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hand_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	9,635	5	10.3237	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96869	Ioseph paralled [sic] by the present Parliament, in his sufferings and advancement. A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, on their solemn day of Thanksgiving, Feb. 19. 1645. For the great mercy of God in the reducement of the city of Chester, by the forces under the command of Sr William Brereton. By Fra. Woodcock minister of Olaves Southwarke, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the said House.	Woodcock, Francis, 1614?-1651.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3430; Thomason E323_5; ESTC R200595	19,383	35

Ioseph was forgotten in his sufferings Gen. ●0 ult and Pharaohs butler who had received kindnesse from him when in like condition yet being himself at liberty remembers not the affliction of Ioseph And hath it not so fared with us also and have not some of our beyond-sea neighbours your Low Countries I mean have they not I say forgotten our affliction and instead of helping us forth of it which had been but paying the debt they owed us have they not rather by continuall supplying the enemy holpen forward our affliction So that if because Ioseph was reproached hated sold c. 't is said the archers sorely grieved him shot at him hated him how truly may it be spoken of our selves also we having seen our own and Iosephs condition in all the severals forementioned a cleer an exact parallel which yet we ought not to have been discouraged at neither meerly from hence to have grown jealous of our own or the goodnesse of the cause we have engaged in it being abundantly cleered both from Iosephs case as also from severall others That 't is incident to the best of men to be infested with dangerous and malicious enemies Observ 2 Although the godly are infested and assaulted by enemies yet are they not wholly overcome by them This was Iosephs case The archers saies the text shot at him c. but 't is added His bowe abode in strength and the armes of his hands were made strong All his brethrens malice could go no farther then to sell him and being sold and sold into the hands of a wicked mistris he was neither overcome by her sollicitations to destroy his soul nor for refusall of her could she so far prevail as to take away his life 'T was Davids hard lot as was before shown to be infested with cruellest enemies Saul and his Courtiers shot many a poisoned arrow at him yea so oft was he shot at and the arrows fell so thick about him as that he gives himself for lost concludes he shall be hit at last makes account he should one day perish by the hand of Saul But that it was his weaknesse and mistake the event abundantly cleers for if you consult the title of Psal 18. you finde it expresly this A Psalme of David the servant of the Lord who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul Observe it David that fears that one day he shall perish by the hand of Saul one day gives thanks for an absolute deliverance as from all other enemies so also from the hand of his enemy Saul The Churches condition hath been alike also as her self expresses Psal 129. 1 2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth may Israel now say Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth what follows but they have not prevailed against me And no marvell for although it well consists with Gods ends that sometimes his people be humbled and brought very low yet doth it not at all that the enemy should be lifted up over high which yet they would be if at any time they could obtain an absolute conquest upon his people To this purpose speaks the Lord Deut. 32. 26 27. I thought saies the Lord to have scattered my people into corners and caused their remembrance to have ceased from men did I not fear the rage of their enemies lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely and lest they should say Our hand is high and the Lord hath not done all this As if he had said It very well sorts with my purpose to bring my people very low if so be the sinking of that balance over-low would not over-much lift up the balance of their enemies Again although it very well agrees with the Lords intent and meaning that his people be persecuted and suffer from their enemies that their enemies thereby might be ripened for destruction yet is it not at all his minde that together with their own the enemy should bring destruction upon his people also which yet 't is apparent they do when they wholly over-overcome them And further although it be the minde of God that his people should suffer by evil men to the intent that by those sufferings of theirs they might be both prov'd and purg'd yet is it not his pleasure that either the furnace should be made so hot or they continue so long in it till he lose his metall which would certainly come to passe did the enemy wholly prevail For if the rod of the wicked should Psal 125. 3. rest upon the lot of the righteous would they not at last put forth their hand and touch iniquity From all which it is a cleer case That although the Saints may be assaulted infested by enemies yet are they not wholly overcome by them Vse And hath not this been the case of the godly of this Kingdom hath not this been the case of the present Parliament Honourable beloved it cannot be denied but that the archers have sorely grieved you shot at you hated you neverthelesse hath not your bowe abode in strength and the armes of your hands have been made strong and to this day they have not obtained a full conquest over you Indeed crafty malicious men have tried their utmost have vomited upon you their most deadly poison and all to blast you to make you infamous for ever but have they prevailed have they by all their canker and venom belcht forth upon you been able to deprive you of your name and honour or rather shall not you be had in honour when their memoriall shall rot and perish and be blotted out from under Heaven I say not but you have sometime been reduced to exigents and lownesse you have been brought sometimes to the pits brink if not thrown with Ioseph into the pit but yet hath ever the pit shut its mouth upon you and rendred you hopeles of recovering out of it If as the Apostle speaks you have been troubled on 2 Cor. 4. 8 9. every side yet have you been distressed if perplexed at any time yet have you been in despair if persecuted have you been altogether forsaken if cast down yet have you been destroyed When were your affairs so lost so broken as now the enemies are and when hath your bowe so much slugg'd or your armes grown so feeble I mean when was ever your condition so desperate that when the enemy in any of their expresses or Declarations hath shot Traitour and Rebell at you you might not notwithstanding any lownesse of your condition have shot back something else in answer then your humble subjects The archers I must needs say have shot some neer shoots that of Brainford was a neer one and so was that of Bristow our losse of Bristow went exceeding neer us but blessed be the Lord never did any hit the heart to this day London