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A61129	Of trust in God, or, A discourse concerning the duty of casting our care upon God in all our difficulties together with An exhortation to patient suffering for righteousness, in a sermon on 1 S. Pet. III. 14, 15 / by Nathaniel Spinckes ...	Spinckes, Nathaniel, 1654-1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing S4978; ESTC R1589	208,951	357

sovereign Antidote against that endless Solicitude which the worldly-wise Men too often labour under And whosoever sets himself in good earnest to make tryal of it besides that he acts like a good Christian and takes care for Eternity he will find himself to have moreover laid the best Foundation for his own Happiness in this World Wherein though he cannot expect to be wholly freed from Troubles he will certainly be enabled to bear them with much the greater alacrity by reason of the assurance he has that God on whom he trusts knows how to over-rule them all to his advantage Wherefore it was no unaccountable flight of fancy in the Emperor Antoninus but the result of a serious Contemplation of the Instability of all earthly Enjoyments that he professes * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 2.8 He should not desire to live in the World were it not for a good God and a Providence and the inestimable Benefits that hence arise to Mankind And in truth whosoever weighs with himself the infinite variety of Accidents whereto this Life is obnoxious and the need there is of an Almighty Hand to direct them as may best serve the Ends of living will find abundant cause with this Royal Philosopher * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 L. 6.8 to adore and confide in and rely upon the guidance of that infinite Wisdom which incessantly exerts it self for the good of the Creation And being thus made sensible of his own Insufficiency and taught to place his Confidence in God as a sure Defence against all assaults it is hardly conceivable that whatever Misfortunes should make any lasting impression upon him For having learned to betake himself to God for shelter whensoever any thing of this nature appears he is soon convinced that he needs no longer perplex himself about it because his God having undertaken for him he knows assuredly it shall never hurt him Perhaps he may have it speedily removed but if not he will not suffer himself to be terrify'd at it but will rather consider that it would never be permitted to lie upon him but for some just and weighty Reason and some way or other for his own benefit Thus therefore we are to cast our Care upon God by doing what we are able for our own Relief and then humbly and faithfully depending upon his Providence for the Event We must see to moderate and restrain our Desires and to use the best means we can for obtaining them must do what is in our power must pray to God for what is above it and must be sure to serve and obey him and to shun as much as in us lies whatever might with-hold him from granting our Requests And then but not till then may we safely comfort our selves with a firm persuasion that God will certainly be mindful of us and of our Affairs and that we need not therefore torment our selves upon either of these accounts For although he will not be pleased with a fruitless reliance upon him a stupid neglect of all our concerns that he alone may take care of us yet if we labour aright to entitle our selves to his Protection that is to say if we curb our unreasonable Desires and in all respects use the best means we can for getting those satisfied that are reasonable we need not doubt but his Kindness will be extended to us Let us but acquit our selves well in these Particulars and we may thenceforward freely depend upon it that he will bestow upon us all that he shall see necessary for us and therefore that we shall have no cause to be overwhelmed with Fear or Grief sorrowing as men without hope how hard soever our Condition be but at our lowest ebb may look upon it as a mighty Consolation that we have a most gracious God to concern himself for us and on whom we may at any time cast our Care and rest secure that he will take Care of us when we do so CHAP. II. The Necessity of Casting our Care upon God I Come now in the Second place to observe our indispensible Obligation to this Duty of putting our Trust in God and casting all our Care upon Him A Duty which not only Almighty God may justly expect at our Hands as we are his Creatures and have our whole Subsistence from him but which he hath likewise frequently and very expresly required in the Holy Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament In the former of which the holy Psalmist professes in multitudes of places * Psal 4.5 36.7 37.3 5. 62.8 115.9 c. That his own Trust was constantly in the Lord and earnestly invites others in like manner † Ps 55.22 to commit their ways to God and put their trust in him ‖ Ps 50.15 to cast their burden upon him that he may sustain them * Ps 34.8 22. 40.4 and to call upon him in the day of trouble that he may deliver them And again for their Encouragement herein † Ps 31.19 he promises a Blessedness to the man that maketh the Lord his trust And again he ‖ Ps 91.3 c. 112.7 admires the great Goodness which God had laid up for them that fear him and which he had wrought for them that put their trust in him before the sons of men and undertakes for such that they shall be secure whether from outward dangers or from inward fears and that mercy * Ps 32.10 shall compass them about and * Ps 125 ●● they shall be even as the Mount Sion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever And his Son Solomon speaks also to the same purpose exhorting † Prov. 3.5 to trust in the Lord with all our heart and not to lean to our own understanding as if we could carve better for our selves and assures us that ‖ 28.25 he who putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat and * 29.25 shall be safe and † 16.3 shall have his thoughts established The Prophet Isaiah likewise excites to a ready dependance upon God as the best support in all conditions as a help that will never fail ‖ Isa 26.4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength as a help at hand even in the lowest Estate * 50.10 Who is he among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God as a help in whom whosoever trusted † 57.13 was to possess the Land and to inherit God's holy Mountain and lastly as a help that could secure from all hurt and even from the fear of it ‖ 12.2 Behold God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song he also is become my salvation And at another time * 26.3

‖ Psal 33.18 19. the eye of the Lord to be upon them that fear him and put their trust in his Mercy to deliver their soul from death and to feed them in the time of dearth He proclaims him to be * Psal 17.7 the Saviour of them that put their trust in him He urges it as an Argument for inclining Almighty God to hearken to him and grant his Requests that † Ps 7.1 16.1 25.20 71.1 c. his trust was stedfastly placed in him He blesses himself in the security he found from his continual Dependance upon God to take care of him ‖ Ps 26.1 whereby he was set above the danger of miscarrying And again he praises and admires the great Goodness of God which had been extended not to himself only and his Contemporaries but to their Ancestors who had left them many remembrances of his Mercy to such as had applied to him in their streights and had been helped by him They cried unto him and prevailed They were confident he would be their Defender and their hope had not made them ashamed * Ps 22.4 5. Our father 's trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them They cried unto thee and were delivered they trusted in thee and were no● confounded From all which and divers other like passages in the Book of Psalms it is easie to collect that this Vertue shall not go without its Reward in this present life besides the unconceivable Recompence that shall be allotted it in the other It is a sight highly pleasing to God to behold his poor Creatures sensible of their own insufficiency and flying to him for shelter and his Bowels are presently moved towards them And if their Case be pressing and themselves lay no impediment in the way he will find out a Method for their relief as he did for * 2 Chron. 13.17 18. Abijah and the Men of Judah who when the Army of the Israelites came upon them both before and behind to have cut them off obtained a Victory over them meerly by his Assistance and because they relied upon the Lord God of their Fathers Because they looked up to him in their Distress as their best Safeguard against all their Fears and Dangers and cast themselves wholly upon his Protection this wise Behaviour of theirs engaged his Providence on their side which therefore wrought much more successfully for them than all their own Conduct or Strength or Courage could be supposed to have done Thus it is recorded also of Job that † Job 1.14 c. when it had pleased God to bring him into a very low condition having deprived him of his Children and his Wealth and his Health and soundness of Body so that ‖ c. 2.8 he took a potsheard to scrape himself withall and sat down among the ashes until * c. 30.1 he became a derision to them whose fathers he would have disdained to set with the dogs of his flock as himself expresseth it Still he was not discouraged but professes that though † c. 13 15. God should slay him yet would he trust in him though he were at the point of death and had no appearance of recovery to depend upon this should not make him cast away his Confidence in God but he would still hope for good from him And behold the wonderful effect of this his resolute affiance in God * c. 42.10 The Lord turned the captivity of Job and gave him twice as much as he had before And † v. 16. after this he lived an hundred and forty years and saw his sons and his sons sons even four generations Another very remarkable Instance we have to this purpose in the three Jewish Captives who with undaunted boldness declared before King Nebuchadnezzar what assurance they had that God would rescue them out of his hand ‖ Dan. 3.17 Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King Which confident Assertion of theirs was soon after verified to his great astonishment when the more effectually to defeat their Expectation he had commanded them to be cast into the burning Furnace and burning in a very unusual manner * v. 19 20. being purposely heated seven times more than it was wont to be upon other occasions but presently he beheld them † v. 25. walking in the midst of the fire without any manner of hurt and the Angel of God with them And when they came out it was visible to the King and all his Courtiers ‖ v. 27. That the fire had no power upon their bodies nor was an hair of their head singed neither were their coats changed nor had the smell of fire passed on them So miraculously did the Goodness of God exert it self for their Deliverance But not to insist upon particular Instances the Son of Syrach appeals for the proof of this Truth to the Experience of many Ages directing to * Ecclus 2.10 look at the generations of old and see did ever any trust in the Lord and was confounded or did any abide in his fear and was forsaken or whom did be ever despise that called upon him Which direction whosoever duly follows will find no difficulty in assenting to the following words that † v. 11. the Lord is full of mercy and compassion long-suffering and very pitiful and forgiveth sins and saveth in time of affliction and that as his Majesty is great so is his Mercy He has always been mindful of them that have fled to him in their distress and been ready to proportion his Assistance to their affiance in him In like manner when Maximin the Tyrant had made a Vow to Jupiter That if he got the Victory over Licinius he would utterly extinguish the Christian Name and came on flushed with hopes of an easie Conquest and with a full expectation of putting this impious and bloody Design in execution upon the earnest Prayers of Licinius and his Army ‖ Summe Deus te rogamus Omnem justitiam tibi commendamus salutem nostram tibi commendamus imperium nostrum tibi commendamus Per te vivimus per te victores foelices existimus Summe sancte Deus preces nostras exaudi Brachia nostra ad te tendimus Exaudi sancte summe Deus Lactant. de Mort. praefect c. 46. begging of God to be their Saviour and Protector ascribing all their Power to him and humbly recommending their Safety and their Empire to him and when their General had tried to persuade the Tyrant to a peaceable accommodation but to no purpose his mighty Army was soon overthrown by a very unequal number of these Supplicants and himself forced to fly for his life and thenceforward he found all his attempts to regain his former Station in vain till being at length seiz'd with severe pains even to distraction and having lost his sight in this miserable

hast also given me the shield of thy salvation and thy right hand hath holden me up and thy gentleness hath made me great Thou hast enlarged my steps under me that my feet did not slip I have pursued mine Enemies and overtaken them neither did I turn again till they were consumed I have wounded them that they were not able to rise they are fallen under my feet For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battel thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me c. Where the devout Psalmist at large ascribes all his Strength and the Success of it all his Advantages over his Enemies together with his ability for obtaining it solely to the defence and assistance of the Almighty He knew very well that it was not his own Sword nor his own Arm that brought him this Salvation but God's right hand and his arm and the light of his countenance because he had an Interest in his Favour And therefore saith he at another time * Ps 20.7 8. Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright And again at another † 44.6 7 8. I will not trust in my bow neither shall my sword save me But thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put them to shame that hated us In God we boast all the day long and praise thy name for ever He was too sensible of his own Infirmities to expect Deliverance out of Trouble by his own means notwithstanding the many peculiar Advantages for it which his high station afforded him above those of a meaner rank And therefore when he found himself delivered his way was presently to break forth into Songs of Praise and Thanksgiving to the God of his salvation He had put his Trust in God before-hand as his best his only Safeguard and when he had obtained his End he ascribed the Praise of it not to himself but to God who enabled him to obtain it And that this would be a very proper course and highly becoming the greatest and best of Men to take still upon all occasions cannot be questioned by any who consider their miserable Insufficiency of themselves and the undoubted hazard whereto they expose their Affairs whensoever they venture to trust to any Humane Power for Safety whether it be to their own Authority and Command or to the Force of powerfull Confederates As I shall endeavour more particularly to prove 1. Wherefore to begin with the former of these Their own Authority and Command over others who are bound to be at their beck and venture the utmost in their service whensoever they are called to it This qualifies them for bold attempts and too frequently renders them the Pests of the World and Disturbers of Mankind but is very far from securing them against the very same mischiefs they design for others When once a confidence of their Strength makes them regardless of Almighty God the Lord of Hosts and the uncontroulable Sovereign of themselves and all their Forces upon what variety of disadvantages do they hereby cast themselves How many of them miscarry in their undertakings and never arrive at the Benefit the Glory or Gain the Honour or Profit they aspire after And of those that do how many are there who when advanced to the height of worldly Greatness yet find but little Satisfaction and perhaps less Security in it The Satyrist observed long agoe of the Romans That * Ad generum Gereris sine caede sanguine pauci Descendunt reges siccâ morte tyranni Juv. Sat. 10. to ascend the Throne amongst them was but to make way ordinarily for a more deadly fall and possibly before they were well warm in it And the Histories of all Ages and Countries contain too many Instances of this kind of persons who have hazarded their Souls Bodies Estates Honours Friends all that was dear to him to advance themselves and yet have not succeeded in their Attempts and of others who have succeeded for a while and yet have fallen far short of the Happiness they had vainly promised themselves and at length have died much more miserably and left their Posterity in a worse condition than if they had continued in their former obscurer Post And in truth how should it be otherwise when poor mortal Creatures take upon them to carve out their own Fortunes as if there were none above them to controul their Pride This may justly provoke God to put forth his Hand and humble them for their Insolence letting them see to their cost That * Ps 99.1 2. the Lord is King be the people never so impatient that he sitteth between the Cherubims be the earth never so unquiet and is great in Sion and high above all people And the Prophet Habakkuk denounces a woe against such that might well affright all who have any regard to it from ever daring thus to set their faces against Heaven † Hab. 29 10. Wo to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house that he may set his nest on high that he may be delivered from the power of evil Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people and hast sinned against thy soul Where the Prophet taxes the Babylonians with having used all means to raise themselves without sticking at the injustice of any of them that they had coveted what they had no right to and to obtain it had committed a great deal of Rapine and Bloodshed and made miserable Desolation in many places to the end that they might get above their Neighbours and might use them as barbarously as they pleased and not be afraid of them but might securely look down upon them as a Bird from her high-built Nest looks down without fear upon those Vermin whom she knows unable to reach her at that distance but he tells them withall that this care would not answer their Expectation for it should not tend to their Safety but their Ruine for all their Cruelty and Injustice should return upon themselves and as high as they had advanced themselves and as secure as they thought themselves in their usurped Power they should be brought down and subjected to the Dominion of the Medes Which came to pass not very long after but about 71 years if * Vet. Test Annal. An. Mundi 3466. Archbishop Vsher's Calculation be right when Darius came upon King Nabonidus otherwise called Belshazar at his impious Feast and took away the Kingdom from him together with his Life Which he did saith † Dan. 5.30 31. Daniel being about threescore and two years old Whence it may not be amiss to observe with the ‖ Chron. of the O. Test p. 134. learned Dr. Lightfoot That he was born in the year of Jehoiakim 's death and Jehoiakin 's Captivity and consequently that it pleased God to provide that