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A93833	Rupes Israelis: = The rock of Israel. A little part of its glory laid forth in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the honorable House of Commons, at their monthly fast, Apr. 24. 1644. By Edmund Staunton, D.D. minister at Kingston upon Thames, in the county of Surrey, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Staunton, Edmund, 1600-1671.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5342; Thomason E48_6; ESTC R11555	28,150	40

that appeared in Eighty eight and against the Powder-treason and of late at Keinton Brainford Glocester Newbery c. that providence which hath brought us out of Egypt will bring us into Canaan if our unbeleeving murmuring ingratefull or selfe-seeking hearts make not our carcasses to fall in the wildernesse Psal 22.1 let us take up Davids arguing Our fathers trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them and the reasoning of Mancahs wife Judges 13.23 If the Lord were pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things c. Observ 4 The fourth observation which lies clearly and expressely in the Text is that There is no comparison between the enemies rock and the rock of Israel their rock is not as our rock First compare the Idols of the enemies with the God of Israel and you will find First Henr. Wol●h● in v. 4. Rupes non arte aut industria hominum s●d suapt● natura co●sistit Qui colit ille facit Idem ibidem Deum n●c hominum astutia superare potest nec potentia srangere idque à seipso Ferus declam in Deut. Deus noster iniquitatem odit deserentas se de serit Tostat in locum Our enemies Judges that is judicii divini executores Corn. à Lapide Inulta sinunt suorum cultorum peccata Piscat in loc non vindicant fui contemptum quippe nec possunt that our rock hath his being from himselfe his name is I AM Idols are made by the Art and industry of men the hewer cuts downe a tree and of one peece of wood makes a fire and of another makes a god the Carver and the Painter and the worshipper makes the Idoll Secondly our rock is solid immutable in himselfe in his Decrees his power breaks all powers his wisdome goes beyond all policies whereas Idol-gods you may breake them in peeces grind them to powder and make Idolaters to eate and drinke downe those gods they have worshipped Thirdly our rock hates iniquity and doth punish it in any the enemies see it for often God makes them to be Judges over Israel to wit the executioners of divine judgements and some thinke this is the truth also which the Text points at And in this sense the Assyrians Chaldeans Romans were as enemies unto so Judges over Israel * But Idol-gods neither hate sin nor punish sin in any and the reason is given Cornel. è Lapid Imp●tentes sunt ut alicui benefaciant aut malefaciant Rabanus Maurus lib. 4. in Deut. Idola f●lsa inutilia from the ignorance and impotency of Idols Fourthly our rock is a God of truth and goodnesse the Idoll rocks are rocks of lies and vanities no way beneficiall to their deluded worshippers Secondly compare all the enemies creature-rocks whatsoever with Israels Creator-rock their imaginary rock with Israels reall rock you will see the transcendent excellency of this rock of Israel First our rock is a foundation-rock to build upon Mart. 7.24 25. the wise man the beleever builds his hopes and happinesse upon this rock and when the raine descends the floud comes and the winds blow and beat upon his house yet it fals not because it is founded upon a rock but the foole the unbeleever the formalist though he seeme to raise a goodly frame a faire pile of building yet when the storme comes the house fals and great is the fall of it Verse 26 27. Job 39.27 28. alluded to and all because it was not built on the rock but on the sand The Eagle-like Christian gets upon the wing by beleeving and sores aloft in heavenly meditations and affections and makes his nest on high he dwels and abides on the rock upon the cragge of therock and the strong place Secondly our rock is a sheltering rock securing us from any from all our enemies Psal 94.22 David hides himselfe in a rock from Saul and he cries the Lord is my defence Psal 104.18 and my God is the rock of my refuge the rocks naturall are a refuge for the Conies if the Dog or danger appeare they pop into their holes and so are safe Prov. 18.10 Hen. Wolphi tutum est omnibus qui in eam confugiunt praesidium quò nec miles ascendere nec belli tormina trahi pussunt Leigh Crit. sac in vet Test Isa 33.16 and this spirituall rock is a refuge for beleevers when dangers and feares come they earth and burrough themselves in Christ and the name of the Lord is their strong Tower they runne into it and are safe God is a strong rock indeed no breaking through it an high rock no climbing up or scaling it no drawing up of Cannon or warlike engins against it he is a sure rock and some fancie it that our English word sure is borrowed from the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a rock thus Israel dwels on high and his place of defence is the munitions of the rocks c. Thirdly our rock is a shadowing rock from the scorching heate of divine indignation and from the dazling glory of Gods essentiall Majesty so in the prophesie * Isa 32.2 Exod. 33.18.20 alluded to A man to wit Christ shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land Moses saith to God Shew me thy glory God answereth thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live but behold saith God I will put thee in the clefts of the rock and cover thee with my hand and thou shalt see my back-parts c. God puts beleevers into Christ as into the clefts of the rock in him they see the Godhead vailed they behold the back-parts of God and live Fourthly our rock is a watering rock to coole the fired to quench the thirsty to cleanse the defiled to revive the fainting soule that comes unto him Exod. 17. Numb 20. We read of Israel wrangling with Moses for water twice and of Moses smiting the rock twice first in Cadesh in the second moneth after Israels going out of Egypt and the other in Rephidim in the seventh moneth the waters that flowed upon the first smiting gave present refreshing and then vanished but the waters which gushed out of the rock in Rephidim continued and followed the Camp of Israel in all their march and Israel where ever they pitcht their Tents made pits to receive and hold those waters Numb 21.18 Petrae aquatilem sequelam as Tertullian lib. de Patient 1 Cor. 10.4 yea the Princes digged the Well the Nobles of the people digged it and Israel dranke of the rock that followed them And this rock was spiritually a type of Christ so the Apostle he was the rock smitten in his death and passion from him the waters of life flowed and flow after all the Camps of Israel in all places in all ages we must make pits and digge Wels also get

humble hearts and beleeving spirits to hold these waters in Some ancients fancie it that Israel took this rock of Rephidim along with them and as often as they pleased fetcht water out of it it is the fiction of some Rabbins and Schoolemen that the rock was contracted into a little flint which Miriam carried up and downe with her in her bosom all this is but fabulous yet there is a truth in this that every beleeving Israelite carries the rock Christ in his breast and bosome when he acts faith he smites the rock and then the waters of grace and peace flow upon him in all abundance Israel was in great straits ready to perish for want of waters and waters were not to be gotten in all the wildernesse had it not beene for the rock all Israel had perished Even such is thy case O man thou didst need a Redeemer couldst find no water in the wildernesse no salvation in thy selfe or in the creatures and had it not beene for the rock Christ all mankind had perished and that eternally Fifthly our rock is a feeding rock to every hungry soule that comes unto him the Lord made Israel to suck honey out of the rock and oyle out of the flinty rock Verse 13. honey that is from the nests of Bees hived in the rock or else the Lord fed them with Dates from the Palme-trees which grew among the rocks and with such kind of fruits as sweet as honey and he fed them with oyle from the Olive trees thus God fed the beleeving Israelite and was willing to feed him to the full Psal 81. last and with honey out of the rock to satisfie him And how is Israel fed still but out of the rock Christ fed by the word the Gospel which is sweeter then the honey or the honey-comb fed with the graces of Gods spirit faith love evangelicall obedience as oyle from the two Olive-trees in Zacharies vision Nay more yet Zach. 4 12. John 6.55 Israel is fed with the bread of life the Lord Christ whose flesh is meat indeed and whose bloud is drink indeed Lastly our rock is a rock of ages Trust in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength Isa 26.4 or as in the Hebrew a rock of Ages all the rocks of enemies are sandy gravelly rocks soone washed away and crumbled into nothing this rock is solid and lasts to eternity and this crownes all the rest for this rock is a foundation-rock to eternity a sheltering-rock to eternity a shadowing-rock to eternity a watering-rock a feeding-rock to eternity eternity makes Heaven Heaven and the rock of Israel to be of transcendent excellency above all other rocks whatsoever Observ 5 The fifth observation is but a proofe of the fourth from the testimony of Adversaries even our enemies themselves being Judges I might make out this truth from sacred Scriptures and Ecclesiasticall Histories and tell you how after the time of primitive persecutions under the Roman Emperours Pareus in Apoc. capis 6. vers 4. God raised up Constantius who died at York Anno Dom. 310. and Constantine the great heire of his Crowne and vertues Euseb Pam. lib. 8. cap. 14. A●g de Civit. D●● A Theodocii partibus in adves●ios vehemens ventus ibat et non solum quaecunque in cos jaculabantur concitatissimèrapiebat verùm etiam ipsorum tela in corum corpora retorquchat Claudian O nimium dilecte Deo cui militat aether Et conjurati ve●iunt ad classica venti Numb 23.19 20 c. I might tell you of the thundering Legion and of Theodosius who fighting with Eugenius a mighty wind arose and beat back the darts into the enemies bosomes in whom as in many others God shewed himselfe a rock for Israel but I will content my selfe with the testimonies and open acknowledgements of adversaries which the Text points me to we find their testimony arising from severall grounds First from conviction of conscience hence what Saul said of David Thou art more righteous then I the enemies are forc'd to say of the God of David Thou art wiser then we or our Idol-gods and stronger then we or all our rocks whatsoever thus Balaam though a covetous cursed conjurer God is not a man that he should lie nor the Sonne of man that he should repent hath he said and shall he not doe it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good the Lord his God is with-him the shout of a King is among them he hath as it were the strength of an Vnicorne c. Secondly from the terrors of God upon their spirits so the Egyptians Exod. 14.25 when the Lord took off their Chariot wheeles that they drave them heavily they cried out Fugiamus 1 Sam. 4.6 7 8. fugiamus let us flee from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians So the Philistins when they heard that the Arke of the Lord was come into the Camp of Israel they were afraid for they said God is come into the Camp And they said Woe unto us And againe Woe unto us who shall deliver us out of the hands of these mighty Gods these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the Wildernesse Thirdly from their miserable experience they dash against this rock and it breaks them in peeces hence the men of Ashd●d 1 Sam. 5.7 when they saw Dagon fall before the Arke cryed out The hand of the God of Israel is sore upon us and upon Dagon our god The enemy finds that the God of Israel hath really what theirs fictitiously though woollen feet yet iron hands they feele his blowes to be waighty and terrible and thus that their rock is not as out Rock the enemies themselves are Judges * Calvin Experientia potius quam affectu judicant Junius Annot. H●c testimoniu● in controversiis bujusmodimaximt esse ut par est solct Calvin in loc Cornel. à Lap. in loc Qui poten tiam justitiamque Dei nostri prae suis Idolis experti sunt c. not from love and affection but from sense and experience yet in a controversie of this nature the testimony of an adversarie is of great strength and validity and wrests from an adverse spirit an acknowledgement of the power and justice of God above what they fancie to be in their Idols Having thus laid a Doctrinall foundation let me crave your patience to sum up all together in a joynt Application Vse 1 First what hath beene delivered may informe us First whence Israels safety ariseth in evill times from Israels standing on a rock on a high rock above all the winds and waves of boysterous and menacing calamities the perplexed enemies run as in a storme from hedge to hedge from bush to bush from friend to friend from plot to plot but the tempest beats through all and soakes in upon them but Israel then is in a state of

and no sooner hath it but is weary of it and cries as fast Away with it away with it or like the giddy Jewes shouting Hosanna Hosanna and with the same breath Crucifie him Crucifie him or like the fretfull Patient who drinks downe the Potion but when he feeles it worke doth up with it againe or as the hand that laies on the plaister because it smarts a little the same hand teares it off againe and would the unnaturall Parliament and Kingdome-deserters speak out their reason would be the enmity and the rancour of their spirits against Christ and his work of Reformation the prophane selfish people would have had mans carnall yoake taken off from their shoulders but not Christs spirituall yoake laid on longed to have the wals and houses of Jerusalem built but not the Temple the affaires of the State setled but not of the Church this Kingdoms peace and plenty they greedily desired but not the glory of Christs Kingdome and though often they patter over their Pater-Noster yet they never say in faith and truth thy Kingdome come and the cause in a word why these are so little for the Parliament is because the Parliament is so much for God for Christ his cause and people Lastly Build upon this rock for all good personall and Nationall for all evill to the enemies they shall fall Deut 32.35 build upon it to God belongeth vengeance and recompence their feet shall slide in due time for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that come upon them make hast live by faith that is a building grace lie low in humiliation selfe-judging sin-abhorring that is to build also if thou sayest I cannot beleeve cannot get into the rock yet then intreat the rock to lead thy soule unto and to set it upon the rock so David Psal 61.2 from the ends of the earth will I cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher then I. If againe thou object and say I cannot mourne for my owne sinnes much lesse for the abominations of the times Job 29.6 alluded to Jer. 23.29 yet still goe to that God who makes the rock to powre out rivers of oyle to that God whose word is a fire to melt thy heart a hammer to break that rock in peeces Again Psal 18.2 3. Matth. 7.24 build in prayer So David The Lord is my rock I will trust in him I will call upon the Lord. Yet further be single hearted in obedience that is building also yea it concerns those that have power in their hands to give out an act of obedience to God in execution of judgement upon his enemies 1 Sam. 15.22 there is a time when obedience is better then sacrifice yea obedience in putting of Agags to the sword according to Gods command * Thanksgiving for the victory obtained by the Lord Fairfax at Selby in Yorkshire Psal 106.30 yester dayes feasting was good and this dayes fasting good and let none think it bloudy divinity if I say execution of judgement is good also Phineas stood up executed judgement and so the Plague was staied Joshuah prayeth and prayeth till the eventide rents his cloaths puts dust upon his head c. But what saith the Lord to Joshuah Joshua 7.10 11 Get thee up wherefore liest thou upon thy face Israel hath sinned and they also have transgressed my Covenant which I commanded them c. Whereby God tutored Joshuah to this that the readiest way to conquer Ai was to stone Achan I know many sad thoughts concerning this lie in the spirits of beleevers and therefore wonder not though I become your remembrancer herein this day Let me beseech you the Worthies of the Nation in the bowels of Christ to goe on resolutely in the Cause of Christ true your oppositions have beene and probably will be great and many yet may you for the present set up a Marble Monument of praises and name it Eben-Ezer 1 Sam. 7.12 the stone of help and say with Samuel Hitherto hath the Lord helped us Me thinks I see you like Jonathan and his Armour-bearer 1 Sam. 14. climbing and clambring up the rocks upon your hands and upon your feet yet know your successe shall be glorious the Philistins slaine and vanquished it was a good saying that the Event of that warre cannot be dubions where the Lord of Hoasts is Generall Eraz. Mar. Deo dace non potest esse dubius belli eventus Rev. 10.5 6. c. God hath sworne the fall of Antichrist and his adherents and that with such solemnity to strengthen Faith and quicken Prayer that scarce the like in all the Scriptures The Angell that sweares is Christ his swearing gesture or posture was he stands upon the Sea and upon the Earth and lift up his hand to Heaven and whom sweares he by by Him that lives for ever and ever who created Heaven and the things that therein are and the Earth c. his Oath is by the Eternall Creator and what sweares he Par. in loc that there should be time no longer to wit that Antichrist should be ruined his adherents scattered Let my closing counsell be in the words of Jehosophat to Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem 2 Chron. 20.20 Beleeve in the Lord your God so shall yee be established beleeve his Prophets so shall yee prosper And in his words also 2 Chron. 19.11 to the Priests and Levits Deale couragiously and the Lord shall be with the good the good God with a good cause and a good people and when things are at the lowest let our faith be then at the highest triumphing over dangers and feares because their rock is not as our Rock even our enemies themselves being Judges FINIS