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A89195	The churches troubles and deliverance, or, Certaine sermons tending to shew the reasons why the Lord doth sometimes bring his people into extremities, with the blessed issue and fruits thereof, on Gen. 22. 14. Also divers arguments giving good hope that yet God will be gracious to England, and not deliver us into our enemies hands. Also some things briefly on Rev. 11. 7. to 14. Bby Tho. Mocket, Mr. of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Holt in Denbigh-shire.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?	1642 (1642)	Wing M2305; Thomason E110_18; ESTC R19617	74,158	93

record to posterity speciall mercies and deliverances For 1. So we are commanded after God had delivered Israel and disco●sited Amalek Gen. 35.1 God commanded Moses saying Write this for a memoriall in a booke Likewise when God had brought Jacob safe home againe to his native country and delivered him from the wrath of his brother Esau God bad him goe to Bethel and make there an Altar unto God Josh 4. ● namely to offer sacrifice of thankesgiving unto God who appeared unto him when he sled from the face of his brother Esau and had now delivered him Likewise when God had delivered Israel and brought them out of the wildernesse and through the river Iordan he commanded Joshua to take twelve ●tones out of the middest of Jordan and set them up to bee a memoriall to future generations of what God had that day done for them 2. Therefore the people of God used to record speciall mercies and deliverances in their Chronicles in the names of their children of places and the like Ex. 15.1 Jud. 5.1 Isa 38. ● Also in spirituall Songs and Psalmes So did Moses Israels deliverance out of Aegypt Deborah and Baruk their great deliverance from and victory over Sisera and Iabin King of Canaan And Hezekiah his Song of thanksgiving after his recovery from so eminent a danger of death Hest 9 10. c. ver 29 30 31 and the Jewes feast of Purim And thirdly there is great reason for it 1. From the lesse to the great I argue thus If we must be thankfull for particular and smaller even f●r the least mercy as it is Psal 103.2 Forget not at all i.e. any of his benefits and there is good reason for it then much lesse may we forget or be unthankfull for great and extraordinary mercies and deliverances out of extremities wherein Gods goodnesse power wisedome mercy Reas 1. c. are most remarkably seen 2. From the equity of the duty 2. wayes First because Gods mercies to the fathers are mercies to their posterity future generations are the better for them Here the mercy shewed to Abraham in saving Isaac was a mercy to all ages He was to be the seed of the Church In him i.e. in the Messiah that was to be borne of him all Nations should be blessed So we this day reape the fruit of those great deliverances in 88. and from the Gun-powder treason and others since if either of those 1588 1605. or these had taken effect either we had not now been at all or been miserable slaves to Antichrist both in our soules bodies and estates without the wonderfull and extraordinary mercy of God and therefore great reason such great mercies and deliverances should be recorded and the memory of them perpetuated that the generations to come after us who have the bene●it of them should know them and blesse God for them Psal 102 18. This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. Secondly It is equall also that there should be some proportion between our receits and our returnes our mercies are great extraordinary lasting standing mercies for future times and therefore great reason our returnes of praise should be more then ordinary lasting and continued in our posterity 3. Such mercies and deliverances should be specially noted and the remembrance of them perpetuated to testifie our love to God desire of his glory and hearty thankefulnesse for his goodnesse care and providence over us which appeares in that we would have his goodnesse to be remembred and his praise to live when we are dead So men doe with benefactors record their kindnesse and bounty set up a Monument with inscriptions that after times may reade their kindnesse and bounty towards us whom we love and desire to honour for their beneficence towards us especially if publicke and much more should we labour to perpetuate the mercies and praises of our good and bountifull God and Saviour to testifie our love to him and desire of his glory In this case a gracious heart may use the words of Paul who said The love of Christ constraineth us If we truly love God 2 Cor. 5.14 and desire to honour him we shall endeavour to perpetuate his praises 4. We should take speciall notice of and labour to continue the remembrance of speciall deliverances and mercies for the benefit of future ages for the strengthening their faith comfort and support in evill times For this cause saith David shall every one that is godly pray unto thee We have heard with our eares O God Psal 32.6.44.1 c. say the faithfull in evill times Our fathers have told us what work thou didst in their dayes in the time of old and marke what use the Church makes of Gods former mercies and deliverances to his people Thou art my King O God v. 4 5. command deliverances for Jacob through thee we will push downe our enemies through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us The remembrance of former mercies to his people though long before doth strengthen their faith and put courage into them in their straites makes them confident in evill times and to rest on God in their greatest exigents and this use wee should ever make of former deliverances as did also David 1 Sam. 17.34 2 Cor 1.10 Paul and others Vse of Reprehension This being a duty so apparent and necessary it may serve to reprove and condemne the great ingratitude and vile practise of most men and of our selves in particular who are so far from perpetuating the remembrance of Gods mercies and deliverances to our selves and the Land That 1. Many doe not returne thanks to God for them no scarce while they are fresh and new before our eyes especially for smaller more ordinary and common mercies and deliverances We cannot looke any way beside mercies If we looke into our selves we have our being our soules and bodies all our members faculties and abilities from God with the continuance of them If we looke without us on the Heaven the Earth and Seas meat drinke clothing houses the fire water ayre we breathe in every creature is a mercy There are also spirituall mercies God gave us his Sonne a wonderfull mercy and deliverance wrought by him for man the Gospell the Word and Sacraments great mercies and these with many others we doe enjoy hitherto with peace plenty and liberty no small blessings God hath compassed us about with mercies and delivers us every day from many knowne and more unknown dangers that might befall us If we looke upon mercies in the Mount in time of extremity we may say much both of publicke and private of privative and positive mercies If God had not put in and holpen us may many of us say I had certainly dyed in such a sicknesse in such a danger I had been utterly undone in such a lesse I had been

Lyons mouthes with the 3. children in the fiery furnace to restraine the force of the fire that it hurt them not and so with others in their troubles and tryals Isa 43 2. and hath promised to be with all his When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee and when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt Iosh 1 5 8. Heb. 13.5 neither shall the flame kindle upon thee I will never leave thee nor forsake thee In what condition or extremity soever thou be yet still wait patiently upon God he will help in the most seasonable time Oh but my sinnes are great I am a vile unworthy creature he will not regard such a vile wretch as I am beside all outward meanes faile Answ But take heed doe not limit the Holy One of Israel neither for the thing time manner nor meanes he is al-sufficient his mercies are great and free and he knowes the fittest time therefore feare not but relye wholly on God trust perfectly in him There is in many a trusting in God but 〈◊〉 is imperfect they seeke to and trust in other things with God yea without God in themselves friends and other things and meanes This ought not to be so we should trust w●●●●y and only in God and wait patiently on him he will be s●en in due time Consider the Husbandman I am 5.7 8. he waiteth for the fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it be ye also patient stablish your heart saith James If the Husbandman doe with patience undergoe all weathers and casualties and wait long for the fruit that he may have a joyfull harvest then much more ought they to wait that sow seed in Heaven gracious and precious seed teares and prayers and doubtlesse they shall reap in due time we have Gods owne word for it Psal 137.7 8. They that sow in teares shall reap in ioy Secondly as it may and ought to teach and encourage all to goe on and rest perfectly and patiently on God so particularly to You the Worthies of Israel who are now imployed by God the King and Countrey in the great service of the Kingdome You have a great worke before you mighty Adversaries and great opposition the Devill the Pope that Balaam of Rome that curseth the people that will not adhere to him and all the rabble of popish and prophane wretches who are digging as deep as hell to undermine you and your honourable proceedings and blow all up their continuall desperate designes and hell bred treasons and bloudy threatenings witnesse to all the world the extreame height of their malice and your dangers You seeme to be now even in the very top of the Mount of extreame dangers and the whole Kingdome our Religion Lawes liberties and free Courts of Justice with you are upon the verticall point yet be not discouraged much honoured Patriots God will be seen in the Mount doe you continue daily to seeke unto God wholly deny your selves and depend upon him walke with him and seeke him and the publicke good in all your undertakings and be assured God will ever protect direct preserve and deliver you Hath he not preserved directed and protected you hitherto even to admiration when there was but a step but a word betwixt you and death and he will ever protect and in due time deliver his Majesty and the Kingdowe with you if you still walke with him God will be seen in the Mount when it comes to the very point when the enemies of Sion thinke to strike the fatall blow But when God shewes himself in the Mount helps and delivery you and the Kingdome with you in our extremities and tre●●s the enemies under the foot of justice then beware you doe no forget to returne all possible praise and thankfulnesse to God for so great a mercy but with Abraham here erect a Monument to perpetuate the memory of such divine mercies to posterity And in the meane time you must set up your E●en-ezer ● Sam 7.12 Hitherto hath God helped us as Samuel and all Israel did And so I come to the third and last point observed in these words which is this That mercies and deliverances in our extremity or great troubles Dect 3. ought especially to be noted and the remembrance of them continued Here Abraham in memory of so great a mercy that so eminent a passage of divine providence might never be forgotten he as it were sets up a pillar or Monument to all posterity with this inscription Jehovah-jirah the Lord will see and provide with this proverbiall speech also In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen All the while Abraham was busied in making the Altar laying on the wod c. God saw but was not seen did not shew himselfe but when it came to the act of striking the fatall stroake which was even falling downe then God was seene i.e. did manifest his gracious pleasure in preserving Isaac and therefore Abraham labours to perpetuate the memory of this great mercy in the name of the place He called the name of the place Iehovah-jirah And so should we doe of speciall mercies and deliverances Indeed we should be thankfull for all even for the least mercy and deliverance even nature common honesty and equity require that where we receive a benefit Nihil est aequè Deo gratu a ●●q grati esse anime Chrysost Orat. 2. ad Cor. 1. we should returne thanks beside it is a most excellent duty more displeasing to the Devill but more acceptable to God then prayer for prayer argues want and misery which the Devill desireth and rejoyceth at but thankfulnesse argues plenty at least a comfortable condition which the Divell envies Invitat al magna qui gratanter su●●●p●● mudica Ca●siod in Psal Grav ssimum v●t●um 〈◊〉 homine indig●um it doth more argue sincerity of the heart then prayer doth and shall continue when prayer shall cease It is very advantagious to our selves it conciliates favour with God is as I may say an encouragement to our heavenly Father to go on to do us good and to bestow better and greate● mercies and deliverances But unthankfulnesse is a grievous fault in the opinion even of the very Heathens displeasing * Spiritus gratiae contumeliam s●●●t qui b●ne ficium dantis grat● mente non suscipit Ber. Ex. 17.14 to God and seldome goes unpunished in this world God takes notice of it though against man much more if against himselfe records it to their infamy instance in Pharaohs chiefe Butlers forgetfulnesse of Joseph it hinders good things from us shuts up the fountaine of Gods goodnesse causeth him to take away or blast what he hath already given a people and often brings down judgement upon the head of the unthankfull as the Scripture witnesseth But especially hould we be thankfull for take speciall notice of and