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A33135 The Churches victory in a message from heaven to the saints on early / by a fat, pious and learned divine, immediately before his death, to incourage all those who are now in armes for the defence of Christ and his gospell. Fat, pious and learned divine. 1641 (1641) Wing C4274A; ESTC R33293 1,250 1

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THE CHURCHES VICTORY IN A Message from Heaven to the Saints on Earth by a ●at Pious and Learned Divine immediatly before his Death To incourage all those who are now in Armes for the defence of CHRIST and his GOSPELL THis is the day of Iacobs trouble and Sions sorrow and you doe well that see it and take it to heart for he is a de●d member takes not notice of the ill these sad times may produce therefore first take heed your selves bee not a part of the misery of the times that they bee not the worse for you And then make this the day of Jacobs trust also for God is never neerer to his Church then when the greatest troubles are neere to them when in Earth men are concluding an utter overthrow as now God in Heaven is concluding a glorious deliverance Christ now stands upon Mount Sion and there is a Councell in Heaven will dash in pieces all the Counsells on Earth and which is more God will worke the raising of his Church by that very meanes by which the enemies seeke to ruine it God gave to great a price for the Church to suffer it long to remaine in the hands of cruell men And for the flourish the enemies now make it is but for a measured time their day is comming and their Armes and Armies shall both be broken and shall not onely vex but torment themselves to see their Projects disappointed and the mould of all their devises turned upon their owne heads The depths of misery are never below the depths of mercy God often for this very end strips the Church of all helps below that it may relie onely upon him for help from above And that it may appeare the Church is governed by an higher power then that whereby it is opposed And then is the time when the Church may expect her greatest deliverance when there is a great faith in the great God then the captivitie of the Church shall returne as Rivers in the South and she shall become a cup of trembling in the hands of her enemies for the prayers of the Church cry the blood of the Saints cry and the violence of the Enemie themselves cry for deliverance and vengeance And then an Armie of prayers will suddenly turne the streame a few Moseses in the Mount will doe more then many souldiers in the valley It is your selves keepe Antichrist and his faction alive to plague the unthankefull World his strength is not from his owne cause but from your want of zeale and confidence in God You hinder your Halalujahs by private Brabbles selfe-seekings coldnesse and formallitie If God had once his ends in the humiliation of the Church for sinnes past with Resolution of Reformation for time to come this present age might expect to see the salvation of GOD which the generations at hand shall be witnesse of It will therefore prove the wisest resolution to fall and rise with the Church of Christ for the enemies themselves shall see and say God hath done great things for them Kings shall lay their Crownes at Christs feet and bring all their glory to his Church I will have mercy upon the House of Iudah I will save them by the Lord their God and will not save them by Bow nor by sword nor by Battell by Horses or by horsemen Hosea 1. 7. When the Enemie shall come in like a flood the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him Esa 59. 19. Imprinted at London for Mi. F.