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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64466	A fast of Gods chusing plainly opened for the help of those poor in spirit, whose hearts are set to seek the Lord their God in New-England, in the solemn ordinance of a fast : wherein is shewed, 1, the nature of such a fast, 2, the testimony God will give thereunto of his gracious acceptance, 3, the special seasons wherein God will bear witness to such a fast, 4, some helps to faith that is shall be so, 5, why such a fast is so acceptable and succesfull, 6, how much this concerns Gods people in New-England : preached on a fast called by publick authority, on 26, 1[6]74 / by Thomas Thacher...	Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1678 (1678)	Wing T830; ESTC R9807	27,462	32

for it hath refeference to Gods conduct of Israel thorow the wilderness God went before them in the pillar of Cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and in time of danger the Angel removed and went behind them as at the Red Sea Exod. 14. 19 20. So that their Righteousness was the Lord in the Cloud They were a people full of all manner of iniquity perverssn●ss and Rebellion Ay but sayes God I have seen no iniquity in Jacob nor perverssness in Israel Jehovah went before them as a God pardoning iniquity transsgression and sin and so he proclaims his Name Exo● 34. and 7. he had never lead them through the wilderness but that as their Righteousness he went before them so when God accepts you graciously through the Righteousness of his Son Christ Jesus and so goes before you this is a benefit whereby he manifests his gracious acceptation and the phrase signifies three things 1. That he goes before you to seek a place of rest for you and so our Lord Jesus Christ is gone before us to Heaven for that end H●b 6 20 whether the Forerunner is for us entred even Jesus When you see that the Lord Jesus hath gone before you and hath born affliction for you though he was holy and righteous he hath born the curse and dyed for you and rose again and ascended into Heaven c. he is gone to prepare your rest Joh. 14. 2. I go to prepare a place for you 2. He goes before you in his word guiding you in the way wherein you ought to follow him that you also may attain to rest and thus he did to Israel in the wilderness when God sends forth his Light and his ●ruth to inform your understandings and bows your hearts to obedience according to that proportion of spiritual Light manifested then he goes before you as your Righteousness 3. When the Lord goes before you to secure the way unto you as the great Captain of your Salvation he leads you as he did Israel into Canaan Josh 5. 13 14 15 the Lord Jesus goes before you as the Captain of your Salvation This you shall obtain at the Lords hand when you Fast such a Fast as he hath chosen and he will tread your Enemies under your feet shortly the Devil and the world and what ever else And so for a common wealth in time of war if they fast sincerely he will go before them and make their way victorious and their end Triumphant Jehoshaphats Fast brought them to the Valley of Blessing 2 Chron. 20 6. 26. 4. He will also be your Rereward ve 8. that signifies the gathering Host that comes after the rest of the Army to gather up the weak and the feeble And those that are not able to secure themselves this is called the gathering Host as in the March of Israel through the wilderness there was the tribe of Dan they were the gathering host Numb 2. v. 25. to the 31. and this is that which David refers to Psal 27. 10. When my Father and my mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up When thy own heart shall fail and all succour from friends and thine expectations are cut off from creature helps then the Lord will gather you up you are fatherless or widows or the like that is in such or such a case of affliction or under temptations and you cannot resist them and the Devil sets upon you with mighty force and you cannot obtain help from any other in such a case when you fast the Fast that God hath chosen God himself will be your Rereward he will come between you and the enemy Exod. 14. 19. 20. Isa 59. 19. 5. He will satisfie your souls in drought and make fat your bones and you shall be like a watered garden c. v. 11. A time of drought is a time of general want of rain and thereupon follows not only want of water as in Ahabs dayes but want of food also now in this time of drought God promises to satisfie your souls to make you as a watered garden that is whatsoever wants necessityes have been or may be feared to come upon a person or people yet when they fast the Fast which God hath chosen he will satisfie their souls in drought make● at their bones alluding to Gods dealing with Israel in the wild●rness in giving them water out of the Rock Manna from heaven which was not only food water for their bodyes but spiritual food and water for their souls so God will deal out a sufficient supply of all that good that is needfull for soul or body in this present life Psal 33. 19. To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in Famine 6. He will make your soul as a watered garden and as a spring of water whose waters fail not As a watered Garden that is you shall be inclosed and secured from them that might spoil your roots or your fruits or that might make any sad and wofull impression upon your foundation in matte● 〈◊〉 civil policy or personal considerations and you shall not be barre●● unprofitable in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ A Fast which God hath chosen is the way to all fruitfulness in all precious fruits like to the garden inclosed Cant. 4. 12. And lest you should fear scarcity after this saves God They shall be as a living spring of water whose waters fa●l not Joh. 4. 14. the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into Everlasting Life you shall have springing supplies of outward and spiritual consolation as the matter may require and when I say consolation I intend the ground of it as well as the sense of it that is such supplies of grace seasonable knowledg of those supplies that you shall not but acknowledg in them Gods everlasting loving kindnes 7. There shall be a blessing to your posterity as well as to your selves ver 12 and there are three things in it 1. They shall build the old wasts this wilderness for ought I know hath lain waste from the beginning and there were never a Civilized people here before now fasting and prayer is the way to build the old wasts of Judah and Israel 2. Thou shalt raise up the Foundations of many gnnerations that is thou thy seed 3. Thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach the restorer of paths to dwell in many breaches are made in Churches and in common wealth and upon mens Souls many breaches upon the visible Church of God in the world who are they that shall repair such breaches those that observe such a Fast as God hath chosen and the restorer of paths to dwell in in the times of confusion those hurries that are amongst men about the matters of Religion people loose their paths and know not how to order their wayes before him to gracious acceptation you that