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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32867	A word to Israel in the wilderness, or, An arraignment of unbelief shewing the evil of distrust ... / by John Chishul.	Chishull, John.	1668 (1668)	Wing C3906; ESTC R23704	35,060	116

themselves they had no potent Allies nor Friends to make terms for them It was the Interest of the Babylonians to keep them under in their Captivity and if it could be hoped that they would part with them yet they were never able to compass the building of the Temple in their poverty neither could they hope for assistance in this from those who had spoiled the Temple of all its Ornaments and been enriched with its Treasures Yet when the time comes for the building of the Temple Cyrus shall let the Jews go and rather than such a work shall want Incouragement he himself shall animate them in building furnish them with all things needful for this work Nay which is matter of Astonishment he shall give up all the Treasures of the House of the Lord though they were great and were a considerable increase of the Persian wealth and greatness Nay which is yet more stupendous he shall fetch them out of the House of his gods though consecrated to them and give them back to the God of Israel Ezra 1.7 8 9 10. And although this work met with Obstructions and evil Counsellours had suggested to the King That it was against his Interest to suffer such a work as this to go forward yet God inclined the hearts of the Kings of Persia to favour and further it As you may see Ezra 6.8 9.10 Ezra 7.15.20 21. Neh. 2.8 Now if we consult their ●nterest this could not be rationally expected from them How could we ●ope that they should advance the Worship of a God they did not profess to serve Who could expect that they should incourage Israel in that which would make them a distinct people from all the world and thereby raise them from being useful Servants to become formidable Enemies Yet when God will make use of men to help forward his Work he will make them Blind and Deaf to their own Interests they shall serve the Interests of God while they seem to destroy their own Thus it shall be in the Deliverance of the Church from Mystical Babylon God will work by those whose Interest that Antichristian Whore hath twisted together with hers against Reformation and the Liberty of the Saints from her cruel Bondage For they who did agree together to give their power to the Beast to support and uphold his Kingdom shall also agree together to hate the Whore and make her desolate Rev. 17. v. 12. compared with the 16. It is matter of Discouragement to many good men to consider how many Powerful Interests are united against the Interest of the Gospel and Reformation But alas when God will work he can ingage those to assist from whom in the Eyes of Reason we have most cause to fear And doubtless it is Antichrist's great security 〈◊〉 he sits upon many waters and hath many considerable ones in combination with him And though these seem to be inseparably fixed to him so that they are in danger of sinking if he fall or they start yet will God not only pluck these away but also strip him naked by those who have helped to adorne him To despond therefore and say Jacob is low By whom shall he rise is to forget that God can and will raise him rather than he shall sink by those whom we fear most will keep him down When the Church is fit for Deliverance rather than she shall want help God will work by his Enemies Last of all It is Gods way to appear for the Salvation of his people when their hearts and hopes are lowest He comes at their Midnight when they have no Light of Sense and perhaps few have the Light of Faith That of our Saviour is remarkable Luke 18.7 8 ●nd shall not God avenge his own Elect that cry Day and Night unto him I tell you he will avenge them speedily Nevertheless when the Son of Man cometh shall he find Faith on the Earth Though there shall be found a spirit of prayer among the Elect and I tell you says Christ God wil avenge them and that speedily too and this I leave upon Record for their comfort yet when I come to deliver I shall scarcely find Faith concerning my Coming and Avenging amongst my praying people The Scripture is full of Instances to prove this Truth When Abraham is call'd to offer up Isaac and in him the great Blessing promised to all Nations the Lord doth not appear for his deliverance till the Knife be lifted up over him to slay him and Abraham sets a note of Observation upon this Providence that it may be for Instruction and Comfort to all the People of God who shall meet with the like difficulties at any time Gen. 22.14 He calls it Jehovah-Jireh and the Proverbial Gloss upon this is very good In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen It is not said In the Mount God hath been seen looking back to what God had done but it looks forward to what God should do and his people might expect in after Ages Moses leaves this Gloss as a Prop to the Faith of Gods people that when they are in as great streights as he was they may be able to say In the Mount God will be seen And this indeed hath been confirmed by Instances of great Note When Israel was in Egypt and her bondage great God sends Moses with a Message of Deliverance and the hopes of this refresht their hearts a little But we find more Load laid upon their backs which were ready to break before so that the people beg●n to be angry with Moses judging that he had made then Condition worse Hereupon God begins to plague the Egyptians this moves Pharaoh and his people and they seem inclinable to let Israel go and begin to treat about it they treat and break and renew their Treaty again the Israelites are between hope and fear concerning the issue of this but at last Pharaoh grows resolute and desperate and not only refuses to let them go but threatens Moses and Aaron with death if they come any more in his sight Exod. 10.28 Now you may conceive the hearts of the Children of Israel are sinking and they reason thus with themselves If all this will not work our Deliverance then wo unto us we see Pharaoh is resolv'd not to let us go we must prepare for suffering and perpetual slavery yea and to bear what over the wrath of an inraged Enemy can inflict upon us who will surely be revenged for all that Egypt hath suffered and so all these plagues will in the Conclusion and in Effect fall on us Thus dark in all probability were their apprehensions but now the time is come to fulfil the Promise and God appears at their Midnight and brings them out with a high Hand Let us follow them into Canaan where we find them sinning away their Freedom and God gives them up into the hands of the Philistins from whom he doth not deliver them till they are brought exceeding

depend upon him and wait for 〈◊〉 in all the streights that we may be brought into I shall rejoyce as having attained my end We do not know what days we may yet be cast upon or what troubles may abide the people of God if we meet with none but what have been in former Ages we have reason to believe from Experience but if we should fall under such tryals as never any Age of the Church did produce yet we have reason to believe from the promise so that Distrust would then have no excuse The Apostles way of Reasoning is observable and oh that we could learn of him in this particular 2 Cor. 1.10 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver We are able to go thus far with him who sees not that God hath done great things for his people and for this Nation to deliver it from Popish designs and Plots against it the Lord hath disappointed Enemies of all sorts and we must acknowledg that he doth still deliver Our fears through mercy are not come upon us nay our Peace and Liberties are continued beyond our expectations Let us learn to go a little farther with the same Apostle and say as he did In whom we trust he will yet deliver us If our Fears do but awaken our Faith and we can say with David Psal 56.3 What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Having learnt to depend upon God in difficulties we shall in a little time be able to rejoyce in Tribulation and say as he did ver 4. In God I will praise his word in God have I put my trust and remarkable is what follows I will not fear what Flesh can do un o me Fear calls in Faith to succour him and Faith soon casts out those fears which did affl ct him Oh that we could imitate him and in the day of our fears call in our Faith and our ancient Experiences and incourage our selves in the Lord our God and wait quietly for his Salvation How sweet such a frame of Spirit would be to our selves how much it would contribute to the making the Name of God glorious what convictions it will leave upon the Spirits of men concerning the Power of Godliness a little Time and your Experience will evince Heb. 3.8 9 10. Harden not your hearts as in the Provocation in the day of Temptation in the VVilderness c. SHould I take notice of the Context I could not pass by many things which would present themselves to our consideration nor avoid such an expence of time as would prevent what at present I intend Let it suffice to know that the people to whom the Author directs this Epistle were a professing and afflicted people The great design that he drives at is to establish them in the Faith and to comfort them in their Sufferings Insisting upon the former he lays the great Example of Israel before them for their Caution in which is considerable First The persons propounded Israel your Fathers Secondly The Stage upon which they are presented in the wilderness Thirdly Gods Dispensations to them-ward they saw his works Fourthly Their carriage under and after all this They tempted and proved me They would not believe upon all the proofs and experiences that they had but would still be putting God upon new proofs Fifthly Gods resentment of this He was provoked and grieved He was angry because of such unworthy carriage and he was grieved because it was from a people so near him and so much beloved Sixthly We have the aggravation of their sin and the reason of this Provocation it was for a long time and after large experience of Gods wayes Seventhly We have a Comment upon this by the Holy Ghost discovering the rise of the Sin it is charged partly upon their vvills and partly upon their Understandings Perversness in the one and Darkness in the other They erre in their hearts and they have not known my wayes That I may make a plain way to the Doctrine I purpose to insist upon take a brief Explication of some terms in the Text. I will touch no more than I must of necessity and these no further then to make way to the Doctrine The rest of the particulars will fall in in the handling of this It is needful to know what every word imports in this Clause In the Provocation in the day of Temptation in the VVilderness These all relate one to the other If you ask what the Provocation was he tells you it was the Temptation If you demand how this must be understood and where fixed he tells in the Wilderness But you will next inquire VVhat particular Time and Action this points at in the Wilderness Some would have it to intend the whole Forty years in which they did often provoke the Lord. But others judg that the Holy Ghost points at some special Provocations in their passage through the Wilderness and they fix them principally upon Exod. 17.7 They tempted the Lord saying Is the Lord among us or not And upon Numb 14.11 How long will this people provoke me how long will it be ere they believe me The surest and safest way is to follow the Scripture it self in expounding these Terms We shall find that David from whose 95. Psalm these words are taken does himself explain them Psal 78. vers 17 18 19 20.40 41. In which he plainly tells us How the Israelites tempted provoked and grieved the Lord in the Wilderness Their sin he says was unbelief and what kind of unbelief also he informs us viz. a Distrust of his Providential care of them and Fatherly provision for them in that Wilderness and of his Power and Truth whether he could or would lead them thorow it to the good Land he had promised them They said vers 19. Can God provide a Table in the Wilderness Thus says the Holy Ghost they speak against God You cannot speak worse of God nor more to his provocation than when things run low with his people to question whether he can or will provide for them God observes this of those Hypocrites in Mal. 1.33 14. Your words have been stout against me saith the Lord. He insisteth again upon this v. 20. Can he give Bread also Can he give Flesh to his people But how does the Lord resent this When he heard this he was wrath ver 21. This was an evil not to be born withal any longer and as men that are offended will over with the matter of offence once and again so does the Holy Ghost repeat their sin again and again ver 22. Because they believed not God and trusted not in his Salvation and ver 40 and 41. How often did they provoke him in the Wilderness and grieve him in the Desart yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy One of Israel In all which we see plainly that this great Provocation was Unbelief and a distrustful bounding of Gods Power and Goodness and