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A07778	Three meditations vpon these three places of scripture, 1 Cor. 2.2 ..., Psal. 6.1 ..., Prov. 3.11,12 ... by Iohn Bulteel.	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.	1627 (1627)	STC 18156A; ESTC S916	33,704	172

and died for our offences and was raised againe for our iustification Amen A MEDITATION on PROVERBS 3.11 12. My Sonne despise not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary of his correction For whom the Lord loueth he correcteth euen as a father the sonne in whom he delighteth OVerwhelmed with griefe in my flesh oppressed with astonishment in my spirit with sorrow in my soule in danger to yeeld my selfe vnto the words of the vnaduised who vpon the redoubling of such rude blowes did murmure about me Where is now his God that God whom he did call vpon so oft my selfe to mutter between my teeth where are indeed those infinite bounties And wherefore hast thou sued mee as an aduersary hast made me a But to thy most rough arrowes I heare the wise man mildly saying My sonne despise not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary of his correction For whom the Lord loueth hee correcteth euen as a father the sonne in whom hee delighteth At this word I breathe a little and come by little little to my selfe this word as good strong Vinegar comforts my spirits restores my pulse brings me out of sounding restores life to my soule one drop of this soure sweet liquor on my tongue baked with griefe refresheth it changeth its blacknesse yea its language Why then began I to say to my soule this despaire will it change into hope From a Iudge O Lord whom I did dread thee and an angry Iudge shal I feele thee as a Father a louing Father shall it be then true that these rude chastisements are to mee signes of thy loue seales of mine adoption the earnest of my saluation and first-fruits of thy grace Therefore will I hold this liquor in my palate gargarise my mouth therewith that it may penetrate my heart go to the bottome of my soule for when men are afflicted it is from Gods hand in this hand will he be heard with this hand he speaketh And these afflictions are chastisements to his owne though punishments to others with the same hand he doth afflict them and heale them with the same rod he beats them downe and raiseth them vp beats downe the flesh raiseth the soule If you behold the wound its opening and the bloud he drawes from vs he seemes not much differing from an enemy if his soft hand if his tender affection if his wholesome intention seeing hee is thy Creator thy Redeemer how much doth he exceed any Surgeon be he neuer so much thy friend yea any father whatsoeuer And it is alwaies a great point for vs to consider that our afflictions come from God make a part of his prouidence For to omit that the creature ought to yeeld to the whole and soueraigne power of the Creator we doe yeeld so much to the power of a Prince and that without reply All-wise and iust that he is can he doe any thing either without reason or without iustice and are they not therefore either trials of our faith or chastisements of our sins yea all good that he is a louer of his creature can he doe ought but in goodnes in mercy which surpasseth all his works to the edificatiō therefore of his Church to our owne saluation for our profit saith the Apostle a Heb. 12.10 that we may be made partakers of his holinesse wee may profit in holinesse we may walke from faith to faith from obedience to obedience My son then saith the wise man despise not the chastening of the Lord. The wise man wise from elsewhere than from flesh and bloud inspired truly from God in this matter who teacheth vs here as his children and seeing that he is inspired from God God by his mouth teacheth vs as children of God Despise not saith he and who can despise this discipline as well may he ward his thunderbolts Who can be exempted from them decline his iurisdiction or eschew his censure It is therefore as much as if hee should say vndergoe it willingly take it in good part suppose it to be a lesson which he giues thee in his Schoole The slaue flies before his Master who feares more the scourge than his anger Doe not thou doe so childe that thou art feare more his anger than his rod feare more thy sin the cause of his anger than his anger it selfe But if he sheweth thee his rod humble thy selfe kisse it yea adore it A dore in thy God his benignity who daignes to visit thee whether in chastisement or in triall alwaies finds in thee too much matter of chastisement Tell him with Dauid b Psal 23.4 Thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me If he strike thee if hee cast a stone at thee he is thy shepheard thou wentst astray he sets thee in the way and therefore the wise man calls it discipline not punishment Discipline because by these afflictions hee keepes thee to schoole hee conformes thy motiōs thy actions to his holy word A discipline surely in his intention how rough soeuer it seemeth to thee because it tends wholly to thy instruction not to thy destruction A discipline also on thy part in its effect if thou takest well thy chastisement doest amend and returne more and more vnto him Take it therefore in good part husband it well for he addeth neither be weary of his correction Not onely despise it not but vndergoe it not for once but often if he redouble if he return often to it be not weary of it But truly who is not weary of the mildest reprehensions of his best friends and whose eares and head are not broken therewith Why then when God redoubleth his blowes on men and that with so heauie a hand who can subsist I but attend with patience and be not weary thereof Certes we haue the same reason both to suffer this chastisement to perseuere in this patience if we consider that it is God who continues it all iust all wise he doth it for our good who is all goodnesse all mercy And seeing we doe not complaine of the Physitian who purgeth vs at seuerall times nor of the Surgion who searcheth the wound and that oftē in a day though it be neuer without paine yea smarting paine when God dresseth our sinne an obstinate euill a mortall plague cleauing to our spirits yea to our marrow shall wee complaine if hee resumes the Launcer presseth the venome out applies at diuers times the searing iron or the cautere according as the vlcer threatens an issue or that the humour inciteth it selfe against the cataplasme according as we are and he knoweth vs redoubleth his visitation either with the Launcet or the Dose Be not therefore weary when the Lord doth correct thee why then what shall wee doe accustome our selues to Gods rod become lumpish or vnsensible But on the contrary God will haue thee to feele him to vnderstand him feele his blowes know the cause thereof feele thy selfe by them and woe vnto him that rouseth

himselfe not vp Hee loues the childe that vnderstands him at halfe a word that is not dul but is sensible of the chastisement shakes at the very shadow of his rod. Patience is not a stupidity or a want of apprehension of griefe in paine it presupposeth on the contrary a griefe a suffering but the quicker the paine is the greater is the patience which proceedeth from faith and produceth also obedience faith which maketh vs turne our eye to the cause rather than carry our hand to the sore Faith which makes thee mount vp to God to receiue from his hand that which hee pleaseth to giue to descend into thy selfe to examine thy soule turne ouer the leaues of thy conscience to finde there that which displeaseth him to dislike thy selfe confesse thy debt haue recourse to his benignity And that is it which hee bids thee be not weary whē God doth chastise thee this is the exercise properly which thou must vndertake What haue I done what haue I not done beholding thy selfe in the glasse of the law measuring thy selfe with his graces the Law that shewes thee his will and thy sinne his graces which according to their proportion doe multiply it according as thou hast receiued more and didst owe more An exercise where the best men neuer want worke where the more they haue the more they finde the more cleere sighted they are in their infirmities sensible of his anger yea although that God doth visit them especially to put them to the proofe to make it appeare vnto the world what the power of his spirit can doe in their weaknesse vnto Sathan himselfe what their faith can doe against his tentations against his malice against his warrefare they omit not to draw that profit from thence seeke for it themselues and they neuer want it they know that their c 1 Pet. 1.7 faith as gold in the furnace is to bee tried with fire how many are there who otherwise faile at the touch and how pure soeuer they seeme to be haue but too much drosse and skum wherewith at all times they are ouercharged that d Vers 7. the triall of their faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth might be vnto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Iesus Christ according to that which is elsewhere said of this chastening e Heb. 12.11 for the present it seemeth not to be ioyous but grienous and therefore thou art weary thereof Neuerthelesse afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousnesse vnto them which are exercised thereby And therefore thou better instructed by the wise man Bee not weary of his correction And the reason followeth for God is so gentle and courteous that he disdaineth not to render a reason of that which hee doth to vs his poore miserable creatures For whom the Lord loueth hee correcteth euen as a father the sonne in whom hee delighteth Not him whom simply hee loueth his loue is powred ouer all creatures but him whom hee loueth tenderly whom of a creature he hath daigned to make his child of whom hee will haue a particular care so that this discipline of affliction makes a difference between his children and strangers yea a difference betweene his owne children in regard of the degrees of his graces so that the Apostle groweth confident yea presumeth to say to the Hebrewes f Heb. 12.8 If you be without chastisement whereof all are partakers namely all the faithfull then are yee bastards and not sonnes Alledge not vnto mee that ye are the children of God yee are not his schollers g Heb. 12.6 For the Lord chasteneth him whom he loueth and the more certes he loueth him for saith hee Hee scourgeth euery sonne whom hee receiueth whom particularly he adopteth into his familie he measureth him his correction according to his loue And so indeed we let passe many things in our seruants w th we correct which we cannot beare with in our children in those not reprehending ought for the most part but that which hindreth our businesse and profit in these with a cordiall loue with a curious eye with an exact iudgement regarding examining from the head to the foot desirous to frame and order them to the best gestures in their behauiour and carriage so that hee that doth it the oftner is reputed the better father h Prou. 13.24 23.14 Hee that loueth his sonne saith the Wise man chasteneth him betimes deliuers his soule from hell Indulgence and forbearance as they cause contrarie effects so doe they giue him a contrarie qualitie and name He that spareth his rod hateth his sonne And the Apostle doth ordinarily argue from our carnall fathers to our principall Father in as much certes as loue regardeth care and care discipline where discipline and correction is wanting there care seemeth to wither yea loue yea and father-hood it selfe Why then it is a marke vnto vs that wee are children when God correcteth vs if wee receiue this chastisement as from a father with obedience i Heb. 12.9 We haue had fathers of our flesh which corrected vs and wee gaue them reuerence We haue interpreted and taken those corrections in good part wee haue acknowledged them and reuerenced and respected them with an awfull obseruance and the matter was onely to dispose and conforme vs to this life k Heb. 12.9 Shall we not much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirits vnto him who by the afflictions of this flesh qualifieth and composeth our spirits And liue to prepare vs to frame vs to another life A signe say we more that wee are children in whom God takes his delight For saith he whom the Lord loueth hee correcteth not onely as a father the sonne but the sonne in whom hee delighteth the childe whom hee cherisheth the childe for whom he keepeth an inheritance that heauenly inheritance whereof hee maketh vs coheires with that Well-beloued in whom hee is well pleased in whom and by whom alone in vs and with vs he is well pleased l Eph. 1.5 He hath predestinated vs vnto the adoption of children by Iesus Christ to himselfe according to the good pleasure of his will whereupon wee ought surely to say with the Psalmist Before m Psal 119 67.71 I was afflicted I went astray it is good for me that I haue been afflicted that I might learne thy statutes Thy chastisements O God haue beene for my conuersion for my correction with the Apostle also n Iam. 1.12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when hee is tried hee shall receiue the crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him In as much certes o Rom. 5.3 4 5. as tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the loue of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is giuen vnto vs whereupon hee saith we glorie in

Christ is a long Art and our life is short It is the mysterie of God e Coloss 2.2 3. saith the Apostle and of the Father and of Christ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge vnto the which alone charity faith repentance haue reference And therfore let vs not be ashamed to study in it at all houres being sure that if we should liue an hundred yeares we may profit therin hourely Notwithstanding feeble and trembling soule feare not in this vnmeasurable depth the Lambes wade ouer and the Elephants finde it deep enough to swim To abridge thy lesson know that thou art wholly lost in thy selfe that God by his infinite mercy hath saued thee in the alone bloud of his Sonne crucified profit daily in it conforming thy selfe vnto his word and thou hast indeed this knowledge Proud heart who thinkest thou hast thy flight more lofty than other think not thou hast heere done thy worke to sound and diue deeply into mans misery and thine owne the iustice of God and his mercy to fadome them in all dimensions and in all senses is not a small taske for thee which surpasseth the capacity and vnderstanding of all the Angels and not of men onely The greatest spirits hauing past ouer all other Sciences haue taken their harbour in this Hauen haue happily bounded their courses in this knowledge because f Luke 10.22 no man knoweth who the Sonne is but the Father and he to whom he will reueale him Now the mysteries that are hidden to vs in this Sonne but those vnto whom they are giuen mysteries notwithstanding vnprofitable vnto vs and vnto vs hurtfull sauing in as much as we liue in him we liue to him let vs ardently and continually pray him that as he hath giuen vs to haue Iesus crucified before our eyes so he will giue vs more and more the grace to consider him and withall to be crucified with him that wee may say with the same Apostle g Gal. 2. I liue yet not I but Christ liueth in me and the life which I now liue in the flesh I liue by the faith of the Sonne of God who loued me and gaue himselfe for mee Procuring with al our power on what perill soeuer it be the saluation of our brethren ready to die when it shall please him by his grace in him by his vertue for him Amen A MEDITATION on the sixth Psalme PSAL. VI. O LORD vnto whom doth this Discourse sort better thā vnto me thā vnto me whom thou pursuest in the flesh yea vnto the bones than vnto me whom thou hast made a But vnto thine arrowes arrowes dipped in gall and piercing with griefe Thou knowest how oft I haue made prayers vnto thee thou hearest not Thou hearest but alas not for me O Lord what can I say more Certes but at last at least heare at this time 1 O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure I demand not O Lord that thou rebuke me not God forbid those whom thou rebukest not are those whom thou daignest not to amend those of whom thou hast no care whom thou vouchsafest not to be thy children but disclaimest them And what would thy lessons auaile if thou didst not rebuke or thy reproofes O Lord in the hardnesse of our hearts if thou tookest not sometimes the rod But O God rebuke mee in thy mercie and not in thine anger in thy gentlenesse not in thy furie Those whom thou sauest O Lord thou rebukest them in thy mercies but those whom thou destroyest in thy furie O Lord wouldest thou then destroy mee yea Lord permit me to say this word Couldst thou cast me away O Lord thou hast made me with thine hands and the worke-man doth not willingly lose his worke I was lost and thou hast redeemed me redeemed mee with the precious bloud of thine onely Sonne Lord how vile soeuer I be in my selfe I cannot chuse but be most precious to thee Keepe O Lord thy furie for the vessels of thy furie I am a vessell of thy mercie thy wrath for the children of wrath Thou hast by thy grace redeemed mee thou hast adopted mee for thy childe for heire of thy grace and co-heire with Christ and now O Lord I crie vnto thee with confidence Abba Father Father therefore I beseech thee againe in fauour of thy Welbeloued Rebuke me not in thine anger neither chastize mee in thy hot displeasure but rather 2. Haue mercie vpon me O Lord for I am weake O Lord heale me for my bones are vexed O Lord I am assured that thou rebukest mee not to cast me away and therefore thy mercies will put some end vnto my miseries Ah father of mercies wherfore tarriest thou then So many yeeres are passed in griefe so many daies and nights in teares My flesh stickes vnto my bones and my bones are impaired O Lord why doest thou any more with thy rod and if thou redoublest thy blowes neuer so little what difference will there be between the hand of thy gentlenes and that of thy furie The father strikes the childe till hee feeles it to the quicke And thou knowest it O Lord if I doe feele thee if thy chastisement hath pierced euen vnto the marrow of my bones Till hee hath promised amendment And thou knowest O Lord if I haue a desire therof and if continually I aske for thy Spirit to better mee But thou wilt doe more O Lord for thy rods are the medicines of the soule And therefore thou wilt haue them pierce so farre that they penetrate into the verie bottome of our hearts Certainly O Lord I will say more for 3. My soule is also sore vexed but thou O Lord how long O Lord when thou dost visit vs with thy rods it is iustly for thou art a righteous Iudge Then thy iustice doth discouer our iniustice The languishment and drooping of our bodies doth manifest the impairement and defects of our soules our soules truly confected in leprousie which giuing feeling to the body feeles not notwithstanding its owne euill but in the paine of the body neuer remembers its owne misery but in the misery that it suffereth Thou doest afflict vs O Lord we haue therefore sinned and continually Ah good God I beseech thee make my soule dolorous for it selfe sensible for it selfe and not for this body giue it a feeling of its faults and not of its punishment At least ô Lord of its faults by its paines But O God let it be pained and not troubled pained in the acknowledgment of its sin not troubled but comforted in the assurance of thy mercies for thy afflictions O Lord are termed the visitations of our soules and visitings are of a friend to his friend of the physitian to his patient Thy visitations therefore ought to be welcomed of vs that are so wholesome vnto vs wholsome to the soule by the body healthfull and profitable vnto the body it selfe after