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A43179	The Christians dayly solace in experimentall observations; or, cordials for crosses in thse sad and calamitous times of affliction. By R.H.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1277A; ESTC R222583	65,001	166

what the Apostle Paul saith 2 Cor. 6.9 As dying and behold we live as chastned and yet not killed as sorrowing and yet alwayes rejoyceing Whence one observeth that our sorrow hath a quasi as though but so hath not our rejoyceing our afflictions are seeming but our joyes are certain 2 And as they are light so they are not long lasting this God hath promised his Church Isai 57.16 I will not contend for ever nor be alwayes wroth for the spirits would faile before me and the soules which I have made Alas were they as long as our whole Life yet what is that to Eternity David compares the length of his life but to a span and the Lord the time of affliction only to a moment Isai 54.8 Nay to a small moment for a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee in a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer Indeed it may seem long to us when we are in trouble sad houres we say are long houres but we mistake the day God hath promised to deliver us but we antedate the promises as we post-date duties but saith Habakkuk 2.3 though it tarry waite for it because it will surely come It is as well Gods desire to come in with mercy as we to expect it Isai 30.18 The Lord waites that he may be gracious we waite when God will and God waites when he may when mercy may be most welcome and deliverance most glorious 3 Again God doth not afflict us above our strength and this the Apostle verifies 1 Cor. 10.13 he will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able but will give the issue with the temptation that we may be able to bear it In the greatest pressures of the Saints as God tempers the rod and sweetens it with his presence so perpetually doth he make it easie to them by his assistance he metes out afflictions to the strength of our poor soules and supplies strength to the measure of our affliction the best earthly Phisitians may be deceived in the disease and constitution of his Patient he may mistake in the quality or strength of his Phisick and so misse of his intended cure but the Physitians of our souls doth so exactly know our temper and disease doth so intirely affect our health and so accurately mingle the maligne and poysonfull ingredients in our Phisick with corrections and allayes that the confection shall be good and altogether shall and must work for the best And therefore we need not to feare either to be oppressed with an over heavy weight of troubles and afflictions or that we shall be tempted above our power in regard of our frailty and infirmity seeing he who maketh the wounds hath also power to cure them and he that mixeth our Cup can also give us strength to drink it according to the saying of Eliphaz unto Job chap. 5.18 19. He maketh the wound and bindeth it up he smiteth and his hands make whole The Lord Jesus hath bound himselfe by his most gracious promise Math. 12.20 That he will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoaking flax till he bring forth judgment unto victory Indeed we have no strength in our own selves to incounter the least affliction much lesse to indure the fiery tryall or be able to wrestle with Principalities and Powers but we are supported with the mighty power of God in our greatest weaknesse and held so fast by the hand of Christ that the strongest afflictions inforced with all the violence of man or Divell are not able to pull us from him It is the blessed spirit of God dwelling in us doth assist us in all our sufferings and according to the greatnesse of our crosses are the greatnesse of our comforts and this the Apostle Paul saith 2 Cor. 1.5 That as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation aboundeth through Christ It is this blessed Inmate which doth apply unto us the mercies of God and merits of Christ and so assuring us that we have our part and interest in all the gracious promises of the Gospell our consciences are so replenished with such peace which passeth all understanding and with such unspeakable joy and gladnesse as none can conceive but they who feel it ah this is that living Fountain which springeth up to eternall life and like a cleer river floweth with heavenly streames of sweetest consolation wherein being bathed in the scortching heat of afflictions we are cooled and refreshed and filled with joy and delight the thoughts of this made David to sing Psal 46.4 We have a river whose streames makes glad the Cittie of our God the holy place of the Tabernacles of the most High this is that spirituall anoynting which preserveth us from being consumed in the fiery Furnace of our affliction which so supples our sores and extracts the Fiery heat of the burning that we receive no hurt thereby Look upon the three Children in the Furnace at Babilon there was not so much as a haire of their heads singed neither did their cloathes but smell of the fire Dan. 3.27 We say its a comfort to have a companion in misery to have one that will simpathize and condole us what greater friend can we have then he which by the Lord Jesus his own mouth is called the Comforter John 14.26 How then can we be dismayed when we have within us such a Fountain of refreshments Oh let us check our fainting hearts when they begin to droop with the words of Eliphaz Job 15.12 Doth the consolations of God seem small unto us what if we want an earthly shaddow we are sure we have a Heavenly substance Oh let us still meditate upon the gracious promises of God and let them be our certain stay in our uncertain condition Hear what the Prophet Isaiah saith chap. 40.29 Hast thou not heard or known that the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall but they that waite upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint Again Isaiah 41.10 Feare thou not saith God for I am with thee be not afraid for I am thy God I will strengthen and help thee I will sustain thee with the right hand of my righteousnesse And this was it which made David so bold and confident that if he should passe through the valley of the shaddow of death he would feare no evill because God was with him his rod and his staffe they did comfort him Psalm 23.4 4 God lays