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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43635	A sermon preach'd on the 30th of January vindicating King Charles the Martyr, and the keeping of the day by E.H. ; which may serve for an answer to Mr. Stephen's sermon preach'd on the 30th of January, before the honourable House of Commons.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1826; ESTC R38790	24,130	32

the Lord loveth He chasteneth and scourgeth every Son whom He receiveth If ye endure chastening GOD dealeth with you as with Sons For what Son is be whom the Father chasteneth not But if ye be without chastisement whereof all GOD's Children are Partakers then are ye Bastards and not Sons Whereas Tully upbraids the Hebrews with their often Captivity You may know by their Miseries saith he how well GOD loves them Which however Ironically by him spoken is undoubtedly a great Truth I am sure God saies so Amos 3.2 You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore will I Punish you And again threatning to throw them off He tells them He will throw away the Rod and trouble Himself no more with them Hos 4.14 I will not punish your Daughters when they commit Whoredom nor your Spouses when they commit Iniquity The Muscovitish Women are jealous that their Husbands do not love them if they do not beat them a little now and then I am sure we may well be Jealous that GOD loves us not if He never beats us So Christ saith Whom I love I rebuke and chasten Success therefore and Prosperity are no infallible marks of GOD's Favour to a Cause or People if it were we must Renounce our Saviour Apostatize from Christianity and turn Renegadoes to Mahometism 'T is with a true Christian as with a Porter the more he bears and the oftener he is burthened the more is his benefit tho' the load be heavy St. Peter therefore who had his Back-burthen of Afflictions esteem'd a tempted and tryed Faith as tryed Gold the hotter the Fire the purer will be the Metal The more fiery a Believers Tryal the more splendid will be his Graces The Rustick answered Luther as Profanely as Clownishly when the good Father told him in the extremity of his Sickness That such Chastisements were Gods Love-tokens Then answered he let Him keep them to Himself for me or give them to His best friends Blessed Beza made a better use of his Sickness at Paris which he calls The cause of his Health Morbus isle sanitatis meae principium That Sickness saith he made me Well 'T is often best with the Soul when 't is worst with the Body Wounds in the Flesh may prove Vulneratives to the Conscience Thus Corrections prove Instructions We have the Wise Man's word to avouch it and he might speak Experimentally for his Prosperity did him more harm than all his Wisdom did him good Prov. 6.23 Reproofs of Instruction are the way of Life Heb. The Corrections of Instructions are the way of Life For schola Crucis est schola Lucis and Adversity the best University For two Reasons therefore to name no more The Best of Men may meet with the Worst of Usage in this Life 1. Because their Portion is not here to be Paid For tho' many times a good Joseph enjoyes eighty eight Years of Peace and Plenty for his thirteen Years Imprisonment Yet these Rewards of a Child of Gods good service are over-plus and more than Christ has obliged Himself unto in His last Will and Testament In the World ye shall have Tribulation that 's your lot here saith Christ but in Me ye shall have Peace that 's your Portion Omnis Christianus Crucianus Every good Christian must wear a Crucifix Ecclesia est Haeres Crucis The Church can claim Administration of nothing in this World but Christ's Cross Therefore it was that Ignatius when he came to Encounter the wild Beasts at Rome said Now I begin to be a Christian And Luther excellently according to his Passionate way expresses himself to this purpose I protest saith he GOD shall not put me off with a Portion in this Life David makes it the definition of a Wicked Man to have his Portion in this World Why then Repinest thou O my Soul that the Ungodly Prosper in the world and dip their Polluted Hands in the Blood of the Innocent Why art thou cast down O my Soul and why art thou disquieted within me when the Rod of the Wicked doth rest on the Back of the Righteous Art thou so Covetous that nothing will Content thee but Two Heavens Wicked Men make a shift to be satisfied with their momentany Delusions their Bird in Hand their flitting Pleasures that yet take themselves Wings and fly away And art not thou Contented with the Permanent Incomes of God and Christ and Heaven Sure thou art not content to change thy Portion for such brittle Ware as the World affords why then not Content with thy Portion Greedy Miser thou wouldst have all and yet canst Enjoy nothing 'T is so Well then good God continue me thy Peace and Food and Rayment and then I will not Envy Caesar 2. Because the Best of Men have need of such hard usage to bring their Sins to remembrance to rub off the contracted rust they must be sometimes Scoured David about to be Expell'd from his Kingdoms gave a better answer to Cursing Shimei then at his Return to Good Mephibosheth To be a Captive makes man pitiful to Captives Israels Bondage should make them liberal to Bondmen whereas Liberty and Fulness breeds Forgetfulness and therefore God will Exercise his People with a Paroxisme a fit or two of distress to be their Remembrancers The best Clothes had need some times to be Shaken or they will be Dusty Lessons set on with a Whipping are best remembred and God never Whips his Children but when no saying will serve Ictus piscator sapit even good Men like the Wallnut-Tree will not be fruitful except sometimes beaten Good David grew almost wild for want of pruning Psal 119.67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word But to Apply this to the present Occasion 1. This may serve to state our Judgments aright in the construction of Cross Providences I call them Cross-Providences not that any Providence can possibly be really cross or adverse either to a Child of God or Gods Glory who alwayes makes even and smooth work in conclusion tho' he may seem to work with a crooked Tool but because it may seem cross to us thro' our short and dim-sightedness or because they are represented to us by a false Medium as a Stick half in the water that seems crooked but is not really so and that you will know if you either thrust all the Stick into the water or pull it out So when Men see Gods Dispensations but by halves they think them cross and crooked tho' they are not really so and that they will find in the issue What was more likely to cross Joseph in his promised Advancement than to be Sold for a Bond-Slave Yet that prov'd the fittest and readiest means thereto Thus the Wheels of Providence like the Wheels of a Clock may move counter yet each Motion concur to make it go the better Let us not therefore charge God foolishly when he permits a Slave to lash his Children