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A94071	XXXI. select sermons, preached on special occasions; the titles and several texts, on which they were preached, follow. / By William Strong, that godly, able and faithful minister of Christ, lately of the Abby at Westminster. None of them being before made publique.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing S6007_pt2; Thomason E875_1; ESTC R203660	179,143	303

the tails of two smoking fire-brands and they intend to enlarge their Dominions to take in Iudah and set up a King there No saith God the head of Syria is Damascus I have set them their bounds they are at their height they shall go no further the Lord hath divided the earth then to the sons of Adam but hath divided the earth to the sons of Adam according to the number of the children of Israel the fewest in number of all people the meaning I conceive to be this that the Lord did take special care in the first Division of the earth that he would chuse an inheritance in the earth for this people for so the Psalmist tells us he chose an Inheritance for them so that he that chose a people out of the earth to be his peculiar people he in the division of the earth made choice of a peculiar Inheritance for them certainly the people of God need not fear an Inheritance then When the Lord divided the earth among the sons of Adam he took especial care of them the Lord in all his Providential Dispensations hath a constant respect to his Church and a continual care of them and he adds the reason of it v. 9. though all the earth be the Lords yet the Lords portion is his people this is the first thing that is matter of history in the context Secondly he then sets forth the condition of this people when they were in the wilderness Ver. 10. he found him in a Desart Land in a vast howling wilderness the meaning is not as if this people were strangers to God till then or that the Lord took no notice of them or had no care of them for ever when they were in Egypt Exod. 4. then the Lord 〈…〉 Israel is my son my first born therefore Gods 〈…〉 did not then begin But then they began to be the Lords separated people they were its true Gods people by a Covenant before Now they are brought into a wilderness and separated from other Nations therefore because they then began to be the Lords people by a National Covenant therefore it is said he found them there is indeed another meaning of that expression found that is he is alwaies present with them as a help alwaies found of them so you find the word used Psal 46.1 God is a present help he is a help found in the needful time of trouble and so I conceive that place explains it Hos 9.10 I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness as a poor traveller in a desart wilderness hath a great refreshment by this if he meet with a Vine that hath but a few Clusters upon it so I found Israel in the wilderness which was as great a delight to me even as if a weary Traveller had found Grapes in the Wilderness Thirdly here is a further description of the Land of Canaan Ver. 13. the Lord made them to dwell upon the high places of the earth It was a Land of Mountains and Vallies and upon that account called the high places of the earth but it was a Land also where the Lord destroyed the enemies and carried them without danger in the midst of the greatest dangers thus they were made to walk on the high places of the earth as men that walk on high out of Gun-shot And then fourthly here is the plentie of the Land that flows with milk and honey where they eat the fine kidnies of the wheat and drank the pure blood of the grape a Land wherein there was no lack of any thing that was upon the earth Deut. 8.7,8 all this is but historical In the words that I have read to you comes in that which is Prophetical for Moses did not bring them into the Land of Canaan Moses dyed in the Land of Moab on the other side of Jordan and was gathered to his Fathers It was Ioshua that gave them rest and divided this Land for an inheritance to them Moses prophesied when they came unto the Land of Canaan this shall be their Condition But Jesurun waxed fat and kicked A godly man from a principle of spiritual wisdom without Divination will be able to give a great guess of men what they will be Moses might much guess by seeing how disobedient they had been in the Wilderness what they would prove when they came to Canaan but yet here is a discovery that the Lord made by Revelation to Moses what the condition of this people would be the Lord doth not only certainly know what we are but he knows what in such cases and conditions we will be Nay the Lord knows in those conditions that we shall never be put into what we would be if we were in it this is clear the Lord foretells to Moses what this people would be when they came to the Land of Canaan having such a place and such enjoyments and this is also clear when David was in Keilah shall the men said he give me up to Saul they will give thee up and yet David went out of the City that night and was never given up and according to this we may guess if we consider there are many of us some would have wealth some honour some would have higher imployment some more grace some more comfort some more assurance and the Lord denies it It is because he knows what in such a condition if thou wert put into it thou wouldst prove and that which thou lookest upon as a great affliction the Lord doth it with a very merciful hand But Jesurun waxed fat and kicked there are two things in the words to be opened First their name and Secondly their sin The denomination that is given to them here and the transgression that is charged upon them I shall briefly explain both these and then come to the point that I would insist upon from them the denomination what is their name they be called Jesurun It is used three times in this Book of Deuteronomie in Deut. 33.5 Moses was King in Iesurun and in 33. Chapter Ver. 26. Who is God like the God of Iesurun and in this place and it is used for ought I can find but in one Scripture more in all the Old Testament In Isaiah 44.2 Fear not oh Jesurun my servant and Jacob whom I have chosen there are three different apprehensions that men have of it according to the threefold derivation of the word Some from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rectum that signifies right and they are so called as the people that had only the right way both to know God and to worship God the Lord had given his Statutes to Jacob and his Laws to Israel he had not dealt so with other Nations they were only the right people and so it may be explained by Isaiah 42.19 where the Lord saith Who is blind as my servant Who is blind as he that is perfect What perfect and yet blind yes perfect in Ordinances and priviledges and yet blind Forelius and

present or things to come 1 Cor. 3.22 mercies or crosses Eph. 1.22 Christ is made the head over all things to the Church for the Churches sake he doth order all things for their good and doth as Physitians do temper poyson into a wholsom medicine Gods people are gainers by their worst estates and by their afflictions they are made partakers of his holiness and when their outward man doth decay the inward man is renewed and whatsoever God laies upon them so it works in them the quiet fruit of righteousness it matters not what befall them in this world though the rain make the way foul it is no matter so it make the land fruitful for these clouds drop fatness and therefore the soul of a godly man blesseth the hand and kisseth the rod that smites and saies it was good for me that I was afflicted maledictionem benedixit paupertatem ditavit Luther Grace is like the Philosophers stone it turns all into gold Prov. 3.18 it is said wisdom is a tree of life unto them that lay hold of her it puts a man into the same condition that he was before the fall it brings a man again into the paradise of God and the Angel with his flaming sword is removed Fifthly it fills the soul with all spiritual excellencies those that will endure everlastingly and the soul of man is the darling of a man if he loose that what good wil a world do him the excellencie of the man lies in his spirit and the great and eternal difference between man and man lies in their spirit there are two differences here below one man is a King and another man is a subject one a master and another a servant but these differences are but for the time of this life and then all these relations shall cease Iob 3.19 then the servant shall be free from his master and the Princes robes and the beggers raggs lie down together And here be excellencies also that some mens spirits have beyond others some have knowledge common gifts and common graces but these shall be alike for after this life if there be knowledge that shall cease and tongues they shall vanish away 1 Cor. 13. for all this is meat that perisheth Ioh 6.27 the soul may feed upon it a while but it will perish and a mans oyl in his lamp will go out 1 Pet. 3. ult all flesh is grass and the glory of it is as the flower only the word of the Lord turned into grace the Law written in the heart that is immortal seed c. God looks chiefly to the excellency of a mans spirit Numb 14.24 but my servant Caleb had another spirit c. for God is a spirit and the Father of spirits and his eyes are wholly upon the spirits of men and he hates sin in the soul most and so the excellency of the soul he is most delighted with is the adorning that is within Psal 45.1 the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3.4 which is in the sight of God of great price and all outward excellencies are but shaddows of this gold and silver pearls and perfumes c. to have an enlightned sanctified sublime spirit walking above the creatures and the Heart in Heaven where the Treasure is to be brought up to an holy independency towards all things below and a holy magnanimity and self-sufficiency this is a spirit with whom God delights to dwell 2 Cor. 6.16 the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they were panes propositionis set before the face of God for ever Sixthly grace will preserve a man from all evil Prov. 2.11,12 discretion shall preserve thee understanding shall keep thee to deliver thee from the way of the evil man and to deliver thee from the strange woman there is in every age a Course of the world for Dan. 7.2 the world is a Sea and every man is as a drop emptyed thereinto and swims with the tide and the happiness of Gods people is to be redeemed from it Gal. 1.4 In the first three hundred years the world proved persecutors afterward they turned Hereticks then Popery rose and then all the world wondred after the Beast yet in this time there were some that did watch and keep their garments that did not drink of the wine of her fornication who though they came out of great tribulation yet had washed their garments and made them white in the blood of the Lamb we see Noah in the worst times and Lot in a Sodom of filthyness to keep their garments Seneca speaks of a certain place called Ephestion which he saith Ignis innocuus circuit that hurts not those that are within and yet keeps out all evil from them truly such a fire is grace wheresoever it is Use Let me exhort you to get wisdom get understanding for let me tell you there be dayes coming wherein a little grace will be more worth then all the gold in the world Mat. 25 a little of the wise Virgins oyl what would the foolish have given for it men think they can live without God and without grace here but when they come to dye when the channels of all the creatures shall be stopt and all things take their leave and God be all in all to them and then thou hast no interest in him then thou wilt wish as Cardinal Wolsey once said If I had served my God as faithfully as I have done the King he would not have left me c. then a man will say with Galeasius their money perish with them that do prefer all the gold in the world before one hours communion with Christ Oh that I could but bring you in love with grace this day the first step to grace is a high prizing of it Luke 17.5 Christ raiseth their esteem of it and thereby encreaseth it I will give a few rules of trial c. First try the heart in respect of thy darling lust thy right hand Psal 18.23 there is no man but hath some lust that is most beloved and indulged to Now is thy heart most set against that lust above all other sins Secondly grace enables a man to discern the spiritual presence or absence of God in Ordinances Ezek. 10. he saw the glory of the Lord to depart when the rest did not and the soul is drawn out to God in the use of Ordinances and he follows hard after God and he hath the spiritual skil to discern when God draws neer and when the Lord departs for his communion is not with the duty only but with God in it he engageth his heart to draw neer to God 2 King 10.13 whereas another man like Jehu is heedless in the service he performs doth not labour with all his heart to enjoy communion with God nor observes whether God be present or absent a constant heedlesness and regardlesness in the service of God is a certain sign of an hypocrite Thirdly if sin be cast in grace doth never