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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B13857	Contemplations vpon the historie of the old Testament. The seuenth volume. In two bookes. By Ios. Hall D.D.; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 7	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1623 (1623)	STC 12658.5; ESTC S103672	123,026	533

profit of their master Some seruile Spirits would haue cared onely to sooth vp not to benefit their Gouernour and would haue incouraged his rage by their owne Sir will you take this at the hand of a base fellow Was euer man thus flouted Will you let him carrie it away thus Is any harmlesse anger sufficient reuenge for such an insolence Giue vs leaue at least to pull him out by the cares and force him to doe that by violence which hee would not doe out of good manners Let our fingers teach this saucy Prophet what it is to offer an affront to a Prince of Syria But these men loued more their masters health than his passion and had rather therefore to aduise than flatter to draw him to good than follow him to euill Since it was a Prophet from whom he receiued this prescription they perswade him not to despise it intimating there could bee no fault in the sleightnesse of the receit so long as there was no defect of power in the commander that the vertue of the cure should be in his obedience not in the nature of the remedie They perswade and preuaile Next to the Prophet Naaman may thanke his seruants that he is not a Leper He goes downe vpon their intreatie and dips seuen times in Iordan his flesh riseth his leprosie vanisheth Not the vniust furie and techinesse of the patient shall crosse the cure lest whiles God is seuere the Prophet should bee discredited Long enough might Naaman haue washed there in vaine if Elisha had not sent him Many a Leper hath bathed in that streame and hath come forth no lesse impure It is the word the ordinance of the Almightie which puts efficacy into those meanes which of themselues are both impotent and improbable What can our Font doe to the washing away of sinne If Gods institution shall put vertue into our Iordan it shall scoure off the spirituall leprosies of our hearts and shall more cure the soule than cleanse the face How ioyfull is Naaman to see this change of his skinne this renouation of his flesh of his life Neuer did his heart finde such warmth of in ward gladnesse as in this streame Vpon the sight of his recouerie hee doth not post home to the Court or to his family to call for witnesses for partners of his ioy but thankfully returnes to the Prophet by whose meanes he receiued this mercy He comes back with more contentment than hee departed with rage Now will the man of God be seene of that recouered Syrian whom hee would not see leprous His presence shall be yeelded to the gratulation which was not yeelded to the suit Purposely did Elisha forbeare before that he might share no part of the praise of this worke with his Maker that God might be so much more magnified as the meanes were more weake and despicable The miracle hath his due worke First doth Naaman acknowledge the God that wrought it then the Prophet by whom he wrought it Behold now I know there is no God in all the earth but in Israel Oh happy Syrian that was at once cured of his leprosie and his mes-prison of God Naaman was too wise to thinke that either the water had cured him or the man hee saw a diuine power working in both such as he vainly sought from his Heathen Deities with the heart therefore hee beleeues with the mouth he confesses Whiles hee is thus thankfull to the author of his cure he is not vnmindfull of the instrument Now therefore I pray thee take a blessing of thy seruant Naaman came richly furnished with ten talents of siluer six thousand peeces of gold ten changes of rayment All these and many more would the Syrian Peere haue gladly giuen to bee deliuered from so noysome a disease No maruell if he importunately offer some part of them to the Prophet now that he is deliuered some testimonie of thankfulnesse did well where all earthly recompence was too short The hands of this man were no lesse full of thanks than his mouth Dry and barren professions of our obligations where is power to requite are vnfit for noble and ingenuous spirits Naaman is not more frank in offering his gratuitie than Elisha vehement in refusing it As the Lord liueth before whom I stand I wil receiue none Not that he thought the Syrian gold impure Not that he thought it vnlawfull to take vp a gift where he hath laid downe a benefit But the Prophet will remit of Naamans purse that he may win of his soule The man of God would haue his new conuert see cause to be more enamoured of true pietie which teacheth her Clients to contemne those worldly riches and glories which base worldlings adore and would haue him thinke that these miraculous powers are so farre transcending the valuation of all earthly pelfe that those glittering treasures are worthy of nothing but contempt in respect thereof Hence it is that he who refused not the Shunamites table and stoole and candlesticke will not take Naamans present There is much vse of godly discretion in directing vs when to open when to shut our hands Hee that will not be allowed to giue desires yet to take Shall there not I pray thee bee giuen to thy seruant two mules load of earth for thy seruant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other Gods but vnto the Lord. Israelitish mold lay open to his carriage without leaue of Elisha but Naaman regards not to take it vnlesse it may be giuen him and giuen him by the Prophets hand Well did this Syrian finde that the man of God had giuen a supernaturall vertue to the water of Israel and therefore supposed hee might giue the like to his earth Neither would any earth serue him but Elishaes else the mold of Israel had beene more properly craued of the King than the Prophet of Israel Doubtlesse it was deuotion that moued this suit The Syrian saw God had a proprietie in Israel and imagines that he will be best pleased with his owne On the sudden was Naaman halfe a Proselyte still here was a weake knowledge with strong intentions Hee will sacrifice to the Lord but where in Syria not in Hierusalem Not the mold but the Altar is that God respects which he hath allowed no where but in his chosen Sion This honest Syrian will bee remouing God home to his Countrey hee should haue resolued to remoue his home to God And though he vowes to offer no sacrifice to any other god yet he craues leaue to offer an outward curtesie to Rimmon though not for the Idols sake yet for his masters In this thing the Lord pardon thy seruant that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there and he leaneth on my hand and I bow my selfe in the house of Rimmon the Lord pardon thy seruant in this thing Naaman goes away resolute to professe himselfe an Israelite for Religion all the Syrian Court shall