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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04251	The good mans refuge in affliction. Or A most profitable and comfortable sermon, preached by Iohn Barlovv. And now published especially for the good of them that bee, or haue been afflicted inwardly in minde, or outwardly in body	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1618 (1618)	STC 1437; ESTC S114145	26,781	52

thee out of the confused multitude enriched thee with the graces of saluation and borne thee againe whereas the whole world lyeth in wickednesse VVill not these former fauours prouoke thee to gratefulnesse yet let the benefit by it for the present and future time bee forcible to vrge thee to the practice of this dutie for others of Gods seruants haue done the same vpon no other ground Paul when hee considered that The Lord had assisted him when all men for spoke him and was perswaded that the Lord would deliuer him from euery euill worke and preserue him to his heauenly Kingdome breakes forth into these words To whom be praise for euer and euer Amen And is not this paterne worthie of our best imitation and this constant affection on the Lords part a continuall gratuitie on ours VVhy then let it be daily put in practise for either this loue or nothing deserues it and is thanksworthie Vse 2 And as this point in the first place should work in vs loue autogratefulnesse to God so in the second it may comfort vs for the present and future troubles Hast thou vexations without and terrors within seemes it to thee that the Lord hath forsaken thee Why it is not so thou art deceiued Think on the dayes of old and if euer thou canst proue that he did loue thee this point will proue he doth so still What should more comfort a Christians heart then this and encourage him to go on through good report and euill report with resolution Acts 20.38 VVhat made the people weepe so bitterly and fall on Pauls necke was it not in that they must see his face no more And what did Christ promise to his disciples for their comfort and resolution in their greatest troubles and vexations Any thing but this Mat. 28.20 I will bee with you to the end of the world You then that haue chosen the better part giuen vp your names to serue God and bee in the vast wildernes of this world be not faint or weary in the way for though hunger pinch you Pharaoh pursue you and the fierie Serpents sting you yet the Lord shall neuer leaue you or forsake you Obiect 1 But some may obiect to me as Gedeon did to the Angell Iudges 6.13 Ah my Lord if the Lord loue vs and be with vs why then is all this euill come vpon vs Sol. Art thou sicke in body the Lord doth it for to make it a fitter habitation for thy soule VVhat if thou seeme to be brokē in pieces yet he can easily restore thee to thy former conditiō Shal you not see a Carpenter set vp a house in a comely order yet anon he wil strike one ioynt frō another lay it flat on the ground hath he a purpose to destroy it No rather to amend what he saw amisse in it And so be we in our owne iudgements builded in a decent manner but God is wise in heart and seeth that our bodies are not fit Temples for his Spirit therefore we must downe againe for a time at the least in our owne feeling present apprehensiō Obiect 2 But thou wilt say The spirit is departed from thee and not to be found within thee Thou art to know this Sol. that in a Christian soule there be many mansions as of loue ioy faith zeale repentance and humility If therefore the spirit be not present in one place seeke to finde him in another for be thou assured hee is not in truth departed Doest thou want ioy or faith canst thou pray for either why thou hast the spirit Canst thou not pray for sometimes this is a good mans condition yet canst thou sigh and grone why that commeth from the Spirit Canst thou not repent as in times past art thou notwithstanding sensible of this and strikest thy hand vpon thy breast this is a motion of the Spirit And be thou of good comfort for when thy case spirituall is most miserable yet thou maiest discerne some pulse though weake of the Spirit beating He that comes to see his friend will bee glad to finde him in any roome of his house and if he be not in the dining chamber or parlour hee peraduenture shall haue him in some other priuate corner so if the Spirit be absent from the mansions of faith loue and the like then thou must finde him out in the close and darke roome called The dislike of thy present condition or in the secret corner of Humiliation These two be the furthest places of his absence Obiect 3 But I was vsed to haue him present in all Solution To speake with reuerence Euery grace in our hearts may bee compared to so many candles in a house Now the Master will not light aboue one or two at the most except hee haue great vse of them so the Holy Ghost is the keeper of our soules he worketh with these graces in vs and hee will but employ them as there is iust occasion If there bee need all shall bee enlightened made strong And what man being an old Disciple that hath not experience in these things Obiect 4 Why how can the Lord be with vs for they that worke wickednesse are set vp Ma● 3.15 and such as tempt God they are deliuered And are not all things within vs and without vs out of order Solution We must not iudge things by the appearance or present condition for then we may condemne the generation of the iust and the Lords owne building He that would haue comfort in the remembrance of his house must not conceiue of it in parts as of the wood in the Forrests vnsquared the stone in the rockes vnpolished the brick in the clay vnburned and lime in the sand vntempered but in the patterne or frame as it will bee when it is perfected So wee are to looke at the end of the righteous and the restauration of all things not as they bee for the present and then shall we see the full beauty of the Lords workes and our owne blessednesse He that doth these things shall neuer fall finally and for euer Therefore Watch ye stand ye fast quit you like men and be strong for the Lords affection to all the faithfull neuer faileth in affliction Vse 3 And doth not the Lord separate his affection from his children in affliction Let vs then tread in the same steps and imitate our heauenly Father Oh that this were the custome of our Countrey but it is not we rather practice the contrary adding affliction to Pauls bands For to him that hath not need of comfort shall bee giuen but from him that hath shall be taken away that hee hath Iob renders the reason Because Men haue forsaken the feare of the Lord. How many haue the faith in respect of persons forsake iust Iob if tumbling on the dunghill and be ashamed of Pauls chaine Is this to shew forth the vertues of him that hath called thee to imitate the

The application hereof I leaue to your selues resoluing to imitate the skilfull husband or well-experienced and expert Taylor breaking vp no more ground then I intend to scatter with good graine neither shaping that piece of cloth I purpose not at this present to make vp into a garment In these words therefore of many two things of me shall but be obserued the one is the person the other his condition For the person it may be either meant of Dauid literally or of Christ his Sonne according to the flesh typically I●● 30 9. for Christ is often called Dauid by the Prophets Hos 3.5 and of him this Psalme also entreateth as the Author to the Hebrewes testifieth Heb. 105.6 c. Concerning his condition it is twofold first he layeth downe his misery and in griefe of heart confesseth that hee is poore and needy the second which is the ground of raising vp his fainting spirit hee annexeth that yet notwithstanding all the euill that hath befallen him the Lord thinketh on him I might spend much time to shew you the seuerall readings of these words and diuers expositions by sundry interpreters but I haue respect to my promise breuitie is my purpose and my bounds I will not passe By the Person especially I vnderstand Dauid neither doe I exclude Christ or any of his members for the seruant is not in this respect better then his Master and betwixt the Head and all the other parts of the whole body there is a sympathy and fellow-feeling let the condition be good or bad in earth or Heauen By poore and needy I hold to be meant the chastisements and fierie trialls that come from God the Father the tentations and bitter assaults of that foule and fell fiend Satan the persecutions and vexations inflicted by the hands of vnreasonable and wicked men and but in this following Christ must bee exempted the inward corruptions disordered motions vnsetled affections and the originall pollutions brought from the mothers wombe with the soule and bodies vnaptnesse and vnablenesse with chearefulnes and constancie to runne the direct and iust paths of Gods commands Many of these made the Head all of these and more too the members poore and needie By the Lord we may I take it without danger vnderstand God the Father And by Thinking on me how that hee would free his Sonne and all that he had giuen him from all trouble bondage and afflictions that euer should befall them for the father thought on his Sonne in the Garden and vpon the Cr●sse when all had forsaken him so hee did thinke on Dauid and Paul when no man assisted them and as wee shall heare more at large anone so hath he doth he and will hee thinke vpon all his chosen head and members The summe of all in one word is this as if Christ Dauid or any true beleeuer had thus confessed What if I be poore afflicted despised and persecuted What if the Lord seeme to leaue mee for a time as one forsaken and fallen into the hands of his cruel enemies hat● he therefore forgotten me forsaken me No no he know●th me by name his eye of pr●uidence is still ouer me and I am con●●●●nt in this same thing that he will ●ree me from all euil and preserue me to his heauen ●●king kingdome And thus according to my purpose and promise I come to handle the seuerall doctrines that hence without wrong to my Text or offence to any iudicious Auditor may be deduced where first let it be obserued that Doct. 1 Af i●●●ions befall Gods dearest children Vnderstand this Text to bee prophecied of Christ canst thou denie the truth of the doctrine was it no sorrow to his humane Nature ●●●e 2● 3● to be circumcised whipped and crucified what a burden bare he what a wounded spirit had he and what woe endured he when he sweat great drops of bloud called to his Disciples to watch with him and cried out 〈◊〉 2● 14 My s●ule is heauy to death My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Were not these piercing sorrowes But we leaue the Head and come to touch some of his members and but touch lest wee grow tedious Shall I relate Abel suddenly slaine by cruell Caine 〈◊〉 48. 〈◊〉 12 4. 〈◊〉 2● 10. his bloudy and vnnaturall brother Abrahams flight he knew not thither or Iaco●s heauy iourney to Padan Aram Were it to the purpose to tell you of Moses Ioseph ●●b or any of the Prophets Is it a sorrow to bee ●old Io. 2. to haue al ones children slaine in a moment ●r to be persecuted for well-doing May it bee ●iled a pricke or wound to fast often to bee whipt often to be imprisoned wrongfully often ● ●r 11.24 c. to die often in appearance once in truth and that vniustly Why then the point is confirmed sufficiently proued L●ke 235. that a sword ●oth pierce through the hearts of Gods dearest children And though this at the first seeme strange yet you shall see at the last it will stand with right reason Reason 1 For Christ had not he suffred who had been saued and if he had not been pierced through with many sorrowes Is●●● 3.5 ● not one of the sonnes of Adam had possessed any true comfort or sound solace And for this end it was needfull to consecrate the Prince of their saluation through afflictions 〈◊〉 2.11 He was that brazen Altar which must vndergoe the great heate of the day 〈◊〉 8 30. vpō the which fier was continually burning Christ was typified or figured hereby to suffer the infinite iustice of his father Reason 2 And his members must be like the bush in the fier for seuerall reasons Are they not the Lords as I may say garden-plots Exod 32. will he not plant and sowe them with the sweetest seedes and most fragrant flowers shall he not then digge them vp Ier. 4 4. picke out the least grasse and breake euery little clod to pieces Euery skilfull Gardener doth this to that plot of ground where he intendeth to gather grapes and not thornes figs and not thistles And so it is with the Lord where he will scatter the good graine of his grace that person vndoubtedly shall haue piercing sorrowes Againe the faithfull are likened to trees and must not they be pruned and lopped 〈◊〉 1.3 If they that were planted in Eden must be kept 〈◊〉 17. ● and dressed by Adam our father shall wee thinke to escape the knife to cut vs and prune vs for trees if the roots runne to deepe into the earth they must bee cut shorter if the branches spread too farre they must be lopped and if the Canker or Caterpiller once infect and cleaue to them then they must be burned smoaked so assuredly if wee bee too much rooted by our affections in the things of the world and with the great and large boughes of our abilitie wrong and impouerish our poore