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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02297	A comforting farewel-word, to the Lords trembling-hearted peoples, at the removal of the cloud of His glory from the sanctuary, applyed as a present cordiall, against their heart-faintings.		1664 (1664)	Wing C5538A; ESTC R174126	27,781	60

wife which is indeed the thing they aim at for though they say it is with something in the contract they are dissatisfied as not drawn up according to their mind yet indeed it is with the marriage that they are displeased for their butt holiness whereunto the marriage contract obligeth and so the renting off their double of the contract whereunto formerly they gave their consent will not make him give up with our Land and scatter his family again Likewise it will be clear from the second Psalm That the Lord will not give up with Scotland for there you will find the present case of our Land clearly set down for there is plotting against the Lord and his anointed and it is not with the Heathens only that the Lord is expostulating but also he is reproving a people who have formerly professed service to him and that have been under bonds and tyes unto him for they say Let us break their bands asunder and cast their cords away from us now if they had been Heathens then had they been under no bonds to him as they were yea the phrase is very emphatick and very significant for they say their bands implying that they would esteem Gods bands to be nothing else but the bands and cords of men that hurt them therefore they say their bands whereas they should say his bands And then the Lord begins to plead Christs right and shews that it is not by way of set tack for so many years that Christ should have these lands but in possession are they given unto him for he saith Ask of me and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Now it is concluded by all that Scotland is the uttermost part and corner of the world and therefore it was given to Christ and that not for a set time of lett but as a sure and everlasting possession so our Land being given to Christ and that as an inheritance and possession whereof the second Psalm and 8. verse is his standing Charter in the Bible we must not think that he will quit his possession but will keep his right and inheritance and therefore we declare our Land a married Land unto the Lord and a sure and on given unto Christ and therefore there being a standing evidence and charter for his inheritance and possession and a standing marriage contract and the marriage relation continuing betwixt him and our Land he will not put away his married Church no storm shall take his possession from him nor be able to keep him away from his married Church but in spite of all impediments he shall see us again Smile O Heavens at this and be Ioyful O Earth let all things break forth into singing before him rejoyce greatly in the Lord O our souls and let all that is within us bless his holy name let the redeemed of the Lord be joyful in their King who hath married our Land unto himself and given unto us thereby sufficient ground for assurance of this that he will certainly and without all doubt See us again So we come unto another Doctrine from the words which is from the time when he did thus comfort his Disciples viz. before they entred into the heat of the fernace Whence observe Obs 2. That before the Lord enters his people into a hot furnace of affliction he useth to send them a comfortable word for incouraging their hearts in order to thoron-bearing and a blessed out-gate We see it clear in the words ere they meet with the heat of the furnace he tellls he will see them again and their hearts shall rejoyce this is clear also from divers other Scriptures before the Church go into captivity he tells them that at the end of 70 years they should teturn again and before his honest Prophet met with persecution from enemies he told him that he had made him an iron pillar and brasen walls against them Jer. 2. 18. therefore though they would fight against him yet they should not prevaile against him It was also the practice of the Apostles to comfort the people of God 1 Pet. 4. 2. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is only to try not to destroy you Jam. chap. 1. 2. My brethren count it all joy when you fall into divers tentations viz. in suffering for they would get no hurt thereby and fear none of these things shall come upon thee saith the Lord to his people Rev. 2. for though the Devil cast some of you into prison yet afterwards it shall be well with thee be faithful therefore to the death and I shall give thee a crown of life there is a sad trial coming Isa 3. 10. but he sends a comforting word to his people Say ye to the righteous it shall be well with him Daniel 12. a sad storm c. a time of trouble such as they never saw since a nation and yet tells them at that none such ill time deliverance shall come and blessed shall they be that shall see the compleat delivery So you see the point clear viz. That the Lord useth to comfort his people e're he enter them into a hot furnace of affliction or persecution for his name Many reasons might be given why the Lord does thus comfort his people e're they enter into a hot furnace for his sake but we shall not touch them here but shall bring them in with some of the uses for the saving of time Vse 1. This lets us see what the blessed and tender disposition of Christs heart is who before he enter his people in the heat of a furnace will give them something to refresh and bear up their hearts while in it Vse 2. Secondly it lets us see that it is the duty of Ministers of the Gospel even of all that bear his name before his people to comfort them when they are like to meet with a stormy trial for his sake they should imitate their Lord and his Apostles who comforted the Church in a day of trial in the hope of a gracious out-gate Therefore let us exhort so many of you as are here whom the Lord calls to speak from his word unto his people not only Ministers who have this great work lying on them but also young men who must be faithful in the little if so we may call it labour to imitate your blessed Master in this see you a dark cloud coming upon the Church and people of God O then comfort them against the present distress tell them that they shall get a blessed out-gate and that there shall be a blessed light after the present darkness And I shall give you a few reasons by way of motive for incouraging you to comfort the people of God to whom he sends you to speak in his name 1. Motive First comfort the people of God for it is your duty upon any hazard whatsoever Isa 3. 1● Say ye to the

A COMFORTING Farewel-Word TO THE LORDS Trembling-Hearted People AT THE Removal of the Cloud of his Glory from the Sanctuary applyed as a present Cordiall against their heart saintings Act. 14. 22. We must thorow much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God Zach. 14. 7. It shall come to passe that at the evening time it shall be light Zach. 8. 6 If it be marvelous in the eyes of this People in these Dayes should it be also marvelous in mine eye saith the Lord of Hosts Printed in the Year 1664. TO THE READER WHen the Children of Israel departed out of Egypt they met with many sad difficulties in their way before they entered into the land of Canaan they had the Red Sea before them the Armies of the Egyptians behind and Rocks upon every hand thus they were in very evil case and when the Lord had manifested his power and goodness in pathing a way for them on the face of the deeps so that his Redeemed did walk thorow as upon dry land even then their troubles were not ended for their faith had great tryals in the Wilderness where they wandered fourty years sometimes fleeing before her enemies sometimes wanting Water sometimes hungry sometimes sting'd with Serpents yea and that after they were at the very border of the land of Promise so that they met with many afflicting dispensations in their way yea and at last there is a raging Jordan when they are at the very entry into that Land wherein they were to rest And it s very clear that Egypt was a Figure of that spiritual bondage wherein we are by nature under the oppression of the great Pharaoh Satan and sin whereunto even the Elect are servants before Conversion and the place whereunto they went viz. Canaan which was a type of Heaven whereunto Believers do go and wherein they are to rest and therefore by the long wearisome journey thorow the wast bowling Wilderness and the many difficulties wherewith they did meet in their march to Canaan must shadow forth these many sad and afflicting dispensations and disappointments wherewith Believers are exercise from the day of their conversion from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God till the day of their passing from the miseries of time and entering into that glorious and blessed Rest that waiteth for the people of God Heb. 4. whereof Canaan was but a figure And as tossed Israel attained to that rest thorow the goodness of God sending the pillar of the cloud to direct them by day and the pillar of fire to lead them in the dark night and inclining them to follow the same so also shall Believers come to that blessed Rest thorow the goodness of our God who sendeth these two precious pillars of his word and providence between which there is so sweet a concord and so pleasant a harmony to direct our way Canaan is before us therefore we ought not to be weary though we be sometimes walking in the deep and miry Clay the rest that is before us will sufficiently make up all our losses and pains in walking thither therefore let us not give way to sinkings of bea rt which may occasion wearying in the way its good taking a view of the land that is afar off that so by looking beyond the things that are seen being temporal unto the things that are not seen being spiritual and eternal we may esteem our afflictions light and of short continuance being delighted with the forehand conceptions of that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory and may be encouraged thereby to indure unto the end and be saved surely there 's good ground so to do seeing that there can no sader dispensation befall the Church then that wch the cloud of witnesses have travelled thorow Heb. 11. and we are commanded to walk by the foot steps of the flock in dayes of tribulation and astonishment and it is most safe for us so to do and to make our blessed Lord Jesus our hiding place from the wind storm rain and tempest Isa 32. 2. for he hath a real fellow feeling and simpathy with his people and hath learned from his own bitter sufferings to succour them that are tempted Heb. 2. 18. and also there is some comfortable dispensations also wherewith the Lord refresheth weary Israel there 's a path thorow the Red Sea there 's a brasen Serpent to cure the stings of the fiery Serpent in the Desart there 's an Elim as well as a Marah Numb 33. 9. where are twelve fountaines of Water and threescore and ten Palm Trees where weary Israel may be refreshed the Lord dealeth not with his people as if they were briers and thornes ranked in his way Isa 27. 4. but as with his Vineyard Vers 8. contending in measure there for removeing corrupt buddings forth staying his North wind in the day of his East wind some breathings he giveth his people some fair blinks after tempestuous storms so much the Scripture alloweth his people to look for and that which followeth doth tend somewhat to the encouragement of the Lords people to look for his goodness as to this in the land of the living Times and seasons are known to our God and we are only to look to his word as our rule and to admit of no comfort nor comforter but is according unto this unerring rule viz. the Scriptures This Sermon going abroad thorow many hands cannot be expected to be so full as it hath been at the first yet nothing is rendered here but what was then delivered there may also be found divers Erratas and possibly some Tautologies which may be easily helped if the Author shall upon notice or sight hereof be perswaded to revise it himself in the mean time let the Discreet Reader amend or candidly passe over what he finds not so distinct nor sounding so well as in another case might be expected Farewell A Comforting Farewell Word to the Lords Trembling Hearted People at the removal of the Cloud of his Glory from the Sanctuary as a present Cordial against their Heart-faintings Text JOHN 16. 22. But I will see you again and your Heart shall rejoyce OF all the people that are in the VVorld the people of the Lord who have dedicated and given away themselves to him have most yea and only reasons to be joyfull in their blessed King and there are none that have solid ground of consolation but they alone for albeit they have their times of heaviness when need requires they and only they have also that which may hear up their spirits under the heavy pressures of such sad and bitter Dispensations and howbeit their lot may be to fit low for a time and with the Church Lamen 1. 13. to interline this melancholious meditation among the rest of their sad Complaints From above hath he sent a fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them The yoak of my transgressions is bound by his hand they are wreathed