your heart to accept of Christ as your Righteousness and Lawgiver and endeavour faithfully to live accordingly he will undoubtedly fulfil his Promise of Peace and Pardon to you and that it is a comfortable evidence of his special Grace 5. Do not think you want Faith because you have not assurance Faith is such a belief of the proffer of Salvation by Christ in the Gospel as makes us willing to accept it upon God's terms 6. Listen not to severe and malignant suggestions of Satan against the Mercifulness and Goodness of God if any such thoughts come into your mind cast them out presently and raise up your mind unto a detestation of them 7. Be thankfully content with that