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A91943	The fast friend: or A friend at mid-night. Set forth in an exposition on that parable Luke 11. 5.-11. Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at mid-night, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, minister of the Gospel.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1822; Thomason E953_1; ESTC R203374	432,120	516

unto Job 33.10 36.15 Job 33.10.36.15 In our prosperity we will lend an Eare to some truths laugh at others fret and rage at others but adversity is a good School-Master Isay 28.19 only Feare will make us understand the hearing Isay 28.18 Look on a man that is exercised with affliction and he will profit more by one Sermon then others do by ten Nay one week's affliction will teach a man more then many yeares preaching without affliction Many will not be perswaded that swearing Sabbath-breaking c is a sin when lying under some heavy affliction they are convinced of it many that will not endure reproofe in prosperity in adversity will receive it The Rebuke of sin is aptly resembled to the fishing for Whales the marke is bigg enough one can scarce misse hitting but if there be not Sea-roome enough and line enough and a dexterity in letting out that line he that fixed his harping iron in the Whale endangers both himself and his boate God hath made us Fishers of men and when we have struck a Whale touched the Conscience of any person which held it selfe above our check it struggles and strives and endeavours as much as it can to draw Fisher and Boate and all into the Sea bring the man and his state into contempt and danger but if God tye a sicknesse or other sad calamity to the end of that line that will winde up this Whale againe to the boate bring back this rebellious sinner better advised to the mouth of the Minister for counsell and comfort Secondly It is a meanes to work holinesse in us Heb. 12.10 11. Job 33.16 17. Psal 119.67 Numb 21.7 2 Cor. 15.4 Jam. 4.8 9. Heb. 12.10.11 Job 33.16 17. This also David confesseth of himself Psal 119.67 Thus Numb 21.7 2 Chron. 15.4 They cause us to look into our selves reflect home find out the cause of sin confesse that sin and leave it Thus James 4.8 9. When the Apostle had exhorted sinners to cleanse their hands and purge their hearts he directs them to the meanes verse 9. suffer affliction mourne weepe A great force affliction hath to mortifie lusts and subdue sin in us Hence it is compared to baptizing and washing that takes away the filth of the soul Math. 10.28 39. Math. 10.38 39. Linnen is washed and rinsed not to teare it but to clense it Luke 22. It is a Cleanser They are compared to a winnowing that bloweth away the Chaffe Amos. 9.9 It is a purifier Amos 9.9 To a fire that refineth and purgeth away the drosse So a Purger Zach. 13.9 Zach. 13.9 John 15.2 Isay 27.9 48.10 To a Pruning knife that cuts off superfluous branches John 15.2 So a Pruner This is all the fruit c Isay 27.9 48.10 And as it mortifies Lusts in us so affliction quickens us to holy duties and puts Life into our Prayers it sets an edge on them When the thorne is at the breast the little Nightingale sings sweetest Isay 26.16 2 Chron. 20.34.13 2 Cor. 12.10 Dr. Stoughton Isay 26.16 2 Chron. 20.34.13 And as it quickeneth to duties so it renewes our graces and revives them 2 Cor. 12.10 I have heard of a Sexion how true the Relation is I cannot say that went into the Church at Night to rob a woman who had been buryed the day before with a Gold ring upon her finger according to her desire when he had opened the grave and Coffin and loosed the sheet he fell a chafing her finger to get off the Ring and with rubbing and chafing of it her spirits returned she having been but in a swound before and she revived and lived many yeares after So afflictions to the godly serve but as boxes on the eare to revive them that were in a trance Thirdly They are a meanes to estrange our affections and alienate them from the world and earthly desires Gal. 6.14 1 King 19.4 2 Cor. 5.4 Gal. 6.14 These made Eliah weary of it 1 King 19.4 So 2 Cor. 5.4 The Mother tells the Child that she must weane it her milk is naught c but all that will not do let Mustard be laid upon the breast then it will paw at it and turne the head away So it is here Gen. 13.2 The World is like Laban with whom Jacob dwelt and spent himself with cares and yet would have been content to have dwelt longer with him had not this Churle first changed his countenance towards him 〈◊〉 So would we be to the world in our affections and desires were we not so often deceived by it Fourthly by them much sin is prevented As God said to Abimelech Gen. 20.6 Gen. 20.6 I kept thee that thou should'st not sin against me So God keeps us within compasse by this hedge of Thornes Hos 2.6 2 Cor. 12.7 Hos 2.6 Thus St. Paul was kept in by them 2 Cor. 12.7 A Thorne in the flesh to prevent Pride God openeth the eares of men saith Elisha by their corrections that he might cause them to turne from their enterprise and hide the Pride of man Job 33.17 18. Job 33.17 18. Fifthly By afflictions graces are encreased in us Rom. 5.3 4. Rom. 5.3 4. They are but like a growing Ague or a warme Aprill showre to garden herbs that causeth them to shoot out sensibly in one night As Jacob said to Laban before I came unto thee thou had'st but little c So our Joy is encreased by them 2 Cor. 1.5 Rom. 5.3 2 Cor. 1.5 So Patience Rom. 5.3 And other graces of the Spirit The Link or Torch we know burnes the better for beating Sixthly They are a meanes to free us from Hell 2 Cor. 11.32 1 King 2.26 1 Cor. 11.32 As Solomon said to Abiathar 1 King 2.26 Get thee to Anathoth to thine own fields for thou art worthy of death but I will not at this time put thee to death because thou baredst the Arke of my Lord God before David my Father So God dealeth with us when he might justly deprive us of Life yea of eternall Life yet if we have borne the Arke if we can plead any true Reference or relation to Christ God will not take away our Lives for our Sins but commute eternall torments into temporall punishments he sends us only to our Anathoth confines us to our beds deprives us of our health or wealth but frees us from damnation by meanes of them Seaventhly and lastly They are meanes of encreasing our joyes both here and hereafter Had Esther never been a Captive she had never been a Queene Had we never been afflicted we should never be advanced to glory 2 Cor. 1.5 Psal 90.15 2 Cor. 1.5 Psal 90.15 Affliction is the very seed of comfort And as the seed cast into the ground promiseth a Harvest so do our Afflictions When Zachary was dumb Luke 1. John Baptist the voyce was a breeding so greatest comforts are preparing for us under

manifest himself most of all and in the greatest splendor that may be And that immediately Revel 21. Psal 19.1 76.8 Rom. 1.18 Jam. 1.17 Psal 102.19 20. not by meanes neither Ordinary or Extraordinary as he doth here in this world Thence we see most evident signes of his Properties and Attributes of his Omnipotency Wisdome Justice Mercy Psal 19.1 76.8 Rom. 1.18 Jam. 1.17 Psal 102.19 20. Thence he sendeth his Angells Thence the Son of man descended Thence the holy Spirit was sent And thence the Son of man shall come to judge the world In a word Look as the soul of man is said to be in the Head or Heart so conceive of Gods being in Heaven The soul we know animates the whole body of man and by the presence of it in every member communicates Life to the whole yet by way of preheminency and excellency it is said to be in the Head or Heart of man because in these two parts of man and from thence she exerciseth her cheifest functions and deriveth her cheifest influence Thus it is with God he is every where And yet said to be within in Heaven because thence is the cheifest rayes of his majesty manifested Thus God may be said to be within in respect of his Habitation and dwelling More Particularly God may be said to be within in two other respects First in regard of Audience he is re●dy to hear us when we call upon him Secondly in regard of Ability and Power to help and succour us in our greatest distresses He is alwayes within in respect of his readinesse to heare us when we call upon him Psal 34.15 verse 17 18. Psal 145.18 19 So Psal 34.15 His eares are open unto our cryes and verse 17 18. The Righteous cry and the Lord heareth he is nigh to them that are of a broken heart So Psal 145.18 19. The Lord is nigh to all that call upon him yea to all that call upon him in truth he will fulfill the desires of them that feare him he will also heare their cry and will save them Psal 102.17.19 20. So Psal 102.17.19 20. He hath regard to the prayers of the destitute c He looked down from the height of his Sanctuary from Heaven did the Lord behold the Earth to heare the groaning of the Prisoner to loose those that are appointed to Death This readinesse of God's to heare us may be seen first in giving an Answer to his as soone as ever they have done their Prayer as Numb 14.20 when the people murmured and God threatened Gen. 24.15 Numb 14.20 Moses cryed and the Lord presently answered I have forgiven them according to thy Request So 2 Sam. 22.7 And Acts 4.31 When they had done praying 2 Sam. 22.7 Acts 4.31 the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost Secondly He sometimes Answers before we have done praying So Dan. 9.20 21. whilst I was speaking and praying Dan. 9.20 21. Psal 35.13 yea whilst I was speaking in prayer the man Gabriel came c So Psal 35.13 my Prayer was turned into my own bosome This Answer David received even whilst he was praying Thirdly He shewes his readinesse in that he heares us so soon as ever we begin to pray So Dan. 10.12 Feare not Daniel Dan. 10.12 for from the first day that thou did'st set thy heart to understand and to humble thy selfe before thy God thy words were heard his eares are open at the first like a tender Mother or Nurse which use to be so wakeful as that they heare the Infant when it first begins to whimper Fourthly He shewes his readinesse to heare in that sometimes before we can speak a word Psal 32.5 when it is but in the purpose of our Hearts to pray God prevents us and grants us that which he knowes we would have begged of him Isay 65.24 Isay 65.24 Before they call I will answer He heares and sees the inclinations of the heart John 11.41 Father I thank thee said our Saviour at the raysing up of Lazarus that thou hast heard me Bernard notes upon these words that at that time when Christ gave thanks to God for having heard him he had said nothing to his Father but in his heart And that God had heard before he spake And thus as our Saviour entered into the house to his Disciples januis clausis when the dores were shut John 20.28 So God many times enters into us when our lips are shut and we have not opened them by verball Prayer Fifthly and lastly He shews his readinesse to hear us in hearing a voyce in that which hath no voyce and that is our Teares The Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping saith David Psal 6.8 Isay 38.5 Psal 6.8 So Isay 38.5 In all these particulars Gods readinesse to give us audience may appeare And as he is alwayes within in regard of his readinesse to heare so no lesse within in regard of his Ability to help and succour us God hath spoken once yea twice have I heard it that Power belongs unto the Lord saith David Psal 62.11 This hath the Testimony Psal 62.11 both of Gods word and works Of his word There is none like unto the God of Jesurun saith Moses who rideth upon the Heavens for thy help Deut. 33.26 27. Jer. 32.27 2 Cor. 9.8 Deut. 33.26 27. read Jer. 32.27 2 Cor. 9.8 The very Pillars set up in the Porch of the Temple taught this Truth the name of the one was Jachin he shall establish and the name of the other was Boaz in him is strength 1 King 7.21 Jachin and Boaz in him 1 King 7.21 cannot be sundered And the works of God in all ages have testified as much Psal 135.5 Psal 135.5 6. 6. What mervailous things hath he effected for the succour of his Church and people you have before in part heard and may heare more thereof hereafter In short Gods Almightinesse is his Essence and his Essence is his Almightinesse All in God is Mighty mighty Mercy mighty Patience mighty Power It hath no limits He hath the same way meanes receipts to keep from ruine and to help as in former times c Thus you see how God is a Friend within not only in respect of habitation but in regard of Readiness to heare and of Ability to help Use 1 This may discover to us the folly of those who neglect this Friend within and knock at a wrong dore seeking to vain helps in the day of their distresse Papists reach us to goe for all our Necessities by Invocation to Saints in Heaven but these can neither heare nor give I know that the Papists will not say that all the Saints in Heaven heare all that is said and done on Earth And we must be sure to pray where we may be sure to speed Our Saviour Christ was willing to give us a Rule for