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A93833	Rupes Israelis: = The rock of Israel. A little part of its glory laid forth in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the honorable House of Commons, at their monthly fast, Apr. 24. 1644. By Edmund Staunton, D.D. minister at Kingston upon Thames, in the county of Surrey, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Staunton, Edmund, 1600-1671.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5342; Thomason E48_6; ESTC R11555	28,150	40

safety not onely on a rock for then possibly they might be beaten off by winds and weather but in a rock yea in a strong Tower within a rock The name of the Lord is a strong Tower the righteous runne into it and are safe Againe this discovers the folly of insulting enemies they see weak Israel but not the strong rock of Israel were their eyes opened to see the thousands of fiery Chariots upon the Mountaines they would say there were more for Israel then against it the Arke is with Israel and where the Arke goes ● Sam cap. 5. there goes victory and if the Philistins doe by a permissive providence take the Arke and runne away with it the curse of God followes them they set it in the house of Dagon and then down fals Dagon they carry it from Ashdod to Gath from Gath to Ekron but still the plague of Emrods vexeth them and a very great destructioin fals upon the place where the Arke comes and the Philistins are never at quiet till they have returned the Arke back again to Israel Psal 137 7. Obad. ver 3.4 Edom cries against Jerusalem Rase it rase it even to the foundations thereof but what saith the rock of Israel against Edom The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is high that saist in thy heart Who shall bring me downe to the ground though thou exalt thy selfe as the Eagle and though thou set thy nest among the Stars thence will I bring thee downe saith the Lord. Lastly this shewes whence it is that Israel flies or fals at any time before their enemies Ferus Declam in Deut. Deus vend●d●t binc quod pau●i saepe multos supereat imo etiam quod Turcae sup●rarunt Christiani Deut. 32.30 that a few men of Ai rout the thousands of Israel yea that the very Turks over-run Christians it is because the rock of Israel forsakes Israel How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up the sinne of Israel makes the God of Israel * Junius Alicnis Do●inis subjecit to sell off Israel to part as it were with his property in Israel and to put them into the hands of enemies to be seeming owners of them and Lords over them Yea the Lord is forced to sell his people for a thing of nought Psal 44.12 as the Church complaines God is as it were weary of his people and puts them off upon any tearmes God is said not to shut up whē not deliver his into the hands of enemies Psal 31.8 c. the enemy never makes a purchase of Israel till God sels off Israel the enemy may catch and catch at Israel but in vaine till God gives up Israel into their hands the enemy never captives Israel till the Lord shuts up and imprisons Israel in the power of the enemies but why doth the rock forsake Israel because Israel forsakes his rock It is but the dizzinesse of our braines to think that the rock leaves us when indeed we leave that Israel beleeves not that God will carry on his work notwithstanding all the signes and wonders wrought for Israel Israel stoopes to a base compliance with Ashur Israel murmures for peace as of old Numb 14. against Caleb and Joshua when they saw that the sword must decide the controversie between them and the Canaanites We have a generation that are mad upon peace any peace rather then faile the bloudy peace of Ireland and that upon any termes though they part with the Gospel of peace and the God of peace to make the purchase Beloved should such a degenerous spirit prevaile among those that are intrusted with the great affaires of Church and State which the Lord forbid then would the generation of the faithfull say with sad hearts and weeping eyes come let us pack up and be gone and farewell England and this should be my prophesie Isa 17.9 10. There shall be great desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not beene mindfull of the rock of thy strength Oh! it is a sad thing to see the rebellion of a child constraine a loving father to give up the child into the bloudy hands of an enemy inraged against child and father Vse 2 In the second place this may be for triall whether or no the rock of Israel be our rock And this will be a ground of rejoycing for property and interest is the ground of comfort First this rock without us if ours breaks the rock within us that naturall hardnesse of heart and rebellion of spirit against God this rock turnes thy rock into a standing water to wit thy hard heart Psal 114.8 alluded to into constant meltings and mournings for sinne it turnes thy flint into a fountaine of waters but if all the counsels of the word fall upon thy heart as the seed upon the rock Luke 8.13 Jer. 5.3 if God smite thee with a rod and thou be not grieved yea consume thee and yet thou refusest to receive correction yea makest thy face harder then a rock and refusest to return if neither Gods speaking to thy rocky heart in a word of instruction nor his smiting of thy rocky heart with a rod of correction doth make thee break and yeeld before him then hast thou for the present cause enough to question thy comfortable right unto or thy saving interest in this rock of Israel Againe if Israels rock be thy rock then hast thou a high prizing of a fast cleaving to this rock of Israel a prizing of it as the Merchants Pearle yea as a rock of Pearle a cleaving to it as a drowning man hangs upon a rock sticks to it and if he dies dies there with his armes grasping and hands clinging as it it were pulling and haling the rock unto him a beleever looks upon God in Christ as his richest treasure which he most prizes as his safest resuge Exod. 17. to which he cleaveth That rock in the Wildernesse which the Heathen lookt upon as a bare hard stone of no worth or value that very rock by Israel was eyed as a fountaine of life to them and was of great esteeme among them and that Christ who being in this world as in a Wildernesse was lookt upon by the men of the world Isa 53.2 as without form or comlinesse as if there were no beauty in him why he should be desired that very Christ is lookt upon by beleevers as the chiefe corner-stone 1 Pet. 2.6 elect and precious All mankind having suffered shipwrack in Adam Christ appeares as a planck to carry us to shoare nay as a rock to secure our selves in the Gospel is as a finger pointing us unto or as a hand leading and carrying us unto and setting us upon the rock Christ and then O what

fixed trusting in the Lord. Trust not in * Such they used to fight to of old Charets cald by the Greeks a Weem Chr. Syn. Psal 33.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because they held two nor yet in horses though strong and swift they are vaine things to save a man neither shall they deliver any by their great strength but remember the name of the Lord your God trust in that God who once helpt the poore distressed Romans against Rhadagaisus King of the Goths when in oneday above an hundred thousand Goths were slaine Austin de civ Dei l. 5. c. 23. Ne uno quidem non extincto sed nec vulnerato Romanorum Isa 42.8 the King and his sonnes taken prisoners yet not one of the Romans slaine no nor wounded trust in that God who hath ingaged his very God-head his I AM for Israels good I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven Images Againe let me beseech you for the Lords sake to study singlenesse of heart and abhorre private-selfe respects in managing the publike cause of God startle at the very thoughts of hedging in your owne ends or personall advantages in point of honor Rem magnam p. aestas Zoile si boeus es Austin Qui contemnit judicia laudatium contemnit suspicantium temeritatem gaine or command either for you or yours to be squint-eyed and selfe-aimed in transacting the great affaires of God and his Church stands not with a love of Truth and Peace move upon pious principles goe on with plaine honest hearts neglect the judgement of those that praise you and contemne the rashnesse of those that censure you who would not be faithfull in the cause of God and in the quarrell of his people when they see others to be faithfull slaves and vassals to the Pope and Devill M. Reguli fidetuas inim●c●● faceret nos fideles Deo hominibus Who would not be faithfull by the light of grace to God and the Godly his friends when Mar. Regulus a Heathen by the light of nature was faithfull to his very enemies Honoured Patriots I will hold you no longer in the gate or Preface but humbly intreat you to hoise up your sailes of pious resolutions or if up already doe not narrow them much lesse take them quite downe for all the prayers in the world that are worth the having are yours and make up a full gale to carry you on amaine you shall ride over all the waves and billowes of contradictions and oppositions whatsoever Wherefore be clothed with Christian fortitude and magnanimity of spirit as with armour of proofe Watch yee stand fast 1 Cor. 16.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quit your selves like men be strong you have to deale with adversaries which are slie and subtile therefore watch which are unwearied which never have done therefore hold out stand fast which are stout and hardy therefore quit your selves like men be strong to break through difficulties and dangers though many 1 Cor. 15.58 mighty Be stedfast immovable alwaies abounding in this work of the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 know your labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord be stedfast by faith founded upon Christ as a house built upon a Rock 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and from thence be immovable unshaken by winds or weather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by feares or flatteries be abounding and alwayes abounding in this work of the Lord know you can never doe enough for that God who hath done so much for you and will doe yet more also let your hearts be alwayes flaming with love and zeale for God his cause and glory let your heads and hands be alwayes working and know for your comfort and incouragement God will abundantly reward you What though you spend your time your strength your estates God will recompence it even seven-fold into the bosome of you and yours your labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. Consider the goodly man-child of Reformation is come nigh unto the birth it will be your comfort and honour unto eternity upon pious principles to midwife it unto a safe delivery let the feare of God put you upon the work Exod 1.21 alluded to and then he shall make you houses shall multiply your children inlarge your estates make your names and families great from generation to generation God is for us who can be against us the condition of England and Scotland is as of old the case of Israel and Iudah we were opprest together and all that took us captives held us fast Jer. 50 33 34. they refused to let us goe but our Redeemer is strong the Lord of Hosts is his Name he shall throughly plead our cause that he may give rest to our Land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon so prayes so hopes Yours to serve you because you are Christs and the Publickes EDMUND STAUNTON Die Mercurii 24. April 1644. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That Sir Robert Harley and Sir Robert Pye doe from this House give thanks unto Doctor Staunton and Master Green for the great paines they took in the Sermons they preached this day at Saint Margarets Westminster at the intreaty of this House it being the day of publike Humiliation and they are desired to Print their Sermons And it is Ordered that none shall presume to Print their or either of their Sermons but by the authority of their hands writing H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I authorise Christopher Meredith to Print my Sermon EDMUND STAUNTON A SERMON Preached at the LATE FAST Before the Honorable House of COMMONS DEUT. 32.31 For their rock is not as our Rock even our enemies themselves being Iudges THe words are a sweet straine in a Song of Moses full of faith and triumph and suite well enough with a day of mournings for the a Lev. 25.9 Jubile trumpet sounded in the day of Atonement and our lowest humiliations are the inlets of our highest exaltations Wee may looke upon the text as a b Tostat in Loc. Caution laid in to prevent the insulting and blaspheming language of a sometimes prevailing enemy who might vaunt and say Our Arme hath broken Israel and our gods are victorious No. saith Moses ver 30. How should one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their Rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up to wit c According to the promise made to Israel Lev. 26.7.8 See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in loc lun in loc one Israelite could not but chase a thousand enemies and two could not but put ten thousand to flight except their rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up Or thus there is an impossibility that one of the enemies should chase a thousand Israelites or two put ten thousand to flight except

hold a Feast Exod. 5.1.3 and to offer Sacrifice to the Lord our God that is the quarrell of Religion they groaned under the heavie iron yoake of bondage longed to have that taken off that is the quarrell of Liberties Our Religion and Liberties are setled by the lawes of the Land not so Israels in Egypt and therefore the Antichristian party in their attempts to wrest them from us are more unjust and cruell then of old was Egypt Had Moses and Aaron quitted their Religion and Liberties all the quarrell between Israel and Egypt had been ended and would our Lords and Commons now at length after serious consultation and mature deliberation resolve for themselves and all the Kingdome to imbrace any Religion and submit to any way of Civill Government which a Malignant Jesuited Councell too nigh the Throne would tender or impose would the Protestant party in City and Countries conclude upon it to make all their wils and to leave no other Legacies to their children and posterity but Popery and Slavery upon these termes we might have peace presently even our bellies full Fifthly the way of Egypts oppressing Israel was by secret subtilties and open hostilities Come on say they let us deale wisely with them a Exod. 1.10 there is subtilty they fell upon them but with all their strength even all the Chariots of Egypt b Exod. 14.7 there 's hostility and surely the Egyptian spirits amongst us are wise in their generations and have as many charets as possible they can get for love or money want no counsell or strength with which men or devills Rome or Hell knowes how to furnish them Sixthly Egypts greatest plague of all was unseen unselt unlamented to wit hardnesse of heart and impenitency though Moses and Aaron held out a cleer light for conviction though signs and wonders were wrought before them and plagues from heaven heapt upon them yet hardned they their hearts against God and his people and would not let Israel goe Our Presses and Pulpits have held out a light satisfactory to all but such as shut their eies and will not see but such as the God of this world hath blinded our Parliamentary Worthies have declared and declared yea God himself hath declared against Egypt and for Israel by his discovery of plots by the rising of well affected spirits in this and the neighbour Nation and that according to promise Behold Numb 23.24 the people shall rise up as a great Lyon and lift up himself as a young Lyon he shall not lye down untill he eat of the prey and drink the blood of the slaine by wonderfull deliverances and victories in the days of battel yet who among all the Malignant Pack repents him of his evill ways saying What have I done Some indeed repent of their facts who of their faults some turne up and down from side to side upon carnall felfish principles as a doore upon the hinges but who goes out and weeps bitterly Rev. 16.10 11. When the fifth Angell powred out his viall upon the seat of the beast and his kingdome was full of darknesse they gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores and repented not of their deeds and it argues that the troublers of Israel are animated and acted by the spirit of the Beast because though they fret and fume rage and rave yet they also repent not of their deeds Among many of them scarce appears the honesty of Achan of Judas confessing and giving glory to God Lastly The fatall stroak upon Egypt was the drowning of them in the Red sea Exod. 1. last their design was to have drowned the male children in the rever yea all Israel by forcing them into the sea but by a miracle of mercy Israel was delivered and by the c In quo peccarunt in eodem plectuntur wisdome of divine Justice the Egyptians were overwhelmed and then e Exod. 15.1 2. Moses and all Israel sing a song unto the Lord Even so f Rev. 14.8 Babylon shall fall and that as a great g Rev. 18.21 milstone cast into the sea and then all h Rev. 15.2 3. Israel of God shall stand upon the sea of glasse to wit d Exod. 14. trample Antichristian powers which though many as a sea of waters yet are frayle and brittle as the glasse under their feet having the Harpes of God in their hands and and the song of Moses and of the Lamb in their mouthes saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints c. Thus as in a paire of Indentures cut answers cut and as in the water face answers face so Rome answers Egypt our enemies Israels Obser 2 The second observation propounded was that Israels enemies have a Rock their Rock yet it is but a creature-rock an imaginary rock i Prov. 18.11 The rich mans wealth is his strong city and as a high wall in his conceipt Their creature-rocks are various for methods sake let me thus rank them First the enemy hath creature-rocks of Gods making but their Idolizing men and horses they trust in men because they are many witty mighty the deluded multitudes of men and women in the world Rev. 17.15 make up the many waters whereon the Whore sits to wit people and multitudes and nations and tongues yea all that are ingaged by Antichrist against Christ again because they are witty the wise Statist the deep braind Achitophel and the spirit in the wheeles is the subtile Jesuite yet farther because they are mighty mighty Gentry mighty Nobles and the mighty shadow of the empty name of abused Soveraignty Adde hereunto allies confederates at home or abroad as Ephraim of old went to the Assyrian Hosea 5.13 and sent to King Jareb take in the Papist even to the Frier and the Nun who now sleep not in their cells and cloysters the Prelate the Delinquent the prophane the formalist yea the Welch and Irish and they all drive on the same Catholick design though upon severall grounds some perhaps I hope I speak low enough but some and perhaps of our broken Nobles and decayed Gentry having drunk or diced or drabd away their ancient demeanes hope to raise their Houses again by spoyle and plunder The Papist is carried by a blind zeale and the bloody principles of his Religion the Prelate by his pride and avarice the guilty Delinquent by the feares of Justice the prophane and formalist by their impatience of bearing Christs spirituall yoak in government and worship the poor Welch it may be carryed away by hopes of pay and booties and the Cannibal-Irish by delights in their trade of blood thus are they confederate against thee O Israel the k Ps 83.5.6.7 Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens Gebal and Ammon and Amalck the Philistmes with the inhabitants of

the Kings of the earth and the great men Revel 6.15.16.17 and the rich men and the chiefe Captaines c. shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountaines and shall say to the mountaines and the rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Vse 5 Lastly the Doctrine delivered affords a word of exhortation to the enemies and friends of the rock of Israel First oh you enemies why doe you dash your heads against this rock you will but beat out your braines thereby come into Christ to his cause dwell in this rock Jer. 48.28 let me speak to you as the Prophet to the Moabites O yee that dwell in Moab leave the Cities and dwell in the Rock and be like the Dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the holes mouth this will be your wisdome this your safety 1 Sam. 2.2 3. for there is none holy as the Lord neither is there any Rock like our God as Hannah sweetly sings it out in the joy of her spirit Secondly the counsell to beleevers who are the friends of the God of Israel is First that they would sacrifice praises to this rock of Israel for all the evils that they are delivered from and for all the mercies that they are delivered to David saith in a veine of praises Psal 18.46 The Lord liveth and blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted Scotland may say the banders prevailed not against the Covenanters Reformation is setled by highest Authority in despight of Papist Prelat Pope or Devill lies as Gideons Fleece dry in peace when England Ireland and other Nations are as the ground round about wet and soaked in the bloud of the slaine inhabitants and therefore let Scotland say The Lord liveth and blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted yea England may say I injoy a Parliament a lasting a wise and indefatigable Parliament wherein as yet the Jacobs have beene too hard for the Esau's I am well eased of High-commission Star-chamber and the iron yoak of Episcopacy I have the Lord of Hoasts fighting my battles for me at Keinton Newbery c. I injoy a renowned Metropolis no rebellious City and therefore let England say The Lord-liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted yea let both the Nations provoke each other to an height of praises and cry each to other Psal 95.1 O come let us sing unto the Lord and let us make a joyfull noyse to the God of our salvation our care must be to get the spirit and reality of praises in the sincerity of obedience and the ingaging our selves our estates our liberties our lives our all for God and for his Cause Hannah having the mercy of a sonne names him Samuel that is asked of the Lord 1 Sam. 1.20 makes her song of praise and spiritualizeth her praises lends or gives her Samuel unto the Lord all the mercies deliverances victories parts gifts c. we injoy may be named Samuels asked of the Lord or rather out of preventing bounty given of the Lord our returne of praises must be our lending our giving all back againe unto the Lord Zach. 14.20 you have already in a degree fulfilled that prophesie of Zachary have wrote upon the bels or bridles of your horses Holinesse unto the Lord upon your pots your bowles your plate Holinesse unto the Lord write on still you wise States-men write upon your foreheads upon yor brain-pans Holinesse unto the Lord. You rich men and wealthy write upon your bagges and purses Holinesse unto the Lord your lending to God in his cause will be upon the best usury and when all is done Publike-faith under Heaven is the best security You valiant Commanders and brave resolute Souldiers young men and strong write upon your armes and thighes upon your swords and speares Holinesse unto the Lord goe on in a pious prodigality of your bloud and lives the Cause is good look to the grounds and principles you move upon to the ends you aime at that they be good also and then I will say of you Cyprian Occid●poterant vin●i non poterant as Cyprian said of persecuted Christians you may be slaine but not overcome when you die with the Cause of Christ in your hearts and in your hands and when you are ingaged in the battle drink downe this cordiall Dilemma If you live you will live honoured if you die you will die martyred Againe be exhorted to be rocks one to another dash not one against another what though there be variety of judgements among us why may we not be one in our affections why not one against the common adversary The Sheep though they butt and thump one another yet they will all head together against the Dogge I hope in God that he will make the Assembly of Diviner a patterne of agreement to all the friends of truth and peace that behold them I will wait for the fulfilling of that promise if not a Synod promise yet a promise as some conclude Leighs Treat of promises of the sweet accord of Ministers in the daies of the Gospel Ephraim shall not envie Judah and Judah shall not vex Ephraim Is● 11.13 14. but they shall flie upon the shoulders of the Philistins c. to wit lay out their strength against the publike enemy of truth and peace And you the Worthies Heb. 12.14 follow peace I meane not a base complying peace with the publike enemy for private ends but a sweet unanimous peace among your selves P●sar Lex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de re dictam sign●fic● 〈…〉 obli●●d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 follow it as the Hue and Cry followes the flying felons follow it as the young Gentleman followes his game in chase over hedge and ditch through thick and thin thus follow peace among your selves with greedinesse and delight jarring and divisions here is the best musick and melody that can be made elsewhere among your enemies at home or abroad And now could I lift up my voyce like a Trumpet and speak to all the Counties of the Kingdome my advice should be that they would stick to and be rocks to the Parliament which is a rock to them to contend earnestly for the faith for Religion as also for Lawes and Liberties It is Englands sinne and misery that many parts of the Kingdome either poysoned by a rotten Ministery or misled by a loose Gentry have deserted the Parliament and therein God his Cause his people yea their owne priviledges and themselves also the very same men that not long since groaned for a Parliament now though without cause groane under it like the sickle froward child that cries for this thing and that