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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

then will he graciously accept and liberally reward the small offerings of his weake servants when he seeth them to proceede from great love 'T is of his owne alas that we give him as David gladly acknowledgeth when the people had given their best e 1 Chron. 29.14 And what are we Ministers but the voice of another that crieth f Math. 3.3 as Iohn Baptist the pen in Gods hand as Moses and the prophets 2 Pet. 1.2 vessels to beare Gods name as Paul Act. 9.15 Brethren said hee Act. 13.15 if there be in you as in so many vessels of honour 2 Cor. 4.7 any word of exhortation say on Spirituall nicenesse is the next degree to unfaithfulnesse If thou have not fine Manchet said Bucer to Bradford yet give the poore people Barly-bread or whatsoever else the Lord hath put into thy hand g Fox Martyrolog Hee hath concredited unto us these precious talents not to hide them but to trade with them * Agricol● è sterco●ibus quaestum faciunt quantò magis in preciosis de● donis nihil non exercendum which if wee doe faithfully ascribing all the gaine and glory to God as those good Servants did Luke 19.16 when they said Not we but thy talents have gained other five and other two c. which is parallell to that of Saint Paul Howbeit not I but the grace of God that was in mee 1 Cor. 15. ●0 hee will surely reward our labour of love * Secundum labor●m non secu●dum proventum Bern. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not according to our acceptance with the world which is ●fiea little enough but according to our honest indeavour of serving the Lord Christ Who will in that name put upon us the inheritance Coloss 4.24 and in that day meet us with an Euge bone serve Well done good servant thou hast beene faith●ull in a little so hee calls the largest measure here even ten talents in comparison of that sarre more exceeding and eternall waight h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Cor. 4.17 Alludit ad Heb●●u●● Chal leu● nomen gloriae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 came ro● hereafter be thou master of much whether five or ten or two Cities according to thy proportion and capacitie besides a largesse of joy to boot Enter into thy masters joy i Math 25.21 Non ita mortales Luc 17.7 A●raba●●us cum oeconomum fideliss haberet ●g●e tamen tulit illum sibi h●●re lem liberotum o●bitate conseribendum Salomon Ieroboamum c. A joy more like the joy of God than of Man a joy more meet for the master than for the servant yet such a master doe wee serve as will crowne us with such a joy Oh how should the serious consideration hereof fire up our hearts and force open our eyes to see with all Saints what is the bredth and length and depth and heighth And to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge that wee might be filled with all the fulnesse of God k Eph. 3.18 19. But I must contract for if a great booke be a great vill * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Callimachus apud Athenaum as he said once how much more a long Preface to a little book I shall therfore suddenly shut up with the same Apostle in the words next following those afore cited Now unto him that is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in us Vnto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end l ver 20.21 Amen GODS LOVE-TOKENS AND Th' Afflicted Mans LESSONS Revel 3.19 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent IF all holy Scripture be but one intire letter dispatcht from the Lord CHRIST to his beloved Spouse on earth as a Father fitly stileth it Greg. then this much more and the foregoing Chapter vvhich are merely made up of seven severall Epistles dated from heaven to the seven then famous Churches of lesser Asia Five of the seven are partly commended partly condemned That of Smyrna is onely commended this of Laodicea onely condemned and sorely threatned with shamefull spuing our for her loathsome luke-warmness and wretchlesse indifferency Now lest the weak hereby should be disquieted or the worst so dis●ouraged as to say with those in Ieremy There is no hope but we will walke after our owne devices a 2 Iere. 13.12 c. Our Saviour first counsells them in the former verse secondly comforts and counsells them both in this of the Text As many as I love I rebuke and chasten bee zealous therefore and repent The words divide themselves into a Proposition and an Exhortation or if you please a Doctrine and a Vse As many as I love I rebuke and chasten there 's the Doctrine Bee zealous therefore and repent that 's the Vse The Doctrine is comprehensive and full of doctrine each word having its weight each syllable its substance This first offers it selfe Doct. 1 That it is God that chastens his children I rebuke and chasten saith the text I is emphaticall and exclusive as if hee should say I and I alone So elswhere God assumes it the Saints acknowledge it I forme the light and create darknesse I make peace and create evill I the Lord do all these things b Esa 45. ● So in another place I kill and I make alive I wound and I heale c c Deut. 32.39 So 1 Sam. 2.6 7 Iob 5.18 Hos 6.1 2. This the Lord doth somtimes more immediatly by his owne bare hand as it were 1 Cor. 11.29 30. sometimes againe by the hand of our fellow-creatures the rodd in his hand as he afflicted Iob by Satan and his Sabeans d Iob 1.21 David by Absalom and his second Shimei e 2 Sam. 16.10 Ioseph by his f Ge● 45.8 brethren Israel by Ashur g ●sa 10 5. Christ himselfe by the Priests h Act. 2 23. Elders But still what ever the meanes of our misery be the hand is Gods as both Iob and Ioseph and David and the son of David i Matt. 26.39 savve cause to acknowledge For Reas 1 First ●od doth all therfore this As he made all by his power so he manageth all by his providence Not a sparrow fals to the ground without him k Mat. 10.30 not a bristle from a sow's back saith a Father Tertull. much lesse a hair from a Saints head l L●●e 21.18 least of all the head from the shoulders m Psal 116.15 or any matter of like moment and consequence without Gods al-reaching and most vvise dispose and appointment Reas 2 Next God suffers all There is no sinne committed but God is offended his authoritie impeached his Law violated Psal 57.5 This to imply the offender was confined to the citie of Refuge as to a prison

the dropsy of covetousnesse the fever of ambition the frenzy of passion the consumption of envy the epilepsy of Apostacy the lethargy of security the plague of discontent c Now affliction is Gods Ca holicon the crosse is the cure of them all Gehezi tells the praises of his severe master to King Iehoram m 2 King 8.4.5 Perussem nisi perussem Whence some conjecture that his leprosy made him cleare that his white forehead made him a white soule that his disease cured him See this further set forth Iob. 33.14 to 31. Reas 3 Thirdly ●he fathers of our flesh though they love us well enough yet they verely correct us for their pleasure to ease their stomacks vent their choller discharge themselves of that dipleasure they have conceived against us Not so the Lord fury is not in m n Esay 27.4 saith he he is slow to anger and of great patience and quickly repents him of the evill o Psal 103.8 It is certainely a fearefull thing to fall into the punishing hands of the living God p Heb. 10.31 for who knoweth the power of his wrath q Psal 90.11 but so the Saints doe never For as he afflicts not willingly r Lam. 3.33 t is his worke his strange worke ſ Esay 28.21 Vim Deo facimus iniquitatibus nostris prope est ut cum non permittamus ut parcat Salvian We might if we were oughts live all the dayes of our life in his house and not so much as feele the weight of his hand so when he must doe it as no remedy but he must otherwhiles to his griefe he nurtureth us as a father doth his owne sonne t Deut. 8.5 First he stands and melts over us and oh that he might not doe it How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim my heart is turn'd within me my repentings are kindled together u Hos 11.8 Ier. 32.19.20 There 's all the pleasure he takes in correcting us Then when he hath us under hand in the very midst of judgment he remembers mercy x Hab 3.2 In humbling us he remembreth us for his mercy endureth for ever y Psal 136 23 Sit licet in natos facies austera parentum Mens tamen aequa manet The same hand that strikes us supports us under the strokes God dealeth by us as Ioseph by his brethren he lookt sterne and spake harsh but in the meane while gave them meate without money and sent them away in peace and with comfort Reas 4 Lastly as he corrects us not for any pleasure to himselfe so for greatest profit to us For first he hereby makes us partakers of his holinesse here Secondly ver fills us with the peaceable fruits of righteousnesse in heaven First Retentio excrementorum est parens morborum then he chastens us that he may impart unto us of his holinesse and that first by removing the impediments For by this shall the iniquity of Iacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin z Isay 27.9 He plowes upon our backe and makes long his furrowes a Psal 129.3 that the weeds being killed and the ground fitted for seede we may sow in righteousnesse and so reape in mercy b Hos 10.12 Secondly Non quod afflict one proprie sanctifi●ent sed ad mini●●la sunt ad san●i s●●tio●ci● I●● He gives us by affliction the exercise proofe and increase of saith hope and charity together with sundry other principall graces working by them experience and patience which serve for the beautifying and perfecting of a Christian For let patience have her perfect worke saith St Iames c Iam. 1.4 intimating that he is but an imperfect Christian that wants patience a very little childe in Gods house if any at all that cannot beare the rod. Thus he makes us partakers of his holinesse Pareus And so he doth of his happinesse too called here is some judicious interpret it the quiet fruits of righteousnesse as elswhere the crowne of righteousness● d 2 Tim. 4.8 the crowne of life e Rev. 2.10 the weight of glory that farre-most-excellent exceeding and eternall weight of glory f 2 Cor. 4.17 wrought out unto us by the afflictions of this life which being light and momentary are not worthy to be reckon'd g Rom. 8.18 Quò it alis praelentibus durius deprimor eò de futuris gaudiis certius praesumo Greg. therefore nay not to be named in the same day with the glory that shall be revealed at that day Adde hereunto that by our crosses sanctified weight is added to our crowne of blisse sith according to the measure of our afflictions God meteth unto us of his graces that we may be able to beare them and according to the measure of our graces he proportioneth our glory and future happinesse Vse 1 But is this so that afflictions are Gods love-tokens how fowly then are they mistaken that take them for testimonies of his wrath and effects of his disfavour And yet this was Abrahams errour in the want of an heyre of his owne body When God had said unto him Feare not Abraham I am thy shield and thine exceeding great reward Lord God saith he what wilt thou give me seeing I goe childlesse Gen. 15 1.2 c. This also was the peoples weakenesse in the want of water Is God say they amongst us Exod. 17.7 as if that could not be and they athirst So Gideon in the invasion of the Midianites The Lord saith the Angell is with thee thou valiant man But Gideon said unto him Oh my Lord if the Lord be with us why then is all this befallen us k Iudg. 6.12.13 Psal 7 7. Buchelecius The like we may say of David in that melancholly psalme of his as one calls it and the whole Church in that her dolefull ditty I said my hope and my strength is perished from the Lord Lam. 3 18.19 remembring mine afflictions and my misery the wormwood and the gall I but who put in that wormwood and gall might one have replied into Gods cup 't was never sure of his tempering that 's an ingredient of your owne addition 'T is true there is a cup in the hands of the Lord and the wine thereof is red and full of mixture But what shall all taste alike of Gods cup No no the Saints doe onely sip of the top they drinke onely so much of it as is cleare and sweete Illud solum quod suavius est et limpidius in comparison but the dregs thereof the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drinke them up m Psal 75.8 say there be some bitternesse in that we suffer as no affliction for the present is joyous but grievous n Heb. 12.11 yet bitter potions