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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68302	A most excellent and comfortable treatise, for all such as are any maner of way either troubled in minde or afflicted in bodie, made by Andrew Kingesmyl Gentleman, sometime fellowe of Alsolne Colledge in Oxforde. Whereunto is adioyned a verie godly and learned exhortation to suffer patiently al afflictions for the gospel of Christ Iesus. And also a conference betwixt a godly learned Christian [and] an afflicted conscie[n]ce: wherein, by the holy Scriptures the sleights of Satan are made manifest, and ouerthrowen: with a godly prayer thereunto annexed	Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569.; Mills, Francis.	1577 (1577)	STC 15000; ESTC S107429	44,945	104

Gods eternall prouidence which maketh the sharpe and the sowre soft and sweete in the ende although no maner of chastisement as he saith is ioyous for the present time I haue in those former examples according to my simplicitie sent you some of the righteous and tried seruants of God to stand you in steade of Apothecaries and Surgeons of whom you may learne to cure your wound without douting forasmuch as they minister you euen such soueraigne medicines as they them selues haue tasted and tried as you see to their endlesse comfort but yet the chief phisition is to come Christ Iesus I meane the salue of all our sores the paterne of al patience and most assured comfort of all sorowing soules and readie redresse in all aduersities You haue seene in the examples afore the experiēce of good souldiours fighting a good fight and how they haue quitte themselues against the temptations of the worlde and the assaultes of Satan Nowe turne your eyes towarde Christ our redemer the great Captaine and most renowmed conquerour of all that euer tasted these worldly infirmities whose euill entreatie and hard handling the time serueth not now to describe vnto you but I send you to the head spring the historie of the Gospel you may also at your leasure reade that mine exercise concerning the loue of God where I haue assayed to say somewhat to this purpose Onely now I giue you S. Pauls exhortation Let the same minde be in you which was euen in Christe Iesus who being the Sonne of God and very God one with his Father made himself of no reputation tooke on him the forme of a seruāt he humbled him selfe and became obedient vnto the death euē to the death of the crosse Here learne of your Sauiour patience and humilitie and marke where lay his comfort verely that way that other his saued soules haue sought euen the prouidence of his God and by him our God his Father thākes be to him our Father for so he said when that lost childe went out from him and his other disciples to worke his purposed treason Verely saith he it goeth with the sonne of man as it is written of him and at this marke he seemed to ayme when as Pilate vaunted himselfe and triumphed ouer him saying that he had power to crucifie him and likewise to loose him then our Sauiours answere was thou couldest haue no power against me except it were giuen thee from aboue So when he did with deepe cōsideration as it were aforehand taste the bitternesse of his cuppe this way he foūd out of his temptatiō saying to his father thy will be fulfilled and not myne this was his comfort in the extremities of the crosse and his flesh also rested in this hope that the Lord would not suffer his holy one to see corruption By these you may be sufficiently stored with diuerse kinde of medicines you haue both the gentle and the strong working before you The next care concerneth the vse hereof that they be applied and placed to the sore Now therefore if you wil set these glasses of the afflicted seruants of God and especially Christ crucified before your eyes I doubt not but that it shall quicken all the dead flesh that lieth about your heart For first if you wil compare quantitie with quantitie surely yours may seeme but an April showre in cōparison of these bloudie floudes and seas of sorowes that passed ouer their heads But make your case comparable with others the aforesaid as peraduenture it is more then I am aware of yet being grounded on Christ Iesus with stedfast faith hauing your election certaine by your honest conuersation in the works of light and the Spirit of adoption bearing witnes with your spirit that you are a chosen childe of God hauing in iust consideration the iust dealing and mercifull prouidence of God towardes his vessels prepared to honour although in your selfe you be humbled as necessarie it is yet in God you cannot but reioyce and glorie with his seruants and Saintes on the earth Were it so that men reuiled you as Shimei did Dauid why should you not content quiet your self as Dauid did saying the Lord hath sent him for this purpose yea whatsoeuer kinde of crosse it shall please God to visite vs withall we ought by his example to cōsider the good purpose of God therein to say It is good for vs that we taste of some trouble lest we be found for bastard children as the Apostle speaketh If you had susteined losse of friēds parents childrē or husbands standing at one staye with Iob then for your comfort you haue to say The Lord hath giuen the Lorde hath taken away Let the case be I am sure it is not so ill that you were pestered with Iobs miserable disease as wee are all in the hands of God vpon vs to worke his wil and there is neither of both vndoutedly but haue deserued far worse then iust Iob yet he hath prouided for vs before hand a staffe to staye on and hath giuen vs a lesson of patience in that answere which he made his wyfe prouoking him to yelde to the assault of Satan and to blaspheme his God Thou speakest like a foolish woman saith he shall wee receiue good at the hand of God not receiue euill If you had lost your countrey which now you enioye by the benefit of God might you not well conceiue with your selfe of the will and worke of God therein to some such purpose as he wrought by Iosephs sale and bannishment wheresoeuer you shall come whatsoeuer entertainement or entreatie you should finde would you not say as he did it is God that hath sent me hither Suppose you were in the pit with Ioseph in the dēne with Daniel or that you made vp the messe with those three appointed to the fyer Sidrach Misach and Abednego would you mistrust now especially that they haue made the waye before you but that God would prouide some issue for you in the middest of these temptations either to saue you harmlesse by a mightie deliuerance or els as it should be best for you to make you a conquerour by patience And to come to Christ that fountaine of all consolation for all Christians O Sister we neuer felt with our litle finger that fyer wherein he was consumed for our sinnes we haue not tasted with the typ of our tongue that bitter cuppe wherein he swallowed vp death due vnto vs for our offences wee sleepe in whole skinnes his hands his feete his sydes were pearced of merciles murderers we for the most part haue ease and rest he found no place on earth where to rest his head we thinke much if we be somewhat diseased with a litle paine or griefe of bodie he swet and shed bloudie water to ease vs and release vs of perpetuall paines Nowe then Sister thrust in your finger with Thomas the Apostle and feele with