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A50108 AnthrĊpasthenez, a good ground to cease from confidence in man discovered in a sermon upon Isaiah 2, verse 22 / preached at Clement Danes, the last day of the sixth moneth, 1651, by George Masterson. Masterson, Geo. (George) 1651 (1651) Wing M1072; ESTC R232253 18,712 31

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and bring forth fruit upward it could not but be expected on all hands that the further he roll'd the greater strength he would gather that before he had passed through one Countrey he would become a mighty Mountain yet behold and admire God though at his entrance he leave our Army Fourscore Miles in his Rear their flesh wearied and their spirit almost languishing through the continued difficulties they met with in a strange Land though he appear in a County very fond of him that invited him in where the Design was laid he coming in according to the cue that he had from hence though he strike many f Facile ignem concipiunt quae paulo ante extinctae sunt faces Strad de Bello Belgic sparks among Brands lately quenched that are but too prone to take fire and though he march with an Idol in the head of his Army The name of a King to which the generality of this Nation are very superstitious too ready to bow down to it and submit their necks to a Tyrants feet four Circumstances that were each of them big with the ruine of all that is dear to us yet behold I say the Cords of his Tent through the goodness of God are not stretched out his Horn is not exalted there are no considerable Cubits added to his Stature his Strength is at a stand much about the same scantling it was when he fled out of Scotland And for our Armies though they were scattered here and there not onely in the corners of our own but the most considerable part of them in a Forraign Land the Lord hath gathered them together with his Arm united them in a Body made them to increase with the increase of God and given them to overtake the Enemy I beseech you therefore since the Lord hath done this for us made us strong and not suffered the strength of the Enemy to increase do not you spoil the Friends of their strength or clothe the Arm of your Enemy with might by placing your confidence in man O think you hear the Army of your Friends that have been wont to Conquer who scarce know how to flye before an Enemy speaking in your ears to this effect We are going up this day in the Name of the Lord against a Potent Numerous Skilful Revengeful Bloody Enemy were thier Power Number Skill doubled were their Rage and Fury seven times hotter yet would we not be dismaid we would not stop our ears against the Lords call nor withhold our hands from his work t Ego nihil mihi tribuo sed nee valde mihi metuo a tali Antagonista Lips adver Dialogist we are not in the least afraid of Enemies but we are afraid of you our Friends fear hath taken hold upon our hearts lest you should fight against us by putting your confidence in us lest by looking upon us as your present help in trouble you should provoke the Lord to withdraw his presence from us we are confident notwithstanding all our unworthiness and your vain confidence this precious Cause of the Lord shall prosper but our Lives may be Sacrificed upon the account of your folly and the Lord may chastise your fleshly confidence by breaking the arm of flesh in pieces if you do not cease from us for what are we to be accounted of and is not our breath in our nostrils the Lord may refuse to go up with us and then we shall be weak even as a company of other men we shall turn our backs in the day of Battel yea we shall flie when no man pursueth we beseech you therefore by all our Watchings and Fastings by all the hunger and cold that we have undergone for you by all our Blood that hath been spilt as water by the Scars of all those wounds which we have received for you Cease from man By all your Enjoyments by all your Relations Wives Parents little Ones by your Liberties Temporal Spiritual Cease from man As you love Zion as you value the Gospel as you prize your Priviledges as the glory of the Lord is dear to you Cease from man we are not worthy to say for our sakes but for Sions sake and for the Gospels sake yea for your Souls sake and for the Lords sake we beseech you Cease from man And I beseech you hear them in that which they ask at your hands since all that is dear to you is concerned in it And that I may fasten this duty upon your hearts I shall make use of three Considerations as Nails Consider first Consider 1. That the end for which the Lord shakes the Earth why he humbles the lofty ones and bows down the haughtiness of man is That the Lord alone may be exalted The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of man shall be bowed down and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day Isaiah 2.11 and again ver 17. Now when we place our confidence in any thing but God we exalt it into the Throne of God the Lord may and doth delight to use Instruments not out of necessity but in a way of good will he may and doth put much honor upon those he makes use of as the Hinges upon which a State turns but he will never endure that the honor which is due unto his Name should be given to any Instruments whatsoever The Brazen Serpent when the People burn Incense to it must though set up by the especial appointment of God be broken in pieces Golden Instruments in the Lords hand are rendred Nehushtan a piece of brass by putting our confidence in them We might have enjoyed to this day those dear Names White and Pym and Hamden and Brooks and Rainsborough and Thornaugh and Ewres and Graves c. had not our confidence in them been a Dart through their Live● u Magister est hodiernus hesternus Error Bel. Belg. Homines post damna prudentiores sunt ac docent plerumque quae nocent Idem be wiser for the future and that you may enjoy your Worthies Cease from them We should Proclaim our selves unworthy of such Instruments did we not thankfully acknowledge to the Lord his singular goodness in raising up seven Shepherds and eight Principal Men for us in the Parliament and Councel of State in filling their hearts with Courage and Zeal to take the Lyon by the Beard to execute Justice upon the head of the great Offender we have great cause to acknowledge to the Lord their faithfulness when we have w Mont. Essays beheld many survive their own Reputation seeing with their own eyes the honor and glory buryed which they had formerly purchased yet the Lord hath not raised them up that they should exalt themselves or be lifted up into the room of God by us but that they should be an higher Scaffold for the building up of his glory Your hearts cannot but rejoyce before and to the Lord in behalf of the General that the Lord