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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35320	The excellency of the Protestant faith as to its objects and supports in a sermon preached November 5th, 1689 / by T. Cruso.	Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing C7438; ESTC R24865	18,093	32

from thence before the time of her final destruction but as to the Generality and main body of that Church and more especially the Learned Men in it they seem to be deliver'd over to a reprobate mind and the hardness of their hearts is become both their sin and their punishment too So hopeless an Attempt is that of Healing those whom God hath determined to cut off In the last place I am to Apply all this with some relation to the Day Several things may be Inferr'd from the foregoing Discourse which are very proper to be consider'd by us now First If our Enemies themselves cannot but judge that their Rock is not as our Rock then we have a Witness for us in their own bosoms that our Separation from them was just and necessary They cannot blame or censure the Reformed Churches that have forsaken their Communion without some inward check upon their Spirits When they call us Hereticks and give us all the other opprobrious Names they can invent 't is scarcely possible that they should forbear to think as Saul said to David that we are more righteous than they and therefore their contradicting and blaspheming like those malicious Jews is the greater sin Acts 13.45 As Pilate even when he condemned Christ did declare him innocent and faultless so while our Adversaries revile us and thunder out their Excommunications against us there is still something within them which gives sentence for us How little then is the evil which they speak to be regarded when their own Hearts tell them that they lye in speaking it Secondly This teaches us that we may very well pray in Faith for their Confusion The Scripture encouraging us to expect this much more than their Conversion Their Rock is but a Quick-sand which will swallow them up or as a Milstone to drown them Instead of a foundation to bear them What therefore should make us afraid of using the Psalmist's words Psal 97.7 with the same hope that was in him of their accomplishment Confounded be all they that serve graven Images that boast themselves of Idols What should make us doubt but that the doom denounc't by the Prophet will be executed on their Gods Jerem. 51.18 They are vanity the work of Errours in the time of their visitation they shall perish During the time of God's forbearance and of the patience of Jesus Christ we should be praying that this time of visitation may be hasten'd as Men who are assur'd that their fall shall be great and that after it they shall never rise more Rom. 11.2 Let all that make Intercession against Babylon as Elias did against Israel believe this firmly that the Golden Cup which is now in her hand full of abominable filthiness shall run over at last with Divine fury Thirdly This shews how foolishly and unjustly the successes of God's Enemyes are at any time attributed to their own Rock This hath been their practice often as the Philistins offered a great Sacrifice to Dagon their God Judg. 16.23 24. when they had gotten Sampson in their hands So the Adherents of Antichrist have praised their Gods of Gold and Silver of Wood and Stone and made their acknowledgment to their several Imaginary Saints when they have prosper'd in any of their Designs But how much are they mistaken and deluded in all this How do they offend like the Caldaeans of old in imputing this power to their God which they receive from ours Habac. 1.11 We read of the Holy City being given to the Popish Revel 11.2 Gentiles to tread under foot for a limited time now who can give it to them besides the Lord of all who does it when he pleases in order to wise and holy ends An Idol which is nothing in the World 1 Corinth 8.4 i.e. hath no efficacy or vertue is worthy only to inhabit the praises of such as the horse and mule which have no understanding Fourthly If out Rock be so much better than theirs how carefully should we walk before him that he may continue to be Ours That we may not be dispossest of our Interest in him nor broken off from our Relation to him The same God who hath turned our Captivity from us is able to bring it back again and he that hath set our feet in a large place can yet shut us up into the hands of our Enemies 'T is easie with God to undo all that he hath done if we abuse his Mercy by groundless presumption and wilful impenitency The greatest Judgments do sometimes times come after the greatest deliverances Jude 5. The Lord having saved the People out of the Land of Egypt afterward destroyed them that believed not 'T is very possible Josh 23.15 that God may bring all evil things upon the same Persons upon whom all good things have come Our Mountain does not stand so strong but that our sins may breed an Earthquake to unsettle and remove it No humane Policy or Power can protect us if our God should depart from us We read that the Army of the Syrians came with a small Company of Men against the Israelites 2 Chro. 24.24 and the Lord deliver'd a very great Host into their band because they had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers And if these Nations should so lose their God after such amazing Instances of his Presence with them how dismal would their condition be If God should be provok't to turn away his wrath from our Adversaries Prov. 24.18 and pour it out afresh upon us to whom should we flee for help If our Rock should sell us who of our Confederate Neighbours is able to Redeem us Fifthly Let our Rock have the Glory due unto his Name for the TWO Great Salvations which This Day brings to our remembrance I mean That which was wrought for our Fore-fathers so many years ago and That which was wrought for us but One year since God hath honoured this Day with a Double Mercy let us honour God by yielding to him a Double Sacrifice of Praise binding it as with a twisted Cord to the Horns of the Altar Psal 118.27 Let us raise a Pillar of thankfulness with such a lasting Inscription as neither Time nor any other Hands may ever be able to deface Both our Fore fathers and we were deliver'd from the same Enemies tho' not strictly from the very same methods of Conspiracy formerly they aim'd at the destruction of the Lawgivers by one blow but lately at the subversion of the Laws themselves by more gradual measures in the Powder Treason they had contriv'd to blow up the Persons of our Governours and for some years past they have been laying the Train to blow up our Constitution Blessed be that God who so seasonably prevented both the one and the other This Day might have been a Day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy 2 Kings 19.3 as Hezekiah once complain'd and so it would have been indeed if when the Children were come to the birth there had not been strength to bring forth I mean if God had frown'd upon the Glorious Undertaking of our Present Soveraign which this day begun to take effect Let not Darkness therefore nor the Shadow of Oblivion ever stain this day let no cloud dwell upon it let no mournful voice be heard therein Who is there that bears Good will to our Sion that will not reckon it the best in our English Calendar and most worthy above all others to be joyned to the Days of the Year In short Let Our Mouths be filled with God's Praise and with his Honour all this Day long and let our Conversations practically express it all our Life long That our Holy Gratitude for the Mercies which we have may fit us for those which we want that our Sun may neither go backward nor stand still but make hast in God's due time to finish its remaining course THE END BOOKS Sold by John Salusbury at the Rising Sun near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil THE Mighty Wonders of a Merciful Providence in a Sermon Preached on the thanksgiving-Thanksgiving-day Jan. 31. 1689. The Duty and Support of Believers in Life and Death The Period of Humane Life determined by the Divine Will. The Usefulness of Spiritual Wisdom with a Temporal Inheritance The Churches Plea for the Divine Presence to prosper Humane Force in a Sermon preacht on the Fast-day Jan. 5. 1689. All 5 by the same Author A Rational Defence of Nonconformity Wherein the Practice of Nonconformists is vindicated from promoting Popery and Ruining the Church imputed to them by Dr. Stilling fleet in his Unreasonableness of Separation Also his Arguments from the Principles and Way of the Reformers and first Dissenters are Answered And the Case of the present Separation truly stated and the blame of it laid where it ought to be And the way to Union among Protestants is pointed at by Gilbert Rule Minister of the Gospel The Conformists Charity to Dissenters and Concurrence with the Favour granted them in the Act for Toleration proved from the Works of the most Eminent Divines of the Church of England Certain Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches in the time of Queen Elizabeth in Two Parts in Twelves price 3 s. Chirurgorum Comes or the whole Practice of Chirurgery begun by the Learned Dr. Read Continued and Compleated by a Member of the College of Physitians in London