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A30202 Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers by John Bunyan. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1684 (1684) Wing B5592; ESTC R3858 96,024 262

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the keeping of their Soul to him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator Shall God display his glory before us under the character and Title of a Creator and shall we yet fear man shall he do this to us when we are under a suffering condition and that on purpose that we might commit our Souls to him in well doing and be quiet and shall we take no notice of this Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the Son of man that shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy maker that hath stretched forth the Heavens and laid the foundations of the earth c. Isa. 51.12 13. Had God concealed himself as to his being a Creator yet since he presenteth himself unto us by his word under so many excellent Titles as are given to no other God besides methinks it should make us bold in our God but when for our relief he shall add to all other that he verily is a Creator this should make us rest in hope indeed Every Nation will have confidence for their own Gods though but Gods that are made with hands though but the work of the Smith and Carpenter And shall not we trust in the name of the Lord our God who is not only a God but a Creator and former of all things Mich. 4.5 Consequently the only living and true God and one that alone can sustain us We therefore are to be greatly blamed if we overlook the ground such ground of support and comfort as presenteth it self unto us under the Title of a Creator But then most of all if when we have heard believed and known that our God is such we shall yet be afraid of a man that shall die and forget the Lord our Maker We I say have heard seen known and believed that our God is the Creator The heavens declare his glory and the firmament sheweth his handy work and thus he has shewed unto us his eternal power and Godhead Rom. 1.20 Behold then thou fearful worm Jacob the Heavens the Sun the Moon the Stars behold the Earth the Sea the Air the fire and Vapors Behold all living things from Leviathan and Behemoth to the least that creepeth in the Earth and Waters Yea behold thy self thy Soul thy Body thy fashion thy building and consider thy God hath made even all these things and hath given to thee this being yea and all this also he made of that which doth not appear Heb. 11.1 2 3. This is that which thou art called to the consideration of by Peter in the Text when he letteth fall from his apostolical meditation that thy God is the Creator and commandeth that thou in thy suffering for him according to his will shouldest commit the keeping of thy Soul to him as unto a faithful Creator He that has the art thus to do and that can do it in his straights shall never be trodden down His God his faith his faith his God are able to make him stand For such a man will thus conclude that since the Creator of all is with him what but Creatures are there to be against him So then what is the Ax that it should boast it self against him that heweth therewith or the Saw that it should magnifie it self against him that shaketh it as if the rod should shake it self against him that lifteth it up or as if the staff should lift up it self as if it were no wood Isa. 10.15 Read also the 40th of Isaiah from the 12 to the last verse and then speak if God as Creator is not a sure confidence to all the ends of the earth that trust in and wait upon him As Creator he hath formed and upholdeth all things yea his hands have formed the crooked Serpent wherefore he also is at his bay and thou hast made the Dragon in the Sea And therefore it follows that he can cut and wound him and give him for meat to the Fowls and to the beasts inheriting the wilderness if he will seek to swallow up and destroy the Church and People of God Job 26.13 Ps. 74.13 14. Isa. 51.9 Ezek. 29.3 4. Ninthly A Creator is God the God unto whom they that suffer according to his will are to commit the keeping of their Souls the Creator and doth he take charge of them as a Creator Then this should teach us to be far off from being dismayed as the heathens are at his tokens for our God the Lord is the true God the living God the King of eternity Jer. 10.1 2 10. We should tremblingly glory and rejoyce when we see him in the World though upon those that are the most terrible of his dispensations God the Creator will sometimes mount himself and ride thorough the earth in such Majesty and glory that he will make all to stand in the Tent doors to behold him O how he rode in his chariots of Salvation when he went to save his people out of the land of Egypt how he shook the Nations Then his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise His brightness was as the light he had horns coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power Before him went the pestilence and burning coals went forth at his feet He stood and measured the earth he beheld and drove asunder the nations the everlasting mountains were scattered the perpetual hills did bow his way is everlasting Then saith the Prophet I saw the Tents of Cushan in affliction the Curtains in the land of Midian did tremble Was the Lord displeased against the rivers was thine anger against the rivers was thy wrath against the Sea that thou didst ride upon thy horses and thy chariots of salvation Habbak 3. So David The earth shook and trembled saith he the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it He bowed the heavens also and came down and darkness was under his feet And he rode upon a Cherub and did flie he did flie upon the wings of the wind He made darkness his secret place his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed hailstones and coals of fire The Lord also thundred in the heavens and the Highest gave his voice hail-stones and coals of fire Yea he sent out his arrows and scattered them and he shot out lightning and discomfited them Then the chanels of waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke O Lord at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils Psal. 18. from verse 7. to verse 15. These are glorious things though shaking dispensations God is worthy to be seen in his dispensations as well as in his word though the nations tremble at his presence O that thou wouldest rend