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land_n	abraham_n	call_v	canaan_n	1,554	5	10.1521	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29932	Dwelling with God, the interest and duty of believers in opposition to the complemental, heartless, and reserved religion of the hypocrite / opened in eight sermons by John Bryan ...	Bryan, John, d. 1676.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1670 (1670)	Wing B5243; ESTC R31994	149,472	465

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Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge even the most High thy Habitation there shall no evil befall thee neither shall any Plague come nigh thy dwelling IT is as natural for all Men to desire happiness as it is For the sparks to flie upwards To make them happy there is required an absence of all oppressing evils and a concurrence of all things necessary convenient and decent Among and above many other things an habitation or resting place for their bodies is needful to their outward happiness without which they cannot but be miserable whatever other good things they may enjoy Herein our blessed Saviour seems to prefer the felicity of Foxes and Fowles before his own The Foxes have Holes and the Birds of the Aire have Nests but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head The better House any Man hath the more happy he is in that He that hath the best is happiest Now that House is best that is higher stronger larger more lightsome warm and better furnished with provisions and all desirable accommodations than any other That is not subject to any casualties and which secures its Inhabitants from all manner of evil present and future And withall is a resting place for their Souls They that have such an habitation cannot but be acknowledged by all the World to be the only happy People in the World If the Question be where such an habitation can be found Where such a People And by what means they become thus superlatively happy This Text resolveth it The habitation is the Lord who was David's refuge even the most High Find him and this habitation is found The People are such as he to whom David directs his Speech whom the Lord himself describes and ownes a little after He hath set his love upon me he hath known my Name The meanes whereby this People come to be possessed of this happiness it is by their own making Because thou hast made the Lord c. Who the Lord is it is well known even Israel's God the same whom we Christians own and worship One in Essence Three in Subsistence the Father the Son the Holy Ghost What and what a One he is his Name Jehovah in part imports an Absolute Simple Infinite Independent and Immutable Beeing That he is a real habitation appears by all those places of Scripture where Men are said to Dwell in God whereof we shall have occasion hereafter He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall lodge under the shaddow of the Almighty He that keepeth his Commandements dwelleth in him Hereby we know that we dwell in him because he hath given us of his Spirit Whoso shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God he dwelleth in God He that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God That he is such an Habitation as hath been formerly mentioned and consequently the best as far surpassing all others even the choicest under Heaven as the stateliest Pallace in the World doth the poorest Cottage or Heaven Earth and infinitely more is now to be proved And hereby the Conclusion asserted will be evinced to be a truth That all and only they are the most yea the only happy People upon Earth whose Habitation the Lord Jehovah is 1. Begin we with the Properties of this House The first whereof is Height expressed in the Text. The Scituation of it is exceeding high The Babel-builders designed to erect a Tower whose top might reach unto Heaven This is far above it They that are in it are out of danger of any deluge beyond the reach of Men or Devils David calleth God his high Tower And he that can as David could prove God to be his Habitation is said to dwell in height 2. It is also a non-such for strength Hear that holy Man of God thankfully acknowledging what God had been for him in times past Thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong Tower from the Enemy And what he was at present Thou art my strong refuge And he not only prayeth that God would still be his strong habitation whereunto he might continually resort his strong Rock for an house of defence to save him But frequently declares his confidence that as God was so he would ever be as he wished and how oft doth he call him his strength His Son tells us he is the same to every one that is as he was The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the Righteous runneth to it and is safe And the Prophet Esay praiseth God for this Thou hast been a strength to the Poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the Wall The greatest Canon-bullets shot against the Walls of this House make no more Impression do no more execution than Paper-pellets shot against a Wall of Brass or Marble 3. It is a House exceeding large this is accounted a great commodity of a House to have Roomes enow and Room enough Solomon intimates as much when he saith it is better to dwell in a Corner of the House top than with a brawling Woman in a wide House To have any thing we use too narrow or too streight is very troublesome The Bed is shorter than that a Man can stretch himself on it and the Covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it In God there is Room more than enough both for the understanding and affections of Man to expatiate themselves in Canst thou by searching finde out God Canst thou by searching finde out the Almighty to perfection 'T is as high as Heaven What canst thou do deeper than Hell What canst thou know the measure thereof is longer than the Earth and broader than the Sea His Commandements are exceeding broad How much more are his Attributes Absolute and Relative proper and figurative God bid Abraham to walk through the Land of Canaan which is called a good Land and a large good because large in the length of it and in the breadth of it And he bids every Child of Abraham to whom he gives himself for a possession as he gave that Land to Abraham to walk within and pass through all his Divine Properties going out of one Room into another as also his great and precious promises Nor shall they have cause to complain of straitness as the Churches Children do in their Mothers eares The place is too strait for me give place to me that I may dwell To whom we may conceive her giving them this Answer Children though your bodies may be present in your Earthly dwellings the faculties of your souls have space enough abundantly more than your faculties can conceive in God who saith to every Saint of his dwelling in him apt to make the like complaint as Paul to the Corinthians Ye