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A80090	Christian-experiences from Scripture evidences under this variety, or several heads: viz. 1. Comfort for believers against their fears and dismayings. 2. Comfort for believers from their spiritual incomes. 3. Mans fruitlesness without saving faith, being a parallel between the belief of most, and the belief of devils. 4. Councel unto saints as sojourners and strangers. 5. Mans folly in determining by present evens [sic] or state of things. By Richard Coler, preacher of the word at Broughton in Hampshire.	Coler, Richard.	1652 (1652)	Wing C5062; Thomason E1331_2; ESTC R209105	103,933	255

Solomon tells you of the vanity of the creatures but David tells you what he found himself in this world and what he found the Lord unto him in his distresses God was his Rock his Shield his Shepherd his Tower of Defence Psal 33. 1. Psal 18. 2. and in the Text you have his own experience and esteem of himself in the world I am a stranger in the earth hide not c. The Text is an Argumentative petition of Davids not to move God but that the Lord would move towards him in pity and compassion as the beggar when at the bountiful door knows he is Lord of nothing but the Master of the house is Lord of all and therefore he tells his condition I am hungry cold and comfortless naked house and harborless concluding him to be bountiful he tels his condition and therein requesteth pity and compassion Even thus doth David at the bountiful door of the Lords wisdom who giveth and upbraideth not Lord saith David I am not at home but in a Countrey where I want a guide I am far from father or friend in this tabernacle of clay I sojourn up and down as did my fathers I am not onely in my pilgrim-weeeds but in my journey wandring now here now there And whether shall I wander without directions guide me direct me and rule me for I am a traveller and a stranger forlorn without thy conduct and take but knowledge of me and my condition and I know thou wilt grant unto me thy pity and compassion Thus in general but more distinctly observe in the words these two parts 1. Davids confession 2. Davids supplication His confession in these words I am a stranger in the earth And then his supplication in this Hide not thy Commandments from me In the first part consider three things 1. Who is he that thus speaks and that is David a man after Gods own heart a precious Saint and Servant of the Lord. 2. What he is and that is in Office a King by experience a stranger and a pilgrim 3. Where he is and that is in the earth I am a stranger in the earth the word is Baarets By which is meant not onely in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the body but also all that pertaineth to the body yea his Crown and kingdom and his life too in comparison of his home his heaven and happiness And that earth is usually so taken I need say no more but the reciting of these Scriptures Psal 115. 16. and 24. 1. What more is needful in the unfolding of the terms you shall have it in the further prosecution of the Doctrines therein contained These three Truths or Doctrines will fairly be extracted and I suppose obvious unto the meanest capacity that consulteth with the words 1. That the Lords people or Gods Davids Doctr. are strangers in the earth Though they are present in the body yet they are strangers they are not at home they being absent from the Lord And I shall beseech you to feed on it a little in your meditation for I shall presently fasten on it for this present occasion onely give me leave to mention two more Doctrines which I will but onely name and so proceed 2. That Gods children are so far from living without a rule that wanting they beg of the Doctr. Lord for one Hide not thy commandments from me Contrary to some professors practice and contrary to such slanders of some upon Gods children in opinion for the Spirit of God teaches to live in and under rule but not without rule c. 3. That it is a Christians duty if not the creatures of mankinde to extract and Doctr. draw Arguments from their distresses as praying encouragements I do not say from our prosperity but from our misery and distress David doth not say I am a King or Rich and Honorable c. but from his dark and distressed part I am forlorn distrest a stranger Christians consider this in the midst of your afflictions What a mercy is it that you may go to God with them I am sad and pensive husbandless and comfortless and this as a praying encouragement as The Lord to be thy joy thy head and comforter c. And creatures consider this in the midst of all your wickedness and misery the Lord hates to hear you curse and swear but delights to hear thee pray and complain that thou art a sinner and undone without and for want of mercy But intending to speak of these some other opportunity I return unto our present occasion which I shall desire to speak unto from the first Doctrine namely That Gods people are strangers on the Doctr. earth Gera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incola inquilinus That this is a truth clearly and plainly from the Text I suppose none will question but yet take one Scripture as a proof and parallel and that is Psal 39. 12. Hear my prayer O God and give ear unto my cry hold not thy peace at my tears for I am a stranger and a sojourner or as the word signifies a Tenant at will that liveth in such a place where neither father nor friends were born such was David and such was Abraham Isaac and Jacob as were all my fathers So are all the children strangers advena and sojourners out-commers and forraign born for so are all Gods children they are not born of blood though of the blood royal nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God John 1. 13. CHAP. II. Sheweth that Gods people are strangers and how I Shall unfold this Doctrine first by shewing you how and in what regard the Saints are Strangers in the earth and likewise the ground why they are said to be strangers and then make use of it to our present occasion First How are the Saints said to be strangers in this earth are they not livers dwellers and dealers in the earth as well as other of the children of men They are so but yet the Saints are strangers in the earth and that in these three respects 1. In regard of their entertainment and 1. In regard of entertainment acquaintance acquaintance I might make these distinct but for brevities sake in one and at once In these respects the children of God are strangers in the world as the children of Israel were in Egypt so are the Saints now And how was that was it not with hard entertainment with hard usage burthens and bondage was their greatest priviledges For Gods Israel to be under Task-masters so many years was very strange and yet very true Exod. 3. 7. And what more is now unto Gods children the world is still an Egypt unto them it stills strives to keep in bondage it tempts and stricks it entertains with burthens and acquaints with Mark 5. 17. woes We know strangers finde cold entertainment because of non-acquaintance The world

cannot serve God and Mammen I could wish all Moral hearts would consider this and not couzen the soul by their double haltings But now the Saint takes the word of Christ for truth and saith Rather then I will be a stranger unto Christ I will be strange unto the world For Iam. 4. 4. The friendship of the world is enmity against Christ What though we have frowns from the world and the world will be strange to us yet we have favours from our friend Yea though in the world we have a portion of persecution yet from Christ we have a portion of comfort Ioh. 16. 3. In the world ye shall have tribulation strangeness and hard usage but be of good comfort I have overcome the world And this is a precious favour Believers believe it against the worlds frowns 4. And lastly Saints are strangers in this earth because there is a necessity of either being strangers or friends The Texts before Mat. 6. 24. speak a necessity of being one Ye cannot serve God and Mammon be in friendship with the world and in friendship with the Lord We must either hate the one or love the other hold to the one or despise the other And saith the godly heart Rather then I will be estranged from the Lord take the worlds friendship who will I will not have it at such a rate as to lose my friendship with the Lord For in his favour is life Ps 30. 5. What though I am a stranger and a traveller for a night I shall be at home in the morning when I awake I shall be satisfied with thy likeness Ps 17. 15. And therefore what though a stranger here there is a necessity except I would lose the Lords favour but that is better then life Away therefore world away riches honours profits Rather then to lose the shineings of the Sun the Moon shall be under my feet Rather then be estranged from my precious Father and my friend the Lord Jesus all the worlds pomp glory and pleasure all sublunary things shall be under my feet And thus much for the grounds and reasons why the Saints are strangers in the earth First because they are not at home secondly because their acquaintance and kindred are in heaven thirdly because the world is strange to them And Fourthly because of necessity they must be strangers or friends The uses pertinent to the present occasion follow CHAP. IV. Sheweth Characters for tryal whether we be strangers on the earth or no. FIrst by way of tryal or examination Secondly of dehortation and exhortation Vses Thirdly of comfort and consolation First If the Saints be strangers on the Vse 1 earth then let us make search and serious inquiry into each of our own hearts whether we be Saints by being sojourners in the world There is a daily sojourning in the spirit by all the children of God while they are in the flesh not like the Post who is a traveller indeed but is but onely from stage to stage and so to return whence he came out But Saints are strangers to a Heb. 11. 10. City whose builder and maker is God never to set their rest up till they be at home in their heavenly habitation Now to try whether we be such travellers and in this world strangers take a word in these three or four following characters 1. Do we set up our abode in this world and what is our esteem of life and goods and all that we possess you know strangers though they bed and board yet they count not any thing as standingly their own but look and wait for a remove and therefore have of all things such present estimation as gain but loss Yea and I count saith Paul Phil. 3. 8. all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord and do count them but dung that I may win Christ Second Character Could you contentedly live here in this world always or are you waiters till your change comes are Jo● 14. 14. you grieved that time spins out and your life must end or have you a desire to depart O yes saith the stranger I could not live here from my friends my father wife P●il 1. 23. and children not for a world if you would give me my dwelling for nothing I cannot be contented So the Christian if I might have all the world yet my content and comfort is elsewhere and how shall I get home to my heaven and house of happiness that 's my care and daily trouble not that I would make more haste then speed but fain I would be gone and I care not how soon Come Lord Jesus come quickly Rev. 22. that I might come to thee who art my heaven and happiness Thirdly Have you another place in your eye then this your present enjoyment strangers still think of home so Saints are still thinking of their eternity the home of heaven is still in the eye of faith and heart of love of every true believer Alas saith the poor soul Here I have no continuing Heb. 13. 14. Finiti ad infinitum nulla est proportio City no continuing Goods Lands Livings And if I had a continued house I would be a continued Tenant for what is earth to heaven perishing to perpetuals finite to infinite my fathers love is above all O saith the longing soul when shall I get home when shall I appear before my father in Sion I am here a stranger and an alien as were my fathers and my dear brethren My dear Saviour had neither Luke 9. 8. holes nor houses nor whereon to lay his head He had another Kingdom and th● is mine by faith I have it in my eye and this is my daily expectation Abraham looked for a City whose builder and maker was God And Moses had respect unto the recompence of reward and these were strangers and sojourners as appeareth by the Apostle Heb. 11. 9 10. verse 26. The fourth and last Character is this Examine whether the world loves you or if it hates you The lovers of the world and the beloved of the world are not the children of God but the children of the world Christ gives this as a Christians character John 15. 18 19. If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world therefore the world hates you Mark it If ye were of the world that is if you were one of them and in their family having one father you would have the same friendship the world would love his own not count you strangers but stroke you as one of her own worldly brats But if you are of heavens family are travellers through the world as through a wilderness to your Canaan and rest as the traveller through a Town the dogs will bark so Christians through this world must expect the