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A54870	Excellent encouragements against afflictions, or, Expositions of four select Psalmes the XXVII, LXXXIV, LXXXV, and LXXXVII, containing [brace] 1. David's triumph over distresse, 2. Davids hearts desire, 3. The churches exercise under affliction, 4. The great charter of the church / by the learned and laborious, faithfull and prudent minister of God's word, Mr. Thomas Pierson ...	Pierson, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1647 (1647)	Wing P2216; ESTC R33408	298,930	421

1 Cor. 1.2.9 Eph. 2.18 and 3.12 and our perseverance and continuance in the same faith is it that doth manifest our abode and dwelling in Gods house 1 John 2.19 Now this faith is one Eph. 4.5 as God is one and if it be true it worketh by love Gal. 5.6 and is seen by obedience wherein we must be constant Phil. 2.12 Mat. 24.13 and herein we must aporove our selves dwellers in Gods house having our eares boared Ex. 21 6. Psal 40.6 endeavouring as 1 Tim. 1.19 to keepe faith and a good conscience and 2 Tim. 1.13 holding fast the holsome word in faith and love In great houses here on earth we see great men make use of retainers which are not servants in ordinary at bed and board but have houses of their own where for the most part they live and look to their own businesse only at good times as they say and on some speciall occasions they come to their Lord and master and wait upon him in his livery and are welcome to him and well accepted as his servants but in the Church of God which is the house of the living God the Lord of heaven and earth it is not so all whom he owneth and acknowledgeth for his servants are servants in ordinary they dwell in his house Psal 65.4 performing the service of prayer and thanksgiving and the works of obedience every day he hath no retainers acknowledged by him for his servants I mean such as take liberty to live as they list and for the service of God like retainer thinke now and then as on high dayes and once on the Sabbath is well enough Indeed such attendance will serve for a retainer but God acknowledgeth none such for his seruants see Jer. 7.9 10 11. He knoweth that is acknowledgeth those that be his John 10.14 but such as be workers of iniquitie hee knowes them not as Mat. 7.23 So wee may say for idolaters as Papists be in the worship of Saints and of their breaden God they have another master then God namely vaine idols 1 Thess 1.9 Now none can serve two masters Mat. 6.24 Time servers are in the same rank which be first such as make conscience of sinne at Communion times but afterward live as they list also such as embrace and hold true Religion only because the authority under which they live doth enjoyn it and if it should alter by the will of man they would turn with it Thirdly Church Papists who now and then come to our service and sermons to answer the law but in their hearts they are for Romish superstition like the carnall Israelites whose hearts turned back into Aegypt Of these we may say as 1 Kings 18.21 How long halt yee betweene two opinions c. Vse 4 A great comfort and encouragement to them that persevere in the faith and go on in obedience they are blessed and shall certainly if they go on be glorified see Matth. 24.13 Revel 2.10 and 3.12 Every one that is such shall be made a pillar in Gods house and shall go no more out Therefore in generall let all bee encouraged to follow the good servants that improve their masters takents Matth. 25.21.23 and the Apostle Paul 2 Tim. 4.7 8. In speciall let Ministers who are stewards and disposers of the mysteries of God look to their behaviour shewing all good faithfulnesse 1 Cor. 4.2 This fidelity is set downe Luke 12.42 43 44. with 1 Pet. 5.1 2 3 4. Thus much for their happy estate 2. Observation their holy behaviour is answerable they will be still praising thee Gods children and servants who have the happinesse to dwell in Gods house will be much and constant in praising God see Psal 135.1 2. Praise the Lord yee servants of the Lord c. and verse 19. Blesse the Lord O house of Israel blesse the Lord O house of Aaron 20. Blesse the Lord o house of Levi ye that feare the Lord blesse the Lord Psal 145.1 2. I will extoll thee my God and my King I will blesse thy name for ever and ever Every day will I blesse thee Ps 126.1 Hallelujah Praise the Lord o my soule 2. while I live I will praise the Lord. Reason 1 The reasons hereof are two First the sacred Ordinance of God and his holy Commandement Psa 50.15 1 Thess 5.18 This makes it pleasant and comely Ps 147.1 Reason 2 Secondly the power of his grace given to his children and servants which making them mindfull of the Lord of his word and of his works and benefits stirres them up to praise God True grace is enforcing as 2 Cor. 5.14 and hence it is with Gods servants in the matter of praising God as it was with the Apostles for preaching Acts 4.20 and as Luke 19.40 If these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out This by way of use serves Vse 1 First to let us see that praising God is not a thing indifferent but a necessary duty Hence the want of it brings the wrath of God as on Hezekiah 2 Chron. 32.25 Vse 2 Secondly we may see by this that they have slender testimony that they be of Gods house who faile of this duty A usuall thing for many to have no prayers nor praising God in their families as also to go out of Church when singing Psalmes begin as though praise were no part of that service the performance whereof appertains unto them who dwell in Gods house and would be blessed there Thirdly this should serve as a most forcible motive to endeavour this duty which we shall the rather do if we consider the motives in God in his properties his workes for his Church and against his enemies also what our behaviour in heaven should be whereto we should begin to inure our selves here upon earth Verse 5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee the high wayes are in their heart 6. They going through the valley of Baca make it a well 7. They goe from strength to strength every one of them appeareth before God in Zion HEre the Prophet proceedeth in the commendation of the state of Gods people whom hee doth expresly affirme to be blessed and likewise plainly and particularly describeth them by their true and certain properties which are of two sorts First they are such as are strong in the Lord. Secondly they do sincerely and earnestly affect the holy worship of God which property is here fully expressed by three things first their hearts are set upon the high wayes that lead to the Lords Sanctuary verse 5. Secondly they do couragious and comfortably endure and break through all difficulties in the way verse 6. They increase in number and strength in their journey and all of them in troopes appeare before the Lord in Zion verse 7. For the first Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee To bee blessed is to be in an happy estate wherein a man enjoyeth the true and chiefest good which is the true God in

of his own soule that hereby they may be brought to repentance and reformation and so shall Gods favour be restored unto them The use for comfort For comfort this makes greatly to those that find and feele Gods anger towards them either in outward crosses or in inward terrors Herein consider thy state is no worse then Gods dearest children have been in as Job David c. doe therefore as they have done repent of thy sinnes pray for mercy and wait by faith and patience and peace shall come The fift Observation The Petition considered in it self sets before us this practise of Gods Church and children That when they lye under any evill or misery they pray for the removall of Gods anger towards them See Psal 74.1 O God why hast thou cast us off for ever why doth thine anger smoak against the sheep of thy pasture Psal 79.1 c. O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled they have laid Jerusalem on heaps c. Psal 89.46 How long Lord wilt thou hide thy self for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire So did David Psal 38.1 c. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure c. The reason The reason is because they know that all affliction comes by divine dispensation and ordinarily is the proper fruit of Gods anger provoked by our sinnes see Job 5.6 Affliction cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble spring out of the ground It is a thing of Gods sending Isaiah 45.7 I forme the light and create darknesse I make peace and create evill I the Lord do all these things Amos 3.6 Is there evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it Mat. 10.29 A sparrow shall not fall on the ground without your father The sword the famine the noysome beasts and the pestilence are Gods foure sore judgements Ezek. 14.21 The first Use for instruction This serves for instruction and for admonition For instruction two wayes First it lets us see the blindnesse of some that in miseries never consider Gods anger but only look at second causes hereof the prophet Isaiah doth complain Isaiah 26.11 Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see This provokes to anger and desire of private revenge which is a brutish part the dog bites at the stone without regard to him that threw it The second Use for instruction Secondly see what a desperate course they take that under miseries use unlawfull means to help themselves as especially they do that go to wizards and witches they encrease the wrath of God against themselves as Saul did by this course 1 Chron. 10.13 14. See Isaiah 8.19 The first Use for admonition For admonition three wayes First in every misery we must do as Gods Church here doth lift up our thoughts to Gods anger against us provoked by our sinnes For ordinarily misery is a fruit of Gods anger against our iniquity and therefore if we desire the removall of the evill we must take a course for the appeasing of Gods anger which is only to be done through Christ his sonne whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation for sinne Rom. 3.5 1 John 2.2 The second Use for admonition Secondly as we desire to escape evills we must beware of provoking the Lord to anger 1 Cor. 10.22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger then he Jer. 7.19 Do they provoke me to anger saith the Lord do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces The third Use for admonition Thirdly that under every misery we follow the Church in prayer to God for the appeasing of his anger This will prevaile if it be joyned with true humiliation See 2 Chron. 6.36 37. compared with chap. 7.13 14. and consider how farre Ahab prevailed 1 Kings 21.27 29. Verse 5. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations 6. Wilt thou not revive us again that thy people may rejoyce in thee The meaning of the words THese words containe the Churches humble complaint unto God for two great evills first the long continuance of his anger toward them secondly the long delay of his favour from them The long continuance of his anger is twise propounded verse 5. to expresse their deeper sense thereof their more earnest desire to have it removed The delay of his favour is lamented in the sixt verse and there amplified by the good effect of his renewing thereof namely their rejoycing in him In their double complaint of his anger continued note two things The first Observation First that Gods anger may long continue towards his own children and people This is the matter of their complaint in this place and so Psal 74.1 O God why hast thou cast us off for ever why doth thine anger smoak against the sheep of thy pasture Verse 10. O God how long shall the adversacy reproach shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Psalm 77.7 8 9. Will the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more Is his mercie cleane gone for ever doth his promise faile for evermore Hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies Psal 79.5 How long Lord wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousie burne like fire Lament 5.20 22. Wherefore doest thou forget us for ever and forsake us so long time Thou hast utterly rejectedus thou hast been very wroth against us The first Reason The reason hereof is twofold First the committing of sinne and omitting of repentance either in generall as Isaiah 9.13 The people turneth not unto him that smiteth them neither do they seek the Lord of hosts ●4 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and taile branch and rush in one day 17. Every one is an hypocrite and an evill doer and every month speaketh folly for all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still 18. For wickednesse burneth as the fire c. When men grow obstinate in sinne God becomes resolute in punishment see Jer. 6.17.18 19. The watchmen say hearken to the sound of the trumpet the people answer we will not hearken Therefore heare ye nations behold I will bring evill upon this people 21. Fathers and sonnes together shall fall c. Jer. 7.13 15 16 19. I speak unto you rising up early and speaking but ye heard not and I called you but you answered not Therefore will I cast you out of my sight Pray not thou for this people for I will not heare thee Do they provoke me to anger saith the Lord do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces Or they repent not in sincerity Is 58 2 3 6. Or repentance is not practised in particular by the sinners themselves amongst Gods people