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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62445	Exercitations and meditations upon some texts of Holy Scripture and most in Scripture-phrase and expression. By Samuel Thomsonn, M.A. and Doctor of Physick; formerly student in Magdalen-Hall in Oxford.	Thomsonn, Samuel, b. 1643?	1676 (1676)	Wing T1035; ESTC R221734	178,823	458

15. yet in faith she calls Him O God of Israel the Saviour His way is in the sea and his paths in the mighty waters and his foot-steps are not known Clouds Psal 77. 19. and darkness are round about him and yet righteousness and judgment are the Psal 97. 2. habitation of his throne God hath not said to the house of Jacob seek ye Me in Isai 45. 19. vain Be not as those wicked idolatrous Jews who said It is in vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance and walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts Although Mal. 3. 14. God rewarded their outward labours about His Service that He would not have them to shut the doors for nought nor kindle fire on His altar for nought the meanest service to go unrewarded Let us so wait as we Mal. 1. 10. ought and it will not be unrewarded Let us wait and work work and wait our labour will never be in vain in the Lord. This is our waiting and working 1 Cor. 15. 58. time our praying and seed-time we sowing in righteousness here shall reap Hos 10. 12. 2 Joh. 8. Prov. 11. 18. Psal 84. 6. Psal 126. 6. in mercy hereafter even a full reward and a sure reward He that goeth forth and weepeth in this valley of tears bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him He shall have sheafs in stead of grains even a full measure Luk. 6. 38. pressed down shaken together and running over shall be given to him For God is not unrighteous to forget our work of faith our labour of love and our patience in waiting Be not like that Heb. 6. 10 11 wicked Servant who said My Lord delayeth his coming and so fall to riotting and to be swallowed up with the pleasures and vanities of this world the Lord of that servant will come in Mat. 24. 51. ● day that he looked not for Him and in an hour when he is not aware and will cut him in peices and give him his portion with hypocrites in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone for ever Therefore be servent in spirit Rom. 12. 13. serving the Lord. Watch and pray for thou knowest not at what hour the Master of the house cometh whether at midnight or at the cock-crowing or dawning Mark 13. 35. of the day Lest coming suddenly He ●ind thee sleeping And be not weary in well-doing for in due season thou shalt Gal. 6. 9. reap if thou faint not Wait God's leisure wait His time God knows the sittest time when mercy is ripe for us when we are fit to receive such or such a mercy when we are throughly humbled and reformed when we know how to value the mercy aright how to use it how to improve it wisely and not to abuse it when our hearts are taken off from all creature-props and confidences when God hath exercised and tryed our Graces and us also to the utmost thus long God will have us to wait that the tryal of our faith being much 1 Pet. 1. 7. more precious than of gold that perisheth though it be tryed with fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ Now for the word Only Wait thou only upon God For He alone is able to support us uphold and encourage us in our waiting upon Him to supply all our wants and to fulfill all our desires He will fulfil the desires Psal 145. 19 of them that fear Him He also will hear their cry and save them He alone is able to supply all our need according to His riches in glory by Phill. 4 19. Jesus Christ The word here rendered wait in the Hebrew the Original signifies is silent Which denotes my Soul is silent without any murmuring fretting or repining and so resolved to wait upon God to await His leisure His good-pleasure and blessed will and that with patience contentment and satisfaction I wholly resigning my self to Him So the word in the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies my soul subject or submit thy self wholly unto God be obedient to Him in all things run not to rest or relye upon instruments or means but wait wholly upon God 1. If thou trust on means there thou wilt fail For riches be uncertain therefore trust not in uncertain riches Hod●e Craesus cras Irus Job was the 1 Tim. 6. 17. richest man in the morning before night he was poor to a Proverb As poor as Job Wilt thou set thine eyes upon Prov. 23. 5. Psal 52. 7. Jer. 19 1. Zeph. 1. 18. Psal 62. 10. Isai 30. 12. Hos 10. 13. Luk. 11. 22. that which is not for riches certainly make themselves wings they fly away at an eagle towards heaven Neither our Silver nor our Gold shall be able to deliver us in the day of the Lord's wrath Trust not in oppression c. Do not trust in thine own way nor to thine own righteousness Ezek. 33. 13. nor in thine armour or weapons of war nor in thine own heart Pr●v 28. 26. for the heart of man is deceitful above all Jer. 17. 9. things desperately wicked c. 2. If thou rest or rely on instruments or men they will fail Cursed is the Jer. 17. 5. man that trusteth in man and whose heart departeth from the Lord. A man would think if he should trust in any man surely then it is best to trust in Princes but the Lord bids us Put not Psal 146. 3 4. your trust in Princes nor in the Son of man in whom there is no help his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Therefore trust in the Lord Prov. 3. 5. with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding That so thou mayst say to the Lord Thou art my goodness and my fortress my high tower and my deliverer my shield Psal 144. 2. and He in whom I trust And they that trust in the Lord and wait only upon him shall be as mount Zion which Psal 125. 1. cannot be removed but abideth for ever Thus far for the former part of the Verse My soul wait thou only upon God Now for the latter words for my expectation is from him From the sence and apprehension of the love and favour of God unto us in Christ there follows a patient enduring a confirmed hope or confidence and an undoubted expectation of mercies from God Which we describe thus to be an unwearied and perpetual continuation of the same purpose and resolution of attending upon God Or an abiding with patience and a continual looking for and expectation of help from God My expectation is from Him for temporal spiritual and everlasting mercies 1. For temporals and here 1. For Psal 104. 21. maintenance and provision The young lyons seek their meat from