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enemy_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	3,363	5	9.9017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01816	A sermon preached by Master Michael Bruice, in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, the immediate sabbath after he received his sentence of exile for Virginia.	Bruce, Michael, 1634 or 5-1693.	1668 (1668)	Wing B5220A; ESTC R173193	13,997	16

be troublesome on the Stomack of some of our Malignants in Scotland it'l make unrest when they think it to be disjeasted there is some sort of Meat though folk would fain eat it yet it will not disjeast on their Stomack but it comes up and gars them wirry them but shall not go down for a broken Covenant will plead with such vengeance that they shall not answer the arguments of it There is a second way that he maintains the Cause when poor bodies is laid by and that is by borrowing a yocking of some enemies Plough for plowing a yocking in persecutors Land to give the people of God breathing time and leasure to get their plough yocked so God borrowes a yocking of the Philistines plough to Till a Rigg in Saul's Lund when he was pursuing David while David got his Plough yocked there was nothing betwixt David and him but he 's e'n coming pursuing him down the one side of the Hill and David is going up the other well the Lord sends one to Saul to cry to him the Philistines is come in upon thy borders and leaves off from pursuing David and that was a yocking to Saul while David was made ready for him who wots but God may borrow a yocking of some enemies Plough to give Persecutors yet a yocking while the people of God get their Cords fixed A third way how he maintains the Cause sometimes and that is by making Religion take a grip of the hearts of some of the enemies that has been the Ring-leaders of the Persecutors of the Kirk and People of God and then there will be rest in the Church and People walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost in that 9 Acts Saul a Persecutor and Ring-leader of Persecution Religion grip'd him at the heart And then in the 31. There was rest throughout all the Church walking in fear of the Lord and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost Is not that a brave way of maintaining of the Cause that the persecuted Cause shall take some great men be the heart and then there shall be rest in all the Churches walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost There is a fourth way that he maintains the Cause and it is this That be his Peoples Cause what will they shall be honourably dealt with and honourably carried through by him and there shall be nothing wanting whan they 'r put to sufferings to bear their expences for the honour of the Cause but it shall be a gracious Cause by their great expence in suffering this is clear in the 11 of the Revelations There the witnesses are slain and their Bodies left on the Ground unburied Well within three days and a half they rise again and are carried into Heaven and their being carried into Heaven is a greater terror to Enemies then all they did among them Our Master has so honourly born his peoples Expences that he has made the Cause more glorious than all the actings and many a time has his People had that to crack of the more they were persecuted the more they sang who would have thought but a Prison and a sore Skin would have gart folk forget singing and yet they never sang sweeter nor then some says if they were in Prison two or three days they would be carried out in Biers some says if they were in Prison they would forget singing there shall neither Prisons nor sore Skins keep me from singing II sing as well in Prison as in a Palace and our singing in Prison and Bonds shall be for the credit of our Cause as well as preaching at liberty Poor Paul and Barnabas when they got many Stripes and were easten in Prison

they shall think no shame to praise their Master for what they have the Recept of A third piece of Anchorage for a Christian to fix on is this The Righteous shall dwell in thy presence I will not say but ye may have hard Battering if ye be Upright but in Gods presence shall be Lodging The men of the World sayes they 'l gar us take up our Lodging in Virginia to learn us to be more Loyal They may do so but they 'l get no thanks for their pains But I 'l tell you News if we be Upright the presence of God shall be our Lodging Lodge where we will and think ye not but I may Lodge there and have a Brave Life of it where I Quarter and get my Boarding Born me and where I 'l Quarter and pay no House Male where I 'l Quarter in good Company O then Sweet and Heartsome will my House Quarters be But I may not stand on preferring really all these words drops sweetness as the Honey and the Honey Comb if I had the Faith of these three on my Spirit I would go though all the world comforted First The Faith of this that the Cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor God will maintain Secondly The Faith of this that I and others should have ground and reason to thank him yet for that 's com'd and gone Thirdly That I and these others should be Upright and so should dwell in his presence if I had these three Purse-pennies I would think nothing to go through all the world with them I shall now give you one Lesson from the Connection and then come to the words more particularly O! but you may see David here is much busied in this Psalm about his enemies that layes Grins and Snares for him therefore he 's in great hazard to be taken with some of these and yet ye see how he comes and setles himself in the midst of all these waters and waves Now the Observation is this that many times the people of God may be haden in hot water with enemies and meet with much to sling from them and yet may win to Anchor and stay in the midst of them Here are four things in Persecutors that troubles the people of God very much First The persons of the Persecutors that some times have been supposed to have been Friends and no Enemies and to them to be Persecuted by supposed Friends there is a great business If it had been an enemy sayes David in the 95 Psalm that had done this I would have known what to have done but it is a Brother that hath done it what shall be said of that If it had been Heathens or Pagons or precis'd Papists that had so Persecuted us we would have kn●●n what to have done better but is our Brethren Bastards as they are not Strangers and Foraigners that so guids us but our own Rulers that should have been our Nursing Fathers Cruel and Unhumain as they are and it is those whose words are as Butter many that put the people of God to an Non-plus well Then since it is so that they have a Sword in their heart but speaks as their mouth were full of Butter David says the stress of this over upon God that he would keep him from them A second thing in Persecutors that is very tossing to the people of God and holds them oft times in hot water is the Grins and Snares that they lay for them and poor bodies can never tell where the lye and if we look not well about us our Feet will be in some Cord or Grin or ever we wot of our selves A third thing in Persecutors that troubles the people of God very much is the Language of Persecutors it 's as a Sword in their Bowels while the enemies say continually where is their God I rather byd Execution or Martyrdom sayes the poor man or I byd their Language it 's a Sword always in my Bones while they say continually where is there God A fourth thing in Enemies that tosses and troubles the people of God very much is their Cruelty they 'l never neither let them get Nights rest nor Days rest whill they apprehend them and till they deal Inhumainly with them in Executing them and dealing worse then Heathens or Pagons would deal with them Now notwithstanding of all this tossing of David with Enemies yet he comes to an Anchorage and there he fixes he comes to a point and there he fixes Now there are six points that a Christian may win to in the midst of all his tossings with enemies Have any of you win to all these six points ye Prisoners Fix your selves Sirs for the Lord knows what battering we may meeet with or all the business end The first point that a Christian may win to in the midst of all his tossings ye may take it out of the 6 v. of this Psalm I said unto the Lord thou art my God Go the world as it will I have a standing Interest in God and I 'l fix there and byd there for they call this the main Chance therefore fix there for it 's the main business and sicker what ye will if the main Chance be not sickered I 'l not give a Gray Groat for you and your Religion both if ye be not well Anchored here it matters not what ye be Anchored on The second point that a Christian may win to in the midst of all his tossings and that is in the 27 Psalm at the 4 v. One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life and go where I will poor ordinance shall ay be best to me I shall never cast out with them be in what Countrey I will go to what Countrey I will poor and pure ordinance shall be my pursuit go where I will I 'l never desire to live without poor Ordinances there I fix and go where I will the Ordinances of God of thee O Scotland shall never go out of my mind O broken down well of the Daughter of Zion in thee O Scotland for thee shall mine eyes trinkle down if I forget thee O Jerusalem then let my Tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth The third point that poor men may win to when they are sore tossed with enemies and ye may take it out of the 4 of the Acts 27 and 28 v. There sayes the Apostle Herod and Pontius Pilate and the Jews are gathered together against thy holy child Jesus I wot well then that will be a black Councel then I wot well they will exceed bounds when all the enemies are together no they 'l do but to the holy Child Jesus what ever thy hand and counsel hath foreordained to be done here they stand poor folk they can win no farther nor thy allowance We are ay flitting and flowing in our Thoughts about what enemies will do but let