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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

strength is made perfect in the Christians weak nesse Secondly She believes that she shall beare no more then shall be for her good Rom. 8.28 All things shall worke together for the good of those that love God Shee hath a Promise or two here to leane upon also Job 5. v. 19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles yea in seven there shall no evill touch thee And Isa 43.2 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not over-flow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee She comes out also leaning trusting upon God as before that he would helpe her out if hee saw best or support her in So when she is come out she believes that God loves her never the worse neither doth shee love him any whit the worse she cries It is good for me that I was afflicted When she is in she believes she shall come out and she commeth out with as much love to her God and confidence in him as ever shee had before not being wearie of Gods service because he hath smitten her Shee sees a smile in a smiting favour in a frowne love in a lower and she is resolved though he kills her yet to trust in him shee comes out of this Wildernesse leaning A fourth wildernesse that the Spouse is in sometimes is the Wildernesse of Temptations Even in this shee leanes upon the Lord Jesus Christ They were not the Spouses of Christ The good ground Luke 8.13 Which when they heard received the Word with joy but having no root for a time believed and in time of temptation tell away The true Disciples are those that continue with Christ in tentations Luke 22.18 First they beleeve that God who is faithfull will not suffer them to be tempted above that which they are able But will with the temptation also make way to escape that they may be able to beare it 1 Cor. 10.13 They believe in that himselfe suffered being tempted he is able to succour those that are tempted 2 Heb. 18. The Saints that suffered many things were in many wildernesses Heb. 11.37 Amongst the rest were in this also and they all leaned v. 39. They received a good report through faith Yea temptation is so farre from making a childe of God let goe his hold that it makes him lay the faster hold 1 Pet. 1.6 Though now for a season you are in heavinesse through manifold temptations yet it is that the triall of your faith being much more precious then of gold which perishes though it be tried with the fire might be found unto praise and honour and glorie In temptations they leane upon God and they come out of these temptations leaning believing upon God too having found that he is able and knoweth how to deliver the godly out of all temptations 2 Pet. 2.9 A fifth wildernesse in which the Spouse of Christ leaneth upon her beloved and out of which she commeth leaning is the wildernesse of desertion And this is one of the saddest Wildernesses that the Spouse of Christ comes in and she hath an hard worke to leane here when Christ seemeth to pull away his shoulder yet even here she leanes Christ himselfe did so My God! my God why hast thou forsa●en me Mark the phrase Forsaken yet not forsaken the Bride-groom cries out he was forsaken yet my God! Gods forsaking us is no ground for us to forsake him If hee seems not to owne us it is no warrant nor policy in us not to owne him It is the duty of a pious soule when God clouds himselfe yet to crie My God The Bowels of the father must yerne upon the childe againe if the childe cries and will not shake him off It is a remarkable expression of Job chap. 13. v. 15. Though he kills mee yet will I trust in him How now if thou beest kill'd blest Job how canst thou trust O immortall faith I that puttest Spirits of confidence in the dust and ashes of Job Let God hide himselfe from the soule and so kill it For Gods separration of himselfe from the Christians soule is a worse death then the separation of his soule from his body Yet the soule must trust in him it must it will leane upon him The Spouse looseth not but quickens her faith in a fit of desertion That place of the Prophet is remarkable Isa 50. v. 10. Who is amongst you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darknesse and hath no light let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God They that feare the Lord though they may walke in a darke Wildernesse and see no such light as they were wont to see have no such comfortable enjoyments of their God as they were wont to have yet they will trust and rest themselves upon the Lord and come out of this wildernesse leaning In all the wildernesses of this life the Spouse will leane upon her Beloved yea and upon him alone in all states in all conditions upon him for directing grace upon him for quickning grace upon him for whatsoever shee hath need of either pardon or guidance or direction or assistance or comfort or heaven at all times she must trust in the Covert of his wings Psal 62.8 for all blessings The Spouse of Christ is a most dependent creature The Babe of grace is never old enough to goe alone it hangs like a childe upon the mothers hands and leanes like a Bride upon the Bride-grooms bosome Thus have I done with the Doctrinall part having shewed you how she hath had and sometimes hath her dwelling in the wildernesse and how out of every wildernesse shee commeth up but leaning and what strength there is in her Saviour to beare her up leaning upon him even in every wildernesse Who is this commeth up from the wildernesse leaning upon her Beloved Now let us see what use we may make of it And first here may a word of reproofe and a brand of folly be fastned upon divers erroneous opinions and practises First is it so that the Spouse of the Lord Christ that comes and is married to the Lord Christ comes out of the wildernesse of sinne Then this may reprove the errour and folly of those that dream of heaven and flatter themselves with the hopes of glorie but yet never regard comming out of this Wildernesse Christ came not to call the righteous but sinner to repentance These men dreame of heaven and yet never think of Repentance Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost friend how lost what insensibly lost as all of us were by Nature This is an idle construction that giddy headed Sectaries have of late devised to help themselves to heaven with The Devills are so lost yet Christ never came to save them No no friend it is those that are lost in their own apprehensions