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enemy_n	david_n	great_a	saul_n	1,241	5	9.2078	5	true

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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

Jacob when he was but young was forc'd to leave his Father's House and to travel all alone into a very distant Country to avoid the fury of his Brother Esau that would take away his Life But the first Night he lay on the Road God appear'd to him in a Dream and told him Behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this Land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoke to thee of And indeed God was always with him he conducted him safe in his Journey he blessed Him he blessed his Labour he blessed his Family he brought him again into his own Country and appeas'd his Brother's Anger So Joseph when he was but a Youth of Seventeen Years became the Object of the Jealousie and Hatred of his Brethren One day as he went to see them in the Wilderness they plotted against him to put him to death They threw him into a deep Pit and afterwards took him up again to sell him to the Ishmaelites who carryed him to Egypt and sold him there for a Slave Sometime afterwards being falsly accus'd by his Mistress he was put in Prison and there he lay several Years But God at last had pity on him deliver'd him out of his Distress and made him Governour of all Egypt then a very powerful Kingdom Job who was a Holy Man and one of the greatest Men of the East was spoil'd of all his Goods depriv'd of all his Children and cover'd all over with Ulcers from the Sole of his Foot to the Crown of his Head insomuch that he was forc'd to lie in the Dust In this deplorable Condition he should have received one would think at least some comfort from his Wife and intimate Friends But instead of that they only encreased his Affliction For his Wife tempted him to murmur against God that he might put an end to his Life And his intimate Friends told him That he must have been a Hypocrite and a Wicked Man since God had struck him in so terrible a manner But at last God was mov'd with companion towards him he deliver'd him out of all his Sufferings and Misery restor'd his Health gave as many Children as he had lost and Wealth twice as much as he had before and made him live a hundred and forty Years after his Tryal David who was a Man according to God's own Heart was also persecuted for a great while together by King Saul He was forc'd to leave his Wife and Home and to seek for Refuge in Desarts and Caves and even there he was still pursued by his Enemy He often found himself reduc'd to such Extremities and exposed to such evident Dangers that he thought it impossible for him to escape But he had always recourse to his God and God never forsook him He did wonders to preserve him in the midst of so many Dangers and at last deliver'd him out of all his Troubles and exalted him to the Throne of Israel But above all who would not admire that wonderful deliverance which God wrought for the three young Hebrews whose History we read in Daniel chap. 3. These three faithful Servants of God having refus'd to prostrate themselves before the Idol which King Nebuchadnezzar had made this proud and mighty Prince that had before destroy'd Jerusalem told them that if they would not fall down and worship this Idol he would order them to be cast into a fiery Furnace And he adds further Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands And they answered him Our God whom we serve is able to deliver out of the burning fiery Furnace and he will deliver us out of thy hand O King But if not be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the Golden Image which thou hast set up As if they had said We know that our God is Almighty and able to deliver us if it seems good in his sight but if he thinks fit we should die for his Glory we are all ready to submit and die Then this proud and cruel Prince being full of Rage and Fury commanded that they should heat the Furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heat and order'd the most mighty Men that were in his Army to bind them and cast them into the burning fiery Furnace Which accordingly they did but the fire consum'd those that threw them in and on the contrary these three faithful Servants of God fell in the midst of the Flames without receiving the least damage the fire did nothing else but burn their Bonds so that they walk'd in the midst of the Flames without being consumed And besides there appear'd with them a fourth Man whose form was like the Son of God Whereupon this Idolatrous King being amaz'd to see so great a Miracle made them come forth out of the Furnace and gave glory to the God of Heaven who had so miraculously preserv'd them in the midst of the Flames because they had chose to lose their Lives rather than displease their God So Daniel himself because he continu'd to pay to God the Homage due to him when the King by his Edict had forbid it was cast into the Den of Lyons But God was always with him He shut the Mouths of those ravenous Beasts so that they did him no hurt And the King seeing this Miracle commanded him to be fetch'd out of the Den and to throw in his Enemies that accus'd him and they were immediately devour'd by the Lions So when the people of God heretofore groan'd under the Oppression of the Egyptians God smote Egypt with all his Plagues Nay he slew all their First-born and every House in Egypt was in Mourning and had one died out of it So again when the Egyptian Army was in pursuit of the people of God as they were going out of Egypt God covered his people with a Cloud and divided the Red sea to let 'em pass thro' it But when the Egyptians pursued 'em into the middle of the Waters God caus'd the Sea to return upon them and so that great Army was all swallow'd up and not one of them escap'd In short the Holy Scriptures are full of the great wonders that God wrought from time to time for the deliverance of those that fear and put their whole confidence in him Therefore says he in my Text Fear not thou Worm Jacob and ye Men of Israel for I will help thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel What we have said is enough for the Explication of the words now let us apply what we have heard to our selves Here we see my beloved Brethren that all the Faithful are represented as one Man and compose but one Mystical Body therefore we ought to live together in Union as being Members one of another We are all animated by the same Spirit to wit the Spirit