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A03078	Panacea Christiana, or, A Christians soueraigne salue for euery soare deliuered in two seuerall sermons, and now digested into one treatise : published for the vse of all distressed Christians.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1624 (1624)	STC 13203.5; ESTC S2728	34,209	104

crowned til the last These Sampsons make foule hauocke of their Enemies many terrible slaughters and massacres do the Philistms suffer from their hands during their life but the dead which they slay at their death Iudg. 16.30 are farre more then those which were slaine in their life They bow downe with all their might the pillars of the clay Cottages fall and at once they are auenged of all their Aduersaries Thus is the day of Death better to them Eccles 7.3 then the day of their Birth being indeed the Doomesday of their misery their Birth-day of Glory As for their Carkasses which they leaue behinde them as the Snake his skin in the thicket that they might renew their strength as an Eagle are they not committed as Good seede into the Granary of the earth there to die that they may bee quickned Shall not those leaues which fall in this Autumne at the spring of the Generall Resurrection sproute forth againe 1 Cor. 15.42 Sowen they are in Corruption but shall be raised in Incorruption sowen in dishonour but shall bee raised in Glory With theser very eyes shall I see my Redeemer sayd Iob. 17.26.27 that Mirror of Patience As prîuate and personall miseries so publicke and Nationall Calamities aduance their Good Put the case some strange iudgement ouertake a People which threatens nothing but Ruine Desolation Deuastation a iudgement the very sound whereof would make any Mans eares to tingle that heares it a sweeping storme that beares all downe before it when the Lord it should seeme intends To cut roote and branches Isaiah 9.14 head and taile and wipe out their name from vnder Heauen this makes for them many waies Sometimes they are housed before the storme Tender hearted Iosiah 2 King 22.20 1 King 14.13 2 King 20.19 good Abijah vpright Hezekiah were they not all Gathered to their Father in peace and as the Prophet speaks more generally of the Righteous taken away from the euill to come Isaiah 57.1 Sometimes they are shrouded from the storme Noah rides safely in a well-pitch'd Arke when the whole world was couered with the waters of the Deluge Gen. 7.23 Lot escapes with his wife Gen. 19.21.22 and finds a shelter in Zoar when Sodome and Gommorah were turned into Ash heapes Sometimes they haue a Calme in the midst of the storme Exod. 10.23 There was light in Goshen when all Aegypt was clouded with a thicke and grosse darkenesse Gideons fleece was dry Iudg. 6.39 when all the earth was wet The Mourners in Ierusalem Ezek. 9.6 were secured in that Generall massacre When Israel was led into captiuity then was Ieremy set at liberty The Prophet finds more fauour with the Princes of Babel Ier. 40.4 then from the Peeres of Israel Sometimes as vsually it fals out they are enwrapped in the Common Calamities yet that is in mercy to them which to others becomes a iudgement For first God euer threatens before he strikes The storme hanges and houers a long time ouer their heads ere it fal The messengers of God summon them to Repentance lay open there sins denounce iudgement As Ionah to Nineueh yet forty dayes and Niniueh shall bee destroyed Ionah 3.4 These peales sounded in their eares those visions presented to their eyes rouze them from the deepe sleepe of Security and now how doe they bestirre themselues considering their wayes ransacking their hearts renouncing their sinnes Preparing to meete their God with Ashes on their heades Sackcloth on their backs Feares in their eyes Sorrow in their hearts Prayers in their lips and ropes in their hands Secondly admit the Sentence bee irreuocable the Iudge be inexorable his wrath vnplacable they haue ioyn'd in the sinnes and therefore must share in the plagues of their Nation euen this is in fauour they are but corrected heere that they might not bee condemned heereafafter These plagues may kill them but cannot hurt them they may rent the garments of their bodies but their soule is invulnerable they do but shorten their misery and hasten their Glory Yea euen that Spirituall iudgement which of all others is most fearefull makes to their aduantage If the Golden Candlesticke bee remoued from one Nation is it not giuen to another The Gospell like the Sea it looseth ground in one place getteth footing elswhere If the Sun set to one Horizon it ariseth to another The falling of the Iewes was the rising of the Gentiles when they were cast off with a Lo-ruhamah a Lo-anni Hos 1.8.9 to vs that were not the people of God was it said Yea are the Sons of the liuing God When the shaddowes of the Euening were stretched ouer Asia the day dawned to vs in Europe If our vnworthinesse should depriue vs of this light Quod omen Deus Auertat it would doubtsly bee giuen to a Nation that shall bring foorth better fruits adorning the glorious Gospell of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ with their holy and Christian Conuersation which wee haue soulely blemished with our horrible and hainous Abominations Thus you see what a rich Mine of Consolation is heere conueighed vnto vs a Mine that cannot be exhausted The Well is deepe the deeper we go still the sweeter it is It is not the weake Backet of our shallow Capacity though let downe neuer so often that can dreine this Spring Much water haue we drawn vp already and perhaps the Reader may thinke too much yet nothing in comparison of what is left behinde What is a drop to the Ocean May I not safely and boldly conclude now All thinges all Good God Angels Men the ordinances of men Ciuill Ecclesiasticall gift of body Ornaments of the minde and estate All euill of sinne Originall Actuall smaller grosser of punnishment inward spirituall disertion horror of minde outward priuate miseries on their goods good name or persons publike calamities temporall spirituall iudgements all worke for the best of those that loue God Ere I proceed to the application of the point I must cleare the way by remouing some scruples which otherwise will lye as so many rubs to blocke vp our passage How does all euill worke for the Good of Gods chosen when euen Good things proue sometimes snares to the Righteous Psa 30 6.7 Was not the man after Gods owne heart puffed vp with his prosperity I said I shall neuer be moued Was not Hezekiah sicke of the same disease 1 Kings 10.15.17 who tooke so deepe a surfet of plenty that the Prophet was forced to minister a sharpe purgation To this I answere For the most part as the Lord conferres his fauours vpon them so hee giues them Grace to make a right vse of them as he wrings to them waters out of a full Cup so hee giues them a steady hand to carry this Cup without spilling Ioh. 1.10 If they be hedged in with blessings as sometimes Iob this hedge serues as awal of brasse wherby the suggestions

who more contemptible in the eye of the world then the Generation of the Iust No men more miserable so berounded and enuironed with euilles that they cannot looke beside their miseries all things conspire to mischiefe them What a straunge assertion beyond all beleefe is this of our Apostle that all things worke to their good What all things sayth the Father what all euill what sinne what Affliction Immo peccata He that puts the question assoyles it Yea all things A large word of a wide extent yet not too large Generall assertions auaile little the whole waight of our comfort lies in the induction of Particulars Giue mee leaue therefore to run through all things and to extract this Quintessence of consolation from euery thing For Method-sake we will range them into two Heads either they are Good or Euil That al Good things turne to the good of them that are Good will easily be granted of all Briefely then all Good whether supreme or subordinate Supreme God himselfe whether we consider him in his Nature or Workes For his attributes His Wisedome is their Pilot his Power their Bulwarke his Faithfulnesse their Anchor his Prouidence their Purueighor His Iustice keepes them from Presumption his Mercy from Despaire His Omniscience serues as a Bridle to curb them from dooing euill The Face of the Lord is against them that do euill Psal 34 16. as a Sparre to encourage them to all good Duties Mat. 6.4 He that sees in secret will reward them openly In a word they loue him for his goodnesse feare him for his greatnesse and imitate his Holinesse As for his Workes if towardes them in particular sometimes hee speakes out of the whirlwind The Lyon roares Hosea 3 8. then all the Beastes of the field tremble This rough Dealing howeuer it perplexe them for a time yet makes them more carefull to please him more fearfull to offend him Vsually he speakes to his owne in a gentle still voice 1 King 19.12 13. and discourseth with them in a familiar Language then they walke vvith God as Enoch talke with him as Moses conuerse with him as Abram supplicate to him as Dauid Iosuah Samuel Danie If towardes Others generally Sometimes hee workes by meanes then his Glorie shines sufficiently they ascribe the praise to him who both appointed the meanes gaue the blessing to that meanes he had appointed Sometimes hee workes without meanes and then his Glorie giues a farre greater lustre This is the finger of God Exod. 8.19 they crie out Digitus Dei est Sometimes he works aboue against meanes then indeede his Glorie shines out most brightly this fils them with wonder and amazement causing them to breake out with the Apostle O the deepenesse of the wisedom power of God how vnsearchable are his iudgements and his wayes past finding out Rom. 11 43. God the Father is their Creator and Preseruer God the Sonne their Sauiour and Redeemer God the holy Ghost their Sanctifier and Comforter As God the supreme Agent so all Creatures in subordination to his will worke for the good of his Chosen Whether Men or Angelles Lower we may not descend least our discourse know no limits Angels what 's their office are they not sent forth as Ministring Spirits for the good of the elect Heb. 11 14 In our Insancie these heauenly peeres carry vs in their Armes as Nurses least we should dash our feete against a stone Psa 91 11 12 In our Nonage they serue as Tutors or Gouernours secretly instigating vs to good disswading from euill Are we in prison they can knocke off our Fetters open the Brazen gates Acts 12.7 and set vs at liberty to shift for our liues Are we enuironed with an innumerable Hoast of Armed Enemies 2 King 19.35 they can slay a Hundred and fourescore fiue thousand in one night At our Death they stand ready to receiue our flitting soules and to carry them into Abrahams bosome Luke 16.22 At the Resurrection they gather the Bodies of the Saints from the foure Corners of the world Men. All Ordinances among Men make for them whether Ciuil or Ecclesiasticall Esay 49.23 Ciuill Magistrates are Nursing Fathers nursing Mothers to the Church as the shadow of a great rocke to shroud them from the rage of the wicked Rom. 4.44 Hee is the Minister of God to thee for Good What Good That we may leade a quiet and peaceable life in al godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. 2 2. As Magistrates serue for their Temporall so Ministers for their Eternall Good These are Pastours Psal 23.2 leading them to greene Pastures Esay 52 7. whose verie feet are Beautifull because they bring the glad tydings of Saluation Guides Luke 1.79 reducing those silly sheepe wandering in the by-pathes of Error into the way of peace Watchmen which standing on the Lords watch-Tower keepe Centinel Ezek. 3.17 when they they see a plague giue warning that being praemoniti forewarned they might be praemuniti fore-armed The word of God is to them that are saued 2 Cor. 2.16 the sweet sauour of life vnto life the Arme of God to Saluation Rom. 1 16. Psa 119.105 A light vnto their feete a Lanterne vnto their steps the two-edged sword of the Spirit piercing euen to the diuiding assunder of the Soule and Spirit and of the ioynts marrow Heb 4 12. That heauenly Manna Diuine Nectar and Ambrosia which nourisheth them vp to Immortality as Oracles for Direction as apples of Paradise and Flaggons of Wines for Consolation a Corasiue to eate out the proud flesh a Cordiall to strengthen them in theyr greatest weakenesse The Sacraments are the Broad Seales of the great King of Kings to ratifie and confirme that Magna Charta their Great Charter whereby they lay clayme to that Immortall inheritance For Outward good things whether Bona Animi Bona Corporis or Bona Fortunae euen these become truely good The gifts of the mind acutenes of Wit is to them as that sword of Alexander by whose keen edge they are made able to vntie or cut asunder the Gordian knots of all Sophisticall Dilemmaes Depth of iudgement so grounds them in the knowledge of the Truth that like Trees which haue taken deepe root they cannot easily be tossed too and fro with euery blast of Doctrine yea the gifts of Reprobates aduance the good of the Elect. Who may saue others but themselues they cannot saue like Noahs Shipwrights that builded an Arke for the securing of the Patriarchs while themselues were swallowed vp of the Deluge The Ornaments of theyr Bodyes The beauty of Ester made the whol Church of the Iewes fare the better Sampsons strength was Israels Bulwarke and the wracke of Philistims The Gifts of Fortune as wee commonly terme them are notably emproued by them If they become Fauourites to Great men Lot Ioseph Dauid Nehemiah Mordecai Prou. 11.10 rise and climbe When the