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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92190	Jacobs ladder, or The protectorship of Sion, laid on the shoulders of the Almighty; in a description of the sufficiency of providence, suitable in these times of tentation. With Jacobs wrestling. / By Francis Raworth of Shoreditch.	Raworth, Francis, d. 1665.	1655 (1655)	Wing R373; Thomason E1507_2; ESTC R209489	136,597	367

an end and the Glass of Antichrist almost run and certainly the King of Sion shall be as publique in his glory as ever he was in his shame his Deriders little considering that while they willingly add to his shame they really though unwilling add to his glory for as he was not crucified in a corner but at Jerusalem the eye and center of the world so he shall descend from Heaven in Majesty with shouts riding on the Clouds as in his Charriot attended by millions of Angels and Saints his royal Favorites all eies beholding of him and every knee bowing to him Jude 14 15. Woe be to the great ones of this world then when Pilat that sat on the Bench shall stand at the Bar and our Lord Jesus that once stood at the Bar shall sit on the Bench when we shall see not Persons but Causes heard the Judges being judged and the judged being Judges when Emperors and Kings shall be brought not in Chains of Gold about their necks but in Fetters of Iron about their heels When the Peers and Powers and Potentates of the World shall hold down their heads and hold up their hands and cry guilty When most of all the Mighty and all the almost All mighty of the Earth that have disrobed Christ of his Title and robbed him of his honor shall be led up and down this Court q.d. as Tamberlain led Bajaret in an iron Cage through Asia to be gazed on and howted at by all the Saints Psal 149.6 7 8 9. 1 Cor. ● 2 as the Prisoners of the Law and Prizes of Justice what then will become of all those Politicians that make Covenants in Conscience and break Covenants out of necessity That like children stand on the earth with their heads and boldly shake their heels towards Heaven That set up the Kingdom of Christ no faster than they can rear their own Kingdoms of all those that had rather themselves should reign in a corner than that our Lord and Master should rule in the whole World Never thinking how those Crowns that now sit light on their Heads will ere long lye heavy on their Consciences For God though he suspends the execution yet he hath not altered the method of his Justice on such offenders It is a maxim of the Law Right sometimes sleeps but it never dies The reconciling Sion and Babylon Pride Oppression the intollerable tolleration of all kinds of Religions Bribery and Intemperancy are now acted on another Stage by other persons but they are the same sins aliena scena eadem fabula if that Headship that flattering Prelates in former ages took from Jesus Christ be yet taken from Christ and given to men in the Nations if Christs Crown be pulled off his head no matter whose head it warm in the world Mal. 3.15 Mal. 4.1 And as for this Nation in special my prayers to the Lord are that Holiness may not onely have a tolleration but an Authority amongst us against Licenciousness both of Judgement and Conversation that the Rulers of England may not say The time is not come that the Lords house should be built but rather hear God say is it time for you O ye to dwell in your sciled houses and this house lie waste Hag. 1. That they would expeditiously do the work of this age Because to every purpose there is a time and judgement therefore the misery of man is great upon him Eccles 8. That our Officers may not onely be Peace but that our Exactors Righteousness that we may be made an eternal excellency and the joy of many Generations Isa 60. That saying in your hearts the Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be our strength in the Lord of Hosts they may be like an Hearth of fire among the wood and like a Torch of fire in a sheaf devouring Sions enemies round about on the right hand and on the left Zech. 12. For shame therefore let Virgins arise and either get oyle or cast away their Lamps Security makes you uncapable both of seeing your reward or doing your work First Think not because you can properly be but once regenerated that you need but once to repent Converted David q d. must repent of his Adultery before he be saved Repentance is not onely as life to the dead but as salve to the wounded sinner Repentance is as the Vowels in the Alphabet which we have not onely need of to spell with while we are Babes but to read with all when we are men in Christ Mortification and Humility are not accidents or things by the by but of the very substance the very Materials and Pillars of the New Jerusalem The Gospell it self I suspect will ere long be but an old Almanack to them to whom Repentance and confessing of and mourning over sin is now upon what glorious pretences soever out of date Secondly Plead for Opinions as Opinions and for Graces as for Graces I fear those that plead for disputable Opinions as infallible Truths will ere long hold vital and indisputable Truths as conformity to the Gospel sincere Faith in and repentance towards Christ but as failable and fallible Opinions This is intollerable folly to see men slaves to Opinions and Masters over Graces if the Lord extinguish not this fond zeal the carnal world hence forward will take advantage to think that Religion lies onely in thinking and conceiving and in the next age conclude they are not to seek Religion in their Bibles but in the brains of men O Lord How many are true to false Principles and false to true Principles and will rather die Martyrs for Error than bow as Servants to Truth These are some of them that have been over wise in their own eyes and yet as the wiseman speaks have not known the way to the City that call this or that way Christ and not Christ the way that set up an Image in their own Opinions and censure all the world as Idolaters that will not do homage to it proclaiming subjection with Lutes and Cymbals of peace and though on the first entertainment of such Opinions men have had a calmness in their Consciences yet afterwards have found themselves burning in a Furnace of discontents and doubts as then remembring that neither this or that Opinion availed any thing to peace in Christ but a new creature Thirdly While you cry out against the old Superstition beware of being tainted with the new disease of this age not the plague of the guts but of the heart not the Rickets in the head but the pride of life alias Hypocrisie alias apparent Prophaneness Fly as far from Licentiousness as you do from the formality of Rome Woe be to the profession of Religion if your Profession should stand or fall to the verdict of the world Oh! let not those whom you must one day judge justly judge you now Some possibly may say The world are dogs and their mouths must be stopped Christ is a mystery our principles are above their

dog I am thy dog though thou frownest on me yet feed me though by thy power thou mayst kick me yet by my relation thou must k ep me Lord I am not a child I confess yet I am one of thy houshold because a Dog Oh! that though we are called children we might have this one property of a dog with this woman to hold fast as she did Yet Jacob gives not out But Deus non dat Jacobo nisi petenti ne det non accipienti Fifthly Reasons and stands upon his experience he had of God vers 10. Thou hast shewed mercy and truth unto thy servant and with my staff I passed over Jordan and am become two bands while Jacob seeks for a further blessing he remembers former blessings Lord thou wast with me to bring me to this abundance and wilt thou suffer my Brother to b●ast all am I increased onely to make him abound Ah Lord How many of thy Saints think they are not children because they are not men in Christ and though they have more worth than thousands a year in unfained Faith yet they walk so mournfully as if they were not worth a farthing nor had not a dram of experience but should die as beggars How many Hypocrites lye in saying they have that of God in them they have not and how many Saints lye though they think not of it denying to have that of God in them which they have and speak as if they had received nothing as if with Jacob they had never come over Jordan or received the least Divine favor But Jacob is a subtle Beggar and he gives thanks for what he hath and thinks that the ready way to get more from God Whom he assaults with a Sixt Argument taken from his relation to God Lord says Jacob I am thy servant as if he should say is the Lord a Father and will he not care for his children when they cry is the Lord my Master and shall Jacob be put out of service when he most needs relief Lord I am thine says David what then David what then why Lord then save me So Jacob cries here I am thy servant I am thine though but a servant Jacob seems to be a bold Beggar yet not praying as Beggars cant Jacob had learned that modesty in such cases pleases not God Thus Jacob says as Elisha to Elijah to God I will not leave thee he doth not onely spread his petition before the Lord and there leave it but strengthens it with all the Arguments he could pleading upon pleading as if God were most at ease when hee gave him no rest And therefore Seventhly Lord consider my fear from Esau Hath the Lord given the blessing and will he not maintain the same indeed Esau is my Brother yet he is thine Enemy If there be nothing in me for which thou shouldst keep me yet there is something in him for which thou mayst not suffer him to devour me Lord says Jacob Thy friends are my freinds and are not mine Enemies thy Enemies Thus Jacob earnestly pleads a League offensive and defensive made with God bringing his Omnipotency into the Ingagement as knowing that if he joyn with God that Esau cannot hurt him unless first he strike through the loyns of his God Deus nobiscum Cum Jacobo tardius dat Deus benedictionem suam commendat non negat was the watch-word of some of the Romans and our word is Immanuel that is by Interpretation God with us And indeed if we be of Immanuel Coledge of the Society of Jesus God Man if God be for us we need not care who is against us Jacob fears no hurt if he can get that God on his side that is above all Gods and that Power to be with him that is above all Power and therefore plucks up his spirits and gives Eighthly Another Charge urging God with the greatness of the peril O Lord says he Esau will come and slay the Mother with the Children that is he will have no mercy according to the Hebrew way of expression he will destroy root and branch that is all If thou givest me up to his hands he hath no fear of thee and how then will he pity me And yet Jacob hath not done But Ninethly Reinforces the former promise more violently Lord thou didst not onely say thou wouldst deal well with me but also that in doing good thou wouldst do me good Thou wilt surely do me good will the Lord deny his own Promise And lastly Jacob resolves for the blessing and though he hath done as it were praying yet he hath not done doing As if Jacob to your apprehension did throw down his Petition and take up his Sword and says to the Angel if one will not the other will Methinks I see the Royal blood of Faith to sparkle in Jacobs face and hear him thus resolving Well as long as I have an Ey I le weep as long as I have a Mouth I le cry as long as I have an Arm I le fight and wrestle I will either fairly conquer or be conquered I will not let thee go unless thou bless me that 's once crys Jacob. I will not Jacob God cannot to speak with reverence resist Jacobs will not onely he that doth the will of God can have his will of God Phylosophy go play with your nullum violentum perpetuum nothing is permanent which is violent Qui timidè rogat docet negare the more a man fasts sometimes the more we say he may So here Jacob the more he wrestles the more he may Oh that with Jacob we could thus put the Promises in suit by our prayers and as the Martyr said burthen God with them the bolder we make with God the better welcome Jacob will not loose the Blessing for want of b●gging Fourthly Wee have the issue of the Duell First The Angel seemed to win ground and to ●hump Jacob under his feet He touched the hallow of his thigh and the hallow of Jacobs thigh was out of joynt as he wrestled with him Sanatur vulnus sed manet eicatrix of his right thigh probably wherein lay the greatest strength the bone for a time was put out of the place and driven out of the joynt and though it was quickly put in again as some think yet did it leave pain and weakness behind it How now Jacob wrestle with God yet Jacob wrestles with one leg though he halt with the other As one swallowed down his Teeth knocked out and another covered his Forehead with a Lawrel broken by their Adversaries that they might not see and so not insult over their blows and wounds So Jacob wrestled as if he had not halted Now the Lord did offer this prejudice to Jacob that he might not go away vaporing because halting as Paul was pricked with a thorn in the flesh that he might not be puffed up with pride in his spirit 2 Cor. 12. As Jacob did feel the

that thou art Love Thy people see not so much Prophaneness in the world as the world sees passions amongst thy people We censure and condemn them for not agreeing with thy people while they see thy people agree not amongst themselves Ah Lord If charity were the onely badge of thy Disciples how few Disciples would our Lord and Master have in the world is this a time onely to pull down and not at all to build up to cast away stones and to divide and not to gather stones to raise thy Temple is the Providence of God resolved that no more Stories shall be built in his Sion till one stone be not left on another in Babylon are not our soars searched enough Deo nihil impossibile est nisi quod non vult that yet thou pluckest away the Plaisters thy poor people apply to their wounds Is thy Israel in the midst of the Red Sea and is Pharaoh at their heels ready to swallow them up and cannot Israel be perfectly delivered till the Sea be perfectly divided Hath Sion been travelling with Reformation these many years and even when thy people are ready to welcome it into the world and to name it Glorious must it enter into the womb again Is it our indiscreet importunity that hath hasted to bring it to the birth before the Lords time and day and therefore shall there be no strength given to bring forth Are the grounds of our fears not onely from thy secret or open Enemies but also from the vain conversations of the Professors of thy Name and indeed howl ready have we been to censure the persons and condemn the practises of others and to say there goes an Oppressor an Apostate an Hypocrite so as if there were none of those lusts in our hearts which are visibly reigning in others lives Will the Lord consume their Gold and Silver as well as the others Hay and Stubble pull down many of their works before he set up his own Or wil the Lord further suffer worms and no men to reason with him O Lord are we partly brought out of Egypt and shall we want the cloud of thy presence because that either we long to go backward or fear to go forward Must thy children begin to spell their A B C and go again to School to learn what Mortification and their first love mean before they take out further lessons of experience of Faith Wretched England How many sins do we make that our God did never call sins and how many Articles do our passions put into the Creed which thou didst never enjoyn to be beleeved for Salvation How have one form of thy people been trampling and triumphing over another whiles mostly they have been tithing Mint Annice and Cummin neglecting the Salvation of souls and the advancement of thy Sons Kingdom amongst us when will the Candle of the Almighty shine on the heads of thy people as of old when shall the name of thy Son be poured out as a precious oyntment that the Virgins again may love thee O Lord let us be thy Patients though thou woundest us Let us be under thy rod rather than we should be out of thy Covenant rather than we should sleep to death sound thy Trumpet beat thine Alarm if thou shouldest not administer physick to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cle. Alex. our Disease were desperate Thrice happy will that storm be that shall drive us to our Harbor We will not appoint thee the Rod to lay on our backs onely we intreat that when thou purposest to strike first break our hearts before thou breakest our backs rather than we should not have thy presence let us with the three children go into a furnace thy Son let us with thy Disciples have a storm Rather then we should not be thy children whip us thy Servants beat us thy Spouse chide us thy Friends frown on us Ah Lord Those that lost their blood together cannot now shed tears together those that fought together in the field can scarce now pray together in a family Blessed God! If it be thy will sound a retreat speedily to these disorders Let some publick Enemy of thy Sons Kingdom abroad come upon the Stage that thy Saints may one and all engage together both their prayers and their persons against him that Sion may be terrible as as Army with Banners that the Brats of Babylon may come and worship before her feet Hinc Syncre●ismus Synchristianismus and know that thou hast loved her If the building of Sion may not go forward in this age Lord let it not go backward if with Solomon we may not build thy spiritual Temple let us at least lay up stuff for the building of it with David in the next generation If the Lord had never smiled on us we could better have born his frowns if we had not known what the presence of his Spirit Wisdom Glory had meant in England we could better have born his absence Our darkness is now the greater because that our light formerly was so great How dolorous is it to consider that we that have been brought up in Scarlet should imbrace Dunghils And that England that was the terror of the Lord to the Nations round about us should so much be a scorn unto them and a terror one to another You that are Gods Jacobs up and be doing surely we have little love to if we have not a sigh a tear or two for Sion If ever you would rejoyce in Sions deliverance pray for it Faith and Prayer are Sions Granadoes and truely make her the Thundering Legion onely take heed of counterfeiting these heavenly Ordnance and Artillery with the wicked Emperor these weapons are not artificial but infused Methinks I hear Faith and Prayer say Saints in England be patient and persevere in the holy and sincere profession of the Gospel though your God be long before he come yet he will certainly and comfortably come Endure reproaches hold on and hold out notwithstanding your doubts and difficulties your trials and temptations Though your way to Paradise be dirty yet the Tree of Life in the midst thereof the Rivers of divine pleasure and Gates of pearl will richly make amends for all Be beleeving in prayer and in this age especially If once with Jacob you prevail with God you need not fear all the world If any thing in the world can perswade the Lord to preserve a Nation it is Prayer Prayer hath often met God as Abigal did David and moved him to put up his Sword Pharaoh being plagued with Frogs got the man of God to pray for him and Exod. 8.13 The Lord did according to the word of Moses And the Lord obeyed the voyce of a man It is plain that Moses did according to the word of the Lord but it is strange that the Lord should do according to the word of Moses yet it is so If Moses will do according to the word of the Lord