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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67778	A sovereign antidote against all grief extracted out of the choisest authors, ancient and modern both holy and humane : necessary to be read of all that any way suffer tribulation / by R. Younge ...	Younge, Richard.	1654 (1654)	Wing Y190; ESTC R483498	105,217	98

it by some neglect or oversight there was an English man left behinde but how did God provide for his escape it's worth the remembring hee was no sooner crept into a hole under a pair of stairs but instantly a Spider weavs a web over the hole and this diverted them for when one of them said here is surely some of them hid another replyes What a fool art thou doest thou not see it 's covered with a firm cob-web and so past him that in the night hee ascaped O! Saviour our extremities are the seasons of thy aid even when Faux was giving sire to the match that should have given fire to the Powder which should have blown up Men and Monuments even the whole State together thou that never sleepest didst prevent him and disclose the whole design yea thou didst turn our intended Funerall into a Festivall And why doth the goodness of our God pick out the most needfull times for our relief and comfort but because our extremities drive us to him that is omnipotent there is no fear no danger but in our own insensibleness but because when wee are forsaken of all succours and hopes wee are fittest for his redress and never are wee nearer to help than when wee despair of help but because our extremities give him the most glory and our comfort is the greater when the deliverance is seen before it is expected His wisdom knows when aid will bee most seasonable most welcome which hee then loves to give when hee finds us left of all other props That mercifull hand is reserved for a dead list and then hee falls us not as when Abraham had given Isaac and Isaac had given himself for dead then God interposeth himself When the knife is falling upon his throat then then coms the deliverance by an Angell calling forbidding commending him When things are desperate then look most for God's help for then is the time Psal. 119. 126. Isa. 33. 9. 10. And indeed our faith is most commendable in the last act it is no praise to hold out untill wee bee hard driven but when wee are forsaken of means then to live by faith in our God is thought worthy of a Crown O! wretched Saul hadst thou held out never so little longer without offering and without distrust Samuel had come and thou hadst kept the favour of God whereas now for thy unbelief thou art cast off for ever 1 Sam. 13. 10. to 15. To shut up all in a word were thy soul in such a straight as Israel was between the Red Sea and the Egyptians the spirits of vengeance like those enemies pursuing thee behindo Hell and death like that Read Sea ready to ingulf thee before yet would I speak to thee in the confidence of Moses Exod. 14. ver 13. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Thy Word O! God made all thy Word shall repair all hence all yee diffident fears hee whom I trust is omnipotent Again Secondly thou must know that God in his wisdome hath set down a certain period of time within which hee will exercise his children more or less and at the end whereof and not before hee will relleve and comfort them again As wee may perceive by Eccles. 3. 1. Act. 7. 25. Exod. 12. 41. Gen. 15. 13. Dan. 12. 1. 4. 11. Jer. 25. 11. Gen. 6. 3. Four hundred years hee appointed to Abraham and his seed that they should bee Sojourners in a strange land where they should bee kept in bondage and evill intreated Gen. 15. At the end of which time even the self same day they returned from the land of Egypt that was the precise time appointed and the selfsame day it was accomplish'd and till then Moses undertook it in vain Why were they so long kept from it the land was their own before they were the right heirs to it lineally descended from him who was the first possessor of it after the flood God will do all in due time that is in his time not in ours if at any time the Lord deliver us it is more than hee owes us Let him saith Saint Augustine choose his own opportunity that so freely grants the mercy Again hee appointed that the Jews should serve the King of Babylon seventy years not a day not an hour to bee abated Jer 25. 11. but at the end thereof even that very night Dan. 9. it was accomplished neither did Daniel who knew the determinate time once pray for deliverance till just upon the expiration Thirty eight years hee appointed the sick man at Bethesda's Pool Joh. 5. 5. Eighteen years to that daughter of Abraham whom Christ loosed from her disease Luk. 13. 16. Twelve years to the woman with the bloody issue Matth. 9. 20. Three months to Moses Exod. 2. 2. Ten days tribulation to the Angell of the Church of Smy●…na Apocal. 2. 10. Three days plague to David 2 Sam. 24. 13. Each of these groaned for a time under the like burden as thou doest But when their time which God had appointed was come they were delivered from all their miseries troubles and calamities and so likewise ere long if thou wilt patiently tarry the Lord's leasure thou shalt also bee delivered from thy affliction and sorrow either in the Morning of thy trouble with David Psal. 30. 5. or at the Noon of thy life with Job Chap. 42. 10 to 17. or toward the Evening with Mr Glover that holy Martyr who could have no comfortable feeling till hee came to the sight of the stake but then hee cryed out and clap'd his hands for joy to his friend saying O! Austin hee is come hee is come meaning the feeling joy of faith and the Holy Ghost Acts and monuments Fol. 1555. Or at night with Lazarus at one hour or another thou art sure to bee delivered as time will determine Many were the troubles of Abraham but the Lord delivered him out of all Many were the troubles of David but the Lord delivered him out of all Many were the troubles of Joseph but the Lord delivered him out of all Many were the troubles of Job but the Lord delivered him out of all therefore hee can and will deliver thee out of all But if hee do not saith Shadrach Meshach and Abednego yet wee will not do evill to escape danger because Christ hath suffered more for us therefore if I perish I perish saith Hester Bee our troubles many in number strange in nature heavy in measure much in ●…urthen and long in continuance yet God's mercies are more numerous his wisdom more wondrous his power more miraculous he will deliver us out of all Many are the troubles of the righteous Yea hee riseth higher and calls them millions for so the words may bee rendered but the Lord delivereth them out of all Psal. 34. 19. How many or how great soever they bee or how long soever they continue yet an end they shall all have For the Lord either taketh troubles from them or