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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93738	The doctrine of the cross, or, The duty of Christian suffering as it is necessary and subservient in order to the obtaining eternal salvation, delivered in a sermon on Matth. 13. 20, 21 / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5118; ESTC R42710	24,789	39

shall fail and the Fields shall yeild no Meat the Flock shall be cut off from the Fold and there shall be no Herd in the Stalls yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my Salvation Hab. 3. 17 18. And so this is the Praise and Reward of trusting on God for it goes beyond that kind of Trusting on God which the people of the world have when we can trust on God in deep Poverty Sickness or Imprisonment under Losses and the Opposition and Hatred of the World against us for our Duty and for our Faithfulness unto and serving of God then if we can say yea and assent unto it in our Hearts it is a good God whom we serve When we find and perceive from within our selves all those outward Evils sweetned unto us by the Holy Ghost the Comforter And when all this is come upon us we have not nor yet will we deal falsly in thy Covenant nor put forth our hands unto Iniquity nor commit Sin nor yet omit Duty if we might be redressed and relieved from out of all of it Truly there is Faith and Trust in this Faith that God hath provided better things for us if we hold on in our Innocency and Integrity And trust that although these outward evils by their pressing and sitting heavy upon us do well ●igh consume and destroy us saith the Psalmist I am almost consumed but I have not forgotten thy Law and make us to perish yet we know and hope that God will make a way for our escape without our sinful compliances or consenting with the deed of them and work out deliverance for us by some means or other or if we should die and lose our Life in them that he will raise up this Life and we shall again find this same Life in the Restitution of all things to which will be further grafted on Life Eternal When we can trust God so far beyond the Grave for this is further than we can now see him that if we should die sooner in his service and by doing his Work for possibly he might suffer us to live longer in neglecting of it But then to hold on and be verily perswaded so as to act accordingly That it would be better for us if the Will of God so be than to have a longer Respit and Reprieve This in very deed seems to be the superlative and highest Degree of all and the greatest Instance of trusting on God which can be when we love not our Lives unto the Death But we are contented to be of the Number of them who are slain for the Word of God and the Testimony which they hold Rev. 6. 9. I have heard some talkative Christians use this following Scripture-Phrase in their Mouth That God may be glorified in them whether it be by Life or by Death But herein is the Labour and Business this indeed is the Excellency and Praise thereof and in truth it is a real trust on God to undergo and submit to the same The Apostles and first Christians did just mention that Saying but they did also set their Seal to it even the Seal of their Blood So they were doers of that Word more than talkers thereof Whereas those who now a days seem to be Religious do also use this Saying in their Mouth but for themselves to experience and witness the same if an hour of Trial should come they would endeavour as much to excuse or decline it although it be by the way of Sin or omission of Duty But give me the Man that is for doing is most certainly the mind of God as we may gather from his written Word and and we also learn the same because such is the mind of his Reasonable Creatures who come most near to the likeness of God in Knowledge and Understanding and of being without fear I might make a whole Sermon in Quoting and Amassing together those manifold Scriptures as indeed there are very many of them throughout the whole Book of the Lord which explain and confirm that Great Duty of Trust on God in the same Sense and Meaning aforementioned As indeed the very Nature of the thing is such That there can be no proper Trust unless there is some Hazard or seeming and appearing Danger and Difficulty But that place of Habakkuk 3. 17 18. aforecited is sufficient to confirm the truth of this Observation How exceeding full is the whole Book of Psalms in the Bible Translation especially of Promises to this thing of trusting on God The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in Times of Trouble and they that know thy Name will put their Trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee Psal 9. 9. 10. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his Trust and respecteth not the Proud nor such as turn aside to Lyes Psal 40. 4. By the latter part of which Verse we may see and learn that to have respect unto Persons or to give deference unto Man or to give way unto Sin or to turn aside to Falshood all this and the like is quite opposite and contrary unto the making the Lord our Trust But that that Man is blessed who maketh the Lord his Trust we have it not only affirmed here but almost in every one of the Hundred and Fifty Psalms Especially yet more in those who have the Title and Inscription of A Psalm of David Therein is more said hereof considering the like Quantity and Proportion of Words than in the Books of Moses or in the Writings of the Prophets Evangelists and Apostles Though all these also are sufficiently fraught with Blessings and Promises made and annexed to the trusting on God Why did David the sweet Singer of Israel harp more upon that String than others For indeed both the Book of Psalms and also the whole Book of God and the Matter thereof is a well tun'd Cymbal The reason hereof seems to be this because that David wrote and penn'd these Psalms during the time he was under continued Affliction Saul became David's enemy continually 1 Sam. 18. 23. and the Persecution of Saul And God being all along with him then for as God was with Joseph in the Prison so he is much or rather more by his Spirit with his Servants in Trouble than when they are out of it By the same Spirit he made known unto David those his manifold precious Promises and Truths concerning Trouble Affliction and such like How we should behave our selves under it until God gives Deliverance and what good things he will give to such as have been exercised thereby to make amends for the evil they have had For this very same Reason the Prophets who have spoken unto us in the Name of the Lord are set forth for an Example of suffering Affliction and of Patience The Lord God in his manifold and wonderful Wisdom having on purpose suffered Affliction to be laid on their