A staffe of comfort to stay the weake from falling very needfull for the afflicted. By Richard Bernard, preacher of Gods word; at Batcombe in Somerset-shire. Art thou any way tempted, or troubled? reade, beleeue, and reioyce.
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- A staffe of comfort to stay the weake from falling very needfull for the afflicted. By Richard Bernard, preacher of Gods word; at Batcombe in Somerset-shire. Art thou any way tempted, or troubled? reade, beleeue, and reioyce.
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- Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
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- London :: Printed by Felix Kyngston, for Iohn Budge, and are to be sold at his shop, at the South doore of St. Pauls Church,
- 1616.
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"A staffe of comfort to stay the weake from falling very needfull for the afflicted. By Richard Bernard, preacher of Gods word; at Batcombe in Somerset-shire. Art thou any way tempted, or troubled? reade, beleeue, and reioyce." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B11431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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shalt finde her, Pro. 28.22. And hee will send his An∣gel with thee to guide thee in the way, Gen. 24.7.
Obiect. I haue beene married, but haue now lost a comfortable yoke-fellow, and a most obedient louing wife: the remembrance of her is such, as though I hard∣ly can containe, yet am I ve∣ry loth to marry againe.
Answ. Abraham had his beloued Sarah, for beautie hardly comparable, admi∣rable in graces, matchlesse for her loue to her husband, and held worthy to bee re∣corded by the Apostle, as a patterne to all wiues, for her reuerence and obedi∣ence in word and deede vn∣to her Lord and husband,
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yet at the Lords call shee went before him, who mourned and wept greatly for her: but yet hee being very old, afterwards marri∣ed Keturah. But for the younger sort in yeeres, that can not containe, let them euer consider what the Apostle saith: It is better to marry then to burne, 1. Cor. 7.9.
Obiect. I am a poore wi∣dow that haue lost a good husband, a man fearing God, yet hath he left me in a great debt, and with a charge of children, and now the credi∣tors come vpon me to take all away, and to leaue me no∣thing, neuer poore woman was in such a case. Alas, I know not what to doe.
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Answ. Bee patient and waite on God: thou maiest read of a good mans wife, one that feared God, to haue beene left in the verie selfe same case, 2. King. 4.1. Yet did the Lord (as an hus∣band to her), and a merci∣full father to her children, miraculously prouide for them, both for their main∣tenance and paiment of the debt, Verse 3-7. For the Lord is a father of the fa∣therlesse, and a iudge of the widow, Psal. 68.5. He also relieueth the fatherlesse and widow, Psal. 146.9. And e∣uer hath had speciall care of them, both for their reliefe, Deut. 24.19.21, the pre∣seruation of their state, Prouerbs, 15.25, and pre∣uenting
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of wrongs offered vnto them, Exo. 22.22.24.
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A good wife is Gods gift.
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1. Pet. 3.6.
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Gen. 23.2.
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Chap. 25.1.
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God proui∣deth for poore wi∣dowes, and fatherlesse children.