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lord_n	daughter_n	son_n	wife_n	16,146	5	6.4775	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50250	An heart-melting exhortation together with a cordiall consolation presented in a letter from New-England to their dear countrymen of Lancashire : which may as well concern all others in these suffering times / by Richard Mather ... and William Tompson ...	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.; Tompson, William, d. 1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing M1273; ESTC R3673	23,412	92

for this dealing of theirs and for their eager minde to help forward their affliction which he counts a going beyond their Commission Zach. 1.15 6. The power of the malignant enemies of Gods servants is so limited by the Lord that not the most malicious of men nor yet any of all the devils in hell can go one jot beyond his leave and commission who as he hath set bounds to the sea saying thus far shalt thou go but no further and here shall stay thy proud waves Job 38.11 Even so in like sort doth he restrain the rage and tumult of the wicked against his servants Psa 65.7 7. The afflictions of the godly are alwaies so ordered by the Lord that for measure they shall not be immoderate nor more then they are able to bear Jerem. 30.11 1 Cor. 10 13. nor shall they in the issue do them any hurt but great good both in purging out their sinne and corruption that they may be partakers of his holinesse Heb. 12.10 Isa. 1 25. Joh. 15 2. and in conforming them to Christ Rom. 8.29 and to the blessed Prophets Apostles and Martyrs that have been before them 8. The Lord doth not love his children ever a whit the lesse because they are afflicted Heb. 12.6 7. Rev. 3.19 but on the contrary is many times then nearest unto you when they are in greatest tribulation and then affords unto them the most of his gracious presence the most mighty support most rich supply of patience and long-sufferance and other graces and the sweetest glimpses and apprehensions of heavenly glory with the most lively expectations of future blessednesse 2 Cor. 1.5 4.16 God was never nearer to the three Princes Dan. 3. then when they were in the furnace nor to Daniel and Ezechiel and Iohn in glorious vision of God then when they were in captivity and banishment nor unto Steven then when the stones came thickest about his head 9. This is the common way in which all have gone that have gone to heaven and why should we expect to be singularly priviledged above all the rest of the Saints and not rather be content to bear these things with patience the same afflictions being accomplished in our brethren that are in the world 1 Pet. 5 9. 10. All the sufferings of this life are but for a moment for yet a little while and he that shall come to work our perfect deliverance he will surely come and will not tarry 2 Cor. 4.17 Heb. 10.37 And sure it is that if our lives were the longest that ever any were and that of all this time we should never see good day yet all this in respect of eternity were such a nothing that that eternall weight of glory will abundantly recompense us for the same Rom. 8.18 These and such like Arguments of consolation against all the sufferings of the Saints in this world we doubt not but many amongst you have been long ago taught of God to consider Neverthelesse our unfeigned love to your souls hath moved us in this manner to revive the remembrance of them at this time though you doe already know them and be established in the present truth And besides these considerations afore-mentioned which are more generall and appliable to all afflictions and troubles whatsoever the Saints may be exercised withall in this life there are sundry things in the ground and cause of your present sufferings as also in respect of the condition of your enemies by whom you suffer that may also be grounds of consolation to every sincere and Christian heart As first of all because the war wherein you have been engaged and by means whereof you have suffered so great things was not as we conceive offensive and voluntary but meerly defensive and taken up upon necessity because otherwise it could not have been avoided but your estates your wives your children your liberty your laws yea your very lives and that which ought to be dearer then your lives the true Religion of Christ Jesus these must all have been prostituted to the pleasure of Papists and other prophane and impious people the sworn servants of Antichrist and bloudy enemies of God and of the Kingdome And therefore if Nehemiah spake to good purpose when he bad the rulers and people of Iudah to remember the Lord which is great and terrible and to fight for their brethren their sonnes and their daughters their wives and their houses Neh. 4.14 your selves we doubt not may have comfort in your fightings whatever you may hazard or loose therein because you have as many relations and interests to fight for and of as precious importance and concernment as any that Nehemiah doth there mention and some of a great deal more so that if any ask why you would engage your selves in this war the events whereof have been to many so sad such may satisfie themselves if they will but consider what matters you had lying as it were at stake and you may well answer in the words of David for the satisfaction of your own and others consciences Was there not a cause 1 Sam. 17.29 2. And doubtless it is a great comfort in sufferings when they that suffer can say unto God for thy sake O God these things are come upon us In which case the Church Psal. 44.22 doth greatly comfort themselves and our Saviour in this respect doth comfort his disciples both pronouncing them to be blessed when they so suffer and commanding them thereupon to rejoice and to be exceeding glad Matth. 5.11 12. Now inasmuch as your sufferings are sufferings for that doctrine that worship and that government of the Church which is prescribed in the Scripture against Popery and Prelacy and other corrupt inventions of men we therefore doe esteem the cause of them to be no other but the very cause of God and of his Christ and so you may well claim a share in those consolations which belong to those who suffer for the cause of God and for righteousnesse sake 3. Nor is that nothing which is so often mentioned in the Scripture that the bloud of Gods servants doth cry for vengeance against their enemies Gen. 4.10 Rev. 6.10 In which respect you may be assured that he that saith the death of the Saints is precious in his sight Psal. 116.15 will not suffer the bloud which you or yours have shed or shall shed for his cause the cause you have now in hand to be alwaies unrevenged but will surely finde a time to render tribulation to them that trouble you in his waies 2 Thes. 1.6 For their tumult and outrage and blasphemy is already come up into his ears Isa. 37.29 so that he will doubtlesse avenge your cause yea and avenge it speedily Luk. 18.7 8. 4. Your brethrens bloud that is already poured out in this cause you cannot tell how much good it may have done and will doe nor what good your selves may doe by your constancy But this you know how the Apostle saith