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A26344 God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams. Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. 1652 (1652) Wing A492; ESTC R22209 47,052 94

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sins Thus one grace begets another by a supernatural generation til they increase in number and measure by the Divine inspiration Faith calls up repentance repentance brings in pardon and forgivenesse pardon leads in comfort and thus O my God Thy comforts delight my soul 4. When God by the preaching of his law hath broken up the fallow ground of our hearts and by the applying of his Gospel hath sown the seed of eternal life in those furrows he lookes that we should bestow our labour in the watering of this plantation The ground is his for he made it the seed is his for he gives it the harvest is his and he owns it Yet such is the bounty of his goodness that he gives his farmers the fruits of it The rent of that great Landlords glory being truly payed the product is ours even the comfort and salvation of our poor souls All our pains is but to hook up the weeds that would hinder the growth of the corn and dew the furrows with our tears that it may spring up with chearfulness But when the reaping-time comes the whole crop is ours and we come home singing with joy and thankfulness Thy comforts have delighted our souls When those glorious reapers the Angels shal bear up our souls to heaven like sheaves into the barn we shal sing harvest-home glorifie our infinite good God and our sweetSaviour JesusChrist To conclude crosses are but the pursuivants to fetch in repentance and afflictions but Gods letters missive formortification When we are fallen into some hainous transgressions we may better say then in our other trouble this will cost hot water For so it will indeed it wil cost the hot waters of our tears from our eyes or it will cost the warm blood of our hearts Our godly sorrow for our sins is like the Pool of Bethesda when that Angel from heaven gracious repentance hath troubled the waters the lazarous soul does but step into them and is cured For all our spiritual diseases this is the remedy upon which we may safely write Probatum est We have made our selves sick by sinning God is the Physician and he prescribes Affliction is the Apothecary and he prepares the Medicine is Repentance and that infallibly cures It is a broken heart that makes us whole God loves a true heart and a clean heart and an honest heart and an humble heart yea and he loves a broken heart too The broken and contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise It is true that we are bound to love him with our whole heart but if it be broken with penitential sorrow for sin he wil heal the fracture redintegrate the heart and reaccept it wholly to himself A contrite heart broken in peices with sorrow and pickled up in brinish tears is a sacrifice that God will not reject Whosoever hath such a heart let him make much of it It is a dish for the king of kings Sin Repentance and Pardon are like to the three vernall months of the yeer March April and May Sin comes in like March blustering stormy and full of bold violence Repentance succeeds like April showring weeping and full of tears Pardon follows like May springing singing ful of joys and flowers If our hands have been ful of March with the tempests of unrighteousnesse our eyes must be ful of April with the sorrow of repentance then our hearts shal be ful of May in the true joy of forgivenesse His soul as there be no comforts like those of God so there is nothing to which comforts are so welcom as to the soul The pleasure which the body takes is but the body yea scarce the very shadow of pleasure the soul of pleasure is the pleasure of the soul There bee many things pleasing to the body wherein the sanctified soul takes no delight especially in the day of trouble In calamity good nourishments are confortable good words are comfortable good friends are comfortable the Physician is comfortable the Divine comfortable a good spouse specially comfortable but in respect of these comforts which passe all understanding we may say of the rest as Job did to his visitant friends Miserable comforters are ye all But blessed are the souls upon whom this Sun of comfort shineth and happy are those showers of fears and sorrows that shall be dryed up with such beams of comforts and blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort To whom with the Son and Holy Ghost be all praise and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS a Luk. 2. 13. b Gen. 2. 1. c Pro. 30. 37. d Rev. 6. 16. e Psal. 2. 4. f Rev. 19. 18. g Psa 30. 5. h Ps. 90. 9. i Ps. 36. 7. Job 6. 4. Ps. 88. 15. 16. Isa. 59. 2. Isa. 63. 10 a 1 King 22. 25 b Jon. 4. 4. c Psal. 79 5. d 2 Sam. 21. 1. e Psa. 73. 7. f Ezek. 16. 42. g Jer. 14. 13. h Ps 92. 10. i Ps. 9. 17. 21. l Psa. 29. 5. m Psa. 18. 7. n Isa 64. 1. o 1 Kin. 19. 11. p Psa. 2 9. q 1 Kin. 14. 10. 11 r Ps. 37. 36. Josh. 6. 17. 21. 1 Sam. 15 3. Gen. 6. 12. 1 Kin. 14. 13. Josh. 6. 17. Isa. 9. 19. Jer. 22. 8. 9. Gen. 18. 32. Jer. 5. 1. Num. 16. 22. Josh 7. 11. 2 Sam. 21. 1. 2 Sam. 21 14 Psa. 65. 12. Pal. 106 30. Nam 25. 8. Jon. 3. 8. Num. 16. 22. a Psa. 89. 33 b Col. 3. 6. c Psal. 30. 5. d Psal 103. 9. e Exo. 32. 11. f Isa. 54. 8. g Mic. 7. 8. h John 3. 36. i Pia 99. 8. l Rom. 9. 22. m 1 Cor. 11. 32 n Heb. 12. 11. o Isa. 28. 24 r Isa. 27 7. s Isa. 27. 9. t John 1. 11. a Psa. 106. 30. b Num. 16. 15. c Psal. 65. 2. d Hag. 2. 9. e Rom. 10. 13. f 1 Kin. 2. 17. g Jam. 4. 2. h Josh. 7. 8. i Exo. 32. 10. l 2 Sam. 1. 25. m Lam. 1. 1. n Jam. 5. 18. o Act. 7. 56. r Lam. 3. 44. s Eze. 8. 18. t Joh. 9. 31. u Ps. 66. 18. a Isa. 5. 15. b Lu. 8. 28. Psa. 14 4. Psal. 10. 4. Psa. 1 37. 7. Jam. 3. 10. Joel 2. 14. Mal. 3. 10. Psal. 26. 6. Ps. 141. 2. Cypr. Psal. 109. 7. Psal. 66. 20. Act. 14. 22. 2 Tim. 3. 12. Cant. 2. 17. Jer. 4. 14. Mat. 5. 4. Chrys. Chrys. Hom. 2. Ad pop. Antioch Gen. 30. 11. Marke 5. 9. Psal. 34. 19. Job 1. 16. Jonah 2. 3. Plura machinatur cor meum uno momento quam in omnes homines perficere possunt uno anno Hugo l. 3 de Anima Isa. 23. 7. Psal. 81. 14. Gen. 25. 22. 2 Cor. 7. 5. 2 Cor. 11. 28 Matth. 10. 36. Aug. Psalm 143. 4. Psalm 43. 5. Exo. 14. 4. John 11. 21. Psal. 91. 12. Cant. 8. 4. Amos 6. 4. Matth. 2. 18. Joel 2. 13. Acts 27 8. 1 Sam. 17. 40. Psalm 1. 16. 7. Psal. 66. 76. 2 Chron. 32. 8. 2 Kings 6. 16. Psalm 40. 5. Psalm 68. 1. John 2. 7. Psalm 47. 37. 1. 2. 3 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 12 9 Psa. 54. 17 2 Cor. 1. 3.