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Sutable [sic] comforts for suffering Sion; or, saints interest in God, their chiefest support in times of greatest straits Being a brief discovery of what God is to his people in all ages: which is of great weight and use to his in these trying times. Written by Edward Delamaine, at present under restraint, and a prisoner of hope.
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Delamaine, Edward.
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of the Bush had called to Moses He said in the seventh Verse I have surely seen the Affliction of my People in Egypt Hence observe That God takes notice of his Peoples Affliction yea special notice I have surely seen saith God Oh suffering Souls your Consolations are not small the Eyes of Heaven are upon you and your sufferings the Eye of Love and the Eye of Pity is not onely President over you but Present with you be you never so remote or obscure in Suffering that Eye of Divine Majesty that runs to and fro throughout the whole Earth will be first on you I have saith God surely seen the Affliction of my People in Egypt This is a sweet Word of God My People though Afflicted yet Mine though Oppressed and Hated yet My People It 's not their Sufferings their Miseries their Afflictions that can un-people them that can break that great cord of Union and Relation between God and his People My People though Oppressed and Persecuted yet My People They are never the more Unlovely in my Eyes never the more Uncomely though they are trampled upon as dirt and made as the off-scouring of the World yet I am not ashamed to own them I am not ashamed to acknowledge them to be My People and therefore I will own them and stand by them They are indeed by their Oppressors and Persecutors having the rod of the wicked over them making surrows upon them represented very Unlovely very Uncomely very Despicable and Contemptible yet nevertheless there is not a tittle of my Affection and Love that I bear to them abated or diminished they are My People yea and in Egypt God doth not onely own his People in the worst of Conditions but in the worst of Places also And therefore he saith I have surely seen the Affliction of my People in Egypt Egypt was called The House of Bondage The Nation of their Oppression The Land wherein they were Slaves and Strangers Yet there God owns them My People in Egypt It is not Places that makes God at all Disaffected with his People though they be thrown into Newgate or elsewhere the shamfullest of Goals by his cruelty whose tender mercies are no better nor nothing else yet there will God own them the loathsomest Dungeons shall not at all keep God from Communion with his People He will own them though in Egyt and saith God I know their Sorrows Know their Sorrows he doth and will he not remedie it Yea surely As if the Lord should say I am acquainted with all their Griefs I am concerned in all their sufferings Oh Christians believe this Truth That God sees all the Afflictions of his People and knows their Sorrows God sees for this end and knows for this end that he might the better communicate seasonable good to his People And in Verse 10. saith God Come now therefore that thou mayest bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt Come now saith God now is my Time now is my Opportunity now is my fit Season to Deliver My People God's Time of working Deliverance for his People is when they are in the midst of the greatest straits and sufferings Now the Lord is imploying and sending Moses with a Message both to Pharaoh and to his People Moses very much opposeth it and with the Lord pleads two things 1. His own Unworthiness Who am I saith he that I should go to Pharaoh that I should be imployed in the service of the great God of Heaven The Lord takes off this Objection by Answering I will be with thee The Worthiness of Gods assisting Presence will far surmount and exceed Moses his Unworthiness One thing here you have worth observing and that is That it is not the Meanness Lowness Unworthiness simply considered of poor creatures that doth exclude or exempt them from Gods service or acceptance but sin will hinder from both A Second thing that Moses pleads against his being imployed is Ignorance of Gods Name He did not know what Name of God he should carry to his poor suffering People This God answers and declares and so I come to my Text. I AM THAT I AM I AM hath sent unto them this is my Name for Ever and my memorial unto all generations In which Words you have Three things 1. A Description or Discovery of the Name of God I AM THAT I AM or what I ever was 2. The Perpetuity and Continuance of His Name This is my Name for EVER 3. The use of it to his People This is my Memorial unto all generations From the Occasion of the Words you have this Observation That God Proportions out Sutable and Seasonable Mercies and Comforts to his Peoples State and Condition You may see that this Truth ariseth naturally from the occasion of these Words if you consider that these were a People under great Promises from the Lord and also from Men under great Sufferings and Oppressions Now to this Afflicted Oppressed People God sends this Message this errand I AM THAT I AM No Name of God had been so Sutable so Seasonable as this I AM the same that ever I was I shall shew anon in due place how Seasonable how Sutable this Name of God is to his Suffering People If God had sent to his People his Name Jah or Jehovah it had been something but it had not been so seasonable as I AM. God usually stays and delays Deliverance that it may come most Seasonable and Sutable to his Peoples Conditions Why must they be four hundred years in Affliction May not two hundred years serve No at the end of four hundred years is Gods time for Deliverance then will his Mercies come most Seasonable And truly this I am perswaded is the very Reason why God seems to keep away deliverance from his People they are not yet come to the greatest of straits the Mercy will not come so Seasonable and Sutable as God would have it I might be large upon this Point but I shall not at this time though it is a Truth of great concernment I shall only prove it with an Instance or two with some Reasons and then proceed to what remains which is much upon my heart See Gen. 21. from vers 15. to 21. Poor Agar was in great distress she and the Babe was like to perish for want of water she was in the greatest of Straits gave her self and babe over for death past all hope of life Oh then was Gods time then was his time to appear and that with a Sutable and Seasonabe Mercy to her State and Condition and pray What was that Her condition was such that she had like to have died with Drought want of Drink for she was in a Remote and barren Wilderness behold God communicates to her a Well of Water From hence see That God proportions out Seasonable and Sutable Mercies Comforts to his Peoples Wants Necessities From this Remarkable instance in Agar you have many considerable things 1. That