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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16479	The saints solace: or, The condition, and consolation of the saints in the earth Deliuered in certaine sermons at Eatonbridge in Kent. By the minister there.; Saints solace	Bostock, Peter.	1630 (1630)	STC 3395; ESTC S117350	48,100	246

1.33 Vse 5 5. For instruction vnto the afflicted to be distributed as the former diuided the whole into fiue parts that the same may partitè peecemeale as it were and so the more easily be taken and laid vp First that they remember their misery the worm wood and the gall that their soules haue the same still in remembrance and be humbled thereby for therein is the hope k Iam. 3.20 21. Secondly that suffering according to the will of God they commit their way and the keeping of their soules in well doing vnto God as to a faithfull Creator l 1. Pet. 4 vlt. 1 Pet. 4. vlt. Able he is to keepe that which is committed vnto him Faithfull he is and will not suffer the faithfull to bee tempted aboue that they are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that they may be able to beare it m ● Cor. 10.13 Thirdly that they pray Let a man afflicted pray n Iam. 5.13 pray continually o Col 4.5 continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiuing giuing thanks for the grace present by which Satan is resisted and the burthen sustained praying also with all prayer and supplication in the spirit that the burthen on them may bee taken of them prayer the meanes to remoue it for he who heareth prayer hath giuen his word that inuocated in the time of trouble he will deliuer them that call vp●n his name Psal 50.15 * Ideo prenuntur iusti vt clame● clamanies exaud antur ●●uditi glorificent Deum Aug. in loc F●urthly that by pa●ience they possesse their soules p Luk. 21.19 and as the Thessalonians cause other to glory for their patience and faith in all their persecutions and tribulations q 2 Thes 1.4 This the victorie of the Saints r Reu. 13.10.14.12 the issue of tribulation ſ Rom. 5.3 the effect of the word t Reu. 3.10 this the dawning of light on the sprenting of that seed which is sowen for the righteous In Psal 97.11 Light i. peace and prosperity the fruit of righteousnesse is sowen for the righteous in the dayes of euill sitting in darknes * Micah 7.8 A phrase from the plough Good seed sowen in fallowes broken vp lieth for a time couered in the ground and sprouteth not suddenly but in its season In their sufferings it is so with the seruants of God Their hearts furrowed with the culter of the Crosse the word of patience cast vpon it by the hand of faith the harrow of godly sorrow drawen ouer and ouer it in the conuulsions thereof In his time the Lord commeth and raineth on them righteousnes wherin vnto themselues they had sowed u Hos 10.12 and tempestiue peace the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse x Heb. 12.11 is in full sheaues brought in a time accepted home into their barnes their barnes are filled yea their hearts with food and gladnesse by their hard and tedious labours indured therefore counted happie they that indure Behold saith the Apostle we count them happie that indure y Iam. 5.11 Of the patience of Iob that happie man no man is ignorant nor so blinde but may see in him the end of the Lord that hee is verie pitifull and of tender mercie They that wait on him renew their strength mount vp with wings as Eagles run and are not wearie walke and are nor faint z Esa 40.31 for as they on him so waiteth he on them that he may be gratious vnto them and will be exalted a Esa 30.18 that he may haue mercy vpon them O how blessed are all they that wait for him b Psal 2.12 Psal 34.2 P●● 16.20 I●r 77. F●fthly that they s●tisfie themselues as with the likenesse of God when they awake c Psal 17.15 so with his presence while they sleepe or walke rather thorow the valley of the shadow of death their eyes withholden with the present pressures that they cannot sleepe Sufficient to the day is the euill thereof d Mat. 6. vlt. sufficient to the euill dayes the presence of El Schaddai God all-sufficient who but hee in heauen e Psal 73.25 and in earth besides him what to be desired In him all liue and moue and haue their being f Act 17.28 the Author he and finisher of faith g Heb. 12 2● All and in all that haue faith in him In Heauen what need shall be of the Sun or of the Moone h Isa 60 11.19 or of candle or of victuall or of vesture or of lands or of liuings Not any for the Lord will be All All in Heauen and in earth All things Therefore suffering need what need of any thing more than of God to sit in the minde and to frame the same to the present state or to dwell in the heart and to fill the same with food and gladnes The minde on him and hee in the minde the heart on him and he in the heart what want of the creatures or of other gifts Is not all want supplyed with his fulnesse What wanted Moses Elocution What answer from God had he but this i Exod. 4.11 12. Who hath made mans mouth I will be with thy mouth Would God be a mouth vnto him or a tongue in his mouth In effect he would and fully be as good yea better for vse and more effectuall of all other things wanting to the afflicted the like may bee said Who made them Orphans want their parents who made their parents He that made their parents will be vnto them in stead of parents Parents want their children who made their children He that made their children will be vnto them in stead of children widdowes want their husbands who made their husbands Hee that made their husbands w●ll bee with them in stead of husbands widdowers want their wiues who made their wiues Hee that made their wiues will bee with them in stead of wiues brethren want their sisters who made their sisters Hee that made their sisters will be vnto them in stead of sisters sisters want their brethren who made their brethren He that made their brethren will be with them in stead of brethren the poore afflicted persecuted want their houses lands meanes liuelihood who made all and gaue all vnto all He that made all and gaue them all will be vnto them instead of all Varieties of comforts in the varietie of the creatures Parents afford one k●nde of solace children another husbands another wiues another brethren another sisters another lands and such like meanes another but the Lord he is God of all consolation not any without him in any thing but with him is comfort in euery thing And hee with his affl●cted what 's the euill on them or against them He with them in exile what 's their exile He with them in prison what 's 〈◊〉 imprisonment he with them in disgrace what 's their disgrace He with

when of things that cannot indeed bee separated the one is vnderstood and omitted the other ver grat light and heat cannot bee separated in the fire yet the light may he considered not the heat or the heat and not the light So charity and good works are not negatiuely separated but priuatiuely made as effects consequents not concurring causes of iustification Sembably my Beloued although we cannot really separate betweene your sinnes and your persons yet negatiuely we say that we intend not your persons but priuatiuely in our mindes we consider your sinnes bearing the image of Satan at which wee strike I say at the image of the Deuill and Satan not at your persons made as we our selues after the similitude of God O that yee would beleeue this and when your sinnes are smitten on the face with the rod of the mouth u Isa 11.4 or with that sharpe two edged sword which goeth out of the mouth of the Lord x Reu. 1.16 ye would reason with your selues or commune with your owne heart and be still or speake on this wise one vnto another in the faithfull assemblies This Preacher speakes with authority aboue himselfe it s the very word of God which hee preacheth the word which he preacheth is quicke and powerfull y Heb. 4.12 pierceth and diuideth things asunder in vs discerneth the thoughts and intents of our hearts pulleth downe strong holds z 2 Cor. 1● 4 5. casteth downe imaginations and euery high thing that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God apprehendeth our sins grappleth with them euinceth them conuinceth vs 2 Tim. 2.15 dealeth as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly diuiding the word of truth applying it according to the rule thereof Are wee not our selues or many of vs husbandmen what doe we our selues in our profession doe wee cast our seed into vncleane places or amongst bryars thorns and stones rubbish no we first clense and manure our ground sowe afterwards our seed and haue long patience for the precious fruit besides in our orchards when we plant or graffe doe we suffer to grow the fiens of the crab-tree No we cut them off and cleanse the stocke What then doth the spirituall husbandman more in his spheare than we in ours before he will sowe the holy seed or let in the heauenly plant hee laboureth with great difficulty to prepare the ground where he would sowe and purge the stocke on which he would ingraffe the word Must hee therefore be blamed or slouenly would we haue him to doe his worke or negligently or vnfaithfully Absit God for●id This in our owne seruants is not tolerated much lesse it to bee in the seruants of the Lord * Ier. 8.11 To cry peace peace when there is no peace is to heale hurts slightly * false Prophets will doe it but otherwise the man that is sent from God Consider what I say and God giue you vnderstanding The word to be ingraffed the stock is to bee cleansed The stocke cleansed incision for insition is made a diuision made betweene the soule and the spirit a Heb. 4.12 Nomen a●timae saepe idem valet quod spiritus sed cum simul iunguntur prius comprehendit sub se affectus omnes c. Caluin in lic Allegoria quadam hyperocha ●dumbrare v●luit Apostolus diuinisermonis vim efficaci●m c. B●llinger naturall things and spirituall things reason and the light which is the life of men the affections and the intellectuall facultie This diuision Experience reacheth tacitè and conuerts best know how it is How were the first pricked in their hearts and diuided in themselues n●t knowing what to doe b Act. 2.37 after the incision made before before the immission of the heauenly plant nor doth any man The word which saueth the soule of whom receiued without much affliction by the internall diuision after the infition Such it is I thinke as the groanings of the Spirit making intercession according to the will of God it cannot be vttered the Thessalonians receiued the word with much affliction but what kind of affl●ction or how grieuous it was he saith not Therefore whensoeuer incision is made your heart smitten and smiting you being smitten by the word attend still or diuided in you selues all the faculties slit and clouen the affections your reason visited with the day-spring from on high your vnderstanding illightened your soule fainting your spirit panting a confl●ct begunne and a striuing within you as in Rebeccahs wombe betweene Esau and Iacob Nature and Grace Bee not dismaied for this must be and is where the word is about to bee ingraffed to the sauing of the soule 3. Inc●sion for insition made the sien of holy science is infited and set in the word let in that heauenly plant by heauenly Art into the vnderstanding The sense giuen thereof and the reading vnderstood Therefore hearing the word of the kingdome apply your heart to wisdome and your minde to vnderstand the wondrous things d Psal 119.18 the mysteries which were kept secret since the world began e Rom. 16.15 yea pray alwayes with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit that it may bee giuen vnto you to know the mysterie of God f Coloss 2 2. 1 Tim. 3.16 and of godlinesse that seeing yee may see that hearing yee may heare and vnderstand h Mat. 13.16 Dauid prayed how often G●ue me vnderstanding make me to vnderstand An vnderstanding heart Salomons hearts desire i Reg. 3.9 and Pauls that the Churches might abound more and more k Phil. 1.8 9. in all knowledge and in all iudgement in all wisdome and spirituall vnderstanding This by the Word The word read or heard and not vnderstood profiteth not but by reading and hearing and prayer made to God entrance is made into the vnderstanding heauenly light let in and worldly darknesse out l Psal 119 130 The entrance of the word giueth light it giueth vnderstanding to the simple 4. The sien insited is bound fast and closed about with all louing affections stirred vp vnto it yea shut vp and riuetted in the heart to dwell richly therein in all wisdom not left loose for graffes so let fall out anon or be blowen out Therefore loue yee the incitiue word lest ye lose it vnawares embrace it with all complacencie of affection so shall no storme stirre it nor force amoue it it is not enough to receiue the word except ye receiue the loue of the word Shall not some be damned because they receiued not the loue of the truth m 2 Thes 2.10 O how I loue thy laws n Psal 119.97 saith Dauid it is my meditation all the day yea day and night the exercise of the blessed man it is inclosed within him it is in his heart and loued with his heart the heart as soone to be lost as the word ingraffed therein and