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A29529	Stand still: Or, A bridle for the times A discourse tending to still the murmuring, to settle the wavering, to stay the wandring, to strengthen the fainting. As it was delivered to the Church of God at Great Yarmouth, Anno 1643. By John Brinsley, Minister of the Word there, and now published as a proper antidote against the present epidemicall distempers of the times.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4729; ESTC R217245	80,497	119

never more seasonable Murmurings I suppose they were never more rife and it may be others may thinke they were never more just then at this day It cannot be denyed many bl●ssings at the present we or at least our Brethren want which formerly we and they have enjoyed viz. Peace and Plentie and Libertie Abundance of outward comforts and contentments And many Pressures and Burdens wee now lye under which heretofore we have not beene acquainted with And this causeth murmurings in some Some Blessings wee have and those choice ones so our Fathers would have thought them which yet some are discontented with and weary of That causeth murmuring in them Many dangers and difficulties and discouragements are dayly represented unto us for us to encounter with And those cause murmurings in others And some there are who thinke that Moses and Aaron take too much upon them not sparing to impute all our disasters to the evill counsells of Superiours upon their heads charging all the Blood that hath beene shed in this Vncivill and Vnnaturall Warre And that causeth murmuring in them Thus whatever cause or grounds of murmuring the Israelites in the wildernesse pretended to have the same with like pretext may be thought to be found amongst us at this day So as Murmuring-Spirits may seeme to want no ●ewell to feed the fire of their present discontents and to make it break forth into open flames But this let us beware of Take we heed how we quarrell with Gods dispensations and dealings with us or proceedings towards us for that is properly Murmuring as P. Martyr well describes it Quesimonia de Administratione Dei A quarrelling with Gods Administration an inward discontent outwardly expressed by words or actions against Gods dealings with our selves or others And of this murmuring take we heed First To set on the Councell Consider wee in the first place against whom it is that we murmure Against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high It is the Lords speech to and concerning that proud Senacharib Is. 37. Let it be spoken to us to all I meane that stand guilty of this sinne of Murmuring Against whom is it that we rise up Is it against the holy one of Israel what doe we set our mo●th or heart against the Heavens quarrelling with divine dispensations murmuring against Gods proceedings If so Alas who or what are wee that we should dare to quarrell with that God in whose hands we are as Clay in the hands of the Potter Who art thou O man that ●epliest against God that quarrellest with him saith the Apostle shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made mee thus Rom. 9. However God be pleased to deale with us what ever his Administrations be towards our selves or others yet who or what are wee that we should dare to murmure against him I know what will here presently be replied It is not against God that wee murmure Against whom then Why against those whom we apprehend to have beene or like to bee the Instruments of our woe First And who or what are they It is Moses his Interrogatory to these murmuring Israelites when they were murmuring against Aaron and himselfe Exod. 16.7 And what are wee saith he that yee murmure against us So I may here say Those whom wee looke at with so evill an eye apprehending them as Instruments of our woe who are they or what are they that wee should murmure against them Are they such as are called and set over us by God by him appointed and commissionated to goe before us and with all such as desire to approve themselves faithfull faithfull both to God and us in seeking his Glory and our good In this case if the successe of their indeavours doe not answer their desires and our expectations take we heed how we dare to murmure against them which if we doe Secondly Consider in the second place that God will be very sensible of this Murmuring so much Moses tels the people in the 7 and 8 ver. of the Chapt. last named The Lord heareth your murmurings There is not a murmuring word that passeth out of the mouth nor yet a murmuring thought that riseth up in the heart against any Instruments imploied by God for our good but he taketh notice of it and is very sensible of it Thirdly I so sensible in the third place as that hee taketh it as done to himselfe your murmurings saith Moses in the place forenamed they are not against us but against the Lord Such a respect hath God unto his Officers his Ministers whom he imployeth in any speciall service for him that what is done to them whether for them or against them he taketh it as done unto himselfe So it is in the case of Murmurings The Lord heareth your murmurings which you murmure against him saith Moses there Their Murmurings there they were directed and aimed immediately at Moses and Aaron I but they rebounded and reflected upon God wounding him through their sides Fourthly And thus taking it in the fourth place God will not beare it however not ever beare it True it is such is his long sufferance and patience that sometimes he beares and beares much with the Infirmities of his people in this kinde This we see in these Israelites whilest they murmured for bread and water as one well notes upon that 1 Cor. 10 10. things necessary for their sustentation God beares with their Infirmitie passing it by without any remarkable Judgement But when they goe on still to provoke him in that kinde withall adding contumacy to their sinne murmuring not so much out of want as wantonnesse This was the case when they murmured for Flesh for Quailes Not contented with the Commons which God had allowed them though Angels food Man did eat the bread of Angels saith the Psalmist Bread given from Heaven and brought to them by the ministerie of Angels even as Elias his Bread was by the ministerie of Ravens I and such bread as if the Angels would have had bread to eat they could have eaten no better they would have more full tables and more delicate fare In this case God would not beare with it Much lesse when their murmurings were out of Envy and Malice That was the case when Korah and his Confederates so seditiously rose up against Moses and Aaron That was the case when the whole Body of the Army siding with those wicked Spies and giving credit to their false reports they were ready to take up stones against Caleb and Ioshuah making head against their Governors Here their murmurings were not out of weaknesse but wilfulnesse murmurings not of Infirmitie but Contumacie having a tincture of malice in them Now such murmurings God will not beare with Read we but the stories we shall see how severely God dealt with them in these cases what exemplarie

what we may for the Reforming of others Onely every one in our places Private persons in their places and Publique persons in their places all moving in their owne spheares none standing still but all shewing themselves Active for God and active for the good of Church and State And that not onely by indeavouring the removall of obstacles out of the way of mercy which is a great worke but also by improving all opportunities making use of all lawfull and warrantable wayes and meanes for the promoting and furthering of whatever gracious purposes and intentions our God may yet have towards us This let us doe As for others if any have no Hearts no wills to the worke and O that there were not too many such every where David tells us of some that Hated to be Reformed Would to God there were none of them amongst us who are so farre from furthering the worke of Reformation as that they would rather doe what they can to hinder it Others though happily they could be content with it and it may be wish it yet they would by no meanes be seene to have any hand in it they have no hearts to appeare for God in any Cause of his Now as for such I shall not stick to say unto them as Moses here to these faint-hearted or false-hearted Israelites for surely such there were some amongst them stand you still taking notice that God hath no need of you nor of your indeavours to carry through his owne worke What he hath purposed and determined to doe hee can doe it and he will doe it without you His worke shall goe on though you stand still And thus I have at length as I conceive given you the full sense and meaning of this comprehensive word here in the Text and of the counsell couched in it and intended by it Which like that River of Eden wee have seene branching it selfe into foure streames and every one of them affording unto us somewhat both Seasonable and Profitable The former I am sure of the latter I shall pray for FINIS Errata Page 5. Line 23. Sand read Stand p. 9. l. 1. for ques●monia r. querimonia p. 13. l. 28. for and r are p. 16. l. 17. for enjoyed r. enjoy p. 18 l. 24. for vulgaries r. vulgar eyes p 22. l. 11. for secure r. seare p. 24 l. 28. for commov●ami●is 1. co●●oveanimis p. 29. l. 12. for tithe r. Thite p. 30. l. 30. for end r. ever p. 32. l. 2● for heare r. feare p. 33. l. 32. for propertie r. properties p 35. l. 11. for D●ection r. Discretion p. 37. l. ● for ●eedily r. beadily l. 29. r. thu quick-sand p. 38. l. 30. for over●y r overly p. 39. l. 27. marg. for others ● ourselves p. 46 l. 28. dele first p. 48. for exprest r. expresse p. 53. l 8. for fined r. fixed p. 54. l. 6. for bandled r. banded ibid l. 25. for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 71. l. 20. dele proved p. 8● for that r. it p. 85. l 18. for Thess. 1. ● thesi p. 88. l. 25. for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 90. l 24. for princicles r. principles p 91. l 10. for opposite r. apposite p. 91. l. 1. dele the p. 93. l 7. for Which r. With p. 95 marg. for peculiari r. peculia●e p. 97. l. 24. for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} l. 28. for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 103. l 81. for One r Every p. 106. l. 13. for act r apt ibid. for there r th●●ce p 108 l 8. dele an ib. l. last for p●●ces r. preces A●u 1643. Io●. 1.12 Stand still Importing four things I ●ot Murmur●ng ●sal 73.9 2. ●ot Waver●g ●ing 1.2 1 King 10. ●● 2 Chr. 29.11 Ps. 134. Ps. 135.2 Mar. 11.85 3. Not Flying 2 Nah. ● 4. ●ot Fighting ●s 83.1 ●s 42 14. 1. Corrupt nature prone to murmure Rom. 13.4 ● Gods people in their strait● must Stand still not murmuring 1 Cor. 10. ●0 The Israelites murmuring in in four cases 1. For want of somewhat that they would have Exod. 15.22 24. Exod. 17.3 Numb. 20.3 Exod. 16.2 Numb. 11.4 2. The dislike of what they had Numb. 21.5 3. Meeting with dangers and difficulties Numb 14. ● 4 10. 4. Seeing others preferred before thēselves Numb. 16.2 3● 41. Applic. Let not us murmur Grounds of murmuring amongst us compared with Israels in the wildernesse Murmuring what P. Martyr Com. in Cor. 1 10. ●0 Note 1. Consider against whom it is that we murmure viz. God himselfe Is. 37.23 Rom. 9.20 Obj. W● murmure not against God but Instruments Superiours Ans. 1. Take heed of murmuring against Superiours Exod. 16.7 Being set over us by God 2 God is sensible of this murmuring Exod. 16.8.12 3. Hee taketh it as done to himselfe Ibid. v. 8 vers. ● 4. Hee will not 〈◊〉 it Par. com ad Boar. Specially if wanton murmurings Ps. 78.25 1 King 17.6 Malicious murmurings Exemplarie vengeance taken upon the Israelites for such murmurings Numb. 11.1 Montan. Numb. 11.33 Numb. 21.6 Numb. 16.31 34. Vers. 49 Numb. 14.29 30. 1 Cor. 10.10 1 Cor. ●0 6 Such murmumurings to be found amongst us wanton murmurings Envious malicious murmurings 1 Cor. 10.10 1. Cor. 4.21 Ezek. 20.37 Take we heed of murmuring against God The next 〈◊〉 to blast the mercies which we have Numb. 11 2● 2. The next way to keep off mercies we would have 3. ● ready way to pull downe judgement Jude v. 14 15. Verse 16. Take heed of murmuring against our Leaders and Governours Ignorance of the councels of Superiours oft-times a cause of murmuring Joh. 6.41 This maketh me● to murmur against God Rom. 11.33 Isa 29. ult. Against me● Mark 14. vers. 5. vers 4. vers. 8. Prov. 25.3 Jud. v. 8 10. Turn we Censurings and Murmurings into Prayers Supplications 1 Tim. 2.2 Pray for Superiours Eccles. 10. last Act. 23.5 Mat. 5.44 First for the King King 2.9 10. Sam 14.17 Mat. 24.45 Heb. 3.5 Numb. 11.12 Isa. 49.23 For all in Authoritie under him The high Court of Parliament Numb. 11.17 Ibid. Assembly of Divines for whom beg Direction Exod. 31.2 3. Exod. 36.1 Act. 7.44 Heb. 8.5 A blessing upon their endeavours The budding and blossoming of Aarons Rod the next way to stay the murmurings of the people Numb. 17. vers. 2. vers. 4. vers. 5. vers. 8. Vers. 10. Lam. 3.26 2. All men by nature unstable some more then others Gen. 49.4 ●am. 1.8 Jam. 1.6 Psal. 107.27 D. Gods people ought not to be in ordinately moved whatever their condition be ●oved they ●ay ought ●o be at the ●udgements of ●od Perdifficite est ●ominemexue●●e Laert. ●ut not Trou●led ●oh 14.1 Jam. 1.6 Christians very apt to be thus troubled Mat.