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A45242 Forty-five sermons upon the CXXX Psalm preached at Irwin by that eminent servant of Jesus Christ Mr. George Hutcheson. Hutcheson, George, 1615-1674. 1691 (1691) Wing H3827; ESTC R30357 346,312 524

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a promise that Israel shall be delivered and relieved of the famine he will go in sackcloth in hopes of performance but let it come to that that one harlot contends with another about the eating of her son have at Elisha's head he will not wait for the Lord any longer but Israel in his hope must stoop low his anchor of hope must have a long cable If I may so word it to reach the bottomless Sea of hopelesness Israel must not lose hope when it comes to that Ezek. 37. That she is like dry bones in a valley and the question is Let these bones li●e yet they did live And Psal 141.7 Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the Earth we are like the Spales of Trees about the Hewer hand then Israel is low yet verse 8. Mine eyes are unto thee says he O God the Lord in thee is my trust Nay Israels hope must not be quite when natural hope is gon● Abraham Rom. 4.18 Against hope believed in hope he had hope when his hope is contradicted by another hope And Jon 2.4 I said I am cast out of thy sight yet will I look again towards thy holy temple And I shall add but this one word Israel must not quite hope for growing trouble Mic. 4.10 When the Daughter of Zion is in pain like a woman in travail and thinks she is low enough already within the City she must go forth of the City and dwell in the field yea the Lord will not have her to quite hope though she go even to Babylon for there shall she be delivered there the Lord shall redeem her from the hand of her enemies Thus ye see how ye are called what ever your condition be to cherish hope and to let your hope be seen in all the Gospel fruits of hope in repentance for sin in taking encouragement for duty though ye should have the storm in your teeth for so doing God bless his word to you SERMON XXXIV Psalm 130. Verse 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord for c. WE are here upon a very useful Counsel a counsel dictated by the Holy Spirit of God and communicat by a man that had tryed the good and ill both of having and wanting it ye have heard how the Psalmist being delivered is communicative of his experience to others ye have heard also as ye will have constant need of Hope so there is a constant warrand for it And ye have heard further that whatever be the opinion of others yet whosoever have most tryed Faith and Hope they will commend them most and be most free in recommending them to those that have most use for them I entered in the morning to consider the persons to whom hope in God is recommended Let Israel hope in the Lord. Whether that Nation while it stood a Church or the Israel of God The Gospel Church or the true members thereof I closed with this That go things as they will Israel is a society that still may hope many may think that there is no hope for them in God That they are fallen down and shall no more rise up but Israel are never a hopeless society I proceed now to the 2d thing I mentioned in this Head to wit That Hope in God is the common allowance of all the people of God not only taking Israel collectively but distributively one by one they are allowed to hope in God yea which will further clear the ground of the Doctrine although many that were true Israelits did indeed come short of the Psalmist and therefore though he might hope it might be thought they should stand a● back yet he is free to encourage any how mean and low soever they be provided they be of Israel to hope in God I confess this Point is to be understood with much caution and warriness There are general Promises made to the Church that every particular Believer may not apply but with many restrictions There are also Promises made to some saints on particular accounts to which every one may not claim but if we consider the great bull● of the Promises which are the ground of hope and the main scope of all the Promises the Scripture takes in one and other as to sexes the Promise is deduced 2 Cor. 6.18 I will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters c. where the weaker and stronger and sexes are equally taken in also as to the Degrees of grace if it be true it takes in all Psal 115.13 He will bless them that fear the Lord both small and great the small as well as the great are taken in to the share of Blessings The precious Oyntment poured upon Aarons head stays not about his shoulders or the principal parts of his Body but goes down to the skirts of his Garments to the meanest and lowest Members Psal 133.2 And hence it is that a Promise made to a great Joshua 1.5 in order to a great employment to possess the people in the Land of Canaan I will not fail thee nor forsake thee though one would have thought that that was a peculiar allowance to a Joshua that might grip to that in so great an undertaking yet Heb. 13.5 None of the persecuted Hebrews are secluded from it Let your conversations be without cove●tousness and be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee he that said that to the great Captain of his People Joshua said it to the meanest believing Hebrew I might deduce this more distinctly and shew that the weak Lambs are so far from being excluded that there is a Promise that they shall be carried in his bosom when the stronger shall get leave to walk on foot and because the heavy with young will be put hardly to it he will gently lead them Isai 40.11 These that are sensible of their eminent worthlesness that are but dead things in their own eyes and that think the crumbs that fall from the Childrens Table too much for them they may think to find in God a magnifying of mercy for eminent worthlesness in stooping to them and being gracious and merciful to them yea these that have little or nothing of their own if they be sensible of it and lying at the Fountain for supply they may look for the more of him the less they had of their own the weaker they be his strength shall be the more perfected in weakness the more ignorant they be and as beasts before him they may look to have the wonderful Counseller taking the conduct and guiding of them and as it is 1 Cor. 12.13 These Members of the Body which we think to be less honourable upon them we bestow more abundant honour and our uncomly parts have more abundant comliness so the meanest member providing that it be a member may look for more of him than if they had much in