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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02297	A comforting farewel-word, to the Lords trembling-hearted peoples, at the removal of the cloud of His glory from the sanctuary, applyed as a present cordiall, against their heart-faintings.		1664 (1664)	Wing C5538A; ESTC R174126	27,781	60

and come up upon my neck he hath made my strength to fail the Lord hath delivered me into their hands from whom I am not able to rise up Yea although Zion should be made to spread forth her hands Ver. 17. and say Now have I none to comfort me for the Lord hath commanded concerning his people that their enemies should be round about them Yet even then have they reason to rejoice in the Lord yea howbeit that also be enrolled amongst their bitter Lamentations which the Church hath Lament 2. 5. and Ver. 7 8. where sorrowful Zion bemoaneth thus The Lord hath encreased in the Daughters of Judah mourning and lamentation and hath violently taken away his Tabernacle and made his Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion for he hath cast off his Altar and abhorred his Sanctuary Yea and howbeit she concludes Ver. 8. That the Lord hath purposed in his heart to destroy the wall or defence of the Daughter of Zion having covered her with a cloud in his anger Ver. 2. Which may cause pain in her inward parts making her cry out as one that is far spent in a deadly Consumption Mine eyes fail with tears my bones are troubled my liver is powred out upon the Earth for the destruction of the Daughter of my people Yea though she be necessitated Chap. 5. 9. to seek her bread with the peril of her life because of the sword of the wilderness And the Women and Maids are ravished in the Cities of Judah Which is not one of the smallest miseries accompanying a lot of persecution Yea howbeit Her Princes be hanged up by the hands of her Enemies Chap. 5. 12. So that it would seem that all hope were gone yet among all these anxious perplexities she may conclude Chap. 3. 24. The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him For it is good that a man even in such a sad perplexed condition both hope trust and quietly wait for the salvation of his God For though he be a little angry and therefore causeth grief Ver. 31 32. Yet will he have compassion according to the muititude of his mercies It is fabled of a kind of Sea Creatures that when the weather is fair they weep because that after a blink there will be a storm but rejoyce when it is tempestuous because that after such sowr blasts there will be a fair day I shall not say what truth is in this Fable yet it hath a good morality to the people of God For howbeit they may have a whole night of weeping though manifold afflictions yet joy cometh to them in the morning And howbeit they may carry out the precious seed of their supplications mourningly yet shall they return rejoycing bearing the precious sheaves of the return of their supplications with them So that they have reason when among the most tempestuous and tossing waves of manifold tribulations to rejoyce and have most solid ground of gladness of heart even when their affliction is most bitter We need no further proof of this than the words which now we have read unto you The Disciples of Christ were in most sad afflictions and had great sorrow of heart and no wonder for their dear Lord was to be taken from them and slain yet even in that non-such condition of sorrow did the Lord propose this ground of encouragement to them What sadder and more bitter case could they be in than this their dear Master was to be murthered and slain and the hour was very near which heightned their sorrow and bitterness yet the Lord doth encourage them against that non-such affliction Ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce I shall give you a short hint of the meaning of the words and so draw forth the particulars therein contained whence we shall draw some points of Doctrine Explication Ye now therefore have sorrow This therefore hath a particular reference to what he had spoken concerning his approaching sufferings and departure but especially they are to be referred to vers 22. where he sets down their condition by way of similitude taken from the sore pains of a woman in Travail when her hour is come she hath then more sorrow and bitterness than formerly because the hour of her Pains and sore Labour is come and this is your condition I have told you that I am now shortly to suffer and that this night I am to be taken from you and because this is the time wherein we must part my Caption and Death being near therefore now ye have great sorrow Yet be not too Sore cast down and Disconsolate for I will see you again neither the Cross the Grave the Tomb-stone laid upon me the Guards and Bands of men nor your Scattering and Banishment shall keep us at distance we will meet again for I 'le rise from the Dead and we shall see one another which shall bring great matter of joy unto you your Heart shall rejoyce your now discouraged hearts shall then dance and leap for joy within you When I shall see you again your heart shall beat within you for joy and gladness when you shall see so unlike and so unprobable a Resurrection these discouraged fainting hearts of yours shall then be swallowed up and filled with exceeding great surprizing overcoming and uncredible joy Now for the division of the words you see that the whole verse contains first the sad case of Christs Disciples because that now the hour was come wherein he was to be taken from them in this phrase Ye now therefore have sorrow Secondly there is the Encouragement Christ gives them against their Heart-fainting and sorrow of Soul viz. the assurance of his return unto them and the great joy of heart they then should have all which joy ye have in this phrase But I will see you again and your Heart shall rejoye VVe had occasion the last Lords day in another Congregation in this City to speak somewhat from the first part of the verse and entred also to speak upon the encouragement given to them by Christ and we shall not at present speak of any thing which we then touched save in so farr as may lead us to that which we are now to speak unto you and this being your present condition with all the sorrowfull people of God we shall touch the same a little at present The first thing we noted was from Christs distinct up-taking of their case comparing it with verse 5 6. where they were so damped with sorrow that they could not inquire where he was going yet both there and here he did take up their case distinctly whence we observed 1. Obs That Jesus Christ is more distinct in taking up the perplexed condition of his discouraged people than they themselves can be And this we noted for the encouragement of such of the Lords people as are often-times so filled with perplexities that they neither know where to find

A COMFORTING Farewel-Word TO THE LORDS Trembling-Hearted People AT THE Removal of the Cloud of his Glory from the Sanctuary applyed as a present Cordiall against their heart saintings Act. 14. 22. We must thorow much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God Zach. 14. 7. It shall come to passe that at the evening time it shall be light Zach. 8. 6 If it be marvelous in the eyes of this People in these Dayes should it be also marvelous in mine eye saith the Lord of Hosts Printed in the Year 1664. TO THE READER WHen the Children of Israel departed out of Egypt they met with many sad difficulties in their way before they entered into the land of Canaan they had the Red Sea before them the Armies of the Egyptians behind and Rocks upon every hand thus they were in very evil case and when the Lord had manifested his power and goodness in pathing a way for them on the face of the deeps so that his Redeemed did walk thorow as upon dry land even then their troubles were not ended for their faith had great tryals in the Wilderness where they wandered fourty years sometimes fleeing before her enemies sometimes wanting Water sometimes hungry sometimes sting'd with Serpents yea and that after they were at the very border of the land of Promise so that they met with many afflicting dispensations in their way yea and at last there is a raging Jordan when they are at the very entry into that Land wherein they were to rest And it s very clear that Egypt was a Figure of that spiritual bondage wherein we are by nature under the oppression of the great Pharaoh Satan and sin whereunto even the Elect are servants before Conversion and the place whereunto they went viz. Canaan which was a type of Heaven whereunto Believers do go and wherein they are to rest and therefore by the long wearisome journey thorow the wast bowling Wilderness and the many difficulties wherewith they did meet in their march to Canaan must shadow forth these many sad and afflicting dispensations and disappointments wherewith Believers are exercise from the day of their conversion from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God till the day of their passing from the miseries of time and entering into that glorious and blessed Rest that waiteth for the people of God Heb. 4. whereof Canaan was but a figure And as tossed Israel attained to that rest thorow the goodness of God sending the pillar of the cloud to direct them by day and the pillar of fire to lead them in the dark night and inclining them to follow the same so also shall Believers come to that blessed Rest thorow the goodness of our God who sendeth these two precious pillars of his word and providence between which there is so sweet a concord and so pleasant a harmony to direct our way Canaan is before us therefore we ought not to be weary though we be sometimes walking in the deep and miry Clay the rest that is before us will sufficiently make up all our losses and pains in walking thither therefore let us not give way to sinkings of bea rt which may occasion wearying in the way its good taking a view of the land that is afar off that so by looking beyond the things that are seen being temporal unto the things that are not seen being spiritual and eternal we may esteem our afflictions light and of short continuance being delighted with the forehand conceptions of that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory and may be encouraged thereby to indure unto the end and be saved surely there 's good ground so to do seeing that there can no sader dispensation befall the Church then that wch the cloud of witnesses have travelled thorow Heb. 11. and we are commanded to walk by the foot steps of the flock in dayes of tribulation and astonishment and it is most safe for us so to do and to make our blessed Lord Jesus our hiding place from the wind storm rain and tempest Isa 32. 2. for he hath a real fellow feeling and simpathy with his people and hath learned from his own bitter sufferings to succour them that are tempted Heb. 2. 18. and also there is some comfortable dispensations also wherewith the Lord refresheth weary Israel there 's a path thorow the Red Sea there 's a brasen Serpent to cure the stings of the fiery Serpent in the Desart there 's an Elim as well as a Marah Numb 33. 9. where are twelve fountaines of Water and threescore and ten Palm Trees where weary Israel may be refreshed the Lord dealeth not with his people as if they were briers and thornes ranked in his way Isa 27. 4. but as with his Vineyard Vers 8. contending in measure there for removeing corrupt buddings forth staying his North wind in the day of his East wind some breathings he giveth his people some fair blinks after tempestuous storms so much the Scripture alloweth his people to look for and that which followeth doth tend somewhat to the encouragement of the Lords people to look for his goodness as to this in the land of the living Times and seasons are known to our God and we are only to look to his word as our rule and to admit of no comfort nor comforter but is according unto this unerring rule viz. the Scriptures This Sermon going abroad thorow many hands cannot be expected to be so full as it hath been at the first yet nothing is rendered here but what was then delivered there may also be found divers Erratas and possibly some Tautologies which may be easily helped if the Author shall upon notice or sight hereof be perswaded to revise it himself in the mean time let the Discreet Reader amend or candidly passe over what he finds not so distinct nor sounding so well as in another case might be expected Farewell A Comforting Farewell Word to the Lords Trembling Hearted People at the removal of the Cloud of his Glory from the Sanctuary as a present Cordial against their Heart-faintings Text JOHN 16. 22. But I will see you again and your Heart shall rejoyce OF all the people that are in the VVorld the people of the Lord who have dedicated and given away themselves to him have most yea and only reasons to be joyfull in their blessed King and there are none that have solid ground of consolation but they alone for albeit they have their times of heaviness when need requires they and only they have also that which may hear up their spirits under the heavy pressures of such sad and bitter Dispensations and howbeit their lot may be to fit low for a time and with the Church Lamen 1. 13. to interline this melancholious meditation among the rest of their sad Complaints From above hath he sent a fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them The yoak of my transgressions is bound by his hand they are wreathed