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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

15.9 and reforming the ife Act. 19.19 Vse 5 For comfort this practise of the godly shewes plainly that the child of God is never left of God in misery without true ground of stay and comfort God may hide his face and we may be troubled Psal 30.7 and 69.2 3. but as Ps 43.5 wait for Heb. 13.5 he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee and consider 2 Cor. 4.8 9. Wee are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despaire persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but not destroyed verse 16. Though the outward man perish yet the inward is renewed daily while wee look not at things that are seen but at things which are not seen The second thing to be noted here 4. Observation is the high esteem and account which the godly Jewes did make of Gods blessings of grace to be received in his holy worship namely that they are to their soules as the rain of blessings that covereth that is as a plentifull raine which abundantly refresheth the dry and thirsty land This may be seen in Davids desire and acknowledgement answerable to the matter in hand Psal 63.1 2. My soule thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is To see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in thy Sanctuary What benefit should David reap by this ver 5. My soule shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatnesse for Christ in grace comes downe into mens hearts as rain upon the mowen grasse as showers that water the earth Psal 72.6 In his dayes shall the righteous flourish verse 7. So Hos 6.3 Reason 1 Now thus they expresse their esteem of Gods grace partly because the remembrance hereof did notably serve to cheer up their soules in their dry sandy and wearisome way as is said before Reason 2 And principally because they knew out of Gods word and by experience in themselves having tasted formerly of Gods good work of grace that Gods graces were to mans soule that which plentifull seasonable rain is to the dry ground which is evident by the state of the soule as well wanting grace as being endued therewith In the want of grace what is the soule but as dry barren ground without raine or water Jer. 17.5 6. Hee whose heart departeth from the Lord shall be like the heath in the desart and shall not be seen when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wildernesse in a salt land and shall not abide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the soule stored with grace is like a field which the Lord hath blessed with plentifull rains viz. both fruitfull in it self and pleasing and profitable to the owner see Ps 72.6.16 When Christ comes downe like showers there shall be an handfull of corne upon the top of the Mountaines the fruit thereof shall shake like Libanon and they of the City shall flourish like grasse of the earth Ezek. 34.26 I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing I will cause the shower to come downe in his season there shall he the showers of blessing and the tree of the field shall yeeld her fruit and the earth shall yeeld her increase This serves for instruction for admonition and comfort Vse 1 For instruction two wayes First see in this resemblance the absolute necessity of grace to the welfare of the soule for so is the moisture of rain or water to the earth that it may be fruitfull and so pleasant and profitable unto man as we may see by the cursed vineyard Is 5.6 and by the Mountains of Gilboa whereon Saul and Jonathan fell 2 Sam. 1.21 which is a most materiall point for every mans heart to be resolved of Vse 2 Secondly this resemblance doth plainly and sweetly illustrate this materiall and weighty point in Christian Religion viz. that saving grace to the soule is a supernaturall gift of God neither is it in the power of man of himself to get saving grace see John 3.27 A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven as before verse 3. Except a man be born from above he cannot see the Kingdome of God with verse 7.8 Can the earth be fruitfull without moysture and can it of it self cause the clouds to drop downe raine upon it No such thing Vse 3 For admonition it serves notably to move every one to set his heart to think seriously on this resemblance as Deut. 32.46 with reference to verse 2. that so wee may labour to bring them to be affected to Gods saving graces as dry ground is toward rain and moisture which we see doth chop and gape after moysture and so in its kind cry to the clouds for showers This was in David Ps 143.6 with 63.1 But alas this thirst is rare to be found Worldly thirsts there are in many the drunkards thirst Deut. 29.19 the worldlings thirst Hab. 2.5 the Epicures thirst whose belly is his God Phil. 3.19 the ambitious mans thirst Diotrephes 3 John 9. and the malicious mans thirst the blood-thirsty Psal 5.6 Thirst after these things doth keep away this thirst after grace without which we shall never escape Dives thirst in hell Luke 16.24 If we have a godly thirst it will appear by diligence in frequenting the place and means of grace Prov. 8.34 bruit beasts for want of water will break thorow hedges and grace-thirsty soules will make their wayes thorow all incumberances to come where they may have satisfaction secondly we will delight herein as David did Psal 4.7 thirdly we will receive satisfaction and shew it Vse 4 For comfort it serves to encourage them that find themselves so affected to the blessings of grace as the Jewes did here viz. to esteem them as the rain of blessings they may assure themselves that they likewise shall find the like fruit and effect of them to be covered that is to be abundantly refreshed by them The third point to be noted here is implyed 5. Observation viz. the place and meanes wherein they assure themselves of these blessings namely in the holy worship of God which he ordained in his Tabernacle which made David to long and to thirst after them verse 2. see Is 2.3 Let us goe up to the Mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob Psal 65.4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest c. The reason hereof is Gods sacred ordinance Reason who hath here assured the blessing and life for 1 Kings 9.3 his eyes and his heart are there perpetually and so as elsewhere it is not to be had Zech. 13.17 18. Now the gospell preached is to us Gods tabernacle Rev. 21.3 as Acts 15.16 This serveth for instruction and that two wayes Vse 1 First see one main cause of the want of grace in mens soules they do not love Gods house nor wait upon him in his ordinances but count them a