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A61998	A sermon at the funeral of the virtuous lady, and honoured, Ann, late wife of Thomas Yarburgh, Esq . Preached on Monday, the 10th day of July, 1682. By Matthew Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1637 or 8-1707.	1682 (1682)	Wing S6205B; ESTC R222127	17,195	23

patience And Moses bids the Israelites remember all the way which God led them forty years through the wilderness Deut. 8.2 to prove them and to know all that was in their hearts Thus God dealt with Job and thus he deals with many of his servants he casts them into the Furnace of affliction that their Faith being tryed may shine the brighter Sometimes for the exercise of their Graces Rom. 5.3 4. We glory in tribulations saith the Apostle knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope Altho afflictions be in their own nature bitter and not joyous but grievous yet they are the occasions to exercise and thereby to work in us the habit of many excellent Virtues such as patience and Christian for titude and constancy under the greatest evils which begets in us a great experience of our own hearts and knowledg of our sincerity and this produceth a firm hope in the promises of God which can never fail us in the day of Evil. Thus afflictions do but give us opportunity for the Exercise of many noble acts of Religion and of many Divine Graces which otherwise there would be no place for For some virtues are principally exercised with Evil and all their strength is employed in the victory of that Wherein consists the honour of Patience but in the quiet and unmoved enduring of troubles Nusquam est patientiae virtus in prosperis Where there are no troubles patience hath nothing to do Had Job never been afflicted his Patience had wanted matter for Exercise and had never become so eminently Exemplary This and such like Virtues like Stars shine brightest in the Night Therefore Afflictions are called Gods Wine-press when they happen to good men they do but press out the Sap and Juice of Grace that is in them and make those Graces which lay hid before manifest and apparent unto others The good man being pressed with troubles brings forth the fruit of praise and thanksgiving with patience Sciut aromata odorem non nisi cum accenduntur expandunt As sweet spices disperse not their odours till they be burnt or beaten so the Servants of God who otherwise seem to be void of Spiritual strength when they are beaten with afflictions send out a sweet smelling savour of rich and manifold Graces Again troubles in good men may sometimes have a respect to Sin and that either to Sin past or future In respect to past Sins they are Medicinal Restoratives by which they are awakened to recover their health by Repentance of those Sins through which they have become spiritually sick and diseased For howsoever God giveth loose reins to the Children of wrath and delivereth them up to their own hearts desires yet he will hedg in with thorns the way of those he purposeth to save and by some sharp Rod or other will awake them from the mortal sleep of Security as he awaked Jonas by casting him into the Sea and arrested Saul in the full career of his persecution by striking him at once from his horse and from his carnal confidence in the flesh And in respect to future Sins troubles are preservatives from such Sins into which God seeth them of their weakness ready to fall if they be not prevented And so he sent an Angel of Satan to buffet St. Paul not for any Sin he had committed but for a Sin he might fall into lest he should be exalted above measure through the Abundance of his Revelations Again the Servants of God are exercised with troubles sometimes to withdraw their affections from the World and to awaken their desires and pursuits after those better and more enduring riches which are reserved in Heaven for them Should they injoy alway an undisturbed course of prosperity they would be ready to say with St. Peter when he saw the glory of Mount Tabor It is good to be here and never think of any other Heaven But when we find nothing but trouble and disquietness here then our hearts being thereby convinc'd of the vanity and vexation of all earthly things do long after that Rest which remains for the People of God There is no Rest to be found here What the Devil sought in envy and Solomon in curiosity that all men seek in vanity Mar. 12.43 Walking through these dry places they seek rest and find none Here we dwell in Mesek and meet with nothing but disquietness And they that are tossed in a tempest how do they long for a good Haven or harbor of rest The more our Pilgrimage is imbittered the more we seek this Rest But here we cannot find it the Heavens move they have no rest the Earth fructifies it hath no rest the Waters Winds Clouds are all at work they have no rest Nor is any rest allowed to man below Let us not think to set up our rest here in this tumultuous throng of troubles Where envy and strife is there is confusion and every evil work Upon this Wheel ever whirling about we are no sooner set down but some trouble or other rowseth us in the words of the Prophet Mic. 2.10 Arise and depart for this is not your rest Lastly troubles prepare the Servants of God for Salvation as Grapes must be pressed before they become Wine and Corn thrashed and ground before it make Bread And tho this seem a meer paradox to the men of the World who go on in a course of Sin and Pleasure Yet the Spirit of God hath assured us that tho no chastening for the present be joyous but greivous nevertheless afterwards it yeildeth the quiet and peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby As God sendeth afflictions to scourge us so they scourge us into the way to Him and when they have shewed us that we are nothing in our selves they also shew us that Christ is all things to us And tho they shall remove us out of the World yet they assure us that no extremity of sickness no temptations of Satan no horror of Death shall remove us from him but when we dye we shall dye in him and by that death be united unto him that dyed for us and rose again Thus God afflicts his own Servants here that he may crown them hereafter they are exercised with troubles in this present life that in that to come they may have rest in the Lord. Thus the Apostle saith When we are judged 1 Cor. 11.32 we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the World The sorrows and troubles of the Saints prepare them for Christ and help to gather them to him Psal 126.5 6. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him And that that this was the Case of this excellent person this deceased Gentlewoman whose earthly Reliques we have committed to the Grave those manifold Graces and