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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13341	Of the markes of the children of God and of their comforts in afflictions. To the faithfull of the Low Countrie. By Iohn Taffin. Ouerseene againe and augmented by the author, and translated out of French by Anne Prowse.; Des marques des enfans de Dieu. English	Taffin, Jean, 1529-1602.; Prowse, Anne.	1590 (1590)	STC 23652; ESTC S118085	100,800	270

Kingdome Hee hath suffered sayth Saint Peter 1. Pet. 2.21 Leauing vs an example that wee should followe his steps Let vs not then thinke it strange as he faith in an other place 1. Pet. 4.12 when wee are as in a fornace for our triall as if an vnwonted thing had come vnto vs. Butrather in as much as wee communicate with the afflictions of Christ Let vs reioyce that when his glorie shall appeare wee also may reioyce wath gladnes Now let vs vnderstand how he addeth that suffering iniurie for Christes sake wee are happy forasmuch as the spirit of God which is the spirit of glory resteth in vs and the feeling which we haue causeth vs to glorifie him though of the blinde worlde he is euill spoken of Seeing then the heauenly father hath vouchsafed vs such loue 1. Ihon. 3.1 that wee are called the sons of God although the world persecute vs because it knoweth neither the Father nor vs Let vs saie boldlie with S. Ihon We are now the children of God And although it dooth not yet appeare what we shal be yet we knowe as hee also addeth that when Christ shall appeare we shall be like vnto him for we shall see him as hee is Col. 3.3 Let vs be contented to be dead in this worlde and to haue our life hid with Christ in God beeing assured that when Christ our life shall appeare we shall also appeare in glorie If the Diuell will gather of our afflictions that we are not the children of GOD let vs say boldlie that he is a lyar or let him first plucke out of the ranke of God his children the Martyres the Apostles the Prophets and other of the best and most approoued children and seruants of GOD which haue beene afflicted as well as wee and more than wee Euen the holie Virgine and Christ himselfe But rather seeing that wee beare their liuerie let vs acknowledge our selues the children of GOD with them and let vs say with a holie resolution with Saint Paule Rom. 8.38 that there is neyther death nor life nor Angells nor principalities nor powers nor thinges present nor thinges to come nor heighth nor depth nor anie other creature which can separate vs from the loue of GOD which he beareth vs in Iesus Christ our Lorde That the faithfull haue the common afflictions of the children of Adam because of the excellent fruites of them testimonies of their adoption and of the loue of God toward them CAP. 9. TO bee yet better confirmed in this trueth let vs now consider how the afflictions themselues euen those that are common to the childreÌ„ of Adam serue for our profite and saluation First 1. Fruit to awake vs out of our sinnes for as much as the reliques of sinne abide still euen in the most perfect in this life which maketh them hardened in their faults and inclined to offend God We haue neede of helpes to be waked to be humbled and drawen from our sinnes to keep vs in the time to come and so to dispose vs to a perfect obedience holie and acceptable vnto God And to this ende tend the afflictions of the children of God which for this cause are called chastisements corrections and medicines of our soules The children of Jacob hauing committed a detestable crime in selling then brother Joseph Gen. 42.21 but they neuer thought of it vntill that beeing in Aegypt pressed with reproches and imprisonment they called to minde their sinne saying one to the other surely we haue sinued against our brother for we saw the anguish of his soule when hee besought vs and wee woulde not heare him and therefore is this trouble hapned vnto vs. Manasses King of Iuda hauing set vp Idolatrie againe persecuted those that woulde purelie serue the Lorde 2. Chro. 33 so as Ierusalem was full of blood and hauing shut his eares to the admonitions of the Lorde at the last was taken by the army of the king of the Assyrians bound with manacles fettered in chaines and carried prisoner into Babylon Then being in affliction he was exceedingly humbled before God hee prayed to the Lord and was heard and caried backe vnto Jerusalem Then hee pulled downe all Idolatrie reformed the seruice of God and commanded Iuda to serue the Lorde the God of Israell Yea the poore pagane marriners of whom the historie of Ionas maketh mention seeing the continuaunce of the tempest concluded to cast lots to know who was the cause of that affliction and God making it to appeare that it was the sinne of Ionas Ion. 1.7 thereof is come a common Prouerb in a daungerous tempest that there is some fonas in the ship And this proceedeth of a feeling and apprehension of the prouidence and iustice of GOD this little sparke yet still remaining in man of the image of God whereby we thinke that it is hee that afflicteth that he is iust doth nothing but iustlie and so that afflictions are corrections of our sinnes Therefore Jeremie iustly reproueth the blockishnesse of the people of Israel in this that being afflicted Ierem. 8.6 no man saide what haue I done See now why God to make vs more liuelie feele his iudgements to the intent to wake vs vp to conuert vs vnto him sendeth vs ofteÌ„times afflictions which after a sort answere haue some conformitie to our sins As for example EZechias king of Iuda sinned by ambition or vain confidence in shewing all his treasures to the Embassadors of the king of Babel and GOD tolde him by the Prophet Esay that all his treasures should be transported into Babel Esa 39 Dauid offended God in committing adultery 2. Sam. 11 and in putting to death Vriah and GOD chastised him in this 2. Sam. 13 that Amnon his sonne defiled his sister Thamar and that Amnon was slaine by his brother Absolom that Absolom laie publikely with his fathers Concubines 2. Sam. 16. 22 according to that which God had saide vnto him 2. Sam. 12 11 Thou hast done it in secrete and I will doo it in the sight of all the people The child borne in adultry died 2. Sam. 12 10 he was threatned that the Sword should not depart from his house Now as the afflictions bring vs to the feeling of our sinnes 2. Fruit amendment of life and first in workes to wake vs vp and to humble vs so therof riseth the resolutions and protestations to fall into them no more but to amend them And this is it that is seene in those that by tempest of sea or some grieuous disease are in manifest danger of death They examine their coÌ„scieÌ„ce their sinnes infirmities then come before them they aske pardon and make protestations to liue better in time to come The same also we see in children that are beaten of their fathers This is it which the Apostle to the Hebrewes teacheth vs saying That no chastisement for the time seemeth pleasant

or slaine of theeues or caried away slaues to the Barbarians Now although these examples ought to suffice to make vs vnderstand what the condition of the Church hath alwaies been and so consequentlie of the children of God we will yet notwithstanding set forth some particular examples of those that haue been the most excellent seruants and children of God Abel hauing offered vnto GOD a more excellent sacrifice than Cain Examples of particular members of the Church afflicted in the time of the old testament Gen. 4. Mal. 1.2 Gen. 28. and so receiuing the testimonie that he was iust was mischieuouslie traiterouslie murthered by his brother Among the Patriarches let vs consider the afflictions of Iacob beloued of GOD After he had been long time in feare of the threatnings of his brother Esau at the last he was constrained to forsake his fathers house Being with Laban his vnckle Gen. 31. he serued him the space of 20. yeares feeding his flockes induring the cold of the night and the heate of the day In the meane time he receiued so manie iniuries at the hands of his vnckle that he resolued with his wiues the daughters of Laban to steale away from him and to depart without bidding him farewell He being thus as it were fled he was pursued of Laban prouoked to anger determining to vse him violentlie if God as himselfe confesseth had not forbidden him Hauing escaped his hand he fell into a newe and horrible feare Gen. 32. for the comming and meeting of his brother Esau fearing as he sheweth by the praier which he made to GOD least he would slay both him with his wiues and children Gen. 35.22 His eldest sonne committed adulterie and that not with a straunge woman but with his fathers owne concubine His daughter is rauished and defiled Gen. 34. His children prophane circumcision the sacred seale of the couenant of God making it to serue to murther as they did al the inhabitants of Sichem Gen. 35. who asked nothing of theÌ„ but friendship By this crueltie more than barbarous they exposed their father themselues and all their house to manifest daunger of vtter rooting out by their neighbours if GOD had not held them backe His owne children hauing sold their brother Ioseph they made their father beleeue that he was deuoured of wild beasts Gen. 37. Being pressed with famine he sent his sonnes into Aegypt to get corne Gen. 42. whereby Simeon being kept prisoner he vnderstood that there was no hope of his deliuerie but in sending his yongest sonne Beniamin which was as it were to take away his soule What manner of life then is this of the good Patriarch but continuall anguishes and afflictions as himselfe confesseth saying vnto Pharao Gen. 47.9 that the daies of his pilgrimage were fewe and euill Among the Prophets let vs take Moses to whome GOD shewed himselfe more familiarlie When he was yet a little infant he was put foorth and abandoned vnto death Exod. 2. beeing after come to the age of fortie yeares and feeling that God had ordained him to deliuer his people Israel Act. 7.25 Exod. 2. he began to exercise his vocation in slaying the Aegyptian wherevpon he was constrained to forsake the Court of Pharao and to flie And withdrawing him selfe into the land of Madian he serued Iethro feeding his sheepe the space of fortie yeares He I say that was taken for the sonne of Pharaos daughter that might haue enioyed the riches and pleasures of Aegypt Being after returned into Aegypt by the coÌ„mandement of GOD to deliuer the people of Jsrael incontinently so soon as he began to exercise his charge in speaking to Pharao the Jsraelites being more afflicted than before tooke occasion to murmur against him Hauing conducted the people to the red sea Exod. 14.1 againe they rose against him with dangerous complaints And sinallie hauing retired themselues into the desert he was in continuall trouble anguish and torment for the plaints and murmuring of the people for the enuie of his owne brother and sister but aboue all Num. 12.1 for the vengeances that God executed vpon his people and speciallie for their sinnes as wheÌ„ they made the golden Calfe Exo. 32 19. And this hauing continued the space of 40. yeres Deut. 34. at the last he died in the desert without entring into the land of promise Wee may to this purpose set downe many other notable examples as of Iob Dauid and others But as euerie one may note their great and sundrie afflictions by the reading of the sacred Histories so it shall suffice to set foorth this which the Apostle writeth to the Hebrues Heb. 11.35 speaking of diuers of the faithfull and seruants of GOD Some saith he were racked would not be deliuered to the end that they might obtaine a better resurrection Other were tried with mockings and stripes yea and by bands and imprisonment They were stoned they were hewen asunder they were tempted they were slaine with the sword they wandered vp and downe in sheepe skinnes and in goates skinnes being destitute afflicted and tormented of whome the world was not worthie wandering in deserts and in mountaines and in deepe pits and caues of the earth As touching the examples of the children and seruants of God Examples of the children seruants of God afflicted vnder the newe TestameÌ„t which haue been since the comming of Christ in the flesh he alone maie and ought to suffice for as much as wee must bee fashioned like to his image and followe his steps Now this Prince of glorie making his entrance into this world created and maintained by him found no place in the Inne it pleased him to bee borne in a stable and to be laid in a manger in stead of a cradle Luk. 2. By and by after Herode sought to slay him Matth. 2. for the which cause he was carried into Aegypt by Ioseph and Marie And what pouertie trow ye indured he there Is he returned into Iudea Mark 6.3 there he passed his life vntill he was 30. yeares old in the abiect and base estate of a Carpenter Did he begin his charge Matth. 4. after hee had fasted fortie daies and fortie nights he was hungrie and had not whereof to eate in the desert During these fortie daies and fortie nights he was assailed of Satan and tempted and sinallie indured those three mightie assaults recited of the Euangelists Hee suffered pouertie Luk. 9.58 not hauing one pillowe to rest his head on and liued by almes Hee was violently pressed with iniuries Luk. 8.3 being called glutton drunkard deceiuer and one possessed with diuells Mat. 11.19 He was carried violentlie to the top of a mountain to throw him downe headlong Mat. 27.63 Hee was betraied of one of his owne Apostles He was taken prisoner Ioh. 7.20 Luk. 4.29 Matth. 26. 27. spet on buffeted beaten mocked scourged crowned with

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