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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90672	A firebrand pluckt out of the burning. A sermon preached at Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemn fast, Novemb. 27. 1644. By Benjamin Pickering, Minister of Gods Word at Buckstead in Sussex: and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said house.	Pickering, Benjamin.	1644 (1644)	Wing P2150; Thomason E23_4; ESTC R18962	22,587	38

in Babylon and the Samaritancs about Iudea to hinder their counsels and endeavours you have given good proofe that you exalt God and preferre his glory with the hazard of the depressing of your selves and yours The Lord is faithfull who will not forget your unparallel'd zeale and labour of love Continue in your integritie and the Lord will continue a Sunne and shield to you Psal 105.14 he will for your sakes rebuke Princes he will rebuke Satan and all his malignant Instruments that they shall be as still as a stone Although Satan be at your right hand feare not so long as our Mediatour sits at the right hand of God feare not if you with Ioshua stand before the Angel of the Covenant continue to stand before him as your Master whose worke you are about expecting what he will prescribe or enioyne Continue in his worke that you may be found so doing so acquit your selves that he may say Well done good and faithfull servants you have beene faithfull in all my house enter into your Masters ioy Stand before this Angels as your Iudge to whom in all your iust proceedings you may appeale and have reliefe Stand before him as your Advocate who hath undertaken the Patronage of your righteous cause and the promoting of your pious undertakings in heaven with his Father there he speakes good there he pleads for you and the Lord will answer him with good words and comfortable words concerning you and concerning his Ierusalem To his powerfull Patronage constant care and gracious guidance you and all your weightie Affaires are commended in the daily prayers of Your most unworthy but faithfull and humble servant BEN. PIKERING A SERMON PREACHED AT Margarets Westminster before the Honourable House of COMMONS at their late Solemn Fast Novemb. 27. 1644. Zach. 3. latter part vers 2. Is not this a brand pluckt out of the fire IT is the Lords pleasure that the condition of his Church many times should be such as the Prophet expresseth I beheld the earth and lo it was without forme and void Jer. 4.23 and the heavens had no light Thus it was with Gods people in the Babylonish captivitie Heaven and Earth Church and Common-wealth were in a confusion It is the Lords goodnesse to have respect to his people in such extreamities and when all is in a Chaos to stirre up helps and wayes to a new Creation of this heaven and earth The God of the spirits of all flesh for this end stirs up the spirit of Cyrus to give way and of Zerubbabel Ioshua Ezra and Nehemiah to revive the stones out of the rubbish to build the Citie and Temple and to set up the true worship and pure ordinances of God It is observable that the best undertakings meet with greatest discouragements As these Builders and Reformers did both from the Kings Courtiers and Malignant neighbours stirred up by the Devill Therefore lest they should faint and be weary lest their spirits should faile the Lord sends encouragements by his Prophets Haggai and Zachary Ezra 5.1 The like oppositions much Honoured you have had and such encouragements the Lord hath not been wanting in to you This Prophet Zachary First to fit and dispose the people for mercy exhorteth to repentance Thus is a people prepared for the Lord. Secondly by sevetall visions the Lord first sheweth how he had dealt with them that is with moderation not according to their deserts but in measure and much mercy Chap. 1. 2. Secondly for their comfort he declareth how he would deale with them Chap. 3. 7. that is he would deale graciously with them if they would turne to him and build his Temple and set up his worship and ordinances in their puritie In this third Chapter is set down the fourth vision which the Lord manifested to this Prophet that is Ioshua the high Priest and Satan standing at his right hand In Ioshua the high Priest a type of Christ is set out the restauration of the Church and Priesthood and true worship He stood before the Angel of the Lord that is the second person of the Trinitie called the Angel of the Covenant and vers 2. of this Chapter Iehovah attending his commands expecting his ayde he was in vile raiment not as the high Priest of old though the Priesthood and Church be in a vile despicable condition you see it is in Christs eye he hath care of it Satan an adversary stands at his right hand to resist The devill will still be hindering the acting hand in the things of God Our Saviour found it so when first he entred upon the worke of a Mediatour and Saint Paul in his pious intentions Matth. 4. 1 Thess 1. Satan hindered us The Devill hateth all Divine Order and pure Ordinances therefore he resists Ioshua in whom the Priesthood and Divine worship were restored Hence vers 3. the Lord is pleased to grant a threefold encouragement to Ioshua and the rest which is also a threefold discouragement to the adversary First The Lord hath chosen Ierusalem and the Ministery appointed to gather and build up his people and the Lord by deliverance of his people hath manifested his election therefore he will not forsake those whom hee hath chosen Gods choosing is loving Iacob have I loved Whom God loves he loves to the end therefore feare not Secondly The Sonne of God undertakes the Patronage of his Church he prayeth for them he makes intercession to Iehovah God the Father Iehovah said Iehovah rebuke thee and observing the reduplication the Lord rebuke thee even the Lord that hath chosen Ierusalem rebuke thee we may see vehemency of affection in our Mediatour toward his Church and chosen he was heard alway whilest he was upon earth Joh. 11. Father I know thou hearest me alwayes Therefore now he is at the right hand of God he is heard The Lord will rebuke the adversary and answer this angel with good and comfortable words concerning Ierusalem This was to Ioshua and the rest and is to you another singular encouragement The third is in the words of the Text read unto you that is present rescue This manifests what Gods purpose is toward his people he hath delivered them out of a wofull captivitie likely to consume them as a brand out of the fire therefore the Lord will save them to the uttermost hath he begun and shall he not finish what worke he begins he will perfect it the Lord will perfect that which concerneth his chosen Psal 138.8 Thus may the Lords chosen instruments and servants be encouraged and thus the malignant enemy tooke off Vpon this third let us stay our soules I shall not trouble you with varietie of interpretations nor with multitude of observations which might very aptly be drawn out but shall labour to present the summe in this generall instruction Gods people may be in the burning but they shall certainly be rescued and perfectly delivered Doctrine This I shall