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A45567	Safety in the midst of danger a sermon preached in the church of Alhallowes Barkin, Jan. 4, 1655 : upon the anniversary commemoration of the dismall fire which happened in the said parish, on Jan. 4, 1649 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing H747; ESTC R20509	19,795	32

not consumed by the flaming fire Besides the incarnation we may observe in this burning bush a representation of the Passion Those manifold sorrowes and sufferings which Christ underwent in the Garden on the Crosse notwithstanding all which he was not consumed whilst none of his miseries drew him to the least iniquity yea as Aquinas his phrase is summè patiebatur summè fruebatur he had in his greatest extremity a sweet serenity Nor doth this miracle less aptly shadow forth the resurrection of Christ as that forementioned Father hints in the same place for as the combustible bush burned in the fire and was not consumed so Christs corruptible body lay in the grave and was not corrupted according to that of the Psalmist Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption And as this burning bush is made a figure of Christ so likewise it is not incongruously applyed to the blessed Virgin that bush of Moses sending forth flames and not consuming what did it portend saith Saint Bernard but Mary bringing forth without sorrow More appositely Gregory Nyssen and Saint Ambrose We may saith the Latine Father by the Bush burning and not consuming understand the blessed Virgin Mary which brought the Son of God forth of her wombe and yet lost not her Virginity And to the same purpose the Greek Father as there a Bush burned but was not consumed so here a Virgin brings forth a childe and is not deflowred that a miracle this a greater the Holy Ghost who is as fire over shadowing her she conceiveth and beareth a Son whereby she became a Mother and yet remained a Virgin Besides these mysticall there wants not a morall application of this miracle S. Austin makes it a resemblance of the Ingratefull Israelites As the Bush though the fire was in the midst of it did not take fire so notwithstanding God strove with them by his spirit yet their sin was not destroyed S. Gregory with whom accords Chrysologus understandeth likewise by the Bush the people of Isreal but by that fire the Law which is called a fiery Law and as the fire could not consume the Bush no more could the Law of God consume the thornes of their sins De la Haye conceiveth the Bush and the Fire to be Emblems of Mercy and severity both which ought to meet together in every good Ruler so as that pitty may not consume justice Once more Lapide compareth originall concupiscence in the regenerate to the Bush for as that burned but was not consumed so this is weakned but not destroyed subdued but not extirpated But to beat that bush no longer The designe of God no doubt in working this miracle was partly in respect of Moses and chiefly in regard of Israel for the confirmation of Moses his Faith and the representation of Israels deliverance 1. It is not unworthy our observation that Almighty God intending to send Moses as a deliverer of his people out of Aegypt confirmeth him before hand with a manifest signe and that not onely in respect of the people representing their rescue out of Pharoahs hand but himselfe assuring him that though he might be cast into many he should not be over-whelmed by any straits Indeed the end of this glorious apparition was partly to beget in this holy man an awfull reverence of that Divine Majesty which appeared to him But chiefly to strengthen his confidence in accomplishing the worke about which God was pleased to send him that neither he nor it should miscarry And surely we have herein great cause to take notice of Gods gracious condescension to his servants who is pleased by visible signes to support the weaknesse of their Faith This was the course he took with Abraham to whom he gave not onely a promise but a signe of that mercy he had intended to his posterity and the like is evident in his dealing with Gideon to whom he gave the choyce of what signe he pleased to desire for the encouragement of him in that service to which he called him It were easie to multiply instances in this kinde which run parallel with this in the Text Indeed it is that which though not in the same miraculous yet in no lesse gracious a way God is still pleased to doe whilst he hath given us those visible signes of Water in Baptisme of Bread and Wine in the Supper of the Lord to strengthen our Faith in Christ The truth is we are at best slow of Faith especially if we want the help of sense With Thomas we know not how to believe unlesse we see and therefore Divine wisdome and goodnesse hath made provision for our weaknesse that by the obviousnesse of the signes to sense the things may be more manifest to faith Besides the imbecility of our faith there is oft times a difficulty in the objects they being of such a nature as it is very hard to believe the accomplishment of them How incredible was it that such miserable slaves as the Israelites were in Aegypt should be set free and enstated in a land flowing with milke and hony nay yet more incredible that so weak an instrument as Moses should bring to passe so glorious a worke as Israels deliverance no wonder if to prevent the staggering of his faith he giveth him this eminent signe And truly to a wounded sinner the belief of an interest in Christs merits is very difficult so that it is well if he can believe when those externall elements are offered to or taken by him as pledges of his Redeemers love oh let us with thankfulnesse acknowledge that mercy of divine dispensation which provideth as it were a staffe to uphold our feeble knees a paire of Spectacles to strengthen our weak eyes and a stone to put under our heavy hands for such was this bush to Moses his faith 2. But doubtlesse the primary intention of this miracle was to represent that glorious deliverance which was now to be wrought for the children of Israel to this purpose Philo hath well observed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. The bush was a symbole of the oppressed Israelites the fire of the oppressing Egyptians and the not consuming of the bush the not perishing of the Israelites not much unlike is Junius his interpretation The signe fitly correspondeth to the thing signified for Flamma ignis afflictiones Israelitarum rubus Israelitarum corpus integritas rubi in media flamma stabilitatem populi ex veritate promissionum Dei adumbravit The bush shadowed forth the body of the people the fire their affliction in Egypt and the not consuming of the bush in the fire their preservation in liberation out of Egypt To illustrate each briefly 1. The people of Israel are shadowed by the Bush and not unfitly upon a double account 1. A thorny bush wounds with its prickles those who handle it so doth Gods Israel or rather the God of Israel