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A fort for the afflicted Wherein are ministered many notable & excellent remedies against…A fort for the afflicted VVherin are ministred many notable & excellent remedies against…
A fort for the afflicted Wherein are ministered many notable & excellent remedies against the storms of tribulation. Written chiefly for the comfort of Christs little flock, which is the final number of the faithful, by John Knox.A fort for the afflicted VVherin are ministred many notable & excellent remedies against the stormes of tribulation. Written chiefly for the comforte of Christes little flocke, which is the final number of the faithfull, by Iohn Knoxe.
Imprinted at London : At the three Cranes in the Vintry, by Thomas Dawson, 1580Imprinted at London : At the three Cranes in the Vintree, by Thomas Dawson, 1580
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As David would say: O Lord, how shall I pray and declare thy goodness, when I am dead and gone down in to the grave? I is not thy ordinary course, to have thy miracles and wondrous works preached unto men by those, that are buried, and gone down into the pit: those that are dead make no mention of thee in the earth. And therefore, O Lord, spare thy servant, that ye for a time I may show and witness thy wondrous works unto mankind.
As Dauid woulde say: O Lorde, howe shal I pray and declare thy goodnesse, when I am dead and gone downe in to the graue? I is not thy ordinary course, to haue thy myracles and wonderous works preached vnto men by those, that are buried, and gone downe into the pit: those that are dead make no mention of thee in the earth. And therefore, O Lorde, spare thy seruant, that yee for a time I may shewe and witnesse thy wonderous woorkes vnto mankinde.
These most godly affections in David did engender in him a vehement horror and fear of death, besides that which is natural and common to all men, because he perfectly understood that by death he should be letted any further to advance the glory of God. Of this same he complaineth most vehemently in the 88. Psalm, where apparently he taketh from the dead, sense, remembrance, feeling▪ and understanding, alleging that God worketh no miracles by the dead, that the goodness of God cannot be preached in the grave, nor his faith by perdition, and that his marvellous works, are not known in darkness. By which speech we may not understand, that David taketh all sense and feeling from the dead, •either yet that they which are dead in Christ, are in such estate, that by God they have not consolation and life: no, Christ him self doth witness the contrary: but David so vehemently expresseth their estate and condition, because that after death they are deprived from all ordinary ministration in the Church of God. None of those that are departed are appointed to be preachers of Gods glory unto mankind. But after death they cease any more •o advance Gods holy name, here amongest the living