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A30576 Four usefull discourses viz. ... / by Jer. Burroughs ... Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646. 1675 (1675) Wing B6073; ESTC R36309 190,879 294

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themselves evenly with God and graciously with God in variety of Conditions Let the Condition be up and down this way and then another yet Grace helps a Man to lie square any way like a Dye cast it which way you will it lies square So put a gracious Heart into any Condition Full or Empty yet Grace will help him in any Condition whatsoever as the Apostle saith in the Corinthians Through Honour and Dishonour by Evil report and Good report by the Armour of Righteousness on the Right-hand and on the Left We find Use of our Weapons on the Right hand and on the Left the Armour of Righteousness helps not only on the Left-hand to Fence off the evil of Adversity but on the Right-hand to Fence off the Evil of Prosperity Here 's a Christian Souldier that can make use of the Armor of Righteousness both on the Right-hand and on the Left I had thought to have given some grounds Why it is that Grace will help any way as a Watch in a Mans Pocket if it be a good Watch though a Man sit upon it and it is tumbled up and down yet the Wheels they keep a constant steady motion So it is with the heart of a man if there be Grace within and the wheels work aright yet Grace makes the Heart stedfast within let the condition be never so various to be tost up and down this way or that way yet the heart keeps the same The Motto of Queen Elizabeth may be the Motto of every gracious heart Alwayes the same So in a constant way either in prosperity or adversity still he continues in an evenness with God If God casts him upon his Sick Bed there he rejoyces in God and blesses God and you will find savory and spiritual things come from him then and if God deliver him and you find him in prosperity there his heart is heavenly still and gracious and spiritual and raised above the Creatures which way soever he be put I cannot give you the grounds I 'll onely compare a Scripture or two together and so conclude all to see the evenness of the heart of a godly man in all conditions let them be what they will In Psal 57. To the chief Musician Al-taschith Mictam of David when he fled from Saul in the Cave That 's the Title of the Psalm A Psalm that David made in his very great affliction when he fled from Saul for his life in the Cave See what he saith and comparing that same with Psal 60. where it is To the chief Musician upon Shushan-Eduth Mictam of David to teach when he strove with Aram Naha●aim and with Aram Zobah when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt Twelve thousand David was low when he fled from Saul in the Cave there David had not the Kingdom well but afterwards David was high and had the Kingdom Joab was his Officer and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt Twelve thousand Now you would think that this different condition of David should have made a different work in his Spirit yet you shall find a great part of that Psalm to be the very same In the 57th Psalm ver 7. My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise awake up my Glory awake Psaltery and Harp I my self will awake early I will praise the Lord among the People I will sing unto Thee among the Nations c. Why you shall find likewise that David in the 60 th Psalm he hath much of this of blessing God as well in his Prosperous state in which he was as in his Afflicted estate Let us compare this with the 108 th Psalm ver 5. Be thou Exalted O God There David was in his Prosperous estate And here 's the same Expression O God my heart is fixed saith he I will sing and give praise with my Glory Awake Psaltery and Harp I my self will awake early I will praise Thee O Lord among the People and I will sing Praises unto Thee among the Nations c. Just he goes on in the very same words But now the 60th Psalm is to be compared with the 108th where it is God hath spoken in his Holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem and mete out the Valley of Succoth Gilead is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my Head Judah is my Law-giver c. Now in the 108 Psalm God hath spoken in his Holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem c. This is the Note from hence and so we have done That David in his various Conditions though at some times more Prosperous than others yet still you find him in the same Spirit and almost the very same words Be he ●n the Cave or when Joab had overcome or be he afterwards how he will in a higher Condition for the 108 th Psalm was made in a time after this Yet Davids heart is the same Praising God Blessing God Believing in his Word Trusting in his Word Now that 's the Note You should observe Whether you can make use of the same Scripture in one Condition as in another Those Scriptures that are comfortable to you in one Condition make use of them in another And whether you can Praise God in one Condition in the same way as in another Why Grace doth so satisfie and strengthen the Heart as the things that are without in the World makes very little alteration There is very little alteration that External things can make in a Gracious heart When a Man or Woman is so that a Prosperous condition puffs him up or Adversity makes him dejected it 's a sign of very little Grace or no Grace But thus much for this Text. A Sermon 1 Sam. 3. the latter part of the 18th Verse And he said it is the Lord let Him do what seemeth Him good THese Words are the Expression of a Gracious Humble Submissive Heart to Gods Dispose The Words of Ely the Priest who when the Hand of God was revealed against his Family he here falls down before Him and saith It is the Lord let Him do what seemeth Him good It is the Lord Whatever the means be that such and such sad things should fall upon my Family yet It is the Lord. Let Him do what seemeth Him good The things seem hard to me but they may seem otherwise to God whatever things seem to me however dark they look yet to God things may seem after another manner and therefore let things be done rather as they seem to God than as they seem to me We have in the Words before you these Four Doctrinal Points The first is That a Gracious Heart looks much to God in every Affliction that doth befal it It is the Lord. Secondly The sight of God in an Affliction is That that causes a gracious Heart humbly to fall down and to submit It is the Lord let Him do what seemeth Him good Thirdly That things seem