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A39885	God's goodness to this Israel in all ages being the substance of some sermons on Psalm LXXIII, I/ by J.F., minister of the gospel.	J. F. (James Forbs), 1629?-1712.	1700 (1700)	Wing F1443; ESTC R32028	51,365	93

is under the 7th Trumpet ch 11. there was not before them any considerable visible Separation from the Church of Rome not so with us 4. There were but two then i. e. a few in comparison of what shall be after if we suffer for Christ now we shall have many Co-partners 5. That very work of God which has been begun amongst us I mean Reformation in Doctrine Worship and Discipline shall some where or other in God's own time and way go on and prosper maugre all opposition Lastly The consideration and belief of this Truth that the Witnesses are slain and risen may teach us how to demean our selves in this Day 1. Towards God 2. Enemies 3. One another 4. In respect of our selves Towards God 1. We are Monsters for Ingratitude if we do not trumpet forth his Praises aloud for bringing us forth in such a glorious Age and Time certainly if our Godly Ancestors had seen and heard what we now do especially they that Lived about an hundred Years ago would have said Now the Kingdom of our God and of his Christ is Come 2. Be very Patient under all the Corrections and Chastisements of this Good God 1. Your Sufferings are but a Flea-bite to the Sufferings of others that have gone before you 2. Your Punishments are still less than your Sin 's deserts 3. Consider what the Glorious Son of God hath suffered for you and yours is nothing 4. It 's a most glorious honourable and advantageous thing to suffer for Christ in a righteous Cause See 1 Pet. 4.13 14 15 16. with several others formerly commended to you 5. Your sufferings may be sharp for a Season but short 6. Your Sufferings after a begun Work of Reformation are for the Trial of your Faith and Patience 1 Pet. 1.6 7. Heb. 10.36 37 38. Rev. 14.12 Here is the Patience of the Saints here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus 7. The issue of your Sufferings will be Glorious to your selves but dreadful to your Enemies 1 Pet. 4.17 2 Thess 1.4 5 6. Towards Enemies 1. Look upon them as the Rod of God upon you for your sins of Ingratitude Earthly-mindedness Carnality Pride Self-seeking Hypocrisy Formality c. 2. If your Enemies are any kin to Antichrist you need not you ought not to fear them with a slavish fear for they are falling and going down even when they seem to rise 3. Seeing you can in some measure guess at the issue and event of things pity and pray for Persecutors as knowing what that Wrath that abides them is unless they repent 4. Abhor the very thoughts of a sinful compliance with any Antichristian pollutions and abominations in God's Worship if you had lived a hundred Years ago there had been some colourable excuse for your Conformity and Compliance but now there can be one 1 John 5. ult My little Children keep your selves from Idols Towards one another 1. Love and Honor all under what Name or Notion soever that have but their Faces Zion ward especially such as have Suffer'd do now or may yet Suffer for the Word of God and for the Testimony of Jesus the rebukes of God upon Professors call aloud to them to lay aside their sinful differences and divisions which have undone them and to love one another not in Word but in Deed with a pure heart fervently You have all common Enemies and why you should not love one another I know not 2. If any that bear the Name of Christ should solicit you to joyn with them in any sinful irregular course to work your Deliverance hearken not to them God himself does now stand engaged to go on with that which is God's Work indeed and therefore he needs not your hand nor help In respect of your selves 1. Tho' the great slaying of the Witnesses be past yet each of us ought to be always prepared for the greatest of Tryals because no particular Person can at any time promise himself an absolute exemption from Sufferings from this time forth to the end of the World and it stands with reason in should be so for the Destruction of Antichrist being gradual by seven several Vials when one Vial has done its work there is still something more of him to be destroyed and his utter Destruction will not be till the end of the World how can it then be otherwise but so long as he has any power or being he will he making some bustle against those that oppose Some are of opinion that even after the conversion of the Jews which will be a most glorious time the Church will have great troubles and that for forty five Years together Daniel 12. Begin Nay and after the 1000 Years Rev. 20.1 They shall be in as great trouble as ever they knew from the beginning of the World to that Day which will be immediately before the coming of the Son of God to Judgment Many have strongly fancied that the time was come that the should have nothing to do but to rule the World the Lord in mercy convince them of their mistakes certainly a glorious Day may be look'd for before this World be at an end but it is so called comparatively i.e. in respect of our present Day and Times that ar past 2. This calls aloud upon us to be deeply humbled before the Lord because of our manifold sins and unsuitableness of Spirit to the Work of our Day We may well say thus Is the Work of Reformation now upon the Wheel of Providence And is Antichrist a declining Ah how does the Work stick and go on so slowly Sure it 's my Sins and others that retards and hinders it When I consider the great Distempers of the Spirits of all sorts of Professors I do not at all wonder at what has befallen us 3. Let us therefore by all means labour for such a Spirit as may suit with the Work of our Day a Spirit of Understanding to know what is God's Work and what ours to know what is Antichristian and what not a Spirit of Wisdom to find out such Holy and righteous ways as may most conduce for the carrying on of this Work a Spirit of Humility Mortification Self-denial Sincerity Faithfulness holy Courage and Boldness a Spirit of Prayer Faith and Zeal for God's Glory They that would yet know more particularly under what dispensation we now are and what hereafter may be expected must study well the 7th Trumpet Rev. 11. End and the seven Vials Chap. 16. I will but just give a very short hint at each of the Vials and so shut up all The 1st is poured out upon that which is the Earth in the Antichristian World i. e. the Fundamentals of the Popish Kingdom are struck at and such Doctrines upon which the whole structure of Antichristianism is built without which it cannot stand no more than the Fabrick of this Universe without the Earth Erasmus says of Luther that he committed two unpardonable faults in medling with the Popes Mitre and the Monks Bellies Antichrist's Ruine is the Churches Rise the confuting of their Antichristian Doctrines did clear up the principal Fundamental Truths of the Gospel 2. Upon the Sea i. e. Their Worship and Ordinances by which they trade on with another The first Reformers were so taken up with the clearing up of the Doctrinal part of the Gospel that they could not have the while to think of mattes of Worship which was done to some purpose after in the Council of Trent by Chemnitius and others 3. Is upon the Rivers and Fountains of Waters i. e. The Romish Clergy It 's by them the Christians of the Antichristian World are moistended they come from the Sea and run into it they were Originally bred by the Romish Religion and are the great supporters of it they are Wells of Water 2 Pet. 2. And Rev. 16.5 6 7. It 's they that have shed the Blood of Saints and Prophets According to this interpretation these three Vials are at least in some measure poured forth already only more may be yet expected 4. Upon the Sun i. e. Either some that are eminent for upholding Antichrist in his civil power and jurisdiction such as the King of Spain the Pope's Eldest Son or the House of Austria or something that 's a great light to them in respect of their Ecclesiastical State such as is the whole Body of their Cannon Law or both these 5. Is upon the seat of the Beast this may be understood of the Destruction of Rome or the Pope's Principality as the 5th Trumpet set him upon his Throne the 5th Vial shall Dethrone him 6. Dries up the great River Euphrates i. e. Destroys the Great Turk and his Empire which shall make way for the Kings of the East to go up into their own Land i. e. The shall the Jews be Converted the Glory of which time I have discoursed at large in my Treatise of the Fifth Monarchy 7. and last puts an end to all Antichrist is not only utterly ruined but also Gog and Magog all sorts of Christs and the Churches Enemies The Lambs Marriage Day is solemnized before God Angels and Men and his Spouse is caught up to himself to be with the Lord for ever The Spirit and the Bride saith Come even so come quickly Lord Jesus Amen And let every Soul say Amen Truly God is good to Israel and to such as are of a clean heart Gloria perpetuo sit tribuenda Deo FINIS

the good Kings David Solomon Asa Jehosaphat Hezekiah Josiah O how good was God to them even in Babylon How many of them were kept faithful in the worst times he sent extraordinary Prophets to Preach Repentance to them after they had revolted Isaiah and Jeremiah were commissioned to prophesy their deliverance from the Babylonish Captivity Daniel prayed for it O how miraculously were they preserved from Haman's bloody Conspiracy and intended Massacre in Esther and Mordecai's time O how they were preserved in Daniel's time notwithstanding of that tyrannical Edict and Decree That whosoever would not fall down before their abominable idolatrous Image should be thrown into the Fiery Furnace O the goodness of God to them in stirring up the Spirit of Nehemiah and Ezra for rebuilding the Temple O the goodness of God in raising Cyrus to be so favourable to them as to grant their desire and give them all due Encouragement to go on in the Work of the Lord. If I should proceed to particulars here I should not know where to make an end The providences of God to them in Aegypt may be known from the 15th Chap. of Exod. the 78.105 and 106. Psalms with the 7th Chap. of the Acts. If you would know God's goodness to them under the Judges and Kings Read Joshua Judges Samuel Kings and Chronicles If while in Babylon Read Esther Ezra and Nehemiah after the deliverance Read the Books commonly called Apocrypha to which we may give an Historical Faith as to any other Histories O how gloriously good was God in raising up Judas Maccabeus to rescue his Brethren and People from the cruel Tyranny of Antiochus Epiphanes A short Epitome and Summary Recapitulation of all you have Rom. 9.4 5. Who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the Adoption they were the only Children of God and the Glory i. e. either all that Glory whereby God exalted them above others in respect of many miraculous Deliverances or the Ark of the Covenant so called 1 Sam. 4.21 22. Because the Cherubims of Glory covered it as also it was a Shadow and Figure of the Divine Glory and Majesty of God Psal 26.8 Heb. 9.5 And the Covenants i. e. the Tables of the Law Deut. 9.11 Heb. 9.4 And the Lawgiving i. e. the judicial Law the former being understood of the Moral and the Service of God i. e. his Worship which was first Preached in the Tabernacle afterwards in Solomon's Temple and the promises to wit of sending the Messiah and with him all other Blessings and Benefits Acts 2.39 Eph. 2.12 whose are the Fathers i. e. they were descended of the Patriarchs and the Fathers are of them and of whom Christ is for as much as concern the Flesh who is God over all Blessed for ever Amen Before I proceed I would have you make this use of what has been said 1. Was God so good to his People of Old And is not he the same still Yesterday to Day and for evermore Trust in the Lord and do good and verily thou shalt be fed as well as they Psal 37.3 The Mercy of the Lord endureth for ever 2. When the Lord 's peculiar ones provoked him with their Sins they were not privileged with an exemption from Punishments as we may see at this Day Let us learn to stand in awe and fear to offend This very use the Apostle Paul makes of this point Rom. 11.20 21 22 23. Because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by Faith Be not high minded but fear For if God spared not the natural branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on them which fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off Fourthly God's goodness to his Gospel-Church far exceeds his goodness to them of old 1. Gospel-Converts are far more numerous than formerly the Jews and their Proselytes were but very few in comparison of all the rest of the World then and of Gospel-Converts now For now there are Thousands in Germany Thousands in France Thousands in Britaine Netherlands 2. Christ himself is now actually come Dead Risen Ascended and Glorified and therefore the Glory of the latter House is greater than that of the former Hag. 2.9 They were promised that he should come and were accordingly to believe on him which made honest Abraham so to rejoyce in seeing his Day though but a far off O how good is the Lord then to us whose lot is fallen under this dispensation of Grace where we may clearly discern that the work of reconciliation between God and us is perfectly accomplished Divine Justice is satisfied to the full and all our Enemies so far conquered that they cannot in the least injure us 3. God hath delivered us from the Ceremonies of Moses's Law a Yoak that neither they nor their Fathers were well able to bear Acts 15.10 Their Ceremonies were so many and each of them significant that it was a great burden to their Memories to remember all They were also very costly and chargeably they must kill many Lambs Goats Bullocks keep several solemn Festivals and all at Jerusalem but now the goodness of God to us is in this that he does not put us upon any such tedious Journies he does not require such chargeable Sacrifices of us not so limit his Worship to any one place but it is as acceptable in one as another John 4.24 25. 1 Tim. 2.8 Deliverance from the Ceremonial Law is an act of favour to us upon this account also that it was a Wall of separation in a visible way to distinguish between the Jews and us to signify that they were the People of God and we not Ephes 2.14 Colos 2.14 4. Their Ordinances were comparatively carnal Heb. 9.10 Which stood only in Meats and Drinks and Washings and were imposed on them till the time of Reformation ours are far more Spiritual they had many Sacraments to wit Manna the Rock the Pillar of the Cloud brazen Serpent Circumcision and the paschal Lamb in stead of all these we have only Baptism and the Lord's Supper 5. Though the Covenant under which they were and we are be the same for substance yet in respect of the diversity of administration our mercy far exceeds theirs 1. Their Covenant was in a more legal strain than ours Rom. 10.5 6. Moses describeth the Righteousness which is of the Law That the Man which doth these things shall live by them but the Righteousness which is of Faith speaketh on this wise Say not in thine Heart who shall ascend the word is nigh thee even in thy Mouth and in thine Heart that if thou shalt confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine Heart that God hath raised him from the Dead thou shalt be saved 2. Their's was administred by the Hands of Moses a typical Mediator only ours by Christ himself Gal. 3.19 Heb. 1.1 2. God who at