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A08282	A pathvvay to patience in all manner of crosses, tryals, troubles, and afflictions: inwardly for sinne, or outwardly by sicknesse, pouerty, enemies, imprisonment, banishment, slaunders, disobedience of children, houshold-crosses betweene man and wife, &c. With necessary prayers for euerie of them; as also for diuers other necessarie purposes. By I.N.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1626 (1626)	STC 18615; ESTC S119966	125,732	476

haue any iust cause against me wherein I cannot iustifie mine innocencie being by nature fraile and may erre yet giue mee not ouer vnto their wills but according to mine vnfained hearts desire to be reconciled vnto them work their hearts to embrace peace with me and loue towards me as thou knowest I vnfainedly desire to show towards them If their hearts be so hardened as no submission nor my sincere affection towards them can obtaine reconciliation with them but that they will still continue to insult and as it were to triumph ouer me I shall euer as I doe appeale vnto thee for iustice to deale with them as thou wilt whose iudgement betweene them and me I acknowledge most iust And therefore Lord though they by their greatnes wealth wit in some thinges preuaile against mee and insolently make their boasts that they haue surprised me and gotten their wills of me so farre as they may say in their hearts that thou hast forsaken mee giue me euer a strong and constant faith in thee that I faint not nor be afraide for when they thinke most to triumph ouer me thou art able to frustrate their hope and to enforce them to sue to me for peace whereunto my heart is truly enclined But Lord thou seest that the more I seeke for peace the more they seeke to vexe mee and to oppresse mee with actions at law diuersly troubling me and that vniustly that heartily desire to liue in peace Their hearts are in thine hands O Lord and if thou thinke it fit to keepe mee yet vnder their tyrannie more to humble me I am in thy hands doe with me what thou wilt for I know that what thou doest or permittest to be done vnto me is in loue and I know thou seest my troubles and when thou in thy wisdome shalt thinke mine afflictions sufficient thou wilt be pleased to restore me to comfort and peace In the meane time while mine enemies are in my sight and I in theirs guide me in my wayes protect and keepe mee vnder the safe shadow of thy wings then shall I not feare what man can doe vnto me Lord euermore encrease my faith Counsell and comfort for him that is persecuted for his constant profession of the Gospell of Christ. KNow this thou that art afflicted and persecuted for the profession of the Gospell of Christ and for thy faith in him that hee doth not suffer thee to be punished as if hee were angry with thee as hee sometimes sheweth himselfe in some other afflictions which hee inflicteth vpon men for their sinnes whereof no man is free but herein hee sheweth thee an extraordinarie fauour First in illuminating thee by his holy spirit whereby thou knowest him and his truth which thou canst not comprehend by thy naturall wisedome were it neuer so profound and deepe in carnall vnderstanding And secondly in making ●hee a constant witnes of that truth which it hath pleased him to reueale vnto thee and in that he giueth thee strength and godly courage to stand constantly and resolutely in the open and publick acknowledgement of thy faith in him and patiently to suffer persecution for his sake which grace and mercie is giuen thee of God first to know then to beleeue and consequently to suffer for his name which patient sufferings are the fruites of his loue towardes thee Christ himselfe approueth thee blessed if thou suffer for righteousnesse sake If thou be but rayled vpon for the name of Christ thou art blessed If thou hadst no further testimonies of his loue then these short assurances and comforts it were sufficient But he further addeth If thou thus suffer the Kingdom of heauen is thine by promise and if thou be truly faithfull thou canst not but feele the truth of this promise and therefore doubt not but hold fast by the promises of Christ be constant be not dismayed at whatsoeuer threats of thine aduersaries not thine but the enemies of Christ Iesus himselfe as Paul sometimes was when hee persecuted those that professed the name of Christ. They were but men he persecuted Christian men and in them hee persecuted Christ. Saul Saul why persecutest thou me If then thou be persecuted for Christ remember that Christ is persecuted in thee What an honour then is this vnto thee to be persecuted for thy Maister who is Lord of heauen and earth Doest thou thinke that if thou suffer for him he will not freely reward thee for thy fidelitie Will an ordinarie Maister of a silly seruant suffer him to be beaten wounded and abused for him and in his cause and will he not reward him If his Master assigne him a seruice wherein hee trusteth his fidelitie and constancie and hee like a coward denie his Maister reuolt and take part with his Masters enemies will hee not thinke him a perfidious seruant and punish him How much more will Christ reward thee if thou stand stoutly and in a Christian constancie in the defence of his cause though hee can without thee defend and maintaine his owne but that hee will make thee a witnesse of the truth which all that shall be saued doe stedfastly beleeue But if for feare of or for the enduring of a little temporall punishment thou shouldest reuolt forsake him and denie him before his enemies hauing such a royall and rich reward set before thee as the Kingdome of heauen and eternall glorie if thou perseuere vnto the end and contrarilie perpetuall shame and ignominie if thou denie him He that for feare of trouble persecution or death it selfe for Christ will denie Christ he is not worthie of his merites by which and by no other meanes thou and all beleeuers are to be saued Denie him not therefore before men that must acknowledge thee before his Father in heauen If thou faint and forsake him here it is a denying of him and he will denie thee to be one of them hee hath redeemed when he shall giue vp vnto God his Father those that he hath chosen out of the great masse of mankinde by his all-sufficient sufferings to bring them to glorie which is the free reward assured to be giuen to as many as constantly professe his name and for his sake patiently endure here persecution and troubles The sufferings that thou here endurest are short and momentanie they endure but a small time they are quickly past ouer were it that thou shouldest be burned or to vndergoe anie other torment for thy faith in Christ If imprisoned suffering hunger colde nakednesse and stripes what were thy suffering to the eternitie of blessednesse If thou be depriued of thy goods and of the dearest things thou enioyest in this world consider what things they are are they not such things as come and goe inconstantly If thou haue lands and possessions thou art but Steward of them If thou haue wealth thou art but the disposer of it and if an ordinarie death befall thee as

originally from Sathan who moueth and maketh mariages as farre as in him lyeth betweene vnequals which may import many inconuenient matches not made in the feare and reuerence of God great inequality of yeares and much difference in estates cause often disparagements Houses and riches are the inheritance of Fathers but a prudent and vertuous wife is the gift of God And he that findeth such a one rec●iueth a fauour from the Lord. But how can any man thinke that God will bestow such a fauour vpon him without asking Abrahams seruant that was but put in trust to get a wife for Isaack his Maisters sonne went not rashly and as the prouerbe is hand ouer head in this weighty businesse as to take the first that came to hand as many doe that conclude the match at the first sight But hee prayed vnto the Lord to send him good speede in the choyse and wayted the Lords prouidence and besought him to shew him certaine probable tokens that the mayde Rebecka was she whom God had appointed for Isaack That businesse which is begun with faithfull Prayer to God seldome or neuer succeedeth ill And aboue all other earthly occasions there is none of higher importance then the choyse of a wife or a husband either of them being an assured crosse or a comfort as long as both of them doe liue And for want of this heauenly beginning faithfull Prayer to God it many times comes to a helli●h ending which may be a motiue to stirre vp men and women intending to entertaine this holy estate to craue direction and wisedome from God both for their choyse and peace in that estate And because many already coupled together seeme discontent and afflicted in minde at their mutuall crosses now past reuocation They must be content to make a vertue of necessity namely to vndergoe the burthen that the one vnkindly layes vpon another and to pray either that God will ease it or giue them patience to beare it A Prayer fit to be said by man and wife together or by either of them at any time in priuate O Lord our GOD most mercifull and louing Father in Iesus Christ vouchsafe as it hath pleased thee of thy great mercy to conioyne vs man and wife together according to thy holy institution in the beginning So let our hearts be truly conioyned vnto thee in a liuely faith and true obedience And so frame our affections one towardes another as there appeare no cause of breach of our sincere mutuall duties to the offence of thee But by thy blessing wee may as long as we liue endeuour to preserue and maintaine peace and vnity betweene our selues being a thing pleasing vnto thee Endue vs both Lord with thy grace heauenly spirit that as thou hast by thy holy ordinance of ●wayne now made vs one so our hearts affections and enclinations may be euer one not according to our naturall dispositions but answerable to thy blessed commandements that wee giue no cause of offence each to other and that wee may euer endeuour to continue perfect and mutable in our mutuall loue which we by nature cannot doe for wee are corrupt and sinfull of our selues and alwayes most enclinable to forbidden things We haue also O Lord thou knowest a subtill and malicious aduersarie who striueth to crosse in vs all good desires and to peruert our best duties to raise discordes debates quarels and as much as in him is to breake the band of fidelity which we made each to other before thee He began thou knowest O Lord with the first couple Adam and Heuah It was he that seduced the woman and shee by his meanes betrayed the man and so subuerted their blessed estate of innocencie and made them subiect to all kindes of miseries and their posterities whereof we thy poore seruants are feeble and sinfull members And as he began in malice and subtilty to betray our first Parents So is he alwayes busie to sowe the seedes of debate and strife betweene vs. But Lord preuent him and assise vs by thy power that we may haue power to resist him and all his suggestions and tentations Then as thou Lord hast ioyned vs together nothing shall seperate our mutuall loues but Death And forasmuch Lord as this estate though in it selfe honorable may bring vpon vs many troubles crosses and afflictions incident to marriage estate in the world yet by thy fatherly blessing we shall be able to vndergoe them with patience or to auoyd them with thankfulnes It is not in vs in our wisedomes strength or policies to preuent or auoyde the infinite troubles and vexations which this estate bringeth with it Therfore we humbly pray thee O Lord to endue vs with wisedome frō aboue that whatsoeuer thou haue determined shall befall vs be it pouerty or plenty sicknesse or health weale or woe we may embrace the one with patience the other with thanks And in both support vs in thy loue guide vs by thy grace protect vs by thy power and prouide for vs in thy prouidence If pouerty or want assaile vs supply our necessities if riches encrease make vs thankfull and alienate our hearts from too much loue of them If sicknesse or any corporall infirmity ceaze vs be thou our Physician to cure vs If health continue leaue vs not in security but giue vs watchfull hearts to wayte the time of thy visitation If the fruits of our bodies encrease encrease to vs the meanes to sustaine them both with corporall spirituall necessaries And prepare vs for the day of our departure out of this mortall life and in the meane time so season vs in all heauenly and diuine knowledge with true faith and perfect obedience vnto thee as that day may be vnto vs the first day of our euerlasting Sabaoth Be thou also wee humbly beseech thee O Lord a continuall guide vnto vs in our calling Blesse vnto vs and vnder our hands whatsoeuer we endeuor to performe in thy feare and let thy blessing be vpon all that appertaineth vnto vs. If enemies seeke to molest vs to trouble vs or to hurt vs preuent them of their euill deuices and graunt that wee giue no cause of offence to any nor be stirred vp to reuenge vpon euery light occasion but vpon all occasions to leaue the reuenge to thee And that we may seeke to maintaine peace with all men to loue our neighbours to comfort the comfortlesse and as farre as thou shalt be pleased to enable vs to h●lpe succour and relieue the poore and needie and to doe vnto other men as wee desire other men to doe vnto vs To guide and gouerne our family in thy feare to frequent the places where thy holy word is preached seeking the Kingdome of Iesus Christ and to doe all other holy duties according to thy will vnto our liues end Amen O Lord encrease our faith and our mutuall loue one towards another How the Husband ought to behaue himselfe towards his

patience Blessed is the man whom the Lord correcteth refuse not therefore the chastisements of the Almightie Though therefore we be compassed about on all sides with many miseries let vs not fainte but in patience possesse our soules As Christ himselfe teacheth for Whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth and scourgeth euery sonne that hee receiueth Then are chastisements testimonies of Gods loue towards vs and therefore they that cannot abide to bee corrected showe themselues bastards and not the sonnes of God As many as I loue I rebuke and chasten Reuel 3. 19. Doth a father correct his sonne without a faulte it were iniurious and doth God correct his children that sinne not there is none but sinneth therefore none but deserue correction seeing then that sinne is the cause of Gods corrections let euery man examine himselfe and take with thankeful patience his Fatherly chastisements in what manner soeuer they befall him Touching sinne the cause of all afflictions the confession and repentance thereof and patience in troubles FOr asmuch as sinne is the cause of all our afflictions and that there is neither crosse or any kinde of trouble that befall vs but sinne causeth it In vaine it is to hope for remedie reliefe or ease vntill wee haue in some measure vnburthened vs of our sinnes for as an old house pulled downe to bee rebuilt must be rid of all rotten materials and rubbish before any good and sound foundation can be laid so before wee can receiue any inward comfort or outward release of our troubles we must cast out of our hearts and clense our soules of all the filthy loathsome dregs of sinne that lurke in them that can we not doe but by a strict and serious examination of our hearts and to call to minde how wee haue spent the time past and then shall euery man finde cause enough why God in his Iustice might inflict vpon vs in steeede of our light afflictions which are but his Fatherly corrections his most heauie iudgements seuearest punishments and in steed of our temporall and momentanie miseries cast vs into perpetuall torments Knowing then that the cause of our calamities to bee our sinnes and hauing vpon due search found out our long hidden iniquities can we but acknowledge that God hath not dealt with vs nor afflicted vs according to the measure and multitude of our wicked deseruings But as a louing father hee hath by his gentle chastisements as it were onely wincked at and beckened vnto vs to put vs in minde onely of our faults least by continuing in them and multiplying of them he should haue cause in steed of gentle corrections to vse his Iustice therefore hauing found in our corrupte hearts our vngodly and impious inclinations which haue begotten in vs infinite actuall sinnes we may not any longer couet to conceale them but heartily plainely and faithfully acknowledge them vnto God though we cannot call all our antient sinnes and the faults we haue committed long agoe to our remembrance for Who can vnderstand all his faults saith Dauid yet Dauid him selfe confessed his sinnes to God sometimes in generall sometimes in particular he did not hide his iniquities but confessed them against himselfe and was not ashamed to set them down in many of his Psalmes to teach vs if occasion be to discouer our sins for the satisfaction of men but especially vnto God as Dauid did who forgaue the punishment of his sinne Yet had he afflictions still not as punishments but as fatherly physicke to keepe his heart and affections in more due obedience and though Dauid said he did not hide his sinnes from God it is not therefore to bee collected that he could or any man can hide his sinnes from him howsoeuer couertly and secretly they commit them But who so confesseth them not he intendeth to hide them as much as lyeth in him from God that seeth them and thereby doubleth his offence But who so acknowledgeth his sinnes vnto him he is faithfull and Iust to forgiue them and to cleanse him from all his vnrighteousnesse To acknowledge our sinnes then is the very entrance into Gods fauour which being obtained not by the confession of our sinnes but in and through a firme faith in Iesus Christ through whose merites we may freely aske and assure our selues of the remission of our sinnes for he hath promised to doe it who is most faithfull and iust in his word and that doth Dauid approoue saying I confessed against my selfe my sinnes vnto the Lord and hee forgaue the punishment of my sinne He forgaue him as not to punish him in the seueritie of his Iustice though he remembred him with his gentle corrections often as hee doth his deerest children yet not all a like some hee chastiseth after a most milde manner some more sharpely yet fatherly as he findeth men docible and tractable or refractarie and hard to bee reformed for some are more and sooner reformed with a sharpe looke of the Lords countenance then some with many stripes As Peter when he had thrice denyed his Master Christ Christ but turned his face towards him at the crowing of the Cocke it was rebuke enough he went suddenly forth and wept bitterly in token of his repentance Some againe will hardly remember their sinnes vntill it be said vnto them Thou art the man as Nathan tolde Dauid who before that had slept in his sinne of adultrie and murder a whole yeare neuer thinking of it But when he was admonished from God by a parable then he confessed his sinnes and repented them saying I haue sinned against the Lord Ioyning with his confession sorrow and repentance for his sinnes And the same mouth that reproued him for his sinne and that he should dye for the same pronounced the forgiuenesse and pardon of them The Lord hath put away thy sinnes Whereby we may learne that the Lord seeketh no seue●r● reuenge against a sinner confessing and repenting his sinnes though he leaue some token of his displeasure against sinne and of his loue to the sinner in keeping him in future obedience by his fatherlie discipline least he should too much presume of pardon of second sinning by the mercie of God declared by the remission of the former And therefore although he had pardoned Dauid his sinne and had forgiuen him the punishment of it yet Dauid went not without a token that he should remember that he had offended and giuen the enemies of God occasion to blaspheme God pronounced the death of the child God sees it necessarie and we cannot but thinke it expedient euen for vs That although God doe assure vs that our sinnes sincerely acknowledged be forgiuen vs yet that he beare a kinde and fatherly hand ouer vs to retaine vs in future obedience by some daily vnsauory potion to cure and to keepe our carnall apetite in order that we returne not to our former iniquities