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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13872	Gods love-tokens, and the afflicted mans lessons brought to light, and layd before him in two fruitfull and seasonable discourses upon Revel. 3. 19. Comforting under, and directing unto a right use of our personall, and publike crosses and calamities. By John Trapp, M.A. and preacher of Gods Word at Luddington in Warwick-shire.	Trapp, John, 1601-1669.	1637 (1637)	STC 24175; ESTC S118538	85,385	294

during the high Priest life as being the chief God on earth Godwins Antiq. Heb. p 98 Every sinne strikes at his face lists his throne makes to his dishonour Thou hast made me to serve with thy sinnes and wearied mee with thine iniquities n E●t 43.23 It is an offence to all his senses nay to his very soule as he complains by the same Prophet o Es 1.11 12 13 14. Now if one sinne against another the Iudge shall judge him p 1 Sam. 2.25 and if a man sin against the Lord shall he not beare his sinne q Lev 5.17 who shall be his dayesman Reas 3 Especially since in the third place as God suffers by all so he judgeth all And shall not the judge of all the earth doe right saith Abraham r Gen. 18.25 Now what more right than that every transgression and disobedience receive a just recompense of reward ſ Hebr. 2.2 Reas 4 Lastly he commands all for execution of his righteous sentence he hath the whole Hoast of heaven and earth at his beck and obedience to chastise us by them at his pleasure What that Emperour once vainely va●●e● is here fully verefied Iulius Cas if God but stampe with his foote he can raise an army of fighting souldiers yea he can as easily u●●o●us as bid it bee done If he say to any creature go he go th if come he comm●th if ●o● this he doth it as if he say peac●●● be still both wi●d● and waves a●● all ●●ey him and cannot doe us the least ●u t or hinderance Vse 1 Away then for application with that mad principle of the Manichees who refer'd all calamities to the devill for their author as if there could be evill in a city and the Lord had not done it t Ant. 3.6 Away with that blockish assertion of the Stoicks that ascribed all ill occurrences to inevitable destiny Away with that fond dreame of those Astrologers that excluding Gods providence make their fatall periods the cause of all changes and crosse-accidents Lastly vanish here that bald and bold fancy of such Atheists and Ignorants amongst us Multi cum vitos Deo acceptos acerbum quippiam pati viderint anin o offenduntur ● ignati quod hac infortunia sint amicotum Dei vel maxine Basil Selene Orat. 40. as doatingly deeme it a thing misbeseeming and unworthy the good Lord to p●●●sh Man that Master-peece of his handy-worke and by punishing him to disturbe as they will needs have it the faire order of Nature That ●e should deale so ill especially with good men and religious this they can least of all brooke or beare with not considering that the best have their blemishes such as God may justly wash off with rivers of brimstone God indeede made man upright but they have sought out many inventions Eccles 7.29 Now if they eate of the fruit of their owne way and be filled with their owne devices Prov. 1.31 Whom have they to quarrell Where will they lay the blame Vse 2 But secondly is it God that afflicts What meane we then to looke so much upon the creature a● those Apostles did upon the Angels at Christs ascension u Act. ● 11 as the people did upon the Apostles at the Cripples restauration x Act. 3 1● as if they by any power of their owne could either helpe or hurt us Helpe us I say either by preventing evill or delivering in the day of wrath Asa may trust to the Physitian● y 2 Chro. 16. ●2 and Ahaziah send out to the God of Ekron z 2 King 1.2 〈◊〉 si nequco supe●os etc. but neither the one or the other shall come downe from their sick-bed because they sought not helpe of Iehova Rophe the Lord that healeth a Exod. 15.26 Lot may try conclusions and thinke Zoar shall save him when God appointed him to the mountaines but when all was done Zoar was too hot to hold him and he glad to escape to those mountaines b Gen. 19.30 whither at first he should have sted Saul may goe forth to seeke asses and we deliverance abroad but as he found them at home after all c Sam. 9.20 so shall we helpe in God or not at all And the same we say of the hurt we feare or the smart we feele from any creature Why looke we so much upon the malice of men or rage of Divels as if either of them were unlimited Why fault we so much this mans crossenesse that mans carelesnesse or lastly our owne hard hap and misfortune as if we had learn'd that language of Ashdod d Neh. 13 24. It is a chance e 1 Sam. 6. ● or as if that Heathen Idoll were any thing in the world or that things casuall to us were not fore-appointed by God even to the least circumstance of the greatest or least affliction And yet how ready are we to mistake the grounds of our crosses Te sacimus Fortuna deam o● loque locamus Iuvenal Vide Paschal in Censura animi ingrati cap. 1. and to cast them upon false causes or resting in the naturall cause to neglect the supreme and supernaturall Iacob when he saw the Angels ascending and descending enquired who stood at the top of the ladder and sent them f Gen. 28.13 David though he knew the second cause of the famine that fell out in his dayes to be the drought yet he enquired of the Lord what should be the cause of that judgment g 2 Sam 21.1 Iob could diseeme God arrowes in Satans hand and Gods hand on the armes of the Sa●●a● robbers ●ea● So should we doe in like case see God in all our afflictions in the visible meanes see by faith the invisible author For although God may and doth many tim●s make use of the Devill and his impes to chastise his children yet it is but one hand and many instruments that he smites us with He ever reserves that royalty to himselfe of setting them their taske limiting them their time and letting out their tedder Hitherto ye shall goe and no further They can doe nothing and their master to help them without commission from heaven no not so much as make a louse h Exod. 8.18 or drowne a pigge i Matth. 3.32 No t is the Lord saith holy Hannah that killeth and maketh alive he maketh poore and maketh rich hee bringeth low and lifteth up k 1 Sam. 2.6 7 She was quite out that laid the death of her sonne to the presence of the good Prophet l 1 King 17.18 And as for the Divell he hath so little power over the Saints that they have power over him m Rev. 12.11 shall judge him at the last day n 1 Cor. 5.3 and have authority in the meane while to deliver some over to him as St. Paul did Hymenaeus and as the Church of Corinth did then and the true Church doth now such