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majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70828	The saints support in these sad times delivered in a sermon at Tiverton in Devonshire, in the time his excellencies army raised for King and Parliament quartered there / by Tho. Palmer ...	Palmer, Thomas, b. ca. 1620.	1644 (1644)	Wing P255; ESTC R7586	53,831	49

THE MOST NOBLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX AND LO: GEN OF THE FORCES FOR K PARL THE SAINTS Support in these sad TIMES Delivered in a Sermon at Tiverton in Devonshire in the time his Excellencies army raised for King and Parliament quartered there By Tho. Palmer Minister to the Honourable Major Generall Skippons Regiment Imprimater Joseph Carrill LONDON Printed by M. Okes for William Ley and are to be sold at his shop at Pauls Chaine 1644. To His EXCELLENCY Robert Earle of Essex Viscount Herreford Barron Ferrars of Cha●tly Lord Bourcher and Lovaine one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Counsel and Generall of the Army raysed by the Parliament in defence of the true Protestant R●ligion His Majesties Person the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdom and the Priviledges of Parliament Great Generall I Take the boldnesse to stile you what God himselfe hath certainly made you Surely as yet God never honoured any man with so great a prize as hee hath now intrusted your Excellency with God hath put you into his owne place God hath graced you with his owne Name Lord of Hosts Gene●all of Armies God in our appearance hath committed unto your care what is preci●us to himselfe A precious Gospell precious Ordinances a precious Parliament a precious people God hath called forth your Excellency as a choise worthy to be his Generall and the Champion of Iesus Christ to fight the great and last Battell with Antichrist in this your Native Kingdome La● confident your Excellency is not so little read in Divine history or such a stranger to the worlds experience as to thinke this Church-work● this thing called Reformation will be found a matter of ease and pleasure No it is a businesse of the greatest difficvl●y in the world Antichrist w●l ingage the Kings of the earth and set the whole world in a combustion before he will leave his hold It is the nature of the devill to rage horribly towards his end It is the property of a dying Beast to give one great struggle when life is departing why may not God now make this Good in this Roman Beast amongst us Great Generall thinke not lesse of God ●r worse of this Cause for one foile Joshuahs Armie may flee and fall before the men of Ai though he had good warrant to fall on and the designe wisely managed Israel may lose two battells together before Benjamin when God had them goe Iesus Christs owne Disciples may meete with a crosse gale when they goe about his businesse Now it being within my owne verge to op●n Scr●pture I t●k● this liberty to hi●t un●o your Excellency the meaning of God in this strange dispensation and further to let your Excellency know that God ha●h much sweet in this bitter much good in this seeming evill Israel was routed fled and fell before Ai that plundering Achan might be found out and punished Israel fell in two Battells together before Benjamin that th●y might learne more seriously to seeke and trust God upon the first undertaking A●d the Disciples must be in a hopelesse helpelesse perishing storm that their faith in Christ though by a miraculous experience might be firmely established Little did I thinke when first I preached and writ out these collections that God intended to m●k● them so suitable to the condition of your Excellencies Armie as now I conceive them It is not the least of my thoughts in this to looke at my selfe but my aime is alone Gods glory I am not unacquainted with your Excellencies goodnesse as well as greatnesse ever discerning an unwonted humility in so great a personage which is my strong encourag●ment to present unto your Excellency this small tender of a most reall affection If your Excellency be pleased to peruse it it beares the character of a right Souldier and I know you wil not love it the worse for that Your Excellency will here finde a sincere heart and an undaunted Spirit in a plaine and meane Presse Flattery is fitter for the Kings Court then the Lords Campe Be pleas●d then great Generall to honour mee in the acceptation Protect it as you approve it and I have my desire The great God prosper his great wo●ke in your hand● and make your Name glorious to succeeding Ages Most Noble Generall in the Name of the Lord goe on and hee will yet do mightily for you You will exp●esse your greatnesse in over-looking difficulties And certrinly a Generall of so many faithful prayers cannot miscarry You may yet assure your selfe Gods people have you in a high-esteeme The Saints a●e daily begging at the Throne of Grace of you Question it not but God will make a sweet and full returne of all the pray●rs teares wrongs and Blood which hath so long cryed to heaven This is the desire and the exp●ctation Of your Excellencies most faithf●lly devoted in the Worke of Jesus Christ Thomas Palmer A Support for the SAINTS in these sad times PSAL. 37. vers. 40. He shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him VArious and promiscuous are the Lords dealings with the Godly and wicked in this life God doth not infallibly feed his choisest Saints with the sweet-meates of prosperity and let the wicked onely lye under the lash of biting calamity woe and misery No for if prosperity did ever wait upon Gods people and adversity attend the ungodly then we might easily find out the wayes of God and know pe●fectly who were his But sayth Solomon No man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them for that all things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked c. Eccles. 9.1 2. That is in the common dispensation of outward things during the time of Gods pl●asure Outward providences at all times are no infallible rules to judge by Gods wisedome is above our reach we cannot say presently that any are in Gods favour because they thrive and prosper nor conclude others under a curse because that misery and trouble doth still attend them True it is the children of God may more justly expect freedome and mercy from the hand of their Father then the servants of Satan can doe the Saints have the Word and the precious Promises of God to build upon and by which God as I may say is ingaged to his faithfull ones which the other have not yet the Lord in his wisedome and by his power is ple●sed so to order all that for the exercise of graces and the tryall of faith he often pu●s his people to it he many times brings them very low he knocks away all their self-props that Gods precious ones many times seemingly lye under clouds of displeasure wh●n the wicked may be thought to have all at their hearts desire This experienced truth hath staggered not a few and even strange beleevers Dav●d who was indued with almost unparalleled graces confesseth it of himselfe that upon