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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86324	The advantage of afflictions: a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Peers, Ianuary 28. 1645. being the day of publike humiliation, in the Abbey Church, Westminster. / By Gaspar Hicks, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Hickes, Gaspar, 1605-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1837; Thomason E319_9; ESTC R200555	25,203	34

that many times the main Want or defect of faith is that the heart is kept off from believing according to the grounds of faith 3. Endeavour to esteem worthily and make much of that which thou hast already found of God Be not alwaics poring upon thy wants and distresses but have respect likewise to thy receits and advancements Is it nothing that the Lord hath unfetled thee from thy self and from the dreggs of nature that he hath given thee sight compunction hatred of sin That he hath turned thee about from thy old course implanted in thee principles of grace and enkindled in thee longings after more grace That though for present thou canst not finde and clearly obtain yet thy soul thirsts and pants after God and will not be satisfied without him Do not belie the Lord nor bear false witnesse against him in denying his goodnes and truth towards thee Thou hast oft times said Surely I shall one day even shortly perish and sinke under my burdens Had thine own thoughts been fit to have been credited thou hadst been in hell long ere this Blesse the Lord that though he hath hid himself yet he hath not cast thee off as farre as thou deservest 4. Be very heedfull and scrupulous as to avoid all sin so those especially which are most apt to cast in the greatest jarrs and distastes between God and thy soul Grieve not the holy Spirit of God Ephes 4.30 whereby you are sealed to the day of redemption How can you expect that the Spirit should seal and comfort you when you sad and vex him Men of crazy bodies are temperate and dietical they abridge themselves of much liberty which they of more composed healthfulnes makeuse of You me thinks should dread the fire who have felt how it can burn You should flee from sin as from a Serpent who have had it's invenomed stings fixed in your tender spirits Psal 119.8 I will keep thy Statutes saith David O for sake me not utterly He was then at a distance from God but he beseeches the Lord not to east him off for ever and he backs his petition with a rosolution I will keep thy Statutes how ever it fares with me I will be conscionable and constant in obedience 3. The soul that cannot finde God upon seeking needs supportment Plentifull and strong grounds whereof we may draw out of Gods treasury 1. Presidents we may propose of many eminent in grace dear to God who have been thus kept oft We may not omit that transcendent one where shall we begin but at our head The Prince of our salvation made perfect in sufferings Who among all his passions was not quit of this what else wrung from him those bloudy drops those loud cries My God my God why hast thou for saken me From him we may descend to many of his choice members whence were Johs complaints Davids roarings Hezekiahs chattering c Not from out ward extremities only but mainly from inward anguish under the sense of Gods absence Luther seldome fell into any bodily disease without the addition of some spirituali temptation For is à tolo mundo intùs à diabalo omnibus angelis ejus patior Melch. Adam in vitâ Luther When the world is most furious against me saith he then the devil puts in his claw and sets awork all his crew to aggravate my disturbance We read of one of our own Martyrs who to the miseries of imprisonment the expectation of a cruell death had added more bitter conflicts with the doubts of Gods love and he hardly met with Christ in the clear evidence of favour till he was on his way to the stake See then thou art not alone Enquire of the former and later daies converse with Gods interpreters and Saints and they can parallel thy case with examples in whose consortship thou maiest exceedingly rejoyce 2. Consider Gods care and strength in holding thee up when he hides himself from thee Though thou hast not seen nor felt his presence yet thou maiest be sure that nothing else could have kept thy soul in such distresse Who but the Lord hath delivered thee from thy former fears and preserved thee alive in the daies of famine And wilt thou not trust him then for as much as Elias promised the widow Thus saith the Lord 1 King 17.14 the barrell of meal shall not waste neither shall the cruse of oil fail untill the day that the Lord send rain upon the earth Thy poor pittance of grace as thou valuest it thy small yea imperceptible drops of comfort shall not fail thee in the main till the Lord send a plentifull influence and encrease of both 'T is most exceedingly desirable to get into Christs arms to enjoy his dearest and closest embraces yet withall 't is a noble act of our faith and an infinite expression of his goodnesse and strength Mat. 9.11 when a touch of the hem of his garment makes us whole when his aid is craved and his hand stretched forth to catch us when we are sinking Mit. 14.30.31 3. Consider for thy supportment that according to thy capacity and fitnesse thou shalt be sure to have God come nearer to thee The Sun is alwaies equally full of light able at all times to illuminate the whole body of the Moon but the Moon receives more or lesse light according as she is disposed for it in her own course So the light of Gods countenance is able to fill thee with unspeakable and glorious joyes wer 't thou apted for them And know it withall though Gods favour be immense yet the most gracious heart like a narrow mouthed vessell takes in the sense of it by drops or degrees When Christ had been long with his Diseiples and was ready to depart from them Non admittit fidei nostrae angustia tam effusam ejus bonitatem sed necesse est ut paulatim distillet Calv. in Ps 51. he tels them that he had many things to say to them which they could not then bear howbeit the Spirit of truth in the processe should enforme them in more truths and enlarge them to more apprehensions He saith Christ shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you There be many that have received Christ in truth that have not yet received him in his glory they must wait longer on the Spirits workings for such blessed discover ries Ioh. 16.11 13.14 Perhaps thou wilt be craving with Moses Exod. 33.18 19 20. I beseech thee shew me thy glory be satisfied likewise with Gods answer to Moses I will make all my goodnesse passe before thee but thou canst not see my face and live It may be as impossible for thee in thy present temper though gracious to enjoy clear and full evidences as it is to see the glory of heaven whiles thou livest on earth Sudden or excessive joy hath sometimes occasioned sudden death The Lord will not pour