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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01816	A sermon preached by Master Michael Bruice, in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, the immediate sabbath after he received his sentence of exile for Virginia.	Bruce, Michael, 1634 or 5-1693.	1668 (1668)	Wing B5220A; ESTC R173193	13,997	16

A SERMON Preached by Master Michael Bruice IN THE Tolbooth of EDINBVRGH The immediate Sabbath after he received the Sentence of Exile for Virginia Text PSALM 140. v. 12 13. 12. I know that the Lord will maintain the Cause of the afflicted and the Right of the poor 13. Surely the Righteous shall give thanks unto thy name the upright shall dwell in thy presence THere are three things of excellent worth to be known at such a time as this and I think ye should be labouring to know the worth of all these three things in this your day The first thing that is of excellent worth to be known is this To know that though we do not maintain the Cause yet go the World as it will God will maintain it says the Psalmist here Though we be an afflicted people that is during the Cause and do not maintain it yet it shall be maintained I know God shall maintain it and I will never quit the knowledge of that The second thing here that is of excellent worth to be known is Although we should be weeping all our days under the sense of many Losses yet we shall win home over to God and dwell at last in his presence Therefore if all things were well considered the poor traitour Bodies that sells God for a tippence and their Consciences for a Livelyhood and their Souls for Goods and Geer are the most miserable Bodies in the World for they shall never dwell in his presence but they shall geet their Letters of Exclusion Depart from me under the Great Seal of Heaven never to be ranversed again There is a third thing of excellent worth no be well read by you in such a day as this and that is in the slippery sitting of the wickeds Case though they flourish as a Green Bay-Tree yet they shall soon be cut down He hath prepared Hunters to hunt them to Death will he not gar the people of God hunt them to death No no oft times he 'l not let the people of God fil their Fingers on them But there are three Hunters that oft times he sends to them wicked men to be their Death First he sends their own wiekedness to them and that is alse black a Hunter as ever hunted wicked men he makes their own iniquity to hunt them till they be ruined he makes wickedness slay them and their own iniquity to be their death Mischief shall hunt the violent man till he be ruined Secondly he makes the Creatures hund them to death that was ane unk● Hunter that poor Pharaoh met with he made the Red-sea hunt him till he was ruined Thirdly he 'l have their own will to hunt them to death he 'l have that which they lay as a Snare before the people of God to hunt them to death that which wicked mendelights most in and gloties most in will be their Hunter or all be done I wot well they are great Fools then to glory in that which will hunt them from hole to hole and from this Land to that Land and never leave them till it raive the throat out of them What will be thought of those poor Bodies that will be hunted to death with that they delighted most in Now the Words that we have read are the use that the Psalmist makes of all that he hath been saying through the Psalm or rather ye may take it in the time of his tossings his casting of his Anchor on a sure Foundation and there fixing and on this he composes his Spirit Now would ye know the Anchorage of every true Christian Then come to the words that I have read and ye will find three pieces of Anchorages for a Christian to fix on The first piece of Anchorage is this The Cause of the afflicted and the Right of the poor God will maintain Anchor on it sure for it is sure enough ey ye may anchor there and bide all the Storm over The Cause of the afflicted and the Right of the poor God will maintain that is a brave Anchorage and in it we have three things considerable First the designation of the persons that God will own in their biding by the Cause and that is the afflicted and the poor well is our day for that though we cannot get our selves in owning with the rich and great Folk yet I wot well we may get our names slipped in among the afflicted and poor and it these that lie nearest God's help it is these that he 'l own wel is our day for that Hes he not a bonny pack of us think ye Sirs it matters not he 'l take our Cause be the end feckless as we are A second thing in this is the party that will own us and that is God himself he 'l be our Advocate he 'l be our Agent he 'l be our Maintainer very good then he 'l maintain the Cause For my part I never desire a better maintainer of a Covenant nor God himself and I never desire a better maintainer of the Cause and Work of Reformation nor the Lord himself though we were dead and rotten such a Maintainer will gar the Cause and Covenant speak for it self in Britain and Ireland It 's a strange thing Sirs I 'l warrant you the Philistines thought themselves brave Folk when they had gotten the Ark of God among them but ere all was done they thought themselves alse unhappy in having of it as ever they thought themselves happy for God gart it speak with meekle black Vengance towards them and all that they could do could not answer the Arks Arguments it spake with such Judgment and Plagues as ever ye heard tell of as ye may read in the 1 of Sam. 5. chap. And I doubt not but these poor Bodies that hes overthrown our Covenant and Work of Reformation shall wish as much that they had non overthrown them as ever they were bly that their overthrow stay till God gar a work of Reformation plead for it self with Vengeance and stay till God gar Vengeance speak for a broken Govenant and then all the Prelats and all the Lords in Scotland will not answer these arguments let them try their parts against the Covenant as they please but all the Prelats in Scotland shall not be able to answer the arguments of a broken Covenant when it pleads with vengeance A second thing of this Anchorage is the way how he brings it in I know sayes he God will maintain the cause of the afflicted And it is not an Outward and External or bare Speculative knowledge but a knowledge with a perswasion founded on an Infallible ground and a piece of Anchorage for a Christian to fix on is this Surely the Righteous shall give thanks to God A man cannot express his perswasion of a thing better nor by this Surely the Righteous shall give thanks unto thy Name It shall not be a thing only in the Heart and Thought to do but it shall be a done Turn