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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58146	Blessedness, or, God and the world weighted in the balances of the sanctuary and the world found too light preached in a sermon at Paule, before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, Aldermen, and commonalty of the city of London, on a thanksgiving-day, for the prosperity of our navy in a conflict with the Spaniard, October 17, 1656 / by Francis Raworth ...	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing R372; ESTC R18645	28,408	72

condition he that loseth that he cares not to enjoy and enjoys that he can't lose And in a spiritual sense he onely is such a man whose God is the Lord Methinks the words are here represented as Antiphanys Dialogue-wise The world begins Happy is he whose Sons grow like Olive plants yea saith David whose God is the Lord the World succeeds Happy is he whose Oxen are strong to labor and that Nation whose streets knows no complaining yea saith David whose God is the Lord still that is the note of a gracious heart as he rescribed back nothing but King of France King of France King of France and why happy such a man above a worldling 1. He that hath outward happiness in the world may not have a title to the Lord but he that hath God to be his Lord hath a title a spiritual title to the World The Corinthians were ready to quarrel about their properties I am of one from Paul saith one I am from Apollo said another tush said a third I care neither for Paul nor Apollo give me Cephas I am for Cephas The Apostle rounds them in the ear what saith he Is Christ divided will you contend for a part All men are gain not onely Paul Apollo Cephas but all things life death things present and things to come But by what tenure Why Because Christ is gain When we lost our Title to God we lost our comfortable title to the Creatures and no wonder the Creature rebels against us since we have rebell'd against the Creator The Creatures may justly say to unregenerate men that hunt after and dig for happiness in them I say Honors Riches Pleasures may say to such as Samuel did to Saul Why come ye to us since God is departed from you He is a Rebel that harboreth him whom the King hath Proclaimed a Traytor And what comfort can that soul have to lay his head in the bosome of any Creature when God himself hath turned his back on him But he that hath a new title to God hath a better title to outward comforts he holds them in capite God hath provided for him a Kingdom and therefore doth not grudge him crums How sweet are those mo●sels of bread that by Faith are dipt in Christs blood not that property comes by Grace but it is cleared up by Grace Many a man hath an Estate and a childe of God enjoys the comfort of it The worldly man may say This house this childe is mine by Creature right a Saint saith These are also mine by Covenant right but you may have all worldly happiness and not be happy Therefore secondly Grace claims a title to all the Ordinances of God Preaching is thy Chariot to bring the Lord down to thee Prayer and Meditation are wings to carry thy soul up to God It is generally believed and without scruple among the judicious that the visible and not the invisible Church is the prime and proper subject for the dispensation of Gospel Seals but his title to them that hath a right to Christ is indisputable He that can say the body and blood of Christ is his may challenge and claim the Bread and Wine that signifie those as his He that hath right to the Pearl hath right to the Casket He that is marryed to the King of Glory ought not upon any pretences whatsoever to be kept out of the Presence Chamber and from prayer while others stand like strangers without doors knocking and speaking to God at a distance as slaves to a master you have freedom to enter into the Palace of Heaven and cry Abba Father The Ordinances are the glory of a Nation and where ever God goes his Ordinances go too and where ere they reside and abide he abides too My Beloved God and his Institutions go and come from and to a Nation together as it s the honor of a Nation to say Jehovah-Nissi The Lord is our Banner in a Military sense for God to fight for us so a greater for others to say of any Nation Jehovah-Shammah The Lord is there in an Ecclesiastical sense The Ordinances are the comfort of the soul they are not as some new Anti-scripturists calumniate the Grave wherein Christ lies but the Throne whereon he sits as King of the Church and we were better lose our evidences for our Lands then part with the seals of the Gospel Is it then a small matter to have liberty to tread in Gods courts to sit under the tree of Life and dew of Heaven to have commerce with Angels to have communion with the Lord of Glory when thou art hungry to have freedom to run to Gods House for Bread when thou art distracted and troubled with doubts of thy Faith thy salvation to have recourse with David to Gods Sanctuary for resolution and that by thy title to the Lord as thy Lord Thirdly Thou hast moreover a propriety in all his Providences his Providences are thine for thy satisfaction if thou wantest enlightning he is thy Sun if defending he is thy shield if a Nation be fearful he is a wall of fire without if fainting he is a well of water within They may be without many things but we have the Broad-Seal of Heaven for it that they shall want no good thing Thou art in trouble and if thy Friend could but see thee How happy God is therefore Omniscient Thou art weak if thy Friend could help thee God is therefore Omnipotent El Shaddai All-sufficient If thou art weak he hath a shoulder to carry thee if feeble a bosom to warm and cherish thee He that hath him that is all hath all Secondly For thy security and that 1. To sustain thee If thou goest into the water I will be with thee if into the fire I le be with thee said God q. d. If thou burn I le burn too if thou drown I le drown too Hence it was that Israel was safe in the Red-sea and the three children secure in the Furnace God may cast his childe down and so his Nation yet not cast them away he often breaks your hearts that he may not break your backs 2. To order all for thee The Devil may turn Cordials into poyson but providence turns those poysons into Cordials again God hath his fairest ends in our foulest ways when temptations have sucked our corrupt blood away those Leeches shall be taken off when you are provoked to storm at God and quarrel with the seeming inequality of his ways are ready to judge his present carriage to your souls inconsistent with the hopes of election past or future glory Let despair vail and murmuring be tongue-tyed and consider the Lord thinks it better rather to bring order out of these spiritual disorders then not to suffer those disorders to be at all It s easier for vain man to wrangle with the Almighty and to set up in his pride an Anti-Providence in the world then rightly to discern what God is a doing we neglect

childe to provide for in all the world besides The Lord hath a Book to write down your names and a bottle to put your tears in His power likewise is yours the Lord hath not so much need of your patience as you have of his power and as what the Lord is he is for you and as what the Lord hath he hath for you so what the Lord can do he will do for you Though the promise of God be the measure of your faith and therefore beware in times of tryal of charging your selves for unbelief when God himself possibly doth not in that particular command you to believe yet your faith is not the measure of his power The Lord usually doth for his Church more then they believe and we must believe he can do more for his Church then he doth nothing but contradiction to speak reverentially of God passeth omnipotency Gods people have a double guard one within them and that is The finger of God the Spirit another without them and that is The arm of God his Power a double hold also on God as he hath that double guard on them Promise what he will do experience what he hath done As Sions cause is good so she wants not as good a Champion to maintain it The name of the Lord is a strong Tower and though the righteous cannot rest in a name of Godliness yet they may in the name of God and therefore in times of trouble they run to it Prov. 16.10 Lord may Syon say Support under tryals and deliverance from danger is an Article of thy Covenant And will not the Lord be faithful Are our infirmities many the Lord our God hath mercy to pardon them Are our corruptions many he hath power to subdue them Are our sins great he hath love to cover them What a Constellation and Centre of Attributes are in God! Righteousness Holiness Wisdom Power Grace and mercy I every one of these Attributes is God and as when Mithridates espoused the daughter of a poor laboring man the General to testifie the approbation of his choice sent the old Father a Cap full of gold with which he being over-joyed runs up and down the streets shewing of it to all the people crying out All this is mine So may the people of God whose Promises Providences Ordinances Attributes Graces are theirs triumphantly signifie to the world All these are ours and that which is more then all this if more can be you whose God is the Lord Sixthly Have a propriety in God himself in Christ himself as the Lord when he could swear by no greater sware by himself so he having no greater thing to give gives himself Christ who is the beloved of the Father and the First-born of every Creature he likewise is yours your King to Rule you your Priest to satisfie for you your Prophet to Indoctrinate and teach you his Death and Resurrection and Intercession are yours not onely for signification but for efficacy His blood his precious and pearless blood is yours to pardon you His glorious and sweet Spirit is yours to purifie and purge you And for all things else in the World they are 1. But short and transitory Riches are well called Moveables and ere long they will either take their leave of us or we shall certainly take our leaves of them Honor is but brittle it is even like Glass of which they say when it shineth brightest its nighest melting And for the rest how uncertain are all things money for the Thieves Merchandizes for the Winds Cattel for the Rot Buildings for the Fire The glory of this World is in it self but the Scheme but the Picture of Happiness and it will not sit so long before your eyes as that you may draw its Picture it s gone before you can say 't is here But suppose Worldly happiness were long yet Secondly It s Insatisfactory Worldly comforts are even like drink to the Dropsie man encreasing thirst like Wood to the Fire enlarging its Flame The chest may be filled with gold but God onely can fill the heart These things cannot make you happy because they are desired not for themselves but for other things but the Lord is desirable not for something else beside himself but onely for himself Deus propter Deum If you have Riches you may look beyond them and see Honors to tempt your eye if you have Riches and Honors you may look beyond them and see moral Wisdom to tempt your head if you have all these you may yet look beyond and see health to tempt your heart And while these partial and imperfect happiness lay before you you may look beyond them all and see a necessity of something else that is God to be your God But let a man be made an heir of salvation let a man be adopted into the Family of God and be able to say The Lord is my God and I provoke that man to say its true God and Christ and Heaven and Grace are mine but I want something else besides these in the world to make me happy These things are not universally good clothes are but for the back meat for the belly musick for the ears flowers for the smell and eye c. but the Lord is a Catholick a viscerate and entire good he is Almighty or All-sufficient As a man that hath a minde to some particular dish can finde all dishes in that one dish as suppose Patridges Capons or Pheasants So a childe of God can finde all things in God riches honor pleasure The covetous man makes his gold his God but a gracious heart saith God is my Gold A man may have silver but silver shall never satisfie him without God but if a man love God he will satisfie him without silver When a poor Beggar is matched to a Royal Prince she views his Palace she surveys his gardens and pleaseth her self in a delightsome prospect of all his greatness and glory and can say These are mine for the Prince himself is mine So because you have a title to the Fountain the streams are yours Whatever happiness is scattered here and there abroad in the Creatures it is all virtually eminently and superlatively in God I read of a couple of Ambassadors the one a Spaniard the other a Venetian and they did both of them extol and prefer the Revenues of their particular Masters said the Venetian Ambassador My Master hath so many chests of Silver and Gold alass said the Spanish Ambassador Your Masters Treasures have a bottom but my Masters Treasures in the Indies have a Root a Spring So may a true Saint say to the World your riches and comforts have a leak or limitation but my Lord Jesus his comforts and riches his Treasures have neither Banks nor bottom God is mine and if he can make me happy I shall not be miserable This this my Beloved is your Inventory for Happiness that can say The Lord is our God I shall now