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A57579	Practical discourses on sickness & recovery in several sermons, as they were lately preached in a congregation in London / by Timothy Rogers, M.A. ; after his recovery from a sickness of near two years continuance.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.; Woodford, Samuel, 1636-1700.	1691 (1691)	Wing R1852; ESTC R21490	114,528	312

in giving me help when no Power on Earth was able to give me the least Relief His Severity in continuing my Pain for so many long and doleful Months without any Mitigation and his Goodness in bringing me back when I was as in the Grave His Severity in withholding his Blessing from all those innumerable Means that were used with a design to help me so as that nothing that was intended for my Cure could any way promote it and 't was his Goodness that he himself became my Physician and that I did not continue to groan under the same Miseries as many Years as I did Months Remembring my Asfliction and my Misery the Worm-wood and the Gall my Soul hath them still in Remembrance Lam. 3. 19 20. The Storm indeed is in a great measure over blessed be God but I cannot without trembling call it to mind nor dare I think very long upon it I was brought very low as low as Calamity and Distress could make me but the Lord has kept me he has turned again my Captivity and I am really as in a Dream though it is a more pleasant one than any I ever had during my long Sickness and Calamity I can scarce believe that I am at so much ease as I now am I can scarce believe that I am in this Assembly of which I confidently thought I had taken my leave for ever When I look back upon the rough Waves and the stormy Seas I am ready to say Can it be that God has brought me safe to Land After I had conversed with the Dead am I now among the Living am I now with People under Hope blessed be the Name of the Lord I am It is a great Mercy to me and it is the more so as it was unexpected and above the Power of Nature contrary to all my hopes and above all humane help Those that have heard my Groans and seen my Agonies and heard of my Affliction cannot but wonder at it I often said that I could not be delivered without a Miracle and God himself has wrought it He has shewed Wonders to the dead Psal. 88. 3. For the raising them up is so from a case very sad and sadder than by any Words can be express'd has the Lord delivered me and certainly so terrible a Visitation so dreadful a Disease and so heavy a Judgment and so gracious a Rescue from it should never be forgotten To be rescued from Death from so great a Death is a very great Mercy Psal. 71. 19 20. Psal. 116. 3 4 5 6. It was by the Soveraign Goodness and meer Mercy and Grace of God that I obtained this Deliverance all this he did for a most unworthy Sinner for an impatient and fretful Sinner too is not this wonderful Mercy with a witness a Mercy never to be forgotten as long as I have a Day to live and I may say to you Come and bless the Lord with me come and help me to praise his Holy Name But on this I shall insist more when I come to that place that we ought not only to praise God our selves but to exhort others also to give Thanks at the Remembrance of his Holiness I have cause to do so for how many has he suffered to sink when the Waves were not so high against them as those that rowl'd over me the Storms and the Winds that blew them down not so fierce in some respect against them as they were against me and yet they are covered in the Grave whilst I though sorely weatherbeaten have outlived the Storm How many are there dead since I was ill many excellent and Holy Men are now silent in the Dust who were more knowing more useful more zealous and better qualified than ever I am like to be and yet God has spared a poor Shrub whilst he has torn up some of the Cedars of our Lebanan by the Roots Therefore to quicken my self and in some measure to excite others who have been recovered after long and sore Affliction O let us all agree to remember such reviving Mercies as God is pleased to vouchsafe us when he brings us from the Grave Let not a day pass wherein you do not call to Mind what he has done When you awake then remember what a great Mercy your Sleep is and what you would once have given even all the World if you had had it for one Hour of sound Rest Never bow your Knees in Prayer but call to mind his Mercy that has loosed your Bonds mitigated your Distress and enabled you to pray When you enter into such Assemblies as this on his Holy Day then remember what sad Sabbaths those were when you were confined to your sick Beds and could do nothing but if you had so much hope send your sorrowful Requests to beg the Prayers of others and when instead of singing his Praises as you now do you could only sigh and groan when you are with others speak of his excellent Goodness and when you are alone delight to meditate upon it let nothing no Tentations no Diversions or Business draw you to forget so merciful a God and so gracious a Benefactor If you have any remaining Pains left let these make you thankful that you have no more and that you are not as you once were 'T is much easier to think of our Wounds when they are in some measure healed than to bear their Smart when they are upon us and when you see others seized with Sickness and with manifold Calamities of this vain Life then bless God that you have a shining Sun whilst they are overtaken with a rainy Day I speak to those of you that have been sick having been so my self with what care and Compassion did this good God remember us He remembers his tender Mercies and his loving-kindnesses for they have been ever of old Psal. 25. 6. If we any way help the meanest of his Servants in their Distress he forgets not our Work and Labour of Love which we have shewed to his Name Heb. 6. 10. He remembers the Service we have done him so as to reward it he remembers the Sincerity of our Endeavours and Desires so as to encourage us and we should keep in our Minds his Bounties and his Love to us that we may serve him more and especially those that come to revive us after a long Misery and to bring us out of a State that seemed altogether helpless and unrelievable There is not a Moment of our time wherein he does not load us with his Benefits and there should scarce a Moment go from us without some Ejaculation or Breathing after him He has not been as a barren Wilderness to us and we should give him Thanks whilst as with the Joy of Harvest we reap the Fruits of his Bonignity There is not any the greatest or the least Deliverance that we obtain but 't is first produced and then carried on by his alone care Let us that are recovered remember

immortality to light and with that Saviour who is the great Prophet and Teacher of the Church who came from Heaven and is now gone thither and we may fully rest and Acquiesce in the discoveries that he has given us of that Countrey for he knew it very well was very faithful in the discharging of his office and does not impose upon us any thing that is either false or incredible by our Holy Prayers we are to maintain a Commerce with him and with that World and by our frequent going thither in our Meditations we may gain a clearer knowledge of it Though there are no bounds on which our thoughts can terminate but onely the Revelations which God has been pleas'd to make in his own Word What is above those Heavens and that Firmament that we see there 's none can tell us but God and our Saviour who are there For when Men have abstracted their Thoughts with as much industry as they can from All that is material and sensible when they have refin'd their Understandings to the greatest spirituality and pored never so long upon the state of separation they will still remain in the dark about it And he is the most happy Man who in the sincere performance of the Duties of Religion can resign his Soul to Christ in Death and trust him though he is to be removed to a strange and a new World For immediately after he is loos'd from the Body he will understand more in an instant then all the most Learned in this World have ever understood by the labour and diligence of many years Secondly That which renders the continuance of Time to us wherein to prepare for Death a great Mercy is because we are to dye but Once and upon the well or ill doing of it depends our future Happiness or Misery It is a great Mercy that we have time wherein to make ready for our last Combat for if we lose the Battle once we are overthrown for ever it must not be fought over again It is a Mercy that we have leisure to compleat our journey well for we must never travel over the same Road again There will be no second Edition wherein to Correct our former Errors when a period is once put to the last Line of Life Oh what Faith what Courage what Strength is necessary to Conquer the Fears of Death and Death it self If men fail in their Trades they may by the kindness of their Friends be set up again if they have suffer'd Losses by Shipwrack by Fire or by Plunder they may be repaired but a Soul once lost will remain so for ever 'T is a long long Eternity that succeeds our Time if we should live on Earth as many Hundred years as the most Aged live Months it would bear no proportion with that vast and endless duration Whoever compares the shortness of our present state with the continuance of that into which we enter when we are to dye cannot but esteem the being brought back from the Grave to be a great Mercy If you have been careless of hearing at one season you may hear the Word again at another if you have heretofore been cold in your Prayers you may now excite your Hearts and pray with more fervour but if you once dye ill you must never mend so concluding a Miscarriage All the Tears we shed cannot give Life to the Body from which the Soul is fled All the Anguish of Miserable Souls cannot procure for them another Tryal They that are once cut down must never be planted by the Rivers side any more There is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again and that the tender branch thereof will not cease though the root thereof wax old in the earth and the stock thereof die in the ground yet through the scent of Water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant But man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he Job 14. 7 8 9 10. Reason 5. Those who are brought up from the grave have cause to be thankful because by that means they have more opportunity to be serviceable to the Glory of God and to be useful in the World Meerly to live is not a thing very desireable considering how many Miserie 's there are in Life to what Evils and Inconveniences our Bodies are obnoxious and that the pains which they may suffer may be both very long and so secret that none can understand either what they are or how to remove them But it is a most desirable thing to Live when we can thereby obtain the Ends that are truly Great and Noble For First Hereby a man may do good to others He may teach the Ignorant reduce the wandring and by the sincerity of his Counsel by the zeal of his Prayers and the Lustre and Holiness of a good Example advance the power of Religion Our Lives are not our own they are Gods by a double title both of Creation and Redemption they are to be us'd for him who preserves or takes them away as he will Not onely Ministers but every private Christian is obliged by the Name he bears and by the Relation that he has to the holy Society of Believers and to the Kingdom of Christ whereof he is a Subject to enlarge it by all good ways that he can and every man is the more obliged to this when God has bestow'd a new Life upon him When we are near to the Gates of the Grave and look back and see with how little Zeal and Diligence we had spent our time and how little we had done for him who blest us all our dayes then we are enclined most earnestly to beseech him that he would grant us another Tryal and that then we would improve it much better than we did our former time and when he does grant us what we have askt then it should be our great indeavour not to frustrate and disappoint the designs of his Goodness and Mercy Then must we teach transgressors his way telling them how dreadful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God Then we may tell the Healthful what Sickness is what we have found it to be by our own Experience then we may tell them how it makes very uneasie and troublesome Companions of our now beloved Bodies How it deprive us of all our Pleasures and Recreations in the day and of our rest at night That all their Friendships Conversations and Merryments without true Religion are altogether vain and not onely so but they leave a sting of guilt behind when the sweetness that once allur'd is gone away We may warn them to provide for the dayes of darkness and for the many Miseries of Life that will sooner or latter overtake them When we are Recover'd we can tell the Diseased of the Goodness and the Power of God that they can never be so distressed but that it is still