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A26344 God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams. Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. 1652 (1652) Wing A492; ESTC R22209 47,052 94

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all sorrowes and God shall fill them with his sweet comforts Then shalt we sing with chearfull voices Blessed be the Lord that hath not turned away our praier from him nor his mercie from us Amen FINIS MAN'S COMFORT PSALM 94. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul HEaven is a place of infinite glory and joy yet is there little joy or glory in the way thither The passage rather lies through much tribulation so trouble some a gallery leads to so happy a bed-chamber There is not a soul in the cluster of mankind exempted from sorrow much lesse shall those grapes escape pressing which God hath reserved for his own cup All that will live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution Not all that live but all that live godly nor all that live godly in respect of outward form but th it live godly in Christ Paul his Atturney pleads their afflictions with an Oportet and lest some should look for a dispensation he backs it with an Omnis The Saints that have overcome the hill be singing above we that are climbing up must be groaning all the way The Anthems in-the up per Quire the Church Triumphant are all Hymns of joy the militant part must bee content with sad tunes in this valley of tears Not that the blessednesse of Immortality is no more perfect but that it needs a foil of perplexity to set it off Not that the joy of heaven is no more sweet but that it needs the sowreness of the world to give it a tast Not that the peace and plenty of Canaan required the wants and molestations of this wildernesse to commend it But so it pleaseth the Almighty King who of his own free grace doth give the preferment to interpose the conditions that the sorrow and ingloriousnesse of this world should be the throughfare to the glories and joyes of his Kingdome For if it pleased him to consecrate the Prince and Captaine of our salvation through sufferings what priveledg can the common souldiers and subjects expect Deus Filium habuit unum sine peccato nullum sine flagell● Wee that hold our inheritance in Capite have no other title to it then Christ had before us by suffering When we consider David and his troubles we say Ecce dolores viri behold the sorrowes of a man But when we consider the Sonne of David and his passion we say Ecce vir dolorum Behold the man of sorrowes Indeed if the one ballance were full of sorrows and the other quite empty of comforts there were an unequall poise They that do not finde some joy in their sorrows some comfort in their dejections in this world are in a fearfull danger of missing both in the next But as it is said in case of bodily sicknesse If the patient and the disease joyne then in vaine is the Physician if the disease and the Physician conspire then wo be to the patient but if the patient and the Physician accord then vanisheth the disease So we may observe in spirituall distempers if the soul and sorrow desperately combine then the Spirit departs the Physician is grieved if God and sorrow joyne in anger in anguish the former justly the other sharply then wo to the soul for that cannot be comforted but if the soul by faith and God by grace unite themselves then away flies sorrow for that is expelled Here Davids soul joynes it self with the spirit of consolation and sorrow loseth the day the end is comfort In the multitude of my thoughts within mee thy comforts delight my soul Here is a twofold Army one marching against another Seditio and Sedatio an insurrection and a debellation a tumult and the appeasing of it a band of thoughts assaulting and an Host of comforts repelling resisting protecting There is a multitude of those thoughts and no lesse is the number of these comforts Those troublous thoughts have got into the citadel of the heart Apud me within me and these consolatory forces have entred as farr even into the soul They delight my soul Those thoughts fight under the colours of flesh and blood but these comforts under the Banner of God They are My thoughts but Thy comforts the cogitations of man the consolations of Jesus Christ 1. Look upon the adversary power In the multitude of my thoughts within me 1. O that they were some externall grievances a forraign warr no domestick intestine civill broiles not turbulent thoughts 2. Or if they be thoughts rebellious heart-breaking cogitations yet that there were but some few of them that they might be sooner suppressed not so numerous not a multitude of thoughts 3. Or if they must bee thoughts and a multitude yet that they had chosen some other place to rise in not my Heart the Fort or Court or Bedchamber of my spirit that they had not presumed unto so bold approaches as to mutine Apud me within my heart nearer and closer to mee then mine owne bowels But now to bee Thoughts of so tumultuous a nature Multitudes of so mighty a number Within me of so fearfull a danger without vent composition or quiet here is a ful anxiety 2. View the defensive forces and in the midst of this conspiracy make room for preservation Thy comforts delight my soul 1. They are comforts against litigions and unquiet thoughts a work of peace Comforts 2. They are not scant niggardly but against amultitude of thoughts many Comforts and every one able to quell a whole rout of distractions 3. They are thy comforts not proceeding men or Angels but immediately from the Spirit of consolation against My sorrows Thy comforts 4. They do not onely pitch then tents about me or like a subsidiary guard environ me but they take up their residence in the heart of my heart In my soul These refresh more then the other can offend against the thoughts in my heart thy comforts delight my soul Thus if we be not entred into Aceldama a field of blood yet we are got into Meribah a field of strife or the mountains of ●ether a field of division not unlike that of Rebecca's womb where Jacob strove with Esau for the victory We have seen both the Armies now let us martiall them into their proper ranks setting both the squadrons in their due stations and postures and then observe the successe or event of the battell And because the malignant Host is first entred into the ground of my text consider with me 1. The rebells or mutiners Thoughts 2. The number of them no less then a multitude many thoughts 3. The Captain whose colours they bear a disquieted mind My thoughts 4. The field where the battel is fought in the heart Apud me within me In the other Army we find 1. Quanta how puissant they are Comforts 2. Quota how many they are indefinitely set down Abundant comfort 3. Cujus whose they are The Lords he is their generall Thy comforts