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A77480	Satan the leader in chief to all who resist the reparation of Sion. As it was cleared in a sermon to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Febr. 28. 1643. By Robert Baylie, minister at Glasgow. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B468; Thomason E35_17; ESTC R209954	47,169	63

faith will quickly correct sence and make us subjoyn it is good for a man to have hope and quietly to wait for salvation of the Lord Psal 68.13 and when we are lying among the Pots to wait for the time when we shall be as the Wings of the Dove covered with silver and her Feathers with yellow gold Secondly The tenth Consider the exceeding great terrour of God when he is angry his wrath burneth like fire It maketh the green tree to be like a burnt stick what will it do to the dry It maketh the most godly to become like a bottle in the smoak Psal 119.83 Psal 22.15 Psal 32 4. It dryeth up their strength like a Potsheard It turneth their moisture into the draught of Summer knowing the terrour of the Lord be perswaded to make peace with him in time venture not on his hot displeasure The tasting of the forbidden Aple will cost thee wonderfull dear Though which yet in the act of sin without madnesse cannot be supposed thou should be certain to escape Hell Thirdly The eleventh The Church here is a Brand pulled out of the fire a fire-brand to burn her enemies to Ashes it is exceeding unhappy to be an instrument of the Churches trouble Though God be angry with his people and he be very just in casting them in the fiery Furnace of his wrath yet woe to all these who are Bellows or Fewell to that fire who do vex the Church in any way Our Prophet Zachary in his twelfth Chapter sheweth That to all these who had taken up Jerusalem and the people of God to cast them away from their habitation as a stone out of a sling To all these Joh. 12.3 I say Jerusalem became a heavy and a burdensome stone to cut and to crush them in pieces Her Neighbours thought to have swallowed her down quick and to have drunk her off as a potion of sweet Wine but she becometh to them a Cup of trembling Zach. 12.2 a draught of poyson which maketh them tremble stagger and fall without rising and which is the Metaphor of our Text The people of God become a torch of fire in a Sheaff Zach. 12.6 to devour all their enemies round about on the right hand and on the left Nebuchad-nezzars Image when the little stone did fall upon its feet was not onely broken all to pieces Dan. 2.25 but also made like the chaff and was carryed away so violently by the winde that no place was found for any part thereof All the persecuters of the Saints have miscarryed for this cause above any other The greatest Monarchies and Kingdoms that have been upon the earth are vanished and no re-likes of them appear this day None who are wise will touch the people of the Lord for they are the apple of Gods eye the hurt whereof he cannot but avenge It is extreme dangerous to be employed by God himself in the chastising of his children for usually when the Lord returneth in mercy to embrace his chastised childe the rods of his anger and staves of his indignation are cast in the fire Isai 10.5.16 17. till they be burnt to ashes Lastly consider the mercifull reasoning of the Angel The last Jerusalem is a brand well-near consumed in the fire of Gods wrath and therefore ought to be pitied and freed from further trouble How extremely contrary is this to Satans logick and his instruments conclusions they adde affliction to the most afflicted they presse most the godly when they finde them weakest and on the brink of ruine we have their language in the 71 Psa 11. God hath forsaken him persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him Psal 83 4. It is then when they say Come and let us eut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel be no more in remembrance Long sufferings and extreme misery are to Satan and wicked men provocations of further persecution but to God they be arguments of favour and deliverance Hence it is that the godly lay out before the face of God in their mourning their sufferings to the full as most pregnant incitements to compassion Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me Lam. 1.12 wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger Dan 9.12 under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem The Lord alloweth us to spread out before him all the matter of our present grief and of our future fears hereby as it were to stir up the compassionate bowells of his mercy We would be crying to him not onely to pull the tree of our Church and State out of that fire which hath already burnt up very many Branches and is like if not quickly quenched to go to the very Root but further we would be earnest for that burnt stick when it is pull'd out of the flame that the dews of heaven and the Sun-shine of divine favour may fall so plentifully upon it that it may yet again flourish and bring forth fruits better and more aboundant then ever and it may become a pleasant and fruitfull Vine under whose shadow we all may lie down in peace enjoying the blessings of God and singing with a loud voyce his praises for our deliverance from all our present afflictions FINIS