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A62463	The soules solace in times of trouble with severall particular remedies against despaire, collected out of the Psalmes of Daivd, and some short meditations and ejaculations upon the attributes of God, the Lords Prayer, and the tenne commandments / by F. Thorne ...	Thorne, Francis, 17th cent.	1643 (1643)	Wing T1057A; ESTC R4857	78,097	150

foole this night shall they take away thy soule 4. Hab. 2.5 They cannot give content to the appetite of man much lesse able are they to satisfie the soule Lastly there must be a redde rationem villicationis tuae rich men must answer their receits thy must be called to account how they have used the talent given them In things transitorie and mutable keepe as neere as thou canst a just decorum and temper in thy soule miles Christi non divitiis tumet nec contrabitur paupertate sol non urit per diem neque luna per noctem Ambr. sup beat immaculat winde not up the pinnes of thy affections too high not let them downe too low In secundis nemo confidat in adversis nemo deficiat alterna sunt vices r●rum Sence in Thyeste lib. 30. nat quaest let not peace and prosperity make thee so merry as to forget thy God nor adversity so sorrowfull as to forget thy selfe in seeking power some have lost libertie in obteining power over others many have lost power over themselves prosperity oftentimes slaies adversity somtime saves the soule riches and pleasure cast Dives into hell misery and affliction exalted Lazarus into heaven If thou art in poverty or any other calamity looke as well upon such as want what thou injoyest as on those which have what thou wantest In prosperity flatter not thy selfe with any certaine perpetuitie riches have wings in adversity Psal 27.16 promise not thy selfe a sudden delivery for this is as dangerous to the soule as predigestion is to the body Esay 28.16 sanctus non prafestinabit i. e. ex impatientia infedilitate non ad res praesontes confugiet nec festinatione praepostera Deum antevertet Iuven. God will deliver his people from their troubles and calamities whatsoever in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though not in our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the waters of Mara be never so bitter God hath a tree to sweeten them Exod. 15.25 let the rivers of Iericho be never so unsavorie God hath a salt to season them let the sorrows of this life be never so sower God both can and will in his good time sweeten them When thou entrest into the way of christianity promise not thy selfe too much ease and securitie worldly honour and heavenly wisedome like the oake and the olive delight not to grow together and to seeke ease and tranquilitie in this world is to seeke Christ in Golgatha the living among the dead mandere qui panem jubet in sudore diurnum Non dabit aeternas absque labore dapes we must worke out our salvation with feare and trembling If Ionathan will surprise the garisons of the Philistines he must climbe up with hand and foot betweene two rocks if David will be sonne in law to King Saul 2 Sam. 14. hee must bring a hundred foreskins of the Philistines for a dowrie 1 Sam. 18. if Iacob wil have Rachel he must serve fourteene yeares if any man will be the Disciple of Christ hee must deny himselfe take up his crosse and follow him there must be no cyphers in Gods Arithmeticke no mures in his Grammer no dumbe shews on his Stage no loiterers in his Vineyard there is alwaies in Christianity a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a furthermore and the motto of Charles the fifth plus ultra our life must not bee like Nero his five first yeares full of peace and hope For we must worke out our salvation with feare and trembling Regard not the malicious oppositions of wicked men it was the case and condition of thy Saviour and therefore it may well be thine The disciple is not above his Master Secondly it is a signe that thou art of another world simile simili gaudet if ye were of the world saith Christ the world would love you Contraria se mutuo expellunt light and darknesse Christ and Beliall cannot agree together Non bene conveniunt nec in una sede morantur Sheep and Wolves cannot feed quietly together Lastly feare not the tyranny of men nor divells it is the advice of thy Saviour Be not afraid of him that can kill the body this is the worst they can doe nay they cannot doe this without divine permission Wild. 3.1 2 3 4. Quis ei de saeculo metus est cui in saeculo Deus tutor est non labefaciat mentem humana infestatio sed corroboret fidem divina protectio Cyp. de orat Dom. the Divell is chained up cannot reach thee the power and policy of his agents is limited and cannot hurt thee 1 Chron. 29 11 12 13. Balaam cannot curse the fire cannot burne the Lions cannot prey the Divells cannot enter into filthy swine without leave and permission Omne sub regno graviore regnum est Senec. Wicked instruments may happly being the nearer and soorner to thy Saviour but they shall never separate thee from him I am perswaded saith Saint Paul Rom. 8 38. that neither principalities nor powers c. All creatures both in heaven and earth are at the command of God Psal 97 9. the Stars shall fight against Sisera the Sun shall stand still in Gideon and the Moon in the valley of Ailon Iudg. 5.20 Iosh 10.13 if Ioshua fight against the Amorites 2 K ng 19. If Zenacherib come with an innumerable host against the people of Israel the Angels in heaven shall fight against them the red sea shall overwhelme Pharaoh and all his Host the sea and the fish in the sea fought against the superstitious Spaniard Anno 1588. enemie to God and his true Religion the winde and the water I say overcame that unvincible army prepared for our destruction the earth at the command of God opened her mouth and swallowed Corah Dathan and Abiram Numb 16 30. an army of frogs or lice sent from God is able to dismay Pharaoh and his host God is omnipotent and hath a liberty in the use of his creatures praeter naturam for of him and through him and for him are all things inferiour Magistrates have their authority from superiours God hath being primo quod primum est suo genere causa reliquorum all things are of him as maker or efficient cause all things are through him through his care providence power and goodnesse all things are maintained governed and ordered all things are for him for his use and service for the effecting of his good will and pleasure Rom. 11 35. and to him who is Lord over all God blessed for ever be glory and praise world without end Amen Amen To the inquisitive Reader Saepe sub agresti latitat sapientia veste INquire not what I am Gods gifts are free With able parts mean men adorn'd may be Sound braines may be within a rugged felt An honest heart within a leather belt Alwaies faire birds have not the sweetest noates Arts are not alwais deckt in velvet coates From highest trees

they aloft to swim Supported with bulrushes of vaine hope What great applause they should gaine from the Pope The divels Vicar and how much it might Enlarge their freedome but God that gives light In midst of darknesse did their plots disclose Unto the admiration of all those That were then present or should after heare By their forefathers how once England were So undermin'd that had not Gods right hand Upheld the props and pillars of the land Psal 124. False hearted Papists had soone brought us all Into great bondage servitude and thrall But blessed be the Lord may England say Which no time hath us given as a prey Unto their bloody teeth yea blessed be His holy name to all eternitie We as a bird escap'd the fowlers grin And they themselves were a justly caught therein Iob. 4.8 Psal 27.2 And yet we have not turn'd to him aright Nor done the thing that 's pleasing in his sight His bow against us hath b been lately bent Anno 1602. Into our chiefest Cities he hath sent The plague and pestilence and feares of dearth Of late strange inundations of the earth Anno 1640. Great threats of civill warrs which God above Prevent for his great mercy sake and love Anno 1641. 1642. I cannot tell what some wish think or say But I am sure this is the ready way To mangle overthrow and ruinate The good and welfare both of church and state For should such bloody times in England come We might well feare a dreadfull day of doome To us hath God his faithfull Prophets sent To give us warning of the punishment For which our bloudie sinnes aloud do crie For our offending of his Majestie But we not liking of their heavie newes Have not refrain'd them strangely to abuse Unto our shames we cannot but confesse We have been oft convinc'd of wickednesse As how our sins if we did not repent And turne in time would not alone prevent All hope of mercy and of future grace But bring our soules to that infernall place Where we should evermore tormented be In everlasting chaines of misery And yet the Lord we have not truly sought Nor hereby been instructed as we ought We therefore justly may expect the sword Amos 8.11 A famine not of bread but of the word Let it be our chiefe wisdome then betimes To meet the Lord let us confesse our crimes Unto his throne let us appeale this day With contrite hearts and in this manner pray Thou mighty God of Gods thou King of Kings The maker and disposer of all things Dispose so of our hearts mindes thoughts and waies That we may evermore set forth thy praise We must confesse O Lord unto our shame But to the glory of thy dreadfull name That we too often have provok'd thine ire And caus'd thy wrath to burne as hot as fire By our abuse of mercy and of grace That thou migthst justly make our dwelling place And chiefest Cities desolate and void And without mercy let us be destroi'd From off the earth yea thou mightst justly take Thy blessed Candlesticke away and make Us live in darkenesse because thou hast sent The light into the world with this intent That we the path and way might cleerly see That lead to life eternall but still we In ignorance have taken more delight Then in beholding of thy blessed light All things which thou hast made doe stand in awe Of thee their Maker and by natures law Observe their course and order yea and praise Thy holy name according to their waies But man whom thou hast made all things to rule Knowes not his Maker as the oxe or mule Their owner or their Masters crib therefore Thou might'st ev'n in thy fury give us o're To our owne waies and cause us to become Like stocks and stones which are both deaf and dumb We have receiv'd such mercies at thy hands As thou hast not bestow'd on other lands With Angells food we have been daily fed Unto thy selfe O Lord thou hast us wed But we like harlots have thee quite forsaken And for our guides our owne devices taken So that shouldst thou us suddenly divorce We must confesse thy justice upon force Great plenty thou hast giv'n us many years And freed our hearts from terrifying fears Of forraine and domestick enemies Yea thou hast slaine our foes before our eies But we hereby thinking our selves cock-sure Have grown so carelesse wanton and secure That we have quite forgotten thee our God So that shouldst thou now scourge us with the rod Of war and want we could not but confesse That we by reason of our wickednesse Have justly this deserv'd yea ten times more Should thou in justice Lord with us quit score So that our mouthes are stopt in our defence We cannot speake a word of consequence But to thy mercy we our selves betake And humbly thee beseech for Christ his sake Thy people whom thou hast redeem'd to spare That so thou maist unto the world declare That thou art good to Israel thy deare And faithfull Spouse and to all such as fear And worship thee let not wilde boares destroy Thine heritage let not the fox annoy Thy pasture-sheep let not the vineyard fade Or be laid waste which thy right hand hath made Let not fat Buls of Basan with their horns Nor ramping Lions Tygers Unicornes Have any leave from thee to hurt the same For honour of thy great and dreadfull name Refresh it with the dewes of thy good grace That it may fructifie and grow apace So underprop it by thy mighty hand That in the greatest storms it firme may stand Let thine own arme so fence it round about That it may flourish all the world throughout That Cedars strong and tall and mountaines high And such small shrubs which in the vallies lie In time of scorching heat when as the sun In Leo shall begin his course to run May shade themselves under thy well spred vine Till he to Virgo passe a milder signe Thou that upon the heavens high dost ride Thou that sits at the sterne our ship to guide Now in these last these worst and evill daies Guide thou our sliding feet into the waies Of peace and truth thou that in safety keepes Thy chosen flock O thou that never sleepes Nor slumbers now with speed thy truth defend And from thy holy hill some succour send All power is in thy hand declare the same That heathen men may magnifie thy name Let not O Lord those that seeke to betray Thy holy ones have any cause to say Where is the God become that should you save Who will deliver you now from the grave O thou that causest hills like wax to melt Defend thy Sion wherein thou hast dwelt So many yeares thou that dost dwell on high Against thy foes thy selfe now magnifie Let not the tares and weeds destroy the wheat Let not devouring catterpillars eate Thy pleasant fruite we cannot but confesse With griefe