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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79291	Heart-salve for a wounded soul... Or meditations of comfort for the holy living, and happy dying Christian either in the depths of dark desertion, or in the heighth of heavens glorious union. The second edition, with an addition of an elegie upon an eminent occasion. By Tho. Calvert, minister of the gospel.	Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1675 (1675)	Wing C323A; ESTC R230932	68,723	208

fain to pray again again it teaches us to seek out several Arguments and motives to move God some from his power he is able to help us some from his truth Psal 77.8 9 Lord what is become of thy true promise is thy Covenant come to an end for evermore some from his love and mercy Hast thou forgotten to be gracious Art thou that God of whom they sing His mercy endureth for ever and hast thou no mercy to hear and help me Thus like a scruple in our estates which makes us seek all the Court Rolls do our longing affections lead us to God with earnest and urgent prayers and seek out the wisest and movingst Arguments to put life into our Prayers O the excellent learning of afflictions which teach us to search out all Gods Promises to lay to our own hearts and before his eyes by faithful prayer There is a great deal of difference betwixt a prayer in ease Coloss 4.12 Agonizein en tais proseuchais and that in adversity especially spiritual troubles there is more Art and Arms more wisdom more life and feeling in the one than in the other it is one thing to pray another thing to strive in prayer III. Consider that the longest trouble is but short in several respects 1. In respect of the time of our sinning Thou sufferest but a week thou hast lived in sin many weeks and months or thy grief lasts a year hast thou not provoked God many a year Job 11.6 We love indeed long faults and short rods we should never be free from scourges if the Lord continued striking so long as we continue sinning God exacts less than our iniquities deserve 2. In respect of God it is long to us it is short to him with him a thousand years are but as one day we seem to suffer a thousand hours this unto him is but as one minute 2 Pet. 3.8 It is not our sentence but Gods Judgment that must stand for giving estimation to any thing He calls our suffer●●gs but a To ' nun sufferings of this present time 3. In respect of tha● 〈◊〉 a●d en●less eas● 〈…〉 bo●● suc●●eds 〈…〉 ●●ese sorrow ●●d sufferings 〈◊〉 now criest make haste to help me hear me speedily how long shall I be vexed in my Soul thou wilt one day say O happy heavy afflictions for a night which have brought such joy in the morning Blessed temptations which though grievous and tedious in the end have brought me to glory and peace without end Who will be afraid of suffering a little while with Christ here that he may be a partner of everlasting glory with him hereafter Jacobs hard seven years service he counted but short compared with that sweet society he should have with his wife at the end We suffer an hour we shall reign for ever Compare a moment and eternity together we shall weep but a short time we shall have a long time of joy for it The Lord would have us consider how he will make amends for our sufferings Esa 54.7 It is but for a small moment that I have forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee In 〈◊〉 little wrath I hid my self from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer It is good being scourged an hour to have the Rod cast away for ever O how well should we endure the sorest afflictions if we did but consider that they are light and momentany yet work unto us an exceeding surpassing weight of glory 4. Consider 1 Cor. 4. thou hast a safe way by resignation of thy self in to the Lords hands Non corrigat aeger Medica menta sua Austin Psal 146. Cast thy self upon him he brought thee in trust him with it he will in good time bring thee out Conclude with thy self if release do not yet come it must and will chme for God is faithful who hath promised Submit to his hands and handling being sick do not correct and find fault with thy Physick the Physitian knows best what and when any thing is fittest for us when these corrasives have eaten out sins foul matter then the Cordials of Gods Spirit of Peace shall refresh thy Soul Paterete curari ita sananduses Aug. We would have no tart nor bitter Medicine when God knows it may be Sugar would mar our Physick Impatient man would have the Plaister pulled off the sore too soon before the wound be either drawn or closed Give the Lord leave to do his pleasure he continues thy grief because hasty Physick might do thee hurt If the Lord heals us slowly say to thy self Be contented O my Soul it is for thy good that he may do it soundly 5. Consider that when one eye sails thou must get another when the eye of sense is shut up open the eye of faith and thou shall see wonders Look up and wait upon God with that eye and then thou shalt sweeten darkness with the hope of light peep under the black leaves of sorrow and see a goodly fruit of joy budding forth which shall appear in time Exercise faith to see him that is invisible and that secret arm which all this while supports thee O! if thou couldest well look upon that eye thou shouldest see there is one at Gods right hand who cannot forget thee yea in thy troubles he is at thy right hand Psal 16. stopping and breaking the strength of temptations blowes so as thou shalt not greatly be moved yea he carries thee in his arms Psal 22.14 Psa 34.20 so that not one of thy bones shall be broken though they may be astonisht a while ond out of joynt And if the Lord take care and count of thy bones and hairs surely his care is more for thy Soul it shall never miscarry only learn thou a Lesson over and beyond the leaf of sense and present feeling to see something in nothing to believe that the Bush shall not be hurt though the fire be in it to hope for a sweet kernel within the hardest shell and to see the Son of Man walking with thee in the midst of thy furnace Look as well upward to the Crown Revel 2.17 on which is writ Vincenti dabitur To him that overcomes as to the bottom of thy deep Cross with an holy indifferencie resolve to indure the Lords good pleasure Say unto him this trouble O Lord is grievous O haste to deliver me yet O Lord my will shall wait as a servant upon thine I will suffer any thing only sanctifie thou my sufferings and strengthen me to bear them 6. Lastly consider and often ruminate upon the Saints carriage and words in the like extremities if thou be wearied running with footmen how wouldst thou ever have kept with the Horses if thou be so discouraged in shallow foords what wouldst thou have done if thou hadst swimmed with them in the swellings of Jordan