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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46744	The rocke, or, A setled heart in unsetled times a short discourse minding and helping Gods people to make use of their faith for moderating their feares in these sad times of the sorrowes of Sion : being the heads of some sermons preached lately and now published for that purpose / by William Jemmat ...	Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1644 (1644)	Wing J551; ESTC R19664	30,965	98

against us or the like Faith acted will say as David Psal 3.6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about as Elisha to his servant 2 Kings 6.16 Feare not for they that be with us two men onely are 〈◊〉 then they that be with them As Asa 2 Chron. 14.11 Lord it is nothing with thee to help whether with many or with them that have no power As Jehosaphat chap. 20.12 we ha●e no might against this great company that commeth against us neither know we what to doe but our eyes are upon thee Or as Moses at the red Sea Exod. 14.13 Feare ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will sh●w to you to day Againe faith act●d will say God is able to make their hearts melt in them 〈…〉 even the stoutest of the en●mies a● the Canaanites God can make them heare a noyse in t●● 〈◊〉 1 K●ng 7. ● and be gone as the Syrians o● a rumour Isa 37.7 as the Assyrians God can set them to sheathing their swords in the bowels one of another as the Moabites 2 Chron. 20.23 Ammonites and Edomites He can send an evill spirit among them to fall off one from another as Abimelech and the men of Sechem Judg. 11.23 Or he can bide us in the midst of all the enemies as he did Jeremie and Baruch Jer. 36.26 It may be ye shall be hid in the day of wrath Zeph. 2.3 And if not yet faith acted will say We shall goe to Heaven so much the sooner and there it will be better for us then if we had lived here an hundred yeers longer in the greatest prosperity After darknesse I shall see light and while I sit in darknesse the Lo●d shall be a light unto me Mic. 7.8 So in any other instances faith is the victory wherein we overcome the world 1 Joh. 5 4. And we see large and faire exemplifications of it Heb. 11.33 34 35. Through faith they subdued Kingdome wrought righteousnesse obtained promises ●●●pp●● th● mouthes of Lyons q●●● had the violence of fire escaped th● 〈…〉 the sword c. This is the lustre and glory of faith in the vigorous acts of it Samson was not more glorious in those miraculous acts of killing a Lyon or laying the Philistims heap upon heap then a Beleeever shall be if faith be well brought into action III. Faith when it admitteth of feares most and is pestered shrewdly yet strives to the contrary and works them out by little and little What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Psal 56.3 and a Beleever chides away unbeliefe as Psal 42.11 Why art thou cast downe O my soule and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God Unbeliefe is a great burden to a good soule and makes it say with teares Lord I beleeve Mar. 9.24 help tho●●●●●e ●●●el●●fe Ah that I should bewray such weaknesse after so much acqu●intance with God! after so much experience of his goodnesse after so much profession to b●leeve in God A●mighty 〈…〉 O wretched man that I am Rom ● 24 who shall deliver me from this body of death And as faith groweth stronger so these feares weare away by little and little At lightsome times it is as bold as a Lyon Prov. 28.1 The wicked the● when no man pursueth but the righteous are bold as a Lyon and we are righteous by faith All graces conflict with their contraries and so doth saith The comfort is it is sure of victory in the end Which is something to stay and fix the heart during the ●●me of the combat Time shall be that all these feares and first things shall passe away We shall not so much as feare any enemies of soule or body or molestation by them IV. There is a mixt consideration of the fears of a beleeving heart 〈…〉 in Sword● of 〈◊〉 godly that it is rather an holy and commendable feare then otherwise Some affliction or danger there is but yet an higher cause which breedeth the feare First sometimes the feare is for some sinne unrepented and unpardoned as the poore heart doubteth Job in his great calamities feared least the Lord reckoned with him for old offences chap. 13.26 thou writest bitter things against 〈◊〉 and mak●st me to possesse the 〈◊〉 of my youth When trouble comes and the peace with God not setled it is just cause of feare Prov. 18.11 A w●●●● 〈◊〉 who can beare Though sometime the Christian be comfortably perswaded of the peace yet my perfectly Or some old sinne comes newly to remembrance and brings terrour with it As to 〈◊〉 brethren when taken for spyes Gen 12. ●1 We are 〈◊〉 guilty concerning 〈…〉 that we 〈◊〉 the anguish of his s●●le and would not heare therefore is 〈◊〉 d●st●●●sse come upon us Or howsoever some feare will doe well to assure the peace more throughly Phil. 2.12 Work out your salvation wi●● fear and tr●mbling And thus 〈◊〉 is the man that feareth alwa● Prov. 28.14 Where feare standeth in opposition to hardnes of heart as appeareth by the opposition of the sentence Secondly sometimes the feare ●s not so much for hims●lfe whose estate is good and gives him leave to rejoyce in God all the day long as for his ch●ldren which are young t●nde● not instructed not provided for He feares least they should c●me into Popish or prophane hands and miscarry Alas what shall they doe if they be fatherlesse motherlesse friendlesse without government or without good instruction The body is like to be in bad case enough but the soule is worse Few friends of the soule even where is some love to the body Thirdly sometimes it is not so much for his owne particular as the welfare of the Church least Idolaters prevaile and Idolatry be established againe least the Gospell be hindered in the free course of it feast the Ark● be taken and the glory depart from Israel 1 Sam. 4.13 Eli sate upon a seat by the way-side watching for his heart trembled for the Arke of God Or he feares for the glory of God least it be eclipsed if the good side goe to the worse and wicked enemies have occasion to blaspheme Where is now 〈◊〉 God P●●● 12.10 and Gospelling and Fasting and Praying and Reformation Thus Moses was afraid least if Israel were destroyed in the Wildernesse the enemy would say It is because God was not 〈…〉 them into the good ●and Num. 14.13 and Joshua chap. 7.9 What will thou doe unto thy great Name namely if Israel still fall before the men of A● Which is an holy feare We read of some such thing in God himselfe Deut. 32.26 27. I said I would 〈◊〉 them into 〈◊〉 I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy 〈◊〉