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A45242	Forty-five sermons upon the CXXX Psalm preached at Irwin by that eminent servant of Jesus Christ Mr. George Hutcheson.	Hutcheson, George, 1615-1674.	1691 (1691)	Wing H3827; ESTC R30357	346,312	524

say it when others might forbear it yet have they not prevailed against me Nebuchadnezar got me swallowed down quick but I proved spending mea● and he was forced to cast up that sweet morsel The plowers plowed upon my back and they made long their furrows but the righteous Lord hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked It 's Israel's priviledge as it is Isa 51.22 23. To have the cup of trembling taken out of her hand and put into the hand of them that afflicted her c. It 's long since if it had been prestable or practicable that Israel should have been sweept off the earth Psal 83.4 There is a combination Come let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance and yet Israel is to the sore hoping in God It is true it 's dangerous to be peremptor in applying this to particular visible Churches for God has taken away his Candlestick from many visible Churches for their provocations yet there are two things that we may safely go upon in the application of this one is That where God in his glory is much concerned as having signally interposed for a people to make them his own there is ground of hope that God will not cast off that people for their provocations For this consider Exod. 32.12 and Numb 14. v. 13 14 15 16. When God is threatning to cut off his people for their provocations Moses interposes and interceeds with God O let not that be saith he Why should the Egyptians say for mischief he brought them out to stay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth because thou was not able to bring them into the land which thou promised them as if he had said Lord thou hast been eminently seen in owning this people and if thou shalt ruine them it will eminently reflect upon thy Glory as well as it will destroy them And Joshua Chap. 7. when Israel is smitten upon the account of the accursed thing ●nd he hath strong apprehensions that the Nations about will environ them and cut them off his great argument v. 9. is What wilt thou do unto thy own great Name Thou hast been eminent in owning thy people and if they shall be ruined thy great Name will suffer And Psal 74. Those complaints of the desolation of the Sanctuary and the insolency of the Enemy are closed with that How long shall the enemy reproach Shall the enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever This is one thing then that we may hold that where God hath been eminently seen in working for a people he will see to his great Name that there be no ill report brought up upon his guiding ●●em as if for mischief he brought them out to slay them upon the mountains And another thing we may close with which is more general that whatever God do with a particular visible Church he will never want a Church though he should take his leave of one Nation for their provocations he will go to another So long as he is a Head he will not want Members so long as he is a Husband he will not want a Spouse so long as he is a King he will not want Subjects There must be an Israel who will have ground to hope in God There are many things which might be inferred from this I might from it exhort all wisely to consider of the case of God's Israel and that they would beware of concluding that there is no hope for them in God Beware of looking upon them with a look of rejoycing over them and speaking proudly in the day of their distress Obadi●ah vers 12 13 There is hope in Israel though Israel were as dry bones and as dead men their dry bones shall live they shall up again and therefore take heed both what judgment thou passes on them and what thy carriage is towards them they may be laid low as for their own sins and provocations so for a trial to thee to bring out what was lurking in thy bosome before and thou durst not bring it out while thou got such an opportunity and when he hath done both he will make it appear that there is hope in Israel But to leave this I would press upon the people of God to improve this their priviledge and allowance of hope in God tine not heart cast not away your confidence which hath a great recompence of reward I press not carnal confidence or carnal hopes upon any I pray the Lord the troubles many are under may crush these but yet I would bid you cherish the hope of God's being great in Israel cherish divine hope that is bottomed on the Word ye who have it your hopes are better than other folks possessions your Bible is better than any security ye could seek without it And in deducing this Use I would in the first place recommend to you that are Israelites that ye would mind your work Isai 43.21 This people have I formed for my self they shall shew forth my praise Israel are set apart for celebrating Gods praise and to celebrate his praise in that particular by hoping in him when their souls are cast down and disquieted in them Thou art not at thy work in thy generation who are not shewing forth Gods praise by thy believing and hoping in him 2. Ye would remember how peremptory resolute and inplicite Israel may be and should be in hoping in God Israel must believe when she cannot see and when she cannot give a distinct account of what she believes she must believe when she cannot give the grounds of it I shall give you an account of Israels Faith and Hope in the words of Mordecai to Esther Chap. 4.14 If thou altogether hold thy peace at this time then shall there deliverance and enlargement arise to the Jews from another place But c. It would have puzled his wit and the wit of all the Israelits to tell from what airt deliverance and enlargement should come to the Jews If Esther should hold her peace how was it possible they should be delivered if God should not make use of her the Heathen in an hundred and twenty seven Provinces would soon cut them off when a decree was past to do it But though Esther should hold her peace Mordecal believes enlargement will come to Israel perish they cannot therefore delivered they must be though he could not tell from whence it should come The not considering of this is a dreadful temptation to many when Israel is low not only to cast away their confidence but to betake themselves to some sinful shift for their security but it were better for thee so long as thou hast the Bible for the ground of thy hope to hold the conclusion that Israel shal not perish 3. I recommend to Israel to consider how they may be called to stoop ere they quit their hope of delivery 2 Kings 6. Give wicked Jeboram

destroyes us not how often might he say as he said to Moses of Israel Exod. 32.10 Let me alone that my wrath may wax bot against them and that I may consume them that I may sweep them away from off the earth and yet he doth it not how often might he do with us in this World as he did with Sodom and the old World and yet he bears with us How often might he make the visible Church a terror to it self and all the World and how often might he make the Saints a burden to themselves and yet great is his goodness that he spares a sinful VVorld and sinners in it And upon another account it commends God and that is that he lets not the sinfulness of his People make void their interest in him but notwithstanding their sinfulness allows them to call him Father That though they be dayly by their repeated provocations iniquities and transgressions drawing Rods forth from his hand yet that doth not make void the Covenant Psal 89.32 33. That he will visit their transgressions with the rod and their iniquities with stripes nevertheless his loving kindness will he not utterly take from them nor suffer his faithfulness to fail O! but the study of our sinfulness would make dayly a new wonder to us it would not be common news but a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ came into the world to save sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 And as we grow in the study of our sinfulness the sweeter should these Truths that holds out the remedy of sin grow and continue SERMON VIII Psalm 130. Verse 4. But there is forgivenness with thee that thou mayest be feared AFter that I had spoken to this godly man his humbling sense and fight of the desert of Sin in the third verse I have begun to speak to this remedy of pardoning mercy with God upon which he layeth hold and I took up the words in that General Note That there is pardoning mercy in God for Sin and that is the only refuge for sinners sensible of the burden of sin and of the desert of sin and told you that I have a purpose if the Lord will to prosecute this Point in the resolution of several Questions which yet may be reduced to a few General Heads Which were hinted at That which now I am upon is the consideration of that that is pardoned Sin Iniquity or Transgression where I spoke to one particular that all Mankind have sinned and done that which will need a pardon They have iniquities even the most godly which makes them when they are sensible of them to look upon it as good news to hear of pardon That which I further proposed to be spoken to was 1. That as all have sinned so sin is a crime a debt a burden that men stand in need to rid their hands of 2. That sin is a debt that man cannot satisfie but must have it done away by Remission it must consequently follow That the unpardoned Man is in a woful plight And 3. That if this be a Debt that can only be done away by Pardon then to a sensible man this will be the chiefest of good news That there is forgivenness with God As to the First of these and the Second in Order proposed to be spoken to on this Branch when it is granted that all have sinned the stupid and carless will look lightly upon it wherefore it is to be considered in the next place what sin is to the right discerner it 's a crime which since he cannot expiat hath need of pardon It 's a debt which since he cannot satisfie hath need of forgivenness This imports that to be lying under the burden of sin is no light matter to a man that knows his case through sin I shall take notice of the Notion under which sin is expressed Luk. 11.4 with Matth. 6.12 Where sin is called our Debt I shal no insist here to clear that every mans sin is his own Debt contracted by himself in his own Person or in the common Root Adam and that he hath not others to blame for it Though as Adam did lay over his sin on the Woman which God gave him so is every one ready to do yet when God and the Sinner reckons he will find that he must reckon for his Sin by himself or by a Surety but waving that that sin is called a Debt it is not to be understood that Man is oblidged to sin for Obedience is that which is required and which we are oblidged to pay to God but what is imported in this metaphor I shall lay open before you in these four 1. A man that is adebted and not fulfilling his Bond is lyable to the Law so the Law of God is an hand-writting against sinful man oblidging him either to do his Duty or to satisfie Justice for his Fault or if he cannot do that and there be no other remedy to undergo everlasting punishment in hell 2. The Debt is heightned by this that all the means offered to Man of directions threatnings promises opportunities power and abilitie to do good in the time and station he lives in Gifts and qualifications for that end and Talents for the not improvement of which he becomes Debtor to God and his sin is hightned thereby 3. As sin resembleth a Debt so it is a Debt above all other debts a man under the debt of Sin is in a more dreadful plight than any under other debt he may be able to pay it and though he be broken he may come up again But a man under the debt of sin can never pay again a man under debt if he cannot pay he can shift his Creditor But for a man under the debt of sin there is no shifting of God his Creditor Psal 139. Whither shall he go from his spirit Or whither shall he flee ●rom his presence Again though a man be under debt and not able to shift his Creditor yet his Creditor is not always in a readiness to attach him though he be in his view because he is not in a legal capacity to reach him But we are in God's reverence every moment Again other Debt reaches the Body only this Debt of Sin reaches the Soul also And to add no more other Debt may reach a man with inconveniences in his Life but when he is dead his Debt is payed But the punishment of this Debt reaches a man chiefly after this Life all these clear that Sin is a Debt above all other Debts And I shall add 4. That Sin may well be compared to a Debt on this account that Sinners while they fall upon a right method of seeking pardon they much resemble an ill Debtor an ill debtor desires not to hear of his accounts far less to sit down and cast them up so it is with these ill Debtors they put the ill day far away They cannot hear of a day of compt and reckoning nor to sit