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A77987	Habakkuks prayer applyed to the churches present occasions, on Hab. 3. 2. And Christs counsel to the church of Philadelphia, on Rev. 3. 11. / Preached before the provincial assembly of London. By that late reverend and faithful minister of Jesus Christ Mr. Samuel Balmford, pastor of Albons Woodstreet.	Balmford, Samuel, d. 1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing B608; Thomason E1910_2; ESTC R209972	36,857	123

to take knowledge of it as an instance for proof of a reviving work of God and surely the most eminent of all other to spiritual consideration For certainly look how much their deliverance out of Babylon surpassed that out of Egypt so much and more doth this spiritual deliverance by Christ surpasse that out of Babylon Jer. 16. 14 15. and 23. 6 7 8. Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord that it shall no more be said The Lord liveth that brought up the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt But The Lord liveth that brought up the Children of Israel from the Land of the North and from all the Lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into their Land that I gave unto their Fathers In his dayes Judah shull be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his Name whereby he shall be called THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNES Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord that they shall no more say The Lord liveth which brought up the Children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt But The Lord liveth which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the North Countrey and from all Countreys whither I had driven them and they shall dwell in their own Land And this is intimated to be so strange and wonderfull that the former should not be remembred in comparison Isa 43. 18 19. Remember not the former things neither consider the things of old Behold I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth shall ye not know it I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert And this is the Grandmother and ground-work of such special deliverances of the people of God in sundry quarters since experienced as appeared and of which it might be said as of the threatned punishment of his people before Chap. 1. 5. Behold ye and regard and wonder marvellously for God worketh such a work in your dayes which ye will not believe though it be told you c. Reasons Sect. But from Instances come we to Reasons and there are so many insinuated in our Text as we need not at present look further for more 1. God may be relied on for reviving grace in a dead condition because he is the Lord Jehovah Almighty to give a being unto what he pleaseth as the being of beings and therefore able as to give a being unto his threatnings to actuate them as the just ground of fear before so to give a being unto his promises and speeches of grace as the ground of hope We say sometimes of men that they are good to help at a dead lift yet finde them often failing our greatest expectations but that can be said of none in comparison of God And therefore we may believe because this makes for the glory of his power This was Abrahams ground of believing he should have a childe by Sarah He being fully perswaded that what God had promised he was able to perform therefore he considered not his own body now dead when he was about an hundred years old neither yet the deadnesse of Sarah's womb nor staggered at Gods promise but was strong in faith giving glory to God Rom. 4. 18 19 20 21. 2. Because the work here supposed to be revived is Gods own work as we heard Now it stands upon the glory of his wisdome to preserve and sustaine his own special work and not to let it fall and die under his hand and not to leave it in the midst unfitted unfurnished Therefore was that Prayer of the Psalmist Psal 138. 8. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever forsake not the works of thine own hands And therefore is that application made to God by the Prophet Jer. 14. 8 9. Oh the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble wherefore shouldest thou be a stranger in the Land Why as a man astonied Yet thou O Lord art in the midst of us and we are called by thy Name thy work leave us not Apply that other also in Isa 26. 12. Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us for thou hast wrought all our works in us c. 3. Because it concerns the glory of Gods goodnesse and mercy And it is his most excellent nature in the the midst of wrath to remember mercy as we finde in the last clause of our Text. By the way enquire we Is there any wrath or furious indignation in God properly No He is not subject to such passions as man is Fury is not in him Isa 27. 4. The just and severe execution of punishments is called his wrath c. Then why is his wrath said to be somewhat stirred up against his people We answer Gods wrath relates rather to the sins than to the persons of his people The opposition rising in him is not properly against his own work or people but against Sathans work in them or their own evil works And secondly the stirring of his wrath or anger argues rather their apprehension and sense who feele smart and affliction than his affection stirred up against them who doth but as a Chirurgian or a Father handle roughly and correct his own for their good Now hence we may the better conceive how 't is said in way of Petition Lord in wrath remember mercy And this we are to conceive as an eminent excellency in God above the Creature that in wrath he can and will remember mercy towards his own workmanship his Church his people How remember By a merciful change of his work of Providence and so giving real arguments of a mercifull remembrance Now this the poore impotent creature cannot do when it is in passion Man is subject to forget himself and forget mercy in his wrath and fury nor can he stop and cease suddenly in his hot executions and turn his course because he hath not his passions at such a check or command but God can never forget himself and he can easily hold up his severest executions See Exod. 32. 11. to 14. And Moses besought the Lord his God and said Lord Why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast brought forth out of the Land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say For mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people Remember Abraham Isaac and Israel thy servants to whom thou swarest by thine own self and said'st unto them I will multiply your seed as the stars of Heaven and all this Land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed and they shall inherit it for ever Numb 16. 46 47 48. And Moses said unto Aaron Take a censer and put fire therein from off the Altar and