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A21054 The righteous mans tovver. Or, The way to be safe in a case of danger. Published by Ier. Dike, minister of Epping in Essex Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. 1639 (1639) STC 7422; ESTC S100142 133,735 372

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and our strength a very present helpe in Trouble If a person had slaine a man at unawarres hee was to flee unto one of the cities of Refuge and the reason is given Deut. 19. 6. why God would have three of those cities in three seveverall parts of the Land Least the avenger of bloud pursue the slayer whilest his heart is hot and overtake him because the way is long and slay him Therefore would God have them in divers places because a man slaying another at unawares might bee neere to one of those cities and so prevent danger by getting into one of them for sanctuary Now if once a man were within the walls or gates of one of those cities of Refuge then hee was safe Let the Avenger of bloud follow as hard as he would and let his heart bee as hot as it would yet if once within the city of Refuge the man was safe When the Avenger of bloud pursued hotly a man was in present danger but if he got but the city of Refuge over his head though the Avenger pursued at his very heeles yet the city of Refuge was a very present helpe in that time of danger So saith the Psalme God is our Refuge our city of Refuge Suppose troubles and dangers should pursue a man as close at the heeles as the Avenger of bloud did the man slayer it may bee in such a case of danger there was no possibility of escape yes that there were God is our Refuge and our strength a very present helpe in trouble let dangers be as present as may be yet hee is a very present helpe There is an All-sufficiency in God both for defence and offence There is no danger so great or present from which his power is not able to rescue No power so great which he is not able to crush and breake The safety of a strong Tower stands in two things 1. That it is for Defence so as to keepe an enemy off and to defend a man within it from the danger of enemies without 2. That it is for offence so as to hurt and spoyle an enemy without A Tower not onely guards and keepes a man safe but it hath ordnance and ammunition with which it keepes off and beats off and beates away enemies A weake person from a strong Tower may doe a great deale of mischiefe to a strong enemy Abimeleck and a sorry woman were an unequall match what was a weake woman to him And yet a weake woman having the advantage of a strong Tower proved too good for him for a woman from the Tower casts a piece of a milstone upon abimelecks head and brake his skul Iudg. 9 53. Now such a strong Tower is the Lord. He hath All-sufficiency of strength to defend free and protect from all dangers whatsoever and hee hath All-sufficiency of Power to beate and batter and spoyle all such adversaries as shal assault any within this Tower Hee is a strong Tower both to keep such safe as are within it and a strong Tower able to batter with his cannon and ordnance such as shall offer to assaile and besiege it Hee is such a Tower as that Cant. 4. 4. Thy necke is like the Tower of David builded for an Armory wherein there hangs a thousand bucklers all sheilds of mighty men In Davids Tower there were shields and bucklers for defence and protection and there was Thalpijoth an Armory a word that comes of Thalah to hang and Pijoth two edged swords all Instruments of offence and weapons of death to doe executions on enemies so that hee that makes choyse of God for his safety goes wisely to worke in provision for his security for he pitches upon a Tower upon a strong Tower He is a Tower unquestionably sufficient for safety This is an impregnable fort Psal 20. 1. The Name of the God of Iacob set thee on an high place Therefore Psal 46. 1. * Deus noster Refugiam virtus Sunt quaedam refugia ubi non est virtus quo quisque cum fugerit magis infirmatur quam confirmetur Confugis ad aliquam insaeculo magnum ut facias tibi potente●●micum Refugiam tibi videtur Tanta tamen huius sa●●li incerta sunt ●●● ut cum ad tale Refugium confugeris plus ibi ●imere incipi●● Non est refugium nostrum tale sed refugium nostrum virtus est Cum illuc confugeimus f●r●i erimus August in Psal 43. God is our Refuge and our strength Such a refuge in which there is strength There be Refuges in which no strength to which when a man betakes himselfe hee is rather weakned then strengthned Ahaz makes the king of Assyria his Refuge but hee was not his strength 2 Chron. 28. 20. The King of Assyria came unto him and distressed him but strengthned him not But God is not such a refuge he is our Refuge our strength the name of the Lord is a strong Tower 2. In Running unto and into this Tower in betaking a mans selfe unto God there is safety The Righteous Runs into it and is exalted or is safe wee shall finde it true in some examples Iehoshaphat was in great danger and in great feare 2 Chron. 20. 1. 2. Then there came some that told Iehoshaphat saying There commeth a great multitude against thee what that multitude was wee see vers 1. And what doth Iehoshaphat in this feare and danger See vers 3. 4. Hee set himselfe to seeke the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Iudah and Iudah gathered themselves together to aske helpe of the Lord even out of all the cities of Iudah they came to seeke the Lord. And vers 12. wee know not what to doe but our eyes are upon thee Iehoshaphat and the people in their danger and their feare run to this strong tower of the name of the Lord they betake themselves to God and what was the issue see it vers 22 23 24. All the huge host of their enemies proves in heap of dead karcases when they came to the watch-tower in the Wildernes they then found that the Name of the Lord which they had run unto proved indeed a Tower of safetie Hezekiah was in a great danger and feare Senacherib comes against him with an armie of an hundred fourscore and five thousand sends him railing messages threatning letters what course takes Hezekiah in this danger Hee runnes to this strong tower 2 Chron. 32. 20. For this cause Hezekiah the King and the Prophet Isaiah prayed and cryed to heaven See also 2 King 19. 1. 14. 15. All this was running to this tower and what was the speed and the sequell That we find 2 Chron. 32. 21. 22. 23. Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah and hee was magnified amongst all nations So that Hezekiah ran to this Tower and was not onely safe but was exalted and magnified So that the Name of the Lord is not onely a strong Tower but a saving Tower and a man by betaking himselfe