Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	aaron_n	affliction_n	job_n	17	3	7.6180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55306	Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth by Edward Polhill ...	Polhill, Edward, 1622-1694?	1675 (1675)	Wing P2755; ESTC R9438	262,258	506

the first place looks up to God as sitting at the stern and ruling all every Affliction is a piece of his Government to murmur against it is rebellion in such a case nothing becomes us so much as with Aaron to hold our peace or if we open our lips to do it with Job Blessing the name of the great Giver and Taker Is he not the Lord and may he not do as he will in his own World and among his own Creatures Should not all flesh be silent before him None but himself may or can be Rector of the World and yet in every act of Impatience we aspire and virtutually would be such our selves and is he not Insinitely wise and just in all that he doth Every Wheel hath an eye in it and every Cross its just proportion and to think that it might have been better is to blaspheme Providence This made that holy Man Mr. Dod in his Sickness after extream sits of pain say to his Servant O think well of God for it for it is most justly and wisely done whatsoever he doth And is he not gracious and mercisul and doth not Mercy rejoyce against Judgment The measire of Grace as the Jewish Rabbins say is ever larger than the measure of Judgment for one Cross we have many Blessings And shall we receive good much good at his hand and not a little evil If we have his Heavenly Graces how much may we bate of Earth and its Comforts If Sin the greatest burden of all be taken off in a Pardon may we not easily bear the lesser ones Thus Mr. Greenham told his Son in Law complaining of his Crosses When Affliction lyeth heavy Sin lyeth light If guilt press not any thing may be born nay is not he gracious and merciful in the very Affliction Doth he not support with one hand whilest he smites with another St. Paul glories in his Infirmites That the power of Christ may rest upon him 2 Cor. 12.9 And the Noble Potamenia being threatned to be cast into a Vessel of burning Pitch begged Spond Annal. Ann. 310. That she might not be cast in all at once but piece-meal that they might see how much Patience the unknown Christ had given unto her and doth he not make all work together for good What are the issues of Affliction to Believers but the purgation of Sins trials of Grace peaceable fruits of Righteousness and inward joys and experiences of Gods Goodness Let Faith but cast up the reckoning and it will appear That he afflict us in Love and Faithfulness and therefore it must needs be well taken the wounds of such a Friend being better than the kisses of the enemy-World Again to advance this Grace Faith makes a right judgment of Afflictions to Sense these are grievous but to Faith fit and congruous The World in which the Believer lives is a stage of Sin and therefore fit to be a place of sorrow how calm soever it was before Sin entred it is now a troubled Sea an Ocean of Evils as Antoninus calls an Empire Storms and tossing waves are proper in it and to be expected by every Passenger as much a Paradise as it was before it is now a Wilderness thorns and thistles of trouble grow naturally in it and give many a scratch and sting to the poor Pilgrim in his way to Heaven The Believer himself as a Man is born to trouble and altogether vanity all-Adam is all-Abel or vanity as it is Psal 39.5 He comes into the World weeping and very fitly because by his Sin he hath set the whole Creation a groaning until now and as a Believer he lives as a lilly among thorns so is his person in the World among wicked ones which are as pricking briars on every side and so is the Grace in his heart among the reliques of Corruption which are as thorns in the flesh And whilest Sin is within it is congrnous that trouble should be without nay more than congrnous it is necessary upon many accounts Affliction is purgative of Sin it may be the Believers Heart may wax proud and the tumor must be lanced or light and the vanity must be fanned away it may be hard and the furnace must melt it or drowsie and the rod must awaken it One ill humour or other is ready to grow upon us and O felices tribulos tribulationum Oh happy thorns of Affliction which let them out It Medicine be necessary so is Affliction which is Spiritual Physick for our peceant Humours Affliction is the way which Christ hath sanctified by going in it himself to the Throne of Glory and Believers must follow him whithersoever he goes Innocency it self suffering lumps of dust and sin cannot but do so He drinking up the full cup of Wrath well may we take a few drops of it especially seeing our sufferings are sweetned by his and his Heaven will be ours at last where the light momentany sufferings shall be remunerated with an eternal weight of hyperbolical Glory Luther saith of himself That looking on the Susserings of Christ he counted his own as nothing And St. Bernard makes Christ Et speculum Patiendi pretium Patientis both a glass of Patience and a reward of the Patient Now we are tossing and toyling at Sea but the port of Bliss is within ken and anon we shall be there In the interim we may tasie Heaven in the Joys of the holy Spirit which sheds abroad the Love of God in our Hearts and so gives us Praemium ante praemium a lesser Heaven before a greater Saint Paul saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I superabound or overflow in joy in all our tribulations 2 Cor. 7.4 Philip Lantgrave of Hesse being asked How he could endure his long tedious Imprisonment under the Emperor Charles the fifth professed Se Divinas Martyrum Consolationes sensisse That be felt the Divine Consolations of Martyrs The gracious Presence of God is able to sweeten Prisons Eghten Chains and make fire and water paffable to Believers Such things as these well digelled by Faith will make us keep a holy silence under all the Will of God Not to name any more Particulars I shall conclude this Point touching the actuating of Graces with one Observation more Faith connects all Graces together as links in a Chain and so by actuating one advances all in some measure The School-men do many of them allow a Connexion of all Moral Virtues in Prudence and yet commonly affirm That Faith may be without Charity As if Spiritual Graces were not so well united as Moral Virtues But the truth is true Faith is never without Charity true Faith makes us sons of God Joh. 1.12 but without Charity we are spurious and Children of the Devil By true Faith Christ dwells in the heart Ephes 3.17 and where he dwells Charity cannot be absent true Faith purisies the heart Act. 15.9 and without Charity there can be no Purity True Faith rests on the meer Grace of