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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29734	The support of the faithful in times of persecution, or, A sermon preach'd in the wilderness to the poor Protestants in France by M. Brousson ... ; faithfully translated from the French.; Confiance du fidèle persécuté. English	Brousson, Claude, 1647-1697.; Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1699 (1699)	Wing B5003; ESTC R3102	18,703	32

Believers have cause to fear the Power and Cruelty of their Enemies Jesus Christ says in the Gospel That the Devil is a Murtherer from the beginning The Ministers of Satan are also Lyers and Murtherers like himself When they cannot seduce and wheedle a Man into an Error they persecute him and use their utmost endeavour to ruin him We read in the Scripture That the Devil makes use of two great means to endeavour to shake the Faith of the Elect. To some he offers the Glory and Advantages of the World as he did to our Saviour before others he spoils of their Goods deprives of their Children and loads with a thousand Evils as he did Job And his Ministers use just the very same Methods But as God would not have us suffer our selves to be seduced by Errors and Lies nor to be led aside by the Honours and Riches of the World so on the other hand he would have us stand firm and impregnable against the Power the Injustice and Cruelty of the Enemies of the truth He requires of us to be always ready to suffer all sorts of Evils and Miseries for his Service 'T is he that has given us all the good things we enjoy in the World and therefore he expects we should be always disposed to part with them for his Glory 'T is he that has given us our Children and therefore he justly requires we should submit to his will when he permits the Enemies of his Kingdom to deprive us of them He requires us to deliver them up to the care of his wise Providence when they stand in competition with our Duty to God In fine 't is he that has given us Being Life and Motion and therefore he expects we should be always prepared to suffer Death for his Service whenever he thinks fit to call us to such a Tryal In a word 't is God that has given us all things 't is therefore very just that we should love him above all things He has created us for his own Glory 't is therefore very reasonable we should glorifie him both by our Life and Death Jesus Christ has suffered Death for us 't is very just then that we suffer something for the advancement of his Kingdom Our Sins deserved the Eternal Flames of Hell 't is then an act of singular favour that God is contented we should but suffer a little trouble in this World for his Holy Name sake In fine the Glory and Happiness that he prepares for us in Heaven is it not a sufficient recompence for all that we can lose and suffer for his Service upon Earth All things duly weighed says St. Paul I reckon the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the Glory that shall be revealed in us For this light Affliction which is but for a season worketh for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory But although God many times permits his People to be oppressed by reason of their Sins yet his design is not to abandon them entirely He only designs to make them better by his Chastisements and to cause them to return to their God with all their Heart and put their whole confidence in him For upon condition we turn to him and repent of having offended him he also repents of having Afflicted us and Comforts and Delivers us out of all our Distresses Fear not says he in my Text thou Worm Jacob and ye Men of Israel for I will help you saith the Lord. thy Redeemer the Holy one of Israel The God whose assistance we implore my Beloved Brethren is not as the Idols of the Gentiles that can neither see nor hear nor stir to deliver those that invoke them No t is the Lord of Hosts the God of Heaven and Earth the Great and Almighty God He that is Infinitely Good is surely good enough to have pity on our Sufferings He that is Infinitely Wise is Wise enough to provide for all our necessities And he that is Almighty cannot want Power to deliver us out of all our troubles He is called the Holy one of Israel because he is Holiness it self and requires us to be Holy as he is Holy And certainly he that is so Holy and Just will not let go unpunished all the injuries that are done to his Glory all the Evils that his Children are made to suffer He promises to help us who is it then that can hurt us If God be for us who 'll be against us He tells us he is our Redeemer viz. our Defender and Deliverer what reason have we then to be afraid The Lord says David Psal 27.1 3. is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the Strength of my Life of whom shall I be afraid Though a Host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear Idolaters indeed put their confidence in Creatures but the faithful trust in their God he is their only Protector and Refuge And what comfort is it to the Faithful that they have him for their Redeemer whose Power knows no bounds Blessed is the Nation says David Psal 33.12 whose God is the Lord and the People whom he hath chosen for his own Inheritance Call upon me in the day of trouble says our Great God Psal 50.15 I will Deliver thee and thou shalt Glorifie me Fear not says he again Isa 43 for I have redeemed thee I have called thee by thy Name thou art mine When thou passest through the Waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee When thou walkest through the Fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the Flame kindle upon thee For I am the Lord thy God the Holy one of Israel thy Saviour I gave Egypt for thy ransom Ethiopia and Seba for thee That is to say I have destroyed and will again destroy thy Enemies for the love of thee Then he adds Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast been honourable and I have loved thee therefore I will give Men for the and People for thy Life Fear not for I am with thee I will bring thy Seed from the East and gather thee from the West I will say to the North Give up and to the South Keep not back Bring my Sons from far and my Daughters from the ends of the Earth That is to say I have suffered you to be oppress'd by your Enemies because of your sins and to be dispersed throughout all the Earth but when you return to me with your whole Heart I will in great Compassion return to you I will bring you back from the Places of your Exile and establish you in the Land of your Nativity In effect my Friends how many Examples have we before our Eyes in the Holy Scriptures of the care God has in all Ages taken of his Children and of the wonderful deliverances he has vouchsafed to give them to the end that we may put our Confidence in him