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A94071	XXXI. select sermons, preached on special occasions; the titles and several texts, on which they were preached, follow. / By William Strong, that godly, able and faithful minister of Christ, lately of the Abby at Westminster. None of them being before made publique.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing S6007_pt2; Thomason E875_1; ESTC R203660	179,143	303

the tails of two smoking fire-brands and they intend to enlarge their Dominions to take in Iudah and set up a King there No saith God the head of Syria is Damascus I have set them their bounds they are at their height they shall go no further the Lord hath divided the earth then to the sons of Adam but hath divided the earth to the sons of Adam according to the number of the children of Israel the fewest in number of all people the meaning I conceive to be this that the Lord did take special care in the first Division of the earth that he would chuse an inheritance in the earth for this people for so the Psalmist tells us he chose an Inheritance for them so that he that chose a people out of the earth to be his peculiar people he in the division of the earth made choice of a peculiar Inheritance for them certainly the people of God need not fear an Inheritance then When the Lord divided the earth among the sons of Adam he took especial care of them the Lord in all his Providential Dispensations hath a constant respect to his Church and a continual care of them and he adds the reason of it v. 9. though all the earth be the Lords yet the Lords portion is his people this is the first thing that is matter of history in the context Secondly he then sets forth the condition of this people when they were in the wilderness Ver. 10. he found him in a Desart Land in a vast howling wilderness the meaning is not as if this people were strangers to God till then or that the Lord took no notice of them or had no care of them for ever when they were in Egypt Exod. 4. then the Lord 〈…〉 Israel is my son my first born therefore Gods 〈…〉 did not then begin But then they began to be the Lords separated people they were its true Gods people by a Covenant before Now they are brought into a wilderness and separated from other Nations therefore because they then began to be the Lords people by a National Covenant therefore it is said he found them there is indeed another meaning of that expression found that is he is alwaies present with them as a help alwaies found of them so you find the word used Psal 46.1 God is a present help he is a help found in the needful time of trouble and so I conceive that place explains it Hos 9.10 I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness as a poor traveller in a desart wilderness hath a great refreshment by this if he meet with a Vine that hath but a few Clusters upon it so I found Israel in the wilderness which was as great a delight to me even as if a weary Traveller had found Grapes in the Wilderness Thirdly here is a further description of the Land of Canaan Ver. 13. the Lord made them to dwell upon the high places of the earth It was a Land of Mountains and Vallies and upon that account called the high places of the earth but it was a Land also where the Lord destroyed the enemies and carried them without danger in the midst of the greatest dangers thus they were made to walk on the high places of the earth as men that walk on high out of Gun-shot And then fourthly here is the plentie of the Land that flows with milk and honey where they eat the fine kidnies of the wheat and drank the pure blood of the grape a Land wherein there was no lack of any thing that was upon the earth Deut. 8.7,8 all this is but historical In the words that I have read to you comes in that which is Prophetical for Moses did not bring them into the Land of Canaan Moses dyed in the Land of Moab on the other side of Jordan and was gathered to his Fathers It was Ioshua that gave them rest and divided this Land for an inheritance to them Moses prophesied when they came unto the Land of Canaan this shall be their Condition But Jesurun waxed fat and kicked A godly man from a principle of spiritual wisdom without Divination will be able to give a great guess of men what they will be Moses might much guess by seeing how disobedient they had been in the Wilderness what they would prove when they came to Canaan but yet here is a discovery that the Lord made by Revelation to Moses what the condition of this people would be the Lord doth not only certainly know what we are but he knows what in such cases and conditions we will be Nay the Lord knows in those conditions that we shall never be put into what we would be if we were in it this is clear the Lord foretells to Moses what this people would be when they came to the Land of Canaan having such a place and such enjoyments and this is also clear when David was in Keilah shall the men said he give me up to Saul they will give thee up and yet David went out of the City that night and was never given up and according to this we may guess if we consider there are many of us some would have wealth some honour some would have higher imployment some more grace some more comfort some more assurance and the Lord denies it It is because he knows what in such a condition if thou wert put into it thou wouldst prove and that which thou lookest upon as a great affliction the Lord doth it with a very merciful hand But Jesurun waxed fat and kicked there are two things in the words to be opened First their name and Secondly their sin The denomination that is given to them here and the transgression that is charged upon them I shall briefly explain both these and then come to the point that I would insist upon from them the denomination what is their name they be called Jesurun It is used three times in this Book of Deuteronomie in Deut. 33.5 Moses was King in Iesurun and in 33. Chapter Ver. 26. Who is God like the God of Iesurun and in this place and it is used for ought I can find but in one Scripture more in all the Old Testament In Isaiah 44.2 Fear not oh Jesurun my servant and Jacob whom I have chosen there are three different apprehensions that men have of it according to the threefold derivation of the word Some from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rectum that signifies right and they are so called as the people that had only the right way both to know God and to worship God the Lord had given his Statutes to Jacob and his Laws to Israel he had not dealt so with other Nations they were only the right people and so it may be explained by Isaiah 42.19 where the Lord saith Who is blind as my servant Who is blind as he that is perfect What perfect and yet blind yes perfect in Ordinances and priviledges and yet blind Forelius and