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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01891	The saints interest in God opened in severall sermons, preached anniversarily upon the fifth of November. By John Goodwin pastor of S. Stephens Coleman-street.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1640 (1640)	STC 12031; ESTC S117964	75,238	484

own Countrey their heavenly Canaan If the motion doe not yet relish and savour kindly with you let me season it with a few considerations and motives it may be then it will be found savoury meate unto you such as your soules will love First consider and ponder seriously with your selves the tenor and contents of the Doctrine delivered and fully established and this alone will be a pledge sufficient to warrant the counsell and advise given you to be good and wholesome These men against whom your eye is evill whose flesh you eate like bread and whose blood you drinke like sweet and pleasant Wine against whom you have suffered your selves to be provoked and inraged by the cursed and common enemy both yours theirs the devill These men I say have interest in heaven and are the Children the Sons Daughters of the Almighty they are a people confederate with the great and terrible Lord of Hosts they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they are called a peculiar People unto him or as the word signifieth they are a People more then a People as Iohn Baptist is said by our Saviour to be a Prophet yea and more then a Prophet Shall any man but such as love death and seek their owne destruction and confusion as a treasure rise up against these or offer to lay their hand upon these annointed ones Is it because there is no other way that leadeth to destruction As the People in their murmurings against Moses reasoned with him Hast thou brought us to die in the Wildernesse because there were no Graves in Aegypt meaning there was Grave-room enough in the Wildernesse but nothing else Ex. 14.11 So let me reason the case with those men that will needs magnifie thēselves as the Scriptures speake against this heritage of the Lord. Is it because they thinke no other sin no other way of wickednesse against God that will bring vengeance and damnation swift enough upon their heads unlesse they provoke him in his holy ones Know they not how to provoke the Lord to anger to purpose by striking at him in other places except they smite him in the face Nay except they levell and aime at the very apple of his eye which is the tenderest part in the face There is no Childe of God but may speake it as truly as the Wisdome or Truth of God it self doth Prov. 8.35 He that sinneth against me hurteth his owne soule and all that hate me love death they love death i. e. if death were a thing to be loved and desired men could take no way more ready and certaine to obtaine it then by hating the Wisdome and let me put in also then by hating the Children and People of God What Is that man of sin and all his confederates with him all that have been baptized in the spirit of that fornication are they afraid and of doubtfull and deliberative thoughts whether all their other sins abominations wherein notwithstanding they are mighty men like the sons of Anak of old and other sinners in the world of ordinary stature are but Grashoppers to them doe they indeed question whether all their other sins be able to bring downe that great Mountaine of their power is it made so strong that unlesse they drinke also freely of the blood of the Saints they are afraid that God otherwise should passe them over and forget them when he comes to take vengeance of the world Are they afraid they shall perish and be destroyed but after the common manner of other men and that their destruction shall not come upon them with a sufficient glory of terrour and astonishment or as Esaies expression is like a destruction from the Almighty Esay 13.6 except they make havock in the Lords heritage Doe they know that this is a sin by it selfe for the purpose that will swell and be seen in their destruction above all their other sins Doe they thinke they shall never have their cup full of the fury and indignation of the Almighty except they provoke him in his Saints Surely my Brethren the tenour and proceedings of their malice and hatred against the servants of the living God and glorious Gospell of Jesus Christ Their Faggots their Fires their Swords their Poysons their Whips their Ships their Vaults their Powder their Billets their Barres these and such like strange things and doings of theirs being interpreted in the plaine language which the Scripture speaketh are as much as to say we would not fall or be destroyed after the dull manner of other Kingdomes of the earth we would have the day of our vengeance celebrated with more solemnity of horrour we shall not be satisfied with our destruction except the powers of heaven and earth be shaken together at the terrour of it If such a desire were indeed and in truth to be found in these men and in their religion if it were a reall designe and project amongst them to procure another hell to be created for them by themselves beneath the nethermost hell that is now extant wherein they might have more cruell tormentors then devills a more horrid Lake then that which burneth with Fire and Brimstone a darknesse blacker then utter darknesse a Worme that shall gnaw with greater extremity then that which never dyeth a Fire that shall burne with more paine and torture then that which is unquenchable where weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth should be but pleasure and recreation They could not furnish themselves with any other meanes under heaven more sutable and better proportioned to bring such a thing to passe then to set themselves in that desperate and implacable manner as they doe to fall upon the rereward of the Hosts of heaven for so may the Saints on earth be well termed they are called Angels in the Revelation for that communion and fellowship they have with the Angels in fighting Christs battailes here beneath then by seeking to roote out the generation of the righteous from under heaven then by grieving and afflicting the soules that have that precious interest in God This is one consideration or motive to presse the Exhortation upon the enemy A second motive to perswade the enemies of the Church of God to stay their hands and to give over that service of the devill persecuting Saints may be this because it is a worke that never prospered in the hands of any from the beginning of the world till this day but still hath been a work like the Land of Canaan as the spies described it to the people Num. 13.32 that eates up the Inhabitants of it So this work of persecuting the Church and Children of God hath ever been a worke and imployment that hath been the ruine and destruction of the doers of it Yea the sharpest and sorest contentions that ever fell betweene heaven and earth between God and the men of this world have still risen about injuries and violence offered to his Church This apple of Gods