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A23696	The art of patience and balm of Gilead under all afflictions an appendix to The art of contentment / by the author of The whole duty of man.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1096; ESTC R20086	106,621	176

beset with Parasitical Friends Young Man said he I pity thy Solitude Perhaps thou may'st be more alone in such Society than in the Wilderness Such Conversation is better lost than continued If thou canst but be well acquainted with thy self thou shalt be sorry thou wert no sooner solitary 12. THOU art from thy Country Who is not so We are all Pilgrims together with thee 1 Pet. 2.11 Heb. 11.13 Whilst we are at home in the Body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 Miserable are we if our true home be not Above That is the Better Country which we seek even an Heavenly Heb. 11.16 And thither thou mayst equally direct thy Course in whatsoever Region This Center of Earth is equidistant from the Glorious Circumference of Heaven If we may once meet there what need we make such Difference in the way A Prayer in Exile O LORD GOD Lord of the Mountains and Vallies Land and Sea and the God of the Exiled and Out-crst thou dost with much Patience behold Oppression and Wrong until the measures of Iniquity be filled up O Lord behold the pressures of me thy poor dispised and dejected Servant Thy Mercy and Gracious Audience of the Afflicted is neither limited to Jerusalem nor this Mountain every place is equally near Heaven and where ever Men lift up pure Hands and Hearts Worshipping of thee in Spirit and Truth thou art there present to hear and help them Lord thou seest good to permit me to the power of Men to Exercise me yet can they not shut thy Merciful Ear against me O let my Complaint therefore come before thee Let thy word be as the Cloudy-Pillar to lead me in thy Way and let thy good Spirit direct me 2. LORD leave me not destitute and comfortless in my Afflictions Be my Guide and Helper in this Earthly Pilgrimage and Valley of Tears unto and in the Hour which thou hast appointed to take me hence into the incorruptible and undefiled Inheritance which thou by ●hy Power hast reserved in Heaven for all Believers There no hand of the Oppressor can reach and where shall be no Curse no Sin nor fear of Forfeiture Into which no Enemy shall be admitted and from which no Inhabitant shall ever be cast out Lord Hear and Help me Lord have Mercy on me and grant me that which I ask according ●o thy will and that which I should ask which thou knowest best for me through the Infinite Merits of of the Son of thy Love the Author and Finisher of our Salvation Christ the Righteous Amen SECT XII Of Blindness and Deafness 1. THOU hast lost thine Eyes a Loss which all the World is uncapable to repair and thou art condemn'd to perpetual Darkness For the Light of the Body is the Eye and if the Light that is in thee be Darkness how great is that Darkness Mat. 6.22.23 Couldst thou have foreseen this Evil thou hadst anticipated this Loss by weeping out those Eyes for Grief which now thou art destitute of There are but two Senses by which any external Comfort can have free access to thy Soul Seeing and Hearing One of 'em is now extinguish't for ever Yet thou hast two internal Eyes that can supply the want of thy external the Eye of Reason and the Eye of Faith The One as a Man the Other as a Christian. Answerable to which there is a double Light apprehended by 'em Rational and Divine 2. SOLOMON tells thee of the one Prov. 20.23 The Spirit of a Man is the Candle of the Lord searching all the Inward Parts of the Belly St. John tells thee of the other 1 John 1.5 7. God is Light and in Him is no Darkness and we walk in the Lgiht as he is in the Light Now the two Lights so far exceed that external and visible of which thou art depriv'd as Light Darkness If then by the Eye of Reason thou attainst to intelligible Things and by the Eye of Faith to things Supernatural and Divine the Improvement of these Eyes will make amends for the want of thy Natural ones 3. THY Sight is lost Let me tell thee what Antony the Hermite whom Ruffinus is not doubious of stilling Blessed said to Learned Didymus of Alexandria that was Blind Let it not trouble thee O Didymus that thou art bereft of thy Carnal Eyes for thou lackest only those Eyes which Mice and Flyes and Lyzards have But rejoice that thou hast those Eyes which the Angels have whereby they see God and by which thou art enlightned with a great measure of Knowledge Endeavour to perfect this and thou shalt not be much discomforted with the absence of them 4. THINE Eyes are lost and the chief Comfort of thy Life gone with them The Light is sweet saith Solomon and a pleasant thing it is for the Eyes to behold the Sun Eccles. 11.7 Hath not God done this purposely that he might take thee off from all Earthly Objects that thou might'st fix thy self upon him and seek those Spiritual Comforts which are to be found in a better Light The Sun is the most glorious Planet the Eyes can possibly see but thy Spiritual ones may behold him that Created that glorious Luminary who is infinitely more glorious than what he Created If thou hast now an Inspection into him more than thou hadst that which thou countedst thy Lo●s hath prov'd thy Gain 5. THOU art Blind and certainly it is a sore Affliction The Men of Jabesh Gilead offered the Tyrant of the Amm●nites to serve him 1 Sam. 11.1 But when he required the loss of their K●●ht Eyes as a Condition of Peace they will rather hazard their Lives in an unequal War as if Servitude and Death were a less Mischief than one Eye's loss How much more of Both For tho one Eye be but Testis Singularis yet the evidence of that is as true as of both and in some Causes more For when ye take a perfect Aim we shut one Eye as being conducive to an accurate Perspective Yet for ordinary use we value equally these Lights that there is no wise Man but would rather lose a Limb than one of them 6. A Person not less Religious than Witty when his Friends bewail'd the loss of one of his Eyes ask'd them whether they wept for the Eye which he had lost or the Eye which remain'd Weep rather said he for the Enemy that stays behind than for the Enemy that 's gone He look'd upon his Sight with Eyes different from others he look'd upon 'em as Enemies which others beheld as Officious Servants good Friends and dear Favourites 7. INDEED they are all of these as they are us'd Good Servants if they go faithfully on their Errands and return true Intelligence Good Friends if they advise and invite us to Holy Thoughts But Enemies if they suggest Evil. If thine Eyes have been employ'd in evil Offices to thy Soul God hath done that for thee which he hath in a Figurative Sense enjoyn'd thee to

Infancy and Youth have their limits age admits of no certain Determination 2. AT Seventy King David was old and stricken in Years and they cover'd him with Cloaths but he got no heat 1 King 1.1 Whereas Caleb can profess Now loe I am fourscore and five Years old and yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me to spy out the Land As my Strength was then even so is my Strength now for war both to go out and come in Josh. 14.10 11. And beyond him Moses was an hundred and twenty Years old when he died his Eye was not dim nor his Natural Force abated Deut. 34.7 Methuselah was but Old when he was Nine hundred sixty and nine Gen 5.27 3. BUT for the generality of Mankind the same Moses who liv'd to see an hundred and twenty hath set Man's ordinary Period at half his own Psal. 90.10 The days of our Age are threescore Years and ten And tho Men be so strong that they come to fourscore Years yet is their Strength but Labour and Sorrow So passeth it away and we are gone Fourscore Years are load enough for the Strength much more for the weakness of Age. But when Labour and Sorrow are added to the Weight how can we but sink under the Burden 4. HE was old and wise that said by Experience That our last Days are the Dregs of our Life The clearer part is gone and all drawn out the Lees sink down to the buttom Who can express the miserable Inconveniencies that attenst the Aged For Cares must needs be multiplied according to the manifold occasions of Affairs For the World is a Net wherein the more we stir we are Entangled 5. AND for Bodily Grievances What Varieties do we meet withal What Aches in the Bones Pains in the Joynts Convulsions of Sinews and Torments in the Bowels the Stone Collick Stranguary and Distillation of Rheums What Hollow Coughs weaknesses of Retention Expulsion Digestion and Decay of Senses So that Age is the common Sewer into which all Diseases of our Life are Evacuated Well therefore might Sarah say After I am waxed Old shall I have Pleasure Gen. 18.12 And good Barzillai justly excuses himself for not accepting the gracious Invitation of David 2 Sam. 19.35 I am this day fourscore Years old and can I discern between Good and Evil Can thy Servant taste what I eat or what I drink Can I hear any more the voice of Singing-Men and Singing-Women Wherefore then should thy Servant be yet a Burden unto my Lord the King 6. THESE are they the Preacher calls the Evil Days and the Years wherein a Man shall say I have no Pleasure in them Wherein the Sun or the Light or the Moon or the Stars are darkned and the Clouds return after the Rain When the Keepers of the House shall tremble and the Strong Men shall bow themselves and the Grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the Windows be darkned Eccles. 12.1 2 3. In short what is Old-Age but the Winter of Life And how can we expect any other but gloomy Weather chilling Frosts Storms and Tempests 7. BUT whilst we thus querulously aggravate the incommodiousness of Age we must beware lest we derogate from the Bounty of our Maker and disparage those Blessings which he accounts Precious amongst which Old-Age is none of the meanest Had he not put that value upon it he would not have honour'd it with his own Stile calling himself The Ancient of Days Dan. 7.9.13.22 Or would he else have set out this Mercy as a Reward and Obedience to himself I will fulfil the number of thy days Exod. 23.26 and of Obedience to our Parents To live long in the Land Exod. 20.12 8. WOULD he have promised it as a marvellous Favour to restor'd Jerusalem now become a City of Truth That there shall yet Old Men and Old Women dwell in the Streets of Jerusalem and every Man with his Staff in his Hand for every Age Zach. 8.4 Would he else have denounc'd it as a Judgment to over-indulgent Eli 1 Sam. 2.32 There shall not be an Old Man in thy House for ever Far be it from us to despise that which God Honors and turn his Blessings into a Curse For the same God who best knows the Price of his own Favours as he makes no small estimation of Age himself so he hath thought fit to call for a high Respect to be given it by Men out of an Holy Awe to himself Lev. 19.32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary Head and Honor the Face of the Old Man and fear thy God I am the Lord. 9. HENCE it is that he hath pleas'd to put together the Ancient and the Honourable Isa. 9.15 and hath told us that an Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of Righteousness Prov. 16.31 Chap. 20.29 And lastly makes it an Argument of the deplorable State of Jerusalem Lam. 4.16 That They favoured not the Elders Therefore as we too sensibly feel what to complain of so we know what Priviledges we may challenge due to Age even such as Nature hath taught those Heathens which are in the next degree to Savage If Pride and Skill have made the Athenians Uncivil yet a Young Lacedemonian will rise and yield his Place in the Theatre to neglected Age. 10. IT is not a little Injurious to fasten our Eyes upon the disadvantages of any Condition as not to take in the Advantages that belong to it which carefully laid together may perhaps sway the Ballance to an equal Poise Suppose Old-Age is oppress'd with Bodily Griefs yet it may yield other Immunities to keep the Scales even And it is not the least that it gives us firm Resolutions and bold Securities against Dangers and Death it self For the Old Man knows how little of his Thred is left in the Winding and therefore when just Occasion is offer'd insists not much upon so inconsiderable a Remainder OLD-AGE and Orbity as Ceselius profess'd were those things that emboldened him And when Castritius refus'd to deliver the Hostages of Placentia to Carbo the Consul and was threatned with many Swords he answer'd those Menaces with his many Years What young Man would have been so easily induc'd to part with his Life and having been so ready to give entertainment to an unexpected Death Surely the hope and love of Life commonly softens the Spirits of vigorous Youth and disswades them from those Enterprizes which are attended with manifest Perils Whereas extream Age teacheth us to contemn Dangers 12. YET a greater priviledge of Age is a Freedom from those impetuous Passions wherewith Youth is commonly over-sway'd for with our Natural Heat the Fire of our inordinate Lusts is abated so as our weaker Appetite may be subdu'd to Reason The Temperate old Man in the Story when one shew'd him a Beautiful Face could answer I have long since left to be Eye-sick And could say