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A65931	Old Jacobs altar newly repaired, or, The saints triangle of dangers, deliverances and duties, personal and national, practically improved in many particulars, seasonable and experimental being the answer of his own heart to God for eminent preservations, humbly recommended by way of teaching unto all ... / by Nathaneel Whiting.	Whiting, Nathaneel, 1617?-1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing W2021; ESTC R25200	235,129	329

all possibility of disappointment Sathan and his agents may as easily hinder the day from dawning and the Sun from rising when the appointed minute for each is come both which are fixed by the unrepealable ordinance of the great Creatour Jer. 33. ver 20. as prevent the dawnings of comfort or darken the irradiations of the Son of righteousnesse when he is pleased to shine into the souls of his drooping ones Nay farther He shall come unto us as the rain as the latter and the former rain to the earth both were certain in the land of Canaan unlesse held back in wrath the first at seed-time to soften the ground and the latter a little before harvest to plump and pumple the corn in the ear in like sort as renewing so reviving grace is certain as the former came unto us Mr. Burroughs Lecture in loc to convert us when we were sinful so the latter shall come to comfort us when we shall be sorrowfull O precious mercy read and enlarge this in your own thoughts and take these few hints as helps which are more insisted upon by Mr. Burroughs 1. The Time of Gods delivering his people is the morning he takes the first and fittest opportunity after a sad and dark night 2. T is Gods presence that makes morning to the Saints all naturall helps cannot do it 3. Gods mercies to his people are prepared and decreed mercies 4. The Saints in the night of affliction comfort themselves with this that the morning is a coming 5. The Church hath no afflictions upon her but there comes a morning after them 6. A little before the Saints deliverance out of their greatest disturbances of misery and trouble the darkness of their night is the greatest therefore be not dismayed although not a starre appears in your night of trouble for the morning is approaching that darknesse is the Prodromus it ushers in the Phosphorus the bright morning starre of joy and comfort neither let the scoffing Ismaels of the world take advantage from the drouping of Saints to reproach Religion for Psal 97. ver 11. Light is sown for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright 〈◊〉 heart they have light and gladnesse insemine at their first conversion and at their first entrance into a distressed estate the husband man sets a harvest value upon his land when the seed is harrowed in because he trusts to the word of Gods Covenant with Noah So may a believer who hath had a seed time of grace passe over his soul comfort himself that he shall have his harvest time of joy also 't is sown and covenant dews will ripen it in due time and therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professours of it because at present their peace and comfort is not come at least in any measure unto some but rather sorrow and mourning know it is on the way to them and comes to stay everlastingly with them where is your peace is going from you every moment and is sure to leave you without any hope of ever returning to you again Look not how the Christian begins but ends The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrours Mr. Gurnall part 2. of his Christian in compleat armour pag. 396. but it closeth with peace and joy as we say of the moneth of March it enters like a Lion but goes out like a Lamb Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace O then ye servants of the Lord be much and serious in meditating upon recovering and relieving grace under those three particulars mentioned and you will find excellent advantages thereby you will live at the best rate of a spiritual and happy life which I shall evince in three considerations Consid I. You will live best to God 2. You will live best to your selves 3. You will live best to others I. You will live best to God and for God if you often remember how near to silence your souls have been upon a spirituall account if you often meditate in what dark and dangerous paths you once walked what a load of lust and sin you lay under how thwart your principles and practices were to God and godlinesse how you walked in time past according to the course of this world the mundaneity and worldlinesse of the world as the Syriack renders it which is wholly set upon wickednesse and lyes soa●●t in sin and according to the Prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes 2. ver 2. as a Smith worketh in his forge and an Artificer in his shop that ye were the devils journey-men your members as his working-tools your souls as his shop wherein and by which he carryed on that cursed trade of sin Oh! the sense of this will marvellously draw the soul after God and prevail with you to live unto God which is the great end of living Rom. 14. ver 8. the truth whereof is evidenced in three particulars 1. You will live most by faith upon God you will act faith in a more immediate and fiduciall dependency upon the Lord Try and then trust is the worlds motto now when you have a present sense upon your souls of what the Lord hath done for you how and in what methods of grace the Lord appeared to you when you walked upon the brink of hell and were ready every moment to drop into the pit this will work an holy boldnesse in your hearts this will answer all carnall cavills it will silence all the objections of your distrustfull hearts and bring up your spirits bravely to Jobs resolution Job 13. ver 15. Though he slay me yet will I trust in him he shall not be so rid of me I will hang on him still and if I must dy I will dy at his feet I and remember the wayes of God unto me his wayes of grace and mercy and free redemption when my estate was sad and bad and therefore under all those showers of arrows which fly from the Almighty against me and drink up my moisture I will roul my self upon him trust in him I and he also shall be my salvation see further ver 16 17 18 19. Oh if any man lives to God the just man doth who lives by his faith and fetcheth life and strength for his faith from his own experiences All the world could not shake the holy confidencies of Saint Paul when he had argued out the experiences of the grace and good will of God in Jesus Christ unto himself and believers Rom. 5. ver 16 17 18. then chap. 8. he begins conclusively there is therefore now no condemnation not one condemnation and carries it on at that high rate of affiance that ver 33 34. he doth arietem mittere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take the field and give a generall challenge to all his adversaries to plead and preferre what indictments

passage of Bildad Job 8.6 7. to the end of the Chapter If thou wert pure and upright surely now he would awake for thee and make thy righteousness prosperous What doth this Hypothesis this uncharitable Supposition import but a secret charge of Hypocrisie may it not be sensed thus ah Job thou wantest that heart-purity and heart-uprightness which renders the Persons and services of Gods sincere ones acceptable in his sight thou hast had indeed a great deal of the name and form of godliness thou hast carried it fairly and plausibly before men and hast purchased to thy self the reputation of a godly person in the world but alas the heart-searching God whose eyes are as a flame of fire ten thousand times brighter then the light of the Sun hath scarched thy reins and weighed thy spirit and having followed the streams of thy devotion to the fountain hath found that Hypocrisie hath been the head and Self the spring of all thy services thou hast but serv'd thy self upon God thy Religion hath been but mercenary and thou hast been his servant onely because he gave thee good wages therefore hath this calamitous condition overtaken thee and the Lord doth not awake to thy help which he would certainly do if he found thy heart upright in his wayes This he confirmes by the observation of the fathers who were men of great age great wisdome and great experience in the world ver 8 9 10. and that by three elegant similitudes ver 11. from the rush which cannot grow up without mire 2. from the flag which cannot grow without water both which ver 12. being removed to a drie unwatered soil do die and wither at the root so ver 13. are the wayes of all that forget God and the hypporites hope shall perish being at a distance from the fountain of living water and having the root of his confidence in himself A third Similitude is laid down ver 16 17. He is green before the sun and his branch shooteth forth in his garden his roots are wrapped about the heap and seeth the place of stones Succ●sus ex Tremel There being in many gardens fountains of stone Other senses of this passage are given by Expositours however all conclude that Bildad chargeth Iob with hypocrisie which is the chief thing I aim at in this quotation comparing an Hypocrite to a green and sappy tree which growes up under the warm influences of the Sun and spreadeth his roots receiving secret moisture from the garden-springs yet the ax shall be brought and cut it up being like the Cyparit which bears small berries and bitter leaves that yeild an ill smell before God and therefore he cuts him up and casts him out of his garden this further appears to be that which Bildad drives at and wherewith he chargeth Job upon the account of his present sufferings because Ver. 20. he affirmes that God will not cast away a perfect man neither will he help the evil doers That the perfect man in Scripture language however otherwaies glossed upon by some in our dayes denotes a sincere servant of the Lord one whose heart is upright with the Lord is clear in many passages now what measure Job had from Bildad and his companions the same have many of the suffering Saints had from the censorious and carnal world and that upon the same grounds but be wise O ye snarling doggs be instructed ye blind Barbarians call not a suffering Saint because in distress an hypocrite for they are branches bearing fruit in Christ and the great vine-dresser doth but purge them by affliction cutting off their luxuriant branches that they may bring forth more fruit Joh. 15.2 Take heed ye sin not by such uncharitable censures against the generation of Gods children lest his wrath be kindled against you and ye perish in the way even in this your way of traducing and slandering the footsteps of Gods anointed ones and lest the Lord speak suddenly against you as he did against Aaron and Miriam in the quarrel of Moses Numb 12.8 and say How were you not afraid to speak against my suffering servants 3. For that definitive sentence which they pass upon the Saints when under suffering as though they were cast off by God and delivered over by Justice unto destruction indeed wicked men are very peremptory in their conclusions against the Lords people and when they see load laid upon them by the Lord in some calamitous estate they presently determine upon the question that they are forsaken of God Thus David in Psal 71.7 brings in his enemies encouraging themselves in their furious attempts against him under this assurance that God had cast him off Hear at what a rate they speak God hath forsaken him persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him But why so confident that David is now one of the forlorne hope that his condition is desperate and irreparable have you not seen what stormes he hath borne up under and sailed against have you forgot the formidable armies he hath broak through and broak why should you think that Absalom's Rebellion or Sheba's Mutiny for it is conceived the Psalm was penned upon one of those occasions should cast such an old and experienced Souldier into a lost condition O! God was wont to go out with him and his good presence was as a munition of Rocks unto him whereby he became not onely safe but successfull in all his enterprises but now the case is altered David stands alone he fights with his own arme God hath now forsaken him but how know you that he is in a deserted estate O 't is clear and legible in those sore distresses that are upon him hee 's a man mark'd out to ruine God will not deliver him and thus deridingly did the wicked scoff at David Psal 22.7 8. Contemptus p●puli ludibri●s oppr●briis declaratur applied by the Evangelist to the Lord Jesus Matth. 27.39 when he was nailed to the cross all they that see me in this afflicted and calamitous condition laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seing he delighted in him a gauling Sarcasm reproachfull language Good God! how great is thy patience to pardon at least to pass over for the present such blasphemous scoffs against thy self and against thy son and if it was done thus to the green tree what shall be done to the drie Post Carthaginem vinci neminem puduit Let not the Saints be overmuch troubled at the taunts of the wicked when the Son of God himself suffered the same measure from them but stay speak no more so proudly O ye ungodly ones do you think the tender Mother has cast off all care all bowels all love because she lets her helpless Infant lie crying in the cradle a while no no she 'l come and take it up kiss it lay it in her bosome