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A61876	A disswasive from conformity to the world as also God's severity against impenitent sinners : with a farewel sermon lately preached to a congregation in London / by Henry Stubs.	Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678.	1675 (1675)	Wing S6042; ESTC R26265	80,293	238

in sickness and in health in peace and in trouble in all Adversity and in all Prosperity The Lord be with you with all kind of Aids Helps and Assistances variety of Aids and Assistances we need This is the sence and meaning of this vale dictory Prayer the Lord be with you all The observation that I shall commend to you is this Doct. God with us is a priviledge greatly to be desired and much to be prayed for The Apostle makes this Prayer for the Thessalonians whom he dearly loved who were his hope and joy and Crown of Rejoycing 1 Thes. 2. 19. Could he have thought of a greater mercy he would have wisht it to them In speaking to this great Truth I shall shew 1. That there is a presence of God with his people 2. That this presence of God is a great priviledge 3. That this great priviledge is much to be desired and prayed for 4. The reasons of it 5. And after this apply it 1. There is a presence of God with his people I speak not of the general presence of God whereby he is not far from every one of us Act. 17. 27. For in him we live move and have our being v. 28. not only as we had our being from him at first but we have our being in him as the Beam has its Being in the Sun Of this presence of God you read Psal. 139. from which there is no fleeing v. 7. he is every where v. 8 9 I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord Jer. 23. 24. and Isa. 66. 1. Thus saith the Lord Heaven is my Throne and the Earth my foot stool This general presence of God if seriously considered and believingly apprehended would be of great use But 't is the special presence of God that I am to speak to his favourable and gracious presence such as that wished and desired by Aaron and his Sons of old Num. 6. 24 25 26. The Lord bless thee and keep thee the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the Lord lift up his Countenance upon thee and give thee peace This blessing is saith Ainsworth expounded by the Apostle 2 Cor. 13. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Thus the first branch of the blessing v. 24. The Lord bless thee and keep thee implieth the love of the Father The second branch v. 25. The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee implieth the grace of the Son And the third branch The Lord lift up his Countenance upon thee and give thee peace implieth the communion with the Holy Ghost Now this Loving Gracious Communicative presence of Jehovah Father Son a 〈…〉 Holy Ghost is that Presence of the Lord which is so great a priviledge and so much to be desired The Lords presence with us to bless us with all Spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Eph. 1. 3. And to keep us from evil Joh. 17. 15. And to make his face shine upon us that we may be saved Psal. 80. 3. 7 19. And to be gracious to us through Christ Jesus Eph. 2. 7. And to lift up his countenance upon us that Gladness may be in our hearts Psal. 4. 8. And to give us peace that peace which passeth all understanding and that which may guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus Phil. 4. 7. This this is the presence of God which is so desireable and of which I am to treat That there is such a presence of God with his people appears thus 1. God Asserts it 2. Promises it 3. Hath evidenced it 4. Gods people have acknowledged it 1. God Asserts that there is such a presence of His with his people Isa. 41. 10. Fear thou not saith God for I am with thee And Ezek. 48. 35. The name of the City from that day shall be The Lord is there 2. God hath promised it Ezek. 26. 11 12. I will set my Tabernacle among you and my Soul shall not abhor you And I will walk among you and will be your God and ye shall be my people 3. God hath evidenced it by Preservations Assistances Deliverances and Su●cesses vouchsafed to his people What a mighty Gracious pardoning presence o● God was with Moses and the Children of Israel in bringing them out of Egypt through the Red Sea and through the Wilderness into Canaan Read the story of it in the Book of Exodus especially the Song of Moses Exod. 15. What a presence of God was with David Spi●iting Prospering and Preserving him when hunted like a Partridge upon the Mountains Whence was it that he was not Caught there were Skilful Hunters yet he escaped the Snare for the Lord was with him What a mighty presence of God was there with Daniel He will pray that he will though he be torn in pieces for it He will not cease to make his Supplications to God three times a day though there were a Law made against it Daniel would not fail to be with God and God would not fail to be with Daniel VVhat would Daniel be with God to the Hazard of his life Yes And was not God with him for his Preservation Daniel is cast into the Den of Lions Was he torn or hurt by them No The Lions were muzled their Mouths were shut God shut them Dan. 6. 22. My God saith Daniel hath sent his Angel and hath shut the Lions mouthes that they shall not hurt me Though men will not be obedient yet Lions will touch not my Servant Daniel saith God to the Lions and they are as quiet as Lambs Touch not mine anointed saith God to men and do my Prophets no harm yet men will not obey What a presence of God was there with those three noble Jews when threatned if they would not bow they should burn They will bow to none but God Dan 3. 17 18. They will not loose their interest in God to gain an Interest in the greatest Then the King commanded that they should be bound and cast into the Fiery Furnace v. 20. being cast into it the Fire burned their executioners and the bonds wherewith they were bound but had no Power on their Bodies nor was there a Hair of their Head singed neither were their Coats changed nor had the smell of Fire passed on them Dan. 3. 27. and how came this to pass God was with them What a presence of God had Paul with him At my first Answer saith he no man stood with me but all men forsook me I pray God that it may not be laid to their Charge notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion 2 Tim. 4. 16 17. What a presence of God was there with those that had trial of cruel Mockings and Scourgings of Bonds and Imprisonments of Stoning and Sawing asunder of wandering Wants Afflictions and Torments

fury shall rest upon you And God will watch to bring it upon you Jer. 44. 27. Behold I will watch over them for evil and not for good as one that purposly watcheth and lieth in wait to do mischief Psal. 56 6. God has been wo 〈…〉 when provoked to watch over people to pluck up and break down Jer. 31. 28. And Daniel chap. 9. 13 14 confesses that because God had p 〈…〉 shed them and they had not made their prayer before the Lord their God that they might ●urn from their iniquities and understand the truth therefore the Lord 〈◊〉 watched upon the evil and brought it upon them And he gives the reason For the Lord our God is righteous in all his works for we obeyed not his voice Use 2. If all this be so then consider we our selves Are we purged from our filthiness Is England Is London Are we Is our s●um gone out Our rust gotten off Our filth done away Our dross separated from us Our chaffe scattered and burnt 2. Let me ask you a few Questions 1. Have you been con●inced of your natural and contracted filthiness Si●s were you clean born shaped in holiness Read Ioh 14. 4. Psal. 51. 5. and see whether you were or no. Have you lived wi●hout defiling your selves See Psal. 14. 3. Mark 7. 23. What were your Hearts and Hands If you cannot tell See Jer. 4. 14. Jam. 〈◊〉 8. Mark 7. 21 22 23. What were your Heads Ears Eyes and Tongues If you be ignorant s 〈…〉 John 13. 9. Act. 7. 51. Jer. 6. 10. 2 Pe● 2. 14. Matth. 5. 28. James 3. 6. Ephes 4. 29. I fear many are not yet convinced of their filthiness and if so sure not yet purged from it Some will not believe that to be filthiness which Ged sayes is so All that is in the world is either the lust of the eye c. 1 John 2. 16 and these are not of the pure and holy God but of the dirty sinful world which lies in wickedness 1. The lust of the Eye covetousness which you call by another name viz. Good Hu●bandry is ●●lthine●s 1 Peter 〈◊〉 2. 2. The lust of the Flesh rio●ing drunkenn 〈…〉 chambering wantonness which you call Good Fellowship Courtship Courteousness This is filthiness but you ●o not know it or will not know it for your better information see 1 Thes. 4. 7. Ephes. 5. 3 4. Ro● 13. 13. 3. Pride of Life this also is filthiness though you call it fineness neatness ●omliness But see what God calls it Isa. 4. 4. He calls it filth ordure or excrements the word imports all all such filth or excrement as come● forth from the body either upward as Isa. 28. 8. 2 Pet. 2. 22. or downward as Deut. 23. 14. Ezek 4. 12. The filth of the Daughters of Zion whose pride vanity wantonness and other excesses had no small hand in pulling down Gods judgments See Isa. 3. 16 17. had it been the Daughters of Moab Numb 25. 1. or the Daughters of the Philistines Judg. 14. 1 2. that had been so filthy it would not have provoked so much their filth would not have stunk so bad nor have been so loathsom in the sight of God But for the Daughters of Zion and the Daughters of Jerusalem and the Daughters of Israel and Judah of Professors to be so filthily proud provoked greatly Had it been only the Daughters of men Gen. 6. 2. or the Daughters of a strange god Mal. 2. 11. or the Daughters of the uncircumcised 2 San. 1. 20. it had not been so much but for the Daughters of God Deut 32. 19. to go thus and do thus and 〈◊〉 thus he could not bear it Their gates and garbs and courses and carriages that they prided themselves in and accounted their bravery Isa. 3. 18. were filth and such as made them odious loathsom and abominable in Gods eye saith one whose Judgment I think is not to be contemned ●ataker in loc And see saith he the contrary required 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. So that I believe that which you call fineness now will be found to be filthiness another day that which you call 〈…〉 nery will be found to be fil●hery Those fine Heads Fine Faces Fine Necks Fine Back and Breast Fine Armes and Shoulders Will be found I believe to be Filthy Heads Faces Necks Backs and Breasts Armes and Shoulders Wherefore let me be speak you as Daniel did N●buchadnezar Dan. 4. 27. Wherefore O fine Dames let my counsel be acceptable to you Break off your pride by humility and your shamelesness by shamefastness And get ye quickly to the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. and wash your selves Say to Christ as Peter when Christ told him If he washt not his feet he should have no part in me O Lord said he not my feet onely but my hands and head also You have need to say not my feet onely but my face neck back breast armes and shoulders also Quest. 2. Has the Word the pure Word of God so called Psal. 12. 6. Psalm 119. 140. been instrumental in your purging Psal. 119. 9. Psal. 17. 4. Joh. 17. 17. Quest. 3. Has time been spent about it Have you had your washing scowring and purging days for your Souls as you-have had for the cleaning of your Cloathes Brass and Pew●er and for preservation of the health of your Bodies Some wash their Linnen once a month and scowr their Vessels once a quarter and purge their Bodies Spring and Fall Deal truly what time have you set a part for the washing and purging of your Heads Hearts and Hands Have you your monthly quarterly and half-yearly washing and purging dayes for your Souls Will not Linnen Brass and Pewter Vessels be made clean nor Bodies be purged without allowing time And will Hearts and Souls be purged from their filthiness without allowing time Quest. 4. Has pains been taken about it Has this purging of your selves cost you Prayers and Tears before 't was done That which is foul will not be made clean without pains-taking Naaman was at the pains of taking a long journey to be cleansed from his Leprosie 2 King 5. Quest. 5. Have you made your applica●ion to Christ about your cleansing and purging as once Naaman did to the Prophet 2 King 5. 1. Naaman knew himself to be a Leper 2. Naaman hearing of a Prophet that could cure him comes to him 2 King 5. 3 9. to his door 3. Receives direction what to do for his Cure and though averse at first to use that means yet upon his servants entreaties resolves to make trial of the means 2 King 5. 13 14. 4. He does and practices accordingly goes down into the River and dips himself seven times therein 2 King 5. 14. 5. He returns being Cured to shew his thankfulness 2 King 5. 15. and to testifie his great respect to the Prophet as the instrument of his Cure as did the tenth Leper Luke 17. 15. 6.