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A93079	The saints iewell, shevving hovv to apply the promise In a sermon preached by Thomas Shepheard.	Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing S3115A; ESTC R232293	10,658	26

cast an eye of pity upon thee thou art in the way that is the meanes God hath appointed to bring you home to Christ but yet untill thy condition be changed all thou doest is sinne for The very thought of the wicked Prov. 15. 26. are an abomination to the Lord. But oh strange Though firebrands out of hell be spitted in your faces yet you are not affected But it may be some of you thinke to doe it when you are sicke or upon your death bed but it may be too late then when God openeth and awakeneth your conscience and if you be not awakened here you shall be sure to be awakened in hell I remember I heard of a yong prodigall when he was dying looked on the fire and said as that fire burneth there so shall my soule burne in hell Another said on his death bed Oh that I might live though it were but the life of a toad God is very carefull to send his Angels for the godly but for the wicked the devils stand ready at his bed side to fetch him into hell as soone as his breath goeth out of his body and then they will cry out Oh the time of mercy that I have had but now it is past the gate of mercy is shut never more to be opened Obiect But it may be yet some will say thanks be to God I am not in hell yet and as long as there is life there is hope Answ Oh fearefull what hope still read that place and tremble in reading of it The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when hee Mat 24. 50 51 looketh not for him and in an houre that he is not aware of and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites there shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth Oh consider this against the day of iudgment it is a sad day for all such when mercy and patience and Christ shall pleade against them yea The dust of ministers feet shall rise up against them Oh but if so then Luke 10. 11. what will their condition be when drops of blood and sweate shall rise up against Luke 22. 44. them yea more the husband shall rejoice to see the damnation of the wife The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth vengeance on the wicked because God hath gotten the Psal 58. 10. glory of his enemies Vse 4 The fourth use is An exhortation to the godly first and secondly to the wicked In the first place to the godly that complaine they cannot lay hold on the promise Go to God to enable you that you may so doe Consider in the first place that not to beleeve and lay hold on the promise is a sin of unbeleefe And he that beleeveth not is damned See the evill of this sin of unbeleefe in these particulars Iohn 3. 18. First Hereby we grieve the holy spirit of God whereby wee are sealed to the day of redemption What a grievous thing is it for Eph. 4. 30. thee who desirest to be assured that the promise is thine that thou by unbeleefe should est grieve that holy spirit which sealeth up the promise to thy soule see that place Heare ye now oh house of David is it a small thing for you to weary men but you must weary Isai 3. 17. my God also If a man promise to doe another man a courtesie and after some delay that man comes to him and saith Will you do as you promised me He saith yes but saith he will you indeed and thus he pleadeth with him a whole day and doth not beleeve him will not that exceedingly grieve his friend who promised him so to doe and fully intended no lesse even so is it with all those that are Gods people and will not beleeve what God hath said unto them but stand and plead with God two or three yeeres or more as those that bebeleeve glorify God so those that will not come in rob God of his honour and glory and grieve him It argueth a great deale of pride of heart in them that they will not beleeve because they have not what they would but something they must have of themselves like women that will not goe to a feast because they have nothing to carry Here is a great deale of unthankfulnes for all that God hath done for them yea evē for Christ himself where we love we are very thankfull and where we desire to be thankfull wee will be willing to take a kindnesse It argueth a great deale of impatience when we will not wait in a way of beleeving upon the promises of grace and cheerfully attend Gods leasure He that will not beleeve gives God the lie for He that beleeveth c. Hee that beleeveth 1 Iohn 5. 10. not in every ordinance he comes to he maketh God a lyar because every ordinance beareth record of Christ Not to beleeve is a denying of Gods power for they will not trust God especially in a great straight and by this wee may see what a many sins even Gods people may commit in this case Consider againe in the second place what a safe thing it is to beleeve I speak to Gods people As Surgeons when they let a man blood bid him looke another way so when the devill letteth you blood that is holds you pooring on your corruptions looke another way I meane on God and then you shal be safe from the devill and the world and your own corruptions And that you may lay hold on the promises of God take heed of those lets and impediments that might hinder you Sin is a let for it will wrest the promise out of our hands But your iniquities c. Isai 59. 2. The second impediment is our doubting and wandering in our prayers for We must pray lifting up our holy hands c. Iam. 1. 6. The third impediment to beleeving is slavish feare when we feare man more then God contrary to that counsell Feare not Isai 8. 12. their feare nor be afraid c. The fourth let is When we lay downe one thing that might afford us help and draw our selves to God and in the meane time take up another which can no way help us as when we lay downe the promise and take up the threatning Fiftly when we set our mind too much on the creature or honours and seeke our owne basenes or worldly pleasures In the next place take these helps to lay hold on the promise Labour to live by faith in all straits and conditions and by faith fetch a supply for al your wants by the promise from Christ Secondly marke the promise well which is the ground of all comfort and read them over often Do not flutter up down from one promise to another but lie a great while on some one and wring and squeese it by meditation upon it Thirdly apply the promise aright do not thinke it belongeth not to you because you have not that presently which is promised in it you must know that God setteth not downe the time when it shal be fulfilled Fourthly We are to wait patiently and humbly under our present condition vntill God grant our desire Gods time is the best time Blesse God for all his promises but especially when they are made good to us Psal 103. In the next place to those that yet stand out and are not closed with the promise I entreat you come in to God take his gracious offer lay hold on the promise which that you may doe take heed of those things that wil be le ts and hinder you Take heed of all sin for the Lord saith your sins have kept back good things from you Take heed of setting your mind to muc● upon the creatures for they will shut one God the creator Old men do you come home to God yong men do you remember your creator in the dayes of your youth God this day calleth you it may be he will never call more how many hath the Lord struck with death sicknes and how soone it may be any of our turnes I know not sicknes is an unfit time to get Christ and to make our peace with God if you stand still you die If you go on in sin you die therefore turne from all your sin and come in lay hold by faith on the promise that so ye may live and this that I have spoken unto you may not be in vaine FINIS

things seeme to thwart the promise never so much Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seene Heb. 11. 1. with the eye of sence As Abraham beleeved Rom 4. 18. against hope that he should haue a child according as God had promised so must we trust God upon a naked promise that if health should be gone or wealth liberty strength friends yea life it selfe almost gone and God seemes to be gone and hell to be threatned yet still to trust in God and beleeve this is to live by faith and comfort is in the promise for all such but I speake now to Gods people Vse 2 The second use of this doctrine is That seeing God hath made many promises unto his people it is a ground of comfort unto them all that though they goe up and downe sad as if they were the worst people in the world yet have they the onely cause to reioyce and they onely in all the world for heere is comfort against all their sins God hath promised to doe them away I am he that blotteth out thy sinnes for Isai 43. 25. mine owne names sake comfort thy selfe Christ is thine I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine if therefore there be enough in Christs merits hold up thy head and take comfort to thy selfe Object Oh but saith the poore soule I finde sin prevaile and how can I then be comforted Answ I answere looke into that place of Scripture I will subdue your iniquities and cast your sinnes into the midst of the sea and in the Mic 7. 18. 19. 20. 20 verse you may see the oath of God for the trueth and mercy of the promise was gone foorth before Object But saith the soule the Devill will be busie with mee where ever I goe and how can I be chearefull Answ I answere God hath said it I will tread downe Sathan under your feet shortly Comfort Rom. 16. 20. thy selfe in this though Sathan may trouble thee for a time yet thou shalt have him under thy feet shortly Object Oh but againe saith the soule I shall meet with abundance of opposition in the world and I am not able to make my party good and how can I then reioyce Answ I answere flee thou to the promise against that also as where it is said Though hand joyne in hand c. Though men joyne Pro. 11. 21. themselves together and strike hands even with the devill against Gods children yet shall they not overcome them Object But alas saith a poore soule I am in present want of outward comfort and how should I be comfortable in such a condition Answ I answere It may be God dealeth with thee in this as a mother with her children who takes away the victuals from the children for a while and puts it into the cubbord but afterward she giveth it them againe So sometimes God taketh away these outward things and locketh them up for a while in the cubbord which is in the promise and when he seeth it best for us he giveth it to us againe and thus hee did with Iob He tooke away all his outward Iob. 1 15. c comforts and left him so poore as it is a proverb at this day As poore as Iob but after a while God did not onely restore unto him his former comforts but gave him double And this was written for thy comfort and the strength of thy patience comfort thy selfe therefore happines is above the creature Obiect But I shall meet with many mocks and reproaches in the world Answ Answ Let us comfort our selves against this with Gods promises let us doe as the coveteous man in the Poet who being mocked as he went in the streets went home and looked into his closset and there seeing his bags of gold rejoyced in his wealth and scorned all their reproaches so when we are mocked and scorned of men of the world let us looke into the Bible and we shall finde bags of promises true treasure and therein let us rejoyce Obiect But it may be the poore soule will say alas I cannot goe to God by prayer to fetch comfort or if I doe pray it is with so much coldnes and deadnes as I cannot beleeve I shall obtaine any thing Answ I answere though it be so yet beleeve and thou shalt have thy desire though it may be thou canst but chatter and though others hearing thee regard it not yet God will say let me heare thee and as a father loves to heare his child prattle though others regard it not so God loveth to heare his children pray Obiect But oh I am afraid of death and that taketh away all my ioy and comfort Ansvv I answere thou mayest comfort thy selfe against that yea and make death it selfe a ground of comfort and ioy to thy selfe If a child be at bord from his fathers house though he be at play with his fellowes yet if he see horse and man come to fetch him he is glad and leaves his play and companions to goe home to his father willingly so here wee are at bord in the world and we are at play as it were among the creatures but when death comes which is as horse man we should be willing to goe to our fathers house which is best of all Obiect But I am afraid if suffring times should come I should never be able to stand out Ansvv If God call thee to sufferings he will give thee grace sutable to thy condition he will not suffer us to be tempted above that we 1. Cor. 13. 10. are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that we may be able to beare it Obiect But alas I am afraid I shall fall away from God and that continuall feare thereof doth take away all my comfort Ansvv Answere None can plucke thee out of Christs hands neither sin nor devill shee were a cruell mother that would cast her child into the fire Christ must doe so if thou shouldest go to hell yea more if that should be so hee should rend a member from himselfe for he is thy head and thou art one of his members therefore for thy comfort know this cannot be the Lord saith I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I wil not turne away from them to do them good But you may say perhaps I shall turn from him see therefore what followeth in the same verse I will put my feare in their hearts and they shall not depart from me Obiect This is good newes it may bee the poore creature will say if I had right to the promise but alas I cannot beleeve and take a naked promise Ansvv Answ Doest thou desire to beleeve and to have Christ and canst thou say thus If it were possible heaven and Christ could be separated I would rather have Christ without heaven then heaven without Christ then comfort thy selfe for God hath promised I