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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04185	Sermons on several subjects; shewing Gods love to mankind. Salvation is by grace. Wilderness-provision. God a strong hold in trouble. Light is to be improved. / By J. Lougher minister of the gospel.	Lougher, John, d. 1686	1685 (1685)	Wing L3093C; ESTC R180071	105,071	248

conversion O that Ishmael may ●●ve before thee God answered him in Isaac which was better David prayed for the life of his sick Child God denie● him in that but answered him in Solomon a better mercy Paul prayed for the removal of that sorely afflictive temptation which he knew not how to bear God answered him with a promise o● supporting grace which was better S● that if we could observe the waies o● God towards us in answering prayer we should have no cause to restra●● prayers upon a temptation that they ar● fruitless but should see our labour is no● in vain in the Lord. These things considered nothing should take us off from or deaden our hearts in prayer to Go● in the day of trouble but we shoul● be incouraged to continue instant in this duty alwaies to pray and not to faint Luke 18.1 But some will say wha● shall we do to bear up till deliverance from trouble come The 3. Doctri●● tells us that which may comfortab●● support us in praying and waiting 〈◊〉 it viz. Doct 3. That the Lord is a strong ho●● in the day of trouble So in the Text e●pressly And thus God is set forth 〈◊〉 other Scriptures Isa 26.4 He 〈◊〉 called the Rock of ages a refuge to 〈◊〉 ●hat trust in him through all Generations Hence it is said Prov. 18.10 The name ●f the Lord is a strong Tower It is a Me●aphorical speech look what a strong Tower is in case of danger such is the ●ame of God in a day of trouble the one●y sanctuary to run into for security The Lord is my Rock and my fortress my ●trength and my high Tower saith David Psal 18.2 A strong fort or fortification Hezekiah who in his days of trouble had this very word in the text given him for his relief found him so notwithstanding Rabshakeh blasphemed in telling him the God in whom he trusted would deceive him Qu. 1. And if you ask Wherein it appears that God is a strong hold in the day of trouble Ans I answer In that he is and hath all that belongs to a strong hold viz. Strength provision ammunition advantage against Enemies and the like God hath strength A paper-house will not make a good strong hold or houses made of reed or rotten Timber But God is my strength and power saith David 2 Sam. 22.32 In him his everlasting strength God hath provision If this be wanting to them in strong holds their enemies may starve them But 〈◊〉 know what God is to his people a Father a Shepherd These will provid●● for their children for their flocks Go● much more for his So Abraham believed My Son God will provide an● so he found it Gen. 22.7.8 God ha● also ammunition In a strong hold the● are great peices of Ordnance whic● are for offence and defence So in Go● there are glorious Attributes he ha● made also gracious promises to his pe●ple and terrible threatnings against 〈◊〉 enemies Faith and prayer give fire 〈◊〉 these to discharge them and then dreadful execution is done upon Gods and 〈◊〉 peoples Enemies He makes his A●rows sharp in the hearts of his Enemies his right hand doth terrible thing whereby they fall under him Psal 45 4.5 I might also shew what great adva●tage he hath against Enemies to rep●● and do them hurt But I onely add that as a strong hold is not known b●● only to them that are in it So no●● know what strength provision c are in God but those that are in hi● But some will say Qu. 2. Why or whence is it that the L●●● is a strong hold in the day of trouble Ans This he is and hath undertaken ●o be for them and to them partly that ●e might make them every way happy Happy are the people whose God is the Lord ●hat have the God of Jacob for their help whose hope is in the Lord their God Psal ●44 15 and Psal 146.5 Partly that his ●ervice might not seem unreasonable ●ometimes God calls his to very hard ●nd difficult services Now it is thought ●nreasonable that a Master should set his ●ervants about a work he will not defend ●hem and bear them out in God never ●oth so he alwayes secures and protects ●hose he imploys in doing or in suffering-●ork His grace is sufficent to bear ●heir charges and his Kingdom is enough ●o reward their faithfulness in his ser●ice Partly because else in their fears ●nd temptations they would be ready ●o run to other refuges and strong holds ●or their security And partly to vex ●heir Enemies It is a great vexation ●o them to see and observe God to be his ●eoples strong hold How was Saul ●roubled and vexed to see that God was Davids strong hold David is said to dwel 〈◊〉 strong holds 1 Sam. 23.29 Some●●mes he fled to one and sometimes to ●●other yet David acknowledgeth God to be his rock refuge and high Tower and Saul was convinced in his own co●science that God was with David a● David with God hid and secured in 〈◊〉 secrets of his present and this was matt●● of vexation to him as it is to many othe● of his Spirit Vse 1. This shews the great mista●● of the Sons of men and their sin al●● They mistake in thinking Gods peo●● shelterless and destitute of relief a● safety whereas they have a strong ho●● even God himself They sin in perse●ting them for they persecute God a● Christ their strong hold Saul Sa●● Why persecutest thou me Act. 9. ●● They that let fly their Arrows agai●● those in a strong hold shoot at 〈◊〉 strong hold in which they are So it here when the King of Assyria let his blasphemies against Hezekiah by servant Rabshakeh God saith Whom 〈◊〉 thou reproached and blasphemed Isa ● 23.24 and against whom hast thou exa●● thy voice c. even against the holy o●● Israel By thy servant hast thou proached the Lord. They sin and greatly also in betaking themselve● other strong holds Nahum 3.14 ●●tify thy strong holds The Prophet se●● to deride their care and cost in their fortifications Some make strong Castles others make riches their strong hold The rich mans wealth is a strong City and a high wall in his own conceit whereas in a time of common calamity riches are more dangerous than poverty The rich were carried away to Babylon into Captivity when the poor were ●eft to till the Land Jer. 29.10 It s spoken of that desolation by Nebuchad●ezzar 'T is said that in the Massacre at Paris diverse rich Papists were murthered for their estates as well as Protestants Others make their Church-priviledges a strong hold crying as of old The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord Jer. 7.4 But these were lying words There is no Sanctuary no not in the Sanctuary whilest men are in their sins O that we could be affected and afflicted with for the mistakes of men in this matter of so great concernment and the rather because of