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A01628	A speciall treatise of Gods prouidence and of comforts against all kinde of crosses and calamities to be drawne from the same With an exposition of the 107. Psalme. Heerunto is added an appendix of certaine sermons & questions, (conteining sweet & comfortable doctrine) as they were vttered and disputed ad clerum in Cambridge. By P. Baro D. in Diui. Englished by I.L. vicar of Wethers-fielde.	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Baro, Peter, 1534-1599, attrib. name. aut; Ludham, John, d. 1613.	1588 (1588)	STC 11760; ESTC S120495	239,789	550

full of comfort and consolation For they serue to the intent we may vnderstand that whatsoeuer calamities are sent and how or by what meanes soeuer and whither of the deuill or of men or of any other creature yet that they proceede from the iust and good pleasure of God and that also we should beare them so much the more pacientlye whilest they are present by how much we know a more certaine vtilitie to be reaped by them and further also help and succour by the selfesame God to be prouided for we And albeit all these thinges be plaine and manifest inough especiallye for because many particulars from whence these doo flowe haue of vs béene declared already yet to the intent a more plentifull furniture of cōsolatiens may he had in a readines and may the more déepelye he imprinted in the mindes of all we will approue and confirme the same by certain places of Scripture which that it wil be good for vs to call to remembrance as ofte as aduerfities shall lye heauy vpon vs the very vse and expertence of thinges I am sure will declare ¶ As touching the two former reasons wherby it was saide that nothing is doone by Fate Fortune Chaunce or Contingence likewise that the prouidenee of God is particular and occupied in euery thing it is not needful that we repeate the arguments already producod and alleadged It shall suffize vs to shew in generall that the euills which in our iudgement I meane are thought to be such are in the scriptores attributed to God and that it cōmeth to pass● by his wise good ordinance that wee are oftimes afflicted with calamities For thus we finde it in Esay chap. 45. I am the Lord and ther is none other I forme the light and criatedarknes I make peace and create euill I the Lord doo all these thinges And Icremy 21. I haue set my face against this Cittle for will and not for good saith the Lord it shal be giuen into the hand of the King of Babel and he shal burne it with fire The like we haue Iorom 39. And the same prophet in his Lamentations chap. 3. Who is he the that saith and it cōmeth to passe and the Lord commaundeth it not Therefore out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth there not euil and good Amos. 3. Shall there be euill in a Citie and the Lord hath not doone it Iob. 2. Shali we receiue good at the hand of God and not receiue euill And a little before● The Lord ●ath giuen and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. Further that the Lord dooth vse one while the deuill an other while man another while other creatures in bringing calamitiés vpon mankinde as his instruements he shal easily perceiue that hath but meanely tasted the holy scriptures Cōcerning the deuil it is manifest out of the notorious hestorie of Ioh as chap. ● where the Lord saith vnto the Deuill Lo all that he hath is in thy power onelye vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand And chap. 2. Sathan departed from the presence of the Lord and smot Iob with sore boyles from the foale of his foote to the crowne of his head Iudg. 2. God sent an euill spirit vndoubtedlye the deuill the disturber of peace between Abimeloch and betwene the men of Sichem and the men of Sichem dispised Abimelech 1. Samuell 16. an euill spirit sent of the Lord vered Saule 1. King 22. The Lord said Who shall intise Achab that he may goe vp and fall at Ramoth Gilead Then when a certaine spirit had offered himselfe saying that he would be a lying spirit in the mount of his prophets he heareth of the Lord Thou shalt entise him and shalt also preuaile goe forth and doo so And it is added Now therfore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets and the Lord hath appointed euil against thee Neither dooth God vse onely euil Angels to inflict punishments vpon men but also good and elect s●ing●al indifferently are ministring spirts orde●●ed to execute his diuine commaundements So Exod. 12. that night wherin the 〈◊〉 tes 〈◊〉 eate the Passeouer by the good Ang●● of the Lord were slaine the firste begotten of the Egiptians 2. Sam. 14. by the Angell of the Lord hauing a naked swoord were destroyed certain thousands of men after that Dauid had sinned in cemmaunding the peoble to be numbred 2. King 19. one Angel in that boast of Sennachar●● slew a hundred foure score and fiue thousand men Act. 12. of the Angel of the Lord wicked Horod was sodenly stricken Now that the Lord vseth in like maner the seruice and ministery of men it is not obscure In the prophets the Babilonians Assirians and others are oftetimes described and expresselye called the instruments by the which the Lord will punish his disobedient people Esa 10. Assur in called the rod of Gods wrath and staffe of his displeasure And it is added I will send him to a dissembling natiō and I wil giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoile and to catch the praye and to treade them vnder feete like the mire in the street But he thinketh not so neither doth his hart esteem i● for but he imagineth to destroy and cut of not ●●●ewe nations In which place that is woorth our marking by the way namelye where it is expresselye signified that the Lord sendeth euils to one end and men inferre them to an other end and that he forsooth in the same woork exerciseth the office of iustice and these of wrath pride inordinate lust and thereby it commeth to passe that vnto these sinne is imputed and vnto him redoüdeth no small praise and commendation Againe Esay 13. They come from a farre contrey from the end of the heauen euen the Lord commeth with the weapons of his wrath to destroy the whole land Lo the Lord and his weapons that is to say the instruments of his wrath Also in the same place Beholde I will stir vp the Medes against them which shall not regarde siluer nor be desirous of golde c. Ierem 22. God saith that he prepareth destroyers And I wil prepare destroyers against thee euery one with his weapons and they shall cut down thy cheefe Cedar trees and cast thē in the fire And many nations shal passe by this Citie and they shall saye euery one to his neighbour Wherfore hath the Lord doon thus to this great citie We haue the like almost Ierem. 25. But in Ierem. 27 the Lord calleth the tirant Nabuchadnezer his seruant Wherefore now I haue giuen all these landes into the hand of Nabuchadnezar King of Babel my seruant c. and all nations shal serue him and his sonne and his sonnes sonne vntill the very time of his land come also c. Ezechiell 17. He calleth the Babilomans his net and dragge I will spread saith he my nette

endued with such a singuler sanctimonie but that if wée beleeue the Scripture as dout lesse wée must beleeue it hée dooth not only fall once but also seuen nay infinit times in a day yea and now then also hee committeth moste greeuous enormities at least wise in minde and will which onely and alone maketh men guiltie before God and is reputed and taken for the deed doon further there is no sinne so light woorthy of pardon to mans thinking which yet were not to be recompenced with most horrible and eternall paines if so be God would straightly examine euery thing and sist it after the rule of his most seuere iudgement For we are all by nature the children of wrath Ephes 2. All haue sinned and are destitute of the glory of God Rom. 3. And Psal 130. If thou Lord wilt marke our iniquities who shal be able to stand Howsoeuer therfore it falleth out vnto those that are accounted in the number of the godly it behoueth them certes to be perswaded yea euen whilest they are distressed with strange and innumerable perplexities that they are yet louinglye and fauourablye delt withall The Lord euen thē when he striketh is pitifull and forgetteth not his mercy Thirdly If in cace thou hast experience dayly of the Lordes liberalitie why shouldest thou not somtimes also feele his rodde This thing no man will iudge to be vnequall which at least would not incurre the reproache of ingratitude or take vpon him to controll Gods iustice So Iob willingly confessed that he was iustly afflicted with mi●●●es and stricken of the Lord who before had had the vse of most large and ample benefites Shall we receiu● good at the hand of God saith he and not receiue euill Fourthly What shal we say to this that it is meet and conuenient that parents should somtimes correct their Sonnes whome they would haue to become good men And except they doo this they shal be thought to haue small care or regarde of their childrens welfare After the same maner God also the common Father of vs all dooth most iustlye in that he euer and anon somewhat seuerelye chastiseth the godly whom he accounteth vndoubtedlye as his owne Children least they should by ouermuch cockering become careles and secure and being corrupted through long prosperitie fall to sinning with the wicked who haue all thinges for the most parte according to their desire Hitherto belong that saying of the wise man Pro. 3. Whom the Lord loueth him he chasteneth Apoca. 3. Whomsoeuer I loue I rebuke and chasten Fiftly Why shouldst thou think much to be afflicted héere for a while if after thou be gone from hence thou knowest assuredly that eternall life is prepared for thée and that thou shalt be blessed with ioyes euerlasting Nay it is iust and to be wished that thou shouldest suffer héer and be molested that thou mightest héereafter enioy perpetuall rest and felicitie For why it cannot be that all thinges should fall out alike after thy desire both heere and there For God hath so ordained 2. Thes 1. It is a righteous thing with God to render vnto you that are troubled rest with vs when the Lord Iesus shall shewe him felfe from heauen And Luk. 16. Abraham saith to the rich man Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures and likewise Lazarus paines but now is he comforted and thou art tormented c. 1. Corinth 11. When we are iudged we are chastened of the Lord because we should not de condemned with the world Séeing therfore the afflictions that are sent doo commend Gods iustice vnto vs we are to be perswaded that they come not from God without cause And héereby shall all aduersities become the more easie to be borne in that we vnderstand them to be iustly layde vpon vs and that none so gréeuous can befall vs but that we haue deserued far more greeuous if so be God should weigh the greatnes of our sinnes according to his iustice ¶ Touching the fourth reason to speak in few woords namely that God by the calamities which he sendeth vnto men taketh occasion to illustrate and set forth his owne power and glory that becommeth manifest by the woordes of the Lord. Exod. 9. where a reason is rendred why Pharaoh was so excéedinglye hardened and so oftentimes most gréeuouslye scourged with his people the Egiptians for so saith the Lord by Moses vnto Pharaoh Let my people goe that they may serue me Otherwise I will at this time send all my plagues vpon thine hart and vpon thy seruants and vpon thy people that thou maist know that there is none like me in all the earth And a little after And in deed for this cause haue I appointed thee to shewe my power in thee and to declare my name in all the world Which woordes we see to be repeated Rom. 9. But wilt thou haue me tell thee more plainely how the glorye of the Lord was aduanced by the afflictions of the Egiptians Then consider with thy selfe whither this thing dooth not make greatlye to the celebrating of the name power of the Lord that he shooke so mighty a people so quicklye and by strange meanes that were neuer heard the like and at the length togither with their King and his whole armies vtterly destroyed them almost in a moment Who would not heere honour and reuerence the wonderfull power of God and acknowledge him to be the onlye God almightye reigning in heauen and in earth But much more on the other side dooth the power of God shewe foorth it selfe in that so sodaine and vnlooked for deliuerance of the people of Israell which were so greatly deiected and cast downe by reason whereof the Lord also would afterward alwaies challenge to him selfe most soueraigne praise repeating this oftetimes to Moses and other of the Fathers I am the Lord which haue brought you out of the land of Egipt In like maner if now also the Lord dooth one while erect and an other while deiect Kinges and Kingdomes or if so be he draweth thee at the last who art in respect of thy body in very good health and increased with large possessions and honors into sicknes or spoyleth thée of thy goods and dignitie thou oughtest to iudge that all this is doone to this end and purpose that the Lord hath appointed in thée to set forth to the world his power to be séene which againe he will make to appéere more glorious whē al things being now past hope of recouery and all doo vtterly dispaire of any helpe he shall restore thée againe to thy former health riches and dignitie to the incredible admiration of all men So in Iob so in many others would the Lord haue his power to be séen and dayly still dooth he procure the like examples to be set before our eyes that it might alwaies be found true which the blessed Virgin sang The Lord hath shewed strength with his arme he hath scattered the

ingratitude They that before were in the hand and power of the oppressor or of affliction are now by the Lord deliuered and they ought to be humbled vnder his mighty hand and to giue him thanks yea and to dedicate them selues wholye to God their deliuerer All things therfore are trimly disposed in this beginning and proposition of the Plasme and we may gather from thence no single or slender doctrine 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South 4. They wandred in the wildernes out of the way and found no citie to dwell in 5 Hungrye they were and thirslye their soule fainted in them 6 So they cryed vnto the Lord in their trouble and he deliuered them from their distresse 7 And led them foorth by the right way that they might goe to a citie of habitation Now after the proposition followeth a plentifull confirmation as in the which it is proued by many plaine and pithy reasons that God dooth liberally shewe his goodnes in mortall mens matters and most wiselye gouerne all thinges by his wonderfull prouidence and therfore most worthy to be exceedingly praised and magnified of al men This is the first reason prouing Gods goodnes to shine cleerelye in all thinges taken from an example as also all the rest are in a manner that followe And certes it is drawen from that example of a thing boone not only once and about one person only but ofte times and in many persons vsuallye séene so that thou maist rightly say that all these proofes are drawen out of the common course of life and from the vse and experience of thinges dayly happening Which kinde of proofes doubtles are most fit to moue affections withall and besides they make that to appeere most plaine which is intended And it is to be thought that no man whatsoeuer he be can possibly read this Psalme but that he shall sinde some thing touching himselfe and wherby he may gather that he also hath beene partaker of the bottomlesse goodnes of God in some one necessitie or other Neither truely is it an easie matter to finde such a one as hath not felt in himselfe some parte of the miseries which are héere mentioned and that whilest he is deliuered from them ought not to ascribe his preseruation only and alone to God Yea and there can no discommoditie or danger almost arise which is not comprehended vnder some one or other of the thinges that are héere described at the leastwise it will be like it or not much vnlike wherfore also whosoeuer is distressed with any aduersities shall héer haue some remedie of comfort and shall finde matter of hope for the recouering of his safetie This is also further to be marked that euerye of the proofes are so disposed that they may fitly be deuided into two partes wherof in the former are described the perilles which happen vnto men in the latter is declared how they are by the mercy of God deliuered from the same againe in the former parte the perils are very exquisitly and almost after a poeticall manner expressed by increasments amplifications and representings of things and in the latter parte the deliuerance beeing sodainlye and without any adoo obtained is laid soot the more breefely yet hauing now and then those thinges interlaced which doo not a little beautifie and illustrate the matter And so are all thinges ordered that a man aduisedlye marking them may out of euery member in a maner gather variable and most holsome doctrine This first proofe therfore is drawen from the example of those that for any cause whatsoeuer being driuen from their dwelling places are constrained to wander vp and downe and to séek a place els where wherin they may rest And very properly is the ieopardy of these men described by their iourney in the desert then the which doubtles a greater could not be deuised For why a man would hardly beléeue except he be one that hath had triall of it how greatly they are gréeued that wander in the wildernes where there appéereth no humane help or succour and nothing to be looked for but death and destruction And therfore it is to be thought that certaine of the Greekes were moued to make a lawe touching a penaltie of death to be laide vpon him that would not she we the way to one that went astraye because they sawe vndoubtedly how sore they were tormēted that wandred out of the way And oftetimes into these dangers doo men fall in Palestina and the cuntries next adioyning in asmuch as all Asia for the most parte hath many deserts and obscure places as the holy Scripture and bookes of the Geographers doo testifie Their soule fainted or failed in them Héere thou séest the manner of an enlargment gallantly obserued First euen to straye out of the way is full of wearisomnesse though it be in a Cuntry well knowen Then to goe stil forth on and not to finde a place where to rest is much more gréetious After ward also to be pinched with hunger and thirst who séeth it not to be the extremitie of all miseries and that now nothing remaineth but cruell and wofull death And this is it which he addeth Their soule fainted in them We haue a certaine resemblance of these calamities pictured in Abrahams bondmaide Agar Genes 16. in the people brought out of Egipt through the wildernes where they murmured for meate and drinke Exod. 16. and 17. in Dauid flying from Saul Sam. 23. and 25. againe 2. Sam. 15.16 when he fled by reason of the tumult raised by Absolon likewise in Elias flying for the threats of Iezabell 1. King chap. 19. which all in their flight through desert places were almost dead for hringer and thrist But it is not without cause that the Holy-ghost dooth so liuely painte out these perilles For we ought thereby to gather some instruction First therfore it is doone to this ende and purpose that we might learne how to behaus our selues towards those that are in miserie and to pittie them whom we see to suffer bannishment to wander through vnknowen cuntries and to haue no freends to succour them Secondly that we might so much the more exactly weigh and consider the power and goodnes of God in the preseruation of them that are deliuered by him out of so great distresses How much greater the dangers are so much more fully doth Gode mercy thew it self in deliuerance from them And they cryed vnto the Lord The second part of the proose touching their deliuerance And this verse is put betweene in manner of a parenthesis as that which is oftetimes repeated almostin euery of the proofes following So is this in Virgal Begin my pipe with me to sound Menalian verses And this Leade Daphnis from the citie home my verses leade him home And we learne out of this verse 1 That afflictions sent of God doo stirre vs vp to inuocation prayer vnto

be inhabited wher before were waters againe the waters haue ouerslowed possessed all things where before were habitable cuntries it is no hard matter to proue out of the Philosophers Historians and Poets Our Tertullian in his Apologeticus and Booke De Pall●o hath many things agreeable to this present place Rhodos and Delos two Ilandes in the sea came sodeinly forth to light To the Cyclads were adioyned Ilands by little and little now some and then some Homer in his book 4. of Odyssea recordeth that from the Iland Pharos into Egipt was the distance of a night and daies sayling all which space is now annexed to the firme land Touching which thing also Pomponius Mela writeth in his book 2. and Lucan in his book 10. If we may credit Herodotus the Sea sometimes from aboue Memphis to the mountaines of Ethiopia went all oouer The same testifieth that it flowed verye nigh to the Temple of Diana of Ephesus On the other side whatsoeuer is between the towne Rhegium and Cicelie that was once champeon ground now it is a great and large Sea many Authors witnessing the same as namly Tertullian in his Apologeticus Solinus Iustine in his booke 4 Virgill in his booke 3. of Eneidos Sylius Italicus booke 14. Philo in his booke De Mundo writeth that the thrée cities Egira Bura and Helice were by the violent rage of the Sea swallowed vp Yea and the Iland Atlas as Plato mentioneth in his Timeo with a certaine portion of Asia and Aphrica through Earthquakes and strange floods continnuing by the space of fower and twentye howres sanke sodeinly downe and was ouerwhelmed of the sea Which sea by that misfortune became verye rough and dangerous and in no wise afterward passable or saileable By these things we may easilye vnderstand that such not able and memorable alterations as are héere spoken off doo not seldome times come to passe And there are fiue metonymies or denominations when as to signifie barrennes he putteth the desert a thirsty place the dry land and salte licour For in such places nothing is wont to growe Where the fresh water runneth not nor the raine conueniently mo●●ieneth there doubtles is neither sowing nor reaping as in fandy places on the shore and on the tops of hils is to be séene Likewise where the earth is salt and brackish or Salte is digged there dooth not lightlye growe any thing Phynie in his booke 31. chapt 7. saith that all and euery place wherein salte is found is barren and bringeth forth nothing Whither it séemeth to belong that Iudges 9. Abimilech when he had subuerted the citie Sichem did sowe salt there signifying that he would make that place from thence-foorth vtterlye barren and void of habitation To the like effect there is extant a threatning in Ieremy 17. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arme and withdraweth his hart from the Lord. For he shal be like the heath in the wildernes and shal not see when any good commeth but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernes in a salte land and not inhabited Blessed be the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is For he shal be as a tree that is planted by the water which spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer c. In these woords of the Prophet thou seest in like manner fertilitie to be signified by wateringes and moystures as also in this place are put floods water springs pooles of waters For the wickednes of them that dwell therin The cause why such alterations are b●ought vpon lands as also vpon the soile and vpon the Sea The Lord saith he dooth it purposing to punish by bis iustice the sinnes of the inbabitants And so commonly commeth it to passe where a Cuntry is fruitfull and plentifull in all things there the inhabitantes for the most part through the plenty of things fall to idlenes from idlenes to wantonnes and the vices that flowe from thence Which when it commeth to passe the Lord being prouoked to wrath sendeth barrennes and many other aduersities till as by little and little they either repent or els are vtterly destroyed Such alteratiōs of cuntries cities commonweales we may sée dayly Examples we haue at this day most cheefly in Italy which is a most happy and fruitfull cuntrye but with how great calameties haue we seene it battered and shaken though it hath not béen vtterly ouerwhelmed with waters And heer fall to the ground the causes of alterations which the Philosphers are wont to bring and alleadge saying that through a certaine necessitie and force of the superior bodies gouerning these inferior things hoere belowe the lands and ●eas 〈◊〉 keep● this order of nature that b●acertain interchangeable course and compasse they are 〈◊〉 while better another while worsse euen like as we see man also to be dealt withal who first of all in his infancy and childe ho●de is weake and without strength but afterward growing in yeeres he gathereth strength and commeth at length by little and little to great perfections but then again when age commeth on he droupeth and decayeth Thus I say they suppose the case to stand generrally with waters and lands through a certaine force 〈◊〉 power of the superior bodies ruling al interior things and of this opinion was aswell Aristotle in his Metcorologiks as also Strabo in his book 17. and other moe disputing of these matters But in this place it is expresselye saide that al these thinges are wrought by the Lord himselfe and euen then verily when it pleaseth him to reuenge the sinnes of men the inhabitants or otherwise to declare s●t for●h his iustice power and goodnes Therfore whether such changes and alterations doo fall out sodeinly or slowly and more leisurely whither by hidden causes or by open and manifest as if earthquakes inundations of waters or such like means goe before it behou●th not to determine by and by that they come to passe by a certaine entercourse of thinges or contingently but by the determinate will and purpose of the Lord which yet notwithstanding men cannot alwaies perceiue and sée Wherfore we learne againe héer very cleerly that all things which happen in this worlde are ordered and disposed by Gods prouidences and that crosses are sent for the sinnes of men and benefites giuen fréely through the onelye mercy and goodnes of God againe that God will alwaies illustrate set foorth his iustice power and goodnes And al these things ought we in the like euents whilest namely through tempests through caterpillers and other vermin destroying the fruites we haue a barren yeers and scarfety of victuals or are in danger through infection or distressed by any other meanes not much vnlike to turn them ●o our comfort and consolation And there he placeth the hungrie The second example prouing Gods goodnes and prouidence to be preeminent and to beare swaye in all things drawen from the alterations and sondrye successes