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A39885 God's goodness to this Israel in all ages being the substance of some sermons on Psalm LXXIII, I/ by J.F., minister of the gospel. J. F. (James Forbs), 1629?-1712. 1700 (1700) Wing F1443; ESTC R32028 51,365 93

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is under the 7th Trumpet ch 11. there was not before them any considerable visible Separation from the Church of Rome not so with us 4. There were but two then i. e. a few in comparison of what shall be after if we suffer for Christ now we shall have many Co-partners 5. That very work of God which has been begun amongst us I mean Reformation in Doctrine Worship and Discipline shall some where or other in God's own time and way go on and prosper maugre all opposition Lastly The consideration and belief of this Truth that the Witnesses are slain and risen may teach us how to demean our selves in this Day 1. Towards God 2. Enemies 3. One another 4. In respect of our selves Towards God 1. We are Monsters for Ingratitude if we do not trumpet forth his Praises aloud for bringing us forth in such a glorious Age and Time certainly if our Godly Ancestors had seen and heard what we now do especially they that Lived about an hundred Years ago would have said Now the Kingdom of our God and of his Christ is Come 2. Be very Patient under all the Corrections and Chastisements of this Good God 1. Your Sufferings are but a Flea-bite to the Sufferings of others that have gone before you 2. Your Punishments are still less than your Sin 's deserts 3. Consider what the Glorious Son of God hath suffered for you and yours is nothing 4. It 's a most glorious honourable and advantageous thing to suffer for Christ in a righteous Cause See 1 Pet. 4.13 14 15 16. with several others formerly commended to you 5. Your sufferings may be sharp for a Season but short 6. Your Sufferings after a begun Work of Reformation are for the Trial of your Faith and Patience 1 Pet. 1.6 7. Heb. 10.36 37 38. Rev. 14.12 Here is the Patience of the Saints here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus 7. The issue of your Sufferings will be Glorious to your selves but dreadful to your Enemies 1 Pet. 4.17 2 Thess 1.4 5 6. Towards Enemies 1. Look upon them as the Rod of God upon you for your sins of Ingratitude Earthly-mindedness Carnality Pride Self-seeking Hypocrisy Formality c. 2. If your Enemies are any kin to Antichrist you need not you ought not to fear them with a slavish fear for they are falling and going down even when they seem to rise 3. Seeing you can in some measure guess at the issue and event of things pity and pray for Persecutors as knowing what that Wrath that abides them is unless they repent 4. Abhor the very thoughts of a sinful compliance with any Antichristian pollutions and abominations in God's Worship if you had lived a hundred Years ago there had been some colourable excuse for your Conformity and Compliance but now there can be one 1 John 5. ult My little Children keep your selves from Idols Towards one another 1. Love and Honor all under what Name or Notion soever that have but their Faces Zion ward especially such as have Suffer'd do now or may yet Suffer for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus the rebukes of God upon Professors call aloud to them to lay aside their sinful differences and divisions which have undone them and to love one another not in Word but in Deed with a pure heart fervently You have all common Enemies and why you should not love one another I know not 2. If any that bear the Name of Christ should solicit you to joyn with them in any sinful irregular course to work your Deliverance hearken not to them God himself does now stand engaged to go on with that which is God's Work indeed and therefore he needs not your hand nor help In respect of your selves 1. Tho' the great slaying of the Witnesses be past yet each of us ought to be always prepared for the greatest of Tryals because no particular Person can at any time promise himself an absolute exemption from Sufferings from this time forth to the end of the World and it stands with reason in should be so for the Destruction of Antichrist being gradual by seven several Vials when one Vial has done its work there is still something more of him to be destroyed and his utter Destruction will not be till the end of the World how can it then be otherwise but so long as he has any power or being he will he making some bustle against those that oppose Some are of opinion that even after the conversion of the Jews which will be a most glorious time the Church will have great troubles and that for forty five Years together Daniel 12. Begin Nay and after the 1000 Years Rev. 20.1 They shall be in as great trouble as ever they knew from the beginning of the World to that Day which will be immediately before the coming of the Son of God to Judgment Many have strongly fancied that the time was come that the should have nothing to do but to rule the World the Lord in mercy convince them of their mistakes certainly a glorious Day may be look'd for before this World be at an end but it is so called comparatively i.e. in respect of our present Day and Times that ar past 2. This calls aloud upon us to be deeply humbled before the Lord because of our manifold sins and unsuitableness of Spirit to the Work of our Day We may well say thus Is the Work of Reformation now upon the Wheel of Providence And is Antichrist a declining Ah how does the Work stick and go on so slowly Sure it 's my Sins and others that retards and hinders it When I consider the great Distempers of the Spirits of all sorts of Professors I do not at all wonder at what has befallen us 3. Let us therefore by all means labour for such a Spirit as may suit with the Work of our Day a Spirit of Understanding to know what is God's Work and what ours to know what is Antichristian and what not a Spirit of Wisdom to find out such Holy and righteous ways as may most conduce for the carrying on of this Work a Spirit of Humility Mortification Self-denial Sincerity Faithfulness holy Courage and Boldness a Spirit of Prayer Faith and Zeal for God's Glory They that would yet know more particularly under what dispensation we now are and what hereafter may be expected must study well the 7th Trumpet Rev. 11. End and the seven Vials Chap. 16. I will but just give a very short hint at each of the Vials and so shut up all The 1st is poured out upon that which is the Earth in the Antichristian World i. e. the Fundamentals of the Popish Kingdom are struck at and such Doctrines upon which the whole structure of Antichristianism is built without which it cannot stand no more than the Fabrick of this Universe without the Earth Erasmus says of Luther that he committed two unpardonable faults in medling with the Popes Mitre and the Monks Bellies Antichrist's Ruine is the Churches Rise the confuting of their Antichristian Doctrines did clear up the principal Fundamental Truths of the Gospel 2. Upon the Sea i. e. Their Worship and Ordinances by which they trade on with another The first Reformers were so taken up with the clearing up of the Doctrinal part of the Gospel that they could not have the while to think of mattes of Worship which was done to some purpose after in the Council of Trent by Chemnitius and others 3. Is upon the Rivers and Fountains of Waters i. e. The Romish Clergy It 's by them the Christians of the Antichristian World are moistended they come from the Sea and run into it they were Originally bred by the Romish Religion and are the great supporters of it they are Wells of Water 2 Pet. 2. And Rev. 16.5 6 7. It 's they that have shed the Blood of Saints and Prophets According to this interpretation these three Vials are at least in some measure poured forth already only more may be yet expected 4. Upon the Sun i. e. Either some that are eminent for upholding Antichrist in his civil power and jurisdiction such as the King of Spain the Pope's Eldest Son or the House of Austria or something that 's a great light to them in respect of their Ecclesiastical State such as is the whole Body of their Cannon Law or both these 5. Is upon the seat of the Beast this may be understood of the Destruction of Rome or the Pope's Principality as the 5th Trumpet set him upon his Throne the 5th Vial shall Dethrone him 6. Dries up the great River Euphrates i. e. Destroys the Great Turk and his Empire which shall make way for the Kings of the East to go up into their own Land i. e. The shall the Jews be Converted the Glory of which time I have discoursed at large in my Treatise of the Fifth Monarchy 7. and last puts an end to all Antichrist is not only utterly ruined but also Gog and Magog all sorts of Christs and the Churches Enemies The Lambs Marriage Day is solemnized before God Angels and Men and his Spouse is caught up to himself to be with the Lord for ever The Spirit and the Bride saith Come even so come quickly Lord Jesus Amen And let every Soul say Amen Truly God is good to Israel and to such as are of a clean heart Gloria perpetuo sit tribuenda Deo FINIS