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A15579	Iacobs staffe To beare vp, the faithfull. And to beate downe, the profane. Touching the one's assured, and the others conceited title, vnto God himself, and all his precious promises. VVherin. The saints interest is justified, to be absolutely infaillible, the sinners clayme detected, to be apparantly deceivable, notwithstanding all infernall suggestions of feare, and infidelity in the one, or of presumption, and security in the other. Formerly preachcd [sic] at Hamburgh by Iohn VVing late pastor to the English Church there, as his farewell to the famous followship [sic] of Merchant Adventurers of England resident in that city. And now published, and dedicated, to the honor and vse, of that most worthy Society, there, or wheresoever being.; Jacobs staffe to bear up, the faithful and to beate downe, the profane	Wing, John, of Flushing, Zealand.	1621 (1621)	STC 25846; ESTC S120115	141,154	226

much more easy to ouer-abounde then want any evidence But we will not cloy your memories with a multiplicity Shall we enquire at the Law according to the holy Prophets counsell why it is cleare for this point It is a ruled case with the great law-giver even the Lord who is that one law-giuer which is able to saue and destroy hath given it once and againe and many times in expresse charge to his people Consider seriously what he saith by Moses And these words which I commandeth thee shal be in thy hart And thou shalt teach them to thy children c. Dent. 6.6 ver 7.8 And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thy hand and they shal be as frontlets betweene thine eyes Now what meanes all this what may all these injunctions intend which are set downe here and itterated elswhere Surely there is something in it that we must have them so engrauen that our mindes may posesse them our mouthes may publish them at home and abroade by day and by night at bed and borde to our posterity daily to others occasionally can all this be for formall discourse or supersiciall accquaintance with the word of God no sure there is more meant then this come's to which alone is nothing the Lords minde is that we should have speciall familarity with his word and be in continuall meditation and practise therof signified by the binding of it on our hands and eyes all these particulers that are named here are to perswade vs to that one principall truth that we teach to wit that we must take home all the holy truth of God into our soules From the law we may passe to the Prophets but as we goe we will see what Solomon saith to it which if we doe we shall heare of many heavenly sayings to this purpose both in his Proverbs and his booke called the Preacher In the former we have many consells to this practise with comforts belonging to them As first where he exhorteth men to receiue Gods words and to hide his commandements Pro. 2.1 ver 2. to encline their eare apply their harts to knowledg and vnderstanding And againe that men should not forget the Law of God cap. 3 1. but let their harts keepe his commandements and yet againe that we ought to endeavour that our harts doe retaine God words cap. 4.4 and that we embrace them and in noe wise ver 8. let them goe he is much vpon this matter as vpon a thing of much consequence and mighty importance often advising all men hervnto And in his latter booke Eccles 12.11 he tell 's vs that the words of the wise should be vnto us as goades and as nailes fastned vpon us yea into us sticking close to vs and keeping fast within vs. Thus we see Solomons minde and know well what it is and now let vs aske the Prophets and they wil soone tell vs theirs for Moses and the Prophets and all the men of God are all in one tune for this truth it hath beene evermore their manner to come to men with Gods message and to tell them their owne from him not going behinde the dore or speaking behinde their backs but personally and to their heads delivering the minde of God to the mightiest of them as it were easy to instance in innumerable examples not only of these more generall prophecies that concerne peoples and nations but in those most speciall which were indiuidually directed against Princes Potentates the great one's of the earth as the king of Iudah Israell Babell Egipt Nineveh c. the like every of which with many more were spoken too to their faces in those particulers wherin the Lord did intend they should know his minde Soe we see we have the Law and the Prophets sure to vs in this particuler if now we shall also give eare to the Gospell it will also give abundant evidence hervnto both from Christ himself also from his Apostles in this point Christ sometimes spake plainely and spake noe parable as where he saith Blessed are they that heare the word of God and keepe it sometimes and more then once in divers parables he is againe vpon it as in the parable of the seede which must be layd deepe and covered close in the grounde and not supersicially sowed for every foule to carry away in the parrable of the leauen which must be raked vp into the midst of the meale and be mixed soe with it that it may never be severed from it againe but leaven every part of the lumpe And for the apostles they are of the same minde with Christ their master and speake to the same purpose Peter would haue vs receive the word as new borne babes receiue milke which is not only eaten swallowed 1. Pet. 2.2 but concocted and digested and becometh nutrimentall and is converted into the substance of their bodies col 3.16 Paul would haue it dwell in us richly that our harts might be a habitation Jam. 1.21 or house to receive and harbour the same Iames he would haue it engrassted in us and soe incorporated that it might as it were become one with vs and being soe he assures vs of the saving power therof saying it wil be able to saue our soules And now having all these witnesses what can we have more or what neede we soe much to confirme a truth so cleare here you see is the vniver sall assent and concurrence of all Gods servants yea and of his sonne too every one that spake by his spirits inspratiō spake more or lesse to this truthes confirmation But it would be needelesse to adde more testimony Let vs come to consider of such reasons as may further leade vs into the light and perswsiaon herof that we may see as well why we must thus take home Gods truth as only to know that soe we must doe It is a wise mans part not only to know what he must doe but also to vnderstand why that the reason of his duty may be discerned of him as well as the jnjunction And if we apply our selves to consider wherefore we must apply Gods truth in this manner we shall soone perceive that it is a thing consorting with cleare and apparant reason and that in divers respects some few wherof we will lay downe before you First our application of Gods worde Reason 1 was in regarde of vs the mayne end of his publishing the same vnto vs he reuealed it that we might recetue it it was left written to us that it should be written in vs. Doth not God himself give vs this as a reason in plaine tearmes and that by more then one or two of those whome he sent to deliver his minde VVhat saith Moses to all Israell Deut. 27.29 and in them to all the Israell of God Things reuealed belong to us and to our children what God hath revealed is revealed to vs and for vs and

as the apostle avoucheth of Elias his prayer Jam 5. least any man should say I Elias oh he was a rare and extraordinary man of singuler graces and more admirable piety then is now to be found alas what are we to Elias the holy ghost answer's that he was a man and a corrupt man as we are ver 17. subiect to the like passions as the story of his life doth shew yet being a righteous man and having right in the Lord Judg. 15.18.16 his prayer was powerfull and prevailing And soe was Samsons also who went much out of the way in many things yet being the Lords one that he had set apart to himself and appropriated to his service it was the good pleasure of his will to heare his desires and help him in all his distresses And the same might we say of many more vpon whome we cannot now insist because it is time we set forward toward one second consolation And that is touching our afflictions and miseries Consolation in Affliction in the mid'st wherof seeme they never soe insufferable our interest in the Lord will ease our soules and joy our spirits within vs. And herof we haue abundant witnes in the booke of God taken both from God himself and from his saints yea and from sinfull and vngodly men too If we will hearken what the Lord God doth say in this case beholde he vtter's his minde most freely that wee may be free from all feare in respect of any perills I will not cloy you with a multitude of witnesses See what he saith by his prophet Isaiah who heard it once yea twise from God that such as are his shall not sinke in theit deepest sorrowes Looke cap. 41. where he cheere 's his people and giue 's them words of wonderfull hartening saying Jsa 41. Feare not be not dismaied but vpon what ground why even vpon this ver 10. which will beare them vp in all bitternes for I am with thee for I am thy God I will helpe thee I will strēgthē I will vpholde thee with theright hād of my righteousnes againe feare not for I the Lord thy God whill helpe thee and yet againe feare not ver 13. thou worme that is were thy state never soe weake despicable I will helpe thee saith the Lord thy redeemer ver 14. Againe the 43. chapter begins with the same words of encouragement feare not but why Jsa 43. Ver 1. for I haue called redeemed thee thou art mine oh but we haue many mighty miseries to passe through well saye's God let the worst come that can come if it be as extreame as fire and water and they we say haue no mercy yet saith the Lord feare not I will goe with thee when thou wadest through the greatest woes that the world can yeelde and least any should doubt or demaund what might make the Lord or moue him to be soe vnspeakably kinde and gracious he answers by repeating the same reason againe that he had given before for I am the Lord thy God thy holy one of Israell thy Saviour c Loe here how the Lord doth dwell vpon this argument to perfwade their perplexed spirits how well it shal be with them even at the worst that can come vnto them And herevnto would all the Prophets giue witnes if we should summon them one by one for the Lord speakes much to this purpose in every of them but one word of God were enough to satisfy the whole worlde if there were no more and therefore it shal be needles for vs to quoate more in this matter Let vs heare his children speake whose language we shall sinde to be like their fathers and assoone as they tell vs their mindes herin it will most readily appeare that they apprehēded the most speciall reason of their comfort and releife to consist in the right clayme which in their miserablest condition they could make vnto God Aske David Psa 23.1 he will tell vs that seing the Lord is his shepheard he shall not want any good thing even then when things goe never soe ill with him in his sorrowes he shall haue consolation ver 4. in his dangers preservation supply in his wants safety in his waies and whatsoever may be meete for him in any estate which may befall him The same he speakes againe elswhere and double's the declaration of his interest in God saying Psal 116.16 Behold Lord for I am thy servant I am thy servant c. And this he doth there where he hath discourced of the heaviest afflictions that ever befell him shewing evidently that if he had not beene soe neere and deare to the Lord as he was he had sunke perished in those calamities which had now seized on him but seing he could with good assurance say he was Gods that estate was to him recouerable which to another for wāt of this worthy comfort had beene desperate incurable Nay let vs enquire of more then one aske all the Iewes either in Isatahs time or in leremiahs Beholde in both prophets how they plead proue their comfort in the middest of their calamities Jsa 63.16 Doubtlesse say they thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant of vs and Israel know vs not thou o Lord art our father and our redeemer c. and againe we are thine c. ver 19. And if we looke into their state in Ieremiahs time when the hand of God was greivous vpon them as both the title and the whole tennor of the booke doth relate it being called the Lamentations from their lamentable condition therin described we shall see them plunged into the deepest and deadlyest distresses that it was possible for people to endure howbeit they could yet holde vp their heads and cheere vp their harts with their title to the Lord Lam. 3.24 saying the Lord is my portion saith my soule therefore I will hope in him Even that estate which was soe wofull vnhappy and hopelesse yet is conceived to be curable and vnder the heaviest burden and bitternes therof they are hopefull harty cōfortable because they can boldly say that god is their portiō they are his people nothing was left but this this alone was enough to lift them out of the desperate conceit of their owne estate All externall and visible signes tokens of Gods favour were gone both temporall in regard of their land the happines they had in all the good things thereof spirituall in regard of the temple the holines of the things of God therin but this inward invisible assurāce seale of Gods interest in thē theirs in him that remaineth by it they are revived kept in such hart hope that they can comfort and joy themselves therin as in that which will holde out holde them vp when all other consolations fayle And soe we see Gods