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A78141	The royal robe: or, A treatise of meeknesse. Upon Col. 3. 12. wholly tending to peaceablenesse. / By James Barker, minister of Redbourn in Hartfordshire.	Barker, James, Minister of Redbourn.	1661 (1661)	Wing B769; Thomason E1857_1; ESTC R19561	107,888	272

est viriditas in radice Aug. in Joh. 9. Habitus non amittitur actus intermittitur gradus remittitur Vide Aug. in lib. de correp gra so soon fall out with their sins though they have grievously offended but he fals in with them and becomes graciously reconciled And as a compassionate and an indulgent Father forsakes not his Child when he is sick so neither will God leave his Children when they have sinned He may take distast they may be dejected but being his his grace and their faith shall never fail For although the exercise and former comforts of grace may be lessened Ps 42. 5. 11 Ps 38. 6. Mat. 13 4 5 6 7. Rev. 2 4. Ps 51. 12. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Rom. 11. 5. 1 Jo. 3. 9. Heb. 6. 10. Psa 55. 22 2 Tim. 2. 13. Psa 34. 8. Joh. 6. 47. Mal. 3. 6. Ps 10. 2 27. Heb. 13. 8. Isa 59. 1. 2 Tim. 2. 12. Jo. 10. 28 29. Joh 13. 1. 1 Pet. 1. 4 5. Psa 89. 35. Luk. 22 32. Eph 4. 3. For God who is rich in mercy according to uncha●geable purpose of election doth not wholly take away his holy spirit from his no not in their grievous slips nor suffers them to wander so far as to fall away from the grace of adoption state of justification or to comit the sin unto death or against the holy Ghost or to be altogether forsaken of him Judicium S●n. Dodr. de 5. Art Controv. in Eccl. Belg. c. 5. de persev Sect. 6. the good motions of the spirit suppressed the wonted fervour of it abated and the sensible operation of it interrupted yet still it is there when it is not felt they have it though they know not of it For it cannot be God should forget though man may be forgetful God cannot deny himself nor will he deny his favour to them that come unto him for it what God hath been he is still and can do as much as he hath done He will not leave the claim where he hath taken possession reject what he hath receiv'd nor disclaim what he hath once own'd He will not suffer his truth to fail nor his spirit to forsake the heart into which it hath been once admitted When doubts are raised concerning things promised let them call to mind what they have known performed and let this assure them of receiving more It were extream weakness for men to forsake their own 2 Pet. 3. 17 stedfastness and overwhelmed with the waves of temptation and corruption to leave their hold of that vvhich can only keep them from sinking Let the temptations of Sathan be never so strong the corruption of their ovvn hearts never so great their sins never so many yet the mercies of God and the merits of Christ applied to the contrite spirit the humbled soul the believing heart by the soveraign and healing hand of divine Grace doth over-povvre all that can be opposed vvhose operations cannot either by Satans subtlety or mans frailty be frustrated or hindred for so long as there is power in God to make him able and goodness in God vvhich vvill make him willing to help and ease the afflicted for vvho is a God like unto him forgiving iniquity transgression and sin fall they may utterly fall away they cannot for the Mic. 7 18. Lord upholds them vvith his hand Psa 37. 24 though some be of tender hearts apt to entertain troublesome fears and to have a hard opinion of themselves yet let them not Judge amiss of God vvho hath mercy laid up for all that vvill seek it God saith not to the humbled sinner as Christ said to the Jews you shall dye in your sins but as he said to the sisters of Lazarus of Lazarus sicknesse this sickness Joh. 8. 21. this sin is not unto death Sin is the sickness of the soul the Soul may Joh. 11. 4. be far spent vvith sin as the body vvith sickness but though the humors be Isa 66. 2. Isa 61. 1. Isa 35. 3. 4. 5. 6. Is 61. 2. 3. Ro. 8. 26. Jo. 4. 3. 4. Mat. 12. 20. Isa 37. 15 Joh. 14. 18 Isa 42. 3. Isa 55. 12 Mat. 9. 2. Col. 2. 13. Isa 53. 1. Isa 65. 18 Chrysost in Gen. Hom. 19. Ps 51. 12. Ps 22. 14 15 17 24. 1 Tim. 4. 10 1 Tim. 2. 4. Jo. 11. 25. Act. 3. 19. Joel 2. 12 2 Pet. 3. 9 Isa 55. 7 L●● 24. 49 Ez. 33. 11 Isa 1. 18. Isa 43. 25 Jer. 3. 1 2 13 22. 1 Tim. 2. 4. Ps 103. 10 11 12. Kin. ● 15 c. Rom. 5. 15 16 17 c. Veh●m●nter supra omnem modum exuperat gratia Dei delictorum magnitudinem copiam gravitatem Laur. Alex. pag. 95. corrupted and the bloud distempered yet if nature be not quite exhausted and the spirits of life extinguished the skilfull Physitian hath hope to cure the body In like manner the soul Physitian will bind up the broken heart quiet the troubled spirit cherish the seeds of grace forgive the sins of the soul and restore to a sinner the joy of his salvation If they have faith to believe the promises of God and repentance to bewaile their sins God hath mercy to heal their souls the medicine and means of recovery is neither weak nor wanting to him that can apply it If Sa●an put a conceit into the head of the sinner that God will not be entreated let it not get the consent of the heart To sin is dangerous but to cast away all hope of forgiveness is desperate and therefore give not way to your own corruptions and Satans 1 Cor. 15. 56 Ro. 6. 23. Ez. 18. 20. Lu. 13. 3. Ja. 1. 15. Eph. 5. 6. Ps 31. 22. Job 33. 10 Omne peccatum grave est Greg. sup Ez. li. 2. For every sin must be accounted for Mat. 12. 36 temptations if you be weak yet in any case be not wilfull and take heed that a sin of infirmity become not a fall of Apostacy It is the Apostles advice cast not away your confidence but keep your hold still which Job would not forgoe though God kill'd him It is an evil heart and unfaithfull that thinks of departing from the living God Christians in their conflicts must not do as * Plut. in vitae Demosthenis Merito perit aegrotus qui m●dicum non vòcat sed ultro qui venientem respuit Musculus Heb. 10. 35 Job 13. 15 Heb. 3. 12 1 The. 5. 8. Dan. 9. 9. Demosthenes did in the battel cast away their shield the hope of salvation for God hath not lost the bowels of compassion if men have not lost all sence of grace There is no sin so great but is pardon'd to the penitent if man have the power to repent God hath a will to forgive his hand is never shortned but when mens hearts are hardned Think of Manasses Idolatry Davids adultery Noahs drunkenness Peters denial and Pauls blasphemy all these sinned greatly but

strength but with the temptation will make a way of Evasion and after they have suffered awhile make them perfect establish strengthen and settle them Sometimes God setteth down a prefixed time how long the trouble shall last the Jewes Captivity for seventy years Nebuchadnezzars humiliation Jer. 2● 11. Dan. 4. 25 Gen. 41. 1. for seven years Josephs imprisonment for two years the Tribulation of some in the Church of Smyrna for ten dayes and when the ●ev 2. 10. Psal 118. 18. Psal 71. 20 appointed time is come comes ease For if God set down a Day hee 'l Luk. ●4 6 7. Prorsus tanquam aegrotos reficiens medicus quod opus est hoc dat quando opus est ●u●c d●t A●g in ●sal 14● Psa 27. 14 3● 35. Heb. 1● 35 36 37. Hab. 2 3. Isa 8. 17. Psa 2 7. 13. Psal 9. 18. Psal 77 8. 9. keep his Word and his time to a minute and therefore let our sorrows be never so great or so grievous stay Gods leasure waite upon his will and pleasure be not impatient but with all meekness expect deliverance and if the vision stay waite for it It was Isaiahs Resolution Yet will I wait upon God though he have hid his face from us And it was Davids Consolation That he verily believ'd to see the goodness of God in the Land of the living for the poor shall not alwayes be forgotten the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever but hope defer'd maketh the heart sick this made David think and say that God had quite forgotten him that he had cast him off for ever that he should never see good day more But he acknowledges his Error blames his Infirmity and folly thus Psal 77 10 to question the nature and faithfulness of God For God is not forgetfull of his promise nor unmindfull of the sufferings of his servants if he delay the actual performance of his promise and come not in to their help when 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 La●rt and how they would have him they must not murmure against God nor accuse him of slackeness or account of what he hath promised after the manner of Men as if it were only a promise that is a verbal comfort without any purpose of performance for what he promiseth he purposeth and what he purposeth he will surely performe And therefore rest upon his word and faithfulness which will never faile We must not Indent with God we may not prescribe to him But leave him to his own liberty he is free though we be bound Let him take his own time and go his own way he will not be limited he knows his time and his time is the best time If the mercy of God appear not for Psal 123. 2. Judith 9. 15 16 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Naz. adversus Eunom Psal 6. 2. Num. 12. our Salvation this day or the next nor perhaps for many dayes to come wait still and in its time there shall be an accomplishment of all that is promised But we are impatient when we want any good or feele any pain then is our time but then perhaps is not Gods time we are not yet fit for mercy though he be ever ready to shew it when we are his mercy will appear Micah 7. 18. for mercy pleaseth him When men are better'd and amended by afflictions their vain imaginations cast down their rebellious lusts subdued their minds humbled their compassions towards others stirred up their hard hearts softned their affections weaned from the world when they search and trye their wayes and turn to the Lord he Acts 3. 19. 2 Chron. 7. 14. will then return to them and if he do not let them cast themselves down before him with David and say with him If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord c. But if he thus say 2 Sam. 15. 26. Jam. 1. 4. Isa 30. 18. Psal 44. 17 18 19 20 21. Tu inquit avertis faciem tuam à me sed ego non sum aversus a te Ruffin in Psal 29. Nec iratum colere destitit numen Sen. ad Marc. cap. 13. I have no delight in thee Behold here am I let him do to me as it seemeth good unto him Patience is a grace that pleaseth God let it have its perfect work and never think of leaving God though he may seem to have left us God knows our frame and temper and the metal we are made of he knows our hard and stubborn nature that will never work kindly without the fire Our hearts are like steele and iron easie to be wrought any way in the fire of affliction If this be the way he will work us to his purpose let us yield our selves to be wrought upon with meekness we must be content to endure many heates and blows untill his work be done for when that is finished our sufferings shall have an end or if they have not but last as long as life lasts Christians must be Phil. 2. 8. as Cbrist was obedient unto death Let us not murmure against God Quid est q●od nos queramur deo cum Deus magis queri d● nobis omnibus poss●t quae ratio est ut dole●mus nos non audiri a Deo cum ipsi Deum non audiamus susurremus non respici a D●o t●rras cum ipsi non espiciamus ad Caelum mol stum sit d●spici a Domino preces nostras cum praecepta ejus d●spiciantur a nob●s q●●d dignius q●id justius non audivimus non a●dimur non respeximus non resp●cimur quis ergo ex carnalibus dominus hac cum suis lege agere contentus est ut contemn●● tantum modo servos s●os quia fuerit ab eis ipse contemptus Salvianus de Gubern Dei lib. 3. pag. 85. 86. though he seem to have left us and to have quite forgotten us but let us feel our own pulses and lay our hands upon our hearts for doth not God deal with us as we have dealt with him and pay us in our own Coine * Hos 4. 6. 9. have not we forgotten have not we neglected have not we refused have not we delayed him what can be more just and equal than that he should do by us as we have done by him we are too apt to forget God and our selves when all things go well with us therefore God will have it go otherwise will lay afflictions upon us and leave us to struggle under the burden then we begin to remember there is a God and that we our selves are but men then we admire no man and despise no man but look up to God and throw down our selves not fretting or repining but with all meekness acknowledging that God is Righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works But what if a man be alone What Co●ia tribulationis inopia consolationis quando multifaria