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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29117	Elijah's epitaph and the motto of all mortalls in the other reason in the text, perswading him into a willingness to dye, in these words, I am no better then [sic] my fathers, I Kin. 19, 4 / by Thomas Bradley, D.D. one of His Late Majesties chaplains and præbendary of York, and preach't in the minster there, and in his rectory of Ackworth, 1669, Ætatis suæ, 72.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4131; ESTC R34264	17,583	51

as I live Psal 116.1 2. But if God hath not so answered in specie by granting thee just the thing that thou did'st desire mark well if he hath not commuted with thee giving thee something els in the roome of it that may be to thee as good as it as he did to Saint Paul or farr better as here to our Prophet in the Text And then If where thou askest a stone he give thee bread Or Where thou askest a scorpion he give thee a fish Or Where thou askest temporall things he give thee spirituall say thou art no loser by the change though thou have not punctually that which thou didst desire So it is here with our Prophet in the Text He desires the Lord to take away his soule No saith God I will not doe so but I will doe that which is farr better for thee I will preserve thy soule in thy body for a time wherewith thou shalt doe me more service and that honourable service which shall be to thy eternall fame and glory and that done I will take away thy soule and body both and carry them to Heaven in a fiery Charriot Which brings in the second Observation 2. Obs That God oftentimes doth better for his servants then themselves desired he out-grants their own asking Thus he dealt by Solomon 1 Kings 3. That King had a large offer and promise from Almighty God That let him aske what he would it should be given him 1 Kings 3.5 He asked Wisedom that he might be able to govern that mighty people committed to his charge The Lord was so well pleased that he had asked this thing that he tells him That he hath not onely given him that which he ask't but he also gave him that which he had not asked Riches and Honour c. ver 13. and that in such abundance that no King ever had the like nor should have after him Jacob being to take a long Journey through dangerous wayes into a strange Country and being but ill provided with viaticum for such a Journey beggs of God That he would but grant him food and rayment and he should be happy he askes no more Oh if God will but give me Bread to eat and Rayment to put on how thankfull shall I be for it And if you look but a little farther in the Story to the 32. Chapter you shall finde how abundantly God answered his request with measure running over prest down and shaken together He gave him not onely Food and Rayment in his Journey but Wealth and Honour and Riches in abundance as he doth thankfully acknowledge ver 10. O Lord I am less then the least of all thy mercies for with my staffe came I over this bridge and loe thou hast made me two bands so farr doth his bounty exceed our very hopes and expectations As in Jael's entertainment of Sisera Judges 5. He asked Water and she gave him Milke And as Naaman to Gebazi He asked him one change of Rayment and one Talent of silver nay saith he take two Such is the bounty of our Heavenly Father that giveth abundantly above all that we can ask or think Ephes 4. We ask temporall blessings and he gives us spirituall earthly and he gives us heavenly He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life yea even for ever and ever Vses First It serves to admonish us to give unto God the Glory that is due unto his Name in this respect even the Glory of his bounty that delights in giving and is never weary of giving that loads us with his mercies and poureth his benefits upon us an inexhausted treasure a Fountain never drawn dry but continually springing up with new supplies of Grace and good things of all sorts to all them that seek them and to him for them Secondly 'T is much for the consolation of his poor Saints and servants though of themselves they have nothing nor are nothing but with the Laodiceans are poor and miserable and blind and naked yet as long as they have such a Heavenly Father they haue enough what can they want that have such a Magazine to goe unto such a Father to turn themselves unto in all their wants and necessities as willing as able to relieve and to supply them that taketh care for them and is engaged by promise to see they shall want nothing that is good for them All is yours and you are Christs and Christ is Gods What would they more Thirdly Here 's encouragement enough to goe boldly unto the Throne of Grace where the gate of mercy stands open and the Golden Scepter is held forth unto us with full assurance that we shall speed in our suits surely and if we have not it is because we ask not and if we ask and have not it is because we ask amiss Fourthly Let this teach us wisedom and good manners too in all our suits never to put them up but with submission to his will If Christ the Sonne of God did so well may we ever put in or at least tacitly imply Not my will but thy will be done Beware of limiting the holy one of Israel or prescribing what he shall give or in what measure or when or how or in what manner he shall answer our suits he may deny delay commute give less then we ask or more and all in great wisedom too and upon good reason The Disciples seeing Christ now risen from the dead and thereby having such an experiment of his power and glory will needs know Whether now he will restore the Kingdom to Israel which the Romans had lately taken from them Acts 1.6 7. And the two favourites James and John expecting such a Kingdom now to be set up put in betimes and bespake high places under him in it That the one may sit on his right hand and the other on his left in this Kingdom though it was their Mother which they put upon it to preferr the Petition yet that they had a hand in it appeareth by the indignation the rest of the Disciples took against them for this their ambition Christ lik't neither of these suits and therefore answers both accordingly To the former Non est vestrum To the latter Non est meum To the former It is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath kept in his own power To the latter To sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but it shall be given to those for whom it is prepared Mat. 20.23 Again in other cases he is pleased to over-grant the Petitions of his servants and to give them abundantly beyond their own asking as in the instances before given and in the Text The Lord doth not immediately take away the Prophets soule at his request but reserves it in his body for a time till they had done some more work which he had for them to doe And then he takes up both his soule and body in a wonderfull manner into Heaven in a fiery Charriot 2 Kings 2.11 I conclude this Petition of the Prophet and my discourse upon it in the words of the Prayer of the Church set forth and commended to us in our despised Liturgy as the conclusion of the Prayers of the second Service O Lord which knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking we beseech thee have compassion upon our infirmities and those things which for our blindness we cannot ask or for our unworthiness we dare not vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Spirit three Persons and one God blessed for ever he all Honour and Power Prayse and Glory as is most due for evermore Amen FINIS