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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93682	A hand-kercheffe for a disconsolate soule, to wipe away his sinne, and to keep him from despaire, as though they had never been committed. / By Samuel Spinckes, minister of Gods word.	Spinckes, Samuel.	1651 (1651)	Wing S4981; Thomason E633_7; ESTC R206473	19,356	31

tribulations and afflictions are the patrimony of good men and good women therefore never dispaire of mercy for any vexation or trouble nor have such a thought in thee as to think that Gods mercies are not for thee I wish that all our Anabaptists and women-Preachers would have such thoughts in them then I am perswaded it would make them more conformable to our Parliament and to the truth of Gods holy word Let no afflictions or troubles of this world I say daunt thee for unto good men and women afflictions and troubles in this life serve to admonish them of their infirmities and the vertues of good people are made manifest unto the world by their troubles and crosses of this life wherefore if thou beest almost in despaire or beest cast down upon thy bed of sicknesse c. why then note to thy comfort as in a skirmish as God grant it may be otherwise with this Kingdome wherein there are now too many in the warres that when the conflict is once begun then the courage of the Captaine I say then and not before is his valour exercised and known so when God doth call his children to any crosse or calamity then begins the battell then their blessed patience and meek contentment is made known and manifest I say then or never knowing that all goes by the hand of Gods providence and holy Ordinance in whom we live move and have our being Acts 17.28 And know that no Physitian I write this as a Hand-kercheffe to wipe away all teares from the eyes of such as are mourners for sin can be more carefull for the health of the body then God is and will be if we be constant and confident in calling upon him by prayer for mercy and favour in his Son and our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ for the health of the soul how bitter soever the potion and portion of our afflictions may seem to us yet receiving it from him who meanes us so well we should not but receive it and them with patient suffering yea whatsoever his mercifull hands shall reach or lay uppon us saying with holy and just Job though he kill me yet will I trust in him Job 13.15 My son saith the Wise man when thou commest to the service of God then prepare thy soule for temptations and fears and troubles and shrink not away when thou art tryed for whom the Lord loveth him he chasteneth as gold and silver are tried in the fire so I say are our faith and patience tried in the furnace and fire of afflictions Sicknesses and afflictions are a means to purge out the drosse of naturall corruption which by reason of our sins remaines within us Afflictions being sanctified saith Gregory will bring us to a true fight of our sinnes and so to a hearty sorrow for the same and Affliction will teach Humility even in the best of Gods Children as Job David Paul and a man that should but read Johes Booke Davids Psalmes and Saint Pauls Epistles he could not but wonder to thinke that ever they should have any mirth at any time c. If we put into the Ballance the afflictions of this life they will be found of no weight nor in any wise able to counterpoize the greatnesse of the reward for as I sayd before tribulation is but a passion and therefore small is the force thereof but glory is an action and therefore powerfull and encreaseth every moment This life passeth away swiftly and soone vanisheth therefore despaire not but strive to make they election sure which may be done if thou canst but believe and so labour and endeavour for the glory to come Esay 64.4 which hath no end and is full of sweet comfort and happinesse more then heart can think 1 Cor. 2.9 and endureth for ever and ever Oh therefore good Christian soule persevere constantly in a pure faith in Christ and therin labour to finish your course for great is your reward which God hath promised and Christ hath purchased if thou canst but believe in him And mark this also for thy future and eternall comfort that the life of a Christian cannot be without sin nor temptations for I dare say our profit and encrease in godlinesse is through temptations as St. Augustine saith and his reason there followeth for neither doth a man well know himselfe except he be tempted neither can he be crowned except he overcome neither can he overcome except he fight neither can he fight except he have enemies and temptations to encounter with Whence again note and observe that God useth divers instruments in tempting troubling and afflicting of his children for sometimes he useth the Devill as he did with Job sometimes wicked men he useth as a meanes as the talse witnesses against our Saviour and sometimes he useth other creatures but yet in all these there is a double comfort to Gods childe first that great and many are the troubles of the righteous and then secondly for their full comfort the Lord will deliver them out of all Psal 34.19 the Prophet doth not say he hath nor in the present doth but in the future shall Againe if ye observe the ends of afflictions therein also know that sometimes we are afflicted that we may be humbled and the pride of our hearts abated sometimes to the end that we may not fix our love upon this world sometimes they are sent to make us more zealous in good workes and sometimes they are sent for this end that pertaking with Christ in his sufferings we may also be glorified with him and herein remember how the Lord tryed Abraham in offering up his Son how he tryed Isaac Jacob and all the Patriarchs with many and hard peregrinations and think also how he tryed all the holy and godly Martyrs with scourges and torments with fire and faggot and thereby thinke imagine and know that the scourge of tribulation stirreth up the drowsie humbleth the proud purgeth the penitent and crowneth the innocent Againe know and understand that the Lord afflicteth his children for these ends that our faith thereby in the first place may be more pure holy and perfect even as gold out of the furnace Secondly that we might the better know our selves and our own frailnesse and weaknesse Thirdly in respect of others that so we might be examples of patience and constancy unto them Thus Christ proved the faith of Peter on the Sea and at his Passion and againe after his Resurrection And the Apostle Paul witnesseth that through his persecutions and bonds I say that thereby many of the brethren were imboldned and did more frankly speake the truth Philip. 1.14 even thorow my bonds saith he and hence proceeded those confident speeches of the Christians and holy Martyrs to their tyrants and persecutors saying torment us rack us condemne us breake us in pieces yet for all this your malice and iniquity it 's nothing to our hurt but for our joy and comfort it is nothing but the

A HAND-KERCHEFFE FOR A DISCONSOLATE SOULE To wipe away his Sinne and to keep him from Despaire as though they had never been committed By Samuel Spinckes Minister of Gods Word So apply the Promises of God unto thy Soule that thou never despaire but make him thine owne by Faith in Jesus Christ and hope thou in the Lord Jehovah for by Hope we are saved Rom. 8.24 LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper 1651. TO THE Much Honoured and truely Vertuous THE LADY ANNE SCOTT Late the Spousesse of Sir EDWARD-SCOTT of Scotts Hall Knight and Baronet the Mirrour of Piety S. S. wisheth all the Prosperous Events of Health and Happynesses externall internall and eternall Madam THE Truth is most Divine though crossing humane sense spoken by the Father of truth but I will not heere stand blowing a Trumpet as it were either of your Worthinesse or my owne weakenesse As for your Vertues and Almes-deeds they shall and will follow you when you shall be gathered to your Fathers Revel 14.13 And for my imbecillity and weaknesse let the World laugh at it I care not onely my desire is that God may be glorified I have made bold to present a Hand-kercheffe for a Disconsolate Soule under your name assuring myselfe according to your wonted Piety of your loving acceptance my desire to doe good and that to the poore and meanest soule shall in part as I hope excuse me in all For we are all Debters with that blessed Saint Paul Rom. 1.14 both to the wise and unwise And as it must and ought be our wisdome chiefely to winne and gaine soules Prov. 11.30 So it behooveth all Gods children to receive from us with meekenesse his Statutes and Judgements Deut. 4.6 I have heard you are as patient as Job and like to Moses milde and altogether full of Vertue In a word although neither my person nor condition can any waies merrit at your Ladyships hands yet the benigne aspect you alwaies afford to those that labour in Gods Church hath thus far emboldned me in all humility to crave that this my endeavour may passe in Publique under your Ladyships name which favour being happily obtained the Worke and thing it selfe may of all sorts expect to be the rather embraced And so praying the Father of mercy to grant you much joy health and happinesses terrestriall with a glorified life coelestiall resteth Yours in all duty most bound Samuel Spinckes A Hand-kercheffe for a disconsolate Soule c. OH What shall I doe what shall I say Heerein observe the true Light of the World and he will direct thee Joh. 1.34 Even that Sonne of God whom as yet the Disciples knew not neither did they understand the mysteries of Redemption the which are wrought by Christs humiliation and exaltation by the one sayth Aquinas taking from us all evill and by the other giving us all good Oh why should any then dispayre of their salvation seeing Christ came not for the just but to call sinners to repentance for it is he that died for our sinnes and rose againe for our justification Rom. 4.25 Is it thus Why then should any despayre of everlasting life I dare say it is abusive much to thy Creator to say that the joyes of the Kingdome of Heaven belong not unto thee Wherfore take heed of thus abusing or mis-using of Gods mercies and Christs merits for Christ was betrayed mocked spitted on scourged and put to death and all for our sinnes I say truth it selfe was betrayed wisedome it selfe mocked glory it selfe spit upon innocency it selfe scourged life it selfe killed and all for us and our sinnes that we might not despayre What should a man doe to keep him from despayre Confesse his sinnes unto God and that not once or only in generall but often also and that in particular and be sure to make satisfaction and restitution to those thou hast wronged for the Law of God under the penalty of his curse requireth to restore whatsoever was wrongfully gained Levit. 6.2.3 c. Doe not thou then waver in thy fayth for a wavering minded man is unstable in all his wayes Jam. 1.8 For as the Painter at the first sayth Ponton on Luk. ch 19. drawes his picture with a Coal roughly and afterward with an accurate Pencil and Orient colours exactly so the Holy Ghost in the Prophets and Old Testament shadowed Christs passion obscurely but in the latter and New Testament points and sets it downe as it were perspicuously The two Testaments are two pence Luk. 10.35 bearing the same Kings Image sayth Theophylact on Luke 10. though not in the same stamp for all things being now finished and fulfilled that are written by the Prophets of the same man yet our Saviours picture engraven in the Gospel is more full and clear then that which was imprinted in the Law for now God hath shewed us the light of his countenance Psal 67.1 Let us not therefore despayre for all the hub-bubs and garboiles and warres or discontents that are in the world nay in this our Kingdome but put sure trust and confidence in God and wee shall see that the Lord in his good time will bring a period to those distractions Oh I say despayre not but search the Scriptures for they are the way unto Christ and Christ is the way to Heaven Altissiodorensis in his Golden Summe sayth that Fayth Hope and Charity are a created Trinity resembling the three Divine persons uncreated For the Son is begotten of the Father and the Holy Ghost proceeds from both so stedfast hope is bred of fayth and love doth issue from them both Whence observe that Bellarmine cites often out of his Works against S. Augustine that the foundation of Gods house in our soules is faith the walls hope and the roofe charity And the Prophet in a vision saw the transgressour against the transgressour and the destroyer against the destroyer So the Schoolemen oppose the Schoolemen and their Champion Bellarmine fights against Bellarmine in the points of faith and charity for if faith be the foundation of all other vertues in a Christian as himselfe writes in his first Booke of Romes Pontificals and 10. chapter then it is not as he disputes in the first Booke of his Justification and 4. chapter that is wrought by charity but contrariwise charity doth arise from faith It is then an idle dreame to suppose that charity is inclosed in faith as a Diamond is in a Ring for Christ is the precious Pearle saith Luther in Galla. 2.5 and Christ it is which gives life and lustre to the Ring for the just live not by love but by faith in the Lord Jesus Habak 2.4 It is an improper speech then as some of our Divines observe as Doctor Fulke in Gal. 5.6 to say that faith worketh by love as the body by the soule the matter by the forme for the soule rather worketh by the body than the body by the soule The matter is passive the forme active whence know ye that