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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

his holy worship or as our translation hath it Every one of them in Zion appeareth before God both one in substance for when God is seen in Sion they that see him appear before him The reason of the different manner of translation is the divers acception of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which sometime is a praeposition signifying ad to unto otherwhile it is a noun signifying strong and so noteth the mighty God the ordinary difference is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus is written with 〈◊〉 a long ē but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad a praeposition with a short e and so most Hebrew Books with pricks have it here which moved our new translatours to take it for a praeposition wherein many others godly and learned do joyn with them Which yet others as learned stick not at because they say that vowel is there short because of Maccaph which joyneth two words together and usually doth abreviate the precedent vowel And so the most ancient Greek and Latine translations take it Sept. and Vulg. and divers learned modern Writers as Pagnin Calvin Mollerus and our old Church-Bibles But sith in sense and substance both come to one I will herein follow the ancients and so note in the words two things first that the true God is the God of Gods secondly that this true God shall be seen in Sion the place where the Temple was built For the first The true God is the God of Gods 2 Observation Jos 22.22 The God of gods the Lord Psal 50.1 and 136.2 The mighty God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dan. 11.36 The Lord of lords and King of kings Rev. 17.14 and 19.16 1 Tim. 6.15 The reason of this title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is his divine soveraignety over all those that do partake with him in his name Reason as Angels and Magistrates Angels Psal 97.7 with Heb. 1.6 and Psal 8.6 with Hebr. 2.7 and Magistrates Ps 82.1 Exod. 22.8 9 28. Joh. 10.34 35. And false Gods though unlawfully for they are vanities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now Gods soveraignty over them is plain for Angels Hebr. 1.7 with Job 1.6 and for Magistrates 1 Tim. 6.15 and for idols Exod. 12.12 Dagon fals down before the Ark hath his head and hands cut off 1 Sam. 5.3 4. This serves for instruction admonition and comfort Vse 1 For instruction see the blessed estate of those that have the God of Gods for their God as Psal 33.12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and Psal 144.15 For he hath power over Angels and Kings and Divel Vse 2 For admonition First to choose the God of Gods for our God herein following Rahab Josh 2.9 11. and Joshuah chap. 24.15 and Naaman 2 Kings 5.15 17. Now our way is through Christ John 14 6. Mat. 11.27 Vse 3 Secondly to sanctifie him in our hearts and let him be our fear and dread Isaiah 8.13 Remember the Angels before his glorious Majestie cover their faces with their wings Isaiah 6.2 Vse 4 For comfort to those that stand rightly in covenant with God they need not be dismaid for any terrour as 1 Pet. 3.6 as Psal 23.1 4. and Psal 3.6.8 and Psal 116.7 8. and Psal 118.6 as Dan. 3.16 17. and hereon as Rom. 8.31 what shall we say to these things If God be for us who can be against us The second thing to be noted here is 2 Observation That in Sion the holy hill the seat of his Sanctuary will God be seen This was so well known that from Abrahams naming of it Jehovah-jireh when there he should have sacrificed his son it became a Proverb and common saying In the Mount will the Lord be seene and so Musculus acknowledgeth that all the late writers do translate it though he himself do not very well like of it saying that if he durst he would thinke that those who put pricks to the Bible in Hebrew did without need change the verbe active 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will see into the passive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will be seen But Mercerus a most learned and judicious man for the Hebrew text judgeth it was done by divine providence that posterity might know that there God would place his Sanctuary and therein appeare unto his people and there also have Christ the Lord to be seen and the 72. do translate it by the verb passive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And for proofe see Psal 87.2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. It s the Mountaine of his holinesse beautifull for scituation the joy of the whole earth is Mount Sion where God is known Psal 48.1 2 3. and Psal 50.2 Out of Sion the perfection of beauty hath God shined When Solomon had built his Temple here according to Gods direction then God said I have chosen this place here will I dwell c. 1 Kings 9.3 Quest How was God seen in Sion Answ Not in essence for so no man hath seen God at any time John 1.18 But first in his sacred ordinances which were pledges of his presence as the ark of the covenant Numb 10.35 2 Chr. 6.41 Psal 132.9 Arise O Lord God into thy resting place c. also the cloud sometime filling the house Exod 40.34 2 Chron. 7.2 1 Kings 8.10 11. and the fire consuming the sacrifices Lev. 9.24 1 Kings 18.36 38 39. Secondly and chiefly in his sonne incarnate as Mal. 3.1 with Luke 2.26 27 28. For in Christ the father shewes himself as John 14.9 10. This God was pleased to do Reason 1. First for the honour and advancement of his people Israel as Deut. 3.7 what nation is so great that hath God so nigh unto them Secondly to beautifie his Sanctuary as Hag. 2.7 I will fill this house with glory Hence it is called high 1 Kings 9.8 Thirdly Reason 3. and chiefly to stirre up his people to desire and delight to come to his sanctuary as Ps 42.1 2. Quest What is this to us This place belonged to the Jewes Ans See Is 2.2 Mic. 4.1 It was a type of the Church of Christ as Heb. 12.22 which is therefore called the holy City new Hierusalem Rev. 21.3.10 and thereof its true Mat. 28.19 20. with 18.20 This serves for instruction reprehension admonition and comfort Vse 1 For instruction it lets us see that though difference of place in respect of holinesse of the places be taken away in the new testament as John 4 21.23 yet in respect of Gods facred ordinances there used some places have an honour above others at least for the time when those ordinances are in hand as Mat. 18.20 And so M. Calvin acknowledgeth that there is a beauty belonging to temples and Churches in the new Testament which should draw the affections of the faithfull unto them Vse 2 Secondly a just reproofe of wilfull Recusants and prophane Protestants thar care not for the place of Gods

covenant is a most holy God for the very place of his spirituall abode and of his holy solemn service is an holy place Psal 99.9 Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy Josh 24.19 Ye cannot serve the Lord for he is an holy God Reason 2 Secondly to prefigure and shew forth in plain type the inseparable property of Gods true Church namely that it is holy and sanctified As the holy Temple was built upon the holy hill Moriah so is Gods Church built upon Christ Jesus all holy Christ Iesus as the foundation and fountain that holy thing Luke 1.35 the holy one of God Mark 1.24 Christians thorough his redemption and the sanctification of the spirit holy ones Eph. 5.25.26 27. Christ loved the Church and gave himselfe for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word That hee might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or blemish Hence is that of the Apostle 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are And 2 Cor. 6.16 17. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the uncleane thing and I will receive you And 1 Pet. 2.5 9. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spirituall house an holy Priesthood a chosen generation a royall Priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people This serves for instruction admonition and comfort The use for instruction For instruction It plainly discovers the fearfull estate of all prophane and wicked persons as idolaters swearers Sabbath-breakers drunkards adulterers and the like For though they have beene baptized and do come to the Lords service yea to his holy table yet certainly they are no true and lively members of the Church but like Cham in Noah's ark Gen. 9.18.25 an accursed person in a godly family like chaffe among the corn on the barn-floore Mat. 3.12 like tares among the wheat in the field Mat. 13.38 like drosse among the good fish in the net Mat. 13.47 48.49 like Simon Magus though baptized yet in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquity Acts 8.13.23 For every true member of the Church must needs have fellowship with Christ Iesus the true foundation being built upon him But shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee Psal 94.20 What fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what communion hath light with darknesse and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that beleeveth with an Infidell and what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darknesse we lye and do not the truth 1 Iohn 1.6 The use for admonition For admonition a most effectuall motive unto holinesse as well to get it into our hearts as also to expresse the truth of it in our lives This duty is commanded Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. And 2 Cor. 7.1 Having therefore these promises let us clense our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the fear of God Now though the worker of this holinesse be God alone by his spirit for who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean Job 14.4 Yet ordinarily he doth it in means wherein God requireth that naturall men should exercise themselves For want hereof he complaineth of the Jewes that therein he would have gathered them as an hen doth her chicken under her wings but they would not Matthew 23.37 They would not come to him that they might have life John 5.40 Therefore he saith The Queen of the South shall rise up in judgement against this generation and shall condemn it for shee came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdome of Solomon and behold a greater then Solomon is here Mat. 12.42 Gods meanes for holinesse Gods means for holinesse enjoyned to man is twofold the word and prayer The word is the feed even the immortall seed of our new birth wherein corruption is abolished and grace renewed 1 Pet. 1.23 John 17.17 And prayer obtains the spirit Luke 11.13 which is the author of holinesse in the hearts of Gods children 1 Pet. 1.22 whereupon David prayes to be washed thoroughly to bee purged and washed to have a clean heart created and a right spirit renewed in him Psal 51.2 7 8 and how they must be used Yet every kind of exercise in these ordinances doth not intitle unto holinesse but such as is joyned with reformation of life Prov. 1.23 with true earnest desire after holinesse Is 51.1 with conscionable endeavour of obedience to that we know Acts 5.32 In all which we must wait upon the Lord for that we do desire and not limit him either for time or measure as Coloss 4.2 Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thankesgiving And then if we wait patiently God will hear as Psal 40.1 I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry Now holinesse must be expressed The carefull expressing of holinesse in life must be in all manner of conversation As he which hath called you his holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation 1. Pet. 1.15 seeing then all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse 2 Pet. 3.11 that is as well in the duties of our civill callings as in the exercises of Religion else we have shew of godlinesse but deny the power of it 2 Tim. 3.5 The use for comfort For comfort this makes greatly to all that be truly godly living in the Church for they are living stones surely built upon Christ Iesus the tryed foundation they are pillars in the house of the Lord and shall go no more out Rev. 3.13 Now the truth of our piety and holinesse must be expressed according to Christs direction Luke 6.47 48. to come and hear and doe so shall our building stand against all assaults and blasts of temptations from the world the flesh and the dewill Verse 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. A Second evidence of the Churches happinesse in being the chief object of Gods speciall love The meaning of the words having a greater part and portion therein then any other state or condition of men in the world beside Which indeed was the true