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A86883	A Brief receipt moral & Christian, against the passion of the heart, or sore of the mind, incident to most, and very grievous to many, in the trouble of enemies. / Being one single sermon by I. H. Minister of Froome. Published at this rate by itself, that any who need it, and have it. For the ease and benefit especially of the more tender, weak and melancholy; who feel these arrows stick in their spirits, but know not the way of plucking them out, or aswaging the pain of them.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3672; Thomason E1895_1; ESTC R209916	24,345	123

or in deeds They shoot their arrows sayes the Psalmist even bitter words Leviter volant graviter vulnerant and the poyson of Asps in another place is under their lips to shew how deeply some things do wound and how fast they stick upon many of those who have tender hearts and fain would live in peace The best of them is but as a bryar and the most upright of them sharper than a thornhedge 3. The Redresse and this lie in the applying our selves unto God or having our recourse unto him Est profectò Deus faies Plautus in his Captivi qui quae nosgerimus videt et audit bene merenti bene erit male merenti par erit O our God saies good Hezekiah wilt thou not judge them for we have no might against this great company that commeth against us neither know we what to do but our eyes are upo● thee 2 Chron. 20.12 This is more at large particularly the redresse lies in two things the taking that course that will best please God and then resting the Soul for the issue upon him The wayes or course best to please God are either Absolute as to the whole stream of our lives or Respective in reference meerly hereunto The absolute course or wayes best to please God I would thus define It is such a conversation as being grounded upon Faith in a cleansed heart and kept clean through the Spirit of grace does renounce all sin and cleave to what is good or doth deny our selves and cleave unto Christ in all things according to the wil of God Herein are 7 things 1. The foundation of such a course or holy life and that is Faith a true a sound Faith dogmatical and fiducial Heb. 11.6 Act. 15.19 2. The subject wherein this faith resides and from whence such a life must proceed that is the heart Ro. 10.10 Act. 8.37 3. The qualification of this subject It must be cleansed that is sanctified by the infusion of the habits of grace Heb. 10.22 Io. 1.13 and kept clean to wit by a dayly ridding our lusts and preparing out grace that the vessel may not be to rinse or the tools to whet when the work is to be doing Psal 57.7.2 Chron. 19.3.2 Cor. 7.1 4. The efficient by whom all is wrought that is the Spirit Rom. 8.13.2 Cor. 3.5 which as freely given I farther call the Spirit of grace 5. The matter wherein this whole conversation consists that is two things for these two comprize all Self-denyall which is a renouncing sin altogether and every thing else though it be life it self as to preparation of mind so far as it shall stand in opposition to righteousness and truth Mar. 8.34 35.2 Tim. 2.19 and the love of Christ or cleaving to him as Ruth did to Naomi that forsook all to follow her which includes the embracing and pursuing whatsoever is good and acceptable to him Mat. 22.37 38. Io. 4.15.1 Tim. 1.5 6. The extent hereof or universality the sure note of sincerity in all things Psal 18.22 Psal 119.6 Act. 24.16 7. And lastly The rule by which our whole life must be squared and that is the will of God or Law of the ten Commandements Psal 19.7 8 9. Gal. 6.16.2 Tim. 3.17 There are these particulars in this absolute course which hath been the matter of other Sermons See Mr. Rogers 7. treatises treat 2. The respective course or wayes best to please God in reference peculiarly hereunto in short are to take such a course only and do no otherwise whatsoever we suffer in seeking ease under our Enemies than we have warrant for from the word and can approve our selves therein unto God And this is the course as the first thing in the redress whereunto my discovrse is to bend which I shall therefore particularize in the Vse when I come to it One thing only is to be noted in the way here and that is that this same religious life in the main before set down whereby a man walks uprightly with God in the whole currant of his life without this peculiar regard to men whether they are Enemies or not hath the advantage of this Text to wit that among many other blessings belonging to it God will deliver such out of their troubles Psal 34.19 and give them peace or victory with their Enemies This the Text it self intends I doubt not but my discourse is not to run at that large Let it suffise to say only hereunto Job fears not God for nought The second thing then in the redresse upon this is when we do thus without any farther explicating which here needs not The resting I have said casting or rouling the Soul on the Lord as to the successe assuring our selves that he is a ready help to all such and will bring about in the end that which he sees best for us Indeed a man is to look out what God requires of him in such or such a case wherein he is and so to do it If he does not this how can he trust in God If he does what is there more on his part then but to leave the matter to him Oh! Let me tell you Friends it is a sweet thing in a difficult and vexatious busines to have that which is ones own duty in order to an effect to be done and then to stand only and see what God will do in the remaining work that is behind left in his hand And the King said whose case yet here was not so ripe carry back the Ark into the City if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation but if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here I am let him do to me as seemeth good to him 2. Sam. 15.25 26. FOr Confirmation or Proof We may turn unto two or three Texts In Psal 112.7 8. we have the righteous man described His heart is fixed trusting on the Lord and he shall see his desire upon his Enemies Two wayes we have intimated here to have ones desire or victory over Enemies the one is to be a righteous man that is to have our wayes please God and the other to trust in him to bring it about for us Look into Psal 37.5 There is a Text not long in the words but much in the concernment of it Commit thy way to the Lord and he will bring it to passe It is pitty to see what ado many do keep in their affairs in their troubles as to the issue what will become of them when they should only commit their cause unto God and he would bring it to passe Commit thy way unto God includes two things the one is to take such wayes as we are sure are agreeable to his Will we cannot else commit them to him and the other is when we have done and do so to cast all our care and burden then as to the event upon him Commit thy wayes to the

presse by another who for some matter in them belike that hath affected him will not be denyed is about these commotions or vexations of mind as it is engaged and diseased with Enemies which are many times even the most soar the most bitter the most lodged of any And it is humbly supposed there are some things here particularly about the end that if they be considerately applyed by enlargement of the same on the mind which I advise to be done as the plaister is to be bound on to the soar they may do good happily here and there to some Spirits that are raw and tender and have the feeling of these things I must confesse if I did not believe this my self and that upon my own experience who am such a poor weak creature as some of these passages will shew me to be I should be loath to let a Sermon thus Solitary and perhaps as sorrily passe from me But indeed there is one affair long since in my life private past unto which it hath been originally owed and more lately paid The dealings of some have been bitter to me and I have born it after a sort though with much failing as I have here prescribed to others I will say no more but I have found my peace in these things And blessed be God that my part is done the rest is with him So that I do me thinks set up this as Samuel did his Ebenezer even as my stone of remembrance that hitherto hath the Lord helped me And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee Psal 39 7. Is. 51.22 23. To make an end If the publishing hereof may really make for any bodies benefit it is no matter how it may make for my credit If thou art grieved it is needfull for thee to be eased there is no need that I be praised That the thing is so small it is medicamen parabile thy expence will be the lesse I mean not only of thy mony to have it but of thy time which is more precious to read it and ponder it I shall be a Physician of no cost if I be of no value If I have no leafe for medecine I may have yet some fruit for meat And Sampson said unto his Father get her for me for she pleaseth me well but he knew not that it was of the Lord. Thy fellow Servant in the Kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ Iohn Humfrey Pro. 16.7 When a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him AMongst the many evills which the prudent foresees and hideth himself Pro. 22.3 they are not the least which arise from enemies For as the top of earthly pleasures which may be cleanly used the most of pleasures being dipt and drencht in sin is the enjoyment of friends So does the very bottom and dregs of those troubles which are bitterest to us in the World lye many times in our engagements with Adversaries I know Philosophy would place a man in the higher Region above such things as these are that they should not reach him as if to be wise were to be beyond commotion But Divinity that speaks more feelingly and sets forth man as he is a poor impotent frail creature subject to feeling to infirmities and sufferings gives other rules and draws him forth out of himself unto God for the cure ease and asswaging of them Thus here are we to please him that we may have peace with our enemies In the words there are two things A bitter soar and a precious remedy The soar is that which most of us all are have or may be too well experienced in that is the grievance of enemies The remedy I wish we were all as well versed in likewise and that is the pleasing of the Lord. When a mans wayes please the Lord he maketh his Enemies be at peace with him The observation or matter the words afford is this Doct. That the best way for a tender Christian that lies under the soars of displeasure discomposures troubles injuries or prejudice of Enemies is t apply himself unto God in that course as does best please him and so rest upon his dispose to bring about his peace for him Let a man look over the Spirits of most and it will pitty him to see what things or means they fly unto under such risentments whereas if they would have their recourse hither all would be quiet Their Enemies shall be at peace or their hearts be at rest Even as things are that were violenced before when they come to their Center and as the furious waters that keep such a noise and rushing in their way as soon as they do but fall into t he Ocean unto which indeed they owe the Tribute of themselves you hear no more of them The waves of death compassed me about the flouds of ungodly men made me afraid I will call upon the Lord so shall I be saved from my Enemies 2 Sam. 22.5.4 For Explication Here are three things in this observation The Person His Grievance His Redresse 1. The Person and that is the tender Christian There are divers sorts of tempers Some are more hardy that feel not these impressions from any thing that can fall on them by others And these are so either by nature which is to have an healthy Soul and be well born Or by Wisdom when men have with much culture got a rule over their Spirits by reason that they can pluck out the sting of any affection it shall not hurt them Sed nobis non licet esse tam diseratos Or by stupidity and dulnesse meerly of temper and complexion which hath this hap as to bearing and contentment to reap t hat benefit many time which others cannot with tall their virtue and studies For as it is easy for things of grosser metarl to endure a knock and blows when finer curious metal'd things must have much art to endure the least hurt or fall and not be broken So is it with finer and courser Spirits Of these I speak not There are other tempers therefore that are tender that when wrongs reproaches injuries or troubles fall on them they wound them and grieve them I do not know Sirs how it may fare with many of you but of such a Spirit I am sure was holy David himself who tells us often that he was so affected here with That his Soul was sore vexed and his eys consumed with grief because of his Enemies Psal 6.3.7 A Christian spirit I take not to be a stupid spirit or one that is wholy unmoved or unwounded but a spirit that being touched and wounded can fetch its balm in Gilead its healing from God 2. The Grievance and this is the soars of Enemies all that trouble anguish vexation especially that comes on the mind and mischief to our Persons by their harsh injurious bitter dealing with us These Enemies are either open Enemies or secret Enemies and that in words