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A20731	The Christians sanctuarie vvhereinto being retired, he may safely be preserued in the middest of all dangers. Fit for all men to read at all times, especially for those that are exercised in the schoole of affliction, in the time of Gods present visitation. Described in two bookes or treatises: I. Of the Christian exercise of fasting. II. Of holy inuocation on Gods name. By George Dovvname Doctor of Diuinitie.	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1604 (1604)	STC 7113; ESTC S117550	81,534	108

and punishments in the Scripture are often called iniquities and sinnes But for whose sinnes I beseech you is this publicke judgement laid vpon the land For their sinnes alone who haue beene visited or are dead of the plague No I assure you but for the sinnes of vs all For although God hauing mercie on vs doth for our sinnes among the rest afflict others and spare vs that wee beholding this common judgement in others deserued by our sinnes as well as theirs might meet him in his iudgements and turne vnto him by repentance yet may not wee thinke our selues more righteous than they or esteeme them as more grieuous sinners than our selues because the Lord hath hetherto spared vs vnlesse we would haue that sentence of our Sauiour Christ to bee most justly applied vnto vs I tell you nay but vnlesse you repent you all shall likewise perish Wherefore let vs humble our selues vnder the hand of God let vs turne vnto him that smiteth vs that of vs that at the least may be verified which is said of the Israelits when the Lord slew them they sought him and turned vnto him Let vs I say turne vnto him with all our hearts and with fasting and mourning let vs call vpon God with vpright hearts in this time of our trouble that being deliuered out of the same we may glorifie him Who knoweth if he will returne and repent of this euill nay who knoweth not or who doubteth but he will haue mercie on vs and deliuer vs if our deliuerance may bee for his glorie and our spiritual good seeing he hath so graciously promised in this place that if we call vpon him in the day of trouble he will deliuer vs and we shall glorifie him Hauing spoken of the commaundement we are now to intreat of the promise which is added as a reason or motiue to stirre vs vp to the obedience of the commaundement For as the commaundement teacheth vs that if we desire deliuerance out of affliction that we may glorifie God we are to begge the same at the hands of God by heartie prayer so the promise assureth vs that if wee call vpon God in the day of trouble hee will deliuer vs for his owne glorie and our comfort for so he saith I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me In which words two things are promised deliuerance and the end or fruit thereof which is the glorifying of God As touching the former we are to consider the circumstance of the person promising and the thing it selfe which is promised The person is God for as it is he that afflicteth so it is hee onely which deliuereth as the Prophet Hosea sheweth this therefore teacheth vs vnto whom we are both in affliction to flie for deliuerance not to Saints in heauen nor to wisards on earth but to God alone and when wee are deliuered to returne thankes And secondly we may here obserue the vnspeakeable clemencie of our gracious God who is so readie as this promise importeth to aunswere to our prayers and to graunt our requests yea in that he allureth vs to call vpon him by his gracious promise it is euident that he is more readie to heare than we to pray So the Lord himselfe testifieth by his Prophet Esay 65.24 Yea before the call I will aunswere and while they speake I will beare and the same is signified in the parable of the prodigall sonne for when he was about to returne to his father by whom is signified God our father his father saw him being yet a great way off and had cōpassion and ran and fell on his necke and kissed him And this as it is the priuiledge of Gods people to haue God neere vnto them in all things which they aske at his hands as Moses saith so also this is the assurance of the faithfull that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs. And if we know that he heareth vs whatsoeuer we aske we know that we haue the petitions that we haue desired of him The thing promised is deliuerance for so he saith I will deliuer thee And the same is promised elsewhere for that which our Sauiour Christ hath taught vs to aske the Lord hath promised to graunt But Christ our Sauiour hath taught vs to pray that we may be deliuered from the euill of affliction therefore the Lord hath promised deliuerance therefrom The like promise we haue Psal. 34 When the righteous crie the Lord heareth them and deliuereth them out of all their troubles And againe Manie are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all Likewise Psa. 91 to such as loue the Lord this promise is made He shall call vpon me and I will heare him I will be with him in trouble I will deliuer him and glorifie him We are therefore with faith in this promise to call vpon God in the time of trouble not doubting of the performance thereof for God who hath made this promise is mercifull and therefore he will in mercie heare those which in trouble and miserie do call vpon him For so he saith Exod. 22 When he crieth vnto me I will heare him for I am mercifull And he is also faithfull which hath promised and therefore will not suffer vs to be tempted aboue our strength but with the temptation will giue an issue that we may be able to beare it It is impossible that God in his word or promise should lie and therefore heauen and earth shall passe away but not one jot or tittle of this word and promise of God rightly vnderstood shall fall to the ground vnaccomplished The same ●aith may be confirmed by the experience of the faithfull in all ages who hauing called vpon the Lord in the time of trouble haue bene deliuered out of the same The Israelits were in grieuous thraldome in Egypt but when they cried vnto the Lord he heard their voyce and deliuered them as themselues professe Num. 201.6 Likewise when they cried vnto him he deliuered them out of the hands of the Amorits the Ammonits the Philistins the Sidonians the Amalekits and other their enemies as himselfe telleth them Iud. 10. Sampson after he had slaine a thousand Philistins with the jawbone of an Asse he cried vnto the Lord being readie to die for thirst and obtained a well in Lechi for so the place is called which for a perpetuall monument of prayer was called the fountaine of him that prayed Dauid often confesseth to the glorie of God that he had diuerse times called vpon God in trouble and that the Lord heard and deliuered him Ionas when hee was cast into the sea and swallowed of the whale cried vnto the Lord and was restored safe to land Ezechias hauing receiued the sentence of death the Prophet Esay telling him that he should die and not liue notwithstanding by prayer obtained the prolonging

of his life Manasses though the most wicked of all the kings of Iudah yet being in trouble he prayed vnto the Lord and humbled himselfe greatly before God and was receiued to mercie and restored to his kingdome And to omit other particular examples Dauid testifieth of diuerse sorts of men being in diuerse kinds of troubles that when they cry vnto the Lord in their trouble he deliuereth them out of their distresse But for as much as some man may object out of his owne experience That hee being in trouble hath called vpon God and yet hath not bene deliuered and that this is not his case alone but is and hath beene in all ages the case of many thousands It behoueth vs therefore diligently to consider how this promise is to be vnderstood for that is the matter of greatest importance which offereth it selfe to bee considered of in the vnfolding of this text For that the promise is not to be vnderstood absolutly generally of euery prayer of euerie man in euery affliction the experiēnce of all times doth sufficiently declare But by conference of this promise which other places of Scripture it may appeare that it doth admit a threefold limitation or restraint The first in respect of the partie that prayeth the second in regard of the prayer it selfe the third concerning the thing which is prayed for For as touching the first If any wicked man or impenitent sinner shall object against the truth of this promise that hee hauing called vpon God in the time of trouble hath notwithstanding not beene deliuered let him heare what immediatly followeth this promise in the next words of the Psalme verse 16 But vnto the wicked saith God what hast thou to do to declare mine ordinances or to take my couenant into thy mouth as though my promises belong vnto thee For indeed not onely in this place but in many other places of the Scripture the promise concerning the hearing of our prayers is restrained to the faithfull and denied to the wicked Prou. 15 The sacrifice of the wicked is abhomination to the Lord but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto him And againe The Lord is farre off from the wicked but he heareth the prayer of the righteous Likewise Psal. 34 The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous and his eares are open to their cry But the face of the Lord is against them that do euill to cut off their remembrance from the earth The man which had bene blind Iohn 9 deliuereth this sentence as the receiued opinion of the faithfull in those times We know saith he that God heareth not sinners meaning impenitent sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will him heareth he It is therfore the faithfull man whose prayer is accepted of God the just man who is just before God by faith and before men by repentance Iames 5 The prayer of the righteous man auaileth much Psalme 34 When the righteous cry the Lord heareth them and deliuereth them out of their troubles The man that feareth God Psal. 145 The Lord will fulfill the desire of them that feare him he also will beare their cry and will saue them That loueth God Psal. 91 Because he hath loued me therefore will I deliuer him I will exalt him because he hath knowne my name He shall call vpon me and I will heare him I will be with him in trouble I will deliuer him and glorifie him That walketh vprightly Psal. 84 For the Lord God is a sunne that is the author of light and all comfortable blessings and a shield that is a protector from all euill the Lord will giue grace and glorie grace in this life and glorie in the life to come and no good thing will be withhold from them that walke vprightly That perseuereth Iohn 15 If you abide in me and my words abide in you aske what you will and it shall be done to you That hath an humble and contrit heart Psal. 34.18 The Lord is neare vnto them that are of a contrit heart and will saue such as be afflicted in spirit Esay 66. To him will I looke saith the Lord euen to him that is poore and of a contrit spirit and trembleth at my words Psal. 51 The sacrifices of God that is that which God esteemeth in steed of all sacrifices is a contrit spirit a contrit and a broken heart ô God thou wilt not despise But as for the wicked the Lord plainely professeth that he will not heare them Mich. 3. Though they make many prayers Esay 1. though they cry loud in his eares Ezech. 8. Wherefore beloued in the Lord if we continue in our sinnes whereby we haue prouoked the Lord to execute his judgements vpon vs and if the Lord seeme not to heare vs neither doth deliuer vs according to our desire we may not object against God either that he is vntrue in his promises or vnable to helpe vs but let vs heare what the Prophet Esay saith in this case Behold the Lords hand is not shortned that it cannot saue neither is his eare heauie that it cannot heare but your iniquities haue separated betweene you and your God and your sinnes haue hid his face from you that he will not heare Therefore iudgement being farre from vs and iustice not comming neere vnto vs we wait for light but lo it is darknesse for brightnesse but we walke in darknesse for health but it is farre from vs for our trespasses are many before the Lord c. And that we may descend to some particulers If we be guiltie of crueltie and oppression the Lord will not heare vs. Esay 1 When you shall stretch out your hands I will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not heare for your hands are full of bloud or if we bee vnmercifull to the poore for he that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore he shall also cry and not be heard Prou. 21 or if we refuse to heare and obey the word of God for as Salomon saith He that turneth away his eare from hearing the law euen his prayers shall be abhominable for as in prayer we speake to the Lord so in the preaching of the word the Lord speaketh vnto vs. And good reason it is that the Lord should not heare vs if we will not heare him Therefore it is come to passe saith the Prophet Zacharie That as he cried and they would not heare so they cried and I would not heare saith the Lord of hosts Or if we be close sinners and hypocrits making faire shewes openly and yet be addicted to secret sinnes for as Dauid saith Psal. 66. If I regard wickednesse in mine heart the Lord will not heare me Wherefore beloued as it is certaine that our sinnes are the cause of our affliction so we must be