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A40658	Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1654 (1654)	Wing F2420; Wing F2476; ESTC R210330	100,765	342

of Faith and afterwards a joyfull Mother in Israel This is that good Chymick that can distill good out of evill light out of darknesse order out of confusion and make the crooked actions of men tend to his own glory in a straight line and his Childrens good I speak not this to defend any mans folly in doing of evill but to admire Gods wisdome who can bring good out of evil and surely he that will turn evill to good will turn good to the best And they dwelled there about ten years Here we have the term of Naomi's living in Moab and the Families lasting in Israel ten years we read of a Famine for three years 2 Sam. 21. of three years and a half 1 King 17. of seven years Gen. 42. as also 2 King 8. but this ten years Famine longer then any seven yeares which Iacob served for Rachel seemed to him but a short time but surely those ten yeares seemed to the afflicted Israelites and to the banished Naomi as so many millions of years Observ. God doth not presently remove his rod from the back of his Children but sometimes scourgeth them with long-lasting afflictions the reason is because we go on and persist so long in our sinnes and yet herein even mercy exalteth her selfe against judgement for if God should suffer the fire of his fury to burn so long as the fuell of our sinnes do last Lord who were able to abide were the dayes of our suffering appor●ioned to the dayes of our living no flesh would be saved but for the Elect sake those dayes are shortned Vse Beare with patience light afflictions when God afflicteth his Children with long lasting punishments mutter not for a burning F●aver of a fortnight what is this to the woman that had a running Issue for twelve years murmur not for a twelve moneths quartain Ague ' is nothing to the woman that was bowed for eightteen years nor seven years Consumption to the man that lay thirty eight years lame at the Pool of Bethezda And Mahlon and Chilion died also b●th of them It was but even now that old Elimelech was gone to bed see his Sonnes would not sit long up after the Father onely here is the difference He like ripe fruit fell down of his own accord they like green Apples were cudgel'd off the Tree Observ. Even young men in the prime of their age are subject to death the Sons of Iacob when they came to the Table of Ioseph sat down the eldest according to his age and the youngest according to his youth but Death observes not this method she takes not Men in seniority but sometimes sends them first to the buriall that came last from the birth and those that came last from the wombe first to their winding sheet There were as many Lambs and Kids sacrificed in the old Testament as Goats and old Sheep but surely more there be that die in infancy and in youth then of those that attain to old age Vse Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth you whose joynts are knit with sturdy sine ws whose veines are full of blood whose arteries are flush't with spirits whose bones are fraught with Marrow Obediah-like serve God from your y●uth put not the day of death far from you think not your strength to be armour of proof against the darts of Death when you see the Corslet of Mahlon and Chilion shot through in the left so Mahlon and Chilion died both of them And the woman was left of her two Sons and of her Husband Before we had the particular losses of N●omi now we have them all reckoned up in the totall sum a Threefold Cable saith Solomon is not easily broken and yet we see in Naomies threefold cable of comfort twisted of her husband and her two sonnes broken by Death of the two Sex the woman is the weaker of women old women are most feeble of old women widows most wofull of widowes those that are poor their plight most pittifull of poor widows those that want Children their case most dolefull of widows that want Children those that once had them and after lost them their estate most desolate of widows that have had Children those that are strangers in a forraign Country their condition most comfortlesse yet all these met together in Naomi as in the center of sorrow to make the measure of her misery pressed down shaken together running over I conclude therefore many Men have had affliction none like Iob many women have had tribulation none like Naomi Vers. 6. Then she arose with her Daughters in law that she might returne from the Country of Moab for she had heard in the Country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread THese words contain two general parts 1. Gods visiting his people with Plenty 2. Naomies visiting of her people with her person I begin with the first in the Order of the words Then she arose with her Daughters in law c. Observ. We must tarry no longer in an Idolatrous Land when God offereth us an occasion to returne into our own Country for so long as we tarry in an Idolatrous Land on a just cause so long we are in our vocation in Gods protection but when God openeth us a Gap to returne and we will not through it we are neither in our calling nor Gods keeping but must stand on our own adventures and who knows not how slenderly we shall be kept when we are left to our own custody let not therefore Ioseph with his Wife and Son tarry any longer in the Land of Egypt when he is dead that sought the life of the Child Examples we have o● those which in the dayes of Queen Mary fled beyond the Seas though they were not in a Paganish onely in a forraign Country Mr. Scorey Cocks Whitehead Grindall Horne Sandys Elmore Gest Iewel if fear lent them feet to run when they went away joy gave them wings to fly when they came home againe let none therefore pretend in needlesse excuses to linger in the Land of Egypt when they may return into the hony-flowing Land of Canaan For she had heard in the Country of Moab I suppose when any Messenger arrived in M●ab out of the Land of Canaan Naomie did presently repaire unto him and load him with questions concerning the estate of her Country How do the Iews my Country-men How faireth it with the Bethlehemites my Neig●bours with Boaz my Kinsman What is the rate of Corne What the price of Oyle What the value of Wine if there be no performance for the present what promise is there for the future though things be bad now what hope is there but they will be better hereafter Alas he answers little and from his silence and sorrowfull looks Naomi gathers a denial but as Elijah sending his servant towards the Sea to see what ●igns there were of Raine for six severall times together he returned

have any benefit by them and are so farre from suffering the Poore to gleane that even they themselves gleane from the Poore and speake much like to churlish Nabal 1 Sam. 25. 11. Shall I take my Wheat my Rye and my Barley which I have prepared for my Family and give it to the Poore which I know not whence they be Yea some have so hard hearts that they would leave their Graine to be destroyed by Beasts and Vermine rather then that the Poore should receive any benefit thereby Cruell people which preferre their Hogs before Christs Sheep Mice before Men Crow●s before Christians But withall Poore people must learne this Lesson to know the meaning of these two Pronoun●s Mine and Thine what belongs to their rich Masters and what pertaines to themselves The Sheep which had little spots those were Iacobs Fee so the little spots the loose straggling and scattered Eares those are the Poores but as for the great ones the handfulls the arme-fulls the Sheaves the Shocks the Cocks these are none of theirs but the ●ich Owners and therefore let the Poore take heed how they put forth thei● hand● to their n●igh●ours goods Motive One forcible Motive to perswade the Rich to suffer the Poore to gleane may be this Even the greatest in respect of God is but a gleaner God he is the Master of the Harvest all Gifts and Graces they are his in an infinite measure and every godly man more or lesse gleanes from him Abraha● gleaned a great gleane of Faith Moses of Meeknesse Iosh●ah of Valour Samson of Strength Solomon of Wealth and Wisdome S. Paul of Knowledge and the like Now if we would be glad at our hearts that the Lord would give us free leave and libertie ●or to gleane Graces out of his Harvest let us not grudge and repine that poore people gleane a little gaine from our plentie To conclude when God hath multiplyed our five Loaves that is when of our little Seed he hath given us a great deale of increase let poore people like Ruth in the Text be the twelve Baskets which may take up the fragments of gleanings which are left Vers. 8 9 10. Then said Boaz unto Ru●h Hearest thou my Daughter goe to no ●ther field ●o gather neither goe from hence but abide here by my Maidens Let thy eyes be on the field which they doe reape and goe after the Maidens Have I not charged the servants that they touch thee not Moreover when thou art thirstie go unto the vessels drink of that which the servants have drawn Then she fell on her face and bowed her selfe to the ground and said unto him Why have I found favour in thy eyes that thou shouldst know me since I am a stranger MOthers and Nurses are very carefull tenderly to handle Infants when they are but newly borne So Ruth Christ was newly formed in her a young Convert a fresh Proselyte and therefore Boaz useth her with all kindnesse both in workes and words Hearest thou my Daughter Observation Aged persons may terme younger people their Sonnes and Daughters 1 Sam. 3. 6. And if they were persons in Authoritie though they were well-nigh equall in age they used the same expression Thus Ioseph to his Brother Benjamin Gen. 43. 29. God be mercifull to thee my Sonne Let young people therefore reverently observe their dutie and distance to their Seniors in Age and Superiours in Authoritie Yet I am afraid men keepe not the method of Iacobs Children the eldest sitting downe according to his Age and the youngest according to his Youth but fulfill the Complaint of the Prophet The young presume against the aged and the base against the honourable Let aged persons strive to deserve their respect by demeaning themselves gravely and striving to adde gracious hearts to gray haires otherwise if they discover any lightnesse loosenesse wantonnesse in their carriage young men will hereupon take occasion not onely to slight and neglect but also to contemne and despise their paternall distance and Father-like authoritie Now as for young Ministers they have not this advantage to speake unto young people in the phrase of Boaz Hearest thou my Daughter but must practise S. Pauls Precept 1 Tim. 5. 1. Rebuke not an Elder but exhort him as a Father and the younger men as Brethren the elder women as Mothers the younger as Sisters in all purenesse But abide here by my Maidens Observation Hence we g●ther 't is most decent for women to associate accompanie themselves with those of their owne Sexe Miriam Exod. 15. 20. with a feminine Quire with Timbrels and D●nces answered the men and the Disciples wondred Iohn 4. 27 th●t Ch●ist t●lk●d with a woman sh●wing hereby th●t it w●s not his ordinarie course to converse alone with one of another Sexe For herein the Apostles Precept deserves to take place namely to avoid from all appearance of evill Have I not commanded the servants that they should not touch thee Boaz had just cause to feare lest some of his servants might wrong her to prevent which he gave them strict charge to the contrarie Observation Here we see that servile natures are most prone and proclive to wrong poore strangers Indeed generous spirits disdaine to make those the subjects of their crueltie which rather should be the objects of their pittie but it complyes with a servile disposition to tyrannize and domineere over such poore people as cannot resist them Like pettie Brookes pent within a narrow Channell on every dash of Raine they are readie to overflow and wax angry at the apprehension of the smallest distast The Locusts Revel 9. 10. had tails like Scorpions and stings in their tails which by some is expounded that of those people which are meant by the Scorpions the poorest were the proudest the meanest the most mischiveous the basest the bloodiest And surely he that readeth the story of our English Martyrs shall find that one Alexander a Iaylor and one drunken Warwick an Executioner were most basely and barbarously cruell to Gods poor Saints Secondly From these words observe That it is the part of a good Master not onely to doe no harm himselfe but also to take order that his Servants doe none Gen. 12 20. 26. 11. When Elisha would take nothing of Naaman 2 Kings 5. 20. Gehazi said As the Lord liveth I will run after him and take something of him Thus may base Servants if not prevented with a command to the contrary wrong their most right and upright Masters by taking Gifts and Bribes privately The water though it ariseth out o● a most pure Fountain which runneth through Mine●alls of Lead Copper Brimstone or the like hath with it a strange taste and rellish in the mouth So Justice which should runne downe like a streame though it ariseth out of a pure Fountaine out of the breast of a sincere and incorrupted Judge yet if formerly it hath passed through the Mines of Gold and Silver I meane through bad