will stand good against him seeing all the wisdom of others is but folly with him and he taketh the wise in their own craftiness and confoundeth the counsels and policy of the Subtle and returneth them upon themselves at his own pleasure This will be a farther ground of our trust and confidence that we are to repose and put in him In trusting in him we trust not in a foolish and unadvised Person that undertakes such a Charge that he does not well understand and is not wise enough to manage and protect But in trusting in the Lord Jehovah we trust in a God that is infinitely wise in all respects and knows how to manage all the Charges and Cares of an universal Patron and Protector and is such a God for wisdom to whom we may well commit the care of our Souls and Lives and all that is pretious and dear to us Thirdly He is a God that is Omnipotent and Almighty and can do every thing and therefore we have the greater reason to trust and confide in him He is no weak and and impotent creature but a God that is armed with all the Might and Power that can be and therefore we may well account him the Rock of our Salvation I am the Almighty God saith he to Abraham Gen. 17.1 walk before me and be thou perfect And in these two respects especially may God be said to be Almighty 1 Because all Rule and all Dominion and Power of Governing all things doth in a most absolute manner belong to him He is the great and only Monarch of all the World and all the Armies and Hosts of Heaven and Earth are under his Authority and Power and at his absolute command He is the Supreme Lord of all and all the Angels above and the Powers of Darkness and all Earthly Kings and Princes are but his Ministers and Servants and must all observe his Orders and obey his word and command For the Lord your God saith Moses Deut. 10.17 is God of Gods and Lord of Lords a great God a mighty and a terrible which regardeth not persons nor taketh reward And saith St. Paul 1 Tim. 6.15 Who is the blessed and only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords He is the Supreme King over all the Kings and Emperors of the Earth and as he sees fit he exerciseth his Authority and Power in all the Kingdoms of the Earth and placeth and displaceth all Kings and Princes as he sees good This the Prophet Daniel sheweth Dan. 4.17 To the intent saith he that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men And ver 25 saith he to Nebuchadnezzar They shall drive thee from men and thy Dwelling shall be with the Beasts of the Field till thou know that the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will And saith he Dan. 2.20 Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever for wisdom and might are his And he changeth the times and the Seasons he removeth Kings and he setteth up Kings And so saith the Psalmist Ps 75.6 For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South But G d is the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another He disposeth of the Kingdoms of the World and ordereth whom he pleaseth to rule therein and there is no man can have any Power therein except it be given or some ways granted and allowed him from above as our blessed Lord told Pilate Joh. 19.11 Jesus answered Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above No Man can have any Authority except it be some way allowed him by Almighty God who is the Supreme King and Disposer of all Power and Authority And he is an everlasting King and his Dominion is without end and endureth to all Eternity Jer. 10.10 saith the Prophet there But the Lord is the true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation And saith the Psalmist Psal 145.13 Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and thy Dominion endureth throughout all generations There is no end of his Kingdom and his supreme Power endureth for ever 2 God is Almighty in regard of his infinite Power whereby he is able to effect and bring all things to pass He is Almighty in Operation and there is nothing too hard for him which he cannot do and therefore he may be said to be Omnipotent He hath all power of doing whatsoever he pleaseth and all the Power and Strength that is in all Creatures is derived from him and hath continual dependance upon him and in this respect he may well be said to be Almighty It is in him that we all live and move and have our being as the Apostle affirmeth Acts 17.28 And there is no resisting and withstanding of his Power and nothing can hinder him from doing any thing that he pleaseth to do For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed saith the Prophet Isaiah 14.27 and who shall disanul it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back And saith God by him Is 43.13 Before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of mine hand I will work and who shall let it There is no resisting and withstanding of him but all must truckle and give way to his Omnipotent Power And saith God to Abraham Gen. 18.14 Is any thing too hard for the Lord hereby declaring that all things are possible and feasible to him And this doth Job acknowledg Job 42 2 I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought can be withholden from thee And saith the Prophet Jeremiah 32.17 Ah Lord God behold thou hast made the Heaven and the Earth by thy great Power and stretched out Arm and there is nothing too hard for thee And the Angel declared this to the blessed Virgin Luc. 1.37 For with God nothing shall be unpossible saith he And this our Lord sheweth Matth. 19.26 But Jesus beheld them and said unto them with men this is unpossible but with God all things are possible He can turn and change every thing at his own will and pleasure He can create and form things that are not out of nothing and annihilate those that be and let them return to nothing again All things that thwart not his justice goodness and truth he can do And his power is an eternal power and will never fail nor decay He is an everliving God and his Arm and Power will never be shortened nor diminished Rom. 1.20 saith St. Paul For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal Power and Godhead But we shall the better
and seek to God and trust in him alone he will never be wanting to us but will be sure to be with us at all times as need shall require And even at the Stake if we should be brought thither will he be with us to support us as he was with St. Stephen Acts 7.55 And even now will the Lord God Almighty assume and take to himself his great Power and will Reign Rev. 11.17 that is will Reign in a magnificent and glorious manner and make mortal men to know in the end that it is He which ruleth in the Kingdoms of men and disposeth of them as he sees good Now will he exert and put forth his Almighty Arm for the protection and defence of his Church and Servants in their forlorn and helpless condition And when we have seen this we are to imitate that Heavenly Assembly of Elders and to sing Alleluja's to him and to return thanks to the Lord God Omnipotent because he hath so visibly set up his Standard here among us and hath Reigned in such a glorious and renowed manner for the preservation of his Church and Servants Now in the end of this dark Time that is coming upon us will the Lord God Omnipotent shake the Earth and the great City too Rev. 11.13 and affright the Inhabitants thereof and make them to give glory to the God of Heaven And then are the Enemies of the Protestant Church to expect that the second dreadful Wo will be executed upon them And in the earth-quake saith St. John were slain of men seven thousand Which number seems to be put not strictly for just seven thousand but for an exceeding great number of men that shall be then slain See the Letter of a Protestant Clergy-man And therefore we had need to take great care that we do not fall to Popery and so perish in this Destruction We ought to take great care that we fall not from God to any sinful practices for hereby we shall do our selves more harm than all our Enemies can do to us By Rev. 11 we may see that Popery shall prevail for three years and an half and that then after this time is exspired the Protestant Church shall be as glorious as ever it was before And from this XI Chapter we have assurance of God's extraordinary help and protection even at this very time that he will in a wonderful manner defend his Church and Servants and fight for them against their Enemies And after this short time of Tryal will exalt them again And this will be an exceeding great Support and Comfort to us in our mournful and forlorn condition to know this before-hand and to be assured of it by Divine Revelation We may even look upon the Divine Consolation that God gave to his People the Jews by the Prophet as spoken to us Is 26.20 Come my People enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment untill the Indignation be over-past With Faith and Patience we may well wait upon God for such a little time when he for wise and righteous ends does permit such a Tragical Scene of affairs to be brought upon the Stage of the world And now to conclude Seeing our God is such a Rock of Salvation against all that can befall us seeing he knows and regards our conditions and all our Dangers and Needs and Wants and is both able and willing to help and succour us upon all accounts seeing he hath given so great Assurance that he will never fail us and be wanting to us if we serve him and trust in him Let us then not be Infidels and Faithless in so clear a Light but let us be prevailed upon to make him and him alone our Rock and Confidence and betake our selves to him at all times of Danger and Distress for help and relief Though we have sinned and been great Transgressors and so given him too great a cause to cast off his protection and care of us yet if we repent and return to him he is prone to mercy and therefore we may chearfully hope that he will yet be our Almighty God and Protector Let us all then bid adieu to all our sinful and evil ways and set our selves seriously and earnestly to seek the Lord of Hosts and then we shall be sure to find him and to find him a Mighty God for us in the needful time of trouble and distress Let us address our selves to him in earnest prayer and fasting that he would be graciously pleased to pass by our Transgressions and to pity and help us in all the perilous conditions and miseries that befal us Let us call upon him with the man in the Gospel Mar. 9.24 to succour and help our unbelief to encrease and strengthen our Faith in him and to confirm our hopes and confidence in his great Mercy and Goodness that we may at all times chearfully depend and rely upon him and never doubt and despair of his Almighty Help and Protection I conclude all with that Collect of our Church ordered to be used upon the fourth Sunday after Epiphany O God who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright Grant to us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers and carry us through all temptations through Jesus 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AN EXHORTATION To TRUST in GOD And not to Despair of his HELP And fall from Him in this dark Time of Popery that is coming upon the Church Written by Digby Bull M.A. and late Rector of Sheldon in Warwick-shire LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by John Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695. Isaiah XXVI IV Trust ye in the Lord for ever For in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength SUCH is the uncertainty and instability of this restless world at all times that we can place no Trust and Confidence therein nor in any of our Possessions and Enjoyments here below having but an uncertain Tenure of them at the best and may be soon dispossest and turned out of them And so wavering and unconstant is our Condition here that we must confess with the Patriarchs of old that we are like strangers and pilgrims and wanderers here upon the earth and have no fixed and sure Abiding here or any Rock wherein we may securely repose our Hopes and Confidence Nor does it seem to be the will of God that we should be placed in such a sure and secure condition here lest we should be like the Jews of whom it is said in that Song of Moses Deut. 32.18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten God that formed thee And too great a security here will be apt to make us like them and to do so too For the greater exercise of our Faith and Trust-in Almighty God do we seem to be placed here in a more unsetled and mutable condition wherein we are like some times to be exposed to great Straits and Dangers and Necessities and Wants and wherein we shall stand in great need of the Divine Help and Assistance of Almighty God and are in an especial manner then to call upon him for it and to trust in and rely upon him and shall then be sure to find him ready to succor and help us so far as he sees it to be convenient for us and so far as shall be sufficient for us And through the great wickedness and corruption of Mankind and the sinful Children of this World is our Condition here like to be the worse and we must expect some times to be exposed to great distress and hazards and to have our very Lives perhaps too to lie at the Stake and shall here find no help nor succour to deliver us from our Fears and Dangers but must have recourse to Almighty God alone for help and deliverance from all our Distresses and Hazards whatsoever And now have we cause to expect great Trouble and Perplexity and that we must undergo the peril of losing our very Lives and shall have more than ordinary cause to fly to Almighty God for Refuge and Help and Protection For I am confident that the time is now nigh at hand wherein Popery will prevail over the Protestant Church for a time and we must expect very sharp threatnings from the Papists when they have once gotten the upper hand And therefore have I made choice of these words of the Prophet for the Subject of my present discourse wherein all the true Servants of God are exhorted to put their Trust and Confidence in Almighty God at all times and are assured that they shall find him a never-failing Refuge to all such as have recourse to him and rely upon him Trust ye in the Lord for ever For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength In these words then we have these two parts I. An Exhortation or Command to trust in the Lord at all times Trust ye in the Lord for ever And II. The reason wherewith this Exhortation and Precept is backed and why we should do so and that is because of his sure and certain Help and Assistance at all times For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength or the Rock of Ages as it is in the margent and in the Hebrew I. An Exhortation and Command to trust in the Lord at all times God requires this of us both as a Duty towards him that we should firmly rely upon his word and prom ses and place our whole Trust in him at all times And also for our own support and comfort and to chear our heavy hearts in all times of Distress especially such as this which is now coming upon us That we should then rest and depend upon him for his divine Help and Assistance and securely place our Confidence in him with full assurance that he will not then forsake and fail us And First We are hereby taught to put our Trust and Confidence in no other and to rely upon and confide in nothing else In being commanded to trust in the Lord Jehovah we are tacitly hereby forbidden to trust in any other God or to place our trust and confidence in any thing else besides him And this is the first Commandment of the Decalogue that we should have no other Gods before him But in placing our chief trust in any thing else we perform an high act of religious duty thereto and give God's honour and due to another and do hereby in a great measure make it a God And we may see that we are forbidden by positive commands to trust in any thing else besides Almighty God and that a Wo and Curse is pronounced against such and that they are like to find no good in so doing We are forbidden to trust in Riches and to place our Confidence in our worldly wealth and earthly treasures Charge them that are rich in this world saith St. Paul to Timothy 1 Tim. 6.17 that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God This is but vain confidence to place any trust in them as the Apostle here sheweth And saith Solomon Pro. 23.5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not For riches certainly make themselves wings they fly away as an eagle towards heaven It is great folly as well as sin to rely upon them For as he saith Prov. 11.28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall And in no stead in the needful time of trouble will they stand him in that relies upon them as Solomon also sheweth Prov. 11.4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath When there is the most need af all these will then signify nothing to a man's safety and security And in this dark time which is coming upon us I conceive that they will rather add to the sorrow and misery than to the comfort and safety of such as are the great Masters of them And to dissuade us the more from trusting in them and to shew us the great mischief in so doing we may take notice of what our blessed Lord hath said viz That such as do so shall very hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and are in great danger of perishing eternally Mar. 10.23 And Jesus looked round about and saith unto his disciples How hardly shall they that have riches
enter into the Kingdom of God! And the disciples were astonished at his words But Jesus answereth again and saith unto them children how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go thorow the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God By trusting in these men are like to block up the path of Life against themselves We are strictly forbid we see to trust in riches or in any worldly wealth and earthly treasure And we are also forbid to trust in an Arm of Flesh or to rely upon any humane Power We are not to place our Trust and Confidence in any Kings and Princes and great Men of the earth nor in any Armies and Naval Forces and Warlike Preparations The doing of this is sinful and evil and these will prove but weak and helpless Deities to such as rely upon them Psal 146.3 saith the Psalmist there Put not your trust in princes nor in the the son of man in whom there is no help His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish These are of a mortal and perishing nature themselves and cannot preserve themselves and much less then are they able to help and save others that rely upon them And a wo is denounced against such as trust in the help of man Is 30.1 Wo to the rebellious children saith the Lord that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit that they may add sin to sin That walk to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to trust in the shadow of Egypt And we may see in the verses following what help and comfort they were like to find in so doing ver 3. Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame saith God by the Prophet and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion And ver 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them nor be an help nor profit but a shame and also a reproach Here we see how we are like to speed if we trust in an Arm of Flesh and place our confidence in humane Power we must then expect nothing but shame and reproach and confusion And to this purpose Is 31.1 Wo to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong But they look not unto the holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord. And what the issue of such trust and confidence is like to be we may also see here ver 3 Now the Egyptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit when the Lord shall stretch out his hand both he that helpeth shall fall and he that it holpen shall fall down and they shall fail together Such disappointment must men expect from their vain confidence in all humane Force and Power And such as trust in an Arm of Flesh are cursed as God declareth by the Prophet Jeremiah 17.5 Thus saith the Lord cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh Flesh his Arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt land and not inhabited Such as forsake God and trust not in his Help but place their hopes and confidence in humane Power must expect no good but sorrow and misery to attend them in so doing Nor are we to place our confidence in our wit and knowledg and strength of body c and to idolize them as the Prophet sheweth Ier. 9.23 Thus saith the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord We are not to trust in these nor in any other Idol that we may make to our selves but in the Lord Jehovah the living and true God For to trust in any thing else shews disrespect and infidelity towards him and is a derogation from his infinite Power and Goodness and is sinful and evil and in so doing we shall be miserably deluded and may expect to have our hopes and confidence frustrated and disappointed And such as shall now in this dark Time which is coming upon us betake themselves to Arms on the one hand or fall to Popery on the other hand to secure themselves I fear that such will be in great danger of perishing and losing their Lives But I hope that all those that put their trust in Almighty God and with faith and patience wait for his blessed Help and Protection will be preserved alive notwithstanding their hazard and danger is like to be very great And the more to prevail with us to do so Secondly We may see that we are often exhorted and enjoined in the sacred Scriptures to put our Trust and Confidence in Almighty God at all times and upon all accounts especially when we have the most need of Relief and Protection and that it is our duty to do so The sacred Scriptures do frequently exhort us to trust in and rely upon him and to cast all our care upon him and not to doubt of his help and assistance when we shall stand in great need of it Psal 62.7 8. saith the Psalmist In God is my Salvation and my glory the Rock of my strength and my refuge is in God Trust in him at all times ye people pour out your heart before him God is a refuge for us And Psal 115.9 O Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their help and their shield O house of Aaron trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield Ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield And in many other places in the Psalms are we exhorted to this And this is Solomon's exhortation Prov. 3.5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding And saith the Prophet Is 50 10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light Let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God In all sad and comfortless conditions are his Servants to have recourse to him and there to rest themselves secure And this we are also exhorted to and enjoined by the Gospel to cast all our care upon Almighty God and to trust securely in him 2 Cor. 1.9 But we had the sentence of death in our selves saith the Apostle that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the dead And saith
St. Peter 1 Pet. 5.6 7 Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time casting all your care upon him for he careth for you And upon all accounts whatsoever are we to trust in and rely upon Almighty God in all wants and in all dangers both for the obtaining of all such things as are necessary and needful for us and for the avoiding of all such things as are injurious and hurtful to us And 1 We are to trust in and rely upon the Lord Jehovah the living and true God for help and succor in all the wants and needs and necessities that we ly and labor under at any time here in this World We are to rely upon him for a supply to all our temporal wants or food and raiment and of all other necessaries of this life and not to vex and diquiet our selves with carking care and despondent thoughts nor to have recourse to any sinful and unlawful means to furnish our selves with such things as we stand in need of We are to use our own honest endeavours and to call upon him for relief and then to believe that he will supply us with such things as we want so far as he sees it to be needful and convenient for us And this we are more particularly exhorted to in the sacred Scriptures and are therein assured that God will supply us with all such things as we want and have great need of This the Psalmist sheweth Psal 33.18 19 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercy To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine And Psal 34.9 10. O fear the Lord ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him The young Lions do lack and suffer hunger but they that fear the Lord shall not want any good thing And again Psal 37.3 saith the Psalmist Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed Those that do this need not doubt of a supply herein And saith God by the Prophet Isaiah 41.17 18 When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them I will open rivers in the high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water And our blessed Lord doth exhort us to rely upon God in this respect and dissuades us from all anxiety of mind and carking care about the things of this world assuring us that God will not fail to provide these things for us if we serve him as we ought Matt. 6.25 Therefore I say unto you saith he take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feedeth them Are ye not much better than they And ver 28 And why take ye thought for raiment Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these Wherefore if God so cloath the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more cloath you O ye of little faith Therefore take no thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be cloathed For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you Our blessed Lord here doth let us know that God having given us life and a body will give us also such things as are necessary for the supporting of them and that he well understands and minds what is needful for us And by God's care of inferior creatures he doth assure us that he will have a greater care of us and will be sure not to fail us herein if we seek his Kingdom and the Righteousness thereof And to this purpose Lu. 12.22 And often are we exhorted by the Apostles to lay aside all solicitous thoughts about these things and to depend upon Almighty God for them It is our duty to trust in God in this respect and if we should be stript of all in this dark Time that is coming upon us we are then especially to put it in practice and to rely upon the good Providence of God and not to doubt but that he will relieve and help us so far as he shall see it to be convenient for us And for a supply to all our spiritual wants and needs are we to rely and depend upon Almighty God We are to make our earnest prayers to him for the assistance of his Grace and Spirit to enable us to do our duty and to overcome all temptations that shall assault us and for all such Graces and Virtues and other spiritual succors that we have need of and then to depend upon him for relief herein And our blessed Lord doth assure us that we shall be sufficiently furnished with divine Assistance if we do so Lu. 11.13 saith he If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him And saith St. James 1.5 If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him For the blessed assistance of God's Spirit and for all heavenly wisdom and understanding and power to withstand temptations and for all other spiritual aid and help are we to seek to God and to rely upon him for a supply herein and then we shall be sure to be furnished with a sufficiency of them if we seek them as we ought 2. We are to trust in Almighty God in all the Dangers that we at any time shall be exposed to assuring our selves that he will not then be wanting to us And this is the thing which the Text seemeth chiefly to respect as the chapter sheweth We are not rashly and wilfully to run into dangers and so to tempt the Lord but in all the dangers and hazards that we are brought into by the various Revolutions and Vicissitudes of this World or that do any ways casually befal us are we to trust in and rely upon Almighty God for help and deliverance In all times of the Plague and Pestilence and great Sickness and Mortality In all times of War and Bloodshed and great Persecution and Tribulation such as we are