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A96884	The cause use cure of feare. Or, strong consolations (the consolations of God) cordiall at all times, but most comfortable now in these uncomfortable times, to fixe, quiet, and stablish the heart, though the earth shake, and make it stand stil, to see the salvation of the Lord. Taken from Gods mouth, and penned by Hezekiah VVoodward, that all his servants may have assured confidence for ever.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3481; Thomason E90_23; ESTC R1487	71,096	87

layne so long above ground in the street of the great Citty nor had the Adversary any Cause to rejoyce over them indeed he hath not but I speake with respect to the offence of a dead body lying uncovered or hinder their bodies to be put in the graves (c) Rev. 11. 9. They were mystically dead sure for such also is their resurrection their coming to life again I think thus it was and yet I cannot expresse it in words what Antichristian Rome far more cruel then heathenish Rome She was a Dragon fell and Cruell but not so Cruell as a Lamb with hornes as Shee is that looks like a sheepe and is so in her clothing but inwardly is a greevous wolfe O beware of her and her Religion she is MYSTERY BABYLON the GREAT The mother of Harlots And abominations of the earth Rev. 17. 5. and hath no more good in her then what can be found in the bottomlesse pit from whence her Power and Authority ascendeth Rev. 11. 7. I was saying That death there is not properly so called but mystically thus I thinke it was Rome with her sworne servants hath done and will doe all the indignities that are Imaginable against these witnesses suspending putting out of office Defaming Defacing Degrading Truly I know not what but what Rome that delights in proud wrath could doe shee hath done and will doe against these witnesses And how far doth their malice reach To the Body no farther And that was Dead in law before the Body is dead because of sin The Body It is GODS building we must thinke and esteeme honourably of it for it shall be a Glorious body but as it is here and in comparison the people of GOD put little or no account upon it and it is according to the Spirits allowance The Body is not mentioned in the Scripture but with this addition a Dead a vile a corruptible Bodie The Soule stands for All and indeed it is All that we might put esteeme upon it more then upon all the world We see Bodies and dead bodies there then the Adversary can but kill the Bodie their proud wrath can reach no farther They can but take downe that Tabernacle which had it stood a little longer would have fel of its self God has never given a man His security That his Body shall be kept from perishing The streame of the promise runs still towards the Soule I was in the very mouth of Danger sayes Paul almost swallowed up there I was delivered at that time Nero he was the Lyon had not power over me at that time And the 2 Tim. 4. 17. LORD shall deliver me there is his security from what from Nero No hee sayes not so for at length when Paul had finished his testimony he was given up to that devourer The Lord shall deliver me from every evill worke An evil worke a complying with the workers of iniquity and with their wicked wayes that is worse then the Devourers mouth a thousand times worse so nor Paul nor the witnesses did doe Now take all will preserve me to His heavenly Kingdome That 's all indeed and makes amends for all will preserve me to His heavenly Kingdom where the dead bodies now that have all the dishonours put upon them that are conceivable shall be glorious Bodies We have viewed the Bodies now we consider where they lie 2 Where lye they In the street All the disgrace that can bee imagined shall be put upon them that will doe their Duty if they come into their Adversaries hand and it shall be done against them in the openest place where the Adversary may glut his eye in the exercise of proud wrath wherewith his heart is filled To expresse it as we read The Adversary having made himselfe drunke with blood will make these witnesses a GAZIMG-STOCK by reproches and afflictions a spectacle to the world Angels and men (d) Heb. 10. 13. 1 Cor. 4. 9. Why then who is on Gods side who he that is resolved to take Gods part must expect such usage but then he may expect such an exceeding and superlative comfort as will countervail and make amends for all If all the comforts in the world were distilled into one elixir put into these witnesses hands it would not be so cordiall as this which follows All this villanous usage upon these Bodies shall bee done where where also our LORD CHRIST was Crucified That was without the Gates of Jerusalem True and without the territories too by a Law not their own for the Iews could put no man to Death but from Caesar Tiberius he was the Emperour in Rome It is very comfortable what follows There also our Lord was Crucified But rejoyce in as much as ye 1 Pet. 4. 13. are partakers of Christs sufferings that when His glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy Who would not rejoyce to be put to open shame for Christ where Christ was put to open shame for him A great Commander refused a Crowne of gold in that place where the Lord Christ had put upon him a Crowne of thornes There is a continuall spring of comfort from thence which abundantly makes amends for all the proud wrath put forth against these Bodies in the street of the great City There also our Lord was crucified They shall suffer no more but what their Lord hath suffered before them and in that He hath 1 Pet. 4. 13. suffered that shame He suffered it for them that their shame now might be their glory Truly there is a comfort contained in these words that is not expressible but by the mouthes of these witnesses And they felt it then even a joy unspeakable I say then when that wicked woman that abominable strumpet with her Rev. 11. 10. lovers were so jocund and joyfull over them making merry and sending gifts one to another for this is a conclusion of experience That GOD leaves not His Servants Orphanes comfortlesse John 14. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 At such a time as this when they are in the eyes of man fatherlesse friendlesse helplesse in the hands of proud wrath exercising all the indignities that are imaginable upon them and glutting their eye therewith then they are orphans you will say for all have left them and there they lie as you see But now marke the promise I will not leave you Orphans comfortlesse I will come to you nay He is come it is in the present tense now He is come in for all the creature-comforts are gone forth then God comes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in in that season and nick of time And if there be any comfort in His presence as sure there is for He is The God of comforts and God speaks to His people most comfortably in a Wildernesse The sweetest comforts come forth of the greatest straits the Father not of some but of all consolations then they are sure to find it

at such a time when they are in the eye of the world comfortlesse free among the dead put to open shame and the Adversary jocund and merry over them Then is Gods time to come-in and that is His Promise and it is comfort enough for the present For after-time reade on how these faithfull servants have concluded That after the rate of their sorrows and sufferings shall their comforts and consolations be And by the measure of their shame and reproach for Christ here shall their robe of Glory be cut-out hereafter wherewith they shall be vested in heaven So they have concluded and cannot faint in their mindes Thirdly Consider how long the Bodies shall lye there how long shall they be so dispitefully used Three dayes and a halfe They are long dayes as we account length of time who account GODS Patience a sl●cknesse But were they three thousand yeeres yet that length of time makes no difference in eternity Their soules are safe enough Souls and Bodies shall meet againe The spirit of life from GOD shall enter into them and then they that were so merry and glad over them shall be sad enough for great feares shall fall on them And quickly after these turmoiles they shall be for ever with the Lord more glorious then the sun when he shines in his strength for their bodies were put to open shame for Christ and where He was crucified Oh it was a sweet consideration and so long three whole long Dayes now they shall have such a length of Glory that we have not a thought to measure it He that hath observed this hath let it sinke down into his heart and he will hold to the way and worke of The LORD his countenance wil be no more sad He may heare sad things and observe crosse wayes and crosse wills hee may smart under the execution of proud wrath But he hath resolved all into this The will of The LORD be done He is most content That GOD should goe that way which shall make most for His Glory Who will make as we shall see anon all crosse wayes and wills meet at that highest point and in a sweet harmony consent good agreement and a full answerablenesse to His most Holy will In the mean time he doth and by the grace of God is resolved to do his duty and to hold to the way all the faithfull have gone in before him maintaining his watch over his enemies himself also and his own wayes so finding abundance of Peace This followes CHAP. VI. Now Gods Worke goes on and His Servants do their duty The Divell rageth and watcheth to doe mischeife Therefore the Righteous maintayne their watch and guard also but specially over themselves Considering the manner of their Adversaries and of their Masters comming VVAtchfullnesse over the Enemy and a mans selfe is the great duty of a Christian renders him Blessed highly honoured of GOD and secure against his Adversary First Blessed is he that watcheth (a) Rev. 16. 14. for he will keep his garments so that the shame of his nakednesse shall not appeare And b Rev. 3. 18. The LORD wil honour those Servants whom He finds watching with the greatest honour that can be imagined He will gird himselfe and come forth and serve them Luke 12. 37. Secondly Secure They who are found watching are secure against their Adversary he comes like a roaring Lion thinking to doe mischiefe for that is the purpose of his heart but he can doe them no hurt for he finds them waking in their watch-tower So we come to the Duty we have seen the honour of it the security in it now see the nec●ssitie to be now as in all times the servants of The LORD have been WATCHFULL They are bold and fearlesse because they make their watch strong They maintain a wakefull eye over the Adversary to prevent his comming against them To hinder the work What needs that you Nehe. 4. 1. Jer. 31. 28. will say The Watchman of Israel keeps His servants I will watch over them to build and to plant saith the Lord And His Angels are a guard about them True But all this doth not make them carnally secure but indeed the more watchfull Gods watching over His servants His giving His Angels charge over them doth not give them license to snore in the daytime or to sleep in their harvest No they are in Gods way and upon Gods work then as The Lord Christ said to His Disciples * Mat. 26. 45. Sleep on now and take your rest He knew that could not be No time for sleeping then So these servants of The Lord cannot sleep now now they are in Gods way and work for they must look for all the opposition the devill and his Angels can make against them but the fruit of all that old enmity that is in the Spirit which rules in and amongst the children of disobedience There is no enemie in all the world but if you doe meet him it will be in GODS way and when you are upon GODS worke Church-work Temple-work making up the breaches in Jerusalems walls there the Adversaries are there c. then they will appeare in their likenesse the Lion the Adder and the Dragon Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabian (c) Nehe. 6. 1. too and the rest of your enemies there they will meet you upon That WALL and perhaps be upon you before you are aware If the Adversary may have his will ye shall neither know nor see And behold a strange greeting you Neh. 4 11. had as good meet with a Beare robbed of her whelps for you wil find that Adversary the very same he was very (a) Nehe. 4. 1. wroth taking great indignation against the work and the way perhaps he will now as then mock too and grin like a dog So it hath been ever since the first restoring of the Church When Moses came into Egypt and made his demands very peremptory for such are the demands of GOD touching His service he would have all to an hoofe not leave so much as a hoofe in Egypt Then we reade what followed How it was after their returne from Babylon Ezra and Nehemiah have told us It was so in latter times towards the close of the former Centurie and beginning of this when Luther appeared in Germanie spoiling the Pope and his Merchants of that great gaine and in-come by Indulgences It was an ordinary Merchandize with those cunning Merchants for amongst their wares they have the precious soules of men (d) Rev. 18. 13. So I say it was when Luther appeared in Germanie that glorious instrument confounding the Pope and his cunning Merchants rescuing the cause of Christ and advancing His Glory Then and not till then Germanie was full of stirs a tumultuous Nation Hell seemed to be let loose and the devils roaring upon him But then Luther was as bold as a Lion yet as wise as a Serpent He was upon

in deep humiliation while the Joshuahs are searching the tents that the accursed thing may be cast out for so they have commanded us We must doe for the cause of Christ as the spirituall Lords Devils and men doe against Christ to shoulder Him out of His throne This is to doe our duty to doe As c. and so doing we doe our duty heartily and shall rejoyce in time to come that is very comfortable as we read it but there is more comfort in it then so we shall laugh at the time to come a Prov. 21. 2● Ridet ad tempera seq●●ontra Not care so much for the Army in the north as their fore-fathers did for an Army of frogs lice swarms of flies nor for any other mountain in the way for he shall be made a plaine Wee have and will do our Duty They that do so may laugh and sing too But these are but words the Lord knows not the speech but the power of our doing our duty And He put it into our hearts and keep it there for ever We can hardly set upon it though we are set upon by the hand of violence our gods are taken away from us I mean that we dote upon which quickned a man as dead in his body as we in our spirits For thus it was The Phisitians knew no way to quicken him out of his lethargy but by gingling his baggs before him upon the table then he awakened and stirred himselfe up for he would hold Hor. li. 2. S● Satyr 3. his bags as long as he could hold his breath This god is takē from us our liberty too and that is our god also Nay our LORD Christ is taking frō us Who gives all to us He is GOD indeed Now or never we will bethink our selves and lay out all we have are to keepe Him the LIFE of our lives and SOUL of our souls we wil keepe Him There is but this that can discourage us and it is the greatest encouragement in the world if we can contend for Him we may lose our estates and lives too That is true All may be lost most happily lost in such a contention Nay it is not lost it is gained and the greatest gain for He is worthy for Whose cause we do expend all this if it be our dearest blood and all He became poor for us to make us 2 Cor. 8 9. rich e nay a Curse for us to make us a Blessing If we think of this goods shal go and life too and blesse God with all our hearts that He put such a price into our hand to lay out our selves for Christ to suffer for Him Indeed it is as glorious a work as to beleeve in Him we cannot do the one without the other but suffering hath the preheminence that no man may be dismayed at his sufferings if called thereunto and for Christ for unto you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on Him but Philip. 1. 29. also to suffer for His sake I have done prefacing The Lord give us understanding in the times and what Israel ought to do PROV 29. 25. The feare of man bringeth a snare but who so putteth his trust in The Lord shall be safe IT is ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing this 22. day of December 1642. that this booke Intituled The usefulnesse of Feare c. be printed John White Of FEARE The Just Cause The True Use The Soveraign Cure SECT I. The summe and scope of this Treatise The kinds of Feare The strange effects there from What the worst effect What the great designe of the Adversary How he prosecutes it His advantage if he can effect it His power and malice that way gives us just cause of feare CHAP. I. The Introduction to and purpose of this Treatise OUr Affections doe us the greatest service or disservice that well can be imagined and this they doe as wee master them or as they master us If we master them they are the winds of the soule carrying it so as it is neither becalmed that it moves not when it should nor yet tossed that it moves disorderly If they master us they raise storms there and we are storm-like sudden and violent carryed as a ship in a tempest If we master them they are the very wings of the soule A Prayer without them so we may say of any other performance is like a bird without wings (a) Oratio sine malis avis sine alis If I cared for nothing said Melancthon I should pray for nothing (b) Si nihil curarem nihil Orarem If they master us they are the clogs of the soule or if they be as wings it is to make us flee away from God and goodnesse from our selves and Duty Our Affections are the springs of all our services to GOD we are dry and cold and dead without them with them well ordered the soule is set on work and then the work will be done when the heart is upon it David had prepared much for the house of GOD himselfe gives the reason Because I have set my AFFECTION to the house of my GOD. (c) 1 Chr. 29. 3. Feare puts on the soule almost as fast as Love doth that great Centurion or puts it farther back I cannot doe this and sin I must doe this and why Because I have set my FEARE upon GOD and knowing the TERROR of the LORD (d) 2 Cor. 5. 11. I must perswade men In a word weare as a dead sea without our affections and as a raging sea if they exceed the bounds And no affection beats more strongly upon the soule and more like waves against the banks to exceed its just bounds and get over then feare doth and when it hath got over no affection sooner drowns the Spirits sinks Reason and so becomes a Passion indeed vexatious and troublesome for where feare is in excesse there is torment (e) 1 John 4. 18. This tormenting Passion the stilling its unreasonable motions is the subject of my Discourse now but GODS work To calme the Spirit to make it stand still when the earth shakes f Exod. 1● ●● Ne con●● 〈…〉 ●un and the kingdomes are moved I say His work Who chid the winds and commanded the seas and they obeyed Him and presently there followed a great calme Feare let alone to work its owne effects for like water it hath no bounds of its owne is g 〈◊〉 Math. 8. 20. in the heart as the tongue in the body kindleth a great fire (h) Jam. 3. 5. there from every little matter quickly raiseth that little to a raging flame which no man can quench onely GOD can And what way He commands and prescribes us for we must keep to His prescriptions the same which the whole City of GOD All His People have taken in all troublous times upward to this day To

soule is like the Rudder to the Ship it turnes about all the powers and faculties of the soule and all to God It lades and unlades all the goods there all for GODS glory it receives all in and gives all forth for that same great end so Love doth I have said all when I have said The Righteous love GOD. It formes every work they doe and nothing forms a man or his work so dexterously as Love doth Love to God Love to His Truth Love to His People Love to their peace This inflames mens mindes works them suddenly to great perfection facilitates the work makes it slide on Nay farther as one observes truly That all other Affections though they raise the minde yet they doe it by distorting and uncomelinesse of extasies or excesses but onely Love doth exalt the mind and nevert●elesse at the same instant doth settle and compose it So in all other excellencies though they advance Nature yet they are subject to excesse onely Charity admitteth no excesse The righteous love God I have said all Why but all will say as much No man in the world but wil Ob. say I love GOD he dares not nay he is ashamed to say otherwise True I will reply shortly to this and once for all for all will Answ say as much touching their feare too and their trust also c. As the Kingdome of God so the love of God is not in word but in power GOD doth know that is approves not the speech of them that say (a) 1 Cor. 4. 19 20. so but the power of them that doe so That love The Lord not in word but in deed We have all I verily beleeve it a kind of faint weak waterish love which indeed the Scripture calls an hatred when the creature hath the strength and as I may say the first-borne of our love and God the after-birth which is of no account with Him but counted as aforesaid The righteous people love God They see an excellencie in God a transeendent goodnesse As it was said of Peter and Iohn when they saw their boldnesse They tooke knowledge of them that they had Acts 4. 13. been with Iesus So doe we observe the Saints love to Christ We must take knowledge That the City of God doe know The Lord Christ they have and doe see His Goodnesse They are with Him by their graces of love and faith they converse with Him day and night Therefore they so love God even as they glorifie Him As (b) Rom. 1. 21. Exod. 15. 11. 1 Tim. 6. 15. GOD glorious in holinesse fearfull in praises doing wonders The onely Potentate The King of Kings and Lord of Lords They Love GOD as they are thankefull to Him as To GOD in Whom they live move and have their Being in Whose hands is their Time their Breath and all their wayes from Whom they have all things richly to enjoy to whom He communicates Himself so they glorifie Him so they are thankfull and so they love HIM with an exceeding love a love that commands in chiefe the great Centurion it commands all within and without to speak to doe to strive for God for so they love HIM with a predominate love which carryeth the soul on high And where this love of God rules there peace rules be the earth never so unquiet Get we this love rooted in our hearts it is the fittest of any thing to expell feare to keep downe the workings of it for it maintains and guards Reason and raiseth the soule above the world so as it can bid defiance to death and then to unreasonable men and devils too If I beare a true love to God stronger then death if so then I can beare any thing I can goe through fire and water all along before the face and nose of the adversaries if I am called to do it and feare nothing The love of GOD constraines me yea commands me and as the peace of Phil. 4. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God keeps and safeguards me also It keeps my heart and mind my soul and my spirit through Christ Iesus It keeps my understanding that there be no defilement there through the errors of wicked men It keeps my will that there be no perversenesse there not subdued and brought under It keeps my affections that they be cleane and holy that my hatred be to all iniquity and my love to righteousnesse for I love God how then should I think or doe thus and thus and so sin against him The love of God keeps me in perfect peace so far as that love is perfect in me If a man can resolve himself by the Spirit That God loves him That he is in Christ reconciled unto Him This is enough To dissolve the thickest cloud of feare overcasting the soule enough to take off the edge and blunt that eager and keene passion which so cuts and lanceth the spirits for then he can say also He loves GOD with a CHILD-like love as a child loves the father so as he can repose himselfe in his fathers lap or bosome in assured confidence He careth for him and then he can be as bold as Paul was and as well perswaded That neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God (a) Rom. 8. 38 39. c. The work then of a Christian is to cleare this point for when that is done all is done he lives as a man in the upper Region of the world riding upon the high places of the earth above the winds Esav 58. 14. and stormes which infest and trouble us here below I remember I have read of one who being upon a tempestuous sea and his ship almost covered with waves and the passengers there almost dead with feare was not withstanding very cheerfull and comfortable calme and quiet in his mind rather inclined to sing then to mourne Being asked the reason of his settlement and so quiet repose of spirit answered thus My Father is the Pilot of the ship He is at the sterne holds the helme He loves me I love Him The winds and stormes fulfilling his word (b) Psal 148. 8 He bids them rise and they are up and so blustering then He chideth He rebuketh them then they fall and are still I know and am well perswaded Mat. 8. 26. whether stormes or calmes I shall get to my Heaven and in passage thither nothing shall doe me hurt every thing shall doe me good from His hand that loves * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Chrysost Facile impetratur semper quod filius postulat Ter●ul de po●n c. 11. me And this makes me fearlesse this calmes me within what unquiet motions soever are without Oh of what mighty concernment is this in these times when the commandement is gone forth to restore and to build

Ierusalems wall evermore TROUBLOUS TIMES (c) Dan. 9. 25. That every man should labour to cleare his spirit by the Spirit at this great point The love of GOD towards him his love to GOD for this makes faire weather within however tempestuous it is abroad Here comes in an Objection I will resolve it at the first and once for all A man may love GOD and feare Him too which followes Ob. next and obey Him also and all this from the heart and yet he may be afraid he may have a great deale of love and faith too and yet have a great deale of feare he may love and feare God above many and yet feare the creature more then is meet 1. Iacob a very good man he loved God with all his heart yet Iacob was GREATLY (a) Gen. 32. 7. afraid GREATLY Marke that 2. David a man after Gods owne heart yet heare him what he saith Fearfulnesse and trembling are come upon me and terror hath overwhelmed me (b) Psal 52. 5. 3. Iehoshaphat a very good King yet he feared (c) 2 Chr. 20. 3. 4. The Disciples choise men all such as loved their Master with all their heart and with their whole soule yet fearfull (d) Mat. 8. 26. Before the Answer note this A man may love God much and yet feare much hurt from the creature And a man may have no love to God and yet no feare of the creature so stupified his spirit may be Now I answer indeed the Context answers it for me Iacob was greatly afraid and distressed how then his feare Answ did not put him off from duty but engaged him thereunto Now see how wisely he disposeth of things then rouls himselfe and Gen. 32. 7 8 9 c. all his upon GOD wraps up his soule and all his concernments in a promise and there is an end of the matter and enough for Iacob 2. Davids case was extraordinary a thick cloud was over his spirit and the face of God was clouded towards him too He 〈…〉 exe●●et Deus ●●●la est tenta s●●t●tudo quae 〈◊〉 ●●bescat Cal● in Psal 55. had troubles within and storms without whether Saul pursued him or his owne son it is not resolved but he was in the straits and God was not so present to sense and then we must give the stoutest heart leave to quaile saith Master Calvin The Conclusion is sure and certaine Cleare your evidence That God loves you and you shall cleare your spirits of these thick fogs which feare raiseth Nay if you cannot cleare your evidence but God will keep you humble all your dayes in a hanging and doubtful estate yet cast your selfe upon Him though He kill yet trust in Him But more of this a little after 3. Iehoshaphat feared also for hee heard that which would quicken any man that had life in him There commeth a great multitude against thee (e) 2 Chron. 2● ● Then he FEARED (f) ver 3. But take the following words And set himselfe to seek the Lord c. His Feare put him upon Duty Then be remembred God in Whose hand is power and might Art not Thou God in heaven (g) ver 6. Then he pleads his interest in his God Art not Thou OUR GOD (h) ver 7. Then he cals to mind the right hand of the Almighty what He had done of old O blessed be God for that feare as was said before you cannot have too much of that feare which renders you much in seeking which makes you love much feare much obey much 4. The Disciples were fearfull but they were prayerfull They would not let GOD alone they would give Him no rest GOD seemes to be for he speaketh to our capacity as Ionah asleep when the Ship of the Church is covered with waves Nay The Lord Christ was at that time as clothed with our flesh so subject to our infirmities and was asleep And then the Disciples are fearfull All will be cast away Christ and all Indeed they that feare the Church will be drowned doe feare that Christ will be drowned too for if the Body drowne the Head must drowne and if the Head drowne not the Body cannot drown it may be overwhelmed with great waters of affliction While the Head is above the Body is safe enough But such was the Disciples infirmity at this time and such was our Lords infirmity at that time that then He was asleep What then They awoke God with their prayers as we know the manner is A blessed feare then as was said which makes a man a wake Christ by his importunity which puts a man upon duty makes him more prayerfull makes him love more and cling to his Father the faster so Iacob so David so Iehoshaphat so the Disciples feared so as they did their Duty the better But much may be said touching this love of GOD It is not Ob. such a Cure of feare not such a buckler to a person we see here how the fore-mentioned were terrified yet they loved GOD. Look I pray you and it is a sad sight Thou art become cruel to me with Thy strong hand Thou opposest Thy selfe against me Thou liftest me up to the wind Thou causest me to ride upon it and dissolvest my substance (a) Job 30. 21 22. I will defer the Answer to this till anon The Objection now runs thus Not how the Lord hath dealt with particular persons whom He loves dearly nor what those persons have said when they walked in darknesse and saw no light We must take it for granted That there are sad expressions breaking forth of the lips when there are grievous apprehensions within the soule But How he hath dealt with a whole Nation and that the dearly beloved of Hi● soul He hath delivered such a Nation into His enemies hands (c) Jer. 12. 7. So that they who hated them have Lorded it over them have dealt hatefully and despitefully with them (d) Ezek. 23. 28 29. This cannot be denied and since His Iudgements are manifest and the Reasons of them also are written and made legible for Answ our instruction we stand charged to take good notice of them here I meane The Reasons which moved The Lord to proceed in wrath against His dearly beloved and to cast them out of their owne Land and into the hands of them from whom their mind was alienated first 1. When GODS People doe not walke As His People when He takes them neere unto Himselfe and they walk loose with him not as a separated and peculiar people to Him whom He hath separated and bestowed upon them speciall and peculiar mercies When His people walke so contrary to Him and their owne Protestation Then His manner is to walke contrary to them He may goe out of that path when He listeth and exempt a Nation from the generall rule But this is His manner He may d●al● with us according to His Prerogative Royall which is ever in shewing

A sick body let me say with reference to the present a person an house marked out by the spoilers with such an aid hath a greater treasure then the Queens Iewell-house It hath indeed a greater treasure then hath the Kings Iewell-house That house may be emptied of the treasure there He may make an hole in all our Cisterns and let-out all our comforts All succours from earth may fail nay the heart and that is the strongest Fort may faile but God never failes Trust in the Lord for ever Why for ever There Esay 26. 4. is a mighty reason or ground for everlasting Trust because in The LORD JEHOVAH is EVERLASTING STRENGTH Psal 23. 4. I will feare no evill saith David A very bold and confident speech Feare no evill He might sit in darknesse walk in the shadow of death the rod might be sore upon his back much evill might be towards him and much might be upon him and yet feare no evill No for what-ever befell him it was The Lord from His hand His rod and where-ever he sate and wheresoever he walkt God was with him Thou art with me Thy rod and Thy staffe they comfort me WHAT TIME I AM AFRAID Psal 56. 3. I WILL TRUST IN THEE Ai it was a point of great discretion To trust in The Lord. Truly in vaine is salvation hoped ●er 3. 23. for from the hils and from the multitude of mountaines Truly in The LORD our GOD is the salvation of Israel Then truly saith the Godly man When I am afraid when I see all things out of course I will trust IN The Lord He will doe all things well and all those contrarieties of wills and workings shall work together for the good of all them that Trust in Him whereof anon Therefore I will trust in The Lord for ever I will commit life and livelihood all to Him A faithfull Creator and I know Him to be so When I am afraid I will trust in Thee So the godly man hath made his conclusion thereon he resteth his soule and is confident as bold as a Lion for he doth Trust in The Lord. I will say of The LORD HE IS MY ●●●l ●1 2. REFUGE and my FORTRESSE MY GOD in Him will I trust Will he so Is the good man resolved upon it That he will trust in GOD Yes that is plaine in the Text. Now mark God will not deceive this Trust Indeed an honest man will not he will not deceive me if I trust in him much lesse will GOD doe it a faithfull Creator Now The Lord will deliver this man how often as often as he falls into the straits ●ob 5. 1● In sixe troubles yea in seven there shall no evill come unto him That is Neither devils nor men neither their counsels nor their strength neither sword nor pestilence nor devouring beasts shall be able to doe this man any hurt If the devouring pestilence if the oppressing sword if famine if wild beasts Jer. 46. 16. those foure sore judgements come into the Land a noble Scholler calls these plagues the great winding sheets of the world these shall doe this man no hurt Observe what you reade The terrors by night shall not affray this man nor the arrow by day nor the pestilence that walketh in darknesse nor the destruction Psal 91. that wasteth at noon day True you will say none of all this shall hurt this man for all this is more immediately the Sword of the Lord (a) 1 Chron. 21. 12. the very Hand of God (b) ver 13. and The Lord will order it so That His Sword shall not slay this man His Hand shall not hurt him But this man must looke that the sword of the enemies will overtake him he must looke to fight with men after the manner of Beasts they will hurt him sure for they are Adversaries and for their might and cruelty called Lyons and Adders and Dragons these will hurt this man sure enough No all these with all their might and malice too shall not hurt this man But he shall hurt them he shall wound them in the head which is the seate of life He shall tread upon the Lion Ps●l 91. 1. and the Adder the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou TRAMPLE under foot And why shall this man be so delivered and be so victorious That is worth the enquiring unto it is answered Because this man made The LORD his refuge even the most HIGH his habitation Therefore shall no evill befall ver 9. him because this man hath set his LOVE his Heart his Delight his Hope his Trust he hath set All upon GOD Therefore God will deliver him This man hath ex●l●ed GOD above all gods He hath set Him on high he hath knowne His Name that is hee hath trusted in Him Therefore will The Lord set this man on high he shall ride upon the high places of the earth over the heads of his Adversaries Because he hath knowne My Name O Blessed man and in a blessed condition for he had covered himselfe with the Armes of the Almighty and under that shelter he doth trust What then It follows His Truth shall be Thy Shield and Buckler A weake and foolish Question will thrust in here I will quickly resolve it May we not trust in the creature in meanes they may be faire Quest and likely In instruments these are honourable and specious may we not trust in these No Be these instruments or meanes never so excellent and Ans glorious yet they are but flesh we must not trust in them Never did any 〈◊〉 from the beginning of time to this Day prosper that put his ●●ust in meanes in instruments Some trust in charets 〈…〉 in horses (b) Psal 20. 7. And what of them how speede they They are brought downe and faden (v) ver 8. nay there is a curse upon the●●hat trust in man and make flesh their Arme. (d) Jer. 17. 5. And this cu●●e must neede●●vertake them For their heart departeth from the LORD Then ●o resolve the question we may esteeme honourably of the instruments but wee must set GOD above them We must set Him on high as we read before we must praise GOD for them we must not Idolize them we must use the meanes we must not trust in them we must give the instrument his due praise but all the glory to GOD. There is another Question more worthie the resolving It is commonly said by every man I doe trust in GOD. But wilt thou know O man whether thou doest as thou sayest Try thy selfe by this and deale truly with thy owne soule Where art thou when the LORD takes away the stay and the staffe Esay 3. 1. the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water that is every thing that thy soule tooke delight in being but flesh where art thou then upon the ground a dejected man thy spirit is quite fallen why then assure