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death_n	dead_a	good_a	life_n	4,483	5	4.5706	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54719	The holy choice, or, Faith's triumph over all worldly pomp & glory a sermon preached in St. Maries in Scilly, Oct. 14, 1677 / by Nich. Phillips, twice chaplain to His Majesties garrison there ; and tendred at the council-table, Jan. 23, 1679.	Phillips, Nicholas.	1679 (1679)	Wing P2035A_VARIANT; ESTC R36675	17,484	30

after a three months Seige begins to faint and craves for a Parly And thus Reason begins to shake the Fort of his Resolution and to perswade him to yield Further O Amram to defer the Execution of the Kings Command the killing of thy Son will but increase thy fear and prolong his misery The searching Eye of the Kings Inquisitors or the tatling Tongue of a false Friend or treacher ous Servant will shortly discover him and then with his thou wilt hazard thine own life also at least wilt loose that which most men count the life of their life thy Goods and Estate and have them Confiscated Better then to put an end unto his miseries and thine own fears by his speedy Death then to prolong both by a concealed and little better than dead Life Thus Reason assaults and with such good success that Faith is fain to retreat and leave the Field And Amram notwithstanding his first brave defence is resolved to yield and no longer to conceal his Son But though Amram's Faith hath left the Field yet she hath a small Citadel in his Heart which she still straitly maintains and though Amram be resolved no longer to conceal his Son yet he will not so speedily kill him as Reason perswades His Faith had still so much life left as to assure him that the Child had another Father who had a larger share in him than he had and was able to do more for him than he could And councels him since he distrusts his own Power as too weak to preserve him to cast him wholly upon Gods Care and Providence Thus Reason notwithstanding his first good success is forced again to retire and Amram is resolved to deliver his Son from out of his own Hands into Gods His curious and Gold-enameld Cradle he changeth into a rushy and dirt-dawbed Ark. And Moses is cast out from his Natural Fathers House and his perfum'd upper Chamber into the great Lower-House of his Spiritual Father and laid among the Flags by the River In the History indeed of which Moses himself was the Penman the contriving and executing of the means for his persecution are wholly ascribed unto his Mother and there is no mention at all made of his Father But though his Mother appeared Chief in the Execution yet his Father doubtless sate President of the Council and chiefly contrived the means for his preservation In perilous times wherein Tyrants make their Will their Law and it is no less than a mans Life and Liberty is worth to cross their Decrees Women as being less to be feared take more liberty to act in publick than men dare do Though his Mother Jochebed then appeared most in the execution of the means for her Sons preservation yet Amram was not wanting in contributing his utmost endeavours thereunto I am sure the Apostle hath made them joynt partners in their Sons preservation and tells us v. 23. that he was preserved by the Faith of his Parents By Faith Moses c. To Amram therefore as the Head and Chief since he is now past the fear of Pharaoh's Anger do I ascribe the using of the means for Moses preservation But doth not Amram's Faith in placing his Son among the Flags by the River seem to be quite vanquish'd and overcome What Could he deliver his Son into the Hands of a more cruel Executioner than Water And could he expect any pitty from so merciless an Element His Faith I confess was now fallen into a deep Swoon but yet it was not quite gone The Pitch and Slime wherewith he dawbed over the Bulrush Ark wherein he put his Son to fence it against the taking in off watter and that little Girle which sits yonder so sadly under a bush to watch what would became of him plainly testifies that his Faith was not quite Dead and that he had still some small hope left that his Heavenly Father would see to and provide for him And loe God who never fails to provide for such Children as are by faithful Parents cast wholly upon his Care and Providence and who taketh them up faith David when their Fathers and Mothers forsake them takes up this simple Soul from out of the dust and lifteth up this poor wretched Infant out of the mire and sets him among the Princes even among the Princes of Zoan For whilst Moses lay thus forlorn in his Ark of Bulrushes squaling among the Flags by the River Pharaoh's Daughter attended by her Maids of Honour comes down to wash herself in the River and espying this Ark among the Flags she sends for it and having opened it she was by the Tears of the sweet Babe that lay in it moved to tender Compassion towards it and gave Order to have it tenderly Nursed called him from the Place out of which she drew him Moses and afterwards adopts him for her own Son Thus Moses hath changed his poor enslaved Parents for a Noble Princely Dame his Thatch'd Cottage for a stately Palace and instead of being brought up as the Hebrews were enforced to bring up their Children in hard and servile Labour he is Princely educated and instructed saith St. Stephen in all the Wisdom and Learning of the Aegyptians Acts 7.22 But though Moses be now Heir to a Crown the Sun unto whom the Egyptians pay the tribute of their Adorations and Devotions yet before I present him with my humble Duty and Service he must give me leave to pay it first where it is most justly due and to fall down and adore the incomprehensible Wisdom and Power of that God who so frustrateth and fools all the Designs of worldly wise Politicians that he causeth the very same Means which they propose to themselves as the surest and safest way to bring to pass their desired Ends to be the very Instruments of their Destruction and Ruine and brings his determinate Councils and Purposes to pass not only against their minds but even by the very Means of those that are his greatest Enemies and Opposers What surer Plot could the Devil with his Jewish Consistory of Priests and Elders contrive for the keeping of Jesus from being King of the Jews than to accuse him of Treason against Caesar and to deliver him up into the hands of Pintius Pilate the Roman Governor of Judea And yet this very Plot of theirs doth God by his all-working and all-ruling Providence convert unto Christ's greater Glory and caused his Dominion thereby to extend not only over the whole Region of Judea but over all the Kingdoms of the World and to have the Heathen given him for his Inheritance and the ●ttermost Parts of the Earth for his Possession What better course could Joseph's Brethren have pitch'd on for the preventing of their foretold Homage unto him than to make a Slave of him and to sell him to the Ishmaelites And yet this enslaving of their Brother doth God by a strange kind of Providence convert to his Honour and their Shame brings him hereby