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love_n	day_n	heart_n	know_v	2,574	5	3.3365	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28186	A cordiall for a heart-qualme, or, Severall heavenly comforts for all those who suffer any worldly crosse or calamity by Simon Birckbek ...	Birckbek, Simon, 1584-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing B2944; ESTC R22613	48,952	202

this is the time to practise it This will put us to it and make us if ever turne Confessants Supplicants Comprecants doe we then under Gods visitation confesse our saults more fu●…ly then formerly doe we sue for pardon more earnestly and pray more fervently This is a good symptome and token of our spiri●…ali state if wee can pra●… that in time of sicknes wee learned in time of our health Affliction indeed gives understanding and we may thanke affliction for it gramercy affliction that now we are promising men that now we promise amendment of life that now wee are●… peaceable men as bring tied as it were to good behaviour that now wee are not catch●… with those baytes of the world s the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life that is with carnall lusts and concupiscences covetous desires proud ambitious thoughts and affectations but that we can say t I have now no pleasure in them I was somtimes alive to those sinfull courses I relisht them I was then in mine element even there where I would have beene now I finde no more taste in them then in the u white of an egge now I am dead to them as w Abigail to dead Nabal Gramercy affliction And yet affliction ●… as of it selfe could not work us to any good were it not that the Lord gave us a sanctified use of Crosses and sweetned these bitter waters of Marah to the Israel of God The Benefit of Affliction Affliction is of a medicinall quality 't is a preparative to 〈◊〉 for further trialls and namely for our last duell our combat with Death It is of a purgative nature also when the Physition findes the body distempered the blood fowle and ●…amed he ordereth the opening of a v●…inc and the drawing out of so many ounces as may leave the rest meet for correction Our spirituall Physitian findes we have distempered●… our selves by riot and surfets and now he diets us with the bread and water of affliction and ministers some bitter potion to take downe our foule body of sinne to x refine and purifie his Patients wherein they lose nothing but drosse Affliction hath its alterative property where it works kindly it changeth and reformes the Patient David drank of it and found himselfe better after it y Before I was afflicted saith he I went astray but now I keepe thy word Manasse was farre gone in a Lethargy of sinfullnesse but this Antimonian cup of Affliction recovered him When he was in Affliction saith the story ●… he z besought the Lord and humbled himself greatly before him The Goale was a happier lodging to him than his Palace Babylon schooled him better than Hierusalem It changed him from an Idolatrous and murderous Manasse to a Convert and penitent Manasseh Affliction is a correctory for sinnes past and thus the Lord awakened Jonah out of the sleepe of security by casting him into the Sea he cured Zachary of his Infidelity of not beleeving the Angels message by striking him with dumbnesse 'T is a Defensative a Preservative to prevent our future falling into sinne Thus was Paul a buffeted by the messenger●… of Satan and why lest hee should be exalted above measure The Lord suffered Sathan to lay hard both at his faith and his sincerity lest hee should bee puffed up with multitude of Visions Revelations and Angelicall Apparitions Affliction is a Trier The Lord afflicts us to prove us whether we can endure the hammer and the test What drosse of corruption and what sound mettle of Faith Love and Obedience is in us he proves us even as silver is tryed in the fire b when the Sea is calme it lookes even and levell let the winde rise it rages and swells and casts up wrack Stirre the liquor in the●… glasse and the lees and dregs will appeare in time of peace and prosperity many carry themselves moderately towards God and Man but if God lay I say not his hand but his little finger upon them then they begin to murmur and grudge and discover their hidden corruptions Yea the godly man would hardly thinke there were so much distrust impatience frowardnesse faintheartednesse and love of the World as he shall find in himselfe in the day of his affliction c Moses told the Israclices that God therfore humbled them with want to prove them and to know what was in their heart that is to try them ●… or make them knowne no to himselfe who knew them well enough before without any experimental trial of them but to make it known●… to themselves and others whether afflictions or favors would worke them to obedience And thus the Lord prooved Abraham's obedience in offering up his son Job's patience upon the losse of his children substance albeit he knew what was in them what was in man Action quickens Gracelanguishing it manifests hidden and secret graces and justifies a man's sincerity so it cleared David Job Ezechiah 〈◊〉 it cleared them from hypocri●…sy justified their sincerity Affliction reviveth Grace ●… which otherwise would faint and languish for want of exercise and imployment were it not for assliction there were not altogether that use of patience nor of temperance but for the many incentives and provocations there are to riot and excesse nor of christian valour but that wee have spirituall enemies to encounter A●…iction ferves to weane our affections from the world thus the Lord visits his children with crosses as lo●…e of friends losse of goods weakenesse of body meannesse of estate and the like that in case they will delight in some sinfull course and doate on things vaine and transitory then●… these corrasives and corrections may vex and disquiet them as the Canaanites did the Israelites as the Nurse weanes the childe by laying some bitter herbe on her breast so the Lord imbittereth the pleasures of this life to make us long after that better life to come for those whom he afflicts more feelingly can part with the pleasures of sin more freely and say with him in the Preacher d I have no pleasure in thee nor thee nor thee My Soule saith David e is even as a weaned childe A childe that cannot want the teat for an houre or two yet if it bee disused and weaned a while seekes not after it doe thus●… with thy bosome sinne thy Dalilah thy Herodias the sinne that hangs on thee more then the rest be it chambering and wantonnes surfetting and drunkennesse or the like single it out doe to it as David did to his I kept my self saith he from mine iniquity I kept my selfe from following my corrupt affections to the sin I was most enclined unto Object If Affliction be as is pretended such a benefit why doe wee not give thankes for it why doe we seeke by all meanes how to avoide it how to come out of it Sol. 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my feet d my feet as Asa being troubled as it is probable with the gout One complayneth of a Palsie another of a burning Feaver another of the Stone or Strangury and they that are not troubled with any of these yet they are still under this King of Feare lest hee should enlarge his quarters and take in them too But is there no Balme in Gilead Yes there be God be blessed for it Cordials and Scripture-Comforts appliable to such as are cast on their Sick-bed their Death-bed their Grave-bed for so e Isaiah calleth it they shall●… rest in their beds that is their graves every one walking in his uprightnes where they shall securely sleepe in a bed of ease till the morning of the Resurrrection SECT. I. Comforts for the Sickebed COnsider with thy self dear Patient and fellow-labourer under the Crosse of Christ that God hath a speciall hand in thy visitation even thy God the Father of Mercy which chastiseth thee for thy good and then thou wilt kisse both●… the Rod and hand that correcteth thee For as Job sayth f Affliction comes not out of the duft Sicknes and Affliction that alights upon men comes not either by casualty or of it selfe or meerely from the second causes whether of men or other creatures or by distem pers of body onely but it comes from above and is inflicted by the divine hand of supreame and infinite Justice so as thou mayst say with the Psalmist g I know o Lord that thy judgements are right and that of very faithfulnesse thou hast afflicted me It were not well with us if these maladies came by chance or were let loose to alight where they●… list it is our comfort they are swayed by the provident hand of a loving Father who like a skilfull Physitian tempers the Dose and Receit according to the neede and strength of his Patient h God is faithfull who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that we may be able to beare it He will give a happy issue out of it and enable us to go through with it He corrects his children not out of measure i but in discretion with the Rod of men k that is moderately and with compassion in a fatherly tendernesse and love for their good and amendment He●… knowes their strength is not the strength of stones l nor their flesh as brasse his anger endures but for a moment m Look thē upon the Author of thy sicknesse and how it is stinted and under Commission and this will worke thee an unmooved patience and humble submission And thus Ely when God foretold by Samuel the ruine of his house quiets himselfe n It is the Lord let him doe what seemeth him good And thus the people of God when Paul was resolved to goe to Hierusalem submitted saying o the will of the Lord be done a speech fit to proceed out of the heart and mouth of a Christian It is true indeed sicknesse and affliction simply considered and in their owne nature are not good but consequents of sin their use and fruit is a blessing of God giving us thereby a sight and sense of our sinnes but that good it is not wrought out of the nature of misery but comes from them by accident only No chastning for the present seemes to be joyous but grievous p Neverthelesse afterward it yeelds the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse unto them which are exercised thereby As it is in these humane corrections those chastisements which were grievous unto us in our childhood are afterwards allowed of us as●… profitable unto us So is it in these afflictions from the hand of God none of them are for the time pleasing but grievous and irksome yet afterwards we find them to be exceeding beneficiall by taming disciplining and fitting us to an holy life which bringeth peace of conscience after all the unquiet broiles and ●…mults of triall and temptation Now blessed is that sicknesse that prooves the cure of the soule Oh welcome Feavers that may quit our soule from everlasting burnings Thou complainest that now thou art sick now thou art grievously pained I apprehend it as such and pity thee with all my soule But●… tell me wert thou not before a long time healthfull Canst thou not be content to take thy turnes and let God have his intercourse of favours and crosses health and sicknesse Can we looke for faire weather every day As well may the day be without succession of night as a mortall body of so fraile and britle consistence without fits of distemper It was the answer q where with that patterne of patience Job stopt the clamorous mouth of his tempting wife shall we receive good at the hands of God and shall wee not receive evill It was a memorable example r of a worthy Christian who had lived to his middle age in●… much health and prosperity and was now for his last two yeeres miserably afflicted with the S●…gury who in the midst of his torments could say Oh my Lord God! how gracious hast thou beene unto me Thou hast given me eight and forty yeeres of health and now but two yeeres of pain thou mig●…st have caused me to ●…e in this torture all the daies of my life and now thou hast carried me comfortably through the rest and hast merci●…lly taken up with this last parcell of my ●…ment bl●…d by thy name for thy mercy in fo●…ng mee and for thy justice in afflicting me Yea but thou complainest of these fits and changes that they interrupt thee and breake off the workes of thy calling it is that erstwhile thou hadst so much respite and breathing as to follow thy vocation This cessation and intermission will upon thy recovery make thee fall more freshly to thy taske If the Lord be pleased to send thee a Writ of ease a 〈◊〉 est to take thee off thy businesse by sicknesse yet even then thou hast time to serve God another way to wit by a selfe-resignation and patient submitting to his will If he meane to use thy service any further hee will restore thee to thy health strength to doe the work he●… sets thee about For health is at his command and sicknesse stayes at his rebuke In the interim and meane this time of sicknesse is a purging from that desilement wee gathered in time of health till wee come purer out which should move us the rather willingly to abide Gods good ley sure The Lord seeth that if the body bee not sicke the soule would Blessed is that sicknesse of the body which procures the health of the 〈◊〉 Wee are best for the most part when we are weakest when we are Gods p●…iioners and cast on our sick-bed then it appeares w●… good proficients wee have beene in the time of health ●… If there wee learned any good lesson