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A41488	God a good master, and protector opened in severall sermons on Esaiah 8.13.14 / by Iohn Goodwin ...	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing G1168; ESTC R22549	88,532	456

reason whereof continuing and purposing to continue in their sinnes they have no ground at all to make any dependence upon God for any grace or favour in what kind soever Psal 7. 11 12. 11. 6. Thirdly and lastly I grant that there is a kind of dependence or trusting on God wherein the creature shall be rejected which shal rather turn to his deeper shame and confusion then any wayes advantage or benefit him in the favour of God The Scripture affords many instances or examples hereof David speaking of his enemies They cryed saith he but there was none to save them even unto the Lord but hee answered them not Then did I beate them small as the dust before the winde c. Psalm 18. 41 42. Their calling and crying unto God shewes plainly that they had some kind of dependence on him as the Apostle argueth this point Rom. 10. 14. How shall they call on him on whom they have not beleeved Invocation always argueth some kinde of hope or dependence one or other So Matth. 7. 22. It is evident that those that should say unto Christ in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy Name and in thy Name cast out Devils c had some kind of dependence upon him for acceptation unto life and salvation and yet we see in the following verse how they were rejected Then will I professe unto them I never knew you depart from me yee that work iniquitie If you desire to see more instances of this kind of dependence you may at leisure peruse these and the like passages Esa 36. 10. Prov. 1. 28. Matth. 7. 26. Jere. 13. 16 c. So that neither is this to be denied but that there have been and are at this day many relyings many dependings upon God which hee will not owne and to which the Sanctuary here spoken of will bee denied These things therefore I answere by way of concession 11. But secondly by way of exception I answere divers things First that howsoever the children and servants of God that is men and women that are already converted and of some standing and continuance in the wayes of grace have speciall incouragements to stay themselves upon God and to depend upon him for protection under or deliverance out of dangers yet as Christ told the people that stood by when that voice came from heaven and spake unto him John 12. 28. that it came not because of him but for their sakes who yet were unbeleevers as apeares verse 37. and so though he was infinitly more beloved of God then they yet in that particular in the miraculous voice though directed particularly unto him God respected them more then him So in those incouragements for dependence on God which are particularly directed to the children and servants of God though God loves these many degrees better then the rest of the world yet may he more respect the residue of men at least his elect which yet lie hid amongst them walking in the same wayes of sin and vanity with them then his children and servants themselves God may therefore speak graciously and comfortably and indulgently to those that are his children and servants to commend the sweetnes of his service unto others and to draw them also to desire part and fellowship in so blessed a businesse as the happinesse of his Fathers servants above the condition he was in for the present moved the Prodigall sonne wee know to returne home to his Fathers house Luk. 15. 17. 12. But secondly suppose this be not so that God hath no such eye upon those that are yet without that are yet the servants of sin and Sathan in those gracious incouragements to his Saints to make their dependence upon him and to secure themselves in his love and care over them in times of danger yet further I answere that not only righteous persons men and women who have already embraced the wayes and service of God have incouragements to come unto him and to depend on him but even others also yea the greatest of sinners and the most unworthy Wash you make you clean c. saith the Lord to the highest rank of sinners Esa 1. 16. 17. c. and then Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes be as skarlet yet shall they be as white as snow though they be as red as crimson yet shall they be as wool If ye be willing and obedient you shall eat the good things of the land Surely God is willing that men should depend upon him for the obtaining of such things as hee promiseth unto them Now you see that here hee promiseth both forgivenesse of sinnes and outward prosperity to those whose sinnes were as skarlet and crimson only upon their repentance I might adde many more passages of like importance If you here againe object But I doubt whether I have repented or no and then I have never the more ground or right to depend upon him for the making good of these or any the like promises unto me To this as also to the maine objection I answere on 13. In the third place Suppose thou hast not as yet repented yet is the way as open unto thee for thy trusting relying and depending upon God for all things that concerne thy peace as it is for thy repentance and thou hast as much right unto and mayest as lawfully doe the one as the other as lawfully depend upon God for all good as repent of thy sinnes Nay as thou hast not only a lawfulnes and a right but even an absolute necessity of Repentance lying upon thee so that woe be unto thee if thou repent not So is there not only a like lawfulnesse and right but a like necessity also of this dependence upon God upon thee and the like condemnation abiding thee if thou refusest to make thy dependence upon him Blessed is that man saith David that maketh the Lord his trust Psal 40. 4. He doth not say blessed is that godly that righteous that penitent man that maketh the Lord his trust but simply and in definitely Blessed is that man whosoever he be how vile how sinful how unworthy soever otherwise this making the Lord his trust the casting of himselfe upon God in way of a true and unfeined dependence will dissolve and remove the misery and curse lying upon him for his sinne and set a Crowne of blessednesse upon his head As on the contrary it is as a title or superscription written upon the forehead of him that perisheth conteyning the cause of his condemnation or perishing Loe this is the man that made not God his strength c. Psal 52. 7. And againe Jere. 17. 5. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man that trusteth in man maketh flesh his arme and whose heart departeth from the Lord. If the departing of the heart from the Lord that is a mans refusing to make his dependence upon him be that which makes him accursed

of haile and as a destroying storme shall cast downe to the earth c. The Crowne of pride c. And the glorious beauty shall fade c. And what followeth In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a Crown of glory for a Diadem of beautie unto the Residue of his people that is to such as did not with the rest depart from him thorough an evill heart of unbeleefe so Ier. 14. 8. calleth God first the hope of Israel and then the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble When God is the hope of Israel that is when Israel depends upon him then he is the Saviour of Israel in his troubles so to the same Prophet and his remnant as hee calls them that is the godly party who had stucke to God and made his dependance upon him when all his people in a manner would have quarrelled and persecuted him out of his faithfulnesse hee makes this promise The Lord said Verily it shall be well with thy Remnant So againe chap. 17. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out her rootes by the river and shall not see when heat commeth but her leafe shall be greene and shall not be carefull in the yeare of drought neither shall cease from yeelding fruit By this tree's not ceasing to yeeld fruit in a year of drought hee expresseth the comfort peace and joy which should live in the heart and soule of those who made the Lord their hope in times of greatest troubles when there should be no visible or outward meanes either to raise or to maintaine them So Ioel 3. 16. The Lord shall roare out of Zion and utter his voyce from Ierusalem but the Lord will be the hope or harbour of his people and the strength of the children of Israel So Nahum 1. 7. The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and hee knoweth that is regardeth or respecteth them that trust in him You may adde to these diverse other Scriptures which are strongly bent this way as Amos 9. 8 9. Mal. 3. 18. Esa 1. 27. Esa 6. 13. In all which places we shall easily perceive that the fairest and fullest streame runnes upon either a preservation from or a protection under or a deliverance out of publique judgements and calamities to those that sanctifie God by dependance on him in such times 3 If it be objected but are not those who do sanctifie God and depend upon him many times taken away and utterly consumed and destroyed by publique judgements as pestilence sword c. and that in such a manner as no difference at all can be made betweene them and others To this I answer two things First it is not ordinarily so as may appeare from the Scriptures cited in way of proofe for our Doctrine it is seldome seene or heard of that a man is cut off by a publique judgement in the strength of his dependance upon God Godly men indeed if they pollute their Sanctuary in heaven with inordinate feares may suffer in such a way Peters faith shaking his life wee know sympathized and was shaken also with it but this is that whereof I conceive few instances if any can be given that a publike judgment should be sent to slay any man that hath his hand fast upon the hornes of this Altar For the most part faith and dependance upon God as Iames speakes of mercy rejoyce against judgement and triumph over the stroke thereof 4 Secondly suppose men and women have beene thus taken in their bed of this heavenly security have beene smitten when they have beene close and strong and intire in their dependance upon God yet impavidos feriebant ruinae as he said the stroke did them no great harme Why because their hearts were in Sanctuary the truth and faithfulnesse of God who hath in effect promised that all things shall work together for good to those that love him was shield and buckler to the inner man so that as Paul speakes Phil. 1. that to live and to die were to him alike the difference betweene the one and the other was so narrow in his eye that hee was in a straight he knew not which to chuse but yet of the two serting circumstances aside hee would rather die than live hee would be dissolved and be with Christ that was best for him So when the heart or soule of a man is erected and lifted up on high in a rich dependance upon God the one way or the other going or staying life or death there is little to chuse betweene them Feare hath paine saith Iohn and the truth is that scarce any thing else hath paine except there be some kinde of feare or other joyned with it Take any sore or tormenting disease or sicknesse as stone or gout or the like if there were not some apprehensions and feare of the continuance or returne of them the very instant paine would be easily digested and no great matter made of it so when God hath guarded and fenced the heart of a man with the presence of his grace as it were with a wall of fire round about so that no feare or apprehension of evill can breake in upon it to smite and wound it the evill it selfe when it comes is of no great concernment it cannot much afflict or annoy the soule so that whether preservation from danger or no preservation whether deliverance out of danger or no deliverance I meane till death that comes much to the same to those to whom God will be a Sanctuary that is to those that sanctifie him If God be a Sanctuary either from the evill or from the feare of the evill it makes no great difference in the estate and condition of a Christian Of the two he hath the better accōmodation from his Sanctuary I conceive whose protection serveth against feares The reasons of the point are foure CHAP. XIV Containing the grounds or reasons of the point in number foure 1. FIrst God will assuredly be a Sanctuary to them who sanctifie him by dependance because hee hath made himfelfe a debter by promise unto his people of safety deliverance upon such termes wee may speake it with reverence that hee is intangled with his owne words which are as strong or stronger than himselfe to doe as much as this comes to to save and protect his people that truly make their dependance upon him The Lord redeemeth the soule of his servants and none that trust in him shall perish Psalme 34. 22. None from the greatest to the least of them Put your trust saith King Iehosaphat 2 Chron. 20. 20. in the Lord your God and yee shall be assured beleeve his Prophets and you shall prosper besides many such like promises you have in Scripture for the present I onely adde that in the Prophet Esa chap. 57. 17. Vanity shall take them that