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A27353	Nehemiah the Tirshatha, or, The character of a good commissioner to which is added Grapes in the wilderness / by Mr. Thomas Bell ...	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1672-1692.; Bell, Thomas. Grapes in the wilderness.	1692 (1692)	Wing B1804; Wing B1803_PARTIAL; ESTC R4955	138,914	254

of the Dispensations of GOD AND OF The pertinent Duties and Comforts of His PEOPLE in these Times WITH A Preface of the fulness of Scriptur sufficiency for Answering all Cases Hosea 9. 10 I found Israel like Grapes in the Wilderness Jer. 2 2. I Remember thee the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wantest after me in the Wilderness in a Land that was not sowen Numb 33 1. These are the journeyes of the Children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron 2 Verse And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeyes by the Commandment of the Lord and these are their journeyes according to their goings out 1 Epistle of John 1 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you Written in the Wilderness Edinburgh Printed by George Mosman and are to be Sold at his Shop in the Parliament-Close Anno Dom. 1692. THE PREFACE THE Jews have a Tradition of that Manna wherewith God fed Israel in the Wilderness fourtie years that the taste thereof was such and so various that it answered every mans Appetit and tasted to him of whatsoever food his soul desired And look how uncertain is that Jewish Tradition of the materiall Manna that was gathered off the Earth for the space of fourty years in the Wilderness of the land of Egypt So certain is this Christian Truth of the Spiritual Manna the word of God that bread of Heaven that Angels food wherewith God feeds his Church in all ages successively and every Child of his House the Israelite indeed respectively throughout the whole course of their life and travel in the World which is the great Wilderness that it hath in it a real supply of all their necessities and hath always in it a word in season to all persons at all times and in every condition To the Dead it is life to the living it is health to the weary it is refreshment to the weak it is strength to Babes it is milk to strong men it is meat to the hungry it is bread to the thirsty it is waters To the drooping soul and sorrowful heart it is wine to the faint it is apples and Pomegranats cinnamon safron spiknard Calamus and all spices of the merchant To such who love dainties it is marrow and fatness honey of the rock and droping from the honey-comb to the wounded it is the balme of Gilead to the blind and weak sighted it is eye salve and oyntment to annoint the eyes To such neat souls as love to be all Glorious within and to keep clean Garments it is a Crown chains of the neck braceless ear-rings pendents and Ornaments of all sorts and if they like to be in fashion and to go fyne in the court of a Heavenly Conversation and communion with God it presents them a bright large glass whereat they may dayly adorn themselves to purpose This Glass is no falsifying nor multiplying Glass but a just discovering and directing one here are also discovered not only all the obliquities of gesture and faults of feature and all spots upon the face or cloaths but likwise the very in most thoughts and intents of the heart with the most subtile imaginations of the mind are here manifested Here ye are directed to sit all your Soul-ornament in the fynest spiritual fashion and to compose your gestur and order your motion so as you may be able to stand in the presence of him who is greater than Solomon This large bright Glass doth stand in King Solomons bed-Chamber in the Pook of Canticles and in it you may see your self from head to foot There ye see the head beautiful with locks Cantic 4 There ye see the sweet comly Countenance of the Saint which the Lord is so much in love with that he is in continual desire to see it there you see those eyes that ravish his heart and so throughout even to the feet that are very beautiful with shooes Chap. 7. 1. For such as are destitute and unprovided the word of God is a portion to the poor it is Riches of treasure of choice Silver and fine Gold Here is that which dispelleth darkness cleareth doubts dissolveth hardness dissappointeth fears dischargeth cares solaceth sorrows and satisfieth desires Here is counsel and strength for peace and war Here is daily intelligence from Heaven And in a word here is the best Companion that ever a soul did choose And blessed they who can spiritually tone that short but high note Psal. 119. 98. Thy Commandments are ever with me And that they are not with the soul as a burden of idle attendants are with a man see what good offices they perform by their presence Prov. 6. 22. 23. They are as Hobab to Israel and David to Nabal Eyes and a Guard to us in the Wilderness In the World and chiefly in this World we change seats and Societies we shift conditions and habitations we go thorow the Wilderness of Baca from troop to troop we are driven from Temple Altar and Oracle and we are divided from our relations and dearest acquaintance whom we loved as our own Soul we are spoiled of our Companions with whom we took sweet counsel and went into the house of God But blessed that Soul who in all this can say I am not alone my good old friend the word of God the Bible the guide of my Youth hath not yet forsaken me it is with me yea it is in me in the midst of my heart and I bear about me daily a living coppy of those livly Oracles and they are more near me than my very self for my heart is within me and they are within my heart I may be separated from my self by death that parts the dearest Friends my heart may be pluckt from my breast and my Soul dislodged of my Body but my Companion the word of God and me shall nothing part Prosperity shall not cause me forget it And adversity will not cause it forget me I will never forget thy Precepts for with them thou hast quickned me Psal. 119. 93. As those who live upon the shoar have a very just diall of the measure and motion of the water which they can make use of without the sun so are the ebbings and flowings of our affections to the word of God the surest most universall and constant witnesses of our daily condition for albeit the darkness that is upon the face of our Souls may pretend that it is night with us yet if it be full sea in our affection to the word of God we may be sure it is noon day and when it is low water in our affection to the word sure then it is mid night and the sun was never seen at mid night Be sure it is ill with that Soul that is out of conceit with the word of God Now to say nothing of the malignant qualities of gross ignorants prophane

as thou livest and as thy soul liveth I will not do this thing It is time our loins were girded our shoes were on our sect our staff in our hand and our stuff and provision upon our shoulder for we must to the Wilderness and what if we go out in haste It is good to be in good Company it is better if Moses had any skill to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11. 25. They who will not suffer with the people of God may suffer with worse Company They who will not go forth with Lot unto the mountains may possibly sit still till they get brimstone and fire from Heaven and the smoak of Sodom about their ears for he that will save his life unlawfully shall loss it unhappily and he that will loss his life in Resolution may find it in Reality Even as a man doth in stepping of a Ditch with any thing that is either of weight or worth to him his Clock his Case of letters or Papers of concernment his heavy purse or the like lest he loss and indamnage himself and them both he casts all over before him and so coming over with the less trouble he lifts all again upon the other side and so losses nothing of that which he cast away but that he might keep it and himself both whereas if he had kept all about him he might have lost himself and all together but all is not ost that is in peril Let us then with chearfulness turn our face towards the Wilderness The second Use shall be for Information to all such of the Lords People as are either upon their way to the Wilderness or are already arrived there they would not think strange of such a condition it has been it is and it will be the lot of the Lords Children Cant. 8. 5. the high way to Christs mountain of Myrrh and hill of frankincense lyes thorow the Wilderness and there he comes forth to meet them and leads them up in his bosome leaning upon his own arms There doth no strange thing befall the Saints when the Lord brings them into the Wilderness for even as Moses Exod. 3. 1. led his flocks into the backside of the desart and was not that a presage of what followed when he led Israel as a flock through the Wilderness so doth the Lord oft times with his People albeit the Wilderness is a solitary unfrequented place where no foot of man cometh yet in it you may take up and trace the footsteps of the Lords flock who through much tribulation have entred into the Kingdome of God and there ye may follow them who through faith and patience have inherited the promises The Saints will find the footsteps of the flock in their greatest Wilderness and may be helped with the light of precedent Examples in their greatest darkness For now that the Lord through so many ages hath led his Saints to Heaven by so many different paths of Dispensations for there is but one common road of Religion the Kings high Way I doubt there is any untroden path remaining to be discovered by this Generation I only fear one difference which makes indeed a great odds in lots be found betwixt our case and the case of those that have gone before us and it is this That they were better men in as ill times for worse I would none But in that I pray whom shall we blame and know we not how that should be helped See that ye walk circumspectly as wise and not as fools redeeming the time because the days are evil Eph. 5. 15 16. If ill times find no good men let ill times make good men and good men will make good times or els bad times shall make good men better But of the Parity of cases I said much in the Preface The Third Use of the point shall be for Direction bsince the People of God may thus expect to be rought into the Wilderness it concerns them to take their directions for the Wilderness for our direction in such a condition I shall without insisting briefly hint at some things I to be avoided 2 dly some things to be endeavoured Things to be avoided by such as are brought into the Wilderness are I Unbelief Psal. 78. 22 23. the Israelites believed not God in the Wilderness and therefore he was provoked Heb. 3. 18 19. the Apostle tells us expresly that those who believed not their carcasses fell in the Wilderness and for their unbelief they could not exter into the land of promise 2 Discouragment would be avoided Numb 14. 1. the People through Discouragment cryed and weept for the report that the spyes gave them and frequently els-where they expressed their Discouragement upon the emergency of every new difficulty their cry was always that they should die in the Wilderness and in that they read their own fortune Numb 14. 28. for the Lord was provoked for their unbelief and other sins to do to them as they had said Beware of Unbeliefs bode-words for like the Devil's responses their accomplishments are always evil to those that take them In all the World I know no such ready way to Apostacy and utter forsaking of God as Discouragment Experience hath said so much to confirme this that I shall not need to bring reason into the field But this I must say have the experience of Discouragment who will they have it to their expences And if I were to die I would leave Discouragment this testimony that it is dear bought misery 3. Avoid Murmuring fretting discontentment with the Lords Dispensations with complaints of his unkindness Numb 14 2. all the Children of Israel murmured and Chap. 6 42. they murmured against Moses and Aaron But Moses could tell them what are we that ye speak against us nay but your words are against the Lord yea and Numb 21. 5. it is expresly said the People spoke against God and against Moses And still their tune was w●y have ye brought us up out of Egypt Just like many in our Generation why say they your Re●ormation your Covenant and your Ministers have served you well but verily their words are against the Lord for we owne his name in these and glorify him whom they dishonour When the Children of Israel murmured in the Wilderness they had forgotten how once they groaned because of their oppression in Egypt and in that they may be more excusable than we for the Red sea had ridd perpetual marches betwixt them and their oppressours but we get not leave to forget our oppression in the times of our former subjection to them who derive their power from her who is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt Revel n. 8. I mean Prelats who are indeed the house of the Elder brother but fallen back for that they have come short of the blessing and now hold of the Pope the younger who hath supplanted them handsomely and got betiwxt

them and the Birth-right so that now the Elder serves the Younger those I say pursue even to the Wilderness according as it is prophesied Rev. 12. where John saw the Dragon pursue the travelling woman into the Wilderness 4. We would beware of Tempting God Psal. 106. 14. they tempted God in the desart and what that temptation was see Psal. 78. 18. 19. 20. They limited the Lord and said can God furnish at able in the Wilderness can he give bread also can be provide flesh for his People whatever our temptations be in a Wilderness though we should fast till we be as Hungry as Christ was in the Wilderness yet let us learn of him not to tempt the Lord by limiting him to ordinary means since it is writen that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God neither let us rashly nor presumptuously cast our selves into any needless difficulty nor cast our selves down from a pinacle of the Temple for that again it is written thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Just thoughts of God and these are large ones would fit the Saints with a present help in all imaginable difficulties Psal. 46. 1. God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble 5. We would beware of unmortified imperitus clamorous lusts Psal. 106. 14. They lusted exceedingly in the Wilderness and Psal. 78. 18. ●hey sought meat for their lust God had given meat for themselves but they must have meat for their lasts also Truely he had need have a good rent that would keep a table for his lusts for lust is so ill to satisfy that albeit one World serves all the men in the World yet all the World will not satisfy the lust of one man of the World Witness ●e who weept that there were not moe Worlds to conquer But he who must have his lust as soon served as himself that man is not for the Wilderness I shall advise all that are brought into the Wilderness to do with their lusts as Moses did with his Wife and Children when he went with Israel into the Wilderness send them back dismiss them for fear they make more adoe Solomon prefers the Wilderness to the Company of a clamorous angry Woman in a wide house but how miserable must he be who lives in Company with those scolding wretches his craving clamorous lusts even in the Wilderness 6. We would be ware of Apostacy and turning back unto Egypt Numb 14. 4. They said one to another let u● make a Captain and let us return into Egypt And verse 3. Were it not better for 〈◊〉 say they to return into Egypt Whatever we me●● with in the Wilderness or whatever may be before us O let us never think of going back into Egypt Luk. 17. 32. Remember Lots wife Remember Heb 10. 38. that the just shall live by faith but if any mo● draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him sa it the Lord Remember as I have said even now we find our Egypetan oppression more grievos than ever Now for positive Directions and things to b● indeavoured by all that are brought into the Wilderness take these 1. And before all we would labour for the Pardon of sin and the presence a reconciled God This was Davids great su●● Psal. 79 8. O Remember not against us former inquities but let thy tender mercies speedily prevent u● for we are brought very low and in the 9 verse he us O Lord for the honour of thy name and purge away our sin And over and again in the 80 Psalme as in many others his request is make thy face to shine upon us Moses was very peremptory in this for Exod. 32. 32. he says and now if thou wilt forgive this sin if not blot me I pray thee out of thy book which thou hast written and in the 33. Chapter 15 verse he adds if thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence Unpardoned guilt and an unreconciled God will be very uncomfortable Company in a Wilderness 2. As Moses in the Wilderness Numb 13. we would spy the good land that is before of the twelve that were sent only two Ioshua and Caleb were faithful in their report Moses himself trusted their Relation and put them on to pacify the clamorous People Faith and Hope are the two only faithful spies that will be sure to give such a report of their Discoveries as may both confirme Believers and compose the tumults and quiet the clamours of unbelieving spirits This was it that sustained the Apostles without fainting in all their Afflictions this was the star that guided them thorow their Wilderness 2 Cor. 4. 18. We look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen In our way through the Wilderness we would raise our estimations of Heaven thither we would direct our expectations and thence we would derive our sure consolations we would see if the spies can bring us down now and then a branch of the Grapes of the Land for our refreshment and if our Father will honour us with a present of the first fruits of our inheritance or a Cup of the new Wine of the Kingdome that we may as we use to speak Remember him in the Wilderness Psal. 116. 13. that we may take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. In the History of Israels travesl Exod. 19 2 we read that when they came to the desart and pitched in the Wilderness they encamped before the Mount and Moses in the 3d verse went up unto God We would so order our camp in the Wilderness as that we may be always within sight of the mount We would labour in all our wanderings to keep a clear sight of Heaven and to have our head within the clouds as it is said of Moses Exed 24. 18 Moses went into the midst of the cloud and got him up into the mount 3. The People of God in the Wilderness would remember much both what God hath done formerly to his People in the like condition and what he hath promised to do for these that afterwards shall come into it Albeit the Scripture generally all over aboundeth with matter to this purpose yet for the first what God hath done recommend specially the four last books of Moses which are an exact journal of Israels travels in the Wilderness for the latter what he hath promised to do read the 35 Chapter of Isatah throughot with Chap. 41. from verse 16. to 22. with 42 1● with 49. 9. 10. 11. 12. with 61. to the 9. with 6 24. 25. See Ier. 12. 10. 11. 14. and to the en● with Jer. 23 to thè 5. See Ezek. 34. throughout Psal. 107. to the 9. with this 2 d chap. of 〈◊〉 throughout all these as I said not to exclude other places which may be obvious to those that are better versed in Scripture I do Recommend 4. In the Wilderness we would be much