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A29529	Stand still: Or, A bridle for the times A discourse tending to still the murmuring, to settle the wavering, to stay the wandring, to strengthen the fainting. As it was delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, Anno 1643. By John Brinsley, Minister of the Word there, and now published as a proper antidote against the present epidemicall distempers of the times.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4729; ESTC R217245	80,497	119

never more seasonable Murmurings I suppose they were never more rife and it may be others may thinke they were never more just then at this day It cannot be denyed many bl●ssings at the present we or at least our Brethren want which formerly we and they have enjoyed viz. Peace and Plentie and Libertie Abundance of outward comforts and contentments And many Pressures and Burdens wee now lye under which heretofore we have not beene acquainted with And this causeth murmurings in some Some Blessings wee have and those choice ones so our Fathers would have thought them which yet some are discontented with and weary of That causeth murmuring in them Many dangers and difficulties and discouragements are dayly represented unto us for us to encounter with And those cause murmurings in others And some there are who thinke that Moses and Aaron take too much upon them not sparing to impute all our disasters to the evill counsells of Superiours upon their heads charging all the Blood that hath beene shed in this Vncivill and Vnnaturall Warre And that causeth murmuring in them Thus whatever cause or grounds of murmuring the Israelites in the wildernesse pretended to have the same with like pretext may be thought to be found amongst us at this day So as Murmuring-Spirits may seeme to want no ●ewell to feed the fire of their present discontents and to make it break forth into open flames But this let us beware of Take we heed how we quarrell with Gods dispensations and dealings with us or proceedings towards us for that is properly Murmuring as P. Martyr well describes it Quesimonia de Administratione Dei A quarrelling with Gods Administration an inward discontent outwardly expressed by words or actions against Gods dealings with our selves or others And of this murmuring take we heed First To set on the Councell Consider wee in the first place against whom it is that we murmure Against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high It is the Lords speech to and concerning that proud Senacharib Is. 37. Let it be spoken to us to all I meane that stand guilty of this sinne of Murmuring Against whom is it that we rise up Is it against the holy one of Israel what doe we set our mo●th or heart against the Heavens quarrelling with divine dispensations murmuring against Gods proceedings If so Alas who or what are wee that we should dare to quarrell with that God in whose hands we are as Clay in the hands of the Potter Who art thou O man that ●epliest against God that quarrellest with him saith the Apostle shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made mee thus Rom. 9. However God be pleased to deale with us what ever his Administrations be towards our selves or others yet who or what are wee that we should dare to murmure against him I know what will here presently be replied It is not against God that wee murmure Against whom then Why against those whom we apprehend to have beene or like to bee the Instruments of our woe First And who or what are they It is Moses his Interrogatory to these murmuring Israelites when they were murmuring against Aaron and himselfe Exod. 16.7 And what are wee saith he that yee murmure against us So I may here say Those whom wee looke at with so evill an eye apprehending them as Instruments of our woe who are they or what are they that wee should murmure against them Are they such as are called and set over us by God by him appointed and commissionated to goe before us and with all such as desire to approve themselves faithfull faithfull both to God and us in seeking his Glory and our good In this case if the successe of their indeavours doe not answer their desires and our expectations take we heed how we dare to murmure against them which if we doe Secondly Consider in the second place that God will be very sensible of this Murmuring so much Moses tels the people in the 7 and 8 ver. of the Chapt. last named The Lord heareth your murmurings There is not a murmuring word that passeth out of the mouth nor yet a murmuring thought that riseth up in the heart against any Instruments imploied by God for our good but he taketh notice of it and is very sensible of it Thirdly I so sensible in the third place as that hee taketh it as done to himselfe your murmurings saith Moses in the place forenamed they are not against us but against the Lord Such a respect hath God unto his Officers his Ministers whom he imployeth in any speciall service for him that what is done to them whether for them or against them he taketh it as done unto himselfe So it is in the case of Murmurings The Lord heareth your murmurings which you murmure against him saith Moses there Their Murmurings there they were directed and aimed immediately at Moses and Aaron I but they rebounded and reflected upon God wounding him through their sides Fourthly And thus taking it in the fourth place God will not beare it however not ever beare it True it is such is his long sufferance and patience that sometimes he beares and beares much with the Infirmities of his people in this kinde This we see in these Israelites whilest they murmured for bread and water as one well notes upon that 1 Cor. 10 10. things necessary for their sustentation God beares with their Infirmitie passing it by without any remarkable Judgement But when they goe on still to provoke him in that kinde withall adding contumacy to their sinne murmuring not so much out of want as wantonnesse This was the case when they murmured for Flesh for Quailes Not contented with the Commons which God had allowed them though Angels food Man did eat the bread of Angels saith the Psalmist Bread given from Heaven and brought to them by the ministerie of Angels even as Elias his Bread was by the ministerie of Ravens I and such bread as if the Angels would have had bread to eat they could have eaten no better they would have more full tables and more delicate fare In this case God would not beare with it Much lesse when their murmurings were out of Envy and Malice That was the case when Korah and his Confederates so seditiously rose up against Moses and Aaron That was the case when the whole Body of the Army siding with those wicked Spies and giving credit to their false reports they were ready to take up stones against Caleb and Ioshuah making head against their Governors Here their murmurings were not out of weaknesse but wilfulnesse murmurings not of Infirmitie but Contumacie having a tincture of malice in them Now such murmurings God will not beare with Read we but the stories we shall see how severely God dealt with them in these cases what exemplarie

Sea of this world as Calvin prosecutes it playing and sporting himselfe like the Leviathan in the deepe waters or like the Crocodile in Nilus seeking whom he may devoure And he is the spirituall Pharoah who holding all men by nature in a spirituall servitude and bondage he prosecutes the Israel of God all those who are taken out of his hands translated out of his Kingdome in measure freed and delivered from his Tyranny with all the power he can make seeking either to reduce them or to destroy them Now in reference to him and all these spirituall Enemies the counsell in the Text is very proper teaching the Lords people what they are to doe Consistite stand stand fast So the Apostle presseth and inculcateth it in the place fore-named Ephe. 6. Put on the whole armour of God that you may be abl● to stand vers. 11. Take unto you the whole armour of God that you may be able to with stand and having done all to stand vers. 13. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to stand and stand against Against what Why against that Crooked winding Serpent against the wiles of the Devill vers. 11. against that great Leviathan those Principalities and Powers vers. 12. Against these stand we fast no●Flying but Resisting not flying from Satan but making head against him Whom resist steadfast in the Faith saith Saint Peter speaking of that roaring Lyon {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} firmi in side or per fidem firme and steadfast by Faith in Faith by the Power of Faith in the Profession of Faith Standfast in the Faith saith the same Apostle to his Corinthians 1 Cor. 16. Q Stand still And stand fast Counsell soone given you may say but not so soone taken Satan a Potent Enemy how shall we poore striplings ever be able to looke him in the face much more to stand our ground against him A. Even so might the Israelites here have replyed to Moses Pharoah and his Hoast a Potent Enemy and how should they ever be able to stand against him Yet for all that Moses here bids them stand and stand still This did he even as it is said of Abraham Rom. 4.19 Being not weake in Faith he considered not his owne body c. He staggered not at the Promise of God through ●nbeliefe but was strong in Faith giving glory to God thus did Moses here Being not weake in Faith he considered not the Body of his owne Army which in many respects was f●rre inferiour to that of the Enemies but being strong in Faith he gave glory to God resting upon the Promise and upon that ground he bids them stand True it is if we looke at our Enemies and our selves comparing their strength with our weakenesse we shall find a discouraging disproportion But here 's our comfort whatever they or we be we have a strong God who is able to make us stand though in our selves never so weake So saith ●aul of the weake brother {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He shall be upheld he shall be established why for God is able to make him stand And therefore how conscious soever of our owne weaknesse yet be we strong in the Lord strong not in our owne but in his strength going forth against this Enemy as David against his Goliah not in any confidence of our owne but in the name of the Lord resting upon his power and faithfulnesse who having once delivered us out of the mouth of this Lyon will yet deliver us as Paul concludes perfecting his owne worke where once he hath begun it Stand wee therefore our ground against Satan Secondly And as against Satan so in the second place against Anti-christ A spirituall wickednesse too Such is the mystery of Anti-christ whatever the Person be An Enemy figured and shadowed out also by Pharoah and the power of Egypt here Egypt it was a Type and figure of Rome so the Spirit it selfe interprets it Revel. 11. where speaking of the two witn●sses the faithfull Martyrs of Christ that should be slaine under Anti-christ as it is generally interpreted he saith That their dead bodies should lye in the streets of the great Citie which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt That great City there spoken of is Rome together with the whole Romish jurisd●ction and of this Citie saith the Spirit it is spiritually called Sodome and Egypt Sodome for the Filthinesse of it the ho●r●d abominations there acted and allowed Egypt for her Idolatry and Tyranny being a House of Bondage to Gods people wherein they were held inthralled for many hundred yeares together And being in measure delivered from that bondage as Israel here was from Egypts Pharoah and his Hoast the Pope the head of the Church Malignant upon earth with all the power he can rayse both Spirituall and Temporall ●ee prosecutes and pursueth them seeking by all wayes and meanes either to reduce them to bring them back into Egyptian-R●mish-bondage againe or else to destroy them to cut them off from being a people that so the name of Israel might be no more had in Remembrance Now in this case what shall the poore Church and people of God doe Why even that which Moses here adviseth the Israelites to doe in the like condition viz. stand still Consistite stand fast I whatever straits or exigents whatever dangers or difficulties they may be brought unto yet let them stand fast stand still And this let all of us at this day doe That is my aime still to bring home this piece of counsell to our selves as apprehending it very seasonable considering the condition into which God hath now cast us Acondition as I have often said not unlike to this of the Israelites in the Text and that not onely in respect of our present dangers but also in respect of our former deliverance God who here had brought them out of Egypt from under the bondage of a Temporall Pharoah hath wrought the like nay a greater deliverance for us in bringing our forefathers from under the bondage of a Spirituall Pharoah that Romish-Bondage bringing them and us into a libertie and that comparatively a glorious libertie Having done this for us at the present he hath brought us as he did them to the Red-Sea a Sea of Blood where we are in a great strait incompassed with many difficulties and dangers Now in this condition what shall wee doe Why take the counsell in the Text whatever become of us yet stand still stand fast It is Pauls counsell and charge to his Galathians Gal. 5. Stand fast in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not againe intangled in the yoake of Bondage Beloved this is a liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free this liberty from Romish servitude and therefore being delivered {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} stand fast not suffering our selves to be againe