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B04405	The Christian's companion under soul-exercise : or, A sermon preached at the Hole of the Gate-rige in the parish of Bathgate and shire of Linlithgow. May 26. 1678. By Mr. John Mosman.	Mosman, John, ca. 1634-1693.	1678 (1678)	Wing M2857AA; ESTC R180720	15,365	25

THE CHRISTIAN'S COMPANION UNDER SOUL-EXERCISE OR A SERMON Preached at the Hole of the Gate-rige in the Parish of Bath-gate and Shire of Linlithgow May 26. 1678. By Mr. John Mosman Psalms 77.1 and 2 verses I cryed unto GOD with my Voice even unto GOD with my Voice and He gave Ear unto me In the day of my Trouble I sought the LORD my Sore ran in the Night and ceased not my Soul refused to be comforted THE TEXT Psalms 77.1 and 2. Verses I cryed unto GOD with my Voice even unto GOD with my Voice and He gave Ear unto me In the Day of my Trouble I sought the LORD my Sore ran in the Night and ceased not my Soul refused to be comforted IT is no great Difficulty to stay some Folks Grief and to Comfort them against their Sorrow for it is but small and upon a small account But it will not be an easie thing to stay the Grief and Comfort the Soul that is afflicted under the Exercise of Christs absence And it is no wonder it be so for there is none that can come and make up the want which He makes when He goes away There is none in Heaven nor in Earth that will fill His place If the Soul miss Him that has Real Love to Him it will be a very vain thing to offer a hyre to that man to give ov'r seeking of Him be his Difficulty what it will And it is as vain a thing to bid that man seek CHRIST through Difficulties that has no Love to Him for the man that has no Respect to CHRIST will never follow Him throw Temptations and Difficulties Now in thir Words that we have read to you ye have these three or four particulars First Ye have a great piece of Distress and sore Trouble that this afflicted man was in at this time he was in a sore and lasting Trouble even both Night and Day Secondly Ye have his Carriage and Behaviour while under his Trouble he is not Idle he is concerned with his own Souls Case and he rests not till he carry that to the Throne Thirdly Ye have his Success he comes very good speed he carries his Case in before the Throne and he is heard and answered and gets very good News from Heaven and these are more Comfortable News nor any News from any Corner of the Earth a Man cannot hear any News from any Corner of the World that can or will Refresh him so as good News from Heaven will do Lastly Ye have this remarkable in the Words he sets all down upon Record he keeps all in Register that it may never be forgotten by him so long as he lives Now I shall Observe five or six Notes from these Words and shall but speak a short word to each of them and so shall close The First Thing that I Observe is this That there is some things which a Christian should never forget there is some things that a Christian should keep in Memory so long as he liveth yea there is some things that a Christian would set down upon Record or Register upon his Soul to be keeped to the fore till his Dying Day A Second Note I Observe is this That a Christian under Sore Trouble or Perplexing Trials may be very sore put to it he may have very hard Labour and be brought very Low before that he obtain an Out-gate I cryed says he it is a Token that he was sore put to it when put to Cry A Third Note that I Observe is this That it is no small Matter for a Christian to get a Prayer sent up to GOD in the day of his Sore Trouble and Affliction I cryed even unto GOD Was there any other body to Cry to nor to GOD indeed no but what tho' It is no small Work or Importance for a Christian to get his Prayer directed to Heaven in the day of his Sore Trouble A Fourth Note that I Observe is this That ordinarly these Duties are most Successfull which are gone about against most Discouragement and which a Man followeth through maniest Temptations The Work that a Man sets too against maniest Discouragements and pursues against maniest Oppositions in his Way ordinarly that Work or Duty will prosper best I cryed and He heard me I was once no able to speak at all when I was laid by or with a Temptation but when I laid the Temptation aside and cryed then He heard me A Fifth Note that I Observe is this that the Trouble that a Christian is sometimes exposed too is so great that it admits of no Intermission it admits of no Vacancy Delay or On-waiting There is here no Vacant Time neither Day not Night In the Day of my Trouble my Sore ran in the Night and ceased not He had neither Days Rest nor Nights Rest Lastly Ye may Observe this Note from the Words and it is this That the Day comes or is coming wherein the Christian shall speak of all his Sore Troubles and Sad Afflictions as things bygone as things over as of things past as of things done For ye see he speaks here of thir things as of things done and bygone My Soul Refused to be Comforted and my Sore ran in the Night but it is over now and bygone Now the First Note that I shall speak a little too shall be the first of these which is this That there are some things that a Christian would never forget but that he would keep in perpetual Remembrance he would Register them on his Soul for evermore But may ye say What are these things that a Christian should never forget I lle tell you of four or five things that a Christian should never forget so long as he lives First How near hand Hell sometime of day he was Secondly What a heartsome Welcome the LORD gave him in the Day of his Distress and Low Condition how kindly He Intertained him And Thirdly How seasonable GODs appearance for him was And Fourthly What CHRIST has done in his behalf what great things CHRIST has done for him And Lastly What he has done against CHRIST All these five things a Christian would never forget he would keep them in his Memory while he lives Now as to the First of these that ye would never forget how near hand Hell some Day ye were and how little there was betwixt you and Eternal Ruine betwixt you and everlasting Flames If ye remember this ye will have great Benefit thereby And I shall say but these three things to it First If ye remember how near hand Hell ye once were O but this will make CHRIST very much Precious and will commend Him to your Souls O shall I ever forget Him will the Soul say that came in betwixt me and my Ruine when there was but one step betwixt me and Death Christ went in betwixt me and that and O shall I ever have an Ill Thought of Him that when I was going in at the Pits Brink He came

him will much more come now and appear for me and therefore I will wait upon him with Confidence and Hope And Thirdly If ye remember the seasonableness of his appearance for you in the Day of your Low Estate then it will make you to wait upon him now both Chearfully and with Joy And why so Wa I 'le tell you why the last time that he came he came so seasonably that it made my Soul to Rejoice and be Glad and therefore I will now wait Willingly and Chearfully upon him for I know he will come now as before and when he comes my Soul shall be Glad and Rejoice in him and so I will wait upon him But we come to the Fourth Thing that ye would never forget so long as ye live and that is What Great Things Christ hath done for you And in speaking to this I will tell you of Five Things that Christ has done for you which ye should never forget all the Days of your Life so long as ye live in the World And the First is this His seeking of Acquaintance with you in the day when ye had no mind of Acquaintance with him May not the Christian say O should I ever forget that Day when he came to my Father's House and called me by my Name Surname and took no moe of the Family but my self and should I ever forget that Day when he came to me who had a Lust in my Heart and running Wild after my Idols and said stay Sinner stand still and I 'll shew thee the Way to Life for that Way thou is on is no the Way to Happiness O Sirs any of you that has Experience of such a Day never forget it that he should have sought you and desired you when ye had no mind nor desire of him Secondly Ye should never forget his Communicating to you and making known after his Acquaintance with you his Eternal Purpose of Love Has he not made this known to some of you and said now Sinner I tell thee this I have begune Friendship and Acquaintance with thee that will never end nor break off again For I have loved thee with an Everlasting Love that will never End I have spoken the Word that I will never break nor alter I have shaken hands with thee that shall never go free again And therefore may ye not say To Him that hath loved us and washed us in His own Blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto GOD and the Father to Whom be Glory Honour and Dominion for ever and ever But O what have ye to give him Wa truly says the sensible Soul I have nothing to give him at all but only this if my Wish and Desire could Exalt Christ he should not want it for I would gladly see him High in Heaven and Earth and I would gladly have him high and exalted in the Estimation of all his People and that they might remember his Love to them But who ever forget him and his Love it shall not be I for while I live I shall Praise him and remember his Love to me A Third Thing that ye should never forget so long as ye live and that is His Drinking up your Hell in one Cup the thing that ye should have been Drinking to all Eternity he Drank it up all in one Cup and O but it was Skunering to him and yet he stood not upon it further says he If it be possible let this Cup depart from Me. Ye know that sad Passage in the 22. of Luke from the 42 and 44. verses and downward after he had prayed with Submission to the Father's Will that it might pass from Him He was in a Great Agony and prayed more earnestly and His Sweat was as it were Great Drops of Blood falling down to the Ground Heard ye ever tell of a Distress that made a Man to Sweat Drops of Blood but this No indeed it never had a Paralell nor never will Now in that Day He was Drinking up your Hell for you all at one Draught and ye should never forget that Day One Drop of that Cup of the Father's Wrath which He Drank on your behalf if ye had gotten it it would have made you to cry out in Horror for evermore it made him to Cry but once but you for evermore Never one of you Mourned and Weeped for Sin as He Weeped albeit there was no Sin in him Wa What can be the Cause of that say ye I 'll tell you the Cause or Reason of it ye never knew the Weight of Sin as he did O Sirs know ye what gart him Weep over Jerusalem when he looked on it when they Weeped none for themselves Wa this gart him Weep because He knew the Weight of Sin and the Misery that was coming on them for it and not they and therefore he Wept over it But a Fourth Thing that Christ has done for you that ye should never forget and that is His taking away all Objections that might have weakened your Right or darkened your Evidence Yea whatever might have weakened your Right to the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God he hath taken all away so that now there is no Objection that can come in the way of a Poor Sinners coming to Christ but He has taken it away So that now there is no Objection that Satan or Misbelief can raise against a Poor Thing but Christ has taken it all away Col. 2.14 15. He has blotted out the Hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us contrary to us and took it out of the Way Nailing it to His Cross And having spoiled Principalities and Powers He made a shew of them openly Triumphing over them in it Every Objection that Satan or the World or Misbelief can propone he has taken it away Nailed it to his Cross that ye might thereby have a Right to the Tree of Life and that having a Right to it then there is no Objection can Weaken it at all and this should never be forgotten by you A Fifth Thing that Christ has done for you that ye should never forget and that is His bearing you Company under all your Crosses If thou be one of his Friends will thou tell me Time or Place wherein thou ever had any piece of a Cross or Affliction or any Sorrow wherein he bare thee not Company under it I am sure there is none of his People that can Witness to the contrair but that he has born them Company in it and yet is to this Day doing so And now that he has born and yet is bearing thee Company under all thy Temptations and Troubles is a thing that thou should never forget so long as thou lives in the World and have ye done and are yet doing so Na Ye have not done so ye have not remembred him to be the bearer of you under every Cross that ye were to meet with in Time that it may appear so Will ye