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A92190	Jacobs ladder, or The protectorship of Sion, laid on the shoulders of the Almighty; in a description of the sufficiency of providence, suitable in these times of tentation. With Jacobs wrestling. / By Francis Raworth of Shoreditch.	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing R373; Thomason E1507_2; ESTC R209489	136,597	367

visible Protectors and good Angels are invisible Protectors of Sion under God The King of Glory can never want forces for he hath a Militia of Angels thousands and ten thousands of Angels are his Chariots to ride in These heavenly Hosts are the horse-men and Chariots of Israel It is desperate to provoke a General marching in the head of a puissant and numerous Army The Angels observe their Rank and File they wait but for the word Nec boni Angeli nisi quantum Deus jubet nec mali Angeli injusta faciunt nisi quantum justè ipse permittit Aug. de Trinit l 3. c. 8. and they immediately take wing either for the comfort of Sion or confusion of her Enemies God sent one Brigade of Angels to help Elisha 2 King 6.17 another Brigade to aide Lot against the Sodomites one Squadron to help Jacob against Esau another to help Hezekiah against Zenacherib Gen. 32.24 Isa 37.36 Gods heavenly Forces quarter up and down about all the afflicted Churches in the World An Army of Angels Gen 32.2 was sent to convoy Jacob and therefore he called the place Mahanaim that is two Hosts or Camps either because the Angels appeared in two Bands and so made as it were a guard for Jacob to pass between them or because the great Angelical and Royal Army quartered and marched with Jacobs little Army and so two confederate Armies appeared in the field together so say Rivet and Caryl Our strongest Militia is either of Angels that are Spirits or of Angelical Spirits Psal 88.17 Angels Ezek 1. have the face of a Man to signifie their knowledge Wings to signifie their swiftness they cannot pass from one place to another in a moment because all motion is from one term to another term by a middle Angelus est nomen officii no● naturae ex eo quod est spiritus est ex eo quod agit Angelus est Idem in Psa 111 yet Psal 10.4 they are compared to a flame of fire The Cherubims have wings on their feet which is strange they cannot foot it fast enough and therefore must speed their Race with flight Thirdly They represent an Ox to signifie their obedience to God Hence we pray Let thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven that is freely as the Angels obey God without reluctancy And fourthly they are compared to a Lyon for their strength One Angel killed an hundred fourscore and five thousand in one night 2 King 19.35 One Angel wants neither hands nor weapons to rout and ruin an whole Army The good Angels stopped the Lyons mouths when Daniel was shut up in the Den restrained by Gods allowance the force of the fire when the three children were cast into the furnace The Angel of the Lord encamps about Sion Psal 34.7 That is the Angels for he speaks of an Host and the Criticks observe that in the Hebrew one is put for a multitude as the inhabitant for the inhabitants 2 Chron. 11.4 Quail for Quails Psa 105.33 40. When Christ is set forth by the name of an Angel it is in Scripture with some additions as the Angel of the Covenant and when you read of the Angel of the Lord it is meant of Christ unless there be some contradictions of that interpretation in the context as is apprehended Angels are Sions Centinels at home and File-leaders abroad As there are good men against evill so there are for Sion Angels against Angels Rev. 12.7 The Ethiopians supposed that Angels attended on Judicatories and therefore were accustomed to leave twelve Chairs empty in the Judgement place which they say were the Seats of Angels When Sion is in distress Faith and Prayer is able to press the Angels and to bring them into the batlet but they are Voluntiers not Mercenaries The Stars fought against Sisera that is say some the Angels in the Stars as in their War-Chariots as if the Angels according to the odd old proverb of Intelligences did inform the Stars but they are heavenly wide as one saith In the first of Zechary vers 8. the Mirtle trees in the bottom signifie the low estate of the Church or the Church in a low estate The divers coloured Horses were Angels appointed for divers Offices says Junius the red Horses for Judgement the white for Mercy the speckled for mixt actions being sent out at once to help Sion Non tribuere Angelis audeo quod forte non possunt nec debeo derogare quod possunt and oppose her Enemies An Angel smote bloody Herod two Angels defeated Zenacheribs Host and Angels by name if not by nature saith Mr. Caryl poure out the seven Vials of Gods wrath in the Revelation In Luke they are called the Host of Heaven These Armies are all of one mind no difference of Colours though possibly different Orders yet no difference in their Orders They on the Ladder ascend and descend they give place one to another there is no justling between them The Rabbies suppose on what ground I am careless of inquiring four Angels to be the Presidents of the four quarters of the World Michael of the East Raphael of the West Gabriel of the North and Uriel of the South The Barbarians had once taken Constantinople but that in the night season they were frighted by the appearance of armed Angels Socrat. l. 6. c. 6. Wherefore as Alexander the Great slept soundly though the enemy was at hand and being asked the reason of such security replied that Antipater his Captain was awake so may the Saints sleep in peace in these stormy times because they have Dan. 4. Guirin vigilantes the watchful ones about them Solomon Cant. 3.7 had sixty valiant men all with swords to defend him for fear of the night but the Saints are incompassed with Guards of Angels and as Elisha said 2 King 6. to his fearful Servant there are more with us than against us we need not regard the Malicia of Devils for we have the Militia of Angels This is spoken in subordination to Gods presence who useth them not as Princes that need their Guards but for the glory of his Majesty and for the support of our weakness but to testifie his great love to us in imploying such honorable creatures for our service and to maintain amity and correspondency between Saints and Angels untill they both walk arm in arm in Heaven 9 Angels attend on the Saints at their deaths Angels are the Protectors of Sion while they live and their Porters when they die They are as careful of the Saints as Nurses of their Babes God puts his children when they are born out to them to tender and tutor and at their death they bring them home to him again Lazarus Luk. 16. was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosom It is probable the Devils attend on dying men if possibly to tempt them to despair the less time they have to reign the more they rage and therefore good Angels attend too to

facilitate the death of the Saints ready with their arms to receive the souls of Gods Jacobs En fratres quamrerum lamentanda mutatio fu●●s divitis antecedit lugubris tu ba Servorum feretrum pauperis antecedit Angelorum psallentium multitudo Chrysol and carry them up the Ladder to Heaven Lazarus was carried not by one Angel but in the plural number by Angels At the funeral of a Prince or Emperor it is accounted an honor to help bear his Hearse to the Grave so the glorious Angels willingly condescend to carry the souls of the Saints to Heaven Many Angels carry one Lazarus as if they had been ambitious to carry him every Angel striving which should carry a limb This was greater state than the King of Egypts Chariot drawn by four Princes We are a delightfull and lightsome armful to the Angels while we live and at death they do the last and best office as we say for us Lazarus who living was licked by Dogs is now dead guarded by Angels thus they condescend to handle such filthy creatures as sin hath made us while they remember our necessity they do as it were forget their own honor Whereas some plead for topical Angels and personal Angels that is for the presidency of one Angel over a Country and over a particular man according to the conceit of the good and bad Genius I judge it more for a Saints honor and safety to have a Guard of Angels then a Guardian Angel To conclude Angell vocantur quod funguntur munere ordinario Arch-Angeli quod extra ordinario we have always with us invisible Friends and Enemies let the consideration of our Enemies keep us from security and the consideration of our Friends keep us from distrust Had wicked men their eyes open as Balaam once had they would at every turn see an Angel to stand in their way ready to resist what they go about as he did for this is one of those noble imployments of those noble Spirits to give a strong though invisible opposition to wicked Enterprizes True they appear not ordinarily what then no more do the evill Angels had we but spiritual eies we should see with Moses the invisible God and not that onely but with Jacob the invisible Angels Many a treacherous act have they hindred without the knowledge of the Traytor yea many are the dangers wee see and fear innumerable those we neither see nor fear from which Providence makes Angels instruments to deliver us Good Angels support the Ministers of God in the Throne and in the Pulpit As Jacob in the Vision said The Lord was in this place and I knew not of it So how often are the Angels with us and we do not consider it Angeli sunt media sed non mediatores though we see not Angels yet we must beleeve them we are not Jacobs not Christians if our faith be not as sure as our sense Wherefore let us honor Angels not adore them much less invocate them they are not the Ladder but go on the Ladder From the explication of Jacobs Ladder and having shewed the sufficiency of Providence take these Conclusions First Lean on Gods Ladder Trust his All-sufficiency for your selves and for the Church 1 In particular for your selves Quid haesitas super possessionibus caelum Dominum cum habeas When we see a child carping and caring for himself surely say we either this child hath no Father or his Father cares not for him either it is Fatherless or Loveless Cast your care on God Heb 13. Why for God cares for you What need you care and God care too Is God sufficient for the journeys end and shall we distrust him for the way Shall we trust man upon a peece of Parchment with two or three hands and seals and not the Lord who daily proves himself Debtor to us in volumes of love Distrust slanders God to his face Some are all for Faith I beleeve I beleeve but nobody is for Holiness and on the contrary some Christians are very careful against Prophaneness they will not part with a good Conscience for all the goods in the world and yet nourish doubtings and distrusts of Gods Love to them as if Unbeleef were no such great matter as if God would easily dispense with that The Lord saith he that provides not for his own Si Deus sic custodit superstua tua quomodo animam tuam is worse than an Infidel and shall man ever be able to write Infidel on Gods door How many say they trust God for their Souls and yet dare not trust God with their Bodies Whereas Nature hath often said God never sends mouths but he will also send meat and grace If God take away my food he will also take away my appetite How reasonable is it to trust God when we have so often tried him and yet how happy were many a man if he could but trust God as far he can see him God is not bound to give us necessarys and yet we are not content with abundance We cannot be merry without cates and delicates when Providence might make us to be without bread The Saints may be without many things but they want nothing if they should want any thing yet they want no good thing They may want the favor of man but shall not want the smiles of their Father Psal 34.10 How sweetly may a Beleever view the Heavens and say this is my Fathers Palace and say of the Sun Moon and Stars These are the lights that my Father hangs up and say of the Beasts of the Field and Fowles of the Air These my Father feeds and fills to maintain his Houshold Worthy Mr. Hern lying on his Death-bed his wife made much womanish lamentation what should hereafter become of her little ones Peace Sweet-heart said he That God who feedeth the Ravens will not starve the Herns Omnia famulantur famulanti Deo Meat and drink and the Gospel are good Chear said the Martyr Let them distrust that have not a God to live on said Luther Having food and rayment says the Apostle not dainties but food not Velvets but Rayment Let us therewith be content The young Ravens are fed of God Non licet de fortuna quaeri salvo Caesare Senec. Psa 147. being forsaken of their Dam for out of their dung ariseth a worm which creepeth into their mouths and feeds them Oh that we could depend on Providence for our subsistence if we could but find Faith to beleeve it God would find Means to effect it The Mariner never murmurs though his Cabbin be not gilded if it carry him but safe to his Port. When we have not strength to work we have liberty to lye down with Jacob at the foot of the Ladder and sleep Vides sed non invides Secondly Trust God and fear not man Wicked men Psal 129.6 sit as it were in a golden Chair on the ridge of