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A89195	The churches troubles and deliverance, or, Certaine sermons tending to shew the reasons why the Lord doth sometimes bring his people into extremities, with the blessed issue and fruits thereof, on Gen. 22. 14. Also divers arguments giving good hope that yet God will be gracious to England, and not deliver us into our enemies hands. Also some things briefly on Rev. 11. 7. to 14. Bby Tho. Mocket, Mr. of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at Holt in Denbigh-shire.	Mocket, Thomas, 1602-1670?	1642 (1642)	Wing M2305; Thomason E110_18; ESTC R19617	74,158	93

though used as rogues whipped went away from the counsell Act. 5.4 reioycing that they were worthy to suffer shame for l●● Name not because they were worthy to suffer but becauss marke it they were counted worthy to suffer It was a great honour for them to suff●r for the Lord Jesus and in his cause It is an honour to God they honour him by suffering in his cause and for his sake and they that honour him he will honour and have others honour them Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladnesse saith the Apostle and have such in reputation 1 Sam 2.30 Phil. 2.29 30. the reason because for the worke of Christ he was neare unto death So God will honour them hereafter If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him Rom. 8.17 Rev. 3 4. 6.11 They shall walke with me in white saith Christ for they are worthy They shall have long white roabes given them i. e an honourable name as some doe expound it and not amisse So that God hath his speciall honour and dignity for such Here Abrahams faith and obedience is recorded to his everlasting praise Therefore our Saviour pronounceth such blessed Luk 6 22 23. Mat. 5.11 12. Blessed are you when men shall hate you and you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you falsly for my Name sake Reioyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven Lastly by way of motive consider the blessed fruit and issue of all afflictions troubles and tryals to the godly here and hereafter how great and grievous soever they be for the present 1. All sufferings and tryals make way for a greater good to humble his people make them more fit for mercy to manifest their sincerity and the strength of their graces to themselves and the world to increase and brighten their graces and consequently their comforts to purge out sinne and corruption and make them more pure and precious like the refined gold to wean them from the world Iob 23.10 make them more heavenly minded c. Also the afflictions and troubles of the Church as now in Germany in Ireland and in England tend to fit them for greater mercy for Christs government and Ordinances in a more excellent manner I trust then ever we yet enjoyed them also to purge and cleanse his Church I dare confidently affirme it That Reformation should never have been raised up to that blessed and desired hight which in all probability it is likely through Gods goodnesse to come unto had not the malignant enemies of the Church the Papists and the Prelates and popish Party their Abettors been so busie against the Church Christs people Ordinances and power of godlinesse as they have been and daily are Blessed be God that doth and will bring good out of evill light out of darknesse and turnes the counsels of Achitophels into foolishnesse and mischievous plots of wicked Hamans to their own hurt and his peoples good and makes the rage of men turne to his glory This beleeve wait pray and praise God for 2. The troubles and tryals of the faithfull will likewise make much for our future good both in point of honour as hath bin shewed and of benefit it will bring glory especially suffering for righteousnesse sake and the truths sake Rom. 8.17 2 Tim. 2.18 2 Cor. 4.17 If we suffer with him sayes the Apostle we shall also be glorified with him Againe This light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a for more exceeding and eternall weight of glory The affliction is but short and light but the reward is exceeding great and lasting no lesse then glory which is the highest pitch of all honour and felicity Here is glory and more a weight of glory and if there were but an equall weight of glory to suffering the difference would be exceeding great seeing as one dram of gold is more worth then many pounds of lead so here where there is if I may so say a pound of glory for a pound of suffering yea exceeding much more marke the words a far more exceeding weight of glory the Originall is exceeding full and expressive and which maketh all compleate it is eternall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 excel●enter excellent●● gloriae Pondus Beza This was it that did encourage the Martyrs most willingly to goe to the prison to the stake the Christians to cry out to the persecutors of their brethren when they carried them to the prison to the stake and places of suffering Sum ●go Christianus I also am a Christian even longing to suffer with them and some have wept much because through a mistake they have been sent backe againe from the stake to the prison or kept from suffering We glory in tribulation sayes the Apostle This was it that made Moses when he came to yeares Rom. 5.3 refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season esteeming there proach of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt and the faithfull Jewes to suffer the spoyling of their goods with ioy 〈◊〉 10.34 And the Lord Christ himselfe for the ioy that was set before him endered the crosse 〈◊〉 122. and despised the shame Let us consider those things to stay our hearts make us patient and with cheerfulnesse and courage to hold up our heads in the evill day All which may afford comfort to the people of God it is the Scripture phrase Heb. 11 25. in the midst of all their sufferings when they consider the blessed ends fruits and effects of afflictions and tryals sanctified as they are to all the faithfull so farre are afflictions and sefferings even the most grievous tryals from being a signe of Gods wrath and an Argument that they are none of his because they suffer such things that it is rather an Argument of Gods speciall favour and love towards them It was so with Abraham here Jacob Job David Paul and others and with the Church of God in Egypt in the Wildernesse in the land of Canaan in the time of the Judges and of the Kings notwithstanding all their sufferings yet were they still Gods peculiar people and so it was with the Apostles and primitive Christians and so along up hitherto Yea this very thing to have bitter adversaries for righteousnesse sake and Religion sake and to have troubles and tryals in the world is an evident Argument of Gods speciall favour to such Be in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition 〈◊〉 1.28 but to you of salvation That the spirit and rage of Devils and wicked men is bent against none so much as against the Church and godly in it Luk. 21 1● 13. and most against the most eminent of them They shall lay their hands on you said

meet with troubles in this world in respect of our malignant enemies even all the troubles they can procure Thirdly In respect of the place where wee live likened to a Wildernesse to a Sea As it was with Israel when they went out of Aegypt to Canaan they went through the Wildernesse So must the faithfull Israel of God doe now to goe to Heaven passe through the Wildernesse of this world Now in a Wildernesse there are Bryars and Thornes Wolves Beares Lyons Serpents c. and it is not strange for the honest Traveller to meet with such creatures there even so the godly meet with such kind of men in this world who are ever and anon ready to vex trouble and devoure them David saith My soule dwelleth among Lyons Ps 57.4 22.21 Wicked men are in the sacred Scriptures likened to and called Lyons Doggs Wolves Vipers Serpents and almost all manner of savage beasts because they have the like evill dispositions and doe like actions and the godly are compared to Lambes Doves Sheepe and other such like harmlesse profitable creatures no marvell then if the godly be assaulted and put hard to it many times by evill men The world is also likened to a Sea and we sayle as it were in the barke of our fraile bodies now what is more usuall then to have windes and stormes at Sea to be tossed to and fro to meet with foule weather to heare the waves roare and rage and dash into the ship also sometimes to light on the rocks yea to suffer shipwrack on the rocks and dangerous sands So if as we sayle in the barke of our fraile bodie towards Heaven the windes blow and stormes arise ready to sinke our ship or split her on the rockes is it any new or strange thing that wee should be much moved at it It is therefore a point of wisedome to prepare for and patiently undergoe what cannot be avoided many Heathens have on this consideration undergone much and why should not Christians much more make a vertue of necessity 4. Consider the nature of these troubles they are light and short 1. Light 2 Cor. 4 17 Take them at the worst they are but light afflictions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 light in comparison of what we deserve and what our Saviour suffer'd for us and what wicked men must for ever suffer in hell and light also in that they doe but touch the body they cannot properly pierce into the soule so as to destroy it they hurt but the outward m●n and wound that at most and worst they can doe they may annoy yet they doe not destroy the soule prejudice it 's eternall welfare but wicked mens troubles many times wound the soule pierce into the very soule and destroy that and though they be free from bodily troubles yet they have crazy consciences which sometimes wound them sore and a wounded spirit who can beare Rom. 8.28 Pro. 18.14 or what can it beare as the Originall hath it So long as the spirit is sound conscience cleare and good it will sustaine it's infirmity i e. whatsoever outward trouble may befall as a sound shoulder will beare a great weight with else and pleasure whereas a broken bruised or dis-joynted shoulder will cry out and shrinke under every little thing All the daies of the afflicted are evill but he that is of a merry heart hath a continuall Feast A cleare and sound conscience is as a Feast in the middest of all outward troubles yea and better then a Feast for it is continuall The truth is it is guiltinesse of conscience that makes afflictions heavy to a sound and good conscience great afflictions and tryals many times seeme as nothing and are undergone with a great deale of cheerfulnesse and courage but when God plagues a wicked man if conscience be not seared or a sleep or benummed he hath a double burden to beare the weight of affliction and a guilty conscience which is most grievous 2. As they are Light so also short and momentary The rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous Ps 125.3 This light affliction saies the Apostle which place also clearly proves the former branch which is but for a moment The originall differs some thing in words from our translation but nothing from the true sense and meaning 2 Cor 4 17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I●● 54 7. Rom. 8.18 For a small moment have J forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee saith the Lord to Israel The troubles of the godly are indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sufferings yet they are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sufferings of this present time saith the Apostle to the Romans So that these afflictions though they may be sharpe yet they are but short and if they continue to the uttermost they possibly c●n doe it is but till death they end with death There the wicked cease from troubling Job 3.17 18 19. and there the weary be at rest there the prisoners rest together they heare not the voyce of the Oppressour The small and the great are there and the Servant is free from his Master said Job long agoe Death though it doe indeed begin the wicked mans misery yet it puts an end to all the godly mans suffering they end with his life and doe increase his glory makes Heaven more sweet and welcome Our bodies are but earthly Tabernacles now a Tabernacle if generally yet it cannot last long but if furious windes and stormes blow it will quickly fall and so it is with our bodies The afflictions and troubles of this world are visible seene on the body estate c. therefore not to be regarded because temporall but the things which are not seene are eternall 2 Cor. 4 18. Therefore saith the Apostle Let them that weepe be as though they wept not but things that are invisible are to be regarded 1 Cor. 7.30 and seriously thought on the wrath of God the pains of hell so Heaven l●fe and glory are eternall these we should much thinke of and labour to live accordingly 5. Consider this also that it is a great honour to suffer for righteousness to be singled out to be the Lords Champion to shew forth Gods wisdome power and goodnesse in his servants All the Saints have not the honour to be singled out with Abraham that the world may see the truth and strength of their faith patience love to God c. Gal 6 17. To beare the markes of the Lord Jesus is a singular priviledge the Apostle himselfe boasts of it as a speciall honour to him Gal. 6. To you it is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but also to suffer for his sake saith Paul All his people are tryed and suffer more or lesse but not very many are singled out to be the Lords champions as was Abraham Job the Martyrs and some others therefore the Apostles

good meanes to cure a man of love of the world sicknesse poverty persecution and other great troubles make men weary of their lives Elias when he fled from the wrath of Jezabel and Ahab 1 〈◊〉 19 4. he sate under a Ju●iper tree and requested for himselfe that he might dye not a word of dying before hee was brought into this great strait that he must either fly for his life or dye by the hand of wicked Iezabel This made Paul desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ that he was then in bloody Nero his prison though that was not the sole cause of that his desire If we had all things here at will wee should with Peter desire to build Tabernacles and abide here but afflictions and troubles especially great ones make us weary of the world like as wormewood on the mothers brest doth imbitter it and makes the child out of love with the brest So afflictions and troubles doe imbi t●r our worldly comforts make us weary of the world out of love with it and to aspire and long after Heaven And both these tend much to draw his people to trust in him and so to rely and bottome themselves upon him as to commit themselves to him to roule themselves and leane upon him alone When a man is come so fa●te into such an extremity that all outward helpe and meanes faile him and there is none to rely upon but God that either be must cast himselfe wholy upon God or perish be undone if God helpe him not he is undone he hath no hope elswhere it will drive him to roule himselfe and rely upon God if there be any faith and hope in him that God can and will helpe as a man shipwrackt at Sea when hee sees there is no other way to be saved but such a rocke or planke Heb. 11.17 18 19. then he casteth himselfe on that and resolves to rest thereon Here Abraham was brought to a very great strait he cast himselfe on God he beleeved that God was able to raise up his some again from the dead and therefore hee cast himselfe upon God So it wrought with Paul and others they received the sentence of death in themselves i. e. saw no way or meanes of life all hope from outward meanes failed and therefore they cast themselves wholy on God heare his words 2 Cor. 1.9 10. We received the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God which raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death It was a great extremity Paul and the rest were brought into Act. 27. Act. 27.20 No small tempest lay on us saith the Apostle all hope that we should he saved was taken away See how this drove him to trust in God v. 25. Sirs be of good cheare I beleeve God c. When the storme was exceeding great the Ship split and all failed nothing but the waves or peeces of plankes yet then he cast and committed himselfe to God yea then he must doe it or perish no hope no helpe any other way Thus the Lord would have his people to trust in him and rely upon him alone and this is a speciall meanes to drive men to it to unbottome them of the creature necessity is a good argument and it is well if any thing will make a man truly and sincerely to cast himselfe on God 12. Sometimes againe The Lord brings his people into troubles to make his Word and Promises sweeter unto them and all his mercies to relish better When a man is tossed to and fro and wearied with beating his braines and endeavouring by all wayes and meanes yet in vaine and as it were against the streame and wind ô how welcome then will a promise be to such a soule Ps 110.50 Contraria juxtase posita magis cluceseunt how sweet will the word to be to him that finds no helpe no comfort in any outward thin●● This said David is my comfort in mine affliction thy word hath quickned me put life into his drooping dying soule Every mercy is sweet to a gracious heart but in case of extremity it is most sweet contraries doe best discover one another the bitterer the affliction is here the more grievous the trouble the sweeter will the word be to a gracious heart as every thing is sweet to an hungry soule Also troubles bitter afflictions will sweeten glory they put a kind of excellency and eminency on Heaven and glory it selfe and make it more sweet and glorious Great afflictions and troubles here make Heaven if I may so say more heavenly the haven is most pleasing to a weather-beaten Mariner sweet after bitter health after sicknesse ease after paine meat after hunger the triumph after a sharpe battell so troubles here on Earth doe after a sort swee●en the life to come and make it more excellent and soul-ravishing 13. The Lord dealeth thus with his people to increase thankfullnesse in them for mercies When he comes in the very necke of time at the last pinch when all outward helpes and hopes faile then mercy will be welcome indeed and thankfully received Here when it was come to the uttermost Abrahams hand was lifted up to slay his sonne then comes a dispensation from God which much affected Abraham therefore he presently as it were erects a monument with this inscription In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seene and called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh i. e. the Lord will see or provide So in Hesters time when things were brought to a great height Hest c. 4. 9. a desperate pinch then God workes their deliverance and they were much affected with it when a man is brought to extremity then mercy affects much and accordingly the heart is inlarged in thankfulnesse The more bitter the affliction is and the greater the extremity the more welcome and thanks-worthy mercy and deliverance will be A hungry beggar will be thankfull for every small matter and course almes but he that is full is ready to slight every thing A full stomacke loaths the hony-combe Pro. 27.7 sayes Salomon 14. Lastly the Lord suffers the enemies of his people to prevaile and bring his people to an extremity that he may have occasion to manifest his glorious Power Wisdome and Justice also 1. His Power Wisdome and Goodnesse in the manifest support of his people in their troubles holding them up as it were by the chinne in the midst of the waters that they sinke not So Gods admirable power and goodnesse did appeare in making the Arke to float safe upon the waters the bush to burne and not be consumed the Church to be brought into great straites sometimes to the utter most extremity and yet not be quite dissolved and perish likewise preserving Daniel in the Lyons den the three children in the fiery furnace Jonas in the Whales belly Likewise in delivering them cut of extremities that

what they should meet with in the way to Heaven and prepare for the worst Quest. You will say what is to be done that we may be prepared for troubles that whatsoever troubles may befall us we may be able with comfort to undergoe them Answ 1. First and above all get God to be thy friend Directions Rom 8 31. Isa 54.17 to be reconciled unto him and have interest in him For if God be with us saith the Apostle who can be against us what enemy what weapon can prevaile If a man be brought into the Mount into never so great troubles to the uttermost extremity that all meanes helps and hopes in the world faile him yet if he have assurance of Gods love and favour who is all sufficient and all i● all all outward troubles and wants will seem little or nothing to him Therefore here Abraham went as willingly into the Mount and did undergoe this great tryall with as composed and cheerfull a spirit and so hath many a faithfull servant of God formerly and of late yeares went to prison to the Pillory yea to the stake as cheerfull as many a man would goe to his owne house Therefore seeke unto God betimes make thy peace with him confesse and bewayle thy sinnes humble thy selfe before him intreat his favour in the Lord Jesus Act. 12. as the Sydonians did Herods favour by the meanes of Blastus the Kings Chamberlaine And this if we doe be at peace with him while we are in peace and prosperity he will know our souls in adversity and we shall alwayes have a rocke to sly unto in the greatest waves and surges of affliction and a sure way to save all Mat. 20.39 even then when we lose all in the world for his sake 2. Fore-cast the cost and charge of Religion and likewise the rewards and comforts Fore-thinke the worst that may come the greatest afflictions troubles persecution or other tryals that can befall And thinke also of the rich reward and comforts of well doing here and hereafter and then c●st up the accounts and see what a mighty disproportion there is betwixt the affliction and troubles here and glory hereafter As the Apostle did saith he I reckon Rom 8.18 that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us I reckon He cast up all before-hand In vulgata Edit Roberti Stepha●i The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies not as the vulgar translation renders it Existimo I thinke implying only a probable conjecture but a certaine weighing and concluding upon sound consideration As a man that casts up accounts reckons up all the small summes and layes the particulars together to see what the product or totall is so the Apostle casts up all the particular sufferings that he had or could suffer from the hands of God Men Devils or any other creatures or any way for righteousnesse sake and layes all together and then compares that with glory and upon sound judgement concludes I reckon that the sufferings And so must we doe if we would comfortably undergoe the worst condition as Paul did This good advise our Saviour gave to his followers when he saw great multitudes he turned to them and said Whosoever doth not beare his Crosse and come after me Luk. 14 27.28 ●9 30 31. he cannot be my Disciple Also more clearly in the Parables of bu●lding a Towes and making warre with another King therefore fore-cast the cost consider before-hand what you may s●ff●r and the great and incomparable reward of well-doing and suffering in a good cause 3. Settle in thy heart a full purpose and firme resolution in the Name of God to stand it out to undergoe the worst come what will come be it losse of credit in the world losse of liberty or wealth yea to dye and to part with all rather then Christ and his truth or betray the peace of the Land or doe any unrighteous action res●lve to suff●r rather then to sinne Such a resolution Paul ●ad when his friends told him that he must be bound at Jerusalem Act. 21 13. and be delivered into the hands of the Gentiles and besought him with teares not to goe up to Jerusalem saith he What doe ye meane to weep and to breake my heart I am ready not to be bound only but also to dye at Jerus●lem for the Name of the Lord J●●us C. 20. v. 23 24. Likewise Cap. 20. The Holy-Ghost witnesseth in every City saying That bonds and afflictions abide me but none of these things move me neither count I my life deare unto my selfe so that 〈◊〉 might finish my course with ioy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus Resolution will carry a man on far and inable him to undergoe much 4 Labour for an habit of Self-denyall This will be of great use and help us much Therefore our Lord Christ when he exhorted any to follow him in taking up his Crosse i.e. by a willing submitting to suffer and undergoe all troubles they should meet with in the way to Heaven gives them this good counsell and commands them to observe it to deny themselves Mat. 16.24 If any man will come after me let him deny himselfe and take up his Crosse and follow me Marke the order of the words and then this will follow That he that will beare all afflictions and tryals comfortably and follow Christ sincerely must first deny himselfe When a thing is dead you may doe with it what you will pricke it or throw it into the fire it is not moved so it is with the man whose carnall will reason and affections are mortified when a man is dead to the world then whipping buffering or the fiery tryall of persecution which strips a man of all outward things troubles him not or very little Let us therefore labour to mortifie our lusts to deny our selves take off our hearts and affections from the world and the things of it and set them upon God Christ Heaven and Life eternall and so on the wayes and meanes that will bring us thither for he that hath learned to deny himselfe in any thing and hath his heart weaned from them will without trouble part with an Isaac with any thing at Gods command suffer the losse of all with joy as the faithfull Jewes did Heb. 10. and regard no bands afflictions Heb. 10.34 Rev 12.11 Act. 20.23 24. or sufferings They loved not their lives unto the death None of these things move me saith Paul a self-denying Christian neither count I my life deare unto me c. Oh this world is a mighty hinderance to suffering When God cals into the Mount these earthly comforts and contentments are like a great clog on our hearts and hinder us much We are wonderfull unwilling to part with a deare friend especially an Isaac a beloved sonne or husband or wife or our estates