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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01816	A sermon preached by Master Michael Bruice, in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, the immediate sabbath after he received his sentence of exile for Virginia.	Bruce, Michael, 1634 or 5-1693.	1668 (1668)	Wing B5220A; ESTC R173193	13,997	16

a brave counting day betwixt Christ and his Followers it'l be a brave counting day betwixt Christ and his Father Here am I and the Children thou gave me here am I and my Bairns at my Back there is never one of them lost for all the scatterings and wanderings that was among them they are all here Now some were killed in the Fields some were executed on Scaffolds some by Murderers hagged down as they stood on the Cross-ways some murdered in Houses their Relations never heard tell of them some lost in the Sea some banished to the utmost Parts of the Earth some part of them buried and some part of them unburied but here are they all now and never one of them lost they shall all Proclaime the high Praises of the Lord through Eternity Sixthly it'l be a counting Day betwixt Christ and his Followers Here am I with all that ye committed to me your Souls with Increase O such a gallant counting day as that will be There is a fourth thing I know and that is in the 4 Dan. 2 or 3 v. before the end I know God ruleth in Heaven among the Children of men I pray you who is Master Governour of the World I wot well it 's neither Men nor Devils then we would not have a Cock to crow day I wot well says the Magistrates and Men of the World there is none ruleth above us soft and fair as noble Blaids has been taught by sad strokes and sore Skins that the most high ruleth in Heaven among the Children of Men Noble Nebuchadnizzar would not ken this he was so great till he made him to ken it by a sore skin 4 Dan. 38 v. It may be it cost some of our great men a sore skin yet or they learn this Lesson but learn it they shall some of them might have known this already by what they were put to but if they will not take up their Lesson by what they have met with God shall gar them ken yet by a more God-like-stroke that he ruleth in Heaven and among the Children of Men. There is a fifth thing I am to carry the knowledge of alongs with me and that is in the 5 Matth. 18 v. Heaven and Earth may pass away but one jot or tittle of his Word shall not pass away till all be fulfilled Therefore what ever is commanded I know I must obey and what ever threatenings he has threatened upon enemies I believe they will be accomplished and whatever he has promised to his friends I know it will be made out This I know and this I am to carry the Faith of alongs with me through all my troubles There is a sixth thing that I am to know and that is in the 89th Psalm That whatever be the afflictions of the people of God yet he will not take his Loving-kindness from them And since I know that what for should I be discouraged and cast down The men of the World says what have we to look to now since we are suffering such hard things for our Covenant and Work of Reformation Indeed and our Master were taking his Loving-kindness from us then we will brag the best of them all say the contrary who will and I say rejoyce not over me O mine Enemy though I fall I shall rise again they shall be upmost that bides by our Master and they shall be undermost that opposes him say the contrary who will There is a seventh thing I am to know and that is Be his Dispensations never so sad yet I know that which is in the 10th v. of the 25 Psal All his Paths are Mercy and Truth to them that keep his Testimonies And if I could come to be a fearer of him and a keeper of his Covenant I would soon be at a point as to what men could do to me The men of the World says they shall put this and that in our Cup to gar us rew what we have done but if I be a keeper of his Covenant my Master will put in Mercy and Truth in all his Dispensations to me and then that'l sweeten all There is an eighth thing I know and that is in the 75 v. of the 119 Psal I know all thy Judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me I know that there is also much faithfulness in every rod that is laid upon my Back as was exercised upon me when I was dandled upon his Knees There is a ninth thing I know and that is That the Lord is God and not Man the holy one of Israel in the midst of us therefore we shall not die but live He hath ordained us for Correction but not for Destruction he will debate with us but it will be in measure There is a tenth thing I am to know and that is in the 3 of Malachy 3 v. He shall sit as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver I know this that as long as we are in the Fire he will sit at the Lip of it I know he sits as a Refiner to drop in Bell-mettal as the Dross goes away Bnd his end in all this is that we may offer unto him the Sacrifice of Righteousness Now these are ten things that a Christian is to know and anchor upon in a day of trouble The second thing to be spoken to is What is that knowledge that a Christian hath which is a knowledge in order to fixedness that a man must have it is a knowledge with these four in the midst of it I am distinct in what I know the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor God will maintain I know though I should be Banished to Virginia and never see that Cause maintained yet God will maintain it I know that and I am distinct in the knowledge of it 2dly This man he knows believingly he knows him so that he has a perswasion through Faith that will admit of no Controversies it 's not a knowledge by ratrym it 's not a knowledge by report and hear-say but it is a knowledge that hath a divine Perswasion in the Bosom of it flowing from a divine stamp of the finger of God upon the Spirit cannot be taken off Thirdly not only doth he know distinctly and believingly but he knows experimentally and from what he hath found he draws conclusions and perswasions Fourthly it 's a knowledge with much operation in the Bosom of it making him quick and nimble in the Practice of holiness in all the course of this Life The third thing to be spoken to is Wherein lies the nobleness of this knowledge The nobleness of attaining such knowledge lies in these three First The nobleness of it lies in this it says thou hast been a good Schollar at the School of Christ but I fear it may be said of the most part of us we have been but Buboes all our time and so will come of it Secondly The nobleness of it lies in this that it is that