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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38451	Propugnaculum pietatis, the saints Ebenezer and pillar of hope in God when they have none left in the creature, or, The godly mans crutch or staffe in times of sadning disappointments, sinking discouragements, shaking desolations wherein is largely shewed, the transcendent excellency of God, his peoples help and hope : with the unparallel'd happiness of the saints in their confidence in him, overballancing the worldlings carnal dependance both as to sweetness and safety : pourtray'd in a discourse on Psal. 146:5 / by F.E.	F. E. (Francis English)	1667 (1667)	Wing E3076; ESTC R2623	160,282	286

that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed and in Damascus in a Couch When the ravenous Wolf or Lion of Judgements hath worried a people and almost torn them asunder yet their hunger shall be so satiated and rage stopt as still there shall be some remnant undevoured Thirdly By bringing them up out of the affliction that though they suffer by it they shall not be utterly cast down when they are judged nor wholly destroyed God brings back the captivity of his people Psal 14. and Psal 126.1 He may frown but causeth his face to shine again The Sun of mercy may go down in the evening in a cloud but riseth in the morning in a very glonous shine It will turn again and have compassion on us Micah 7.19 God may for a while turn his back but will turn his face in due time toward his people and though for a moment he forsakes with everlasting kindness he will remember He will not contend for ever or be alwaies wroth Heaviness may indure for a night but joy comes in the morning ad momentum irascitu● ut in aeternum delectetur While he punisheth th● community he reserves a remnant whom h● resolves to pardon Jer. 50.20 He promises to return the captivity of Judah Jer. 31.42 and cap. 33.26 And like as he brought great evil upon them so to bring all the good he had promised Though brought low he will raise them up again call back his plagues if they return from their sins As the Prophet emphatically expresseth it Hos 6.1 2. For he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up After two daies will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight An allusion to our redemption by Christ which is a sure pledge of all temporal deliverances as of that they were a type According to that of the Evangelical Prophet Isa 26.19 Where having expressed by significant metaphors the Churches travel with its pangs and dolour and her misconception as it were and miscarry as to any hopeful productions he yet closes with a comfortable promise Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead Though the Church may suffer from and in the world yet her sickness shall not be to death though God breaks his people with breach on breach yet this wise Physitian will in due time give an healing plaister he will set them into joynt again and then the bone that was broken shall be stronger than ever Nay though they be brought to deaths-door to the graves mouth he will command a resurrection and breathe on those dry bones that they shall live Ezek. 37.11 12. His providence shall be a midwife to usher in to them a full and glorious deliverance They shall have rest from the daies of adversity Psal 94.13 They may go into the Fire with others but when they perish there these shall come out and be refined Gold while the major part is consumed as dross Zech. 13.8 9. Two parts shall be cut off and die but the third shall be left therein They may be proved and tried as Silver in a very hot Furnace brought into the Net affliction laid on their Loyns ridden on pass through Fire and Water but God will make a way of escape he will bring them out into a wealthy place They may he among the Pots Scullion-like in a sooted smeared forlorn condition yet shall they be as the wings of a Dove covered with Silver and her Feathers with yellow Gold Psal 66.10 11 12. Psal 68.13 And so much for the second particular imply'd in this notion of help assistance and aid against all Enemies and Evils Thirdly It imports succour and redresse under burdens or deliverance out of dangers feared straits and miseries injuries oppressions and afflictions felt Psal 20.1 2. The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee Send thee help from the Sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion So Psal 9.9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in time of trouble God is an help a refuge a defence and Sanctuary to his people Thus the Porter helps his partner by lending him a shoulder to heave under his Load one man helps another up when he be fallen down Eccles 4.10 We are commanded to help out our Neighbours Oxe or Ass out of the Ditch Deut. 22.4 Thus one is said to help another in battel Josh 10.4 2 Sam. 10.11 And God is on this accompt said to help Vzziah against the Philistines 2 Chron. 26.7 Thus a Friend helps another in distress by commiserating his Case visiting him and administring in Food Physick or other necessaries to his afflicted condition And thus is God a Helper to his people and that upon a threefold accompt First Under the otherwise unsupportable burden of sin and guilt This is an heavy burden to a gracious Soul his Iniquities go over his head and are a burden too heavy for him to bear One sin weighs more than Hell set home upon the Conscience by the Impressions of Gods Spirit it oppresseth it very sore The sense hereof made David pray with that vigour and earnestness Psal 40.12 13. Be pleased O Lord to deliver me O Lord make haste to help me What is the matter Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up they are more than the hairs of my head therefore my heart faileth me Like one arrested upon many actions at once here one Serjeant and there another claps hold on him so that the man is put into such a distraction and confounding amaze that he knows not what to do nor which way to turn him This made Paul breathe out with so much dolour his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 7.24 O wretched Man who shall deliver me from this body of death Just like the Malefactor condemned to drowning in Tiber that had a dead body tied to his own living and so was dragged along the streets and haled into the River Than which there is no worse punishment And indeed the weight of sin is Onus Angelorum bumeris formidandum such as Christ himself though but imputed could never have undergone had not his Humanity been supported by the power of his Deity but must have sunk under the Oppression of it It was not only Agnus Dei but Deus qui tollit the Lamb of God but the Lamb who also was God that could bear the sins of the World And verily for a poor disconsolate sinner to look upward and see God frowning downward and see Hell gaping inward and see Conscience accusing outward and see all Creatures withdrawing it would sink his Soul presently into an Hell of despair if not elevated by the infinite arm

which keeps it up when the Lead of Fear would pull it down or the wing of the Bird that mounts it to Heaven while the stone tied to the legg forces it down to earth But for Hope the heart would break Now though mercy deferred may make the heart sick yet the desire coming is a tree of life Prov. 13.12 Good hope and consolation are like Castor and Pollux commonly in conjunction The Palm-trees motto is Hopes Depressa Resurgo Believing is a choice and singugular Cordial to preserve the Soul from fainting Thirdly From any unlawfull course to get out of affliction He that believes makes not haste Isa 28.16 He will not leap over hedge and ditch or finde any back-doors of escape but wait till God opens a way of deliverance The Souldier though besieged never so close will not deliver up the City if he hath any hope of relief The men of Jabesh were glad when Sauls messengers came and told them To morrow by that time the Sun was hot they should have help 1 Sam. 11.9 Be the case never so sad the Soul will wait for Gods help so long as it apprehends it self not desperate Hope is not too hasty for or greedy of mercy nor will not pluck the fruit thereof too soon before it be full ripe The patient though brought never so low if in the hands of a wise Physician still hopes to recover and is content as knowing the more desperate and tedious his sickness the more will the joy be of his cure The Captain though beaten by the Enemy will by no means yield and take quarter so long as he sees any probability of fighting him he is pleased with these thoughts the sharper the en●ounter once overcome the greater glory of the Victory The Christian knows Gods time is the ●est and therefore is willing to attend it and will not himself make his way out of trouble ●ut find it made by Gods hand for him he will ●ot pluck a prick out of his foot to put it into ●is heart but had rather carry about him a woun●ed skin or torn estate than a wounded Consci●nce rather choose to endure trouble which ends to ease than get a little ease at present which leads to and will end in trouble He dare ●ot shackle his Spirit to discharge his Body but ●ad rather be a Prisoner and for this hope bound with a chain than a Free-man without it David although heir apparent of the Kingdom by Gods Promise and in great danger of missing it by Sauls violence yet dare not make more haste than good speed by making his death a stirrup to ascend the Throne by nay though he had opportunity dare not take off his head for destruction though for his conviction he cut off the lap of his garment and that was animo renitente too but rather waited Gods time of his advance to it and settlement in it The Primitive Christians did not only not seek or offer themselves to a composition no but would not accept of deliverance on unworthy terms Heb. 11.35 That 's the first Hope secures against sin Secondly It doth admirably remedy affliction by sanctifying and sweetning of it To name no more it hath a four-fold energy in time of affliction each of which hath a wonderful tendency towards the souls blessedness First Vim quiescentem a calming and quieting vertue it stills and sedates the soul and does motos componere flucius The soul is still when it once knows it is God and his hand and is no more disquieted Psal 43. ult It 's filled with his peace which passeth all understanding tranquillo Deo tranquillant omnia ipsum quietum aspicere est quiescere It gives not God an ill word but holds its peace nay gives good words blesseth his name and saith Good is the Word of the Lord as David 2 Sam. 15.25 If I shall finde favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both the Ark and his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good to him It 's reported of a precious stone called Bufonites that cast it into the Sea and although it be never so tempestuous it will procure a calm This precious grace is hope which calms and settles the soul under its greatest tumults and commotions and staies it under its most restless inquietations The Rabbins tell us that all the letters in the name Jehovah are literae quiescentes Faith and hope can perfectly spell this his reverend name and out of every letter thereof gather a quickening lecture influential on the Christian to compose him into a serene temper under the greatest ruffles and discomposures he meets with in the world This lower Region is subject to storms and tempests but the upper Region is serene and clear no storms above the Moon and Historians report that they which are at the top of the Alps can behold great showres fall under●●eath them but not a drop above or upon them Hope mounts the soul up to God advanceth it to Heaven and then 't is out of the dint of every storm and reach of every tempest whatsoever Secondly It hath vim sublevantem a supporting and sustaining vertue Faith and hope are like Jachim and Boaz the Pillars of Solomons the support of the souls Temple They are not only kept in perfect peace but securely too whose minds are stayed on him Isa 26.3 4. The fear of man brings a snare but whoso trusteth in the Lord shall be safe Prov. 29.25 He that confides in God dwells in his holy mountain Isa 57.13 Is as Mount Sion which cannot be removed Mole-hills may be scattered but Mountains are immoveable God is a buckler saith the Psalmist to all that trust in him Psal 18.30 The soul can never be cast down that hath hope to lift it up No sooner Davids spirit and countenance under a dejection but hope gives it an● erection and elevation A secret hope will bear up the soul under the sorest trials and temptations even though pressed down above measure so as to despair of life yet this Pillar will shore it up from tottering and falling as it did Paul 2 Cor. 1.7 8 9. Thirdly Vim consolantem a comforting power It will not only quiet the soul make it stand still and see the Lords salvation and cause it to glorifie God in the fires but rejoyce it also give it musick upon the waters alwaies most ravishing Rom. 15.13 The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing So 1 Pet. 1.8 Yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory The Prophet having pronounced the blessedness of hoping in God Jer. 17.8 illustrates it by the metaphor of Palms or Lawrels Myrtles and Olive-trees which retain their greenness and endure under the scorching heats of the Sun and are alwaies flourishing and prosperous God is a Sun for consolation as well

on the Promise the fuller and sweeter shall it be when it comes once to fall into his lap and drop into his mouth The prosperous gales of faith and hope shall send home the ship of his soul richly laden at last to the shore of Heaven where he shall have a full satiety of that happiness of which he had here but a slender repast and be inebriated with those rivers of pleasure that bubble up from the well head of eternity whereof here he had a more imperfect taste and of whose sweetness and sulness he was a longing and languishing expectant To conclude with David with whom we began he shall then behold Gods face in righteousness and be abundantly and eternally satisfied with his likeness And so much for the opening the leases of the Text in its several doctrinal conclusions Now what remains but to come and see and taste the fruit of this happiness in its proper and particular branches of Application And the Text is not a barren and dry Tree but like the Tree of life bearing all manner of fruit yea its leaves good for the healing of souls Though we must but top the outmost branches ipsa anal cia sunt pretiosa the filings of this gold are precious And in the first place by way of Inference we may deduce from the consideration of the promised Truths these three Corolaries First It presents us with the different character and transcendent priviledge of the godly above all the world besides Here 's a discovery First Of their different frame temper and disposition of spirit They have not received the spirit of the world but are men of another spirit they hope in the Lord their God As for the ungodly it is not so they are men without hope either as 't is a mercy or a duty they have no God to hope in neither do they hope in the God they pretend to have They trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their uncertain riches instead of trusting in the alsufficient and ever-living God When they increase and he grows full-handed he sets his heart on them As in a day of fulness he blesseth himself in them instead of the God of Truth rejoycing in the flesh of his own arm and concluding he hath gotten his wealth by his own hand and power so in a day of want and emptiness he placeth all his strength and confidence in them He goes not to God but creatures for his help not to the Lord but to the Physitians if he be sick not to the store-house of divine Promises but to the bag and granary if he be in want not to the great and soveraign Creator but to his fellow-creatures friends relations acqu●intance when once he comes to be forsaken He leans on his house as the prop of his security As in time of prosperity he offers sacrifice to creature-enjoyments saying These are the gods that have gone before us so in time of affliction he bows down to them and does them homage crying out Arise and save us Is he under trouble of conscience it may be with Cain he goes to his musick his sports and recreations hop●ng to dill the obstreperous noise of his own conscience in the croud of outward enjoyments or to smother its clamorous voice in the tumult of his own disordered affections In time of outward perplexity he flies to means instruments and second causes it may be to unlawful and indirect courses as Saul to a Witch and Judas to a rope because there is not a God in Israel he goes to Baalzebub the God of Ekron Ashur he saies shall save us and we will go down to Egypt and ride on horses Like those desperate and distracted wretches Isa 8.19 21. They went to their Arts of Necromancy instead of the Living God to Wizzards Peepers Mutterers and such as had familiar spirits And being hardly bested and hungry fretted themselves and cursed their King and their God and lookt upward When reduced to a state of necessity or distress they grew so impatient that like men in a phrensie or in shipwrack or people starved in a siege or a woman in the sore pangs of her travel they make hideous out-cries and in this forlorn distressed and distracted condition are like people desperate and at their wits ends knowing not whither to run or what to do or what course in the world to take and instead of an holy silence and gracious possession of their souls in patience under the load of their afflictions like a boiling-pot they send forth nothing but scum and filth or a burning mountain evaporate continually the flames of their passion and flashes of their indignation in cursed and direful blasphemies both against God and instruments Heaven and Earth together So desperate a case is every wicked man in in a distressed condition And when death once comes and looks him in the face then either he pleases himself with a false hope and blind presumption which ends in death founded on Gods mercy Christs sufferings common grace outward calling and profession immunity from some gross sins performance of some external duties of the first or second Table or some such like grounds all too rotten and sandy a foundation to build the stress of an immortal soul on for eternity or else he becomes desperate and hopeless This is the genuine temper of every ungodly person But now on the contrary what is the genius of a true Christian He trusts and hopes in God and in God alone God is his song and his salvation Isa 12.2 He trusts in Gods mercy and his heart rejoyceth in his salvation Psal 13.5 In a good day when he receives most from God he attributes and ascribes most nay all to him The hand of our God is upon us for good Thou hast given me power to get wealth Yea when he enjoyes most of God he still depends most on God when he is surrounded with creature-comforts and compassed with outward mercies even on every side Gods Candle shines on his Tabernacle his Mountain made most strong the lines fallen to him in pleasant places he washeth his garments in Wine and his cloaths in the blood of Grapes yet he looks over and above all creatures as insignificant cyphers empty cysterns insufficient supports and comforts to the Rock of Jacob and hope of Israel trusting and confiding in him alone in his utmost weal as well as in his greatest want and woe which is the most high generous and refined act of faith Thus we finde holy David when he had taken a survey of the graspings gripings and hoardings of the factors of this world and of all their heaps and banks he turns from them with an holy scorn or rather zealous indignation in the due ascent of his heart to God and anhelations after him Psal 39.7 And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee And so in an evil day a day of adversity when though a child of light