130 11 profitable Expof tson 6. PETITION. affeetion, truth breakers, falfe accufers, no loners at all of them that bee good, Traytors, audio forth, they are the flowres that flonlh fo faire in this end of the world, faith the Apofllec., And ghat man or woman ahnoll liueth,that hath not drunke ofthia cup, to beef kindly requited for their true good will, and to haue the. backes of Mein towards them, whole faces by good right they lhould haue, and their mouthes filled with many louing thankes! If then company be com- fortable as the laying is, let vs plucke vp our hearts, and bee content, especially hauingfuch company in thiscrotse as 1 haue now named. This courfcw.ould be long if I lhould follow it fully you fee by this, and I pur. pofed neuer tteatiles, buttouches onely of thelè matters. What Mould I lay? SèkNes a lome the Lordaercifeth'. With difeales and fickenes of themfelues and their own mall bodies, andfo dïdheDaaid with chafliling reines in the night feafon , the poore woman with her painefulliliueby the fpaceoftwelueyeares, and many others Math r s whom he tleerely.lotted of their children or Familie, and fo did he that faith - Marc full woman with her daughter, that kind Father with his lunatickefonne, the ru- 9' 1er with his daughter, the Centurion with his feruant, and numbers mo. Some tí31fath, with imprifonmcnt wrongful! and vniull, and fo did he to e h Jeremy Micheas, [.King. z n. and many mo. Some with their mariageand match often bitter. So did he /eh, Tobiah,e 4bigael,andothers. Da:id had euillchildren, and lacobbcforehimma- r. Kings. S, ny a heauy heart by their behauiours. The good Prophet had a bad feruant, a . vild Gehee.s, that ptafhlcd more than he euer learned of his mailfer,and our Saui- our Chrift himfelfe had a theeuilh lutists, a full bad bird to come out of such a nett as he had his time in. Some be rimed on by dronkeu totfepots, and fo was Daüid, though bee little deferued it. And who can naine theaduerlitics of the 'PP!. 34. Godly? Many, many, faith the Prophet, are the troubles of the righteous, but the Lorddelutereth them out of By this example, whofoeuer readeth the Scriptures may find out moe,obleruc and marke them, and gather comforeby them, if the Lord Ilia!! pleafe Coto dealewith them. And to that further trauell I referre vs all, not following this courfe now any further, onely this I add e, that if you can find no example of your cafe fully in the Scripture, and thereupon Satan would bee bufie, and fay, fee, thou are an odde perfon from all others , I warrant thee God neuer dealt Io with any ofhis, &c. then bticeue Perot rather than him, and tedium helieth like a Falk deuill. For you are taught there, that the fame affliai- ons are accomplished in your brethren which are in theworld, although you know them not. r. Peter. ;.9. And therefore you areno odde one, neither chaflifed any otherwife, than with the rodde of the righteous, whole faluation is sure, and they the Lords. O, bueyoumufl needs giuemee !came to rememberyet onething ere you make an end, and that is this. Theft examples are comfortable, I heartily confefe, and (weetewhen wee find them in our Tessera tryals, but yet Satan bath an other tricks to trouble many minds withal!, andthat is, with the measure of oar trouble. flee will, till wee find anexample, fay none arcfd dealt withal' that God loutth, but when wee haue found one,thenheeJhifteth his fate, and f ggeffeth, not in that meals-ire , and f grieuoully and greatly as wee are, Now what lhould wee (iy to this? Yhemeafure Trudy euen 1h11 Iearch the Scriptures. And as we haue found there matter, 4dHerfitie fo fhall wee find meafure, I warrant you, greater then wee beare any. And to this a fiebtiltëp- end marke what lob faith inhis a6, chapter, Hi c archers compafemeeroundabout,he bttion. cutteth my reins, anddoth not fare, andpowretb mygaule vppon theground. flee bath dob, 16 , broken met without brealinp vppon an other, and runneth vpon wee like a Giant, Here rÆ you fee not onclyaduerftie and af liftion, buteuenamarueilous measure, and yet the man deere to theLords heart that indured it. Fiuery aortic hath apower to
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